Committee approves consent items including streetlight conversion and temporary closures
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The Public Works Committee approved items 3 through 10 on consent, covering ceremonial street namings, signage, temporary street and walkway closures, a refund claim report, and CAO recommendations on bridge engineering prequalified contracts.
The Public Works Committee approved items 3 through 10 on consent during a special meeting, with Council members Hernandez and Hutt voting aye and Council member Padilla recorded absent.
The items read into the record and approved on consent included a motion to designate the intersection of Branford Street and Remick Avenue as Japanese American Community Center Square; a motion to erect Melrose Arts District signage along Melrose Avenue between Fairfax and Highland; two separate Bureau of Engineering reports recommending temporary closures of McCoy Avenue at Lomita Boulevard and a walkway south of Ilmar Drive between Filio Street and Manning Avenue; a motion to temporarily close an alley adjacent to the Wilmington Municipal Building between Avalon Boulevard and Broad Street; a motion to convert streetlights to solar-plus-battery lighting; a Board of Public Works report on a refund claim by Toltec 9; and a CAO report related to prequalified on-call bridge and design support contracts under federal, state and local funding guidelines.
The chair made the motion to take items 3–10 on consent and it was seconded; a roll call produced two ayes and the items were adopted as recommended. No substantive debate on the individual consent items was recorded.
The committee recorded the vote and moved on to scheduled presentation items.