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M-6/14/1977 167 Public hearing to review and adopt City of Santa Monica Budget for 1977-78 CITY OF SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS June 14, 1977 . A regular meeting of the Santa Monica City Council was called to order at 7;30 P.M. by Mayor Swink who led the assemblage in the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America. Mayor Swink then introduced Father Fred Fenton, Pastor of St. Augustine Episcopal church, who offered the invocation. Roll Call: Present: Mayor Donna O'Brien Swink Mayor Pro Tempore Seymour Cohen Councilmember John J. Bambrick Councilmember Christine E. Reed Councilmember Perry Scott Councilmember Nathaniel Trives Councilmember Pieter van den Steenhoven City Manager James D. Williams City Attorney Richard L. Knickerbocker City Clerk Joyce Snider Absent: None Presented at this time for approval were the minutes of City Council meeting held May 24th, 1977. Councilmember Cohen requested that the minutes be amended on page 7, paragraph 5 to show his vote regarding the resolution on spay and neuter clinic to be NO. Councilmember Reed moved to approve the minutes as amended. Second by Councilmember van den Steenhoven. . Council Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 Presented at this time was a public hearing to review and adopt City of Santa Monica Annual Budget for the fiscal year 1977-78 and to allocate Federal Revenue Sharing Funds. On order of Mayor Swink, the public hearing was opened at 7:39 P.M., the following persons spoke in support of or in opposition to proposed budget expenditures: Ben Kennedy spoke in support of funding the American Legion Baseball team. Sam Porter spoke in support of funding the Chamber of Commerce. Marilyn Angle and John Jurenka protested use of Revenue Sharing Funds for Social Services. Wellman Mills spoke in support of funding the Santa Monica Sister City Association. Dr. Saul Larks, representing Legislative Committee of Retired Persons, spoke in support of Health Screening Clinic. Bettina Appleby, Eileen Lindblad and Gerald Shaw also spoke in support of the Health Screening Clinic. Charlene Eberhard spoke in support of funding Family Services. . Ken Edwards opposed the 12% limit on Revenue Sharing Funds. Herbert Spurgin and Ulysses Gibson spoke in favor of the use of aircraft by the Police Department. William Stein, Fred Fenton, Helen Wallace and Paul ~alarik spoke in support of funding the Ocean Park Community Center. A. D. Williams, Daniel Cohen and Russ Latimer spoke in support of funding Social Services. Marjorie Braude spoke in support of funding Social Services and the New Start and Truancy Programs. Tomie Casey spoke in support of funding the Santa Monica Westside Volunteer Bureau and Social Service Information Booth. Charles Malcolm spoke in support of increased Planning Department personnel support. Beverly Sanborn, Representative of the Y.W.C.A. spoke in support of funding the Teen Program. David Houtz spoke in support of funding the Salvation Army. James Hoyt questioned the Council regarding the 15 acre park site on the McDonnell Douglas property. Laurie Roset spoke in support of funding the Child Care Center. Pat Schneider spoke in support of increased Planning Personnel support and for Navy League funding. Silvia Silberman spoke in support of funding the Navy League. The public hearing was closed at 8:58 P.M. on motion of Councilmember .- Trives. Second by Councilmember Reed. Council Vote; Unanimously approved 7-0 The Council then discussed the proposed budget as follows; 168 . . . . 1. INTERNAL SERVICES; City Council Budget; Councilmember Scott moved to delete $350 for one desk. Motion failed for lack of second. Councilmember Scott moved to delete $4,000 budgeted for One Vote Tally machine. Second by Councilmember van den Steenhoven. Motion was approved by the following vote: Council Vote; Affirmative; Councilmembers Scott, Trives, van den Steenhoven and Mayor Swink Negative; Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Reed $4,000 was thereby deleted from the budget as proposed. Councilman Trives moved to delete dictation and transcribing machine in the amount of $950. Second by Mayor Swink. Council Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 $950 was thereby deleted from the budget as proposed. Councilmember Scott moved that Council travel funds be uniformly reduced 50% with no travel outside the United States. Second by Councilmember Cohen. Councilmember Trives moved to exclude the Mayor from the motion. Second by Councilmember Reed. The amendment to the motion was approved by the following vote; Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Reed, Trives and Mayor Swink Negative: Councilmembers Scott, van den Steenhoven The main motion as amended was then approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Reed, Scott, Trives and Mayor Swink Negative; Councilmember van den Steenhoven $6,000 was thereby deleted from the budget as proposed. City Manager's Budget; Councilmember van den Steenhoven moved to maintain the status quo of a car for Finance Director and car allowances for the Assistant City Manager and Director of General Services (the deletion of two cars would delete $10,100, the addition of car allowances for the Assistant City Manager and Director of General Services would add $3,360). Second by Councilmember Scott. Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Scott, Trives, van den Steenhoven and Mayor Swink Negative: Councilmember Reed $7,440 was thereby deleted from the budget as proposed. City Clerk's Budget: Councilmember Reed moved to implement records management program in the amount of $52,320 as requested by the City Clerk and to delete other request for microfilm by departments (the amounts consist of $980 in Finance Department and $7,061 in Personnel Department). Second by Councilmember Trives. Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Reed, Trives, van den Steenhoven and Mayor Swink Negative; Councilmembers Cohen, Scott $45,270 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. Councilmember Reed moved to approve the request of the City Clerk for an increase of $500 for travel and conference. Second by Councilmember Trives. Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Reed, Trives, van den Steenhoven and Mayor Swink 168 .LO~ Negative: Councilmembers Cohen, Scott $500 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. Councilmember Bambrick moved that the Business License Section be .- transferred to the Department of Finance. Second by Councilmember van den Steenhoven. Discussion ensued regarding the effect of the transfer of the License Division on the present personnel. City Manager Williams recommended that the position of Assistant City Clerk remain in the City Clerk's budget and that the position of License Supervisor be open for application by the present Assistant City Clerk. The anticipated procedures for filling the position of License Supervisor were discussed. Councilmember Scott moved to amend the motion to include restoration of the position of Assistant City Clerk to the City Clerk's budget, making a total of 5 personnel units on Page 36 of the budget, Second by Councilmember Trives. After further discussion the amendment was approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Scott, Trives Negative: Abstain: Councilmember Reed, Mayor Swink Councilmember van den Steenhoven The main motion as amended was then approved by the following Council vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Reed, Trives, van den Steenhoven and Mayor Swink . Negative: Councilmember Scott $8,770 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. Finance Department Budget: Councilmember Scott moved to delete the positions of one Account Clerk and one Budget Analyst. The motion failed for lack of second. City Attorney's Budget: Councilmember Scott moved that Line Item 8 be reduced to $5,000.00. Second by Councilmember Reed. After a brief discussion the motion failed by the following Council vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Reed, Scott Negative: Councilmembers Cohen, Trives, van den Steenhoven, and Mayor Swink Administrative Services Budget: Councilmember Scott moved to delete a capital outlay item from the City Hall Building Budget in the amount of $3,650 for refurbishment of Conference Room 20lB, Second by Councilmember Cohen. Motion failed by the following vote: . Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Cohen, Scott Negative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Reed, Trives, van den Steenhoven and Mayor Swink 2. ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES: Planning Department Budget: Councilmember Reed moved to include an Associate Planner and an Assistant Planner plus fringe benefits for a total of $26,686, to add $730 for the purchase of two desks and chairs and to reduce temporary employees by $6,000. Second by Councilmember van den Steenhoven and approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Reed, Trives, van den Steenhoven and Mayor Swink . Negative: Councilmembers Cohen, Scott $21,416 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. 170 . . . . 3. PROTECTIVE SERVICES: Police Department Budget: Counci1member Trives moved to add six positions of $22,000 each including fringe benefits for a total of police aircraft. Second by Councilmember Reed. the following vote: Police Patrolmen at of $132,000 in lieu ~fution failed by Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Reed, Trives Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Scott, van den Steenhoven and Mayor Swink Mayor Swink moved to approve Alternate No.5, the operation of the Police Aircraft on an as needed basis of approximately 10 hours per week at a cost of $34,340 per year. Second by Councilmember Scott and approved by the following vote: Negative: Council Vote; Affirmative; Counci1members Bambrick, Cohen, Scott and Mayor Swink Negative: Councilmembers Reed, Trives and van den Steenhoven $34,340 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. Councilmember Scott moved to reduce the Police Administration Activities and Program Account of $16,371 thereby deleting the proposed canine program. The motion failed for lack of second. Councilmember Scott moved that $10,000 be deleted from the physical fitness program. Second by Councilmember Cohen. The motion failed by the following Council vote: Council Vote; Affirmative; Councilmember Scott Negative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Reed, Trives, van den Steenhoven and Mayor Swink 4. CULTURAL AND LEISURE SERVICES; Recreation and Parks Budget: Councilmember van den Steenhoven moved that funds be appropriated in the amount of $5,000 for landscaping the windward and seaward side of the bike path along the beach parking lots. Second by Councilmember Trives. After discussion the motion was withdrawn. On motion of Councilmember Trives, second by Councilmember Reed, Item 12 on Page 140 was amended to say: "Provides for preliminary work for park development at McDonnell Douglas site. This is funded by Community Development Block Grant monies." Councilmember Reed moved to delete $50,000 for installation of lights at Lincoln and Memorial parks. Motion failed for lack of a second. Councilmember Reed moved to adopt staff recommendation presented in January, 1977 to increase the fees for use of park athletic fields, the City Attorney to prepare a resolution for City Council approval. Second by Councilmember van den Steenhoven and approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 Harbor Budget: Councilmember Cohen moved to delete the float for the underwater park for a total deletion of $5,000. Second by Councilmember Trives and approved by the following Council vote: Council Vote: AfIirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Reed, Scott, Trives and Mayor Swink Negative: Councilmember van den Steenhoven $5,000 was thereby deleted from the budget as proposed. Councilmember Scott moved that Phase 3 of pier restoration be deleted. Motion failed for lack of second. 170 171 Library Budget: Councilmember Reed moved to add Sunday Library hours as recommended in staff report dated May 24th, 1977 in an amount of $23,111, with review after six months by the City Council. Second by Councilmember van den Steenhoven and approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 $23,111 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. . 7. NON-DEPARTMENTAL: Social Services: Councilmember Trives moved to add $91,126 to the Social Services Program Funds, the revenue source to be the Anti-Recessionary Funds, the balance to be funded from the 1976-77 Federal Revenue Sharing Funds. Second by Councilmember Reed. Councilmember Cohen moved to amend the motion to reduce the addition to $76,546. The amendment failed for lack of second. Councilmember Cohen moved to reduce the amount by $25,000. Amendment failed for lack of second. The main motion was then voted upon and approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Reed, Trives, van den Steenhoven and Mayor S,~ink Negative: Councilmembers Cohen and Scott Community Promotion: . Councilmember Reed moved to delete the Santa Monica Mounted Police appropriation of $2,000. Second by Councilmember Cohen. Councilmember Scott moved to amend the motion to delete the Sister City program, the tournament of roses float and the Navy League. The amendment failed for lack of second. After further discussion the main motion was approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Affirmative; Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Reed and Scott Councilmembers Trives, van den Steenhoven and Mayor Swink $2,000 was thereby deleted from the budget as proposed. Negative: Councilmember Scott moved to delete $3,600 from the Sister Cities program. Second by Councilmember Reed. Motion failed by the following vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Cohen, Reed, Scott . Councilmembers Bambrick, Trives, van den Steenhoven and Mayor Swink Councilmember Scott moved to delete the tournament of roses float appropriation in the amount of $10,000. Second by Councilmember Reed. The motion failed by the following vote: Negative: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Reed, Scott Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Trives, van den Steenhoven and Mayor Swink Councilmember Scott moved to delete $2,500 from the Navy League. Motion failed for lack of second. Negative: Councilmember Bambrick moved to add $27,000 to the City Manager's recommendation for the Chamber of Commerce for a total of $117,000. Motion failed for lack of second. Councilmember Bambrick moved to increase the allocation to $105,000 for the Chamber of Commerce. Second by Councilmember Cohen and approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, van den Steenhoven, Mayor Swink . Negative: Councilmembers Reed, Scott, Trives $15,00 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. 172 . . . . Social Services: Counci1member Cohen moved to allocate a total of $35,000 to Family Services. Second by Counci1member Trives and approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 $10,000 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. Counci1member van den Steenhoven moved to allocate $10,000 to fund the Health Screening Clinic, to put aside $30,000 as a contingency for the period of fiscal year 1977-78 from January 1, 1978 through June 30, 1978 and require a monthly report on funding progress. Second by Councilmember Trives. Counci1member Cohen moved to amend the total to $30,000. Second by Councilmember Reed and approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Reed, Scott, Mayor Swink Negative: Councilmembers Trives, van den Steenhoven The main motion as amended was then approved by the following vote; Council Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 $20,000 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. Counci1member Cohen moved to allocate $1,200, as recommended, to Ex-Help-Hotline. Second by Councilmember Reed and approved by the following vote: Council Vote; Unanimously approved 7-0 Councilmember Reed moved to increase the Ocean Park Community Center allocation by $10,000 to $25,000. Second by Councilmember Trives and approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 $10,000 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. Councilmember Scott moved to appropriate $15,000 for the Salvation Army one year Smile Program. Second by Counci1member van den Steenhoven. Councilmember Reed moved to amend the motion to appropriate a total of $6,000. Second by Councilmember Cohen. The amendment failed by the following vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmember Reed Negative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Scott, Trives, v~ den Steenhoven, Mayor Swink The mam motion was then approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 $15,000 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. Councilmember Trives moved to fund the Westside Volunteer Bureau in the amount of $15,000. Second by Councilmember Bambrick and approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 $1,500 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. Councilmember Cohen moved to increase funding for Transient Assistance by $2,500 for a total of $5,000. Second by Councilmember Reed and approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 $2,500 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. Counci1member Reed moved to increase the funding for the John Rossi Youth Foundation by $2,505 for a total of $17,505. Second by 172 173 Counci1member Cohen and approved by the following vote: Council Vote; Unanimously approved 7-0 $2,505 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. . Councilmember Reed moved to appropriate the same amount of money as last year to be used for the same purposes for the Santa Monica Bay Area Drug Abuse Program in the total amount of $19,632. Second by Councilmember Cohen and approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Reed, Trives, Mayor Swink Negative: Councilmembers Scott and van den Steenhoven $19,632 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. Councilmember Reed moved to allocate but not appropriate $16,000, the fund to be used for a truancy program when the requirements for a truancy program can be worked out by City Staff in conjunction with Santa Monica School District. Second by Councilmember Trives and approved by the followiqg vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Reed, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Mayor Swink Negative; Councilmember Scott . $16,000 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. Councilmember Cohen moved that the undesignated funds in the amount of $2,915 be put into welfare unappropriated funds. Second by Councilmember Trives. Councilmember Reed moved to amend the motion, appropriating $2,500 for the Y.W.C.A. Summer Teen Program for boys and girls. Second by Mayor Swink. The amendment was approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Reed, van den Steenhoven, Mayor Swink Negative: Councilmembers Cohen, Scott, Trives The main motion as amended was approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 The net effect of the motion was the appropriation of $2,500 to the Y.W.C.A. Summer Teen Program and the appropriation of $415 to the Undesignated Welfare Account. $11.00 was thereby deleted from the budget as proposed. 5. TRANSPORTATION SERVICES: . Airport Budget: Councilmember Reed moved to add $30,000 to establish a displaced threshold on the airport runway, to be used only if the threshold cannot be otherwise funded. Second by Councilmember van den Steenhoven and approved by the following vote: Council Vote: Affirmative: Councilmembers Bambrick, Reed, Scott, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Mayor Swink Negative: Councilmember Cohen $30,000 was thereby added to the budget as proposed. The review of the budget being concluded at this time Councilmember Trives called for the question on the main motion to approve the budget as amended by adoption of Resolutio~ N9..~877 (CCS) entitled: "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA APPROVING THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1977-78 AS AMENDED". Second by Councilmember Reed. Councilmember Reed asked if it was appropriate to adopt the budget as amended without knowing whether funds were available to cover the expenditures. City Manager Williams said that the budget as amended totals $243,882 in addition to the amount proposed and that it was his recommendation that the amount be funded from the current reserve fund. Mr. Williams also clarified that the tax . 174 . . . . rate 15 not adopted as part of the budget but wlll be acted upon by the Councll in August. Resolution No. 4877 eeCS) entltled' ;'A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF Si\~TA MONICA APPROVING THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1977-78 AS A\IENDED", was adopted by the follo"'ln" vote: Councll Vote: Unanlffiously approved 7-0 The followlng resolutlons were adopted reading by tltle only on motlon of Councilmember van den Steenhoven. Second by Coun~llmember Reed. Resolution No. 4878 eCCS) entltled: "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MO~ICA REVISI~G THE SEWER SERVICE CHARGE", and Resolutlon No. 4879 eCCS) entitled: "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ~ONICA REVISING THE BASIC ~\TE FOR WATER SERVICE SUPPLIED BY THE SA:nA ~IONICA KATER DIVISION". Kalter Eskelln spoke In opposltion to the adoption of the resolutions. The Council approved the resolutions by the following vote: Councll \'ote: Afflrmatlve: Councilmembers Bambrick, Cohen, Reed. Trlves, van den Steenhoven, Hayor S,dnk Negatlve: CouncllMember Scott Presented at thlS tlme were nomlnations to Airport Commission and Architectural ReVlew Board. Nomlnatlons to the Airport Commission for the unexpired term endlng June 30, 1979 were opened. The following nomlnatlons were made: Councllmember Bambrick nomlnated Paul C. Thornbury, Mayor Pro Tempore Cohen nominated Allan Storms and Councllmember Reed nomlnated Elaine Smlth. Councllmember van den Steenhoven moved that nomlnations be closed, Second by Councllmember Reed and approved by the followlng vote: Council Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 The Councll voted upon the nominatlons as follows' Paul C. Thornbury: Councilmember Bambrick Allan Storms: Councilmembers Cohen, Scott Elaine Smlth: Councilmembers Reed, Trives, van den Steenhoven and Mayor Swink Elalne Smlth was therefore appointed to the Airport CommlSSlon. Nomlnations were opened to the Archltectural ReVlew Board for the unexpired term ending on June 30, 1979. The following nominations were made: Mayor Pro Tempore Cohen nominated Ronald Reimers; Councilmember Reed nomlnated Elsa L. Fleischmann. Councilmember van den Steenhoven moved to close nomlnatlons. Second by Councllmember Reed. Councll Vote: Unanlmously approved 7-0 The Council voted upon the nomlnations as follows: Ronald Relmers: Councilmembers Bambrlck, Cohen, Scott, Trlves, van den Steenhoven and Mayor SWlnk Elsa L. Fleischmann: Councilmember Reed Ronald Reimers was therefore appointed to the Architectural Review Board. Mayor Swink remlnded the Councll that the Clerk had asked for dlrection regarding the appolntment of commlSSloners for the next several months. Councllmember Trlves moved that the established procedure be followed and that the Council defer action on appolntments untll the next City Councll meeting for WhlCh all Councilmembers would be present 174 Resolution 4877 approving budget for 1977-78 Resolution 4878 Revising sewer charge Resolutlon 4879 revising water rate Nominations to Airport Commission Nominatlons to Archltectural Review Board 175 Council brlefings to continue as ln past depending upon their vacatlon schedules. Second by Councilmember Reed. After discussion the motion was approved by the followlng vote: Councll Vote: Unanlmously approved 7-0 . Presented at this time was Councilmember Scott's request for a dlScussion of regularly scheduled prlvate meetings of the City Council- members to discuss agenda items prlor to the formal Clty Councll meeting. A number of requests had been made to address the Council in regard to thlS subJect. Councilmember Scott moved to allow the public to allow publlc partlcipatlon. Second by Councllmember van den Steenhoven. Councll Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 The followlng persons spoke In favor of holdlng the briefings publicly: Charles Davis, Warne Ehring, Mildred Eddy: (Ms. Eddy presented a poll that she had clrculated among her neighbors requestlng that the meeting be held publlcly). Alma Osolln, Leslie Dutton, Robert L. Baker, John Kurzweil, Wllllam A. Walker, John Maresca, Arthur Eskelin and John Jurenka. The followlng persons expressed thelr confidence in the present procedures used by the Councll for conducting brieflngs: Pat Schneider, and Richard Koch. After discussion by the Council, Councilmember Scott moved that the brieflng sessions be moved lnto the Council Chambers and be made publlc. Second by Councllmember Reed. The motion falled by the following vote: . Council Vote: Afflrmative: Councilmembers Reed, Scott ~egative: Councilmembers Bambrlck, Cohen, Trives, van den Steenhoven, ~ayor S\,'ink At 1:06 a.m. the meeting was adJourned on motlon of Councllmember Trlves, second by Councilmember Cohen. Council Vote: Unanimously approved 7-0 ATTEST: APPROVED: .r'J "'- -:_ . 'A"'~_~c...k<, J~y;~nider . ./Cl ty Clerk ~Lv(~~~1V-y1 Donna O'Brien SWlnk . .