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The regular meeting of the Santa Ana City Council is scheduled to begin at 5:45 p.m. tonight, Feb. 18, 2020.

The Council meets in the City Council Chambers, 22 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana. A Housing Authority meeting also will take place.

The agenda includes the following matters:

• Appointments to city commissions and committees.
• Adopt a resolution to update and centralize the city’s master pay schedule.
• Approve an appropriation adjustment for $140,000 and adopt a resolution approving a relocation plan for Warner Avenue phase 2 improvements between Oak Street and Grand Avenue.
• Adopt a resolution to expand hours of the Flower Park permit parking district.
• Adopt a resolution declaring city-owned property at 625 S. Cypress Ave. as surplus land and directing the City Manager to comply with the requirements for the sale of surplus land.
• Adopt a resolution declaring opposition t o the County of Orange’s construction and operation of a homeless shelter on Yale Street and anywhere else in Santa Ana until the County of Orange is operating a proportional amount of shelter beds in the South Service Planning Area as exists in the Central and North Service Planning Areas.
• Approve the fiscal year 2020-2022 Community Development Block Grant Program for a total amount of $7,560,549 for 32 local public service organizations and City programs.
• Receive and file fiscal year 2019-20 general fund mid-year update; adopt a resolution to amend fiscal year 2019-20 budget to add two full-time positions; approve mid-year appropriation adjustments.
• Adopt a resolution accepting a certificate as to verification of signatures from the Orange County Registrar of Voters for a petition to recall Councilmember Cecilia Iglesias and the certificate of sufficiency from the Clerk of the Council; and approve an appropriation adjustment in the amount of $710,000 t o pay for the costs of the signature verification and the special election. Then, either adopt resolutions calling for a special election or direct staff to prepare resolutions calling a special election at the March 3 City Council meeting.
• Designate a voting delegate for the 55th Southern California Association of Governments’ regional conference and general assembly scheduled for May 6-8.
• Approve a joint powers agreement with the County of Orange; approve an option agreement and 65-year ground lease with Washington Santa Ana Housing Partners, L.P., for the development of the Crossroads at Washington Project located at 1126 and 1146 E. Washington Ave.; adopt a resolution authorizing the Orange County Housing authority to administer project-based vouchers in santa ana; approve a regional housing needs allocation agreement with the County of Orange; approve a substantial amendment to the neighborhood stabilization program annual action plan.
• Discuss and c onsider directing the City Manager to recognize Santa Ana residents serving in the military.
• Discuss and consider directing the City Manager to develop a homeless work program to provide meaningful work for the homeless.

The full meeting agenda with staff reports is here: https://santaana.granicus.com/GeneratedAgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=8255

An agenda that can be translated into other languages is available here: https://www.santa-ana.org/sites/default/files/cc/cc-agenda/20200218.html

Meetings are broadcast live on CTV3. Watch CTV3 on channel 3 on Time Warner Cable and channel 99 on AT&T U-verse.

The council meetings are streamed live online in English here:
http://santaana.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=3

The meetings can be watched in Spanish here:
http://santaana.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=1

The Santa Ana City Council will have its regular meeting tonight, Jan. 21, at Santa Ana City Hall in the Council Chamber, 22 Civic Center Plaza.

The closed session begins at 5 p.m. and the open meeting is scheduled for 5:45 p.m.

Tonight’s meeting agenda includes:

• A resolution supporting extensions of the OC Streetcar project;
• A second ordinance reading approving a development at 2525 N. Main St., or directing staff to prepare a possible ballot initiative measure on the matter;
• Approval of a display of “E Pluribus Unum” in City Council chambers;
• A discussion on providing American Sign Language services for City Council meetings;
• Directing staff to prepare a resolution establishing a City Charter review committee;
• A discussion on restructuring or disbanding one or more existing City Council committees;
• A public hearing for a conditional use permit for alcohol sale and consumption at Mariscos Hector #1, 1801 S. Main St.;
• A public hearing on the Calvary Church master plan for 1010 and 1100-B N. Tustin Ave.;
• A discussion on providing form 602, which gives limited authorization to police to arrest trespassers on private property, to all businesses applying for a license; and
• A discussion on directing the city manager to request the Police Department and other city departments to enforce anti-camping, anti-panhandling and related laws.

The meeting will air on City of Santa Ana Channel 3 (CTV3) and can be livestreamed online.

For more information about council meetings, to see the meeting agenda in English and Spanish and for a link to the livestream, please go to www.santa-ana.org/cc/city-meetings.