Here are some items the council will...

Here are some items the council will consider tonight:

SENIOR

CENTER LEASE

The council will decide whether to continue leasing the Costa Mesa

Senior Center building to the center’s operators and begin providing

a full-time maintenance worker for the building. The current lease on

the city-owned building expires in June.

The building’s condition has deteriorated in recent years, so the

council will be asked to spend between $25,000 and $61,000 more

annually on a maintenance worker for the facility. The city now

devotes $300,000 a year to the senior center. The suggested new lease

is for five years.

WHAT TO EXPECT

City staff members are recommending approval of the new lease and

maintenance worker position because the senior center’s operator

provides programs at a lower cost than the city could, and many of

the problems with the current lease are the result of poor building

maintenance.

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SUBSCRIPTION

If the council gives final approval to an emergency medical

subscription program, city residents would pay a $36-a-year

membership fee or be charged $300 every time they use Costa Mesa’s

emergency medical services. The program is one of several methods the

council has considered to help pay the increasing cost of city

services.

Like most cities, Costa Mesa already charges nonresidents who use

the city’s emergency medical services, but it is one of the few

cities in Orange County that does not have a subscription program for

residents. The program is expected to raise about $350,000 a year for

the city’s coffers.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Council members in March approved a first reading of an ordinance

creating the program, so they’re likely to give it final approval. It

will take a separate vote to set the amount of the fees, and the

council could suggest other amounts.