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HomeMy WebLinkAboutrda min 2007/03/22 CVRC/CC MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE CHULA VISTA REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (CVRe) AND REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA March 22, 2007 6:00 P.M. Regular Meeting of the Chula Vista Redevelopment Corporation and Redevelopment Agency of the City of Chula Vista were called to order at 6:05 p.m. in the Council Chambers, located in City Hall, 276 Fourth Avenue, Chula Vista, California. CVRC ROLL CALL PRESENT: Directors: Castaneda, Desrochers, Lewis, McCann, Paul, Ramirez, Rooney (arrived at 6: 13 p.m.), Rindone, and Chair Cox ABSENT: Directors: None CITY COUNCIL/REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY ROLL CALL PRESENT: Council/Agency Members: Castaneda, McCann, Ramirez, Rindone, and Mayor/Chair Cox ABSENT: Council/Agency Members: None ALSO PRESENT: Interim Executive Director/City Manager Thomson, Deputy General Counsel/ Deputy City Attorney Shirey, Acting Community Development Director/Secretary Hix, Redevelopment Project Manager Crockett, Principal Community Development Specialist Lee, Senior Deputy City Clerk Peoples PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, MOMENT OF SILENCE I. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Staff Recommendation: That the CVRC and Redevelopment Agency approve the minutes of March 8, 2007. ACTION: Director Desrochers moved approval of the CVRC/Redevelopment Agency minutes of March 8, 2007. Director /Agency Member McCann seconded the motion and it carried 8-0, with Director Rooney absent. PUBLIC COMMENTS There were none. ACTION ITEMS 2. COUNCIL SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT: CHULA VISTA REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION On December 19, 2006, the City Council formed a subcommittee, consisting of Mayor Cox and Councilmember Rindone, to revisit and evaluate the structure of the CVRC. The subcommittee will present a full report with recommendations to the CVRC, RDA, and City Council. Chairwoman/Mayor Cox introduced the item and then turned the presentation of the subcommittee report over to Vice-ChairlDeputy Mayor Rindone who provided a brief PowerPoint presentation of the subcommittee's review of options and recommendations, assisted by Chief of Staff Forster. Vice ChairmanlDeputy Mayor Rindone presented an overview of the Four Essential Themes for the CVRC, followed by three potential options. He then provided the Subcommittee's recommended option, which was to restructure the CVRC Board by removing the Mayor and Council, and retaining the Redevelopment Advisory Committee (RAC). Chairwoman/Mayor Cox then provided the seven subcommittee recommendations: 1) The CVRC should continue to advise the City Council in the Council's role as the Redevelopment Agency; 2) Councilmembers should be removed as CVRC Directors. The City Council should select five additional Directors with professional preparation or experience in business, real estate, finance, real estate development, architecture, land planning, real estate law, or real estate investment who should all be Chula Vista residents; 3) The City Manager should remain as Executive Director of the Agency, and the City Manager's designee should act as the chief Executive Officer of the CVRC; 4) The CVRC staff can be some or all of the staff of the existing Community Development Department; 5) The RAe's current role as one that provides advice to the CVRC Directors should be retained; 6) Redevelopment projects should be pursued sooner rather than later; 7) A formal, independent evaluation of the CVRC, RAC, and redevelopment- tasked staff should be initiated three years from the date of the newly restructured CVRC. Vice Chairman/Deputy Mayor Rindone presented the next steps of the subcommittee's recommendation which included: I) The removal of the City Directors (City Council); 2) Their replacement with five new Independent Directors (Chula Vista residents); 3) The City Manager's designee as CVRC Executive Director (no new expense); 4) Public reporting of expenditures using redevelopment money; 5) A formal, independent evaluation to be held three years from restructuring. Director/Agency/Councilmember Castaneda confirmed that the total number of proposed directors would remain the same at nine, with five no longer being City Councilmembers, but rather Chula Vista residents, and that the proposal would not preclude any of the current four original independent directors from being replaced by a Chula Vista resident when their term expired. Page 2 - CVRC RDA CC Minutes http://v.'WW . chulavi staca. gOV March 22, 2007 ___~_____ ___.___._---..J ACTION ITEMS (continued) Director/ Agency/Councilmember Ramirez stated he was interested in having a relaxed dialogue between the CVRC Board and the community, and expressed his preference that the meeting be run to allow people to address the recommendations one by one so that he could ask questions of staff and the speakers. Chairwoman/Mayor Cox stated that she had received six speaker slips and requested that as she called on the people to corne up and speak, they express their comments as a whole if they so intended to, or if they wish to speak to individual recommendations, that they hold their comments until those items were discussed in accommodation of Director/ Agency/Councilmember Ramirez. Charles Moore, resident ofChula Vista and President of the Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce, spoke in support of the subcommittee recommendations, but encouraged the Board not to dilute the talent pool by requiring that the five new CVRC members be Chula Vista residents, and suggested that consideration also be given to Chula Vista business owners who may not live in the City. Mr. Moore then expressed concern with what he perceived to be a three-year deadline being placed on the CVRC to prove successful, which would not provide a true chance for success. Lisa Cohen, CEO of the Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce, spoke in support of the subcommittee recommendations, stating concurrence with the replacement on the Board of the City Council by five Chula Vista residents, provided they are the best qualified applicants based on training, knowledge and experience, noting that if a Chula Vista resident is not found to meet these requirements, the Council should have the authority to appoint a non-resident. Bill Hall, Chula Vista resident and member of the Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce, stated he strongly concurred with all recommendations of the City Council subcommittee. Torn Money, owner of Money Realty, commended the Council subcommittee and encouraged the adoption of the subcommittee recommendations. Jackie Lancaster, Chula Vista resident, stated she supported the use of existing staff and the City Manager as Executive Director of the Agency. Patricia Aguilar, Chula Vista resident representing Crossroads II, urged the CVRC not to approve the proposed recommendations and requested the report be sent back to the subcommittee for further consideration. She then stated her reasoning. First, that the first recommendation did not acknowledge any input or public comments made at the last CVRC meeting on this topic, and that it was inappropriate that prior information received was ignored. Second, that the statement of focusing and streamlining the process as the antidote is not possible, as there is common knowledge that there is a lot of internal dissention between the Planning Department and Community Development. Third, the reason why CCDC is successful, Page 3 - CVRC RDA CC Minutes http://v.'Ww . chulavistaca. gov March 22, 2007 ACTION ITEMS (continued) is because they have their own Executive Director and staff, yet the subcommittee recommendation is to use City staff, and as long as City staff is doing the work, the focus will be dispersed, as City staff has other duties and roles. Fourth, the CVRC directors provide professional advice, which is the role of City staff, and staff can hire professional consultants if there is some expertise they need and don't have. Fifth, the CVRC is an advisory body, which proves that it is an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy, and the RAC and developer should advise the RDA directly. Sixth, regarding the City Council's fiduciary responsibility to pursue redevelopment projects sooner rather than later, Ms. Aguilar expressed doubt that a restructured CVRC Board would help accomplish this goal. Seventh, a restructured CVRC with its focus on redevelopment, would not be able to weight the perspectives of the project developers and the community, or shape a redevelopment effort economically and socially. Ms. Aguilar then added that should the CVRC go forward with the subcommittee recommendations, she believed that the five new members should be Chula Vista residents that lived in different community areas, or redevelopment areas, and once again urged the CVRC Board to not approve the report. Peter Watry, Chula Vista resident, spoke regarding the second to the last paragraph on the last page of the subcommittee report, stating that the statement that "favorable market conditions that existed four years ago are gone" was wrong and should not guide policy. Betsy Keller, Chula Vista resident and member of Onstage Playhouse and the Third Avenue Village Association, stated that the time had come to move the plan forward, and expressed full support for the subcommittee recommendations. Director/Agency/Councilmember Castaneda inquired and received concurrence from Chairwoman/Mayor Cox that the issue raised by Ms. Aguilar pertaining to redevelopment planning and implementation activities being placed with a single department, such as the Community Development Department, was the way things currently were handled and where support staff was located and would continue to reside regardless of whether or not there was a CVRC. He then suggested "Redevelopment Staff' versus Community Development be used in future reports for clarification. Next he spoke regarding the subcommittee's addition of five Chula Vista residents, stating he felt it important to consider building on the expertise and backgrounds of the current appointed members, and the need to continue to look for the kinds of support with respect to the advisory function to assist in making more informed and more feasible decisions as they relate to approving projects in the various neighborhoods. Director/Agency/Councilmember Castaneda then inquired as to whether the subcommittee considered putting a preference on the appointment of new members who were residents living in or adjacent to the redevelopment subareas. Chairwoman/Mayor Cox stated it was not one of the considerations of the subcommittee as residents move and doing so might result in the disqualification of a director who may play an integral role in the decision making process. Vice Chairman/Deputy Mayor Rindone stated that although not specifically addressed, the subcommittee felt that having the expertise within the City and allowing that flow and continuity with residents would provide the highest value. Page 4 - CVRC RDA CC Minutes http://wvvw.chulavistaca.gov March 22, 2007 , ._-..-J ACTION ITEMS (continued) Director Desrochers commented on Ms. Aguilar's statements regarding possible friction between the Community Development Department and Planning staff, stating that friction is very healthy. With regards to having residents on the newly formed corporation as proposed, he reminded everyone that the RAC currently has the residents and the CVRC is more than just approving design and layout, the members have to look at time lines, financing, acquisition, public improvements, and engineering to name a few. Director/Agency/Councilmember Ramirez thanked the subcommittee for their written report and, commending members for the thoroughness of the document and its attachments, expressed concerns regarding the interaction of the Planning Department and planners on the Community Development Department staff, and added general comments regarding his understanding of the various functions between staff, community, the RAC, and the CVRC. Director/Agency/Councilmember McCann stated this was one of the most important items being dealt with and that it was time to start making decisions and get to work. Director Rooney expressed concerns about potential problems with people who own businesses and property being on the CVRC board as suggested, having the requirement to recuse themselves to avoid potential conflicts, and inquired whether residents who do not own property would be able to participate. Chairwoman/Mayor Cox responded that it was conceivable that a person who owned a restaurant outside of the redevelopment area would not have a conflict, but someone who owned a shop in the redevelopment area would have to recuse themselves. ChairwomanlMayor Cox then stated this particular recommendation might be something to debate in the future, to determine whether the majority of the Board of Directors should be Chula Vista residents and/or Chula Vista business owners. Director Rooney expressed his view that people who live and work in the Redevelopment area have a lot of insight, which should corne through the RAC versus being a participant on the CVRC. Director Rooney then inquired about the potential of having a separate CVRC staff eventually. Vice ChairmanlDeputy Mayor Rindone stated the subcommittee considered this as a possibility, noting further discussion would probably occur during the third year evaluation. Director Lewis praised the subcommittee for their work on the report and commented that there were only eleven years left to redevelop with four of the prior years being used up trying to get the CVRC started. He then provided an overview of the how the CVRC came into being and stated that it was time to move forward, stop turning development away and being fearful of a CVRC and create the world class City Chula Vista deserves to be. Director Paul stated he was squarely on board with Director Lewis' comments, and concurred that the RAC was where the community input should happen and the role of the CVRC would be to listen to developer interest and RAC input and weigh in, almost in a judicial way, on how it complies with the intent of the General Plan, and help form a viable way to bring the project to the City Council and make recommendations. Chairwoman/Mayor Cox stated she took issue with Ms. Aguilar's comment that the subcommittee ignored the public comments, noting that the subcommittee had verbatim and summarized comment, as well as written public comment, and that although not every issue was responded to, they were all taken into consideration. Page 5 - CVRC RDA CC Minutes http://wv,'W . chulavistaca. gov March 22, 2007 ACTION ITEMS (continued) Patricia Aguilar, representing Crossroads II, clarified several of her prior comments stating that she did not say the subcommittee did not consider the input from prior meetings, but that the report did not address it. Additionally, that Crossroads II fully supported revitalization and redevelopment in Western Chula Vista and fully supported and wanted to see vibrancy brought back to Third A venue, but they questioned in reviewing the report the quickest, easiest, simplest and clearest way to make it happen, and from their point of view although it is probably better to have a CVRC as another layer of review, it did not seem necessary to have a special agency and set of meetings just to get advice. Vice Chairman/Deputy Mayor Rindone stated Ms. Aguilar's position was understood, however the reasons of the subcommittee for their recommendation to have a CVRC were delineated in the report. Jackie Lancaster, Chula Vista resident, stated she understood that the nine Directors would earn $750 each per month. ChairwomanlMayor Cox advised Ms. Lancaster that she was misinformed as there was no stipend. Director/Agency/Councilmember McCann noted that Directors Paul, Desrochers, Lewis and Rooney were very highly paid professionals and if one hour oftheir time was to be compensated for, it would be a large dollar figure, so the City was in fact gaining from this free expertise. Additionally, although getting staff's input and speaking with the Directors individually could be done, it is far better to have them all together in an open public forum. Recommendation 2: The Councilmembers be removed as CVRC Directors. and the Council select five additional Directors with professional preparation or experience in business. real estate. finance. real estate development. architecture. land planning. real estate law. or real estate investment. who should all be Chula Vista residents. Director/Agency/Councilmember Ramirez stated that the original intention of the CVRC was not in question, but how the best way to get there was, and he stated that an important consideration when selecting the community directors was to ensure a diversity of viewpoints as well as professions in order to promote discussion of different perspectives and to challenge the rationale and issues around a particular project during their deliberations. Director Lewis explained that a well-selected CVRC Board was not going to be a rubber stamp and would be able to challenge a developer as well as have fiduciary responsibility and experience to be able to challenge, negotiate and debate projects. Director/Agency/Councilmember McCann stated that a nine-member board might be too large, but concurred with the recommendation to fill the positions with Chula Vista residents. Additionally, if approved this evening, Director/Agency/Councilmember McCann requested that the Mayor's Office work with the City Clerk to post the openings immediately, and not delay the interviewing and appointment process Chairwoman/Mayor Cox reminded the Board of the process required to fill all vacancies, noting that it would be the intent of the subcommittee to bring back to the Council the proposed process to follow. Vice Chairman/Deputy Mayor Rindone stated that the variety of the nine experts would provide sufficient base to provide a diversity of views requested by Director/Agency/Councilmember Ramirez and would foster debate. Additionally, he recommended that the five positions to be filled should come from five different areas. Mayor Page 6 - CVRC RDA CC Minutes http://www .chulavistaca.gov March 22, 2007 ACTION ITEMS (continued) Cox stated that the Bylaws would also need to be resolved prior to action being taken on the appointments. Vice Chairman/Deputy Mayor Rindone stated that education would be added to the proposed list of qualifications as it had inadvertently been left out. Peter Watry, Chula Vista resident, expressed his view on a potential internal contradiction in the report. Chairwoman/Mayor Cox again explained the intent of the recommendations and the selection of the additional members from diverse professional fields. Mr. Watry suggested for example a housewife be considered as a member of the CVRC Board, not just on the RAC, to provide balance. Director Rooney stated that although diversity was needed on the Board, expertise in the area of development was needed as well, and suggested the list be expanded to include urban designers, and landscape and land planning professionals. ChairwomanlMayor Cox stated that since these items need to go to the Attorney for amendment to the Bylaws, consideration could certainly be given to the addition of urban designers, education personnel and landscape planning professionals. Director Desrochers responded to prior comments noting that professionals are not one- dimensional people, they all come from different backgrounds, have different educations and points of view. Director/Agency/Councilmember Castaneda requested that Director/Agency/Councilmember Ramirez provide his specific recommendations or wording that would address his specific concerns. Director/Agency/Councilmember Ramirez stated he did not know what they should be, but felt it should be figured out. Director Paul reminded everyone that the role the CVRC Board was asked to perform was to help facilitate a quality of redevelopment in the community that will be consistent with what the community wanted, evaluate the requirements and requests that come from the community advocacy groups (RAC), and at the same time look at developer issues and bring expertise to pull it all together to work for the community, developer and City and be economically viable. He then suggested the addition of a person with an environmental law or science background as well. Lisa Cohen, CEO representing the Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce spoke in support of Recommendation 2. Kevin O'Neill, Chula Vista resident, stated he was initially opposed to the formation of the CVRC, but now saw the need, adding that he felt seven members would be appropriate, but nine was too many, and that the CVRC should be made up of people who understood development from all facets with the purpose of the RAC being to vet projects through the community in terms of design review. Chairwoman/Mayor Cox stated that the subcommittee had heard the additional qualifications of environmental law, environmental science, urban design, land planning and education, and would bring them back in the form of amended Bylaws, and that the CVRC Board of Directors should be supplemented with I, 3 or 5 additional Chula Vista residents to ensure that the number ofChula Vista residents will be in the majority. Page 7 - CVRC RDA CC Minutes http://wv..'W .chulavistaca. gov March 22, 2007 ACTION ITEMS (continued) Recommendation 3: The Citv Manager should remain as the Executive Director of the Redevelopment Agencv, and the City Manager's designee shall act as the Chief Executive Officer of the CVRe. No comments were received. Recommendation 4: The CVRC staff can be some or all of the Communitv Development Department. Director/Agency/Councilmember McCann inquired, and Acting Community Development Director Hix responded, that the department currently had four Planners with zoning, design and planning expertise who understood the rules and would be enablers to help projects fit within the standards to make them happen without any surprises at the end. He also inquired of the CVRC subcommittee, as to whether the CVRC members would be allowed to use members from other City departments if additional expertise was needed. ChairwomanlMayor Cox responded in the affirmative, noting that the Information Technologies staff would be relied upon heavily for assistance with web design, maps, and links to maps. Recommendation 5: The RAC's current role as one that provides advice to the CVRC should be retained. Director/Agency/Councilmember Ramirez stated that development has more extensive implications in a community that go beyond merely a business deal, and asked what the mechanism would be within the CVRC to ensure that the Directors balance the business deal with community input. ChairwomanlMayor Cox noted that Mr. Ramirez was pointing to a note in the report that was meant to be a supportive argument to the recommendation, and that the full note declared that the balancing was between the business deal and the community input offered by the RAe. Director Lewis responded to Mr. Ramirez comments that the "guarantee" was made by having the Redevelopment Agency made up of elected officials to maintain the oversight. Vice Chairman/Deputy Mayor Rindone requested Mr. Ramirez read the last sentence in the paragraph he initially referred to, noting his concern were fully addressed therein. ChairwomanlMayor Cox stated that should the CVRC forward the recommendation and the Council accept it, ultimately, the CVRC would hold a workshop with the RAC to insure that both sides would understand clearly what their roles and responsibilities were. Recommendation 6: Pursue redevelopment proiects sooner rather than later. Director/Agency/Councilmember Ramirez inquired as to whether or not the Redevelopment Agency debt could ever become a general fund obligation. Director Desrochers responded, and Deputy General Counsel/Deputy City Attorney Shirey confirmed, that it could not, as redevelopment bonds are tied to tax increment, which is the sole source of repayment. Further, that the Redevelopment Agency is a separate public entity from the City. Page 8 - CVRC RDA CC Minutes http://www.chulavistaca. gOV March 22, 2007 ________--.J ACTION ITEMS (continued) Recommendation 7: A formal. independent evaluation of the CYRC. RAC and redevelopment- tasked staff should be initiated three vears from the newly restructured CYRC Board of Directors. Chairwoman/Mayor Cox provided an overview of the recommendation, noting that the challenge is out there with the adoption of this set of recommendations (coupled with the possible adoption of an Urban Core Specific Plan, Southwest Specific Plan and any other that might come up in alignment with the General Plan) for staff to get things done expeditiously. The independent evaluation is not intended as criteria for forward motion, but to review what does and does not work. Director/Agency/Councilmember Ramirez stated he would like to include a line in the recommendation that would say one of the other options to evaluate would be to dissolve the CYRC and look at how the Community Development Department working with the Planning Department would take on the responsibilities of the CYRC. Vice ChairmanfDeputy Mayor Rindone explained the reason for the wording of the recommendation as presented, noting that if progress was not seen during the proposed period of time, there would have to be a reevaluation. Director/Agency/Councilmember McCann expressed appreciation for the recommendation and the accountability it provided, noting that he would like to see yearly milestones and quantitative measurable goals and metrics from the Council and CYRC. Chairwoman/Mayor Cox stated that this recommendation could be put in the Bylaws as an amendment to the structure. Acting Community Development Director Hix stated that periodic reports would continue to be provided as would the 5- Y ear Implementation Plan, which would be brought back to the CYRC/RDA with a mid-term report in May, which could be used as a baseline report, with benchmarks included. Director/Agency/Councilmember Castaneda expressed concerns that when talking about evaluation, no one falsely or naively believe that Redevelopment staff could conjure up projects, as there was no substitute for having a good plan, which they do not currently have. Further, that there was a good staff but no direction as they have no document to work from, and the development cycle has been lost. He then stated he did not want to send a message to Community Development Department staff that they need to be cost recoverable and every project that comes down the line gets rubber-stamped to create tax increment. Projects need to be measured against the goals, efforts and desires of the City and then be brought back for support, without getting into the generation of tax increment. Everything needs to be looked at in context when evaluated, the entire process, not just money in the bank. Chairwoman/Mayor Cox stated that the subcommittee would be working throughout the next three years with the CYRC Board of Directors and Redevelopment staff, and requested that staff begin to draft a skeletal framework that can be added to so as to ensure the concerns of the current CYRC are addressed. Director Paul inquired and ChairwomanlMayor Cox responded that due to being bound by City employment policies, City employees need to be responsive to the City Manager, but that as the City Manager considers who his designee will be, the charge will be to listen to the CYRC and interact with the City Manager as appropriate. If this becomes a problem for the newly restructured CYRC, the new CYRC will no doubt come to the City Council and indicate that there is a difficulty in need of addressing. Page 9 - CYRC RDA CC Minutes http://w'NW .chul avistaca. gov March 22, 2007 ACTION ITEMS (continued) Director/Agency/Councilmember Ramirez stated that he wanted to give the CVRC an opportunity to succeed and that he would support the recommendations. Further, that he supported the need for benchmarks, and understood that they could not be tied to tax increments, but wanted to find areas to evaluate in a productive way, and to have accountability in some measurable form. Director/Agency/Councilmember McCann addressed Mr. Ramirez's concerns noting that tax increment was only one thing that he felt should be measured, and that he felt the trap the City had fallen into was not getting anything done. The Urban Core Specific Plan had not been passed, no ENA's had been passed, and no dirt had been turned. The goal is to have a quantitative metric that can be measured, staff needs to be given goals and tools to get things done, and they should be rewarded if the goals are achieved or held accountable if they are not. Director Lewis stated that all things being addressed added credence to why a CVRC was needed, primarily the need for public/private cooperation. Speaking on behalf of his appointed colleagues, he stated that they were all driven by goals and measures and suggested that ways to expand the capability rather than disbanding it was what needed to be looked at. Staff recommendation: That the CVRC adopt the following resolution: ACTION: Chairwoman Cox moved to adopt CVRC Resolution No. 2007-004, heading read, text waived. 2a. CVRC RESOLUTION NO. 2007-004, RESOLUTION OF THE CHULA VISTA REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION RECOMMENDING THAT THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA APPROVE THE REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COUNCIL SUBCOMMITTEE ON CVRC STRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS AND DIRECT STAFF TO PREPARE THE NECESSARY AMENDMENTS TO THE CVRC'S LEGAL AND OPERATING DOCUMENTS Vice Chairman Rindone seconded the motion, and it carried 9-0. Staff recommendation: That the City Council and Redevelopment Agency adopt the following resolution: ACTION: Mayor/Chairwoman Cox moved to adopt City Council Resolution No. 2007-065, Redevelopment Agency Resolution No. 2007-1970, heading read, text waived. 2b. CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION NO. 2007-065, REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY RESOLUTION NO. 2007-1970, JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA APPROVING THE REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COUNCIL SUBCOMMITTEE ON CVRC STRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS AND DIRECTING STAFF TO PREPARE THE NECESSARY AMENDMENTS TO THE CVRC'S LEGAL AND OPERATING DOCUMENTS Deputy MayorNice Chairman Rindone seconded the motion, and it carried 5-0. Page 10 - CVRC RDA CC Minutes http://v.'ww . chulavistaca. gOV March 22, 2007 -------' ACTION ITEMS (continued) Chairwoman/Mayor Cox stated that the subcommittee would meet again, and would work with City staff and the City Attorney's office on amendments of the Bylaws, Articles of Incorporation, and ordinances, and any other changes necessary, noting that they will target the meeting of April 12th, but it may take a couple of additional weeks. Additionally, she noted for the public that March 28th was the date of the Planning Commission's hearing for the Urban Core Specific Plan, which the City Council would hear in late April. 3. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S REPORTS Interim City Manager/Chief Executive Officer Thomson stated that the City Council would not be meeting on April 10, 2007 per Chula Vista Municipal Code, but that the CVRC would hold their Regular Meeting on April 12, 2007 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers. 4. CHAIRWOMAN'S REPORTS There were none. 5. DIRECTORS' COMMENTS Director Desrochers stated he would be submitting a request for excused absence from the April 12,2007 meeting. ADJOURNMENT At 9:58 p.m., Chairwoman/Mayor Cox adjourned the Chula Vista Redevelopment Corporation and Redevelopment Agency to their regularly scheduled meeting on April 12,2007, at 6:00 p.m., and the City Council to an adjourned regular meeting on March 26, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers. (Oly Ann Hix, Secretary ><.~ Page 11 - CVRC RDA CC Minutes http://viww.chulavistaca.gov March 22, 2007