Group Homes, Hookah Lounges Top Council Agenda
ANOTHER INTERESTING MEETING AHEAD
The Costa Mesa City Council will hold the first of two regularly scheduled meetings before the November 4, 2014 General Election on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 beginning at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall. You can read the agenda for that meeting HERE.
FULL AGENDA
There are several interesting items on the agenda, plus I expect there will be some folks speaking during Public Comments that will be demanding some answers. It should be another interesting evening, so let's just take it from the top.
CONSENT CALENDAR
The Consent Calendar - items that are grouped together with the anticipation that they will be considered and voted upon in one vote with out discussion, contains some interesting stuff again.
SPENDING YOUR DOLLARS
Item #3, HERE, is Warrant 2523, the register of paid bills for specific time periods. Here are a few of the items that caught my eye:
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It's interesting that we spent almost $180,000 on legal services again on this warrant. That old meter just keeps on spinning.
CANCELLATION OF NOVEMBER 4TH MEETING
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Item #5, HERE, is the request to cancel the scheduled council meeting on November 4, 2014 - the date of the General Election. We certainly wouldn't want the city's business to interfere with post-election celebrations, now would we? That means two more meetings before the election - this one and the one on October 21st, before the election and then probably only one more, on November 18th, before a new City Council is seated.
HOOKAH LOUNGES MORATORIUM EXTENSION
Public Hearing #1, HERE, is a request for consideration of extending the current moratorium regarding Hookah Parlors. I doubt there will be much opposition to this one, except from the same guys who always show up - lounge operators and potential operators.
GROUP HOME ORDINANCE
Public Hearing #2, HERE, should be the biggie on the agenda. This one is the so-called Group Home Ordinance, which has been sent up to the City Council by the Planning Commission for consideration. This ordinance changes several sections of the Municipal Code and is an attempt to exercise some degree of control over the proliferation of sober living facilities that are popping up all over our city since Newport Beach tightened its regulations. The agenda includes the 138-page Planning Commission staff report from the September 22nd meeting, HERE.
CAR DEALERSHIP CHANGES
Public Hearing #3, HERE, should also provide some interesting moments. This is the second amendment on the under-construction Buick/Cadillac dealership at the corner of Harbor Blvd. and Merrimac Street. This issue has seen some very contentious moments at previous meetings - including a very significant turnout of impacted neighbors. This one will be worth watching.
MORE VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT
New Business #1, HERE, is a Screening Request for a 32-unit development at 1672 Placentia Avenue - another of those three-story plus rooftop patio developments that have been proliferating recently in our industrial and commercial sections of town.
CLAMPING DOWN ON FIREWORKS
The final item on the agenda is New Business #2, HERE, termed-out Councilwoman Wendy Leece's attempt at getting the Fireworks situation tightened up for next year. The staff report requests restrictions on fireworks sales and permits only discharge of those so-called safe and sane fireworks on the evening of July 4th, period! It also requests additional law enforcement resources to assist in enforcement of the regulations. This conversation should be spirited, to say the least. I fully expect someone on the dais to accuse Leece of hating kids...
AND MORE?
I have no idea how long this meeting will last. There is no Closed Session this time around, but one just never knows what kind of questions the council will get during Public Comments. I suspect there may be one or two about the major gaffe in the language for Measure P on the November ballot. As Dane Bora says, "There's always something happening in Costa Mesa". See you there.
The Costa Mesa City Council will hold the first of two regularly scheduled meetings before the November 4, 2014 General Election on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 beginning at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall. You can read the agenda for that meeting HERE.FULL AGENDA
There are several interesting items on the agenda, plus I expect there will be some folks speaking during Public Comments that will be demanding some answers. It should be another interesting evening, so let's just take it from the top.
CONSENT CALENDAR
The Consent Calendar - items that are grouped together with the anticipation that they will be considered and voted upon in one vote with out discussion, contains some interesting stuff again.
SPENDING YOUR DOLLARS
Item #3, HERE, is Warrant 2523, the register of paid bills for specific time periods. Here are a few of the items that caught my eye:- #0182840 - Costa Mesa Senior Center, $25,000.00 for the purchase of fixed assets coincident with the hostile takeover of the Senior Center from the Costa Mesa Senior Corporation Board.
- #0182841 - Lowes, $8,946.21, for 3rd Floor Break room Remodel
- #0182842 - Daniel T. Joyce, $170.225.00, Settlement.
- #0182844 - City of Huntington Beach, $18,844.00, Helicopter Services, July, 2014
- #0182846 - Costa Mesa Conference and Visitors Bureau, $242,876.47, BIA Receipts, July, 2014.
- #0182904 - Government Staffing Services, Inc, $13,557.50, Temp Services (Mgt. Analyst, Project Mgr., Buyer)
- #0182939 - Original Pizza, $970.50, Beer & Wine for CM Foundation
- #0182967 - US Postal Service, $10,000.00, Postage for Postage Meter
- #0182968 - US Postmaster, $10,000.00, Standard Mail Fee.
- #0183284 - Jones & Mayer, $154,028.80, Legal Service (various)
- #0183286 - Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, $24,561.88, Legal Services(Various)
It's interesting that we spent almost $180,000 on legal services again on this warrant. That old meter just keeps on spinning.
CANCELLATION OF NOVEMBER 4TH MEETING
Item #5, HERE, is the request to cancel the scheduled council meeting on November 4, 2014 - the date of the General Election. We certainly wouldn't want the city's business to interfere with post-election celebrations, now would we? That means two more meetings before the election - this one and the one on October 21st, before the election and then probably only one more, on November 18th, before a new City Council is seated.HOOKAH LOUNGES MORATORIUM EXTENSION
Public Hearing #1, HERE, is a request for consideration of extending the current moratorium regarding Hookah Parlors. I doubt there will be much opposition to this one, except from the same guys who always show up - lounge operators and potential operators.GROUP HOME ORDINANCE
Public Hearing #2, HERE, should be the biggie on the agenda. This one is the so-called Group Home Ordinance, which has been sent up to the City Council by the Planning Commission for consideration. This ordinance changes several sections of the Municipal Code and is an attempt to exercise some degree of control over the proliferation of sober living facilities that are popping up all over our city since Newport Beach tightened its regulations. The agenda includes the 138-page Planning Commission staff report from the September 22nd meeting, HERE.CAR DEALERSHIP CHANGES
Public Hearing #3, HERE, should also provide some interesting moments. This is the second amendment on the under-construction Buick/Cadillac dealership at the corner of Harbor Blvd. and Merrimac Street. This issue has seen some very contentious moments at previous meetings - including a very significant turnout of impacted neighbors. This one will be worth watching.MORE VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT
New Business #1, HERE, is a Screening Request for a 32-unit development at 1672 Placentia Avenue - another of those three-story plus rooftop patio developments that have been proliferating recently in our industrial and commercial sections of town.CLAMPING DOWN ON FIREWORKS
The final item on the agenda is New Business #2, HERE, termed-out Councilwoman Wendy Leece's attempt at getting the Fireworks situation tightened up for next year. The staff report requests restrictions on fireworks sales and permits only discharge of those so-called safe and sane fireworks on the evening of July 4th, period! It also requests additional law enforcement resources to assist in enforcement of the regulations. This conversation should be spirited, to say the least. I fully expect someone on the dais to accuse Leece of hating kids... AND MORE?
I have no idea how long this meeting will last. There is no Closed Session this time around, but one just never knows what kind of questions the council will get during Public Comments. I suspect there may be one or two about the major gaffe in the language for Measure P on the November ballot. As Dane Bora says, "There's always something happening in Costa Mesa". See you there.Labels: development, fireworks, Group Homes, Hookah Parlors, Wendy Leece
posted by The Pot Stirrer at 10/06/2014 12:18:00 AM
9 Comments:
Just out of curiosity, what event did we spend almost $1K on beer and wine for CM Foundation?
@ Geoff: I know this is off topic for this post, but I wanted to comment on Barry Friedland (and his side-kick, Sam??) of CM Brief and his footage of interviews at the Eastside Candidates Forum.
Talk about slanted, biased, gotcha questions!
This should be fair warning to anyone who is not in lock step w/ Richeimer not to be "interviewed" (aka: set up) by CM Brief!
Apparently Barry attended the Maury Povich/Jerry Springer school of broadcasting!
Coffee, Pretty sure the CM foundation holds the Concerts in the Park. I went to 3 of the concerts and drank $100 of beer myself.
Barry's just another little bootlicker. Best to ignore him like a fly or ant.
Honeyman, gotcha. Thanks
Interesting, the CMSCC has received and deposited the $25,000 the city paid for our material assets such as chairs, tables, desks etc.... But this had not even been approved by the council yet???? HMMMMMMM
Breaking bad, don't worry, the Charter will go down just like the Register is doing.
I'm going to put this out there again so everyone can read it.
If you want to get rid of Righeimer then we need two seats. That is a lot of votes. We cannot have someone split them or we will lose. Please vote for Foley and Humphrey, as they have the experience we need. Bunyan, while a good guy, has no experience and hasn't been around town even. A vote for Bunyan, who will split vote, IS A VOTE FOR RIGHEIMER.
These fees paid to Jones & Mayer are a travesty!
Oh, David, if you like that, go to this link: http://www.costamesaca.gov/index.aspx?page=570
In the past three full fiscal years, not counting the first quarter of this year because the info is not available yet, Costa Mesa has paid JONES DAY - that $495 per hour law firm that are the litigators for the CMCEA lawsuit- $1,942,207! Feel better? Nah, me neither...
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