City Council Meets Monday, Holds Special Meeting with County Supervisor Antonovich Wednesday

Pasadena’s City Council has a busy week ahead, with two Council meetings on the schedule – Monday’s regular weekly meeting, and a special joint meeting with Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich on Wednesday.

A notice signed by Mayor Terry Tornek says the special meeting with the county supervisor will discuss three important issues – updates on the impacts of Assembly Bill 109 and California’s Proposition 47, both of which influence the treatment of certain criminal offenses and offenders; updates on the county’s wage theft and minimum wage enforcement; and updates on the sediment removal project in Pasadena’s Hahamongna Watershed Park.

Wednesday Special Joint Meeting with Antonovich will be held starting at 8 a.m. at the Council Chamber at City Hall. An opportunity for public comment will be allowed at the time each agenda item is discussed; each speaker will be limited to three minutes.

A full agenda also awaits the City Council at Monday’s regular which starts with a closed session at 5:30 p.m. The public meeting opens at 6:30 p.m.

Among the items on the agenda are a number of services and supply contracts for which the Office of the City Manager is seeking City Council approval.

The contracts include a Professional and Unique Services contract with Eyestone Environmental, which the city wants to prepare an Environmental Impact Report on a five-year Master plan to expand the Art Center College of Design’s Hillside Campus and add a new student housing facility on its South Campus. The contract will cost about $601,210.

The City Council is also expected to act on a purchase order for two new street sweeper vehicles to replace equipment that the Department of Public Works Street Maintenance and Integrated Waste Management Division is using. Public Works says two vehicles have exceeded their useful life – one in use for 16 years and the other 12 years – and need to be replaced.

The replacement vehicles – two TYMCO compressed natural gas street sweepers – will be supplied by MAR-CO Equipment Company for an amount up to $618,658.

On another contract issue, Public Works will seek City Council approval to rescind a contract awarded to the Nazerian Group for restroom replacement at Pasadena’s Central Park.

The contract was awarded in November last year, but after that, Public Works staff found out that the contractor failed to meet requirements of the local subcontracting provision and “did not demonstrate a good faith effort to solicit local Pasadena businesses for subcontracting work.”

The Department plans to rebid the Central Park project.

Finally, the City Council has scheduled a public hearing at 7 p.m. during the council meeting to deliberate on the Planning and Community Development Department’s recommendation to approve a Conditional Use Permit for use of the gymnasium at the McKinley School at 325 S. Oak Knoll Avenue, by the City’s Human Services and Recreation Department during after school hours and on weekends.

Human Services and Recreation wants to use the gymnasium for competitive organized youth and adult sports, practice, games, clinics, tournaments and adult and youth fitness classes along with open gym time.

Several ordinances have also been set for first reading at Monday’s City Council meeting, to be held at the Council Chamber at City Hall, located at 200 North Garfield Avenue.