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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNOVEMBER 19,1991 1 1 Uf/O _ ., 0 l'lqq, 33: 0320 c.. (' CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS ARE TAPE RECORDED AND ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK ROLL CALL ORD. 1958 PERSONNEL BD. MEETING RECYCLING (Plastic) CLOSED SESSION AGENDA ITEMS PROPERTY MAINT.,ETC. (944 W. Htg. Dr.) O'5'",JO- "~'J MINUTES CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA and the ARCADIA REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING NOVEMBER 19, 1991 The City Council and the Arcadia Redevelopment Agency met in an Adjourned Regular meeting at 7:00 p. m., Tuesday, November 19, 1991, in the Conference Room of the City Hall Council Chambers. PRESENT: Councilmembers Ciraulo, Fasching, Harbicht, Young and Gilb ABSENT: None The City Manager announced that a change was. made to Agenda Item 9b, Ordinance No. 195B, an ordinance to authorize the Fire Chief to approve Christmas tree tents and canopies. The wording was changed to substitute Fire Chief for Fire Prevention Officer. The corrected ordinance was distributed to Council. The City Manager reported that the City Attorney was attending a Personnel Board hearing on an employee appeal to a suspension. He will join the City Council meeting tonight as soon as the hearing ends. The question of recycling plastic items was briefly discussed. Staff clarified that Newco Waste Disposal separates hard plastic from other plastic recyclable items. The hard plastic is an inappropriate plastic which is placed into a separate compartment in the truck and eventually landfilled. Mayor Gilb called a Closed Session immediately after the Pre- meeting this date. Staff recommended that Agenda Item 7a, consideration of zone change Z-91-010, be set for public hearing on December 3, 1991. Also Agenda Item 8, "Request for annexation and water service for a portion of Monrovia property", will be continued to a later date at the request of the applicant, Mr. Pokrajac. The City Manager reported that he and Police Chief Johnson, along with the Planning Director, had responded to a complaint from a resident in connection with an apartment building located at 944 West Huntington Drive. They looked at the block wall and other conditions of the property mentioned in the le~ter from the neighbor, and determined that the situation is a civil matter between the complainant and the neighbor. Staff saw no property maintenance problem, although the place is not in good condition, nor any of the other situations alluded to in the letter. The Police Department will formally respond to the block wall situation. I 11/19/91 ADJOURNMENT ATTEST: Ju Alford, 33:0321 A brief discussion ensued of this same area on West Huntington Drive and the number of people who congregate at the curb waiting to be picked up for daily employment. The Director of Planning reported there are a number of areas along portions of West Huntington Drive all the way to Rosemead Boulevard where persons wait to be picked up to go to work. However, the amount of people waiting in this area is not as great as those found around the Monrovia Home Depot or around Dunn-Edwards Paint Store further north at the corner of Michillinda and Colorado. Councilmember Young noted that she had received a complaint that the West Huntington Drive area apartment buildings house foreign persons and that there are many, many people living in each apartment. The City Manager commented that these apartments are very large. And, further, possibly some of the tenants do not have transportation and stand waiting for their ride to work. The area is not the same type of a situation that exists at Dunn-Edwards Paint store, he added. Mayor Pro tem Harbicht suggested this matter be vigorously followed-up. He does not know if the persons waiting around are out there looking for work, and there may not be a law against that, although there is a law against hiring illegal aliens. Councilmember Young noted that Sierra Madre has a terrible problem with a similar situation. Councilmember Fasching commented that one of the apartment buildings on West Huntington is predominantly Hispanic and single mixed. One evening, he had seen a big crowd from this particular building congregating at the corner of Sunset and Huntington Drive just standing on the corner and talking. At 7:13 p, m., Council entered a CLOSED SESSION, RECONVENED AND ADJOURNED sine die at 7:25 p.m, ~ Charles E. Gilb, Mayor ,J 2 11/19/91 1 1