TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Talyn Mirzakhanian, City Manager
FROM:
Patricia Matson, Senior Management Analyst
SUBJECT:Title
Consideration of a Request by Councilmember Charelian and Mayor Howorth to Explore Opportunities to Assist the Owner of the Previously Approved Commercial (Hotel and Retail/Office) Project at 600 South Sepulveda Boulevard (City Manager Mirzakhanian).
DISCUSS AND PROVIDE DIRECTION
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RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council discuss and provide direction regarding the request by Councilmember Charelian and Mayor Howorth to explore options to assist the owner of the previously approved commercial (hotel and retail/office) project at 600 South Sepulveda Boulevard.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
There are no fiscal implications associated with the recommended action. However, should the City Council direct staff to analyze the request, staff time and resources may be expended to accommodate the request.
BACKGROUND:
Pursuant to the Brown Act, the City Council cannot discuss items not on an agenda unless under limited circumstances. The City Council has developed a process to allow individual Councilmembers to request, with the support of another Councilmember, that items be placed on a future agenda for City Council discussion. At that future meeting, the item is identified on the agenda in full compliance with the Brown Act. Discussion allows an opportunity to the public to provide input and the City Council, as a body, to decide whether City resources (staff time, etc.) should be incurred to present a more comprehensive report at a third City Council meeting.
Accordingly, individual Councilmembers can initiate future agenda items by following the following three-step process:
STEP ONE:
During "Future Agenda Items," a Councilmember may request that an item be placed on the agenda. If another Councilmember concurs with placing...
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