HomeMy WebLinkAbout2023.05.16 - Minutes - Regular MeetingCITY OF DIAMOND BAR
MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING
SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT/MAIN AUDITORIUM
21865 COPLEY DRIVE, DIAMOND BAR, CA 91765
MAY 16, 2023
STUDY SESSION: 5:00 p.m., Room CC-08, SCAQMD
Presentation of Draft Fiscal Year 2023-2024
Operating Budget
Public Comments: None Offered
Adjournment: 6:30 p.m.
CALL TO ORDER: Mayor Chou called the Regular City Council meeting
to order at 6:37 p.m. in the South Coast Air Quality Management District Main
Auditorium, 21865 Copley Drive, Diamond Bar, CA 91765
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Council Member Low led the Pledge of Allegiance.
INVOCATION: Pastor Guy Fox, Landmark Church, provided the
Invocation.
ROLL CALL: Council Members Ruth Low, Chia Yu Teng, Steve
Tye, and Mayor Andrew Chou
Absent: Mayor Pro Tem Stan Liu was excused
Staff Present In Person:
Manager; Omar Sandoval,
Manager; Amy Haug, Human
Development Director; David
Director; Ryan Wright, Parks
Dan Fox, City Manager; Ryan McLean, Assistant City
City Attorney; Anthony Santos, Assistant to the City
Resources and Risk Manager; Greg Gubman, Community
Liu, Public Works Director; Jason Jacobsen, Finance
and Recreation Director; Ken Desforges, Information
Services Director; Marsha Roa, Public Information Manager; Cecilia Arellano, Public
Information Coordinator; Joan Cruz, Administrative Coordinator; Kristina Santana, City
Clerk
Staff Present Telephonically: Christy Murphey, Recreation Superintendent; Hal
Ghafari, Public Works Manager/Assistant City Engineer
Also Present In Person: Lieutenant Daniel Dail and Captain Stephen Tousey,
LA County Sheriff's Department, Diamond Bar/Walnut Station.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA: Mayor Chou approved the agenda as presented.
1. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS, CERTIFICATES, PROCLAMATIONS: None
2. CITY MANAGER REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: None
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3. PUBLIC COMMENTS:
Cynthia Yu, Diamond Bar Library, spoke about upcoming library programs,
activities and events. Additional information is available online at
www.lacountylibrary.org
Jason Moss, Executive Director, Jewish Federation of the Greater San Gabriel
and Pomona Valleys, representing the Jewish community from Glendale to
Rancho Cucamonga and south to Whittier, spoke about the rise in antisemitism
and other forms of hatred and efforts to combat them and thanked the City for
adopting the resolution denouncing antisemitism.
Mei-Yin Wang, LA Department of Mental Health, provided a presentation on the
diverse and bilingual United Health Promoters program and announced that
program information flyers are available to the public at City Hall.
CC/Santana stated that copies of an email submitted by Adrienne Cotterell were
provided to Council Members and placed at the meeting entrance for public
viewing.
4. SCHEDULE OF FUTURE EVENTS: CM/Fox presented the Schedule of
Future Events,
5. CONSENT CALENDAR: C/Low moved, C/Tye seconded, to approve the
Consent Calendar. Motion carried 4-0 by the following Roll Call vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Low, Teng, Tye, M/Chou
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: MPT/Liu
5.1 APPROVED CITY COUNCIL MINUTES FOR:
5.1.1 MAY 2, 2023 STUDY SESSION
5.1.2 MAY 2, 2023 REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING
5.2 RATIFIED CHECK REGISTER DATED APRIL 26, 2023 THROUGH MAY
9, 2023 TOTALING $1,017,237.08.
5.3 ADOPTED THE PROCLAMATION DECLARING MAY AS ASIAN
AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH.
5.4 ADOPTED THE PROCLAMATION DECLARING MAY AS MENTAL
HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH.
5.5 ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 2023-12 DENOUNCING ANTISEMITISM,
5.6 DECLARED THE 2002 CHEVROLET S-10 (VIN 1GCCS19W728234869)
AS SURPLUS AND AUTHORIZED THE CITY MANAGER TO
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7.
TRANSFER TITLE THEREOF TO THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY
SHERIFF'S DEPARMENT.
5.7 DETERMINED THAT APPROVING PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR
THE GROUNDWATER DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS PHASE 4 AND 5
(COPLEY AND MOONLAKE) PROJECT TO BE EXEMPT FROM THE
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT PURSUANT TO
SECTION 15301(C) AND 15302 OF THE CEQA GUIDELINES; AND,
ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 2023-13 APPROVING THE DESIGN AND
PLANS FOR THE GROUNDWATER DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS
PHASES 4 AND 5 (COPLEY & MOONLAKE) PROJECT NO. PW234010
5.8 APPROVED AND AUTHORIZED THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC
WORKS/CITY ENGINEER, TO FILE THE NOTICE OF COMPLETION
FOR THE DIAMOND BAR CENTER SLOPE STABLIZATION PROJECT
NO, FP20500
PUBLIC HEARINGS: NONE
COUNCIL CONSIDERATION:
NONE
8. COUNCIL SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS AND MEETING ATTENDANCE
REPORTS/COUNCIL MEMBER COMMENTS.
C/Low represented the City at the SCAG Conference, attended a Mothers' Day
Celebration presented by the non-profit Heart of Hope, attended the SCAG
Committee's review of the Fullerton Road grade separation, reported on the LA
County Library's 43rd Annual Bookmark Contest, acknowledged and
congratulated Evergreen 5th grader Vera Kwan as the winner of the First District
Bookmark in the category of grades 3 to 5 and paid tribute to Teri Muse who
passed away on April 271h
C/Teng attended the Public Safety Workshop on preventing hate crime
sponsored by LA County Supervisor Hilda Solis's office and reminded everyone
that there is a compensation program available to hate crime victims.
C/Tye vowed to stand with everyone in an effort to stop the hate in the Jewish
and Asian communities, urged everyone to take advantage of the Sheriff's free
catalytic converter etching at Calvary Chapel, an effort to stop catalytic converter
theft and thanked C/Low for asking that tonight's meeting be adjourned in Teri
Muse's memory and recognizing her service on the Baldwin City Council,
Chamber of Commerce, Diamond Bar Community Foundation as well as, her
service to Diamond Bar as representative for Waste Management. C/Tye asked
everyone to keep Teri's husband David and their four children in their prayers.
M/Chou spoke about how helpful Teri Muse was to him, reminded everyone that
there is a Tip -a -Cop event going on at Chili's until 8:00 this evening, and
congratulated graduates.
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ADJOURNMENT2 With no further business to conduct, Mayor Chou
adjourned the Regular City Council Meeting at 7:09 p.m. in memory of Teri G.
Muse, Diamond Bar Community Representative for Waste Management,
Respectfully Submitted:
Kristina Santana, City Clerk
The foregoing minute are hereby approved this 6t" day of June, 2023.