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(a) The Board shall have the power to enter into contracts for services and leases as it deems necessary for the operation, management, maintenance and control of the Monument. The Board shall be subject to the requirements and provisions of the City Charter and of this Code with respect to such contracting and leasing. However, the Board shall not have authority to contract with an individual or firm as a master tenant, developer, or operator of all the commercial property within the Monument, except for that portion of the Monument known as the Pico-Garnier Block.
(b) Because of the need to preserve the stability and character of Olvera Street as a Mexican marketplace, and because under the current circumstances competitive contracting of the concessions on Olvera Street would work an incongruity, would produce no advantage, and would make it impossible to preserve the Street’s unique character and its true essence and flavor, the Council hereby finds that it would be impracticable, and incompatible with the best interests of the City and the Monument, to engage in a competitive contracting process for new concession agreements for the operation of the businesses on Olvera Street. Therefore, the Board is hereby authorized to negotiate new long term concession agreements with the merchants existing on Olvera Street as of June 24, 1999 without any arbitrary or artificial limit as to their duration, but rather with such duration to be determined based on what is negotiated as being fair and reasonable in light of all the other terms and conditions negotiated for the contracts. The Board shall develop the criteria which it proposes to use in determining the lengths of the terms for the contracts so as to treat all merchants equitably regardless of the size of the particular merchant’s business. The criteria shall be submitted to the City Council for its approval prior to the commencement of contract negotiations. The Board shall provide appropriate relocation assistance whenever a continuing tenant’s business must be relocated within the Monument to meet the needs of the Monument. To the extent feasible, whenever a tenant’s business is so relocated it shall be relocated to space that is comparable space to that previously occupied by the business.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 167,902, Eff. 6-13-92.
Amended by: Ord. No. 173,290, Eff. 6-30-00, Oper. 7-1-00.
The Board shall create as many advisory committees as it deems appropriate but must establish and maintain an El Pueblo De Los Angeles Historical Monument Merchants Advisory Committee and a Friends of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument Advisory Committee. The El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument Merchants Advisory Committee shall consist of 7 members. Each merchant group listed below shall select the number of merchant members designated as their representative on the Advisory Committee:
Retail 3
Small Food Service 1
Restaurant 1
Office, Banking etc. 1
Artistic, Service or Creative Design 1
The Board shall establish appointment criteria for the Friends of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument Committee and establish minimum meeting requirements and rules for each of the Committees. The Committees shall meet, consult and provide advice, assistance and information to the Board on any matter affecting the Monument.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 167,902, Eff. 6-13-92.
The following actions of the Board shall require prior approval of the City Council and the Mayor in order to become effective and before their implementation:
1. Master plans, development plans, and amendments thereto.
2. Debt financing of any kind.
3. The annual budget for the Department, including expenditures for capital improvements, and amendments, deletions or additions thereto.
4. Creation of all personnel authority.
5. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the City Council, the Arts, Health and Humanities Committee of the City Council, or the Chair of said Committee may at any time require a report from the Board on any subject properly under the jurisdiction of the Board.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 167,902, Eff. 6-13-92.
(a) The transfer of functions for the Monument to the Department pursuant to former Charter Section 32.1(a) shall become operative at such time as personnel, funds and equipment to perform those functions are first provided for in the Budget or any amendment thereto for the Department by appropriate action of the City Council and Mayor. It is the intention of the City Council to transfer to the Department all positions relative to the Monument which currently exist in the Department of Recreation and Parks or which are funded by the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Park Trust Fund and which the Board determines to be required by the Department. It is also the intention of the City Council that all positions transferred to the Department be filled with personnel who occupy those positions at the time of the transfer. Rules and regulations previously authorized and adopted for the operation, management, maintenance and control of the Monument, or relative thereto, shall remain in full force and effect.
(b) Between the effective date of this ordinance creating the Department and the respective applicable effective date of each transfer of resources, the authority to operate the Department will be limited to an exercise of those powers, duties and functions for which resources have already been so provided by the City Council and the Mayor.
(c) Those powers, duties and functions of the Department of Recreation and Parks related to and affected by the transfer of powers, duties and functions by this chapter are hereby transferred to the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument Authority Department in the manner and at the times provided herein. The nature and character of the real property comprising the Monument as a park or recreational site shall not be affected by this chapter and that real property shall continue to be subject to the provisions of Charter Section 594, except that the Board shall act in place and stead of the Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners with respect thereto.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 167,902, Eff. 6-13-92.
Amended by: Ord. No. 173,290, Eff. 6-30-00, Oper. 7-1-00.