CITY OF
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
Regular City Council Meeting
January 27, 2009
City Council Chambers – Town Hall
6:30 P.M. Closed Session
7:00 P.M. Open Session
6:30 P.M. CLOSED SESSION
Pursuant to
the cited authority (all references to the Government Code), the City Council
will hold a Closed Session to discuss the following items:
Govt. Code 54956.9 Conference
with Legal Counsel – Existing
Litigation – Three cases:
Pust
v. City of
Grimshaw
v. City of
Struthers
v. City of
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submitted to the City Council either with or
after
distribution of the agenda packet,
are available for public inspection in the
City Clerk’s Office at City Hall,
during normal business hours.
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Thank you for your cooperation.
7:00 P.M. OPEN SESSION
1.
CALL
TO ORDER & PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
2. ROLL CALL: Acuna,
Borelli, Hagen, Machado,
Rivas
3. ANNOUNCEMENTS
TO THE PUBLIC
4. CLOSED
SESSION REPORT – City Attorney Driscoll
5. ADOPTION
OF AGENDA
6. CEREMONIAL
MATTERS
6.1 A Proclamation of the City
Council of the City of Placerville in Support of El Dorado Irrigation
District’s Application for Grant Funds for the Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Proposition 84 Grants Program Under the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and
Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 for the
Hazel Creek and Hazel Creek Campground Restoration Project
7. PUBLIC
COMMENT – BRIEF – NON-AGENDA ITEMS
This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons
wishing to address the Council on any matter not on the Agenda that is
within the subject matter jurisdiction of the City Council. State law prohibits the Council from acting on items not listed on
the Agenda except by special action of the City Council under specified
circumstances. The Mayor reserves the
right to limit the speaker’s time to three minutes. The Mayor will recognize you and when
you come to the microphone, please state your name for the record. You are not allowed to make personal
attacks on individuals or make comments which are slanderous or which may
invade an individual’s personal privacy.
7.1
Oral Communication
Speakers are limited to three minutes. State law prohibits the Council from acting on items not listed on the Agenda except by special action of the City Council under specified circumstances.
PLEASE GIVE ANY WRITTEN MATERIAL PRESENTED AT THE MEETING TO THE CITY CLERK FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD.
7.2 Written Communication
Letter of resignation
from Planning Commissioner Manny DeAquino.
8. CONSENT
CALENDAR
NOTE:
All matters listed under the Consent Calendar are considered routine and
will be enacted by one motion by roll call vote unless any member of the
Council or audience wishes to remove an item for discussion. The reading of the full text of all
Resolutions will be waived unless a Councilmember requests otherwise.
8.1
Minutes
of January 13, 2009 (Ms. Zito)
Recommendation to approve the Minutes of the
regularly scheduled City Council meeting of January 13, 2009.
8.2
Warrant Register (Mr. Warren)
Recommendation by the Director of Finance to approve the Warrant Register.
8.3 Payroll Register (Mr. Warren)
Recommendation by the Director of Finance to approve the Payroll Register.
8.4 Request
by Placerville Art on Parade and Placerville Downtown Association for Community
Promotion Funds for Banners on Parade Project and Placerville Art Walk (Mr.
Driscoll)
Resolution
No. _____
Recommendation by the City Manager/Attorney that the
City Council adopt a Resolution authorizing the appropriation of $1,500.00,
from the City Council’s Community Promotion budget as the City’s
contribution towards the 2009 “Banners on Parade” project, and,
further, the appropriation of $1,000.00 toward the “Placerville Art
Walk”.
9. ITEMS
PULLED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR
10. ORDINANCES
– None Scheduled
11. PUBLIC
HEARINGS
11.1 A
Public Hearing Regarding Speed Limits on Highway 49 (Mr. Tippett)
Recommendation by the
City Engineer that the City Council conduct a Public Hearing to receive and
provide input on the CalTrans recommended revisions to the speed limits on
Highway 49.
12. DISCUSSION/ACTION
ITEMS
12.1 Project
Development Status – Main Street/Cedar Ravine Road/Clay Street Roundabout
(Mr. Tippett)
Recommendation by the City
Engineer that the City Council take the following action:
1.
Receive a project development status
report.
2.
Provide input on the design concept of
a roundabout at the intersection of
3.
Authorize continuation of project
development of the
12.2 Confirmation
of Appointment to the Personnel Board to Fill One Unexpired Term Ending March
1, 2009 and One Unexpired Term Ending March 1, 2011 (Ms. Zito)
Recommendation by the
City Clerk that the City Council confirm the appointment of Ken Mikulecky to
the City’s Personnel Board to fill the unexpired term of Michele
MacIntyre who resigned on December 10, 2008, and further, to appoint the fifth
member of the Personnel Board as recommended by the other four members of the
Personnel Board, to fill the unexpired term to end March 1, 2011. The fifth
Personnel Board member, Helen Wright, resigned effective December 14, 2009.
13.
COUNCILMEMBERS REPORTS/ITEMS INITIATED
BY
COUNCILMEMBERS
14. STAFF
REPORTS
15. UPCOMING
ITEMS
16. ADJOURNMENT
A
Special Council Workshop will be held on February 4, 2009 at 6:00 P.M. at Town
Hall.
The
next Regular Council meeting will be held on February 10, 2009: 6:00 P.M.
Closed Session; 7:00 P.M. Regular Session.
Susan Zito,
CMC
City Clerk
I, Susan C.
Zito, CMC, City Clerk of the City of
Declare that
the foregoing Agenda for the January 27, 2009
Regular
Meeting of the
Was posted
and available for review on January 22, 2009
At the City
Hall of the City of
The Agenda is
also available on the City website at
Signed this
22nd day of January, 2009 at
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Susan C.
Zito, CMC, City Clerk