Many items pending approval on Council agenda for Tuesday

The agenda for Tuesday’s City Council meeting is a short one, but the Council is looking at a lengthy consent calendar. Before approving or rejecting the consent calendar, the Council must take care of some routine items first.

The first item for the night is an employee of the month award honoring Clayton Dignam. Following this presentation will be a second employee service awards presentation. The name(s) of the award recipients have not been revealed.

Following the awards presentations, the Council will move directly into their regular AB 1234 reports. These reports cover board or commission meetings Council representatives have recently attended. The scheduled reports will include updates on the Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainability Agency, the Tulare County Task Force on Homelessness, and the Tulare County Association of Governments (TCAG).

These reports will be proceeded by updates from city commissions and committees. Included in these will be the Library and Literacy Commission, the Arts Commission, and the Youth Commission. Wrapping up reports for the night will be City Manager John Lollis, who will brief the Council on city staff informational reports and an update on the city’s shopping cart ordinance.

Oral communications will be opened by Mayor Martha Flores after the conclusion of all reports. This is the time where the public is encouraged to address the Council on any issues under their jurisdiction. Each speaker will be given three minutes to speak, unless additional time is authorized by the Council.

This meeting’s consent calendar sits at 18 items, all of which may be approved in one motion, unless a Council member requests to pull an item for further discussion. A list of the items is available at the end of this article.

There is one ordinance receiving a second reading, and it concerns sidewalk vending. The Council previously discussed setting regulations for sidewalk vendors, and this ordinance details those regulations.

The final item for the night is a scheduled matter, which will consider appointing an individual to the city’s Animal Control Commission board. The designated appointee has not been named.

Oral communications will open a final time, before the Council is asked to request additional agenda items and speak on any additional matters they may have missed.

The following is a list of the night’s consent calendar items: Authorization to outfit a police K-9 vehicle for $9,551.74 Authorization to purchase an asphalt roller paving equipment in an amount not to exceed $166,628 Approval of a donation of non-serviceable hose and air packs to the Porterville College Fire Academy Amendment to Carollo Engineer’s service agreement for digester 3 repair Approval of an easement conveyance to Southern California Edison for the purpose of installing an underground primary power feed for the Transit Fleet Electrification Project Adoption of park fees resolution Acceptance of Fiscal Year 2018 State Homeland Security Grant Program funds Authorization of street closure for Music on Main Approval of Monache High School FFA Department Farmer’s Day and 5K on March 30 Approval of Porterville Chamber of Commerce document shredding event on March 28 Approval of Porterville Relay for Life Kick Off event on April 6 Request for Child Abuse Prevention Month proclamation for April Request for Volunteer Appreciation Week proclamation for the week of April 7-13 Request for Porterville Celebrates Reading Day proclamation for April 13 Request for Denim Day proclamation for April 24 Request for Vaisakhi Day proclamation on April 14 Authorization to expend city monies in support of travel to Washington D.C. by Mayor Flores and the City Manager from June 11-14 Approval of the continuance of the Declaration of Local Emergency This meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 26 in the Council Chambers in City Hall located at 291 N. Main Street beginning at 6:30 p.m.