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HomeMy WebLinkAbout00 - Insider's GuideMarch 26, 2019 Insider's Guide From: Obornv, Shirlev Subject: Insider"s Guide for the Newport Beach City Council Meeting of Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Date: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:30:06 PM This is being forwarded on behalf of City Manager Grace Leung... Happy Friday! Our next City Council meeting is Tuesday, March 26. The following are items that may be of interest. As always, this is not a summary of the entire agenda, which can be viewed here. Study Session begins at 4:00 p.m. with two items: • Representatives from the California Department of Food and Agriculture will provide public advisory information regarding the Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) and Huanlongbing (HLB) Disease, which has been found in Orange County and can affect and kill citrus trees, potentially causing significant crop loss in the State. They will also provide information on a fruit transport quarantine that is now in place. • Staff will provide a review of the City's Integrated Pest Management Policy, to inform City Council and the community of the steps and procedures in place to address pest control, such as weeds and insects, as we maintain and care for over 1,000 acres of City -owned landscape areas. The Regular Session begins at 7:00 p.m. and the following are items of note on the consent calendar: • As part of the discussions at the last Council meeting on addressing homelessness and approving a contract with City Net for homeless outreach services, the City Council directed staff to return with the formation of a Homeless Task Force. The proposed task force, to include two council members and seven community members, will develop a plan to reduce or eliminate homelessness that includes: strategies to integrate all services needed; list of community partners willing to assist with addressing the issues; review and consider temporary housing solutions; and develop metrics to monitor the reduction of homeless. The two councilmembers proposed to be on the task force are Mayor Pro Tem Will O'Neill and Council Member Brad Avery. If the task force is approved, an application period will be opened for the seven community members in accordance with Council policy. • The Council Aviation Ad Hoc Committee has reviewed the structure, membership, roles and responsibilities of the Aviation Committee and proposes changes for City Council consideration. The changes are related to the Committee's composition, member terms, roles and responsibilities and are proposed to better align the Committee's structure with that of other City boards, committees and commissions and better enable the Committee to efficiently advise the City on its ongoing initiative to protect the quality of life in the Newport Beach community from further adverse impacts related to JWA's operations. • The Compensation Plan for the City's Key and Management Group, which includes approximately 87 positions in the confidential, supervisory, managerial and executive classifications, is provided for public review and comment. This group does not include employees with employment contracts: City Manager, City Attorney, City Clerk, Police Chief and Fire Chief. The Key and Management Group has historically closely mirrored the term and conditions set for the Newport Beach City Employees Association and the Newport Beach Professional and Technical Employees Association and the proposed plan follows the recently finalized agreements with these associations. The plan will be presented for City Council approval on April 9, 2019. Items of note for Public Hearing and Current Business include: • Since the appeal of the Harbor Commission's approval of the Newport Marina reconstruction and reconfiguration was made, the applicant and appellant have worked to resolve concerns with the project. As a result, the applicant has now modified the project to address the concerns. Both the applicant and appellant are supportive of the City Council modifying the Harbor Commission's decision to include the revisions to the project. • The new FEMA Flood Insurance Maps now in effect in the City include the designation of a Special Flood Hazard Area (VE Zone) along the coast in West Newport, covering 166 beachfront properties between 24th and 48th Streets. New development within a VE Zone is required to meet FEMA design criteria, which include elevated structures. The design criteria present a number of conflicts with current Zoning Code and certified LCP development regulations and procedures. Therefore, initiation of amendments to these codes is necessary. As a reminder, public comment is welcome at the City Council meeting. The public can comment on any item on the agenda. If you cannot attend the meeting and/or want to communicate with the City Council directly on an item, the following e-mail address gets to all of them: City Council. The Week in Review is provided this week. In case you miss it, we do post them on the City's website; the latest edition can be found here. Thank you for reading. Feedback is appreciated so please don't hesitate to ask a question or offer a comment. Grace K. Leung City Manager City of Newport Beach 100 Civic Center Drive, Bay 2E Newport Beach, CA 92660 gleung(@newportbeachca.gov P: 949-644-3001 F: 949-644-3020