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Home My WebLink About12/07/2012 OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER December 7, 2012 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council FROM: Alan Tandy, City Manager AT/ch SUBJECT: General Information Miscellaneous News • We previously communicated to you that the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of cities late last month related to how counties had previously charged for administration of property tax allocations. However, late last week, outside counsel for Los Angeles County filed a Petition for Rehearing of the Supreme Court’s decision in this case. The petition seeks to persuade the Court that they fundamentally got it wrong and should allow a third round of briefing and, perhaps, additional oral argument before deciding the case again. In the interim, we are unlikely to receive the $3.2 million owed to us. We will keep you up to date! • Discussions between staff and Caltrans have been ongoing for some time now on the design of the Hageman Flyer Project. The designation of State Route 204 as historical caused concern as to the ability to complete the project. However, we received some good news this week that after multiple rounds of design submittals, Caltrans has approved the latest design concept! It seems work on the environmental phase of that project can now resume. • Congratulations are in order to the members and participants of Keep Bakersfield Beautiful. The organization received two first place awards from Keep America Beautiful for its ongoing efforts to remove litter from our streets and activate citizens to become involved in the effort. A news release with more information is enclosed. • We had another Metro Bakersfield Animal Control Committee meeting this week and continue to receive surprises from the County. They had previously proposed $900,000 in additional costs to the shelter budget which we were not made aware of other than finding it on a Board of Supervisors agenda. In the end, they would have expected the City to pay a large share of those costs. The County has also resumed its practice of wanting to charge the partial expense of overhead positions. For example, the County has proposed charging a portion of four fiscal support specialists’ hours to do the accounting for the shelter. In any event, the City is trying very hard to make a cooperative venture work – but absent a realistic approach to budgeting, it is challenging! General Information December 7, 2012 Page 2 • The City Animal Control Division will be offering free microchipping for dogs with current licenses at the Holiday Pet Event scheduled for December 8th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Tractor Supply Company – 2749 Calloway Drive. Please see the enclosed flyer for more information. • The contractor for the Westside Parkway Phase 6B plans to move Allen Road traffic onto the newly constructed bridge on Wednesday, December 12, 2012. Motorists traveling on Allen Road, between Stockdale Highway and Brimhall Road, should anticipate periodic traffic delays lasting up to five minutes between 8:30 and 11 a.m. This will allow the contractor to remove concrete barriers, re-stripe the roadway, and complete other tie-in activities. This section of Allen Road will continue to operate with one lane in each direction while the contractor finishes work on the new bridge and eastbound ramps to the Westside Parkway. All lanes (three in each direction) will open to traffic when this work is completed in early 2013. Event Information  Barry Manilow December 7th at 8 p.m. Rabobank Arena Tickets: $9.99 to $125  Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra and Civic Dance Center: the Nutcracker Ballet December 7th at 7:30 p.m. December 8th at 1 p.m. & 7 p.m. December 9th at 1 p.m. Rabobank Theater Tickets: $34, $38  Bakersfield Condors Hockey December 9th at 5 p.m. Rabobank Arena Tickets: $11-$25  Winter Wonderland Fridays and Saturdays until Christmas: 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Christmas Eve: 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. San Joaquin Hospital Ice Sports Center General Information December 7, 2012 Page 3 Reports For your information, we enclose the Streets Division work schedule for the week of December 10, 2012. AT:rs:al cc: Department Heads Roberta Gafford, City Clerk TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: • , ________ ··~---......,_ BAKERSFIELD CITY OF BAKERSFIELD PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM Alan Tandy, City Manager Raul M. Rojas, Public Works Director November 30, 2012 Keep America Beautiful 2012 Award Recipients ECEIVED .. ~1.; 0 5 2012 Bakersfield won three first place awards from Keep America Beautiful (KAB)! An astounding achievement considering KAB has about 600 affiliates and more than 1,000 organizations that participate in its programs. The awards ceremony will be held during the Keep America Beautiful National Conference in Washington D.C. on Jan. 29. Recipient: Keep Bakersfield Beautiful Category: Affiliate Awards -population of 200,000 and above Honoring affiliates and volunteers for their efforts to del iver a more beautiful, cleaner and improved environment through new technologies, improved waste handling and public space stewardship. Recipient: Keep Bakersfield Beautiful Category: Great American Cleanup Awards -best activation -population of 200,000 and above Recognizing affiliates for staging excellent hands-on education programs, involving sponsor volunteers/products/services during their community improvement activities, and documenting their support. Recipient: The Bakersfield Californian Category: National Awards Honoring outstanding projects and programs concentrated in litter prevention, beautification and waste reduction/recycling. The newspaper is being recognized largely for its support and participation in our Litter: It's Beneath Us campaign which developed as a result of Council Referral #CRMS 192. ### WILL BE OFFERING FREE MICROCHIPS (INCLUDING Lli'&i'IMIE B IISIS'i'BATIDN) AT THE-HOLIDAY P&-1' EVENT- AT TBilC'mR SUPPLY. 2748 CALLOWAY DRIVE ON SATURDAY. EMBER 8TH FROM IOAM-4PM rBII TO ALL CUBBINTLY LICINSID DOGS SID nB DOGS A LICINSI Week of December 10_2012_Work Schedule Page 1 of 2 STREETS DIVISION – WORK SCHEDULE Week of Dec. 10, 2012 – Dec. 14, 2012 Resurfacing/Reconstructing streets in the following areas: Grind & Pave on Chester Ave between 34th St & River Bridge (weather permitting) Miscellaneous Streets Division projects: Start Demolition of swimming pools at Siemon & Planz parks (if all permits in place) Video inspection of City owned Sewer & Storm lines to evaluate condition of pipes Miscellaneous concrete repairs throughout the city Crack Sealing on Olive Dr., Calloway, Hageman, and Coffee (weather permitting) Leaf collection has started, crews will be cycling the city starting in north east and working toward the south west part of town. Grading for sidewalk on Ming Ave at Kern County Fair with County crews pouring the concrete THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Week of December 10_2012_Work Schedule Page 2 of 2 STREETS SWEEPING SCHEDULE Monday, December 10, 2012 Between So. “H” St. & Union Avenue – Pacheco Rd. & Hosking Rd. Between Stockdale Hwy. & Truxtun Ave. (ext.) – Coffee Rd & Partridge Ave. Tuesday, December 11, 2012 Between 99 Hwy. & So. “H” St. – Ming Ave. & Panama Ln. Cul-De-Sacs on the north side of Magdelena Ave., west of So. “H” St. Wednesday, December 12, 2012 City areas between Brundage Ln. & Ming Ave. – So. “H” St. & Union Ave. City areas between Wilson Rd. & Pacheco Rd. – So. “H” St. & Union Ave. Between Casa Loma Dr. & Planz Rd. – Madison Ave. & Cottonwood Dr. Between Planz Rd. & Brook St. – Madison Ave. & Hale St. Thursday, December 13, 2012 Between Carr St. & California Ave. – Mohawk St. & Stockdale Hwy. Between Stockdale Hwy. & Marella Wy. – California Ave. & Montclair St. Between La Mirada Dr. & Chester Ln. – Montclair St. & No. Stine Rd. Between California Ave. (ext.) & Stockdale Hwy. – No. Stine Rd. & 99 Hwy. Between Stockdale Hwy. & Ming Ave. – New Stine Rd. & Ashe Rd. Between Mountain Ridge Dr. & Ashe Rd. – Taft Hwy. & Berkshire Rd. Friday, December 14, 2012 Between Ming Ave. & White Ln. – Buena Vista Rd & Old River Rd. Between Stine Rd. & 99 Hwy. – Ming Avenue & Adidas. Between Panama Ln. & Birkshire Rd. – Gosford Rd. & Stine Rd. NOTE: If raining, there will be no street sweeping service and all street cleaning personnel will be assigned to cleaning plugged drains and part circle culverts. This also applies when a large number of street sweeper are in Fleet for repairs which is the current case. Areas that have been missed during this time will be swept at the end of the month.