Council: Auctioning surplus vehicles,
EPA agreement on Monday’s agenda
October 17, 2014
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula News
It should be a short City Council meeting Monday night with one business item - the disposal of surplus vehicles - on the agenda, although there is a consent decree with a federal agency on the Consent Calendar related to problems with the city’s storm drain system.
The October 20 meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 970 E. Ventura St. It will be broadcast live on Time Warner Cable Channel 10 and replayed per regular schedule. The meeting can also be viewed live on the city’s website where it will be archived for viewing on demand.
There will be one presentation at the meeting regarding the November 15 Mariachi Festival to benefit the Senior Center.
Included on the Consent Calendar agenda, those items usually considered routine and not warranting discussion, is a consent decree with the Environmental Protection Agency regarding permits for the city’s storm drain system.
There is no fine involved but the city must develop and implement a program to identify and eliminate “illicit connections and illicit discharges” to its storm drain system.
According to the report by City Attorney John Cotti, if the city complies within the mandated timeframe the order will be terminated, terms that were negotiated after discussions started in June.
The only business item concerns property: the council will be asked to place several surplus vehicles on the auction block. The list of surplus material ranges from Engine 182 - a 1982 Ford Pierce fire truck - and maintenance equipment vehicles to several police cars, including a 1999 Crown Victoria with more than 179,000 miles to a 2002 Malibu with 80,035 miles. Also getting the boot is the SPPD’s 1994 Ford E350 SPPD Mobile Command Unit, which is listed as having more than 300,000 miles. All vehicles and equipment will be sold through an auction house, which will keep a small percentage of sales.
The next regularly scheduled council meeting would have occurred on November 3, the night before the November 4 General Election. But according to the staff report the council agreed at the September 3 meeting to cancel the meeting “so as not to conflict with the election.”
