Lancaster
| Date | Item Type | Item | Description | Info Location | County | City | Meeting Type | id |
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| July 09, 2024 | Closed Session Item | 1 | 1. Conference with Legal Counsel - Anticipated Litigation: significant exposure to litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(d) (2) - two potential cases. | July 09, 2024 Closed Session Item # 1 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8316 |
| July 09, 2024 | Closed Session Item | 10 | 10. Castro v. Lancaster | July 09, 2024 Closed Session Item # 10 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8307 |
| July 09, 2024 | Closed Session Item | 11 | 11. Montenegro v. Green, LASC Case No. 22AVCV01050 | July 09, 2024 Closed Session Item # 11 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e830a |
| July 09, 2024 | Closed Session Item | 12 | 12. Perez v. Lancaster, LASC Case No. 23AVCV00577 13. CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATORS Property: APN 3135-024-014 Agency negotiators: Chenin Dow and Allison Burns Negotiating parties: Om Sai Ram Inc. Under negotiation: price and terms of payment 14. City of Whittier v. Superior Court, LASC Case No. 23 STCP03579 | July 09, 2024 Closed Session Item # 12 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8306 |
| July 09, 2024 | Closed Session Item | 2 | 2. Conference with Legal Counsel - Anticipated Litigation: consideration of initiation of litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(d) (4) - two potential cases. | July 09, 2024 Closed Session Item # 2 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e831b |
| July 09, 2024 | Closed Session Item | 3 | 3. Conference Involving a Joint Powers Agency: Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.96 Discussion will concern: Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, et al. 9th Cir. Case No. 23-1614 Name of local agency representative on joint powers agency board: Marvin Crist, Ken Mann | July 09, 2024 Closed Session Item # 3 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e831a |
| July 09, 2024 | Closed Session Item | 4 | 4. Antelope Valley Groundwater Cases Included Action: Los Angeles County Waterworks District No. 40 v. Diamond Farming Co. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, Case No. BC325201; Los Angeles County Waterworks District No. 40 v. Diamond Farming Co. Superior Court of California, County of Kern, Case No. S-1500-CV-254-348; Wm. Bolthouse Farms, Inc. v. City of Lancaster, Diamond Farming Co. v. City of Lancaster, Diamond Farming Co. v. Palmdale Water District Superior Court of California County of Riverside, consolidated actions; Case Nos. RIC 353 840, RIC 344 436, RIC 344 668 | July 09, 2024 Closed Session Item # 4 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8321 |
| July 09, 2024 | Closed Session Item | 5 | 5. Brisa Mahoney, et al. v. City of Lancaster, et al., LASC Case No. 2OSTCV02556 | July 09, 2024 Closed Session Item # 5 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8320 |
| July 09, 2024 | Closed Session Item | 6 | 6. Romines v. City of Lancaster, et al,, LASC Case No. 20AVCV00345 | July 09, 2024 Closed Session Item # 6 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e831d |
| July 09, 2024 | Closed Session Item | 7 | 7. Moujan v. City of Lancaster et al., LASC Case No. 20AVCV00205 | July 09, 2024 Closed Session Item # 7 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e831e |
| July 09, 2024 | Closed Session Item | 8 | 8. Lancaster v. Netflix, et al., LASC 21STCV01881 | July 09, 2024 Closed Session Item # 8 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8305 |
| July 09, 2024 | Closed Session Item | 9 | 9. Lancaster v. Rives | July 09, 2024 Closed Session Item # 9 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8303 |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 1 | CC 1. Waive further reading of any proposed ordinance. (This permits reading the title only in lieu of reciting the entire text.) | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 1 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8304 |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 10 | CC 10. Lancaster Maintenance District Annexations Recommendation(s): 1. Authorize Staff to Initiate Proceedings to Conduct a Public Hearing, tabulate the returned ballots, and announce results at July 23 Council Meeting. 2. Adopt Resolution No. , Initiating Proceedings for Annexations into the Lancaster Maintenance Districts. 3. Adopt Resolution No. , approving the Engineer’s Report, Announcing the Time and Place for a Public Hearing, and Its Intention to Annex into the Lancaster Maintenance Districts and to Levy and Collect Assessments Therein. The Lancaster Maintenance Districts, separately known as the Lancaster Lighting Maintenance District, the Landscape Maintenance District and the Drainage Maintenance District (“Districts”) were formed to provide a dedicated funding source for the maintenance, operations, servicing and installation of public lighting, public landscaping and public drainage facilities within the City of Lancaster. | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 10 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8318 |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 11 | CC 11. Lancaster Drainage Benefit Assessment District Annual Assessment for Fiscal Year 2024/25 Recommendation(s): a. Adopt Resolution No. 24-_ _, generally describing any proposed improvements or substantial changes in existing improvements and ordering the assessment engineer to prepare and file a report for Lancaster Drainage Benefit Assessment District. b. Adopt Resolution No. 24-_ _, preliminary approving the Engineer's Report, fixing time and place for public hearing on the levy of the proposed assessment, and declaring its intention to levy and collect assessments within Lancaster Drainage Benefit Assessment District. Each year, thereafter, the City Council, after public notice and hearing, may determine and impose an annual assessment. Due to the cost and complexity of accounting for separate zones of benefit within the District, separate zone designations were eliminated in 1992 per Resolution 92-134, by City Council action. | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 11 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e831c |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 12 | CC 12. Authorization to Initiate Annexation Proceedings for Eastside Annexation with the Local Agency Formation Commission of Los Angeles County Recommendation(s): Adopt Resolution No. , authorizing staff to initiate annexation proceedings with the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) for the County of Los Angeles for the Eastside Annexation The proposed annexation would create logical city boundary lines, provide additional large parcels of land which could be developed with uses that would support the economic health of the City, and would include zoning for rural residential development consistent with the city’s character and history. | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 12 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8317 |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 13 | CC 13.Award Contract for Request for Proposal 827-24-Tree Trimming Services to Tip Top Arborists, Inc Recommendation(s): 1. Award contract for Request for Proposal (RFP) 827-24-Tree trimming Services to Tip Top Arborists, Inc. in the amount of $544,506 for tree trimming services for contract year one (July 2024-June 2025) and an increase of up to a maximum of 5% for a Consumer Price Increase (CPI) for the second and third years, plus the two additional one-year extension options 2. Find that this item is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). 3. Authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to sign all documents. The City of Lancaster maintains an Urban Forest consisting of over 20,000 trees. Services covered through this contract include trimming, planting, and removal of trees located in the City’s easement/right-of-way, on main thoroughfares, within parks, and in maintenance districts throughout the City. | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 13 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8313 |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 14 | CC 14. Memorandum of Understanding between the Cities of Lancaster and Palmdale Prohibiting the Use of Incentives to Relocate Existing Vehicle Dealerships Recommendation(s): 1. Authorize the City Manager or his designee to negotiate, finalize, and execute a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the City of Palmdale to prohibit the use of incentives to relocate existing vehicle dealerships, in a form to be approved by the City Attorney. 2. Authorize the City Manager to finalize and execute all related documents. Vehicle dealerships are major sales tax generators for California cities. As a result, jurisdictions often go to great lengths, including offering sales tax rebates and other incentives, to attract and retain dealerships. In order to avoid these negative impacts, it would be beneficial for the cities of Palmdale and Lancaster to work together to prevent this practice from occurring in the future. | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 14 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e831f |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 2 | CC 2. Approve the City Council/Successor Agency/Financing/Power Authority Regular Meeting Minutes of June 25, 2024. | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 2 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8308 |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 3 | CC 3. Check Registers – June 09, 2024, through June 22, 2024 Recommendation(s): Approve the Check and Wire Registers for payments made June 09, 2024, through June 22, 2024, in the amount of $5,020,259.48 as presented. At each regular City Council Meeting, the City Council is presented with a check and ACH/wire registers listing the financial claims (invoices) against and paid by the City for the purchase of materials, supplies, services, and capital projects during the prior three to four weeks. | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 3 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8309 |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 4 | CC 4. Authorization to Execute the 2024 Amended and Restated Memorandum of Understanding (Antelope Valley Regional Water Management Group IRWMP Cost Sharing) Recommendation(s): Authorize the City Manager to execute the 2024 Amended and Restated Memorandum of Understanding (Antelope Valley Regional Water Management Group IRWMP Cost Sharing). The City became involved in the Regional Water Management Group in 2007 to pursue grant funding and facilitate implementation of the Integrated Regional Water Management Plan (“IRWMP”), which was adopted by the City in late 2007. An update of the IRWMP is needed identify Antelope Valley Region water management issues, update current supply and demand projections, and comply with the Department of Water Resources guidelines for grant eligibility. | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 4 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e830d |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 5 | CC 5. SPR 19-07 - Acceptance of Improvements (Sewer) Recommendation(s): Approve the following developer installed sanitary sewer and accept the sewer for maintenance by the City and for public use: Project No. Private Contract No. Location/Owner Site Plan Review No. 19-07 21-01 Southeast Corner 17th Street East and Avenue J-2 Owner: Lancaster 690, LP The listed sanitary sewer has been constructed and completed by the developer according to the approved plans and specifications. The work has been inspected and found to be satisfactory to the Director of Public Works. | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 5 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e830f |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 6 | CC 6. SPR 19-07 - Acceptance of Improvements (Water) Recommendation(s): Approve the completed water system installed by the developer for the following project: Project No. Location/Owner Site Plan Review No. 19-07 Southeast Corner 17th St East and Ave J-2 Owner: Lancaster 690, LP The water system for this project has been constructed and completed to the satisfaction of the local water purveyor, Los Angeles County Waterworks District 40-04, Antelope Valley, and was constructed according to the approved plans and specifications. | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 6 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e830c |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 7 | CC 7. Authorization to Initiate Annexation Proceedings for Westside Annexation with the Local Agency Formation Commission of Los Angeles County Recommendation(s): Adopt Resolution No. , authorizing staff to initiate annexation proceedings with the Local Agency Formation Commission for the County of Los Angeles for the Westside Annexation The City of Lancaster has irregular boundaries and limited industrially zoned property of suitable size to accommodate the larger scale industrial and commercial developments necessary for the City’s economic success. As such, the City is pursuing the annexation of approximately 14.5 square miles on the northern boundary of the City. | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 7 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e830b |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 8 | CC 8. Lancaster Landscape Maintenance District No. 1 Annual Assessment for Fiscal Year 2024/25 Recommendation(s): a. Adopt Resolution No. , generally describing any proposed improvements or substantial changes in existing improvements, and ordering the assessment engineer, Harris & Associates, to prepare and file a report for Lancaster Landscape Maintenance District No. 1 and Fox Field Industrial Corridor Landscape Maintenance District, pursuant to provisions of the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California. b. Adopt Resolution No. , preliminarily approving the Engineer's Report, fixing time and place for public hearing on the levy of the proposed assessment, and declaring its intention to levy and collect assessments within Lancaster Landscape Maintenance District No. 1 and Fox Field Industrial Corridor Landscape Maintenance District, pursuant to Part 2 of Division 15 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California. Each year the City Council must, by law, order the preparation of an Engineer's Report describing the existing and proposed maintenance services, and conduct a public hearing to establish and order the amount of assessment for the next fiscal year. | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 8 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8314 |
| July 09, 2024 | Consent Calendar | 9 | CC 9. Lancaster Lighting Maintenance District Annual Assessment for Fiscal Year 2024/25 Recommendation(s): a. Adopt Resolution No. , generally describing any proposed improvements or substantial changes in existing improvements, and ordering the assessment engineer, Harris & Associates, to prepare and file a report for Lancaster Lighting Maintenance District, pursuant to provisions of the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California; and b. Adopt Resolution No. , preliminarily approving the Engineer’s Report, fixing time and place for public hearing on the levy of the proposed assessment, and declaring its intention to levy and collect assessments within Lancaster Lighting Maintenance District, pursuant to Part 2 of Division 15 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California. Each year, the City Council must, by law, order the preparation of an Engineer’s Report describing the existing and proposed maintenance services, and conduct a public hearing to establish and order the amount of assessment for the next fiscal year. | July 09, 2024 Consent Calendar # 9 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8315 |
| July 09, 2024 | Council Agenda | 1 | CA1. Discussion and possible action regarding appointment of Chief Executive/City Manager and authorization to execute Chief Executive/City Manager contract. Presenter: Mayor R. Rex Parris | July 09, 2024 Council Agenda # 1 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8311 |
| July 09, 2024 | Council Agenda | 2 | CA2. Discussion and possible action regarding Lancaster Energy CEO appointment and authorization to execute amendment to employment agreement. Presenter: Mayor R. Rex Parris COUNCIL REPORTS | July 09, 2024 Council Agenda # 2 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8312 |
| July 09, 2024 | Council Report | 1 | CR1. Council Reports LANCASTER HOUSING AUTHORITY | July 09, 2024 Council Report # 1 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8319 |
| July 09, 2024 | New Business | 1 | NB1. Resolution Calling for the Holding of a Special Municipal Election & Resolution Requesting the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles to Consolidate a Special Municipal Election to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024 Recommendation(s): (1) Adopt Resolution No. _____ (the “Election Resolution”), calling for the holding of a Special Municipal Election to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, for the submission to the voters a proposed measure relating to an ordinance enacting a transactions and use tax to be administered by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. (2) Adopt Resolution No._____ (the “Consolidation Resolution”), requesting the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles to consolidate a Special Municipal Election to be held on November 5, 2024, with the Statewide General Election to be held on that date pursuant to Section 10403 of the Elections Code. On June 25, 2024, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 24-34, which ordered that an ordinance be submitted to the voters at a municipal election to be held on November 5, 2024, approving enacting an amendment to the City’s transaction and use tax. The resolutions currently under consideration implement Resolution No. 24-34. | July 09, 2024 New Business # 1 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e8310 |
| July 09, 2024 | Public Hearing | 1 | PUBLIC HEARING PH 1. Removal of Prime Farmland Mitigation from the Certified Final Program Environmental Impact Report for the Eastside Overlay Project (SCH # 2022100641) Recommendation(s): Adopt Resolution No. , removing the Prime Farmland Mitigation Measure from the certified Final Program Environmental Impact Report for the Eastside Overlay Project (SCH # 2022100641) and adopting the revised Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) As part of the Final EIR, mitigation measures were included to reduce impacts to less than significant levels for a variety of resource areas including potential impacts to Prime Farmland. The mitigation measure for Prime Farmland requires the replacement of Prime Farmland at a 1:1 ratio within Los Angeles County. NEW BUSINESS | July 09, 2024 Public Hearing # 1 | LA County | Lancaster | City Council | 668c651c5d046df7880e830e |