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CITY OF GRAND TERRACE
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY & CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
SPECIAL MEETING - .TUNE 5, 2001
A special meeting of the Community Redevelopment Agency and the City Council of the City of
Grand Terrace was called to order in the Council Chambers, Grand Terrace Civic Center, 22795
Barton Road, Grand Terrace, California, on June 5, 2001, at 6:00 p.m.
PRESENT: Dan Buchanan, Mayor
Lee Ann Garcia, Mayor Pro Tern
Herman Hilkey, Councilmember
Don Larkin, Councilmember
Maryetta Ferr6, Councilmember
Tom Schwab, City Manager
John Donlevy, Assistant City Manager
Brenda Stanfill, City Clerk
Patrizia Materassi, Community and Economic Development Director
Jerry Glander, Building&Safety Director
Larry Ronnow, Finance Director
Lt. Rick Carr, Sheriff's Department
ABSENT: John Harper, City Attorney
City Manager Schwab gave an overview of the 2001-2002 Fiscal Year Budget.
Finance Director Ronnow gave a financial review of revenues and expenditures for the 2001-
2002 fiscal year budget.
Assistant City Manager Donlevy gave a presentation of the program review process.
Council went through the Budget Program Reviews and made comments and asked questions
---to the appropriate departments. The following are changes and directions to staff with
regards to the 2001-2002 Fiscal Year Budget:
Council discussed Council benefits at length and directed staff to bring back an amendment
to the personnel policy that reflects the Council's consensus to eliminate post service lifetime
insurance benefits for those council members who have not already retired with three
consecutive terms or is not already in their third consecutive full term.
CC-2001-54 MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER LARKIN, SECOND BY MAYOR
BUCHANAN, FAILED 2-3 (COUNCILMEMBER LARKIN AND MAYOR
BUCHANAN VOTED YES), that any current Council Member that is not in their
third full term will no longer receive a benefit of health or life insurance and that the
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budget be changed to reflect so by reducing line item 10-110-142 by$7,200.00.
A correction was made to the CRA Capital Projects (32)Fund Expenditures under line item 710 -
Computer System Finance adding$29,800.00.
CRA-2001-27 MOTION BY CHAIRMAN BUCHANAN, SECOND BY AGENCY
MEMBER HILKEY, CARRIED 5-0, to add $10,000 to the CRA Capital
Projects (32)Expenditures Department: Economic Development(370),line
item 250-Professional/Special Services,for initial development expenses of
a Comprehensive Economic Development Plan and direct staff to prepare a
request for proposal to bring back to Council for input.
Council directed staff not to do anything with the General Plan Update until a Comprehensive
Economic Development Plan is complete.
CC-2001-55 MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER HILKEY, SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM
GARCIA, CARRIED 5-0, to approve the overall budget with the inclusion of the
changes that were made.
ORDER OF ADJOURNMENT
Mayor Buchanan adjourned the Community Redevelopment Agency/City Council Meeting at 10:10
p.m.,until the next CRA/City Council Meeting which is scheduled to be held on Thursday,June 14,
2001 at 6:00 p.m.
CITY CLERK of the Cffy of Grand Terrace
MAYOR of the City of Grand Terrace