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SR-6J (13) - 6J ecs SEM AM stjohn Santa MOnica, Calrfornla City Council Meeting. July 26, 1994 JUt 2 6 .. STAFF REPORT TO' Mayor and City Council FROM- CIty Staff SUBJECT RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE ALTERNATIVE ROUTE FOR ST. JOHN'S HOSPITAL BOUNCING BACK PARADE INTRODUCTION This report recommends that the City Council approve a request for a parade on a route other than the City's authorized parade route (SMMC Section 4 08 5801 for St John's Hospital to be held Saturday, September 24, 1994. BACKGROUND Since the devastation of the Northnctge earthquake, St John's Hospital has been rebuilding sections of the facIlity to reopen as soon as possible to serve the Santa Monica and surrounding communItIes. The bouncing back parade IS a communrty participation celebration that marks the opening of the hospital and welcomes back the families It has served. DISCUSSION Staff recommends the following alternatIve route be approved. The parade WIll start at 11.00 am at 11th Street and Anzona Avenue (OlympIC HIgh School) PartIcipants Will proceed east on Arizona Avenue to 22nd Street (St John's HospItal} where the 6.'J~ JUL 2 6 f994 - - parade will end. Once at St. John's, a family picnic will begin with special awards, speeches, food and musIc by Billy Vera and the Beaters The parade wIll consIst of a marchIng band, trumpeters, a drum and bugle corp, an elephant, several clowns, Santa MOnica Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, a doctors dnll team, a nurses drill team, local dance and gym clubs, a rollerblade demonstration team and In keeping with the bounCing back theme, basketballs, volleyballs and tenms balls wIll be passed out to partIcIpants to bounce the. 7 mile dIstance. The Santa MOnica Police Department Will provide all necessary traffIc control and security BUDGET/FINANCIAL IMPACT St John's Hospital Will assume and pay all event costs, Including the cost for Police serVices, estimated at $4,400 RECOMMENDA TION Staff recommends that the City CounCil approve the alternative parade route for the St. John's HospItal BounCing Back Parade to be held September 24, 1994. Prepared by Susan E McCarthy, Director Annette Morales, Administrative Analyst CommunIty and Cultural Services Department . . d ! . CCS SEM.AM:stJohn Santa MOnica, California CIty CouncIl Meetmg: July 26, 1994 RESOLUTION NO. 8789 (CIty Council Series) A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA AUTHORIZING THE HOLDING OF A PARADE ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1994 ON A ROUTE OTHER THAN THE OFFICIAL CITY PARADE ROUTE WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 4.08.580 of the Santa MOnica Municipal Code, the City Council may authorize a parade route as set forth herein, NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS' SECTION 1 That on September 24, 1994 at 11 :00 am participants In the St John's Hospital Bouncmg Back Parade are authorized to conduct a parade along the follOWing route The parade Will start at 11 th Street and Arizona Avenue (OlympiC High Schooll and proceed east on Arizona Avenue to 22nd Street (St. John's Hospital) SECTION 2. PermIssIon to conduct the parade IS granted upon the follOWing . condItions. a. Parade Units may not be brought to the staging area, the corner of 11 th Street and Arrzona Avenue prror to Saturday, September 24, 1994 "- , f b The necessary number of Pohce Officers, as recommended by the Santa Monica Police Department, will 1:.e provIded for crowd and traffIc control along the parade route at St. John's Hospital's cost c. That any and all cost for bus reroutmg, barricading and coning of streets, posting of signs, and purchasing of parking meters be assumed and paId by St. John's HospItal. d That 8t John's Hospital shall provide a Certificate of Insurance for One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) per Individual occurrence naming the City of Santa MOnica, It's CounCil, boards and commiSSions as addItional Insured. e That St John's Hospital Will notIfy all residents and business two blocks west, east, north and south, as well as along the parade route of the event and of alternate traffiC routes, after approval of the notification letter by the CIty. SECTION 3 The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of thIS Resolution, and thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be In full force and effect. APPROVED AS TO FORM' "\ .~~/~hl - t ' ., '71-<--<. MARSHA JONES MOUTRIE CIty Attorne-y - . ~ < ,t Adopted and approved tins 26th of July, 1994. ~dk ayor I hereby certify that the foregomg ResolutIon 8789 (CCS) was duly adopted at a meellng of the City Council held on the 26th of July, 1994 by the followmg vote Ayes' Councilmembers: Abdo, Genser, Greenberg, Holbrook, Olsen, Rosenstem, Vazquez Noes Councilmembers . None Abstam Couocllmembers None Absent Councilmembers' None ATTEST. / /< ?A~ ~ // - <- City ClerIC