Laguna Hills Watch Dog - HEADLINES/ ITEMS OF POSSIBLE INTEREST for the Tuesday, January 22, 2013 LAGUNA HILLS CITY COUNCIL MEETING - 7 PM at City Hall

** Consider Attending a Council Meeting to express your opinion on items of interest to you or just to observe.

** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS -

LAGUNA HILLS HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE WORKSHOP
Thursday, February 7,  6:00-8:00 p.m.
Laguna Hills City Council Chamber,  24035 El Toro Road, Laguna Hills

The City of Laguna Hills has commenced an update to the Housing Element portion of its General Plan, which will establish the City’s housing goals and policies covering the period between 2014 and 2021. Residents and other stakeholders interested in housing-related matters affecting the city are invited to attend a public workshop hosted by the City of Laguna Hills Community Development Department. The workshop will include a presentation on housing trends occurring in the community. Participants will also have the opportunity to comment on housing issues affecting the community. For more information, contact Julie Molloy, Senior Planner at 949-707-2671 Or email jmolloy@ci.laguna-hills.ca.us


WOOD BURNING RESTRICTIONS

The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), the air pollution control agency for all of Orange County and the urban portions of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, has activated an annually recurring program to reduce air pollution caused by burning wood or manufactured logs in fireplaces or outdoor fire pits. During late fall and winter, pollutant levels consisting of fine particulate matter (also known as PM2.5) can rise to unhealthy concentrations during stagnant atmospheric conditions. Under the South Coast AQMD’s “Check Before you Burn” program, mandatory no-burn alerts will be issued on days and in specific areas where PM2.5 levels are forecast to reach unhealthy levels.

During a no-burn alert, residents in affected areas are not allowed to burn wood or manufactured fireplace logs in their fireplaces or outdoor fire pits. During a typical Southland Winter, 15 to 20 no-burn alerts are expected to be issued from Nov. 1 through the end of February. To learn if a mandatory no-burn alert has been issued for a particular area of the Southland, residents can:
Sign up at http://www.airalerts.org/ to receive electronic e-mail notices when a no-burn alert is issued for their area;
Enter their ZIP code at www.aqmd.gov/noburn to see if a no-burn alert has been issued for their area; or
Call AQMD’s 24-hour Check Before You Burn toll-free line at (866) 966-3293.
For more information visit the AQMD website at: http://www.aqmd.gov/news1/2012/CBYB.htm

NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS FOR OPENINGS IN TRAFFIC AND PARKS AND REC. COMMISSIONS IS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013.
There is an application form and more information online at the City of Laguna Hills web site at http://www.ci.laguna-hills.ca.us/

** YOU CAN LISTEN TO OUR MAYOR- Barbara Kogerman on FM RADOIO- KSBR (88.50). She is being interviewed the day before and the day after each City Council Meeting by Dawn Kamber of Saddleback Community College's FM radio station. The interviews will be played in 30-second spots, every hour and half-hour from 6 am through 9 am on the day of and two days after the council meetings. Their regular programming throughout this time is easy-listening jazz.


COUNCIL MEETING FEATURES DIRECTORY


1. PRESENTATIONS and PROCLAMATIONS -
Items 1.1 - 1.3  - We say goodbye tonight to LHHS Student Liaison Reporter from Adam Wong and welcome to Amanda Jafee and receive a report from Amanda Jafee.

Item 1.4 - Orange County Human Relations Council Annual Report
Ken Inouye, commissioner with the OC Human Relations Council gave a presentation re. the data collected by the council specific to activities in the City of Laguna Hills, including hate Crimes and incidents, mediations and various programs.

2. CONSENT CALENDAR Items of interest -

Item 4.2 - One year extension of the Joint Recreation maintenance and Operation Agreement with the Saddleback Valley Unified School District for use of the Upper High School Field.

Item 4.4 - Authorization to Advertise for bids for Civic Center (City Hall) improvements for Suite 100B.

3. WARRANT REGISTER = $1,059,507.01
Items of Interest from Warrant Register - None

4. CITY COUNCIL/PLANNING AGENCY PUBLIC HEARINGS - None
5. CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARINGS - None

6. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS -

Item 7.2.1 - 2013 Biennial Citizen Survey - Recommendation that Staff proceed with the 2013 Biennial Citizen Survey

Item 7.3.1 - La Paz Open Space Project - Preliminary review of Concept Plans - Recommendation that the City Council review 3 concept plans and direct the Public Participation Process continue at the next available Parks and Recreation Commission Meeting.

7. MATTERS AGENDIZED and PRESENTED by COUNCIL MEMBERS and MAYOR - None

8. CLOSED SESSION - Item 10.1 - Another Public Employee Performance Evaluation - City Manager Session.

** Information, Comments, Questions, Concerns from LH Watch Dog Readers from the previous blog post - ABOUT: Win-Win-Wednesdays and Community Building; The Passing of Mayor Kogerman's Mother; Council Member's unexplained absences; Community Building and Helping Others; A Citizen based Planning Commission for Laguna Hills PLUS - WIN-WIN-WEDNESDAY'S SCHEDULE OF RESTAURANTS

The 3/5 Marines adopted by the City of Laguna Hills
Team Dark Horse says THANK YOU, **BE SURE TO GO TO THE TEAM DARK HORSE web site at http://teamdarkhorse.org/ to SEE HOW YOUR DONATIONS ARE HELPING, Team Dark Horse and now has PayPal online here in addition to its mailing and see the Laguna Hills 3/5 Adopted Marines Face book page by clicking on this link - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Laguna-Hills
address for donations.

** Win-Win-Wednesday Schedule - Check the WWWednesday web site at www.winwinwednesdays.com/ to find the current hosts and download flyers to take to the eating establishments.

January 23 - Daphne's California Greek (AV) - all day
January 30 - Flamingo's Mexican (LH) Laguna Hills - all day
February 6 - Pei Wei Asian Diner- both (LF) Lake Forest & (LN) Laguna Niguel - all day
February 13 - Villa Roma Argentine/Italian (LH) - all day
February 27 - Baja Fresh - (LH) Laguna Hills - all day
March 6 - Athena Greek (LH) - all day
March 13 - California Pizza Kitchen (LH Mall) - all day
March 27 - Chick fil-A (LH) - all day

**Don't forget to see the "WWW Everyday Partners - Alpha Cleaners, Golden Baked Hams and ToGo's on our web site. Bring the flyers for these everyday partners and Support the businesses that support us!