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CITY OF WEST COVINA

CITY COUNCIL/SUCCESSOR AGENCY
UPDATED JUNE 26, 2025
JULY 1, 2025, 7:00 PM
REGULAR MEETING

CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1444 W. GARVEY AVENUE SOUTH
WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA 91790

Mayor Tony Wu
Mayor Pro Tem Letty Lopez-Viado
Councilman Ollie Cantos
Councilwoman Rosario Diaz
Councilmember Brian Gutierrez

Please turn off all cell phones and other electronic devices prior to entering the Council Chambers

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
The City complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you will need special assistance at a Council meeting, please call (626) 939-8433 (voice) or (626) 960-4422 (TTY) from 8am to 5pm Monday through Thursday. Please call at least one day prior to the meeting date to inform us of your particular needs and to determine if accommodation is possible. For sign language interpreter services at Council meetings, please request no less than four working days prior to the meeting.

AGENDA MATERIAL
Agenda material is available for review at the City Clerk's Office, Room 317 in City Hall, 1444 W. Garvey Avenue South, West Covina and at www.westcovina.org. Any writings or documents regarding any item on this agenda, not exempt from public disclosure, provided to a majority of the City Council that is distributed less than 72 hours before the meeting, will be made available for public inspection in the City Clerk’s Office, Room 317 of City Hall located at 1444 W. Garvey Avenue South, West Covina, during normal business hours.

NOTICE
The City Council will regularly convene on the first and third Tuesday of the month. The West Covina Community Development Commission, West Covina Public Financing Authority and the West Covina Community Services Foundation are agencies on which the City Council serves as members. Agendas may contain items for these boards, as necessary.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
ADDRESSING THE CITY COUNCIL

Any person wishing to address the City Council on any matter listed on the agenda, excluding any matter set for a public hearing, or on any other matter within their jurisdiction must complete a speaker card that is provided at the entrance to the Council Chambers and submit the card to the City Clerk prior to the commencement of Oral Communications. No speaker cards will be accepted after the commencement of Oral Communications, except at the discretion of the Presiding Officer.

Please identify on the speaker card whether you are speaking on an agenda item or non-agenda. Requests to speak on agenda items will be heard prior to requests to speak on non-agenda items. Comments are limited to three (3) minutes per speaker, unless modified by the Presiding Officer or the City Council.

Any testimony or comments regarding a matter set for a public hearing will be heard during the hearing.

While members of the public are free to level criticism of City policies and the action(s) or proposed action(s) of the City Council or its members, members of the public may not engage in behavior that is disruptive to the orderly conduct of the meeting, including, but not limited to, speaking off topic, speaking beyond the speaker’s allotted time limit, making slanderous or profane remarks or using loud, threatening, or abusive language which disrupts, disturbs, impedes, or renders infeasible the orderly conduct of the meeting. Members of the public may not threaten any person with physical harm or act in a manner that may reasonably be interpreted as an imminent threat of physical harm. The City of West Covina will not tolerate harassment based upon a person’s race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, or age.

RULES OF DECORUM
Excerpts from the West Covina Municipal Code and Penal Code pertaining to the Rules of Decorum will be found at the end of agenda.

AGENDA

CITY OF WEST COVINA
CITY COUNCIL/SUCCESSOR AGENCY

TUESDAY JULY 1, 2025, 7:00 PM
REGULAR MEETING

INVOCATION

Led by Chaplin Lisa Mayo

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

Led by Mayor Pro Tem Lopez-Viado

ROLL CALL

REPORTING OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION

PRESENTATIONS

Certificate Celebrating One Veg World's 21 Years of Business
Proclamation Recognizing Parks Make Life Better
Accommodation Retirement Acknowledging Lydia De Zara's Retirement
Honoring Student Heroes

ORAL COMMUNICATIONS - Three (3) minutes per speaker
Please step forward to the podium and state your name and city of residence for the record when recognized by the Mayor.

CITY MANAGER'S REPORT
City Manager's report on current City projects.

CONSENT CALENDAR
All matters listed under CONSENT CALENDAR are considered to be routine and can be acted on by one roll call vote. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless members of the City Council/Community Development Commission request specific items to be removed from the Consent Calendar for separate discussion or action.

APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES

CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF THE JUNE 17, 2025 CITY COUNCIL/SUCCESSOR AGENCY REGULAR SESSION MEETING MINUTES AND THE JUNE 17, 2025, CITY COUNCIL/SUCCESSOR AGENCY CLOSED SESSION MEETING MINUTES.

That the Council approve the June 17, 2025, City Council/Successor Agency Regular Session Meeting Minutes and the June 17, 2025, City Council/Successor Agency Closed Session Meeting Minutes.

ORDINANCES FOR ADOPTION - Procedural Waiver. Waive full reading of each ordinance on the agenda and authorize the approval of each ordinance by title only.

CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE

CONSIDERATION OF CANCELLATION OF THE CANCELLATION OF THE AUGUST 5, 2025 AND NOVEMBER 4, 2025 COUNCIL MEETINGS

It is recommended that the City Council cancel the following City Council Meetings:

August 5, 2025 (National Night Out)
November 4, 2025 (Election Night)

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

CONSIDERATION OF AGREEMENT WITH KIMLEY HORN AND ASSOCIATES, INC. FOR DESIGN ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR THE AZUSA AVENUE PEDESTRIAN HANDICAP ACCESSIBILITY & SIGNAL SYNCHRONIZATION IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT - PROJECT NO. 23008

It is recommended that the City Council take the following actions:

Award Request for Proposals (RFP) No. 2025-07 for Design Engineering Services for the Azusa Avenue Pedestrian Handicap Accessibility & Signal Synchronization Improvements Project to Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc. (“Kimley Horn”).
Authorize the Acting City Manager to negotiate and execute a Professional Services Agreement with Kimley Horn, in an amount not to exceed $544,121.31, in such final form as approved by the City Attorney.
Authorize a design contingency budget of $90,362.65 for the optional fiber design services to be determined based on the preliminary design recommendations, to be used, if necessary, with the Acting City Manager’s approval.
Authorize the Acting City Manager to negotiate and execute any amendments within the authorized contingency.

CONSIDERATION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH JOHN L. HUNTER & ASSOCIATES FOR THE NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT COMPLIANCE SERVICES AND SAFE, CLEAN WATER (SCW) PROGRAM SERVICES

It is recommended that the City Council authorize the Acting City Manager to execute a Professional Services Agreement with John L. Hunter & Associates, Inc. for National Pollutant Elimination System (NDPES) permit compliance services and Safe, Clean Water (SCW) Program services for an initial term of two (2) years, with three optional one (1) year extensions, in an annual amount not to exceed $90,000, in such final form as approved by the City Attorney.

COMMUNITY SERVICES

CONSIDERATION OF SUBAWARD BETWEEN LOS ANGELES COUNTY AND CITY OF WEST COVINA FOR 2025-26 ELDERLY NUTRITION PROGRAM (ENP)

It is recommended that the City Council take the following actions:
1. Adopt the following resolution:

RESOLUTION NO. 2025-55 - A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING A SUBAWARD AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES AGING AND DISABILITIES DEPARTMENT FOR THE ELDERLY NUTRITION PROGRAM (SUBAWARD NUMBER ENP 252609) AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER OR THE ACTING CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE SUBAWARD AGREEMENT AND FUTURE AMENDMENTS TO THE SUBAWARD AGREEMENT

2. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute agreements and approve purchase orders for meals from vendors on the County's list of approved caterers, including any amendments to such agreements and purchase orders.

FIRE DEPARTMENT

CONSIDERATION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN WITTMAN ENTERPRISES, LLC AND THE CITY OF WEST COVINA FOR AMBULANCE BILLING SERVICES

It is recommended that the City Council take the following actions:

Authorize the Acting City Manager to execute a Professional Services Agreement with Wittman Enterprises, LLC for ambulance billing services for a term of August 1, 2025 through July 30, 2030, in such final form as approved by the City Attorney; and
Authorize the Acting City Manager to negotiate and execute all documents necessary in connection with the ambulance billing services, in such final form as approved by the City Attorney.

CONSIDERATION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN FIRE RECOVERY USA AND THE CITY OF WEST COVINA FOR INSPECTION AND PERMIT BILLING SERVICES

It is recommended that the City Council authorize the Acting City Manager to execute a Professional Services Agreement with Fire Recovery USA, LLC for inspection and permit billing services for a five-year term, in such final form as approved by the City Attorney.

CONSIDERATION OF INTRODUCTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 2532 UPDATING FIRE HAZARD SEVERITY ZONES (FHSZ) WITHIN WEST COVINA PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 51178 AND THE CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE

It is recommended that the City Council introduce the following Ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. 2532 - AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, DESIGNATING FIRE HAZARD SEVERITY ZONES AND FINDING THE ORDINANCE IS EXEMPT FROM ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW UNDER THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) PURSUANT TO CEQA GUIDELINES SECTION 15061(B)(3) (COMMON SENSE EXEMPTION)

END OF CONSENT CALENDAR

HEARINGS

PUBLIC HEARINGS

TAX EQUITY AND FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT (TEFRA) HEARING TO CONSIDER THE ISSUANCE OF TAX-EXEMPT BONDS FOR EMANATE HEALTH QUEEN OF THE VALLEY HOSPITAL

It is recommended that the City Council:

Conduct a Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) hearing in consideration of the issuance of tax-exempt bond financing by the California Statewide Communities Development Authority for the benefit of Emanate Health.
Adopt the following Resolution:

RESOLUTION NO. 2025-42 - A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS BY THE CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY NOT TO EXCEED $90,000,000, FOR THE BENEFIT OF EMANATE HEALTH, TO FINANCE AND/OR REFINANCE CAPITAL PROJECTS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES LOCATED IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA

DEPARTMENTAL REGULAR MATTERS

MAYOR/COUNCILMEMBERS REPORTS
AB 1234 Conference and Meeting Report (verbal, if any)
(In accordance with AB 1234, Councilmembers shall make a brief report or file a written report on any meeting/event/conference attended at City expense.)

CITY COUNCIL REQUESTS FOR REPORTS, STUDIES OR INVESTIGATION
(Per City of West Covina Standing Rules 4.f - Requests for reports, studies, or investigations that are not readily available must be placed on the City Council/Successor Agency agenda as items of business and must be approved by a majority of the City Council/Successor Agency Board.)

CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS

ADJOURNMENT

Next Tentative City Council Meeting

Regular Meeting

July 15, 2025

7:00 PM

RULES OF DECORUM

The following are excerpts from the West Covina Municipal Code:

Sec. 2-48. Manner of addressing council; time limit; persons addressing may be sworn.

Each person addressing the council shall step up to the rostrum, shall give his or her name and city of residence in an audible tone of voice for the record and unless further time is granted by the council, shall limit his or her address to five (5) minutes.
The city council may establish a limit on the duration of oral communications.
All remarks shall be addressed to the council as a body and not to any member thereof. No person, other than the council and the person having the floor, shall be permitted to enter into any discussion, either directly or through a member of the council, without the permission of the presiding officer. No question shall be asked of a councilmember except through the presiding officer.
The presiding officer may require any person to be sworn as a witness before addressing the council on any subject. Any such person who, having taken an oath that he or she will testify truthfully, willfully and contrary to such oath states as true any material matter which he knows to be false may be held to answer criminally and subject to the penalty prescribed for perjury by the provisions of the Penal Code of the state.

Sec. 2-50. Decorum--Required.

While the council is in session, the members shall preserve order and decorum, and a member shall neither, by conversation or otherwise, delay or disrupt the proceedings or the peace of the council nor interrupt any member while speaking or refuse to obey the orders of the council or its presiding officer, except as otherwise herein provided.
Members of the public shall not willfully disrupt the meeting or act in a manner that actually impairs the orderly conduct of the meeting. For the purposes of this code, “willfully disrupt” includes, but is not limited to, continuing to do any of the following after being warned by the Mayor that continuing to do so will be a violation of the law:
1. Addressing the Mayor and City Council without first being recognized.
2. Persisting in addressing a subject or subjects, other than that before the Mayor and City Council.
3. Repetitiously addressing the same subject.
4. Failing to relinquish the podium when directed to do so.
5. From the audience, interrupting or attempting to interrupt, a speaker, the Mayor, a council member, or a staff member or shouting or attempting to shout over a speaker, the Mayor, a council member or a staff member.
6. As a speaker, interrupting or attempting to interrupt the Mayor, a council member, or a staff member, or shouting over or attempting to shout over the Mayor, a council member, or a staff member. Nothing in this section or any rules of the council shall be construed to prohibit public criticism of the policies, procedures, programs, or services of the City or of the acts or omissions of the City Council. It shall be unlawful to violate the provisions of this Section.

If any subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase or word of this Section 2-50 is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Section. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this section and each subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or words had been declared invalid or unconstitutional.

Sec. 2-52. Persons authorized to be within council area.
No person, except city officials, their representatives and members of the news media shall be permitted within the rail in front of the council chamber without the express consent of the council.

The following are excerpts from the Penal Code

148(a) (1) Every Person who willfully resists, delays, or obstructs any public officer, peace officer, or an emergency medical technician, as defined in Division 2.5 (commencing with Section 1797) of the Health and Safety code, in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty of his or her office or employment, when no other punishment is prescribed, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

403 Every person who, without authority of law, willfully disturbs or breaks up any assembly or meeting that is not unlawful in its character, other than an assembly or meeting referred to in Section 303 of the Penal Code or Section 18340 of the Elections Code, is guilty of a misdemeanor.