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CC - 05-25-930 0 APPROVED MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING CITY OF ROSEMEAD ROSEMEAD CITY COUNCIL DAT~n MAY 25, 1993 By r The Regular Meeting of the Rosemead City Council was called to order by Mayor Bruesch at 8:04 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 8838 E. Valley Boulevard, Rosemead, California. The Pledge to the Flag was led by Councilmember Clark. The Invocation was delivered by City Treasurer Foutz. ROLL CALL OF OFFICERS: Present: Councilmembers Clark, McDonald, Taylor, Mayor Pro Tem Vasquez, and Mayor Bruesch Absent: None APPROVAL OF MINUTES: MAY 11, 1993 - REGULAR MEETING MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER TAYLOR, SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER McDONALD that the Minutes of the Regular Meeting of May 11, 1993, be approved as submitted. Vote resulted: Yes: Clark, Taylor, Bruesch, Vasquez, McDonald No: None Absent: None Abstain: None The Mayor declared said motion duly carried and so ordered. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: MAY 18, 1993 - ADJOURNED MEETING MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER McDONALD, SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER TAYLOR that the Minutes of the Adjourned Regular Meeting of May 18, 1993, be approved as submitted. Vote resulted: Yes: Clark, Taylor, Bruesch, Vasquez, McDonald No: None Absent: None Abstain: None The Mayor declared said motion duly carried and so ordered. Mayor Bruesch introduced Helen Archer, Rosemead's new Area Manager for Southern California Edison. PRESENTATIONS: - None I. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE A. Tricia Gill, 4527 N. Sultana, representing the Rosemead Parents Action Committee, spoke against the proposed year-round, multi-track school schedule being considered by the Rosemead School District and asked for Council support of this opposition. Petitions bearing 393 signatures and a response to the proposal were presented for Council's consideration. Also appearing in opposition were Susanne Acosta, 9230 Steele St.; Barbara Larson, 3815 N. Ellis Lane; and Debbie Sosa, 9225 E. Glendon Way. B. Juan Nunez, 2702 Del Mar Avenue, spoke against the increased assessment by LA County for storm drains and trucks parking in the medians. C. Jesus Soto, 8003 Whitmore St., was opposed to a flag-lot development adjacent to his property. II. PUBLIC HEARINGS - None III.LEGISLATIVE A. RESOLUTION NO. 93-25 - CLAIMS & DEMANDS CC 5-25-93 Page #1 0 The following resolution was presented to the Council for adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 93-25 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD ALLOWING CERTAIN CLAIMS AND DEMANDS IN THE SUM OF $434,174.67 NUMBERED 6026 THROUGH 6168 MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER McDONALD, SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM VASQUEZ that Resolution No. 93-25 be adopted. Vote resulted: Yes: Clark, Taylor, Bruesch, Vasquez, McDonald No: None Absent: None Abstain: None The Mayor declared said motion duly carried and so ordered. B. RESOLUTION NO. 93-26 - DECLARING 1993 AS "YEAR OF THE FAMILY" The following resolution was presented to the Council for adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 93-26 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD DESIGNATING 1993 AS THE YEAR OF THE FAMILY MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER CLARK, SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM VASQUEZ that Resolution No. 93-26 be adopted. Vote resulted: Yes: Clark, Taylor, Bruesch, Vasquez, McDonald No: None Absent: None Abstain: None The Mayor declared said motion duly carried and so ordered. Mayor Bruesch requested copies be sent to the local press for publicity purposes. Councilmember Taylor requested that it be signed by all five members of the Council before it is distributed. IV. CONSENT CALENDAR CC-A ACCEPT BIDS AND AWARD CONTRACT FOR ASPHALT CONCRETE OVERLAY ON VARIOUS CITY STREETS, FISCAL YEAR 1992-93 AND CITY ENTRANCE SIGN ON ROSENEAD BOULEVARD TO BORAL RESOURCES IN THE AMOUNT OF $292,746.50 CC-B APPROVAL OF TRACT MAP NO. 48793, 9248-9312 MARSHALL STREET CC-C APPROVAL OF LOCATIONS FOR FIREWORKS STANDS MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER McDONALD, SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER TAYLOR that the foregoing items on the Consent Calendar be approved. Vote resulted: Yes: Clark, Taylor, Bruesch, Vasquez, McDonald No: None Absent: None Abstain: None The Mayor declared said motion duly carried and so ordered. V. MATTERS FOR DISCUSSION & ACTION - None CC 5-25-93 Page #2 • VI. STATUS REPORTS A. INFORMATION • A CERTIFIED FARMER'S MARKET Councilmember Taylor requested information regarding the impact that would be made on the local merchants already selling produce and those addresses. Staff was directed to bring this back with the additional information on a future agenda. VII. MATTERS FROM OFFICIALS A. RECYCLING SCAVENGERS, ELLIS LANE AND RALPH STREET VERBATIM DIALOGUE FOLLOWS: TAYLOR: Mr. Mayor. I asked that this be put on the agenda. Last week I had called City Hall and I had noticed a couple of scavengers in front of my house and also on Ellis Lane and I had noticed four people at that time when I got in my car and took my son up to the car dealer, I saw four people just on Ellis Lane alone. There was a white pickup truck and there were two men, there were blue barrels in the back of that truck and I noticed the same person again today when I came home from school, had a gray jacket on and a blue baseball cap and he had two large of the clear large plastic trash bags full of the aluminum cans. BRUESCH: The price of aluminum has just gone up, that's why. TAYLOR: Whatever it is, the second person that I saw also had a plastic bag with aluminum bags. But the point I'm trying to make is that the State passes regulations, we have to recycle so much material and I'd like to know what the Council's opinion is. How are we going to monitor this? If we have to have one our Code Enforcement people or we have somebody that follows the street sweeper every single day whenever they're out sweeping, what can we do to monitor this situation to find out how much scavenging is really going on. This letter that was put out last week as far as the parking control officer was able to obtain the elderly Asian female's name, however, she did not know what her address was. I didn't see this individual. I saw four men. So, this would have made five people in that one area and it's got to be going on throughout the City. So, we need something in the record to show that we're monitoring it, we're trying to do something when it comes down to meeting our requirements with the State, when it comes down to Consolidated when they're trying to figure out what they're losing on the recycles We've got to have some documentation. That's why I asked this to be put on the Agenda. What's the Council want to do to try to monitor this? McDONALD: I don't think we ought to spend some money on sending somebody out to follow the trash truck around. TAYLOR: Well, I'm open for suggestions. The State passes all these laws that we're supposed to follow. BRUESCH: Might I suggest asking our carrier, Consolidated, what if and I asked them at the beginning of this whole process, do you figure in scavenging and the answer was at that time I believe was yes. They have a certain percentage that they already figure in as scavenging. I don't know if they're legally allowed to do that or they just do that as part of their business. TAYLOR: I'd like that in documentation, Mr. Bruesch, because I don't want to hear from Consolidated about their problems of scavengers. And I'm not doubting your word, I just want it in the record that what's going on, they don't come back later and say we're not supporting them or we're not helping them. r CC 5-25-93 Page #3 0 BRUESCH: Let's approach it at that level first. Let's get a letter from Consolidated that kind of explains the legalities whether or not they can use a portion for to take the place of scavenging and do they figure that in as part of their required amount. McDONALD: I don't think the State's going to come down here and measure the trash cans.... BRUESCH: No. No. I'm not saying. All I'm saying is... McDONALD: ...what they're going to do is they're going to look at the blue containers out there and they're going to give us a percentage of the newspapers and the cans and so forth. If you get down to it when those people take cans they're recycled also. If it's scavenged or not. It's being recycled. BRUESCH: Yes. But what I'm saying in response to Gary is the fact that I am under the impression that when they try to meet that 25% or 50% bench mark in recycling. I think they're allowed by law to figure in a certain amount of scavenging. TAYLOR: Well, all I want is documentation on it, Mr. Bruesch. BRUESCH: They can use it as part of meeting their State requirements. That's all I'm asking is to see if they already do that as part of their business. If they do, then it's a moot question. TAYLOR: When I can go down a six-block area, six blocks and there's five scavengers in that area and again it's not an issue of recycling the cans and they need the money and such, but it may seem kind of silly but we've probably got a million laws in this Country governing what all the citizens do when you go to the Federal and the State and all the international laws that every citizen if they get involved with something... it's the best country in the world but when they pass all these laws it's the same thing with the clean air act and the environmental... BRUESCH: Gary, every other month I get a thing this thick from the beverage recycling board and all they do in this document that's 80, 90 pages long is re-write definitions of words in that law. CLARK: Mr. Mayor. I have a question as far as AB 939 says we have to reduce our waste stream by 25% by the year 1995, right? Now, does that mean that they're going to measure what our volume of trash is or are they going to measure how much we're recycling? BRUESCH: They compare it from what it was when we did our waste stream study which was 1989 to what it is in 1995. CLARK: So, it's the volume of what we are turning to the landfill not the amount of recycling. BRUESCH: Yes, it's not the recycling. CLARK: So, it doesn't matter how much we are turning to the recycling it's just how much we reduce what's going to the dump. BRUESCH: That's what I'm saying they figure in.... FRANK G. TRIPEPI, CITY MANAGER: What that affects is Consolidated projection on the revenue for what they can recycle. That's all it affects. BRUESCH: That's all it affects and if there's a lot of scavenging in the City what happens is that the City gets no return on their portion of the recyclables. CC 5-25-93 Page #4 TAYLOR: Mr. Mayor. The other comment that I have heard is that people do not feel that they need to sort their trash or recyclables for scavengers to take them so my feeling is that they're not going to want to participate in the program when they see people just taking the benefit of what they thought was helping to whether Consolidated gets it or if any groups get a certain portion of that later, they become frustrated why are they sorting their trash for the benefit of the scavengers. So, there's other questions that come into it. BRUESCH: The heaviest portion of your trash is newsprint. TAYLOR: I'm not disputing the ratios of... BRUESCH: No longer will they accept mixed newsprint. It's either pure newsprint or nothing. TAYLOR: Well, again my question do we want to try to do anything about it or just... BRUESCH: Could we ask... MCDONALD: Why don't we go ahead and ask Consolidated if they have a percentage of that. BRUESCH: Let's get a memo back from them. TAYLOR: I want to go on record as being opposed to that because the City would be impartial whereas Consolidated has a stake in whatever is being taken. VASQUEZ: Mr. Mayor. Can we see what our neighboring cities are doing with the same problem? BRUESCH: Yes. We had to pass an ordinance, an anti-scavenging ordinance. We do have that on the books. TAYLOR: Yes, we do have it but how are we going to enforce it? McDONALD: They didn't say we had to enforce it, they just said we had to pass it. BRUESCH: Gary, like I said we can have the Sheriff go out and arrest these scavengers. TRIPEPI: No. McDONALD: No. They've got more important things to do. TAYLOR: They'd just cite them for an infraction, is what it is. BRUESCH: They won't prosecute them. TRIPEPI: They won't prosecute them either. TAYLOR: I'd like this item in the Minutes verbatim so we can find out what we're going to try to do with it. END VERBATIM DIALOGUE B. MAYOR BRUESCH 1. Noted that the City had received two letters from Sister City Keelung, Taiwan, one thanking Rosemead for efforts in strengthening ties and bonds between the two cities and the second inviting all interested persons to attend the Keelung Ghost Festival on September 1, 1993. C. COUNCILMEMBER TAYLOR 1. Asked that a letter be sent to LA County requesting a copy of its preliminary budget. CC 5-25-93 Page #5 D. CITY MANAGER FRANK G. TRIPEPI 1. Reported that SB 49 (Torres) passed out of the Senate appropriations, both sub and main committees, yesterday. Before any city can be released from the Superfund Cleanup responsibility, money would have to be available in either one of two funds, and is now on its way to the Senate. 2. Reported that the Governor's May Revision of the Budget seems to admit that there is a difference between "no and low" and full property tax cities and the shift would now be allocated in proportion to the share of the Prop. 13 "bailout" funds that were received by those cities. Since Rosemead received no "bailout" funds we would not have any shift made. Mr. Tripepi stressed that this was only in the Governor's revised budget and would still have to be accepted by the legislation. D. COUNCILMEMBER MCDONALD 1. Asked that the City respond to Representative Diane Martinez's request for what priorities Rosemead would like her to fight for, putting support of the Governor's revision regarding allocation of "bailout" funds. VIII. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE - None CC 5-25-93 Page #6 There being no further action to be taken at this time, the meeting was adjourned at 9:00 p.m. The next regular meeting is scheduled for June 8, 1993, at 8:00 p.m.