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NOTICE OF SPECIAL JOINT MEETING
OF THE
BAKERSFIELD CITY COUNCIL
AND THE KERN COUNTY
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Bakersfield City Council and the Kern County Board
of Supervisors will hold a Special Joint Meeting on Monday, February 27, 2006, at
5:30 p.m., in the City Council Chambers, 1501 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, California.
530 p.m. 1. INVOCATION by Pastor Freddie L. Thomas, The Jerusalem Mission
2. FLAG SALUTE by Rachel Sanders, 4th Grade Student at Almondale Elementary School.
3. ROLL CALL
4. OPENING REMARKS BY MAYOR HARVEY L. HALL
5. OPENING REMARKS BY CHAIRMAN BARBARA PATRICK
540pm. 6. PUBLIC STATEMENTS
6:00 p.m.
6:20 p.m.
6:40 p.m.
7:00 p.m
7:15 p.m
7:35 p.m
7:50 p.m.
7. BUSINESS ITEMS
A.
Update on Federal Highway Funding and Local Transportation Project Priority and
Administration (Thomas Roads). (City Agenda Item) -Hear City Staff Presentation by
Public Works Director Raul Rojas. RECOMMENDED ACTION: APPROVE; ADOPT
JOINT RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF AB1858.
B.
Update on Local Transportation Safe Roads Ballot Measure. (Joint Agenda Item) -
Hear City Staff Presentation by Public Works Director Raul Rojas and County Staff
Presentation by Resource Management Agency Director David Price, III.
Update on General Plan Review Process (Joint Agenda Item) - Hear City Staff
Presentation by Development Services Director Stan Grady, County Staff
Presentation by Planning Director Ted James, and Presentation by Vision 2020
Representative.
C.
D.
Report on Fire Station 65. (County Agenda Item) - Hear County Staff Presentation by
Fire Chief Dennis Thompson and Comments by City Manager Alan Tandy.
Fireworks Regulations Review. (City Agenda Item) - Hear City Staff Presentation by
Fire Chief Ron Fraze.
Habitat Conservation Program. (Joint Agenda Item) - Hear City Staff Presentation by
Development Services Director Stan Grady and County Staff Presentation by Planning
Director Ted James.
E.
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South Beltway Alignment. (Joint Agenda Item) - Hear City Staff Presentation by
Public Works Director Raul Rojas and County Staff Presentation by Planning Director
Ted James and Roads Director Craig Pope.
7. BUSINESS ITEMS continued
8:00 p.m.
6:t5 p.m.
8:30 p.m.
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8:45 p.m.
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H.
Report on forming a joint task force (with members from City/County staff and related
agencies) to assure responsible growth and planning for the future. (County Agenda
Item) - Hear County Staff Presentation by Resource Management Agency Director
David Price, III.
I.
Animal Control (County Agenda Item) - Hear County Staff Presentation by Resource
Management Agency Director David Price, III.
Status Report on Metropolitan Bakersfield Solid Waste Transfer Station Siting.
(Continued from 02/28/05 & 09/19/05 meetings) (Joint Agenda Item) - Hear City Staff
Presentation by Solid Waste Director Kevin Barnes and County Staff Presentation by
Waste Management Director Daphne Harley.
Regulating Body Art Shops. (County Agenda Item) - Hear County Staff Presentation
by Environmental Health Services Director Steve McCalley.
900 p.m. 8. CLOSING COMMENTS BY BOARD MEMBERS AND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS
905p.m. 9. CLOSING COMMENTS BY CHAIRMAN BARBARA PATRICK
910p.m. 10. CLOSING COMMENTS BY MAYOR HARVEY L. HALL
11. ADJOURNMENT
Respectfully submitted,
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City Manager
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ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
JOINT CITY/COUNTY
MEETING DATE: February 27,2006
AGENDA SECTION: Business
ITEM: "1. A.
February 10, 2006
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY MANAGER
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Honorable Mayor and City Council
Raul Rojas, Public Works Director
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SUBJECT: Thomas Roads Improvement Program (City Agenda Item).
1.) Update on Federal Highway Funding and Local Transportation Project
Administration - City Staff Presentation by Public Works Director Raul Rojas.
2.) Resolution of Support for Assembly Bill 1858.
RECOMMENDATION:
Hear staff report and adopt resolution.
BACKGROUND: Due to the efforts of Congressman Thomas, the approval of the SAFETEA-LU
Federal Transportation Bill this past August resulted in the metropolitan Bakersfield area receiving $630
million of federal funding over the next 4-5 years for the construction of the Centennial Corridor Loop, the
widening of SR178 through the Westchester area including an interchange with Oak Street, the North
Beltway (7'h Standard Road), the West Beltway, the SR178 freeway, the widening of Rosedale Highway,
the widening of SR178 in northeast Bakersfield, and for the route adoption of the South Beltway.
This program of projects is a massive undertaking even just anticipating conventional timelines. But it is
both the Congressman's and the City's desire to construct these projects as quickly as possible, using
creative and innovative processes and compressing the work into a much shorter window than historically
has occurred. The City has leased half of the third floor of the Borton-Petrini Building to house City,
County, Caltrans, and consultant staff who will be working on the program. The Kern Council of
Governments has amended the Federal Transportation Improvement Program for the County to include
an initial $100,000,000 of the Thomas Roads funding to begin the preliminary engineering and the
environmental work for these projects. The City has also entered into a master cooperative agreement
with Caltrans to initiate some of the new and innovative ideas being developed to expedite the delivery of
the Thomas Roads Projects.
Nearly all of the environmental, engineering, and design work for this program of projects will be
completed by consultants. And the City has hired a Program Manager, Parsons Transportation Group,
who will directly manage the consultants preparing the environmental documents, completing the
engineering, and preparing the project designs and construction documents. Key Parsons management
staff will be housed with City, County and Caltrans staff on the third floor of the Borton-Petrini Building, but
Parsons is also leasing half of the fourth floor of the Building for Parsons support staff. Parsons will be
having 8-10 personnel living in Bakersfield and working full time on the program, in addition to 10-20 other
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staff and a dozen subconsultants who will be called in as needed for workload and for their expertise.
Parsons staff will also be presenting a brief introduction and outlining some of their ideas to expedite
project delivery.
Widening of Rosedale Highway (State Route 58) from 4 lanes to 6 lanes from SR99 west to Allen Road,
and then from 2 lanes to 4 lanes from Allen Road west to Enos Lane is one of the Thomas Roads projects
that will greatly help congestion. Assembly Bill 1858 will authorize the California Transportation
Commission to relinquish these segments of Rosedale Highway from State control to City and County
control, which will then allow the use of local standards for this widening project. Assemblyman McCarthy
has proposed this legislation as another way to expedite project delivery and minimize impacts to adjacent
properties. Under Caltrans standards, the widening would require 10 feet wide outside shoulders and 8
feet wide inside shoulders (next to the median), or an additional total of 36 feet more width than what
exists today. Using City and County standards, the majority of this widening project can be accomplished
within the existing right of way with minimal impact to adjacent businesses. And not having to process
design documents through Caltrans will also expedite the project development process. After the
relinquishment occurs, the route will still be posted and shown on maps as State Route 58.
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JOINT CITYICOUNTY
MEETING DATE: February 27, 2006
AGENDA SECTION: Business
ITEM: I. B.
CITY MANAGER
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Honorable Mayor and City Council
February 15, 2006
DEPARTMENT HEAD
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Raul M. Rojas, Public Works Director
SUBJECT:
Update on Local Safe Roads Ballot Measure (Joint Agenda Item). Hear City Staff
Presentation by Public Works Director Raul Rojas and County Staff Presentation by
Resource Management Agency Director David Price, III.
RECOMMENDATION: Hear staff report.
BACKGROUND: The City's Public Works Director and the County's Resource Management Agency
Director will provide a report regarding the proposed Local Transportation Measure. Roger Mcintosh who
is the president of the Kern County Citizens for Quality Transportation, the grassroots committee formed to
promote this measure, will be also be providing a brief update.
PW Jacques
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MEETING DATE: February 27,2006
AGENDA SECTION: Business
ITEM: ï, c..
TO:
Bakersfield City Joint Council/Kern County Board of Supervisors
APPROVED
FROM:
City of Bakersfield Development Services Department!
Kern County Planning Department
DATE:
February 8, 2006
DEPARTMENT HEAD
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY MANAGER
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SUBJECT: Report Regarding Updating the Metropolitan Bakersfield General Plan
RECOMMENDATION:
Direct City and County staff to pursue a joint update to the Metropolitan Bakersfield General
Plan.
BACKGROUND:
At the Council and Boards last joint meeting of September 19, 2005, the Board and Council
directed staff to investigate the potential of preparing a joint City/County update to the
Metropolitan Bakersfield General Plan.
City and County staff are recommending that the City and County pursue such an update. A
general description of such a program is provided below.
GOALS: The Goals of the General Plan Update would be to:
Clearly communicate the extent of urbanization projected within the City/County Metropolitan
Bakersfield General Plan Boundary.
Address issues of special interest including agriculture land conversion, air quality, patterns of
development, traffic and circulation. This would likely result in new mitigation programs and
development pOlicies and ordinances.
Update plan data assumptions based on projected buildout of the designated urban areas within
the General Plan.
Provide EIR to evaluate cumulative impacts of projected growth.
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Collaborate with Bakersfield Vision 2020 to capture community priorities and vision for the future
of Bakersfield. Involve the development and the public in the decision making process.
BENEFITS: Major benefits of a General Plan Update at this time include:
Cumulative Impact Analysis of Urbanization. The EIR prepared for the General Plan could be
tiered off of for Annexations, General Plan Amendments, Zone Changes, Subdivisions and
Public Work projects. Comprehensive mitigation packages would be considered for potentially
significant environmental impacts such as impacts upon air quality conversion of agricultural land
and circulation.
Show areas to be urbanized using an "Urban Reserve" or similar designation.
Communicate long range goals/vision through updated/new policies. (How Bakersfield will grow,
what will it look like)?
COST:
Estimate of Consulting Costs: $700,000 - $900,000 +/ (50/50 split with Kern County)
TIME LINE:
2 YEARS FROM HIRING OF CONSULTANT.
6 months visioning process and project description.
18 months project refinementlEIR preparation/hearings.
STEPS in the update process are:
Hire adequate staff (City/County)
Hire consultant (RFP process)
Develop Community Outreach program
Data collection/background reports/mapping
Draft General Plan/EIR
Finalize General Plan/EIR
Hearings
OVERVIEW:
Working with a consultant, the City and County would use a joint CitylCounty Planning
Commission for the visioning process and utilize 20/20 visioning as a means to facilitate the
visioning process. The visioning process would assist in describing the "Project" to be evaluated
in the EIR for the General Plan Update.
The project would include policies and mapping to guide future growth. To make the EIR and
General Plan document most effective in communication and analyzing future growth patterns,
The City and County have discussed using an "Urban Reserve" designation for future growth
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areas. With areas designated as "Urban Reserve", we would use historic growth patterns and
proposed policies to estimate the intensity and impact of future growth.
Input gained from the visioning process would result in policies which may affect the base
assumptions and the "look" of future development. This general "Urban Reserve" designation
would clearly communicate areas to be urbanized without having to assign land use
classifications and intensities to specific parcels. Assignment of specific land uses to specific
parcels is the most controversial aspect of General Plan Updates and can add years to the
process. We need to act quickly!
It is expected however, that not assigning land uses will result in more emphasis on policy
formation and performance criteria/standards for future growth.
We would also investigate the possibility of creating policies that allow Zone Changes to occur
within the Urban Reserve designation without General Plan Amendments if certain performance
criteria are met. This could assist in reducing the number of General Plan cases, at least for
some land uses.
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SUBJECT: Information on Fireworks Task Force (Presentation by Ron Fraze, City Fire Chief)
Ron Fraze, Fire Chief
MEETING DATE: February 27, 2006 AGENDA SECTION: ß\A&ine:,>'S
ITEM: I. E.
TO: City Council and Board of Supervisors
FROM:
DATE:
February 14, 2006
RECOMMENDATION: Receive report
BACKGROUND: Fire Chief Ron Fraze will present a Power Point Presentation on
the recommendations made by the CitylCounty Fireworks Task Force.
The City Ordinance, with applicable fees, is in the process of being amended to reflect the Task Force's
recommendations; the first reading is February 22 and the second reading is March 8, 2006. The
Ordinance will be effective on April 7, 2006.
At the last Joint CitylCounty meeting on September 19, 2005, a recommendation was made to form a
Fireworks Task Force which comprised the following members: Council member Zack Scrivner,
Supervisor Ray Watson, Fire Chiefs Ron Fraze and Dennis Thompson, and fireworks' vendors, suppliers,
and representatives from non-profit organizations.
The goal of the Task Force is to have a cohesive fireworks policy for the metropolitan area agreed upon by
the City Council and the Board of Supervisors. This is a metropolitan area problem and both agencies
must act in unison to curb the problem of illegal fireworks.
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ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
MEETING DATE: February 27,2006
AGENDA SECTION: Business
ITEM: I. F.
DATE:
February 14, 2006
APPROVED
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CITY ATTORNEY _
CITY MANAGER
FROM:
Honorable Mayor and City Council
Stanley C. Grady, Development Services
TO:
SUBJECT: Report Regarding the Metropolitan Bakersfield Habitat Conservation Plan Mitigation
Fee and Land Acquisition Program
RECOMMENDATION:
City Council and Board of Supervisors receive and file this report
BACKGROUND:
The MBHCP is a comprehensive endangered species conservation planning program that utilizes a
development fee ($1,240 per gross acre) charged at the grading/building permit stage of the
development process to acquire habitat to mitigate for federally and State protected plant and animal
species within the Metropolitan Bakersfield General Plan area. The MBHCP is being implemented to
assist the development community in complying with State and federal endangered species laws.
I n recent years, land costs have increased significantly as well as the transaction cost of finding and
obtaining suitable habitat lands. Program projections of revenue generated in relation to land
acquisition, transaction and endowment costs necessitate revising the 12-year-old mitigation fee rate
to ensure the program has adequate revenue to meet its obligations. Because of this situation, the
MBHCP Implementation Trust Group will be recommending an increase in the mitigation fee amount
in the coming months in order to ensure that the program collects sufficient funds to meet its
obligations for acquiring compensating habitat lands. Public hearings will be scheduled before the
City Council and Board of Supervisors to consider the proposed mitigation fee increase for the
MBHCP program.
In recent years, due to the large amount of development activity, the Implementation Trust Group has
had to acquire more than 2,000 acres each year to meet its contractual obligations with the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish and Game for acquiring compensating
habitat lands. The MBHCP program's property acquisition costs have gone up significantly in recent
years as land values have increased. Whereas in the program's earlier years it was easy to find
available land and willing sellers of property, there presently exists an environment where suitable
qualifying habitat lands are becoming increasingly more difficult to find and require greater effort to
negotiate land acquisitions due to the presence of competing interests in the County's real estate
market. Development speculators and the acquisitions undertaken by private interests and public
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agencies to create their own habitat banks for endangered species mitigation have added to the
program's difficulties in finding available habitat land.
Because of the aforementioned difficulties in obtaining suitable habitat to keep pace with the high
urban growth rates, the MBHCP Implementation Trust Group intends to seek acquisition lands
outside of Kern County in neighboring San Luis Obispo, Kings and Tularé Counties. Although the
Implementation Trust Group has been resistant to seeking lands outside of Kern County in the past,
the high rate of urban growth and the corresponding obligation to acquire specified habitat for
targeted species (San Joaquin Kit Fox, Tipton Kangaroo Rat, etc) , make it necessary to pursue this
option in addition to continuing program efforts to acquire lands within Kern County.
To date, the program has acquired more than 14,000 acres at a cost of $10.5 million, which includes
an enhancement cost and an endowment cost for perpetual maintenance that are forwarded to the
State of California for habitat preserve land management. In eight years, the MBHCP program will
expire unless the City and County intend to extend the conservation program into the future. Given
the significant lead time that is needed to undertake negotiations with the wildlife agencies, the City
and County decision-makers will need to decide whether there is a benefit to continue the program
well in advance of the MBHCP's expiration date.
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MEETING DATE February 27,2006
AGENDA SECTION: Business
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CITY MANAGER
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Honorable Mayor and City Council
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February 15, 2006
CITY ATTORNEY
SUBJECT:
Report on South Beltway alignment (Joint Agenda Item) - Hear City Staff Presentation by
Public Works Director Raul Rojas and County Staff Presentation by Planning Director Ted
James and Roads Director Craig Pope.
RECOMMENDATION: Hear staff report.
BACKGROUND: City and County staff will give a brief update on the status of the South Beltway
alignment The purpose is to apprise the Bakersfield City Council and the Board of Supervisors of the
status of the South Beltway, an east-west freeway alignment that is part of the Circulation Element of the
joint City/County Metropolitan Bakersfield General Plan. The South Beltway is one component of a series
of freeway alignments designed to move traffic efficiently through the Metropolitan Bakersfield area. This
circulation route is intended to link State Route (SR) 58 in east Bakersfield with Interstate 5 and provide a
bypass around Central Bakersfield to facilitate regional and interstate trips.
The South Beltway is intended to be a 300-foot wide freeway with full access control Construction of the
ultimate facility would consist of eight travel lanes, shoulders, and a wide median that can be used for
alternative transportation modes such as rail, bus ways and high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes. In order
to preserve right-of-way for this route, a specific plan line has been designated and adopted by the
County. A specific plan line defines the centerline location and width of a facility.
After City and County staffs studied multiple routes, the City of Bakersfield recommended an alignment in
May, 2000 which extended southwest from SR 58 at Comanche Drive, crossing SR 99 at Houghton Road
and then west to Interstate 5. Following the City of Bakersfield's action, County staff considered an
additional alternative for the portion of the South Beltway east of SR 99 that would bring the South Beltway
closer to Lamont and Arvin, and allow these communities to benefit from improved circulation access.
The Kern County Board of Supervisors indicated they are studying different alternatives for this eastern
portion of the South Beltway alignment City staff encourages a prompt discussion and decision on a final
alignment so that the project may move forward without delay.
The County Roads Department in coordination with the City Public Works Department intends to locate
local interchanges and freeway to freeway interchanges to allow connection with major routes on the
Metropolitan area's circulation system. The County Roads Department is planning to prepare legal
descriptions for the South Beltway interchanges for ultimate adoption by the City of Bakersfield and Kern
County as part of the South Beltway Specific Plan line
The South Beltway will provide an important east-west regional connection for traffic traveling between
Interstate 5 and SR 58 while also providing necessary circulation to relieve traffic congestion and address
future land use needs in the southern portion of the Metropolitan Bakersfield area.
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JOINT CITY/COUNTY
MEETING DATE: February 27,2006
AGENDA SECTION: Business
ITEM: 1. J.
February 10, 2006
DEPARTMENT HEAD
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY MANAGER
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Honorable Mayor and City Council
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Raul Rojas, Public Works Director
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SUBJECT: Metropolitan Area Refuse Transfer Station Report (Joint Agenda Item). Hear City Staff
Presentation by Solid Waste Director Kevin Barnes and County Staff Presentation by
Waste Management Director Daphne Harley.
RECOMMENDATION:
Hear staff report.
BACKGROUND: On February 28, 2005, City and County staff made a joint presentation on the status
of the Metro Transfer Station to the Joint Meeting of the Kern County Board of Supervisors and the
Bakersfield City Council. There was a consensus that a Metro Transfer Station Project would be
strengthened if the City and County move forward from this point through a joint agreement, seeking grant
funding where possible. City staff had applied for federal CMAQ grant funds in December 2004 for a
transfer station project on behalf of both jurisdictions, but the available funds were appropriated to more
pressing transportation needs.
At the September 19, 2005 joint meeting of the Board of Supervisors and the City Council, staff jointly
reported that progress had been made in determining that a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) would
be the appropriate instrument for both jurisdictions. A draft MOU was subsequently prepared by County
Counsel, and then revised by City staff. In the meantime, City staff again applied for CMAQ grant funds
on behalf of both jurisdictions in the January 2006 cycle.
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