AGENDA


Garden Grove City Council


Tuesday, August 24, 2021


6:30 PM


AMENDED - Community Meeting Center, 11300 Stanford Avenue, Garden Grove, California 92840

Steve Jones

Mayor

Kim B. Nguyen

Mayor Pro Tem - District 6

George S. Brietigam

Council Member - District 1

John R. O'Neill

Council Member - District 2

Diedre Thu-Ha Nguyen

Council Member - District 3

Patrick Phat Bui

Council Member - District 4

Stephanie Klopfenstein

Council Member - District 5


COVID-19 Information:  Masks are required to be worn and adherence to six foot distancing from others when attending public meetings.

 

Meeting Assistance:  Any person requiring auxiliary aids and services, due to a disability, to address the City Council, should contact the City Clerk's Office 72 hours prior to the meeting to arrange for accommodations.  Phone:  (714) 741-5040.

 

Agenda Item Descriptions: Are intended to give a brief, general description of the item.  The City Council may take legislative action deemed appropriate with respect to the item and is not limited to the recommended action indicated in staff reports or the agenda. 

 

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Public Comments:  Members of the public desiring to address the City Council are requested to complete a pink speaker card indicating their name and address, and identifying the subject matter they wish to address.  This card should be given to the City Clerk prior to the start of the meeting.  General comments are made during "Oral Communications" and should be limited to matters under consideration and/or what the City Council has jurisdiction over.  Persons wishing to address the City Council regarding a Public Hearing matter will be called to the podium at the time the matter is being considered.

 

Manner of Addressing the City Council: After being called by the Mayor, you may approach the podium, it is requested that you state your name for the record, and proceed to address the City Council. All remarks and questions should be addressed to the City Council as a whole and not to individual Council Members or staff members. Any person making impertinent, slanderous, or profane remarks or who becomes boisterous while addressing the City Council shall be called to order by the Mayor.If such conduct continues, the Mayor may order the person barred from addressing the City Council any further during that meeting.

 

Time Limitation: When any group of persons wishes to address the City Council on the same subject matter, the Mayor may request a spokesperson be chosen to represent the group, so as to avoid unnecessary repetition.At the City Council's discretion, a limit on the total amount of time for public comments during Oral Communications and/or a further limit on the time allotted to each speaker during Oral Communications may be set.

 

PLEASE SILENCE YOUR CELL PHONES DURING THE MEETING.

 

AGENDA

 

ROLL CALL: COUNCIL MEMBER BRIETIGAM, COUNCIL MEMBER O'NEILL, COUNCIL MEMBER D. NGUYEN, COUNCIL MEMBER BUI, COUNCIL MEMBER KLOPFENSTEIN, MAYOR PRO TEM K. NGUYEN, MAYOR JONES
INVOCATION
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1.ORAL COMMUNICATIONS (to be held simultaneously with other legislative bodies)
2.WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS
2.a.

Consideration of a written request from the Live Out Loud with Autism Foundation to waive fees for the use of the Atlantis Play Center for an “End of Summer Bash” event on Saturday, September 11, 2021. (Cost: $585) (Action Item)

RECESS
CONDUCT OTHER LEGISLATIVE BODIES' BUSINESS
RECONVENE
3.CONSENT ITEMS
(Consent Items will be acted on simultaneously with one motion unless separate discussion and/or action is requested by a Council Member.)
3.a.

Adoption of a Proclamation celebrating September 15 through October 15 as Hispanic Heritage Month in Garden Grove.  (Action Item)

3.b.

Adoption of a Proclamation recognizing September as Hunger Action Month in Garden Grove.  (Action Item) 

3.c.

Approval of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Garden Grove Housing Authority and the City of Garden Grove for the transfer of emergency housing voucher service fees.  (Joint Action Item with the Garden Grove Housing Authority.) 

3.d.

Acceptance of Project Nos. 7212, 7215, and 7292 for various arterial and residential street improvements as complete.  (Action Item)

3.e.

Acceptance of City Project No. 176-01, Bicycle and Pedestrian Trail Landscape and Irrigation Project as complete.  (Action Item)

3.f.

Rejection of a construction bid and authorization to re-advertise Project No. CP-1007000 Phase 1: Acacia-Josephine Storm Drain Improvements. (Action Item)

3.g.

Approval of a Memorandum of Understanding with the County of Orange to continue to participate with Alert OC, the County wide Mass Notification System. (Action Item)

3.h.

Adoption of a Resolution for signature authority and approval of the 2020 Emergency Management Performance Grant Program COVID-19 Supplemental agreement with the County of Orange Sheriff-Coroner for grant funding from the California Office of Emergency Services.  (Action Item)

3.i.

Approval of an agreement with Carrier Corporation, Inc., and ratification of an agreement with ACCO Engineered Systems, Inc. for on-call heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system repair services.  (Cost:  $75,000 each) (Action Item)

3.j.

Authorize the issuance of a purchase order to National Auto Fleet Group for four (4) new utility body trucks.  (Cost:  $242,312.45) (Action Item)

3.k.

Receive and file minutes from the meeting held on July 27, 2021.  (Action Item)

3.l.

Receive and file warrants.  (Action Item)

3.m.Approval of a Mutual Aid Memorandum of Agreement between County of Orange and the City of Garden Grove for COVID-19 Vaccine Point of Dispensary (POD) funding reimbursement and adoption of a Resolution for signing authority.  (Action Item)
4.MATTERS FROM THE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND CITY MANAGER
4.a.

Transmittal of the updated 2021 Economic Development Strategic Plan as requested by City Manager Stiles. (Action Item)

4.b.Discussion on a proposed resolution supporting the Orange County Veterans Cemetery in Anaheim Hills, and encouraging federal, state and local government support for this much needed project, as requested by Mayor Pro Tem Kim Nguyen. 
4.c.Discussion on a proposed proclamation honoring October 11, 2021, as Indigenous Peoples Day as requested by Mayor Pro Tem Kim Nguyen. 
5.ADJOURNMENT

The next Regular City Council Meeting will be Tuesday, September 14, 2021, at 5:30 p.m., in the Community Meeting Center, 11300 Stanford Avenue, Garden Grove, California, 92840.