AGENDA
CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD
PUBLIC FACILITIES, RECREATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMISSION
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2024
6:30 P.M.
CITY HALL COMMUNITY MEETING ROOM, 1ST FLOOR
8300 SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90069
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Public Facilities, Recreation, and Infrastructure Commission acknowledges that the land on which we gather and that is currently known as the City of West Hollywood is the occupied, unceded, seized territory of the Gabrieleño Tongva and Gabrieleño Kizh Peoples. (pronounced “Keech”)
Meeting materials submitted to the Public Facilities, Recreation, and Infrastructure Commission (Commission) shall be distributed within 72 hours of the meeting and are available for public inspection online at www.weho.org/pfc and at the staff table during the Commission meeting.
To comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Assistive Listening Devices (ALD) are available for check out at the meeting. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, please dial 711 or 1-800-735-2929 (TTY) or 1-800-735-2922 (voice) for California Relay Service (CRS) assistance. If you require accommodations to participate in the meeting (e.g., an American Sign Language interpreter), please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (323) 848-6800 at least 72 hours before the meeting date.
If meeting-related transportation special accommodation is required, please submit your request to the Office of the City Clerk at (323) 848-6800 at least 48 hours prior to the meeting. For public transportation information, please call (323) GO-COMMUTE or (323) 466-3876 or visit www.metro.net.
RULES OF DECORUM
Audience members shall not engage in disorderly or boisterous conduct, including the utterance of loud, threatening, or abusive language, whistling, stamping of feet or other acts which disturb, disrupt, impede, or otherwise render the orderly conduct of the Commission meeting infeasible. An audience member who repeatedly or continuously engages in any such conduct shall, at the discretion of the Presiding Officer or a majority of the Commission, be subject to ejection from the meeting.
Each person addressing the Commission shall do so in an orderly manner and shall not make repetitious, slanderous, or irrelevant remarks, or engage in any other disorderly conduct which disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of the Commission meetings. Any person who so disrupts the meeting may, at the discretion of the Presiding Officer or a majority of the Commission, be subject to ejection from the meeting.
PROVIDING PUBLIC COMMENT
Any person wishing to speak on any item of business on the agenda before the Commission shall first complete a speaker request form and submit the form to the Secretary.
1. A speaker request form must be completed before the meeting begins. Please include your name and the item number(s) you would like to speak.
2. No person shall address the Commission without first being recognized by the Presiding Officer.
3. Public comment is limited to three (3) minutes per speaker.
TO PARTICIPATE BY PROVIDING WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE OR AN E-COMMENT
Staff strongly encourage the public to submit an email to degonzalez@weho.org no later than 4:00 p.m. on the meeting day. All comments received by 4:00 p.m. will be forwarded to the Commission and posted on the City’s website.
TO PARTICIPATE BY LISTENING TO THE MEETING AUDIO & PROVIDING PUBLIC COMMENT BY TELEPHONE
Any person wishing to speak by telephone on any item of business on the agenda before the Commission shall be required to submit a speaker request to degonzalez@weho.org no later than 4:00 p.m. on the meeting day in order to be added to the remote public speaker list.
1. A speaker request must be completed before the submission timeline noted above. Please include your name, phone number (for staff to identify your caller location on Zoom), and the item number(s) you would like to speak.
2. Staff will confirm your pre-registration by providing the call-in phone number and meeting ID number.
3. You may dial-in ten (10) minutes prior to the start of the meeting. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. You will be placed ON HOLD in the Virtual Meeting Room until the meeting commences. When you enter the meeting, please mute your telephone.
4. Public comment is limited to three (3) minutes per speaker.
Note 1: Public comment will become part of the official public record. If you do not want your personal information included in the official record, please do not include your address and/or phone number.
Note 2: Staff are unable to respond to emails during the meeting. All requests to speak by telephone must be confirmed in advance and requests to speak on additional agenda items cannot be accommodated during the meeting.
1. CALL TO ORDER – 6:30 P.M.
A. LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
B. ROLL CALL
2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
3. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA
MEETING OF DECEMBER 11, 2024
4. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
5. PUBLIC COMMENTS
This public comment period is to address the Commission on Consent Calendar items, other agenda items (including if the member of the public cannot be present at the time the item is considered), or items of general interest within the jurisdiction of the Commission. Another period is also reserved for general comment later in the meeting for those that could not be heard at this time. Public hearing testimony will only be taken at the time of the hearing.
6. CONSENT CALENDAR – None
7. PUBLIC HEARINGS – None
8. NEW BUSINESS
SUBJECT: The Commission will receive a presentation on specific capital improvement projects and on how its purview aligns with work led by the Long Range Planning Division and Engineering Division.
RECOMMENDATION: Receive and provide feedback.
SUBJECT: The Commission will review its schedule of regular meetings, special meetings, and special events in the Annual Calendar and consider various date recommendations by staff.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1) Select Saturday, April 19, 2025, for the Annual Tree Planting Event.
2) Select Saturday, September 13, 2025, for the Annual Tour of City Facilities as a Special Meeting.
3) Select Wednesday, October 8, 2025, for the Annual Televised Meeting.
C. LIGHTING AT THE PLUMMER PARK COMMUNITY CENTER
SUBJECT: The Commission will receive an update on the lighting at the Plummer Park Community Center and consider staff’s recommendation to upgrade the exterior lighting as part of the upcoming Community Center Upgrade Project.
RECOMMENDATION: Approve staff’s recommendation to upgrade the lighting at the entrance to the Plummer Park Community Center over the exterior restrooms as part of the upcoming Community Center Upgrade Project.
9. UNFINISHED BUSINESS – None
10. EXCLUDED CONSENT CALENDAR – None
11. ITEMS FROM STAFF
12. PUBLIC COMMENTS
This time is set aside for the public to address the Commission on any item of interest within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Commission that could not be heard under the Public Comments item at the beginning of the meeting.
13. ITEMS FROM COMMISSIONERS & SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS
LOOK AHEAD CALENDAR FOR THE AGENDA PREP & COMMISSION ITEMS TRACKER
14. ADJOURNMENT
The Public Facilities, Recreation, and Infrastructure Commission meeting is adjourned to its next regular meeting on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. in the City Hall Community Meeting Room, 1st Floor, 8300 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069.