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Here are the latest minutes that will need to be approved at the next meeting . SANTA HEIGHTS ANA PROJECT ADVISORY COMMITTEE - MINUTES October 5, 2004 6:30 p.m. In attendance: Roger Summers, Barbara Venezia, Richard Moriarity, Greg Carroll, Peter MacDonald Gary Hall, , Mary Slouka, Rick Dayton, Harold Klassen Excused Absent: Peter MacDonald, Davis Steive Introduction: 5 minutes 1. Approval of August Minutes: Richard Moriarity made a motion to approve minutes, Mary Slouka 2nd. Minutes Approved. 2. Introduction of Guests: Dave Kiff, Fire Chief Tim Riley, current Councilwoman Leslie Daigle, candidates for City Council: Dolores Otting, John Buttolph, Steve Roszansky, 3. Chairman’s Remarks: This is the first election that the East Side will be voting in regarding Newport Beach, and Roger urged everyone to get out and vote. All of Newport votes on all of the candidates. Jay Taylor has sold his property in Santa Ana Hts. So he is no longer on PAC. We will be actively looking for another representative for the West Side. Roger commended Jay’s record on PAC and he will be missed. Those interested in applying should contact Mark Esslinger. Public Comments (Non-Agenda Items): Limited to 3 minutes each Bob Hanley: Complained about a take off from John Wayne at 4:02 PM. A Bi plane and a jet took off simultaneously. Bob would like to be considered for PAC on West Side. Mae Ranck: Dogs are getting quieter and she is dealing with animal control. Mae handed out flyers about the annexation for the West Side. She had been walking the neighborhood and getting people in touch with the annexation and then the City Council took it off the agenda until after the election. She has also been on Old Kline Dr and found a lady who did not know about the three street widening proposals. She is also complaining about Old Kline Dr. and Lloyds Nursery and their trucks on the block. She is also concerned about the horse arena and not in favor of it. Introduction of New District 4 Councilwoman: Leslie Daigle She feels fortunate to represent the district and the pressing issues are the airport and water quality as she sees them. Leslie is aware of the fire station and the community center. She said she plans to regularly attend our PAC meetings and help the PAC move projects forward. BV will put a link on our site for residents to contact her. City Council Candidates: Dolores Otting, John Buttolph, Steve Roszansky. Absent from the meeting : Catherine Emmons, Steve Bromberg, John Heffernan (3 minutes each with a 2 minute question /answer section) Dolores Otting: running for district 7. She has lived in Newport for 15 years and was a teacher and a business woman; she strongly believes in community service and is a current senior advocate ombudsman. Dolores also serves on environmental committee for the City. She attended her first PAC meeting over 3 years ago when the PAC was looking at the Koll property. She has been attending City Council meetings for 13 years. Dolores also raises the question of emergency preparedness and if elected, that will be high on her list. John Buttolph running for council on the 2nd district. He lives up in Newport Hts. He is an attorney in private practice for 20 years and a parent of 2 teenage boys and a widow for the past two years. He got interested in City affairs over a year ago when the city was implementing the Green Light Law regarding hotels in the area. He worked with the City Attorney for over a year on that and revised how the City and the law works. He supports the Green light initiative .He wants to preserve the residential beach town feel of this community. He is opposed to building big hotels on the last piece of beach front property. Greg asked the question about the residential towers being built in Irvine. John answered that he believes we need to interact with the cities around us because they do affect the lifestyle in the area. Steve Roszansky is the current Dist. 2 City Councilman. He was appointed about a year ago when the last council member resigned. He came to Newport in 1985 and is a local businessman in West Newport. Has volunteered for the Boy Scouts and spends about 30 hours a week on city business. He believes we do need a regional presence and we are doing that right now. He is currently on a committee to gain an interest in the Airport with the County so we do have a say in the next settlement agreement. He is also working on traffic issues as large projects are built on our borders. The city council has negotiated a 4 million dollar payment from a developer in Irvine to help with traffic issues. 85% of citations written in Newport are regarding water issues so we are being pro active on Water Quality issues. Rick Dayton asked the question regarding water debris run off and the Delhi channel after rains. Steve says the city is working on those issues. Roger asked about Undergrounding, Fire Station, and Community Center and is he aware and in support of these projects. Steve says the City Council is aware and supports the projects. He also stated he is in support of the West Side Annexation. 10 minute recess to meet candidates Staff and Committee Reports: 1. Fire Station- Chief Riley (5 minutes) They are close to completing the process and as of today they own one ot the parcels and they will own a 2nd parcel. They have signed a contract with a design firm in San Juan Capistrano that specializes in fire stations. The goals are to create a station that will serve the community into the future, and to be good neighbors. They also want to make sure that as they build this facility it should be an asset to the community. The architect will meet with PAC and Rick Dayton to discuss the project and will meet 2:00 Oct 7th at the Fashion Island Fire station. More meetings in the future with PAC and the community will be planned. Anticipated completion date July 2006. Fire station will be a two bay station. This station will not have paramedics. Richard Moriarity asked about training facility. Chief Riley explained that the training building and tower will be 20 ft. by 40 feet and three stories tall. It will not be a burn tower. Currently they train at Costa Mesa. This will be for basic skills. BV asked the question if the City will be looking for more money from PAC for the station and the answer was yes. How much would be determined the first of the year. BV reminded everyone that the Community Center funding was tied to the Fire Station and the Supervisor has repeatedly stated that he will not take this proposal back to the Board of Supervisors because it passed narrowly the first time and could jeopardize the Community Center. BV also raised the point that when this project first came up, PAC was asked for 50% of the funding for the Fire Station. PAC agreed to fund the project fully when the City agreed to help us with the community center. That is why the two projects funding was tied together. This issue needs much more discussion. 2.West Side Annexation Report- Dave Kiff. ( 2 minutes) The City has tabled this issue until after the Nov. elections. They are still telling us that they plan to have the annexation completed for the West Side by July 1 of 2005. Even though there still are sphere of influence issues that have not been settled with the City of Costa Mesa and they have not filed with LAFCO yet. The Staff report is ready to go to Council and hopefully that should be in front of the council Nov. 3. Horse Arena Report- Mary S. ( 5 minutes) Mary talked with the insurance company, Brown & Brown, which consults with the City of Newport Beach as well as Lauren Farley, Risk Mgr of the City of Newport Beach. They all visited the site on Sept. 20th and they have a plan in place to address the liability issues. The insurance co will meet with Dave Kiff and give recommendations to take to the City Council regarding risk management. Mary is also meeting with the Back Bay Equestrians. 4.Mesa/ Birch Park Site- Roger S.(2 minutes) The design has been assigned to the general services dept. of the City of Newport Beach and there should be a meeting with PAC and Dave Niederhaus to discuss the park and how the community sees this project. The City has been in contact with the County and will submit a $$ proposal for building the park. 5.Community Center Report- Dave Kiff(3 minutes) The operating agreement is with both attorneys right now the Y & the City. There will a design committee including PAC members. 6.New Projects Update - Barbara V. (5 minutes) Agenda items discussed for Sept. 20th New projects committee Project Subcommittee: In attendance : Supervisor Silva, Michelle Grettenberg, Paul Lanning, Greg Carroll, Barbara Venezia, Dave Stieve, Dave Kiff, Homer Bludau *Code Enforcement The West Side of Santa Ana Hts. The County has hired 3 more officers and the Supervisor will get weekly reports from this dept. as to the number of cases that are open and what is resolved. We discussed the prospect of the City of Newport contracting the code enforcement services for the West Side. The questions that need to be answered are : Who do the violators appeal to? Who gets the fine fees? What codes are enforced the City codes or County? The committee felt those answers were simple. The County codes must be enforced until annexation occurs and the County should receive fines and residents could appeal to the County. Dave and Michelle felt that they might come to some sort of agreement on this by the first of the year. Dave Kiff reported that maybe in Nov. the Council will put a proposal to the County for taking over code enforcement. */ Bristol Street Sidewalk & Bristol Slope issues Paul Lanning reports….. Cal Trans has more questions on the transfer contract and that has now gone back to Cal Trans for revisions. This should go back to the Board of Supervisors in about a month for approval. */ Old Kline Drive: Paul Lanning reports: He will be contacting the residents for a meeting on the street either Oct. 20 or 21 at 6:00 PM. Paul will contact Davis on this to set the meeting to go over the options for the street that have been discussed and are outlined on the website. As of this meeting date, no contact has been made by Paul Lanning */ Fire Station…. The offer has been accepted by the family who owns the property, and they will remain on the property until the end of the year. Money has not exchanged hands as of yet and the City feels they will take ownership of the property by Nov. 1st. */ Community Center- At the time of this meeting date, the City was putting together an operating agreement with the YMCA and believes they can purchase the property by Dec. That agreement is now in both parties attorney’s hands. The next step is to put together a design committee consisting of some PAC members and hire an engineering firm. With the delay in this project and the rising costs of construction, the concern is that the project will need to be scaled back some what from the original concept. */ Newport Beach take over of the redevelopment agency Dave Kiff Reports The end of Oct. they will know more on this issue. */ Park Improvements on Orchard: Paul Lanning reports: The property manager did make some improvements to the equipment like paint and maintenance. They did not replace any of the park play equipment. Harold will talk with the moms in the area and see if the improvements made were satisfactory and will report back to Paul. Paul feels the property mgt. co has done their part and has been cooperative. */Water systems on Riverside Drive Project Paul Lanning reports: This project is currently underway and construction has begun. */ Financial report. Greg Carroll reports that we need to understand where the money is. He has been in contact with the County Auditor and the Treasurers office to set a meeting sometime in Oct. Paul Lanning will also be involved. Greg feels this should alleviate some of the questions as to what we can spend and what will be coming our way in the future. Dave Kiff will send Greg some questions that he would like answered as well. * / Undergrounding Cypress St. Mesa Drive This will go before the City Council of Newport Beach on Oct. 12th and at that time they will set a public hearing on the issue and establish the procedures to set a utility district about 30 days later. Our next meeting for this committee is in Nov. 4th . Adjournment: The next meeting is scheduled for Dec. 7th 2004 / 6:30 p.m. |
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