CEDC settlement, Cliff Finley’s appointment as iterim City Manager on Monday council agenda
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula City Council
Published: June 26, 2009
The City Council will have a full agenda when they meet Monday in a special session including consideration of a settlement agreement with Cabrillo Economic Development Corporation and the affordable builder’s revised Plaza Amistad project.
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula Times
The City Council will have a full agenda when they meet Monday in a special session including consideration of a settlement agreement with Cabrillo Economic Development Corporation and the affordable builder’s revised Plaza Amistad project.
Also on the Council agenda is to continue and add more funding to an agreement to fund a Southwestern Pond Turtle relocation plan required by state Fish and Game.
The June 29 meeting will start at 4 p.m. with interviews of potential candidates to oversee the executive search to replace City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz, who is leaving in mid-July to head the city staff of Evanston, Ill.
Five executive search firms will be interviewed in the Council Conference Room before the Council goes into closed session at 6 p.m. to discuss the selection of same.
Other closed session items concern the discussion of appointing Cliff Finley as Interim City Manager, a property issue and labor negotiation.
The meeting will be continued at 6:30 p.m. in Council Chambers and be broadcast live on Time Warner Cable Channel 10 and replayed per schedule.
Retiring city staffers Trini Bonilla, Becky Bolanos, John Dunn, Audrey Ellington, Elizabeth Garcia and Tony Villanueva will be presented with City Tiles for recognition of their city service.
Ginger Gherardi will present the Ventura County Fair poster to the Council who will then be updated on the 2nd Annual Citrus Classic Balloon Festival by Carla Edwards and the 42nd Annual Citrus Festival by Mary Mata.
The Council will consider CEDC’s Paseo Santa Barbara project - the scaled down version of Plaza Amistad - and the settlement agreement of the two lawsuits CEDC filed against the city in the wake of the Council’s rejection of Plaza Amistad in 2007.
The Council will also take a ministerial role in conducting a hearing for project Tax Equity Fiscal Reform Act bonds issued by an outside agency that also bears financial responsibility.
A new model for animal control services will be readdressed and the Council will also consider implementing a public works wastewater collection system operation/maintenance unit.
The Council will also be asked to finalize the agreement to appoint Finley, the Public Works/Special Projects Director, as Interim City Manager.
The Council will also appoint two candidates out of a field of four to the Planning Commission and a lone member - there was only candidate - to the Design Assistance Committee.
City Hall Council Chambers are located at 970 E. Ventura St.
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