City Council
Regular MeetingGlendale, CA · March 12, 2024
Agenda
AGENDA
GLENDALE CITY COUNCIL
COUNCIL CHAMBERS
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Glendale, CA 91206
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MARCH 12, 2024
ROLL CALL
1. CLOSED SESSION – 1:00 PM (To Commence at 3:00 PM)
a. Conference with Legal Counsel - Pending Litigation: Claim of Arellano, Claim No.
23-0239
b. Public Employee Performance Evaluation – City Manager
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c. Public Employee Performance Evaluation – City Attorney
d. Conference with Labor Negotiators. City-designated negotiator: Mayor Dan
Brotman. Unrepresented employee position: City Attorney
e. Conference with Labor Negotiators. City-designated representatives: Paula Adams
and Peter Brown. Employee organization: Glendale City Employees’ Association
f. Conference with Real Property Negotiators. City-designated negotiator: Roubik
Golanian. Property: 440 and 444 W. Cypress St., 1275, 1291-1295, and 1295A Los
Angeles St., and 448 Fernando Ct. Negotiating Parties: CPD Los Angeles LLC.
Instructions to the negotiator(s) will concern the price and terms of payment for the
acquisition of property
2. REGULAR BUSINESS AGENDA – 6:00 PM
Roll Call
a. Flag Salute: Mayor Dan Brotman
b. Invocation: Dr. Suzie Abajian, City Clerk
c. Report of the City Clerk, re: Posting of Agenda. The Agenda for the March 12, 2024
Regular Meeting of the Glendale City Council was Posted on March 8, 2024, on the
Bulletin Board Outside City Hall.
3. PRESENTATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS
a. Agenda Preview for the Meetings of Tuesday, March 19, 2024
4. CONSENT ITEMS (Including Minutes)
The following are Routine and May be Acted Upon by One Motion. Any Member of Council or
the Audience Requesting Separate Consideration May do so by Making Such Request
Before Motion is Proposed.
a. City Clerk, re: Minutes of the Special City Council and Regular City Council
Meetings of March 5, 2024
b. Public Works, re: Appropriation of Measure R Funds for Multimodal and
Transportation Improvements Projects
1. Resolution of Appropriation to appropriate $3,000,000 for the South Central Avenue
Multimodal and Transportation Improvements Project and $4,000,000 for the North
Glendale Avenue Multimodal and Transportation Improvements Project
c. Community Services and Parks, re: Professional Services Agreement with Verde
Design, Inc. for Professional Landscape Architectural Services for the Pacific
Park/Edison Artificial Turf Replacement Project
1. Motion authorizing the City Manager or a designee to enter into and execute a
Professional Services Agreement with Verde Design, Inc. to provide Professional
Landscape Architectural Services for the Pacific Park/Edison Artificial Turf
Replacement Project in the amount of $250,940, plus a 10 percent contingency of
$25,094, for a total not to exceed amount of $276,034
2. Resolution of Appropriation to transfer $126,034 from CIP Unanticipated Repairs
Project to the Pacific Park/Edison Artificial Turf Replacement Project
d. Community Services and Parks, re: Amendment One for FY 2023-2024 Los Angeles
County Aging and Disabilities (AD) California Department of Aging (CDA) American
Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding allocation of $7,200 for the Supportive Services
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Program (SSP)
1. Motion to accept $7,200 in CDA ARPA funding from Los Angeles County Aging and
Disabilities Department for FY 2023-2024 Supportive Services Program; and
authorize the City Manager or a designee to execute Amendment One to the
SSP232404 Subaward period July 2023 – June 2024 to accept and implement
funding
2. Resolution of Appropriation
5. CITY COUNCIL/STAFF COMMENTS
6. COMMUNITY EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS (3-Minutes)
7. ADOPTION OF ORDINANCES
8. ACTION ITEMS
a. City Attorney, re: Consideration of Modifications to Nomination Process for Boards
and Commissions
1. Resolution Revising Recruitment, Nomination and Selection Process for Appointment
of Individuals to Boards and Commissions
2. Motion Directing Staff on Nomination Process for Individuals to Boards and
Commissions
3. Motion to Revise Nominating Panel of Civil Service Commission Vacancy
b. Management Services, re: Voting Delegate for the 2024 Southern California
Association of Governments (SCAG) General Assembly
1. Motion Designating a Voting Delegate and Alternate Representative(s) for the 2024
Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) General Assembly
9. HEARINGS
10. REPORTS - INFORMATION
a. Public Works, re: Update on Scholl Canyon Landfill Closure
11. WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS
12. DISCUSSION OF COUNCILMEMBER FUTURE AGENDA REQUESTS
a. Councilmember Kassakhian’s Request to Agendize a Review of the Mayoral
Selection Rotation Policy
b. Councilmember Najarian’s Request to Agendize a Motion to Amend a Previously
Approved Item To Remove Subsection (H) from Glendale Municipal Code Section
2.04.020 as Adopted by Ordinance No. 5963 Regarding the Mayoral Selection
Rotation Policy
13. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
Discussion is Limited to Items NOT a Part of this Agenda. Each Speaker is Allowed 5 minutes.
Council May Question or Respond to The Speaker But There Will be no Debate or Decision.
The City Manager May Refer the Matter to the Appropriate Department for Investigation and
Report.
14. NEW BUSINESS
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15. ADJOURNMENT
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