3/27/1967MINUTES
REGULAR MEETING OF
THE CITY OF ROLLING
OF THE
THE CITY COUNCIL
HILLS, CALIFORNIA
March 27, 1967
A regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Rolling
Hills was held at the City Hall, 1 Portuguese Bend Road, Rolling Hills,
California at 7:30 P.M. on Monday, March 27, 1967.
ROLL CALL
Present: Councilmen Hesse, Klein, Nadal, Tourtelot, Mayor Fay
Absent: None
Also Present: Teena Clifton City Manager
William Kinley City Attorney
Marion Welch City Treasurer
June Cunningham Secretary
Mrs. Emily Schleissner Resident
Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Worth Residents
MINUTES
It was moved by Councilman.Tourtelot, seconded by Councilman
Hesse and unanimously carried that approval of the minutes of.Febru-
ary 27 and March.13 be held until the next regular meeting of the.Council.
CORRESPONDENCE
Operation Crime Free
The City Manager presented a communication from the Department
of _the Sheriff dated March 14, outlining an effort by the Sheriff's
Department to make a selected area of Los Angeles County relatively
crime free for a 24 hour period. Sheriff Peter Pitchess announced that
a force of regular deputies and supervising officers will serve without
compensation for time in excess of their regular 8 -hour tour of duty, in
an attempt to demonstrate to the citizens what can be accomplished with
adequate manpower. The memo was ordered received and noted.
Dedication of Torrance -South Bay County Building
Mrs. Clifton advised the Council that the dedication of the,
Court House originally scheduled for April 21 has been postponed until
sometime in June or July.
REPORTS OF CITY DEPARTMENTS
Sheriff's Department
-,The City Manager.advised that Lt. Gilbert Scholten.of the Len-
_-zox.sheriff's-Department has been assigned new duties, and his successor,
'Lt. Kennedy will attend the next meeting of the City Council.
Fire Department
The Fire Department Activity Report for the month 'of February
1967 was presented. The report was ordered received and filed.
Councilman Klein was seated at 8:15 P.M. -
PAYMENT OF BILLS
It was moved by Councilman Nadal that Demands No. 326 through
340 be approved for payment from the General.Fund.
March 27, 1967
DEMAND #
NAME
AMOUNT
326
Addressograph.Multigraph
$ 46.39
327
The Corinth Co.
70.00
328
J. C. Penney Co., Inc.
332.06
329
Cty. L.A., Reg.Plan.Comm.
12872.77
330.
Zellerbach Paper Co.
7.12.
331
Xerox Corporation
39.-00
332
Ditto Division
14.20
333
Palos Verdes Water Co.
6.50
334
Bur. of Resources & Coll.
60.00
335
Alma C. Clifton
364.40
336
Hefty M. Arrieta
69.29
337
June C. Cunningham
353.46
338
William Kinley
450.00
339
General Telephone
33:02
340
George L. Doerfler
5,596►60
$9,314.81
Motion for approval was seconded by Councilman Tourtelot
and carried by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Hesse, Klein, Nadal, Tourtelot, Mayor Fay
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
FINANCIAL REPORT
Councilman Tourtelot moved that the Report of the City
Treasurer for the month of.February 1967 and the Financial Sumtnary.for
the month of February 1967 be approved. Motion was.seconded by Council- ".e..
man Hesse and unanimously carried.
rNSFEOF FUNDS
Approval of a transfer of funds in the amount of $3,000.00
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m the Motor Vehicle In Lieu.Fund to the General Fund was approved by
the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Hesse, Klein, Nadal, Tourtelot, Mayor Fay.
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
SUBDIVISION NO. 32, TENTATIVE MAP, TRACT 26661, A.E. ESSER, LOT 69E -MS
Mr, Walter Kessenick of South Bay Engineering agreed to
an extension to the next meeting of the City Council for action on
Tract 26661. The matter was ordered held.on the agenda.
PROPOSED ORDINANCE - WEED ABATEMENT
Mr. William Kinley, Attorney for the City of Rolling Hills,
advised the Council that the weed abatement ordinance had been prepared,
but to be.enforced funds must be made available, and these -funds cannot
be reimbursed until after November tax bills are paid. Councilman'Nadal
suggested that the ordinance could be deferred until the next fiscal
year, so that the necessary funds could be budgeted. He then asked
whether the ordinance could be passed and enforced only if necessary.
. Kinley replied that it could, and the decision was up to the Council,
t he would not recommend passing the ordinance and not enforcing it.
The City Manager was requested to contact the Fire Depart-
ment to determine how many jobs they handled.in Rolling Hil'ls.last year,
both at the request of the property owner, and also when the property
owner did not take care of his weeds and -it was taken care of .by the Fire
Department and charged to the, -owner on his tax bill.
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:.!Mayor Fay then ordered the ordinance held on the agenda7--unt,j:17
after June 3-0, 1967, to be considered in the next fiscal year. �
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
`Mrs. Clifton announced that the Administration Building ')E�
will be occ'upi.ed by the staff on Friday, March 31, 1967. telephone service
will be transferred on the sauie day without interruption, and furnishing§r,.
will be ddliv'e-red on Monday, April 3, 1967.
EASTFIELD '16,`Aii,,.CONDEMNATION
�Nr.. Kinley advised the Council that he had received another
inquiry frow*.Palos Verdes Properties about the intention of the Association
to acquir
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r o p e r t y. The legal description has been furnished to Mr, -.-
E. L. Pearson for., a final review of specific details. The matter was orr.,,'k�
dered he ld'�b'.the-.agenda.
PERSONAL A•PPEARAiI CES
Mr. and gr s. Edgar Worth appeared to inquire of the:Council-
why they had not been notified of the special Council -meeting held on
Friday,,,.. March.z24th at -1':00 A.M.- Mayor Fay asked the City Manager to advise
what procedure' had been followed in notification of the special meeting,
and Mrs. Clifton replied that notices had been sent to all members of the
Council, the newspapers, Mrs. Saffo and Mr. Arnold Kahn, the attorney
engaged by Mr. and Mrs. Worth. Notice was sent to Mr. Kahn ,
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Edgar Worths on the advice of Mr. Kinley, City Attorney, and was1naileA,-t.o'_
the address Mr._Xahn,had given Mrs. Clifton in a telephone conversations
but had bee'n.ret'urned. Because Mr. Kahn had not sent the letter he -had-:_
advised'. thei City =w;ould'receive regarding his employment by the Worths, :,and
no written confirmation of his address was on file in the Rolling-Hills:z'
City Hall, a confirming telephone call was made to his office. His secre-
tary advised that Mr. Kahn was not in the office, and Mrs. Cliftoninfo'r"m,e'dA'j't."
her of the special meeting, and asked that the Worths be notified of the
meeting., Mr.tand ' Mrs�.
-Worth stated that the first notice they received was
a lettek Iour i'the;.City Manager-, delivered to them on Saturday, Marchi -25th;
referring to"the meeting which had been held on the 24th; they said they
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had received no notice of the meeting from their attorney's office.
Mr. Kinley then asked Mrs. Clifton to prepare a memo to the
file listing all verbal cominunications with Mr. Kahn's office, and further
instructed that all connunication with reference to the Flood Control Pro-
ject,
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ject, both verbal, :and,written j should be handled through his office.'
MATTERS FROM MEMBERS,OF THE COUNCIL
Palos Verdes Drive North,Equestrian.Underpass
Councilman Hesse suggested that a copy of Mrs. Clifton's :._;1%,
letter from the Board of Directors to Rolling Hills Estates with reference
to Palos, Verdes Drives North be reviewed by the Mayor and a letter written
for the':Pity...
Palos Verdes Panor4ma,
Cou. . 4c-ilmgn Tourtelot moved that the City of Rolling Hills
take a quar,te_r-p-agq, ad in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Panorama to be pub-,
li'shed by .the r DA-3April 12. The motion was seconded by
Daily; Breeze on
coiincilman;Xlei'n-.'and. carried by' the following roll call vote:
AYES,.:, Councilmen Hesse,
'NOE§-.,'.--'None
ABiSE10:1, None
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Klein, Nadal, Tourtelot and Mayor Fay
March 27, 1967
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business to come before the Council,
Councilman Tourtelot made a motion for adjournment at 8:45 P.M. The
motion was seconded by Councilman Hesse and unanimously carried.
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City Clerk
APPROVED:
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