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NOTICE OF SPECIAL JOINT MEETING
OF THE
KERN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
AND BAKERSFIELD CITY COUNCIL
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Kern County Board of Supervisors and the Bakersfield
City Council will hold a Special Joint Meeting on Monday, September 17, 2007, at 5:30 p.m.,
in the Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1115 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, California.
Estimated
Start Time
5:30 p.m. 1. FLAG SALUTE
2. ROLL CALL
3. OPENING REMARKS BY CHAIRMAN DON MABEN
4. OPENING REMARKS BY MAYOR HARVEY L. HALL
5:40p.m. 5. PUBLIC STATEMENTS - Persons may address the Governing Bodies during this
portion of the meeting on any matter not on this agenda but under the jurisdiction of the
Board of Supervisors or City Council. The Chairman, at his discretion, may limit the
total time allotted to this portion of the meeting to assure that all agenda items can be
completed. Statements are limited to 2 minutes per speaker. Please state and
spell your name for the record.
6. BUSINESS ITEMS
6:00 p.m.
6:15p.m.
6:30 p.m.
6:45 p.m.
D.
7:00 p.m.
E.
A.
Update on Metropolitan Bakersfield Habitat Conservation Plan Program (Joint Agenda
Item) - Hear City Staff Presentation by Development Services Director Stan Grady and
County Staff Presentation by Planning Director Ted James. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
DIRECT STAFF TO PREPARE AN AMENDMENT TO THE MBHCP JOINT POWERS
AGREEMENT AUTHORIZING LIMITED USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN; REAFFIRM PAST
DIRECTION FOR MBHCP IMPLEMENT A TION TRUST GROUP TO PROCEED WITH
PURCHASE OF HABITA T MITIGA TION LAND OUTSIDE OF KERN COUNTY.
Update on R-2508 Joint Land Use Study (Joint Agenda Item) - Hear County Staff
Presentation by Planning Department Division Chief Lorelei Oviatt and City Staff
Presentation by Development Services Director Stan Grady. RECOMMENDED
ACTION: AUTHORIZE KERN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CHAIRMAN
AND CITY OF BAKERSFIELD MA YOR TO SIGN LETTER TO GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
OF PLANNING AND RESEARCH.
Update on City-County Solid Waste Memorandum of Understanding (Joint Agenda Item)
- Hear County Staff Presentation by Waste Management Department Director Daphne
Harley and City Staff Presentation by Solid Waste Director Kevin Barnes.
Report on the Casa Lorna Park Wet Spray Park (Joint Agenda Item) - Hear City Staff
Presentation by Recreation and Parks Director Dianne Hoover and County Staff
Presentation by Parks and Recreation Director Bob Lerude.
Summary Update on TRIP Projects (Joint Agenda Item) - Hear City Staff Presentation by
Public Works Director Raul Rojas and County Staff Presentation by Roads Commissioner
Craig Pope.
B.
C.
Joint City/County Meeting Agenda
September 17, 2007
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7:15 p.m.
F.
Update on South Beltway Specific Plan Line (Joint Agenda Item) - Hear City Staff
Presentation by Public Works Director Raul Rojas and County Staff Presentation by
Planning Director Ted James.
Proposed 2007 Schedule for Joint Meetings. (Joint Agenda Item) - RECOMMENDED
ACTION: ESTABLISH MONDA ~ FEBRUARY 4,2008 AT 5:30 P.M. AND MONDA ~
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008 AT 5:30 P.M. AS FUTURE MEETING DA TES.
7:40 p.m. 7. CLOSING COMMENTS BY BOARD MEMBERS AND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS
7:45p.m. 8. CLOSING COMMENTS BY MAYOR HARVEY L. HALL
7:50 p.m. 9. CLOSING COMMENTS BY CHAIRMAN DON MABEN
7:55p.m. 10. ADJOURNMENT
7:30 p.m.
G.
R tfully ~ed,
Alan Tandy0
City Manager
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ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
MEETING DATE:
September 17, 2007
AGENDA SECTION: BU5inessr terns
ITEM NO: ee,. A .
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
Honorable Mayor and City Council
Stanley C. Grady, Development Services Director
September 5,2007
APPROVED
DEPARTMENT HEAD
CITY ATTORN
CITY MANAGER
SUBJECT: Update on the Metropolitan Bakersfield Habitat Conservation Plan Program {MBHCP}.
1. Request authority for the MBHCP Implementation Trust Group to use power of eminent
domain on proposed MBHCP acquisitions where title problems make sale by willing sellers
impossible through conventional means.
2. Direction for MBHCP Implementation Trust Group regarding purchases of habitat mitigation
land outside Kem County.
RECOMMENDATION:
1. Staff recommends the City Council and Board of Supervisors direct staff to prepare an amendment to the
MBHCP Joint Powers Agreement authorizing limited use of eminent domain as recommended in the
attached report.
2. Reaffirm past direction for MBHCP Implementation Trust Group to proceed with purchases of habitat
mitigation land outside Kern County.
BACKGROUND:
City and County planning staff co-authored the attached report, which summarizes the two issues concerning
use of eminent domain and the purchase of lands outside Kern County. City staff concurs with the
recommendations.
September 5. 2007, 9:22AM
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MEETING DATE:
September 17, 2007
AGENDA SECTION: r>l.ASi nessI tems
ITEM NO: LP. 6.
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
Honorable Mayor and City Council
Stanley C. Grady, Development Services Director
September 5, 2007
APPROVED
DEPARTMENT HEAD C,
CITY ATTORN
CITY MANAGER
SUBJECT: Update on R-2508 Joint Land Use Study concerning restricted military airspace within a portion
of the Metropolitan Bakersfield Area.
RECOMMENDATION:
1. Authorize the Mayor and Chairman of the Board to sign the attached letter.
2. Approve in concept all relevant R-2508 Joint Land Use Study Area Action Items with the exception of
item 22 as noted in the attached report.
BACKGROUND:
City and County planning staff co-authored the attached report, which summarizes the issue concerning
restricted military airspace that occurs in the far northeastern area of Metropolitan Bakersfield. City staff
concurs with the recommendations.
September 6, 2007, 9:23AM
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JOINT CITYICOUNTY
MEETING DATE: September 17,2007
AGENDA SECTION: Business Items
ITEM: 6.C-.
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
Honorable Mayor and City Council
Raul Rojas, Public Works Director
September 4, 2007
DEPARTMENT HEAD
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY MANAGER
,/tJPROVED
SUBJECT: Update on the City-County Solid Waste Memorandum of Understanding, an approval of a
request for grant funds from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends receive report and approve a joint City-County request for
grant funds from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.
BACKGROUND: This is to report on two issues being worked on by City and County staff under the
joint memorandum of understanding (MOU) for solid waste issues in the metropolitan Bakersfield area.
The MOU was formed to undertake joint efforts toward development of refuse transfer stations and
recycling programs. Significant progress has been made on these two items, as follows:
1. Transfer Station Development
A transfer station feasibility study has been completed, and has been reviewed by the Solid Waste
Management Advisory Committee (SWMAC) and its Ad Hoc Transfer Station Committee. The study
estimated the cost and benefits of various transfer station scenarios, in terms of traffic and air pollution
reductions. The study format included extensive traffic and air pollution modeling in order to support a
request for air district grant funds. SWMAC has recommended development of a metropolitan transfer
station at the Mt. Vernon Avenue Recycling Facility. This recommendation is based on the scenario
providing the most cost effective reductions in traffic and air emissions. A joint request for $20,000,000 in
air district grant funds to construct the transfer station is recommended. It should be noted, however, that
County landfill fees would have to be significantly increased to cover the cost of transfer station operation,
even with 100% grant funding for construction. This is because the transportation cost savings would be
only partly offset by reduced refuse truck mileage costs. The rest of the transportation savings would be
realized by the self-haul landfill users, leaving the transfer station with the cost of the highway haul.
2. Curbside Recycling
At the September 18, 2006 joint meeting, staff reported on the possibility of universal curbside recycling in
the metropolitan area. At that time, a cost estimate for curbside recycling depended upon two important
variables: the cost of sorting materials and the possibility of a state grant for equipment to lower the sorting
cost. Progress has been made on both of these variables. First, the City was awarded a $1,500,000 state
grant for sorting equipment to be used for City and County recyclables. Second, the City issued a request
for proposals (RFP) for material sorting services. Under the RFP, proposals were to include the use of the
$1,500,000 equipment grant to minimize the cost of the sorting services. The goals of the RFP were to
lower the sorting costs and raise the offsetting material market revenues to improve the current voluntary
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recycling program, and to estimate the full cost of universal curbside collection. Two organizations
submitted proposals for sorting material. The proposals are being evaluated to help determine the cost of
a curbside recycling program.
Other progress toward curbside recycling has been made since the City Council created a price incentive
for recycling versus extra refuse carts. In the first two months since the new policy became effective, the
voluntary program participation level has increased by over 800 homes (about 21 % of the 3,800
subscribers) without the City yet advertising the incentive. Much greater participation is anticipated as the
advertising campaign rolls out in October.
September 7, 2007, 1 :04PM
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MEETING DATE: September 17,2007
AGENDA SECTION: Business Items
ITEM: {g. D.
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM:
DATE:
Dianne Hoover, Director of Recreation & Parks
DEPARTMENT HEAD
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY MANAGER
September 7,2007
SUBJECT: Report on Casa Lorna Wet Spray Park by Dianne Hoover, City of Bakersfield irector of
Recreation and Parks and Bob Lerude, Director of Kern County Parks and Recreation.
(Ward 1)
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval to proceed and acceptance of the report.
BACKGROUND:
Councilmember Irma Carson requested that the City of Bakersfield collaborate with the County in
providing additional services within the Cas a Lorna Park area. She recognizes the success of the wet
playground at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park and she encouraged the same for Cas a Lorna Park.
The City of Bakersfield has submitted a $375,000.00 request of available CDBG funds for construction of
a Wet Playground at Casa Loma Park. Casa Lorna Park is a Kern County park bordered by the City of
Bakersfield. With the City's funding through CDBG, Kern County Parks will be able to purchase and install
a wet playground by next summer. The Kern County Parks and Recreation Department will maintain the
wet playground once installed.
The City of Bakersfield has five existing wet playgrounds, also known as Sprayparks. Locations of the
existing sprayparks include Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Beale, Wayside and Planz Parks. A wet
playground is basically children's outdoor play equipment with water features integrated throughout the
play features. Some of the choices may include large water canons, rainbow mists, overhead buckets that
drop once filled and various fountains coming up from the play surface.
The existing wet playgrounds are heavily used free amenities within the above mentioned parks. Some of
the benefits include:
* Open from early April to late October
* Hours of operation are 9:00AM to 8:00PM
* Parental supervision only; no staff required
* High use results in less vandalism
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* Free water play during Bakersfield heat waves
* Allows for creative play even on a hot day
* Handicapped accessible at all times
* All family members can play at the same time
With childhood obesity at record levels, anything we can do to encourage outdoor, active play among
children and families is positive. The attendance at each of the city's wet playgrounds runs anywhere from
ten to fifty kids and families at any given time. Once the pools close for the summer, the sprayparks are
still operating, and no lifeguards are needed.
The City and County Recreation and Parks Departments are also cooperating on a project along the Kern
River Parkway known as the Kern River Upland Parkway Restoration Project. The City received a $1.4
million grant from the State Resources Agency to create an outdoor learning lab. The City of Bakersfield
will build a bridge connecting the parkway to the County's Stramler Park behind Sam Lynn Ballpark,
allowing for the public as well as buses to park and walk to the future park. The two departments
collaborate well benefiting both City and County residents.
The presentation will include locations of existing sprayparks in relation to Casa Loma Park, pictures of
existing spray parks showing various water play features and the specific location of the proposed wet
playground within Casa Lorna Park.
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JOINT CITYICOUNTY
MEETING DATE: September 17,2007
AGENDA SECTION: Business
ITEM: (p. E.
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
Honorable Mayor and City Council
Raul Rojas, Public Works Director
DEPARTMENT HEAD
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY MANAGER
APPROVED
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September 7,2007
SUBJECT: Report on status of the Thomas Roads Improvement Program (TRIP) (Joint Agenda Item) _
Hear City Staff Presentation by Public Works Director Raul Rojas, and County Staff
Presentation by Roads Director Craig Pope.
RECOMMENDATION: Hear staff report.
BACKGROUND: There continues to be a great deal of activity taking place with regards to the TRIP
program; however, much of the past work has been of a technical, low profile, planning/programming/
processing nature involving Kern Council of Governments (KernCOG), Caltrans, the California
Transportation Commission (CTC), and the Federal Highways Administration (FHWA). And while this type
of work will continue, work that is of potentially higher interest to and visible to the public is upcoming. The
most visible is the impending construction of the Fairfax Road/State Route 178 interchange project. The
construction of the project was awarded by the City Council at their meeting of August 15th in the amount
of $28,929,446.10 to Security Paving, who submitted the low bid of six bidders. The ceremonial
groundbreaking was held last Friday, September 14th, and the contractor's work is anticipated to begin in
late September or early October. A community meeting was held on September 5th, and between 175 and
200 residents attended to learn more about the project and have their questions answered by staff. In
addition, an amendment to the contract with Parsons, the consultant program manager for TRIP, in the
amount of $2,981,767 was approved by the City Council at their August 29th meeting to provide
construction management services for the interchange project.
The financial plan for TRIP was approved by the Federal Highways Administration (FHWA) in August, and
this major milestone has been followed by the on-going processing of the federal paperwork required to
authorize the funding for the program. This authorization, when approved, will allow the City to begin
invoicing through Caltrans to receive reimbursement for program expenditures.
Six contracts for preliminary engineering and environmental documentation were approved by the City
Council at their meetings of July 18th and September 12th. These contracts were as follows:
Project
Firm
Contract Amount
Rosedale Highway Widening
24th Street Widening
24th StreeUOak Street Interchange
State Route 178/Morning Drive Interchange
Centennial Corridor South
West Beltway
HNTB
RBF
RBF
Psomas
HNTB
PB
$3,388,500
$1,858,193
$1,513,799
$1,301,008
$8.871,673
$7.036.625
$23,969,798
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The first four projects are underway and the last two, whose contracts were approved last week, will be
starting later this month.
TRIP staff is also managing the final design of both the 7th Standard Road widening project, the 7'h
Standard/State Route 99 interchange Project, and the Westside Parkway project which includes the
extension of Mohawk Street from Rosedale Highway south to Truxtun Avenue. Contracts for this work
include:
Project
7th Standard Widening
Mohawk Street
Westside Parkway
Firm
Contract Amount
LAN
Dokken
DMJM Harris/AECOM
$2,699,737
$4,413,674
$6.491.588
$13,604,999
Completion of the final designs for these projects are at various stages. The 7'h Standard Widening
project final design is expected to be completed later this year, while the final design for both Mohawk and
the Wests ide Parkway are expected to be completed later next year. Bidding for the Mohawk project is
anticipated for next fall, and bidding for the first segment of the Westside Parkway project should then
follow late next year. .
TRIP staff has also been providing support to the Joint City-County Transportation Task Force. Since the
initial Task Force meeting on August 20th, City staff and County staff have been meeting frequently and
much progress has been made. There has been a reconciling of positions with regards to transportation
planning and project priorities. New ideas have been presented and discussed; and while there are still
many details to work through, it is the perspective of all parties involved that progress is being made and
that a mutually agreeable plan will result that meets the metropolitan area's transportation needs.
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JOINT CITY/COUNTY
MEETING DATE: September 17,2007
AGENDA SECTION: Business
ITEM: u,.!=.'
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM:
DATE:
Raul Rojas, Public Works Director
DEPARTMENT HEAD
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY MANAGER
September 7,2007
SUBJECT: Report on South Beltway alignment (Joint Agenda Item) - Hear City Sta re entation 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: The City is requesting that the County finalize an alignment east of 99 because of
development proposed for the applicable area.
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.
County staff considered an additional alternative for the portion ofthe 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 Beltwayalignment. Parsons, the TRIP program
management consultant, has completed a hydrology study/analysis that County staff had requested be
performed to review the drainage of the area and whether this freeway would have impacts to this issue.
City staff encourages a prompt discussion and decision on a final alignment so that the project may move
forward without delay.
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. Therefore, it is
important that the County finalize an alignment east of 99 because of development proposed for the
applicable area.
This matter was heard at the joint meeting of the Bakersfield City Council and the Kern County
Board of Supervisors on September 18, 2006 and on March 19, 2007.
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