Council Agenda - City of Burbank

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Agenda Item - 3

 

CITY OF BURBANK

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT

MEMORANDUM
 

 
DATE: July 27, 2004
TO: Mary J. Alvord, City Manager
FROM:

Bruce S. Feng, Deputy City Manager/Public Works & Capital Projects

by:  Amy Teel, Administrative Analyst II
SUBJECT: RESOLUTION OF THE BURBANK CITY COUNCIL AMENDING THE COMPOSITION AND QUORUM REQUIREMENT FOR THE DOWNTOWN PARKING MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

 

PURPOSE

 

Staff requests City Council approval of a resolution amending the existing composition and the quorum basis for the Downtown Parking Management Committee.

 

BACKGROUND

 

In April 1992 the City Council established an eight-block Central Business District Downtown Parking Area (BMC Sec. 31-1407.1) to foster downtown revitalization by easing existing parking requirements stifling the development of restaurant and entertainment uses.

 

Subsequently, pursuant to the findings and recommendations of the March 1999 Downtown Burbank Comprehensive Parking Study, the City Council established the Downtown Parking Management Committee (DPMC), an ad hoc advisory committee comprised of the following representation:

 

�              Transportation Commission                                            1 member

�              Planning Board                                                                 1 member

�              Downtown Stakeholders� Association                            1 member

�              Media City Center Mall                                                     1 member

�              Central Business District                                                 8 members   (one per block)

                                                                                                   12 members

ANALYSIS

 

In February 2001, the DPMC revised their monthly meeting schedule to every other month to foster improved member participation; however, on-going absenteeism and vacancies continued to prevent the DPMC from conducting official business due to lack of quorum; therefore, in December 2001, pursuant to the DPMC�s recommendation, the City Council removed three absentee members, along with the per-block requirement for Central Business District representation to create a larger pool of potential members to fill the existing vacancies.

 

Despite recruitment efforts, one vacancy has remained to date, and the dissolution of the Downtown Stakeholders� Association in conjunction with the formation of the Downtown Property-Based Improvement District (P-BID) has created an additional vacancy.

 

Replacing the Downtown Stakeholders� Association representation to the DPMC with P-BID representation and amending the basis for the quorum requirement to a majority of sitting members (as opposed to total membership) will alleviate the existing roadblocks to the effectiveness of the Downtown Parking Management Committee.

 

RECOMMENDATION:

 

Staff recommends that the City Council approve the attached resolution entitled:

 

RESOLUTION OF THE BURBANK CITY COUNCIL AMENDING THE COMPOSITION AND QUORUM REQUIREMENT FOR THE DOWNTOWN PARKING MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

 

 

 

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