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Votes at a glance: council approves routine items, introduces shopping cart ordinance and authorizes CalPERS payment
Summary
At the meeting the council approved routine items RA 1–6, introduced Ordinance No. 2025-1 on shopping carts, adopted a staff recommendation to send $1,000,000 to CalPERS, and approved the Lakewood Housing Successor Agency register of demands — all by unanimous roll call votes.
The Lakewood City Council took the following formal actions during the published agenda portion of the meeting; all votes recorded in the transcript were unanimous (aye votes by Council Member Wood; Council Member Croft; Council Member Arellano; Vice Mayor Cassandra Chase; Mayor Rogers):
- Routine items RA 1–6: Approved by motion and unanimous roll call. (Details of RA 1–6 not specified in the transcript.)
- Ordinance No. 2025-1 (Agenda item 2.1): Waived reading and introduced an ordinance adding subsection 4323q to the Lakewood Municipal Code to require commercial businesses with five or more shopping carts to have a program for shopping cart identification, retention and retrieval and to find abandoned carts are a public nuisance. Introduced by unanimous roll call.
- Reports item 3.1 (CalPERS accelerated payment options): Adopted staff recommendations to authorize an initial transfer of $1,000,000 in earmarked reserves to CalPERS to reduce the city’s unfunded accrued liability and directed staff to review capacity for additional discretionary payments annually.
- Lakewood Housing Successor Agency: Register of demands approved by unanimous vote (details not specified in the transcript).
These actions conclude the published agenda portion of the meeting. Items that were voted on with little or no discussion are recorded here as approved where a roll call vote appears in the transcript; where item specifics were not provided in the transcript the entry is marked “not specified.”
