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Insider's Guide
From: Obornv, Shirlev
Subject: Insider"s Guide for the Newport Beach City Council Meeting of Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Date: Friday, April 05, 2019 5:12:50 PM
Good afternoon,
This email is being forwarded on behalf of City Manager Grace Leung...
From: Leung, Grace
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2019 4:56 PM
To: Oborny, Shirley <soborny(@newportbeachca.gov>
Subject: Insider's Guide for the Newport Beach City Council Meeting of Tuesday, April 9,
2019
Happy Friday! Our next City Council meeting is Tuesday, April 9. 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 p.m. with discussion on:
• Junior Lifeguard Building Proposal — With funding in the current year budget for
design, staff has developed preliminary design concepts and locations for a
permanent Junior Lifeguard Building. These concepts will be discussed, in
association with the Newport Beach Junior Lifeguard Foundation, and input will
be taken on the concepts, preferred site, and project funding. Proposed next
steps will also be discussed.
The Regular Session begins at 7:00 p.m. and the following are items of note on the
consent calendar:
• On March 12, City Council considered several recommendations from staff to
address residential parking impacts due to construction. Council directed staff to
revise and bring forward one of the recommendations on setting time limits to
complete construction. The proposed ordinance will limit construction to a
maximum of three years with extensions to be requested through a Hearing
Officer and further extensions to be heard by City Council. This ordinance will
hopefully help residents impacted by construction projects in their
neighborhoods that drag on for years. If approved, the ordinance goes into effect
June 1, 2019.
• 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 submitted for City Council adoption. The plan was
provided for the public and City Council review on March 26. The salary schedule
included with the plan adjusts salaries by two percent for all Key and
Management positions effective January 1, 2019, 2020, and 2021. There is one
change to the salary schedule since the last meeting to include the same two
percent adjustments for those Key and Management positions that have
contracts with the City: City Manager, City Attorney, City Clerk, Police Chief and
Fire Chief. For these employees with contracts, the actual salaries will not change
unless there is an amendment to the employees' contract, which are separate
items on this agenda.
• Staff has re -submitted a grant application for the Federal Bureau of
Reclamation Water SMART grant program to support the City's Advanced
Meter infrastructure (AMI) project. The AMI project, which will bring real time
water usage data to customers through the installation of "smart" water meters,
is estimated to be implemented over three years at a total cost of approximately
$9.2 million. We are pursuing the maximum $1.5 million to help support this
valuable project.
• Increased contingency authority and budget amendment is requested for the
Bayside Drive and Jamboree Road/Marine Avenue Improvement Project due to
unforeseen work including repairs related to an 18 -inch water main break near
the intersection of Bayside Drive and Jamboree Road and additional work
requested by the Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD), which they will
reimburse for. Because the project was under construction and the water main
break was within and near the construction limits, staff used the opportunity to
save time and cost by requesting the contractor to completed the required
roadway and sidewalk repairs as added work to their existing contract. As a
result, staff is requesting an increase in contingency authority from 10% to 23%
and appropriating $300,000 from the Water Fund and $57,000 from OCSD.
Items of note for Public Hearing and Current Business include:
• Council is requested to authorize staff to submit an amendment to the City's
Local Coastal Program (LCP) to include the Balboa Village Parking Management
Overlay District. This district was adopted by Council in January 2015 into the
City's planning and zoning code but never placed into Title 21— Local Coastal
Program Implementation Plan. When approving the City's LCP in September
2016, the Coastal Commission removed the overlay district, requesting additional
details. Staff has addressed the details, which concern parking spaces, user
groups, parking studies, signage and alternative transportation and is ready to
submit the overlay district to the Coastal Commission. If the Coastal Commission
approves the amendment, staff will return with a future agenda item for Council
to consider incorporating the amendment into Title 21.
• The Arts Commission is recommending ten artworks and three alternatives and a
proposed location for each for Phase IV of the Sculpture Exhibition in Civic
Center Park. If approved, the ten sculptures will be on display for a two years,
following the removal of the Phase III sculptures in the fall of 2019. The selection
process included increased opportunities for public participation including three
public meetings and an online survey.
• Two items deal with the project to underground utilities along Balboa
Boulevard. One agenda item is the award of the construction contract is for
Phase 1, the Underground Utilities Assessment District Nos. 116 and 116b. Both
of these districts were approved by property owners in January 2016.
Construction is anticipated to begin mid-May 2019 and take ten months to
complete. The second item is to purchase Rule 20A credits from the City of
Lynwood to complete Phase 2, which includes Assessment District 111. Due to
construction cost increases the additional credits are needed to make up the
anticipated shortfall. Lynwood has agreed to sell $2.7 million in 20A credits to the
City for $1.6 million. Funds are available from the FY 2017/18 General Fund
surplus.
• As noted earlier, amended employment contracts for the five employees (City
Manager, City Attorney, City Clerk, Police Chief, Fire Chief) are before the City
Council for consideration. The adjustments to compensation and benefits are in
line with adjustments proposed for the Key and Management group.
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