Sec. 8.99.04. Matters to be Reviewed by the Council.
Certain actions of the Agency hereinafter described, shall not be final or binding or deemed approved until approved by a majority vote of the whole Council. The Agency shall transmit such proposed actions to the Council as expeditiously as possible. Such transmittals, and accompanying reports and other information, shall be, to the maximum extent practicable, similar in format and complementary in content to City staff reports customarily presented to the Council on similar subjects.
(a) Any contract, job performance requirements, or other action, or amendment thereto, establishing or amending the direct or indirect compensation of the Agency Administrator, including bonuses, benefits and property of the Agency intended to become property of the Administrator. The Council shall also approve the selection or termination of any individual as Agency Administrator, including all terms of such selection or termination. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Agency or the Council from considering such actions in closed session in accordance with applicable law.
(b) The performance of the Agency Administrator and any change in the direct or indirect compensation including benefits or bonuses of the Agency Administrator related thereto. The performance review in compensation of the Agency Administrator shall be established in a similar manner and time as the performance and compensation of City general managers.
(c) All actions to establish personnel classifications, position authorities, salaries, bonuses or benefits or any other direct or indirect compensation, including Agency property intended to become individual property, for any Agency staff other than the Administrator, including all new, or amendments or extensions to, agreements or Memoranda of Understanding related thereto. Such actions shall be submitted concurrently with the annual Budget of the Agency in a manner similar to personnel ordinances of City departments, including amendments thereto. Nothing in this section shall be construed to abrogate existing agreements or Memoranda of Understanding in effect as of January 1, 1991, nor to abrogate the Council’s ability under law to amend or review such agreements or Memoranda, nor to preclude meeting and conferring in good faith as required by law. The Agency shall obtain direction from the Council prior to negotiating any Memorandum of Understanding regarding personnel or labor matters.
(d) An Organization Chart of the Agency, submitted annually, similar in format and detail to those provided by City Departments.
(e) Compensation of any kind in excess of salary to date of termination plus unused leave and accrued overtime, which is not authorized by a Council approved Memorandum of Understanding or other agreement approved by the Council, for any terminated employee or contract employee of the Agency.
(f) Actions to establish or change redevelopment project areas, including the initiation of a Feasibility Study, the findings of the Feasibility Study, the Preliminary Redevelopment Plan, the Preliminary Report, the Final Redevelopment Plan, and amendments to existing Redevelopment Plans.
The Council may find by resolution that it is in the best interest of the community, in areas affected by the civil disturbance beginning April 29, 1992 and in other areas of the City suffering serious social and economic distress to expedite, to expedite the creation of redevelopment project areas by exempting Agency actions relating to Preliminary Redevelopment Plans and Preliminary Redevelopment Reports from Council review under this section. Council may review the expedited Preliminary Redevelopment Plans and Preliminary Redevelopment Reports pursuant to Section 8.99.05. Additional Council Review and Approval.
(g) Disposition and Development Agreements, Owner Participation Agreements (except for those providing for rehabilitation loans under Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000) in the North Hollywood, Pico Union I and II, and Adams Normandie redevelopment project areas), other agreements for development, and amendments thereto.
(h) Loans, borrowings, bond issues and grant agreements in the amount of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000) or more, and any amendments thereto in excess of ten percent (10%) of the amount last approved by Council action.
(i) Contracts for services under which the contractor receives compensation totalling Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) or more during any twelve month period (except for telephone and utility bills, and except for public improvement contracts awarded to the lowest responsible bidder pursuant to a formal bidding process in accordance with State law).
No such contract shall be for an initial term longer than three years nor be extended for more than two consecutive additional years. Each such contract or extension thereof transmitted for Council approval shall include the entire Request of Proposal or equivalent and any supplements thereto, a complete list of respondents and a description of the selection criteria and procedures used.
(j) The Central Business District Work Program.
(k) Findings of Benefit.
(l) Grant Applications.
(m) Single Audit Report.
(n) Discretionary planning and zoning approvals and variances.
(o) Transfer of Floor Area Ratio transactions and all uses of funds resulting from such transfers.
(p) Public Benefit Payments and the uses of such funds.
(q) Actions to amend tax increment revenue limits in project areas.
(r) Agreements or memoranda of understanding with any other agency of government.
(s) The annual Budget of the Agency and amendments thereto, pursuant to Article 3 of this chapter.
(t) Any delegation of authority of the Agency to any staff.
(u) Policies of the Agency.
The Council shall make all reasonable efforts to complete its review and approval of proposed Agency actions under this section within 45 days of receipt by the City Clerk of the Agency’s transmittal of the matter. The Agency shall notify the Council in its transmittal if Council approval is requested in less than 45 days and the reasons therefor.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 166,735, Eff. 4-13-91.
Amended by: Subsec. (f), 2nd Para. added, Ord. No. 169,153, Eff. 1-1-94; Subsecs. (g), (h), and (i), Ord. No. 168,646, Eff. 4-15-93.
