The following is the recap from the City Council meeting on Tuesday, June 24, 2014:

CONSENT CALENDAR

1. Approval of Joint City Council and City Council acting as the Governing Board of the Successor Agency to the Former Santa Clarita Redevelopment Agency/Board of Library Trustees meeting minutes from June 10, 2014 – Approved 
2. Reading of ordinance titles – Approved
3. Adopt the recommendation of the City Council Legislative Subcommittee to support Assembly Bill 2670 (Medina) to formally establish the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development as the entity in the State with lead responsibility for engaging the Small Business Development Centers.  – Adopted position of support 
4. Adopt the recommendation of the City Council Legislative Subcommittee to support Assembly Bill 2717 (Bonta) to appropriate $6 million from the State general fund supporting the Federal Small Business Development Center program in California – Adopted position of support 
5. Adopt the recommendation of the City Council Legislative Subcommittee to support Assembly Bill 1262 (Correa) requiring the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) to license dispensing facilities and cultivation sites that provide, process, and grow marijuana for medical use, including a background check for license applicants.  The Bill would also make licenses subject to the restrictions of the local jurisdiction in which the facility proposes to operate – Adopted position of support
6. Adopt the recommendation of the City Council Legislative Subcommittee to oppose Assembly Bill 2188 (Muratsuchi) eliminating the review process for small residential rooftop solar energy system permit applications and requiring a permit to be issued upon receipt of a completed application – Adopted position of opposition
7. Adopt the recommendation of the City Council Legislative Subcommittee to support Assembly Bill 2104 (Gonzalez) which seeks to clarify existing law by making it clear that a provision of the governing documents, guidelines, or policies of a Common Interest Development shall be void and unenforceable if it prohibits, or have the effect of prohibiting, low water-use plants as a group or as a replacement of existing turf, or prohibits a homeowner from complying with a local water-efficient landscape ordinance or water conservation measure – Adopted position of support 
8. Adopt the $191.5 million Fiscal Year 2014-2015 annual operating budget and capital improvement program – Approved
9. Resolution to reestablish parking in front of 25000 Avenue Stanford, requested by the Saugus Union School District, to help meet existing parking demands – Approved
10. Award design contract for widening the south side of the existing Newhall Ranch Road Bridge over the San Francisquito Creek to eight lanes and add a multi-use path with a trail connected on the west side – Approved
11. Award two-year maintenance service contract to provide contractual landscape maintenance for LMD Zone 2008-1 (major thoroughfare medians) – Approved
12. Purchase heavy duty compressed natural gas water truck for the Urban Forestry division as approved in the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 budget – Approved
13. Check register NO. 12 – Approved

PUBLIC HEARINGS

14.   Annual levy of assessments for open space preservation district – Approved
15.   Annual levy of assessments for special districts – Approved
16.   Annual levy of special districts for drainage benefit assessment area NO. 22 – Approved
17.   Annual levy of special districts for Landscape Maintenance District No. 1, Zone 8 – Approved
18.   Annual levy of special districts for Landscape Maintenance District No. 1, zones 24 and 26 – Approved
19.   Annual levy of special districts for Landscape Maintenance District NOS. 1 and T1, zones T23, T23A and 28 – Approved
20.   Second reading adoption of an ordinance determine the annual Stormwater Pollution Prevention Fee for Fiscal Year 2014-15 – Approved

NEW BUSINESS

21.   Referendum petition against Ordinance 14-02 approving the development agreement with Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (METRO) for the removal of 62 off-site advertising structures and construction and operation of three digital billboards – City Council called a Special Election for November 4, 2014 requesting consolidation with the County for the Statewide General Election.