The Santa Ana City Council will have its regular meeting via teleconference today, April 7. In an effort to protect public health and prevent the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), there will be no in-person public meeting location.
The meeting begins at 5:45 p.m., following a 5 p.m. closed session.
There are several ways to watch the meeting:
• Live stream at www.santa-ana.org/city-meetings
• Live stream at www.youtube.com/cityofsantaanavideos/live
• Spectrum TV channel 3
• AT&T U-verse TV channel 99
The meeting agenda includes the following business calendar items:
• Adopt a resolution approving a list of projects to be funded by $6.4 million from SB 1: the Road Repair and Accountability Act for the fiscal year 2020-21 Capital Improvement Program.
• Adopt the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Resolution (Cal OES) designating the City Manager, the Police Chief, or the Executive Director of Finance as authorized agents to execute applications for financial assistance on behalf of the City of Santa Ana for the purpose of obtaining post-disaster public assistance grants from Cal OES and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA.)
• Approve allocating about $501,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to local homeless service organizations through the Emergency Solutions Grants Program, which helps homeless individuals and those at risk of homelessness find permanent housing. Authorize a memorandum of understanding with the Santa Ana Police Department and agreements with these non-profit homeless service providers for a one-year term beginning July 1, 2020, and expiring June 30, 2021.
• Approve a pre-commitment of $3.9 million of affordable housing funds to Community Development Partners and Mercy House for the development of the Westview House affordable housing project located at 2530 and 2534 Westminster Ave.
• Reallocate Community Development Block Grant funding from WISEPlace to provide $30,000 each to Relámpago Del Cielo, Women’s Journey Foundation and the Delhi Center in the 2020-21 fiscal year, with a total two-year funding for the three organizations of $339,650. WISEPlace will receive money from a housing fund.
• Receive and file a Historic Resources Commission memorandum on recommendations regarding historic resources policies and regulations and provide direction to the Commission and staff. The Commission is recommending changes to its powers and duties, including the ability to review and approve proposed demolitions, alterations and/or modifications to any structure over 50 years of age, regardless of historical designation and/or eligibility. It also is recommending reduced historic application fees; the designation of historically sensitive neighborhoods with historic resources protection and enforcement; and developing a tree preservation and protection ordinance.
• Public hearing on an ordinance amending various sections of City code to streamline the development process and update outdated development standards. Those code changes are related to zoning, establishments selling alcoholic beverages, parking lots and parking structures, interpretation of chapter regulations and drive-through standards.
• Adopt a resolution establishing an application fee of $1,741.79 for the installation of small cell antennas on City-owned street lights.
• Councilmember Cecilia Iglesias is asking the Council to discuss and consider directing the City Manager to direct staff to take the necessary steps to facilitate a potential repeal of Measure X.
• Mayor Pro Tem Juan Villegas is asking the Council to discuss and consider directing the City Manager to direct staff to prepare an emergency staffing plan for City Hall.
• Councilmember David Penaloza is asking the Council to discuss and consider directing the City Manager to direct staff to identify alternative methods to promote the 2020 Census during the COVID-19 pandemic, including opportunities for the Councilmembers to become Census ambassadors.
To provide comment on agenda items, submit your comments via email to [email protected] by 5 p.m. To provide a comment on public hearings and non-agenda items, the public can call in or use the YouTube live chat at the beginning of the item during the meeting.
For details on how to call in and for the meeting agenda, go to www.santa-ana.org/city-meetings.
In accordance with the Governor’s executive order N-25-20 regarding the Brown Act and guidance from the California Department of Public Health on gatherings, please note the following changes for public comments on agenda items:
Comments for a specific item on the agenda will be accepted by EMAIL ONLY and viewable at www.santa-ana.org/city-meetings. The City Clerk will announce a report in support of or opposition to the item. The deadline to submit your comment is at 5 p.m. today. Emails received after the deadline will be uploaded to the City’s website at the earliest possible opportunity.
• Please email your comments to [email protected]
• Please state your name for the record, on the subject line of your email, state the following: “Public Comment for Agenda Item No. #”
If you have any questions, please contact the Clerk of the Council office at (714) 647-6520.
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