Council consent calendar to include Motorcross Championships in April at OHV Park

Many presentations and reports are scheduled for Tuesday night’s City Council meeting in Porterville.

After the Pledge of Allegiance is led by Council member Milt Stowe, the Council will move directly into the meeting’s first presentation, a comprehensive annual financial report. This presentation will be followed by the second and last presentation on Project Homeless Connect.

The Council will begin with routine reports, after the conclusion of the two scheduled presentations.

The first reports of the night will be the Council’s AB1234 reports. These reports will include updates on the Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainability Agency, the Joint City/school Committee, Tulare County Association of Governments (TCAG), the Tulare County Water Commission, and the Cannabis Ad Hoc Committee.

Reports will continue with city commission and committee meeting reports. This reports will address the city’s Parks and Leisure Services Commission, Library and Literacy Commission, Arts Commission, Animal Control Commission, Youth Commission, and Transaction and Use Tax Oversight Committee.

The reports will end with city staff informational reports regarding Wall of Fame designations and water conservation phase four status updates.

After all of the reports end, Mayor Martha Flores will open oral communications. This is the time for the public to address the Council on any matters under their jurisdiction. Each speaker will receive three minutes to speak, unless additional time is agreed upon among the Council.

This meeting’s consent calendar sits at nine items. Among the items listed is approval of the National Motocross Championship Qualifier Race proposal for April 5-7, with 2X promotions at the OHV Park and overnight camping for the event, authorization to submit full membership application to CALSTART (a clean transportation consortium), and status and review of declaration of local emergency. All items on the consent calendar may be approve in one motion, unless a Council member requests to pull any item for further discussion.

There is one public hearing scheduled for Tuesday’s meeting. This public hearing concerns the approval of a minor conditional use permit for Eddie’s Doghouse, a dog grooming establishment at 75 N. Main Street.

After the public hearing has either been approved or denied, the Council will move forward to their three scheduled matters.

The first scheduled matter on the night’s agenda is the consideration of an individual to be appointed to the City’s Arts Commission. The individual’s name has not yet been revealed.

The second scheduled matter will discuss the possible partnership of the City and Sierra View Medical Center for the proposed 2019 Farmer’s

Market.

The scheduled matters portion of the meeting will end with the consideration of a draft ordinance to amend licensing requirements for massage businesses and practitioners.

Oral communication will be opened once more, before the Council moves on to other matters. During this time, the Council may request future agenda items or speak on matters not previously discussed.

Once all Council members have been given the opportunity to speak, the meeting will adjourn.

The remaining consent calendar items for this meeting are as follows:

Approval of the draft minutes for Dec. 4, 2018

Authorization of the purchase by negotiation of various park amenity items authorize payment for said items upon satisfactory delivery and installation

Authorization for transit bus engine repair

Authorization to advertise for bids for weed abatement and boardup services

Approval to enter into consultant service agreements with 4Creeks Inc. for the Villa Street Reconstruction project in the amount not to exceed $247,215, and QK for the Main Street Reconstruction project in the amount not to exceed $315,900

Approval of the temporary street closure of Thurman Avenue between Hockett Street and Division Street from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on March 2

This meeting is set for Tuesday, Feb. 19, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the City Hall located at 291 N. Main Street.