2013/01/08 City Council Agenda
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ROHNERT PARK CITY COUNCIL
Rohnert Park Financing Authority (RPF A)
Successor Agency to the Community Development Commission (CD C)
JOINT REGULAR MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, January 8,2013
Open Session: 5:00 p.m.
MEETING LOCATION: CITY HALL - COUNCIL CHAMBER
130 Avram Avenue, Rohnert Park, California
The Rohnert Park City Council welcomes your attendance, interest and participation at its regular
city meetings scheduled on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 5 :00 p.m. in the
Council Chamber. City Council/RPFA agendas and minutes may be viewed at the City's website:
www.rpcitv.org.
PUBLIC HEARINGS: Council/RPF A may discuss and/or take action on any or all of the items
listed on this agenda. If you challenge decisions of the City Councilor the Rohnert Park Financing
Authority of the City of Rohnert Park in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or
someone else raised at public hearing(s) described in this agenda, or in written correspondence
delivered to the City of Rohnert Park at, or prior to the public hearing(s).
SIMUL T ANEOUS MEETING COMPENSATION DISCLOSURE (Government Code ~ 54952.3):
Members of the City Council receive no additional compensation as a result of convening this joint
meeting of the City Council and the Rohnert Park Financing Authority.
PUBLIC COMMENTS: For public comment on items listed or not listed on the agenda, or on
agenda items if unable to speak at the scheduled time (limited to three minutes per appearance and a
30 minute total time limit, or allocation of time based on number of speaker cards submitted)
- PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD PRIOR TO SPEAKING _
*SEE NOTE AT THE END OF THIS AGENDA
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City of Rohnert Park Joint Regular Meeting Agenda
for City Council/Rohnert Park Financing Authority/Successor Agency
January 8, 2013
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1. CITY COUNCIL/RPFA/SUCCESSOR AGENCY JOINT REGULAR MEETING -
CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL
(Ahanotu _ Belforte _ Mackenzie_Callinan _ Stafford ~
2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
3. DEPARTMENT HEAD BRIEFING
A. Department of Finance: Introduction of Elizabeth Smith, Accountant
B. Department of Public Safety: City of Rohnert Park Emergency Management Plan
Update
C. Department of Public Safety: Community Service Officer Quarterly Report, July-
September 2012
D. Department of Public Works and Community Services: REACH Rohnert Park Update
4. PUBLIC COMMENTS
Persons wishing to address the Council on any Consent Calendar item or on City
business not listed on the Agenda may do so at this time. Each speaker will be allotted
three minutes. Those wishing to address the Council on any report item listed on the
Agenda should submit a "Speaker Card" to the City Clerk before announcement of that
agenda item.
5. CONSENT CALENDAR
All items on the Consent Calendar will be considered together by one action of the City
Council and/or the Rohnert Park Financing Authority and Successor Agency to the
Community Development Commission, whichever is applicable, unless any Council
Member or anyone else interested in a consent calendar item has a question about the
item.
A. Approval of Minutes for:
1. City Council/RPFA/Successor Agency Joint Regular Meeting December 11,2012
B. Acceptance of Reports for:
1. City Bills/Demands for Payment dated January 8, 2013
2. Successor Agency to the CDC Bills/Demands for Payment dated January 8, 2013
3. City- Final Cash Report for Year Ending June 2012
4. City- Cash Report for Month Ending November 2012
5. RPF A- Cash Report for Month Ending November 2012
6. Housing Successor Agency- Cash Report for Month Ending November 2012
7. Successor Agency- Cash Report for Month Ending November 2012
C. City Council Resolutions for Adoption:
1. 2013-001 Authorizing Purchase of Five (5) Ford Police Interceptor Utility
Vehicles Including Equipment Build-Outs Not to Exceed $210,000
for the Department of Public Safety
2. 2013-002 Rejecting the Claim of Bradley Wolfe
3. 2013-003 Rejecting the Claim of Vanessa Burton
4. 2013-004 Rejecting the Claim of Dean J. Merrill
5. 2013-005 Rejecting the Claim of Brendon Jacy Tatum
City of Rohnert Park Joint Regular Meeting Agenda
for City Council/Rohnert Park Financing Authority/Successor Agency
January 8, 2013
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6. 2013-006 Approving a Reimbursement Agreement by and between City of
Rohnert Park and the Spanos Corporation
Council MotionN ote
6. APPROVING AN AMENDMENT OF THE CITY PERSONNEL RULES AND
REGULATIONS AND THE OUTLINE OF CERTAIN CONDITIONS OF
EMPLOYMENT, FRINGE BENEFITS, AND SALARY ADJUSTMENTS FOR
THE MANAGEMENT UNIT AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
IMPLEMENT THE SAME
Consideration of adoption of Resolution which amends the City's Personnel Rules and
the Management Unit Outline to exempt all non-incumbent executive management
employees from for-cause termination, and allows for mutually agreed-upon at-will
employment of current and/or new executive managers
A. Staff Report
B. Public Comment
C. Resolution for Adoption
1. 2013-007 Approving an Amendment of the City's Personnel Rules and
Regulations and the Outline of Certain Conditions of Employment,
Fringe Benefits, and Salary Adjustments for the Management Unit
a. Council MotionlDiscussionN ote
7. CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 5.24 OF THE
ROHNERT PARK CITY CODE - "CABLE COMMUNICATIONS FRANCHISE"
Discussion and direction regarding adoption of an ordinance that would amend Chapter
5.24 of the Rohnert Park Municipal Code to implement additional provisions of the State
of California Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006
A. Staff Report
B. Public Comment
C. Council discussionlDirection
8. BOARD / COMMISSION / COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT
Council consideration of nomination and appointment of the following candidate:
Matthew Weinstein to fill one (1), current vacancy on the Bicycle Advisory Committee
for a 2-year term which expires on December 31, 2014
A. Staff Report
B. Public Comments
C. Council nomination/Discussion/Action
9. CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE AND LIAISON ASSIGNMENTS FOR YEAR
2013
Mayor's appointments to City Council Committee and Liaison Assignments for 2013
A. Council discussion/Concurrence
City of Rohnert Park Joint Regular Meeting Agenda
for City Council/Rohnert Park Financing Authority/Successor Agency
January 8, 2013
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10. STANDING COMMITTEE / LIAISON REPORTS
This time is set aside to allow Council members serving on Council committees or on
regional boards, commissions or committees to present a verbal report on the activities
of the respective boards, commissions or committees on which they serve. No action may
betaken.
A. Standing Committee Reports
1. Waste & Recycling Committee, 1/7 (PS/AA)
B. Liaison Reports
1. Rohnert Park-Cotati Regional Library Advisory Board, 12/18 (AA)
2. Sonoma County Library JPA Review Advisory Committee, 12/20 (AA)
C. Other Reports
11. COMMUNICATIONS
Copies of communications have been provided to Council for review prior to this
meeting. Council Members desiring to read or discuss any communication may do so at
this time. No action may be taken except to place a particular item on afuture agendafor
Council consideration.
12. MATTERS FROM/FOR COUNCIL
13. PUBLIC COMMENTS
Persons wishing to address the Council on any Consent Calendar item or on City
business not listed on the Agenda may do so at this time. Each speaker will be allotted
three minutes. Those wishing to address the Council on any report item listed on the
Agenda should submit a "Speaker Card" to the City Clerk before announcement of that
agenda item.
14. CLOSED SESSION
A. Recess to Closed Session in Conference Room 2A to Consider:
1. Conference with Legal Counsel - Anticipated Litigation
Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Government Code
9 54956.9: (One case)
2. Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation (Government Code
954956.9(a)) Stop the Casino 101 Coalition v. City of Rohnert Park, Sonoma
County Superior Court Case No. SCV 252617
3. Conference with Real Property Negotiators (Government Code 954956.8)
Property: Gold Ridge School Property, 1455 Golf Course Drive (APN No. 160-
400-055)
City Negotiator: Gabriel Gonzalez, City Manager
Negotiating parties: City of Rohnert Park and Robert Haley, Superintendent,
Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District
Under Negotiation: Price and Terms
B. Reconvene Joint Regular Meeting Open Session In Council Chamber
C. Mayor's Report On Closed Session (Government Code 9 54957.1)
City of Rohnert Park Joint Regular Meeting Agenda
for City Council/Rohnert Park Financing Authority/Successor Agency
January 8, 2013
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15. ADJOURNMENT
*NOTE: Time shown for any particular matter on the agenda is an estimate only. Matters may be
considered earlier or later than the time indicated depending on the pace at which the meeting
proceeds. If you wish to speak on an item under discussion by the Council which appears on this
agenda, after receiving recognition from the Mayor, please walk to the rostrum and state your name
and address for the record. Any item raised by a member of the public which is not on the agenda
and may require Council action shall be automatically referred to staff for investigation and
disposition which may include placing on a future agenda. If the item is deemed to be an emergency
or the need to take action arose after posting of the agenda within the meaning of Government Code
Section 54954.2(b), Council is entitled to discuss the matter to determine if it is an emergency item
under said Government Code and may take action thereon.
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person to assist you while attending this City Council meeting, please contact the City Clerk's Office
at (707) 588-2227 at least 72 hours prior to the meeting to ensure arrangements for accommodation
by the City. Please notify the City Clerk's Office as soon as possible if you have a visual impairment
requiring meeting materials to be produced in another format (Braille, audio-tape, etc.)
CERTIFICA TION OF POSTING OF AGENDA
I, JoAnne Buergler, City Clerk for the City of Rohnert Park, declare that the foregoing agenda for the January
8,2013, Joint Regular Meeting of the Rohnert Park City Council/RPFA was posted and available for review
on January 3, 20]3, at Rohnert Park City Hall, 130 Avram Avenue, Rohnert Park, California 94928. The
agenda is also available on the City web site at www.rpcitv.on!,
Executed this 3rd day of January, 20] 3, at Rohnelt Park, California.
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&Anne M. Buergler, City CI