AGENDA
CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD
PUBLIC FACILITIES, RECREATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMISSION
TELEVISED SPECIAL MEETING
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2024
6:30 P.M.
WEST HOLLYWOOD CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
625 N. SAN VICENTE 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. If special assistance to participate in this meeting is required (e.g., an American Sign Language interpreter), please submit your request in writing to the Office of the City Clerk at (323) 848-6800 at least 48 hours prior to the meeting. The City TTY line is (323) 848-6496.
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.
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 OCTOBER 9, 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
SUBJECT: The Commission will begin the process to study a naming request to name the future theater at the City Playhouse the “Andrew Campbell Theater” to honor the life, work, and contributions of the City’s former Arts Manager Andrew Campbell, in accordance with the City’s Naming Policy.
RECOMMENDATION: Accept staff’s recommended public participation/ input process and timeline related to the naming request as outlined in the staff report.
7. PUBLIC HEARINGS – None
A. ANNUAL TOUR OF PUBLIC FACILITIES DISCUSSION
SUBJECT: The Commission will reflect and share their comments from the Annual Tour of Public Facilities held on September 14, 2024.
RECOMMENDATION: Receive and discuss.
B. REPORT OUT ON THE ADOPTED FY24-26 BIENNIAL BUDGET
SUBJECT: The Commission will receive a brief presentation about the adopted FY24-26 biennial budget and provide input on the prioritization of its budget items.
RECOMMENDATION: Receive and provide input.
C. UPDATE THE COMMISSION’S SUBCOMMITTEE ROSTER
SUBJECT: The Commission will review and make adjustments and appointments to its subcommittee roster, as required, and set a prioritization schedule related to upcoming subcommittee meetings.
RECOMMENDATION: Make adjustments and appointments to the Commission’s subcommittee roster, as required, and set a prioritization schedule related to upcoming subcommittee meetings.
9. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
A. FEEDBACK ON TENNIS & PICKLEBALL OPERATIONS
SUBJECT: The Commission has a standing agenda item to receive feedback from the public on the City’s tennis and pickleball operations.
RECOMMENDATION: Receive feedback from the public.
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, November 13, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. in the City Hall Community Meeting Room, 1st Floor, 8300 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069.