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m-0814736 Resolution 4397 Printing of Annual Report. Resolution 4398 Temporary grading easement to State on Pacific Coast Hwy. Resolution 4399 :Road deed from 'General Telephone .Resolution 4400 'Granting State right of way deed. Resolution 4401 Ratifying comprom- ise of claims & payment for City public liability. i COUNCIL CHAMBER, CITY HALL, SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA August 14, 1973 7:30 o'clock P.M. The City Council of the City of Santa Monica met in regular session at the above named time and place. The pledge of allegiance was - givea, after which Reverend James Conn, Ocean Park United Methodist Church, !gave the invocation. PRESENT: Councilmen: Clo Hoover, Anthony L. Dituri, Fred M. Judson, John W. McCloskey, Donna 0. Swink, Nathaniel Trives, Pieter van den Steenhoven ABSENT: Councilmen: None ALSO PRESENT: K. 0.. Grubb, Interim City Manager Richard L. Knickerbocker, City Attorney E. Douglas McAteer, City Engineer J. L. Wilbur, Acting City Clerk The minutes of the meetings held July 24 and 30, 1973 were !approved as mailed. The Clerk read the title to a resolution entitled: " Y COUNCIL OF THE CITY OE SANTA MnMTCA AnTNnRT7TVr TUT Reverend Judson moved to waive further reading and adopt the resolution. The motion was seconded by Mr. Trives and carried by the :following vote: li AYES: Councilmen: Dituri, Judson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen: None 'I(Breene Lithograph Co.) Resolution No. 4397 (CCS) The.Clerk read the title to a resolution entitled: "A RESOL i0F THE CITY COUNCIL OF.THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA GRANTING A TEMPORARY Mr. 'Trives moved to waive further reading and adopt the solution. The motion was seconded by Mr. McCloskey and carried by the flowing vote: AYES: Councilmen: Dituri, Judson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen: None Resolution No: 4398 (CCS) The Clerk read the title to a resolution entitled: "A RESOLUTIOD THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MnNTr.A AnrPPTTNr M-- -Mr. Dituri moved to waive further reading and adopt the resolution. The motion was seconded by Mr. Trives and carried by the following vote: . AYES: Councilmen: Dituri, Judson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen: None (16th Street and Ocean Park Blvd.) Resolution No. 4399 (CCS) �luru co a resolution entitled: "A RESOLUTION IOF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA GRANTING THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA A RIGHT -OF -WAY DEED AND A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT FOR USE T1V CONNECTION WITH THE ERECTION OF A :PEDESTRIAN OVER - CROSSING ON THE PACIFIC COAST, HIGHWAY AND DIRECTING THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE RIGHT-OF -WAY CONTRACT THE GRANT DEED. AND THE TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT . Mr. McCloskey moved to waive further reading and adopt the resolution. The motion was seconded by Reverend Judson and carried by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen: Dituri, Judson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen: None ((1400 Block of the Pacific Coast Highway) Resolution No. 4400 (CCS) L The Clerk read the title to a resolution entitled: "A RESOLUTIOi� OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA RATIFYING THE COMPROMISE OF CLAIMS AND PAYMENT OF EXPENSES FOR THE CITY S PUBLIC LIABILITY . i I Reverend Judson moved to waive further reading and adopt the ,resolution. The motion was seconded by Mr. Trives and carried by the !following vote: AYES: Councilmen: Dituri, Judson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen: None The Clerk read the titles to the Green Acres Tr. - 1004 - 20th St.) -947 - 21st -S t.) i Resolution No. 4401 (CCS) flowing resolutions: MONICA Mr. McCloskey moved to waive further reading and adopt the 'resolutions. The motion was seconded by Mr. Dituri and carried by the '!following vote: AYES: Councilmen: Dituri, Judson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen: None Mr. van den Steenhoven moved to approve the recommendation, !dated August 8, 1973, from the Planning Commission and grant a waiver on the moratorium for a condominium project at 1343 -1345 - 26th Street. The motion was seconded by Reverend Judson and carried unanimously. Clyde V. Fitzgerald, Airport Director, reported on the joint meeting held by the Airport and Recreation and Parks Commissions on August 8, 1973 and stated that another joint meeting was scheduled for Wednesday, September 12, 1973, at 4:00 o'clock P.M. in the Council Chamber. Mr. Trives moved to reimburse the revolving cash fund demands as follows: D. T. Arnett $ 72.75 P. T. Brownell 45.65 J. F. Hutchison 74.37 R. N. Aronoff 66.01 The motion was seconded by M following vote: AYES: Councilmen: NOES: Councilmen: ABSENT: Councilmen: r, van den Steenhoven and carried by the Dituri, Judson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover None None 266 Resolution 4402 Tract 26390 Resolution 4403 Tract 26622 Resolution 4404 Tract 23370 Resolution 4405 Tract 30351 IlGrant waiver for !condominium at 11343 -45 26th St. Mr. Trives moved to approve the recommendation, dated August 1, !Approve class 1973, of the Administration of classification specifications for Systems Ispec's. Accountant and Duplicating Shop Helper. The motion was seconded by Mrs. Swink and carried unanimously. Mr. McCloskey moved to grant the following requests which are in! the moratorium area: Remodel interior for a gym- health studio ($600.00) at 414 -416 Broadway and remodel the interior and facade to convert a theatre to a music hall ($20,000.00) at 214 Santa Monica Blvd. The motion was seconded by Reverend Judson and carried unanimously -. Mr. Dituri moved to make awards to the lowest best bidders as follows: - Jumbo Equipment Co. - tractor with loader attachment $ 5,324.00 Fornaciari Co. - tractor loader $ 18,318.33 Miracle Equipment Co. - portable bleachers $ 2,544.00 The motion was seconded by Mr. McCloskey and carried by the following vote-- AYES: Councilmen: Dituri, Judson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen: None Contract 2074 Reverend Judson moved to authorize the City Manager to sign the Agreement with agreement with the Santa Monica Westside Volunteer Bureau for performing S.M. Westside ,certain services. The motion was seconded by Mr. Trives and carried by Volunteer Bureau the following vote: AYES: Councilmen: Dituri, Judson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen: None ! Contract No. 2074 (CCS) Attorney Shapiro, representing Shelter Financial Corp., urged that the Council approve its Tract Map 24368 for a condominium located at 701 -707 Grant St. Reverend Judson moved that Tract Map 24368 be approved, subject to the approval of the covenants, conditions and restrictions by the City Attorney, in compliance with the requisite of the City Council, that there . should be no division of the two lots. The motion was seconded by Mr. Trives and carried with Councilman van den Steenhoven voting "NO ". Senior citizen Conrad H. Reid requested that the Council appeal the decision of housing. the Planning Commission for a senior citizens housing project at 137 -147 Bay Street and 1920 Main Street. The City Attorney explained to Mr. Reid that there is no appeal regarding Section 9147C of the Municipal Code. Various persons spoke. Mr. McCloskey moved to instruct the City Attorney to prepare an 'ordinance amending Section 9147C of the Municipal Code so that the final appeal of variances would be before the Council. The motion was seconded by Reverend Judson and lost by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen: Dituri, Judson, McCloskey NOES: Councilmen: Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover ABSENT: Councilmen: None At 10:00 o'clock P.M., a recess was taken, after which the meeting reconvened with all members of the Council present. Mayor Hoover: I had this item put on the agenda. As a matter of fact it has been on the last three or four agendas but perhaps it is just as well 'it was held over because in the meantime we have received a letter from the, Rouse Company along with a plan showing a schedule and each member has one before them. In my item I said, perhaps we should retain legal counsel and an appraiser for the downtown mall complex. It is my understanding that !. before we can do anything we have to have the Planning Commission submit a! preliminary plan for the project. We do have it but it has gone to the Redevelopment Agency. Is that right? Mr. van den Steenhoven: The Planning Commission has passed on the - prelim Binary plan and has sent it to whoever they are supposed to. Mayor Hoover: Will they send it to the Redevelopment Agency? We did not have it in time to discuss it at this meeting. It was a special meeting. Mr.- Lunsford: The preliminary has been approved and adopted at its Plann -I king Commission meeting and it was at the request of the Council to designate. Now it is back to the Redevelopment Agency and the Redevelopment Agency now 'starts processing the planning for the acquisition of the property and they whole works. i Mayor Hoover: I think everyone on the Council or Redevelopment Agency or ',terminology or whatever hat we are wearing at the time right now or as the Redevelopment Agency is very anxious to get this project started. We have!, been working under a hardship you might say, with all due respect to our Acting City Manager who is doing a tremendous job. Some of us have felt that we should retain a City Manager and perhaps bring him and ourselves along at the same time together. It may be another month or a month and a!, half before we have a City Manager. I noticed Mr. Armor (Rouse Company) is In the audience. Would you care to speak to this item, Mr. Armor? i r. Trives: I would like to ask a question before we speak to anybody. Mrs. Swink: I am a little confused! I was under the impression that from! Ithe ll�ng Commission as per their resolution they had .defined the boundary area of the project. Mayor Hoover: Right! Mrs. Swink: I was under the impression that once they have defined the poundary area it came to Council and the Council approves or rejects the II oundary area. In the event we approve, then it goes.to the Redevelopment I Agency. Am I not correct? li Mayor Hoover: What is the proper procedure? Mr. Lunsford: Mrs. New asked me about that today. It was my impression with the discussion with her that it went directly to the Redevelopment Agency because the City Council resolution directed the Planning Commission o designate this area as a project area and adopted the preliminary plans or it which was done. Mayor Hoover: Mr. Jones, do you want to respond to this? You just eceived this and it is now before the Redevelopment Agency. We must call meeting to approve. Mr. Jones: Madam Mayor and Members of the Council. The Planning Commission has adopted the preliminary plan and in accordance with the California ! Community Redevelopment Law they forwarded that plan to the Redevelopment I Agency - not to the Council. This will not become a Council consideration' until a proposed redevelopment is formulated and then it is sent to the Planning Commission for its findings . as to its conformity to the master plan and a number of other findings under the law. Then the Agency submits the plan to the Council. This is the proposed redevelopment plan and not [the preliminary plan. We are at a point now when we have taken steps to begin the adoption of the redevelopment plan and that it is in the process ji !now. I indicated to you in a memorandum which went out with the agenda ,that the Redevelopment staff is now preparing to compile the necessary j ,records as to the listed known assessees of all the property in the project .;area and prepare these transmitals to the Assessor's Office so this may ;become a matter of record and we can freeze the tax base, etc. Mayor Hoover: you are saying then is that we don't, vote on this until Mr. Jones: Yes, essentially, that is correct and that the Council is really not required to act on the redevelopment plan or the preliminary !plan at this point in time. I don't want you to confuse the issue, but I know that the Planning Commission adopted two resolutions and that one Of them, they submitted the preliminary plan to the City Council, but this) is a misinterpretation of the law and it is not applicable at this time and this is their Resolution 73 -7 and I believe the City Attorney has returned this to the Planning Commission and asked them to rescind that resolution because it is not applicable. Mayor Hoover: Then my item is out of order. Is that right? Mr. Jones: I wouldn't say that your item is out of order inasmuch as you ,could consider the items that you have brought up. We are talking about a matter concerning the redevelopment plan and not the retention of counsel or appraiser at this point in time. I am not discussing that now. Mayor Hoover: Mr. Trives. Mr. Trives: You are saying that the Redevelopment Agency, sitting as the Redevelopment Agency, should make the determination as sitting as Council,i etc., etc., counsel, appraiser or whatever. Mr. Jones: I am addressing myself completely to the redevelopment plan and the mechanical plan and processes of adopting that plan. Now if you want to ask me as to the opinion as to who is to act on selecting the counsel Al and appraiser, I feel that should be the Redevelopment Agency. but I do not! ! 'feel that it would be completely out of the authority of the Council also to consider this matter if they wished to. Mr. van den Steenhoven: We have it on the agenda. Let's do it. Mr. Trives: I came prepared tonight to deal with the resolution of the Planning Commission in terms of their request and I look at the item the Mayor put on the agenda as an umbrella to deal with it and I am asking they! City Attorney if we cannot deal with some of these things here and now because this again points to delay, indecision, I don't want to use the other word. Mr. Knickerbocker: I think that inasmuch as it is properly before the City Council, the City Council can discuss it and all they have to do is ratify whatever decision they make when they go into session as the Redevelopment Agency. That would be the way to do it and you are going to have a Redevelopment meeting sometime and there is no problem in discussing the matter and making a decision. Mr. Dituri: I would like to ask Mr. Jones, if no action was taken tonightll would this delay anything? Mr. Jones: No, it will not. Mr. van den Steenhoven: Can we ask the Rouse representative that? Mayor Hoover: He is here and I don't see why we shouldn't. Mr. Jones: I am speaking from the mechanical process that we have to go through in plan adoption. It would not delay those, Mr. Dituri: The only reason why I would much rather discuss this during . theRedevelopment meeting, we do have a Redevelopment Attorney involved in this and he may be handling it. I don't know what the wishes of the Council are but he may be handling some of these items for us and I think all the discussion should be with him and before him before we make any selection of anything. Mayor Hoover: We are going to need an appraiser for one thing, that's for', sure. Mr. Dituri: I'm not saying it is �oing to delay anything. We can proceed' with any action we have to. I don t think we will delay it one day by not taking any action on this item. Mr, van den Steenhoven: We should ask the man who knows. Mayor Hoover: Mr. Armor. Mr. Armor: George Armor, Rouse Company, Columbia, Maryland. Mayor Hoover,: I think, based on the schedule we have submitted, certainly have anoptimisltic, however we don't think a total unrealistic starting date of like right about now. There are a number of steps that have to be taken under the California Redevelopment Act, many . which are, as Mr. Jones just said, are mechanical 'steps. Councilman Dituri is correct when he speaks to these mechanics. St is really not delaying anything at this point. However, we cannot take, any further step nor can the City until certain things have happened; and one of those is, and again I agree absolutely with the immediate, and I say immediate as soon as it is practically possible, selection of legal counsel thoroughly familiar with redevelopment law to represent the City. Secondly, the selection of architectural consultants again to take the City's part which are part and parcel of working out the plan. Thirdly, the appraisal', ;process must be gone through and must be gone through in any event and until (those three people are on board and working and giving us people we can respond to and the Council can look to for advice and direction, then the 'entire intent of moving the project ahead, which I say is as much the City's as it is ours, screeches to a halt. I would respectfully suggest that with ' :the bringing on board so to speak of these three people, whoever they may Abe, and the immediate beginning of working out a legal document between us and the City with the understanding that with all the things that both of us have to do, and have to agree on, that the City is certainly going to want a right at some point down the road to re- examine the financial aspect, like the land cost three times what the City thinks it will, to be able to 'bow out gracefully, But still I think it is important for both the City and certainly ourselves to lay out on paper what our agreement in fact is. 'Even though there may be out down the line based on economic circumstance to a lesser extent I think the architectural services are needed as soon as '.possible. We are, we feel like we're in a starting gate waiting for the :bell and yet we can't find the starter, so to speak. There will come a (point in time at which it's going to be vital that we have a City Manager. I'm sure it's a lot more vital to you that it is to us since you need him :for a lot of other things too, but we need to be able to respond and to !.convey information and get decisions from you all on a day to day basis :and this is what it boils down to and this is what I think we need from here on out. _ Mayor Hoover: Right. Thank you very much. Reverend Judson: Can I ask a question? (Mayor Hoover: Yes, of course. :Reverend Judson: What about a letter of intent? Mr. Armor: That's fine. The expression of an agreement between the City and the Rouse Co. can be done with a letter or it can be done with a normal, is typical redevelopment document, disposition of development agreement. I really don't think, or in our experience, that it takes that much less !time to negotiate the latter because we get so involved and it has to cover the same things anyhow, than it does to do the entire document. Mr. Dituri: Mrs. Hoover, my only question, I don't want to delay this !project any more than anybody else. I'd like to see this project forge 'ahead on all four. The question is we do have a redevelopment attorney, Iwe do discuss these things within our redevelopment meetings and I think this is where they should stem from and get the final approval from the (City Council. I think this is what I'm concerned with, not that I don't ! ,think we need these things. Yes, we do need them, but I think they should ! be discussed and brought up in the redevelopment with our redevelopment attorney. !Mayor Hoover: Mr. Trives. 'Mr. Trives: Madam Mayor. As I understand it for this particular project we, one of the charges is to select a redevelopment attorney. ''.Mr. Dituri: I beg your pardon. ',Mr. Trives: Is that correct or not? In other words, this particular !project, as I understand it, one of the particular charges is to select is redevelopment attorney. !!Mayor Hoover: Right. !Mr. van den Steenhoven: Mr. Jacobs is the top name on the . IMr. Dituri: At the moment, it seems to me, that tonight we just ratified lat least for the moment that Mr. Jacobs should be the man when you voted to pay him $10.00 an hour more on anything other than a Federal project. ',Mr. van den Steenhoven: Right. So let's get on with it and make it !iofficial. '!Mr. Trives:. Very good. !.Mr. Dituri: We did have the discrepancy in pay, which I assume was put in '.there for the sole purpose of allowing, at least for now, him to act in that capacity if he so decided. IMr. Trives: I will definitely support that. ''Mayor Hoover: All right. I put this on deliberately because .I think lithere are people in the community that are wondering why nothing has been done. There has been no conversation. I think Rouse & Co. are doing ,everything that they've said they can do. I think they're in a vacuum and: we're in a vacuum and I want this thing to move. Mr. Trives: If that be the case, I think having listened to the City :Attorney and the Redevelopment, where'd he go, Director, we could probably,. 'cloak this whole thing legally and even include Councilman Dituri's feelings into a resolution that would suggest that the Council to those, .refer those three things to the Redevelopment Agency to be acted upon on !the 28th, and that in itself would, I think, give some position of positive (direction. Could I have some help from the City Attorney on that? In ! !other words, we are not, I think we ought to go toward selection of the - '!Council, Mr. McCloskey says we've already done that. If that be the case,!, 'we should make it clear that that is the case. Two, we should select the 'architectural firm and, three, we should select the appraiser and I think some kind of resolution directing the other half to do that would be in '.order at this time. And if I could get some help from the members of the ',Council in wording it, we will put it together. Could you do that? A title? er: Yeah, I think I can give it a.title. �F THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA N erend Judson: Could we include in that or would this be in order, a .d Consultant? . Swink: I was wondering at what point in time, land negotiations, .re are several things. erend Judson: Anything that is needed at this time. Knickerbocker: Bond Consultant, Financial Consultant, Land Negotiator I any other necessary personnel to fulfill the project as soon as possib or Hoover: Or as needed? van den Steenhoven: When is the next Redevelopment Agency meeting? rious -Voices T.-- the 28th. van den Steenhoven: Because I just feel that two weeks is two weeks . the price of things going up $1,000.00 every day. Is there any way can do it before that? Knickerbocker: One thing as I understand it, that some of the things ld be started out of our City funds right now. I suppose if you want t it. Resolution 4406 Downtown Redevel. Select architecture firm & appraiser. Mr. van den Steenhoven: We need the people though. Mayor Hoover: What we're talking about is under the California State Act. Mr. Knickerbocker: One possibility would be to direct me, as the City Attorney, to obtain a list of perhaps appraisers or attorneys or whatever you want and I could provide that for you. Mayor Hoover: Right. Mr. Trives: I have an idea, if I may. If I may, based on what we've said! 1ready on your first line resolution, instead of selecting an Attorney, e've already done that. That will be a positive act. Instead of "Attorney" we can put Eugene. Jacobs in there specifically, then that alleviates the !, problem of going out and getting legal advice because we've got him. We can direct him to get started on setting together the particular mechanisms% to get this thing rolling. Is that a reasonable approach? Mr. Dituri: May I ask . We have already, at least of tonight, set the situation where we have somebody,for Redevelopment, therefore why do we need to reinforce that? I think that we could instruct the City Attorney to submit a list of apprisers, qualified appraisers of course, to perhaps the Redevelopment Agency for consideration and that, to me, is all that we !. need to do because at least for the moment we have set up to where we have an Attorney; and the discrepancy in pay along determines that we have approved it, so it seems redundant to me to specify somebody when you have already done it. But the appraisers you could go ahead with. Mr, van den Steenhoven: What about the architectural firm? They're - equally as important. Mr. McCloskey: Well, I don't know how far down the road you want to travel on this thing. As far as I'm concerned, I want to go ahead with all deliberate haste. It seems to me that one of the first things we need to ''do is get an appraisal of the property and determine where we are there in dollars and cents and project from there. Once that is established if . I have a possible reluctance to commit us as we have in the past. To me any letter of intent that we sign would have so many escape clauses for us that it would be ineffective for the developer at least at this point in time to make it worthy of his expending great sums of money. I just don't believe that he would do that. On the other hand, the last thing I want to be is locked into a situation that I don't even know at this point, at least I haven't been reinforced as to its viability but I think our first step is to find out what the appraisal of the land is and move along those lines. Now maybe I'm being overly cautious except that we are all acutely l aware of incidents in the past where we have . . . I just don't want to give any impressions that later on end up with great liability if un- fortunately things don't proceed in the manner with which we hope that they will proceed. Mr. Dituri: Mayor Hoover. Again I would like to repeat, it isn't that I want to delay the project. We're discussing things where we still need a Redevelopment Attorney, questions were brought up, a letter of intent and I think our Redevelopment Attorney is going to answer these questions - how we do it, when we do it and how to forge ahead on this thing. Now you can, for example, for the next meeting say "Fine, these are the people that we would like to hire. Give us some names". You can do this but I 'think these discussions should be done in the Redevelopment with our Redevelopment Attorney. Mayor Hoover: That's the motion. Mr. Trives: I do want to react to one thing, that is the statement of being redundant. We're not redundant because we are acting as the City Council now and this matter has just come before the City Council at this point in time on the agenda and I think that all parties concerned are interested in an appraisal. The only difference I have with Mr. McCloskey on that is that I think the appraisal can be done in conjuction with other work and I don't think there's any conflict there whatsoever. And I would', hope the seconder of my motion would add the name of the Attorney, specifically Eugene Jacobs to that motion and then add the rest of the things that Mrs. Swink and others have added. Is that agreeable? Mayor Hoover: Any further discussion? '(Mr. Trives moved to approve the resolution title as read by Mr. Knicker- bocker with the additions. The motion was seconded by Mr, van den Steenhoven and carried by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen: Dituri, Judson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen: None) - Resolution No. 4406 (CCS) (Mayor Hoover requested that a verbatim transcript of Item 10 -A be included in the minutes). Report of Council Mrs. Swink presented the report of the Council Committee regard -. Comm. re. Newcomb ',ing the Newcomb Pier which recommended that, after reviewing the legal Pier aspects of the Newcomb Pier, the Mayor, City Manager and City Attorney meet with the representatives of the Bay Amusement Corporation and its ',legal counsel to determine its anticipated course of action before the Committee concludes its recommendations and study. Mr, van den Steenhoven moved to accept the Council Committee's 'report. The motion was seconded by Mr. Trives and carried by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen: Dituri, Judson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover NOES: Councilmen: None ABSENT: Councilmen: None Mr. van den Steenhoven discussed the City's position on the !Pier Initiative. Available land in Mr. Dituri moved that the sale of available land that is now D.T. Redevel. Ma11',for sale in the downtown redevelopment mall complex be referred to the Redevelopment Agency at its meeting scheduled for August 28, 1973. The motion was seconded by Mr. Trives and carried unanimously. Venice bikeway Mr. Trives moved to show the City's intent with the City of Los !Angeles by extending the Venice Bikeway from the south City limits to northerly of Bay Street and referring it to the.Recreation and Parks 'Commission. The motion was seconded by Mr. van den Steenhoven. Mr. Dituri moved to table the item. The motion was seconded by Reverend Judson and carried with Councilmen Dituri, Judson, McCloskey and !Swink voting "AYE ". Mr. McCloskey moved to rescind Contract No. 1974 (CCS) without (prejudice. (Retain counsel to oppose S.B. 249 which increased employees' !retirement benefits). The motion was seconded by Mr. Trives and carried by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen: Judson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover NOES: Councilmen: Dituri ABSENT: Councilmen: None At 11:30 o'clock P.M., Mr. Dituri moved to adjourn until 7:30 .o'clock P.M., August 21, 1973. The motion was seconded by Reverend ',Judson and carried unanimously. APPROVED621 L. WILBUR, Acting CLO HOOVER, City Clerk Mayor