Board of Directors’ Meeting

The Board of Directors are scheduled to meet Thursday, November 19, 2015 (due to the Thanksgiving Holiday on November 26) at the SBESC Theater, located at 20285 S. Western Ave, Torrance, CA 90501.

There will be a light dinner and informal discussion at 5:30 pm. The meeting will begin at 6:00 pm. 

To ensure a quorum, please RSVP to [email protected] or [email protected]  

 

AGENDA

 

I. CALL TO ORDER & SALUTE TO THE FLAG (6:00 PM) – Jim Gazeley, Chair

 

II. INTRODUCTIONS

 

III. CONFIRM POSTING OF THE AGENDA BY TORRANCE CITY CLERK

 

IV. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF ANY CHANGES TO THE AGENDA 

 

V. COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC

 

VI. CONSENT CALENDAR (6:05 pm)

Matters listed under Consent Calendar are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion and one vote. There will be no separate discussion of these items. If discussion is desired, that item will be removed from the Consent Calendar and considered separately.

 

A. October Board Meeting Minutes (attachment) – Approve

 

B. Appointments to Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission and I-710 Policy Advisory Committee (attachment) – Approve

 

C. Measure R South Bay Highway Program Budget Request to Metro for 2016-2017 (attachments) – Approve

 

D. 2016 Energy Leader Program Extension Amendment for the South Bay with SCE and SoCal Gas – (attachment) – Approve

 

E. Contract Extension with GSE Solutions (attachment) – Approve

 

F. Facilities Use Agreement with SCAG for Video Conferencing Equipment (attachment) – Approve

 

G. EEMIS Website Resource Contract (attachment) – Approve

 

H. Contract with Jennifer Zivkovic (attachment) – Approve

 

I. Contract with RideAmigos (attachments) – Approve

 

J. 1st Quarter Financial Report (attachment) – Receive and File

 

K. Monthly Reports – Receive and File

1. South Bay Environmental Services Center Report (attachment)

2. Transportation Report (attachment)

3. CARB October Board report from Judy Mitchell (attachment)

 

VII. PRESENTATION

 

A. Ocean Water Desalination Program Overview (6:10 pm)

1. Presented by Associate General Manager Fernando Paludi 

 

VIII. SBCCOG ACTION ITEMS, REPORTS & UPDATES – Jacki Bacharach (6:40 pm)

 

A. Homeless Initiative (attachment) – Approve

 

B. Green Building Challenge

 

C. Election to fill officer vacancy in January

 

D. General Assembly 

 

IX. TRANSPORTATION REPORTS

 

A. Metro Report by Board member James Butts/Mike Bohlke (6:55 pm)

 

B. Service Council report by Ralph Franklin, Chair (7:00 pm)

 

C. South Bay Measure R Highway Program, Steve Lantz (7:05 pm)

1. 1st Quarter Report

 

X.BOARD MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS (7:15 pm)

 

XI.     AGENCY REPORTS (7:20 pm)

 

A. League of California Cities & LA Division Legislative Committee (Bea Dieringer & Jeffrey Kiernan)

 

B. South Coast Air Quality Management District (Judy Mitchell, Joe Buscaino & Stan Myles)

 

C. SCAG & Committees (attachment) – Note:  Oral Committee Reports will include new information not in the attachment.

1.  Energy and Environment (Judy Mitchell, Jim Osborne)

       2. Transportation (Dan Medina, Olivia Valentine) 

       3. Community, Economic, & Human Development (James Gazeley & Frank Zerunyan)

       4. Regional Council (Judy Mitchell, Dan Medina, James Gazeley)

 

D. Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission (Jim Knight/Suzanne Fuentes)

 

E. South Bay Association of Chambers of Commerce (Olivia Valentine) 

 

F. South Bay Workforce Investment Board (Chris Cagle)

 

XII. UPCOMING EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• December 10 Tour of AQMD Laboratory
• January 11  RTP/SCS Workshop with SCAG CEO Hasan Ikhrata    

 

XIII. DECEMBER & JANUARY SBCCOG COMMITTEE MEETINGS & WORKING GROUPS

 

Consult website for specific times and places for other meetings – www.southbaycities.org

 

XIV.    ADJOURNMENT

Next Board meeting – Thursday, January 28, 2016

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!