Laguna Hills Watch Dog - HEADLINES/ ITEMS OF INTEREST for Tuesday, August 27, 2013 LAGUNA HILLS CITY COUNCIL MEETING - 7 PM at City Hall

** Please consider Attending a City Council Council Meeting to express your opinion on items of interest to you or just to observe.  Citizen Alerts/HEADLINES for future City Council Meetings will be listed on this blog site within 4 days prior to a meeting.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

** YOU CAN LISTEN TO YOUR MAYOR, Barbara Kogerman. ON FM RADIO- 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.

** The WIN-WIN-WEDNESDAY RESTAURANT for August 28, 2013 is Veggos Green Cuisine (El Toro Rd.-LF) ** For Weekly Flyers to take to the designated restaurant to get a donation, for the LHHS PTSA, from the proceeds of your meal go to the Win-Win-Wednesday web site at: http://www.winwinwednesdays.com/  and download the flyer for the designated restaurant!!  **Don't forget to see our "WWW Everyday Partners - Alpha Cleaners, Golden Baked Hams and ToGO's on our web site." Take our flyers to these everyday partners and Support the Businesses that Support Us!

LAGUNA HILLS' CITY COUNCIL MEETING FEATURES DIRECTORY for Tuesday,  August 27, 2013

1.  CLOSED SESSION - None

2. PRESENTATIONS and PROCLAMATIONS:
10 year City Of Laguna Hills Employee Award for Nancy Gaggioli
Certificates of Recognition for KIDS KONNECTED and Crossline Community Church
Presentation from SDG&E on Summer Readiness Tips for Energy Conservation.

3. CONSENT CALENDAR and WARRANT REGISTER:

Warrant Register - $2,292,471.20
Items of Interest from the Warrant Register -  2 Payments in the warrant register totaling $46,117.00 to the Orange County Animal Shelter for Jan. through March 2013 and April though June 2013, after Assist. City Manager Don White told us on April 16, 2013 that this year the City is not going to pay anything for Animal Care Services because canvassing has shifted that burden to the residents and the city still has a $28,000 credit going into the 4th quarter.  Our Question - What Happened?

Items of interest from the Consent Calendar:

Item 4.7 - 17th Annual Intercoastal and Watershed Cleanup Day - Saturday, September 21, 2013 from 9 am to 12 noon at the Laguna Hills Community Center. The City is requesting Volunteers, Community Groups, Residents and Families to attend and assist in the Clean-Up of the Aliso Creek watershed.

Item 4.8 - Development of Impact Fees - The Public Art Fund Balance continues to be in the red with a negative balance of $245,214.

Item 4.9 - Approval and Implementation of a "50/70" Little League Baseball Field at Cabot Park.

Item 4.11 - July 4 Post Event Report

Item 4.12 - City's Response to OC Grand Jury Report on Equal Opportunity Employment

4. CITY COUNCIL/PLANNING AGENCY PUBLIC HEARINGS -  Item 5.4 -  Request from Judi's Laguna Pet Spa to relocate from the Moulton/La Paz Center (now the Village at Nellie Gail Ranch) to the Western Country Plaza at Oso and Moulton Pkwy.

5. CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARINGS: None

6. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS:

Item 7.1.1 - Employment Classifications, Salary Ranges and Benefits for Laguna Hills City Management, Confidential and Part-time Employees - This is a follow up to Requests for Raises and Additional Benefits from the last city council meeting. Management is now recommending that if the City Council cannot reach agreement on adopting the staff's resolution, the City Council should appoint two of its members at the next Council meeting to act as labor negotiators and meet in closed session with the rest of the Council pursuant to Government Code Section 54957.6 to determine its preferred course of action.

Item 7.1.2 - Request to allow $25,000 for a Consultant for a Police Services Study to compare LH Police Services with 9 other cities in OC related to demographics, area, signalized intersections, housing data, expenditures and revenues, crime rated, calls for service, arrests, clearance rates and police staffing levels.

Item 7.3 - Evaluation of Holiday Banner Program

Item 7.4.1 - 2013 Memorial Day Race Post Event Report and Resolution Authorizing Funding for the 3/5 Marines adopted by the City of Laguna Hills via the 3/5 Support Committee.  At its November 22, 2011, meeting, the Laguna Hills City Council voted for an additional $3 charge for each 5K, 10K, and half marathon participant in the Memorial Day Race for the continued support of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Division Marines adopted by the City of Laguna Hills and Supported through the 3/5 Marine Support Committee - Team Dark Horse.

7. MATTERS AGENDIZED and PRESENTED by COUNCIL MEMBERS and MAYOR - None
8. CITY COUNCIL MEMBER COMMENTS - To be Announced After the Meeting
9. CITY COUNCIL MEMBER REPORT CARDS - To be Tallied After the Meeting

** Information, Comments, Questions, Concerns from LH Watch Dog Readers from the previous blog post -
ABOUT:
1.- Setting Boundaries for the City Manager plus questions about his contract and compensation,  
2 - A Last Message to Laguna Hills Residents on Continued Poor Services and High Price for the County Animal Shelter from a long time LH Citizen who has recently moved away, 
3 - City of San Juan Residents get new Dog Park and Lake Forest looking to do the same,  
4. - Comments on Manure clean up and Safety issues related to the horse corral to be located at the remodeled shopping center on Moulton/La Paz,  
5. - Comments on 4th of July fireworks failure,  
6. - Water and Sewer Districts Awash in Cash story comment

** 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 now has PayPal online, in addition to its mailing address, and see the Laguna Hills 3/5 Adopted Marines Face book page by clicking on this link - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Laguna-Hills-Team-Darkhorse/132765660119128?ref=ts&fref=ts
** As the 3/5 Marines would say we "Got Some" great information from the Medical Branch of the Marines who attended the Nellie Gail Ranch Emergency Preparedness Expo. for all the residents of Laguna Hills on Sat. August 24, 2013.  Please scroll down to see blog located below this one.