The following information is from the Tuesday,...

The following information is from the Tuesday, June 21 meeting of the

City Council.

LANDSLIDE

* The council voted 5-0 to ask state legislators to consider

requiring insurance companies doing business in California to offer

insurance for mudslides and landslides to residential customers,

similar to the earthquake insurance the companies are required to

offer.

* The council adopted a resolution proclaiming the need to

continue the declaration of a local emergency (Flamingo Road

landslide).

“We haven’t heard from the [Federal Emergency Management Agency]

so we need to extend it,” City Manager Ken Frank said. “This gives us

21 more days.”

GOAT HERDERS

Mary Dolphin said the larger-than-usual number of rattlesnakes in

the hills pose a hazard to Peruvian goat herders.

FINANCES

*The council approved checks issued from May 20 to June 3 in the

amount of $2,650,611.91 and payroll numbers 23, 24 and 25, in the

amount of $4,317,788.74.

*The monthly treasurer’s report showed a city portfolio with a

market value as of May 30 of $51,925,308.92 in cash and investments.

WATER MANAGEMENT

A resolution was adopted accepting the South Orange County

Integrated Regional Water Management Plan and staff authorized to

submit a Proposition 50 grant application in cooperation with other

south county agencies for priority improvement projects.

Priority projects include construction of a Heisler Park project

to protect the adjacent Marine Reserve. The improvement was ranked

third of 16 projects listed in the regional plan.

The city also submitted seven other projects, which are included

on the plan’s long-term list and may be funded in future Prop 50 or

other grants.

DISPATCH SYSTEM

*City Manager Ken Frank was directed to execute a contract, not to

exceed $50,000, with William Romesburg to manage the selection and

implementation of a new computer aided dispatch system, paid from

existing Asset Forfeiture Funds.

RESOLUTIONS AND CONTRACTS

The council:

* adopted Resolution 05.056 determining unpaid assessments and the

manner of payment of them and listing bonds issued on the security

for them for Undergrounding District 99-5 (Loma Terrace, Bent Street

and Y Place);

* appropriated $801,814 for construction of utility improvements

within District 99-5 and increase revenues by the same amount.

* approved an existing contract with J & S Sign Company for paint

and (street) striping services through June 2006 for a cost not to

exceed $54,955.

DIP HOUSE APPROVAL 3-2

The Council approved a resolution overturning the Design Review

Board denial of the design, the Coastal Development Permit and

Mitigated Negative Declaration for the property at 1530 Glenneyre

St., known as the “Dip House.” The resolution included city

indemnification in the conditions of approval suggested during the

May 17 council meeting at which the appeal of the denial was granted.

Council members Toni Iseman and Steven Dicterow were opposed.

WHAT IT MEANS

The city will allow construction to proceed. Opponents said they

will pursue the matter with the California Coastal Commission and the

Army Corps of Engineers.

MORE PARKING METERS 5-0

Parking meters will be installed by the Bark Park on Laguna Canyon

Road.

WHAT IT MEANS

The city code will be amended to include meters and the Shoppers

Permit Program will be modified to include those meters so residents

can park at no charge for a limited time.

CABLE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT 5-0

The council approved renewal of the agreement through Jan. 1, 2017

between the city and Cox Communications Inc., which provides cable

service to residents.

WHAT IT MEANS

Cox offered the city a grant of $60 per active subscriber within

60 days of the beginning of the new agreement -- estimated to be

about $588,000. An additional payment of about $60,000 will be made

by Cox to make up for deficiencies discovered in an audit of Cox’s

allocations of franchise fees during the past five years.

The money is already spent, much of it going toward winterization

of the Flamingo Road landslide. $21,000 of the grant was allocated to

fund the completion of the city’s on-line data base, long proposed by

the City Clerk’s Office.

CIVIC ARTS DISTRICT/ARTIST LIVE-WORK 5-0

A proposal to revise language in the Civic Arts District to allow

structures higher than two stories, but not to exceed 36 feet for

arts-related, as well as public purposes was remanded to the Planning

Commission.