Public Works Committee

JOURNAL – PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE Wednesday, January 12, 2022 ROOM 1010, CITY HALL - 2:00 PM 200 NORTH SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 MEMBERS: COUNCILMEMBER BOB BLUMENFIELD, CHAIR COUNCILMEMBER JOHN S. LEE COUNCILMEMBER KEVIN DE LEÓN COUNCILMEMBER MITCH O’FARRELL COUNCILMEMBER PAUL KORETZ (Michael Espinosa - Legislative Assistant - (213) 978-1064 or michael.espinosa@lacity.org) Pursuant to Assembly Bill 361, and due to concerns over COVID-19, this Los Angeles City Council committee meeting will take all public comment by teleconference. The audio for this meeting is broadcast live on the internet at https://clerk.lacity.org/calendar. The live audio can also be heard at: (213) 621-CITY (Metro), (818) 904-9450 (Valley), (310) 471-CITY (Westside) and (310) 547-CITY (San Pedro Area). Members of the public who would like to offer public comment on the items listed on the agenda should call 1 669 254 5252 and use Meeting ID No. 160 073 2397 and then press #. Press # again when prompted for participant ID. Once admitted into the meeting, press *9 to request to speak. Requests for reasonable modification or accommodation from individuals with disabilities, consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act can be made by contacting the City Clerk's Office at (213) 978-1133. For Telecommunication Relay Services for the hearing impaired, please see the information located at the end of this agenda. Submit written comment at LACouncilComment.com Click here for agenda packets Note: For information regarding the Committee and its operations, please contact the Committee Legislative Assistant at the phone number and/or email address listed above. The Legislative Assistant may answer questions and provide materials and notice of matters scheduled before the City Council. 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MULTIPLE AGENDA ITEM COMMENT GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT ITEM(S) (1) 21-1169 City Administrative Officer report relative to a prioritized list of potential projects for application submission for the Clean California Local Grants Program. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: Yes Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council APPROVED AS AMENDED City Administrative Officer report dated December 16, 2021 - (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Koretz, O'Farrell (2) 21-1469 Motion (Blumenfield, Bonin, Raman - Rodriguez) relative to various improvements or changes to the City's sidewalk programs. (This item was also referred to the Public Works Committee) Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED AS AMENDED Motion (Blumenfield, Bonin, Raman - Rodriguez) - (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Koretz, O'Farrell (3) 21-1367 Controller report relative to the Repairing Los Angeles’s Broken Sidewalk Strategy. (This item was also referred to the Public Works Committee)  Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted. NOTED AND FILED Controller report dated November 17, 2021 - (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Koretz, O'Farrell (4) 22-0013 City Administrative Officer report relative to the Innovation and Performance Commission Innovation Fund funding for the Guaranteed Basic Income Connectivity Support Project from the Community Investment for Families Department. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted CONTINUED TO DATE TO BE DETERMINED (5) 20-0122-S1 CD 2 City Engineer report relative to the vacation of the portion of Keswick Street between Vantage Avenue and Laurel Canyon Boulevard - Walkway and Future Street Easement Vacation (VAC- E1401389). Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Bureau of Engineering report dated December 1, 2021 - (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Koretz, O'Farrell (6) 21-1439 CD 8 Motion (Harris-Dawson - De Leon) relative to an exception to the City’s one-year, street cut moratorium to allow for the installation of water  services by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for the housing developments at 6527 and 6501 Crenshaw Boulevard. Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion (Harris-Dawson - De Leon) - (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Koretz, O'Farrell (7) 21-1442 CD 14 Motion (De Leon - Cedillo) relative to designating the intersection at Pennsylvania Avenue and Boyle Avenue as "ROBERT VARGAS SQUARE ARTIST- ANGELENO". Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion (De Leon - Cedillo) - (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Koretz, O'Farrell (8) 19-0666 CD 4 City Engineer report relative to the Temporary Closure of Dixie Canyon Avenue between 3363 and 3550 Dixie Canyon Avenue. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Bureau of Engineering report, dated November 18, 2021 - (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Koretz, O'Farrell (9) 21-0345 CD 14 City Engineer report relative to the vacation of the alley southerly of Washington Boulevard from the alley easterly of Santa Fe Avenue to its easterly terminus (VAC- E1401392). Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted  APPROVED Bureau of Enginering report dated October 22, 2021 - (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Koretz, O'Farrell (10) 19-0103 CD 1, CD 10 City Engineer report relative to the vacation of the portion of the southeasterly side of La Fayette Park Place between Hoover Street and Wilshire Boulevard (VAC- E1401363). Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Bureau of Enginering report dated December 9, 2021 - (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Koretz, O'Farrell If you challenge this Committee's action(s) in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk at or prior to, the public hearing. Any written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk before the City Council's final action on a matter will become a part of the administrative record. Materials relative to items on this agenda can be obtained from the Office of the City Clerk's Council File Management System, at lacouncilfile.com by entering the Council File number listed immediately following the item number (e.g., 00-0000). Telecommunication Relay Services Telephone communication is one of the most important forms of communication in society today. Due to advancements in technology, telephone devices have evolved with new services and capabilities. Individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing, and individuals with a speech disability are following these trends and are rapidly migrating to more advanced telecommunications methods, both for peer- to-peer and third-party telecommunications relay service (TRS) communications. Telecommunications Relay Service is a telephone service that allows persons with hearing or speech disabilities to place and receive telephone calls. TRS is available in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. territories for local and/or long distance calls. TRS providers - generally telephone companies - are compensated for the costs of providing TRS from either a state or a federal fund. There is no cost to the TRS user. What forms of TRS are available?There are several forms of TRS, depending on the particular needs of the user and the equipment available: TRS includes: Text to Voice TIY-Based TRS; Speech-to-Speech Relay Service; Shared Non-English Language Relay Service; Captioned Telephone Relay Service; Internet Protocol Relay Service; and Video Relay Service. Please visit this site for detail descriptions, https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs. Don't hang up! Some people hang up on TRS calls because they think the CA is a telemarketer. If you hear, "Hello. This is the relay service .. . " when you pick up the phone, please don't hang up! You are about to talk, through a TRS provider, to a person who is deaf, hard-of-hearing, or has a speech disability. For more information about FCC programs to promote access to telecommunications services for people with disabilities, visit theFCC's Disability Rights Office website.