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HomeMy WebLinkAbout09/21/2010 PRC MinutesMINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY OF DIAMOND BAR SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 CALL TO ORDER: Mayor Herrera called the Regular City Council meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. in The Government Center/SCAQMD Auditorium, 21865 Copley Dr., Diamond Bar, CA. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Mayor Herrera. led the Pledge of Allegiance. INVOCATION: Monsignor Loughnane, St. Denis Catholic Church, gave the invocation. ROLL CALL: Council Members Ling -Ling Chang, Ron Everett, Jack Tanaka, Mayor Pro Tem Steve Tye and Mayor Carol Herrera. Staff Present: James DeStefano, City Manager; David Doyle, Assistant City Manager; Michael Jenkins, City Attorney; Ken Desforges, IS Director; David Liu, Public Works Director; Bob Rose, Community Services Director; Linda Magnuson, Finance Director; Greg Gubman, Community Development Director; Ryan McLean, Assistant to the City Manager; Rick Yee, Senior Civil Engineer; Kimberly Molina, Associate Engineer; Christy Murphy, Recreation Specialist; Anthony Santos, Management Analyst; Lauren Hidalgo, Public Information Specialist; and Tommye Cribbins, City Clerk. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: As Presented. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS, CERTIFICATES, PROCLAMATIONS: BUSINESS OF THE MONTH: 1.1 M/Herrera presented a City Tile to Store Manager, Jim Valenson appearing on behalf of Ralph's Grocery Co., 1180 S. Diamond Bar Blvd., Business of the Month. 2. CITY MANAGER REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: CM/DeStefano updated the City Council and Community on the Site D proposal. In the last couple of months the Walnut Valley Unified School District has transitioned from its former superintendent to the new Interim Superintendent, Charles McCully, and as a result there has been a change in the direction of consultant services for the Site D project as well. Staff has been involved in assisting the School District in processing the Site D development project and gearing up for the public outreach effort proposed by School District officials. About a week ago RJM Consulting Group was engaged by the School District to provide consulting service. SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 PAGE 2 CITY COUNCIL RJM is predominately a landscape architecture group and in fact, the City of D.B. has used them for projects over the years. Bob Mueting, principal - owner of the company is an outstanding public facilitator and is utilized by agencies for his outreach consultant expertise. Mr. Mueting has been specifically hired to work with the adjacent property owners and other community interests in examining Site D in more detail. The District has determined that a public outreach session will take place on Saturday, October 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. commencing with a tour of the Site D property and moving to Castle Rock Elementary School for further discussion regarding the project. Staff intended to include a status report to the City Council at its October 19 meeting; however, based upon the public outreach session that the District is facilitating, Mr. Mueting does not foresee more than a brief update as to what occurred at that outreach meeting. There may be an additional public outreach meeting in November depending on the outcome of the October meeting. Anyone who has an interest in attending the October 16th meeting should contact the School District to RSVP and inquire about the workshop. The School District phone number is 909-595-1261. CM/DeStefano stated that one of the issues that grew out of discussions a few months ago was the feasibility of a commercial center on the Site D property. A primary component of the MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) is that the City and the School District will look at the _ possibility of a 50% commercial and 50% residential development. The City has had an interest in a commercial development on the Site D property for several years. In April 2008 the City hired Kaiser -Marsden to provide an economic feasibility study for several sites within the City including the Site D property. In April 2008 Kaiser -Marsden concluded that the property was viable for a commercial development, such as has been contemplated for the past few years, Site D was and remains a component of the City's overall economic development strategy. During the past couple of years the economic recession has clearly taken its toll on all development including retail development. CM/DeStefano stated that he had engaged Kaiser -Marsden to update the Site D portion of the April 2008 study and within a month prior to any decisions the Council or School District might make on Site D there will be an updated report on the market feasibility of a commercial/retail center for the Site D property, which will bring the City to its current state with contemporary information to assist the City in its decision-making with respect to Site D. The City Council has on its Consent Calendar tonight two matters related to the Site D property: 1) the Memorandum of Understanding first approved a few years ago. The MOU is suggested to be revised as follows: The ceiling on the dollar amount that the City will expend on consultants and SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 PAGE 3 CITY COUNCIL other services related to the Site D project will be increased to approximately $500,000 and that amount is reimbursable from the School District as soon as the property is sold; 2) Insert a new section that indicates that should the property not be sold by January 1, 2014, the School District will commence a monthly payment to the City to repay the expenditure; and, 3) the MOU moves an artificial deadline of November 2010 for purposes of project completion to July 31, 2011 including additional language should the project not be completed within that time period. The MOU was brought before the School District's Board of Directors on September 15 and the Board approved the MOU changes as negotiated by CM/DeStefano, CA/Jenkins and School District attorney, staff and consultants. Tonight on the Consent Calendar is a proposed contract amendment with TRG Land Sources to increase the current contract in order to cover costs for additional services that have already been provided as a result of additional work that became necessary within the last several months. There will likely be an additional request for a contract amendment in November for work resulting from the public workshop, taking into consideration any changes that the District or the City chooses to make to the environmental documentation and other aspects of the project. 3. PUBLIC COMMENTS: Jesse Lanz, D.B. Library, reported on the Library's Summer Reading Program and upcoming future events. All events can be found on the Library's website at www.colapublib.org Allen Wilson, resident, spoke about the survey he received in the mail regarding the local funding measure for Parks and Recreation that suggested a vote by mail which to him was a disenfranchisement to democracy. Mr. Wilson asked why the City, after already spending $12 million for a new City Hall and City Library is now asking for $11.31 from all property owners. He wants the City to get the money from its budget and not from the taxpayers. Andrew Merkel, 2434 Harmony Hill Dr., proposed that a formal resolution by the City Council be made to the LA County Board of Supervisors stating that all law enforcement agencies, extrinsic to D.B., be required by statute, to plan, coordinate and execute any type of law enforcement operation, be required to first coordinate with the D.B./Walnut Sheriff's Station. SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 PAGE 4 CITY COUNCIL 4. RESPONSE TO PUBLIC COMMENTS: CM/DeStefano stated that the second speaker spoke about a survey that the City's consultant distributed to approximately 10,000 D.B. property owners. As the Council is aware and as the community has been advised, the City has been involved in an exhaustive effort during the past two years to develop a new Parks Master Plan which was last approved in 1998 and has been very successful culminating in a wide variety of park improvements that have been embraced by the community. It is time to look to the next twenty years and how the City will plan and provide for the community's needs for that time period. A study was conducted that looked at a wide variety of aspects of the delivery of community services and parks and recreation within facilities the City has today and facilities that may be needed in the future. The project culminated in a draft report that is awaiting further discussion by the Parks Commission, the Planning Commission and ultimately, adoption by the City Council. The primary reason it is awaiting further information is because, it is absent a financing vehicle. Without a financing vehicle it is nothing more than providing a child with a catalogue showing lots of wonderful things that child might receive but no discussion whatsoever about budget, capital improvement costs, maintenance and operation and personnel costs. Most important is an ongoing financing vehicle to construct the capital improvements outlined in the document, but to also maintain and operate those improvements. The plan talks about a wide variety of such improvements needing approximately $12 million in resources for the first five years of the plan's development cycle. The City does not have $12 million for all of those improvements. The City is looking at options for development and options are varied. One of the options is to go to the public that enjoys these services and asks for more services on an ongoing basis, and ask whether they have an interest in paying for these services through a measure that would fund the capital improvements, and possibly, ongoing maintenance and operation. There are different vehicles that are available and staff is looking at a variety of those different vehicles. Council authorized hiring a consulting firm more than a year ago to look at surveying the community. First a telephone survey was conducted and most recently, a mail survey was provided to about 10,000 residents. The results of the mail in survey are not yet complete and staff would encourage everyone to provide the City with its comments regarding that survey and the potential for a revenue enhancing measure for parks and recreation facilities. The City has asked that the survey be returned by the first week of October. Once the surveys are returned the consultant will be putting together a report for the City Council. Staff believes the second Council Meeting in November or early December will provide an SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 PAGE 5 CITY COUNCIL opportunity for the City Council to discuss the results of the Survey and to discuss potential next steps. These steps must be taken before the Parks and Recreation Commission, the Planning Commission and ultimately, the City Council, can make an informed decision. Again, the financing is a critical component and the City needs to have a financing plan in place to know what and when the City can do to propose implementation of the plan. The City had more resources and grant opportunities in 1998. The City does not have that same level, category or anticipation of resources moving forward and the City will have to be very careful about what it does, when it does it and how it is financed for capital improvements as well as, ongoing maintenance and personnel costs. There have been no decisions by the City Council on whether or not to float such a measure and there have been no Council decisions on how to conduct a ballot, should there be one on such a measure. These are future decisions for the Council. Other than a desire to adopt the Parks Master Plan and improve service levels there is no urgency in processing this project. The final speaker referred to a Transit Service Bureau special problems team assignment that occurred at his residence. This was service of a search warrant regarding a felony vandalism investigation and Mr. Merkel has filed a complaint regarding the activity with the County of Los Angeles, which is being reviewed by the County. At this point it is a matter with and between the speaker and Los Angeles County and staff has no further information to provide. Staff received Mr. Merkel's complaint and quickly responded by discussing the matter with the Sheriff's Department and have learned that an inquiry has been initiated with information to come at an appropriate time. MPT/Tye said he agreed with Mr. Merkel that it was not asking too much for the City to coordinate with the Sheriff's Department. He knows that he is frustrated when the Highway Patrol essentially clogs up Brea Canyon Blvd. between D.B. and the Tonner Canyon onramp to the SR57. it would be most helpful, if not a common courtesy to make the Sheriff's Department aware of what they are doing in the City. CM/DeStefano said he did not have sufficient information to respond to MPT/Tye's concerns. His assumption is that communication was relayed to the local station but it was an event that was coordinated and conducted by the Transit Services Bureau. CM/DeStefano said that staff would provide additional information to the Council as it becomes available. SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 PAGE 6 CITY COUNCIL 5. SCHEDULE OF FUTURE EVENTS: 5.1 Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting — September 23, 2010 — 7:00 p.m., AQMD/Government Center Hearing Board Room, 21865 Copley Drive. 5.4 Planning Commission Meeting — September 28, 2010 — 7:00 p.m., AQMD/Government Center Auditorium, 21865 Copley Drive. 5.5 City Council Meeting — October 5, 2010 — 6:30 p.m., AQMD/Government Center Auditorium, 21865 Copley Drive. 6. CONSENT CALENDAR: MPT/Tye moved, C/Everett seconded, to approve the Consent Calendar as presented. Motion carried by the following Roll Call: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Chang, Everett, Tanaka, MPT/Tye, M/Herrera NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None 6.1. CITY COUNCIL MINUTES: 6.1.1 STUDY SESSION OF AUGUST 17, 2010 — Approved as submitted. 6.1.2 REGULAR MEETING OF AUGUST 17, 2010 —Approved as submitted. 6.2 RECEIVED AND FILED TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION MINUTES — Regular Meeting of June 10, 2010. 6.3 RATIFIED CHECK REGISTER DATED AUGUST 12, 2010 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 TOTALING $12,319,206.18. 6.4 APPROVED TREASURER'S STATEMENT — Month of July 2010. 6.5 ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 2010-31: SUPPORTING BUSINESS FRIENDLY PRINCIPLES AS PART OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS (SCAG) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ECONOMIC GROWTH STRATEGY. SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 PAGE 7 CITY COUNCIL 6.6 AUTHORIZED $15,000 INCREASE TO THE CONTRACT WITH CALIFORNIA CONSERVATION CORP (CCC) FOR AS -NEEDED TRAIL REPAIRS AND BRUSH CLEARANCE THROUGH FY 2010- 11 FOR A TOTAL CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION OF $35,000. 6.7 ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 2010-32: APPROVING THE APPLICATION FOR GRANT FUNDS FROM THE RECREATIONAL TRAILS PROGRAM UNDER THE "SAFE, ACCOUNTABLE, FLEXIBLE, EFFICIENT TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT: A LEGACY FOR USERS" (SAFETEA-LU) FOR THE STEEP CANYON TRAILHEAD CONNECTOR TO THE CANYON LOOP TRAIL PROJECT. 6.8 APPROVED AN UNLIMITED USE SERVICE PROPOSAL WITH BLACKBOARD CONNECT FOR GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE CONNECT-CTY EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM SERVICE THROUGH AUGUST 14, 2011 AT A COST OF $38,710 AND APPROPRIATED FUNDS FROM THE FY 2010-11 MUNICIPAL BUDGET. 6.9 AUTHORIZED THE CITY MANAGER TO PURCHASE TWO (2) FORD RANGER XLT EXTENDED CABS FROM MCCOY MILLS FORD AT A COST NOT -TO -EXCEED $35,000. 6.10 APPROVED DISPOSAL OF A 1989 LAYTON TRAILER FORMERLY USED AS A MOBILE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER (EOC). 6.11 APPROVED AMENDMENT NO. 3 FOR A NINE MONTH CONTRACT EXTENSION WITH R.F. DICKSON COMPANY, INC., EXTENDING STREET SWEEPING AND DEBRIS COMPOSTING SERVICES EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010. 6.12 (a) APPROVED BUDGET FOR THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION BLOCK GRANT AND APPROPRIATED REVENUE FOR FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING JULY 1, 2010 AND ENDING JUNE 30, 2011. (b) AWARDED CONTRACT TO JOHNSON CONTROLS, INC. IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $48,432 FOR THE AIR CONDITIONING RETROFIT AT THE HERITAGE PARK COMMUNITY CENTER. SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 PAGE 8 CITY COUNCIL 6.13 AWARDED CONTRACT TO SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMPANY (SEMCO) IN THE NOT TO EXCEED -- AMOUNT OF $45,000 (IN FY 2010-11) FOR A TWO-YEAR TERM FOR SOLID WASTE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE. 6.14 APPROVED CONTRACT AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO THE CONTRACT WITH TRG LAND, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $46,963.70 FOR LAND PLANNING SERVICES ON PROPERTY OWNED BY WALNUT VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (WVUSD), COMMONLY KNOWN AS "SITE D," AND APPROPRIATED $48,826 FROM GENERAL FUND RESERVES, 6.15 APPROVED SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) WITH WALNUT VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT RELATED TO THE SITE D SPECIFIC PLAN. 7. PUBLIC HEARINGS: 7.1 ADOPT RESOLUTION NO. 2010-33: ESTABLISHING AND ADOPTING A SCHEDULE OF RATES, FEES, AND CHARGES FOR SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, PUBLIC WORKS AND COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENTS. ATCM/McLean reported that staff is very confident that the recommendations that have resulted over a year's worth of study and review of all affected departments are consistent and offer a balanced approach to adjusting fees for today's business costs. With few exceptions, the fees have remained unchanged since 1998. In order to determine the true costs for providing these services the City contracted with Maximus, a firm that specializes in such studies. After reviewing all available data, Maximus recommended that the City adopt full cost recovery user fee schedules to fully subsidize programs and services going forward. ++++ These full -cost recovery levels set the maximum fee level that the City may charge for each service under state law. In the vast majority of cases, staff discovered that a full -cost recovery fee schedule would lead to large increases across the board. So rather than implementing a burdensome full -cost recovery fee schedule, staff came up with a recommendation to move forward with a comprehensive phased -fee increase based on the Federal Bureau of Labor's annual consumer price index (CPI) of 29.4% since the last fee adjustment in 1998 (twelve years ago). Staff recommends SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 PAGE 9 CITY COUNCIL that the CPI increase be phased over three years to lessen the immediate impact on the end user, which results in an increase of approximately 9.8% annually for the three year phasing period. Additionally and to ensure that the rates remain current during the phasing period, staff recommends that the annual March to March CPI adjustment for that year and each year going forward be continued annually to ensure that the City remains up to date with its fees going forward. ACTM/McLean provided a Power Point presentation using specific examples. C/Everett thanked staff and stated that they had his full support of the phased approach. He asked how Maximus came up with the full recovery costs. ACTM/McLean responded to C/Everett that the full recovery cost levels Maximus established are based on a series of meetings held with each department, volume of work, cost of personnel, cost of meetings, etc. C/Everett recalled that during a study session Council had been told by staff that the City was, in fact, meeting the costs as laid out and that staff is secure with the fees as presented. ACTM/McLean responded that staff is confident that the recommended adjustments will allow staff to meet the needs of doing business today. Since adjustments have not been made for twelve years the change of keeping it in line with the CPI levels over a three year period will help get the City to where it needs to be. C/Chang asked if it was correct that since the City has been subsidizing many of the fees, the City is now looking to have the specific user bear the burden of the increase rather than the taxpayers of the City as a whole. ACTM/McLean responded that C/Chang was correct. The idea of a user fee is that unlike public safety which is a universal public benefit, when an individual seeks to obtain a permit for a specific project that is an individual or business benefit and by paying those fees the individual or business pays their share to get the benefit. SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 PAGE 10 CITY COUNCIL C/Chang asked if the City would still be subsidizing some portion. ACTM/McLean stated that for certain costs. However, with adoption of the resolution, the City will be recovering a much greater portion. Staff believes the City is an efficient organization, and that these changes will be beneficial to put the City to a balanced level. C/Chang reiterated for clarification that it would result in a lesser burden to the majority of taxpayers who live in the City. ACTM/McLean responded by stating that C/Chang was correct because these are for projects that benefit individual users and businesses. M/Herrera opened the Public Hearing at 7:40 p.m. Allen Wilson said he did not favor increasing fees and taxes With no further testimony offered, M/Herrera closed the Public Hearing at 7:43 p.m. CM/DeStefano responded to the speaker that costs for providing services regardless of department continues to increase. Law enforcement costs are now $5.2 million which were significantly less in 1998. Milk, gasoline, etc. all cost more than they did in 1998. The City needs to continue to operate as a business and be conscious of what it is doing with respect to its budget. The City looks at increases in service fees very carefully. A few years ago staff examined in exhaustive detail business licensing and made a conscious effort to remain business -friendly, to remain affordable, to not discourage business activities in the community, and the City deliberately kept a very low business license fee rate and improved the business licensing process in order to make it simpler and easier for businesses to locate in D.B. and to expand their business in D.B. This issue is based upon the same premise. It has been way too long since these fees have been examined for a potential increase. The costs to provide the services (employee wages, consultant costs, etc) have continued to increase. Another way to look at this issue is that the general public has continued to subsidize these private development efforts and this is the way to reduce and potentially eliminate that gap in specific areas and lessen the burden on the taxpayer and place the burden on the entity that is requesting the service whether it be a developer or SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 PAGE 11 CITY COUNCIL anyone else. The increases are modest and staff attempted to be mindful of the current economic climate. It would have been easy to simply say "No", let's not do this because we are in a global national local recession, but staff recommended a "phase in" approach and recommended that the totality of the full cost recovery not be required, that a much more modest (29.4%) increase reflecting the CPI over the last several years be adopted and beyond that the 29.4% be phased in over three years. Staff believes this is the most prudent approach. The amount of revenue that comes to the City cannot exceed the cost of providing the service. This is not a profit center for the City. If the City were not to increase its fees the costs would continue to rise which means that the general public would continue to subsidize the services that are requested by a few each year. Staff believes that this is not a plan that will discourage acquisition of permits and investment within the community. D.B. has for several years been recognized as a low-cost business -friendly City for development and these fees, should they be adopted by the Council, will not change that status. D.B. will remain a very low cost community in which to conduct business. MPT/Tye said that he wanted to make it clear this is not a tax but a user fee. Anyone he has spoken with knows that when he ran for City Council five years ago he was running on something specific and was not a proponent of a parcel tax to build a new library. Within the first year of his term there was discussion of reworking the fees that were charged for Inland Valley Humane Society and he was a proponent for adding a fee for licensing a cat. If someone owns a cat he believes it is appropriate to license the cat so that if the cat gets out and becomes lost or run over, Inland Valley Humane Society comes to take care of it just like they would if it was a dog. He believes that it is appropriate and that is a user fee. He is a "user" of that service. He believes it is appropriate if it costs $100 to issue a permit to have a water heater installed in his home that he should pay the $100. He is the user and it makes sense that he should pay and not pass that cost along to all of the other taxpayers who would not benefit from his "use." The City does not recover all of the costs but it needs to get closer to recovering most of the costs so that the City can continue to provide the outstanding services that the citizens of D.B. have come to expect. It is not a tax. A tax is paying for schools. His kids are out of school. He still pays the tax. It's a tax. He still pays for County sanitation. That's a tax. He does not have a choice. He has a choice in this situation. He can utilize it or not utilize it and he likes the idea if SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 PAGE 12 CITY COUNCIL someone plans to add to his home he pays the fees for it. When the City gets closer to recovering those user fees, it will be better for all of the citizens of D.B. CJEverett pointed out that this information is online and that each of the items that have a fee is clearly a specific user fee for individuals, groups and businesses. He was initially uncomfortable with this proposal because of the economy but that issue was addressed early on by the phasing of the adjustments in an effort to be respectful with long overdue changes. It is clear that this is a "user" fee schedule and not a tax. C/Everett moved, C/Tanaka seconded, to adopt Resolution No. 2010-33. Motion carried by the following Roll Call vote: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Chang, Everett, Tanaka, MPT/Tye, M/Herrera NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None COUNCIL CONSIDERATION: None COUNCIL SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS/COUNCIL MEMBER COMMENTS: C/Tanaka commented on the last of the season "Concerts in the Park." The D.B./Walnut Junior All American Football season opened and he attended the grand opening ceremony. The Vantage Homeowners Association held a social networking event. He thanked all of the volunteers who work for Meals on Wheels and congratulated the City's newest Eagle Scout, Carlos Cardenas from Troop 777. The D.B. Senior Citizens group held their Italiano Dinner Dance on Wednesday. He stated that last Thursday he attended D.B. Day at the LA County Fair; and attended the Diamond Point Homeowners Association Luau catered by local businesses. C/Chang reminded residents that they can find all of her activities pertaining to the City on her Twitter and Facebook accounts. She attended the IMC luncheon, the Independent Cities Installation Dinner and represented D.B. at the Chinese Institute of Engineer's Dinner. C/Chang announced that Prop. 22 is the local Taxpayer Public Safety and Transportation Act of 2010 which prevents the State from raiding local government funds and protects local services. If Prop. 22 is passed in November it will protect over 6.1 billion dollars for cities use in LA County SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 PAGE 13 CITY COUNCIL alone. C/Everett attended the Contract Cities meeting during which Sheriff Baca spoke about the activities and attended the D.B./Walnut Sheriff's Picnic which took place on Saturday, August 28. He wished a happy new school year to students, teachers and parents. He thanked staff for their daily leadership and thanked the Parks and Recreation Commissioners for their important service. He encouraged everyone to attend one of the Traffic and Transportation Commission meetings and participate in their agenda. He thanked M/Herrera for adjourning tonight's meeting in memory of Joe Dunn. MPT/Tye welcomed C/Chang back from Peru. He congratulated Walnut Mayor Tony Cartagena and Mayor Pro Tem Nancy Tragarz. He congratulated Mei Lien Chang on her recognition as community hero for all she has done. He said it was a privilege to have breakfast with Supervisor Don Knabe and discuss the library opportunity. M/Herrera announced that the City of Diamond Bar purchased its building and escrow has closed. Staff and Council are working with the architect on plans for the new D.B. City Hall and housing for the L.A. County Library. Sadly, the City has lost a good friend. Joe Dunn was always present videotaping D.B. City Council meetings and other community meetings. Joe was very dedicated to this community. ADJOURNMENT: With no further business to conduct, M/Herrera adjourned the Regular City Council meeting at 8:05 p.m. in memory of Joe Dunn. jo,,-n� Oj- dL TdMMA CRIBBINS, CITY CLERK The foregoing minutes are hereby approved this 5th day of octobe 201 0,-' TYE, MAYIDR PRO TEM