SPRING 2018 CovinaTODAY INSIDE: PARKS & RECREATION SPRING ACTIVITIES GUIDE, PAGES 14-47 CITY DEPARTMENT PHONE NUMBERS CAMPS Administration/City Manager’s Office (626) 384-5410 City Clerk/Records Management (626) 384-5430 Contents City Manager's Message 4 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Building Division (626) 384-5460 Community Development 5 Inspection Scheduling (626) 384-5461 Police Department 6-7 Code Enforcement (626) 384-5470 Office Hours 8 Housing Programs (626) 384-5400 Public Works 8-9 AQUATICS x5906 Planning Division (626) 384-5450 Community Garden 10 Chalk Festival 11 FINANCE DEPARTMENT (626) 384-5510 Parks and Recreation 14 Water Bill Inquiries (626) 384-5230 Community Groups & Activities 45 Business Licenses (626) 384-5512 Park Map 46 HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT (626) 384-5555 Registration Form 47 PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT (626) 384-5340 SPORTS Senior Services Division (626) 384-5380 (626) 384-5303 AQUATICS CLASSES PUBLIC LIBRARY 12 Aquatic Program 28 Youth & Adult Music POLICE DEPARTMENT (626) 331-3391 29 Adult Dance 24-hour Nonemergency (626) 384-5808 30 Adult Fitness/Athletics CAMPS PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT (626) 384-5220 15 Camp Covina 32 Adult Special Interest Engineering Division (626) 384-5490 TEEN Workshops & Classes Environmental Services Division (626) 384-5480 Equipment Division (626) 384-5240 33 CPR & First Aid Park Maintenance (626) 384-5220 SPORTS Street Maintenance (626) 384-5220 16 Youth Water Division (626) 384-5220 17 Adult ADULTS 50+ 34 Special Events OTHER HELPFUL PHONE NUMBERS Athens Services (refuse/trash service) (626) 336-6100 34 Over Fifty Activities TRIPS Covina Chamber of Commerce (626) 967-4191 TEEN 35 Excursions 18 Teen Scene Covina Concert Band (626) 332-0020 36 Exercise & Fitness Covina Valley Historical Society (626) 966-9871 18 Leaders in Training Covina Farmers’ Market & Family Night (626) 241-2017 36 Dance Classes Global Water Customer Service (855) 354-7579 Graffiti Hot Line (626) 384-5599 36 Special Interest Classes Los Angeles County Animal Control (626) 962-3577 TRIPS 37 Programs & Services Los Angeles County Services Help Line 211 19 Excursions 38 Seminar Series CLASSES 39 Club Meetings CLASSES 20 Youth Special Interest City of Covina LIBRARY 21 Youth Academics 40 Library Services CITY COUNCIL 22 Youth Arts & Crafts Mayor Jorge A. Marquez 40 Your E-Library/ ADULTS 50+ ADULTS Mayor Pro Tem Walter Allen, III 24 Youth Dance Online Resources Council Member Victor Linares 25 Youth Fitness 40 Kids Corner Council Member Peggy A. Delach 26 Youth & Adult Tennis Council Member John C. King 42 Adult Programs City Clerk Mary Lou Walczak 27 Youth & Adult Martial Arts 43 Literacy Program Treasurer Geoffrey Cobbett CITY OF COVINA EXECUTIVE TEAM City Manager Brian Saeki is published by the City of Covina. Police John Curley LIBRARY 125 E. College Street, Community Development Brian K. Lee CovinaTODAY Human Resources Danielle Tellez Covina, CA 91723-2199 Parks & Recreation/Library Amy Hall-McGrade phone: 626.384.5400 email: [email protected] Public Works Siobhan Foster Finance Anita Agramonte PLEASE FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA. www.covinaca.gov www.covinaca.gov Covina TODAY 3 City Manager City Manager's Message Dear Neighbor, with the design and construction team on finalizing the project. We expect to be under construction in the Spring. I hope this message finds you all doing well and having Also getting underway this Spring will be the Grand a fantastic 2018! As promised, 2018 is already proving to Avenue Water Service Upgrade Project. This project be a very busy and productive year in Covina. We continue will replace a main waterline under Grand Avenue. Shortly to make significant investments into our infrastructure and thereafter, we will be finally repaving Grand Avenue! That are always looking into work is scheduled to ways to better serve our begin early Summer and residents and businesses. be completed by the end The Covina Forward of Summer. On top of project at the former this, we will be investing K-mart site is progressing approximately $3.8 quickly. The former million in other street K-mart building and improvement projects. parking lot have been Our Parks & demolished and the Recreation and Library site has been “rough Services Department graded.” The project will be offering some consists of townhomes, wonderful opportunities a community recreation to enjoy the season. area and pedestrian access The annual Chalk Art to the adjacent Foothill Festival will be held on Transit Center. The April 14 in partnership Transit Center includes with AutismHwy.com. a parking structure, bus The Spring Day Camp bays, pedestrian plaza and program provides a safe retail buildings. Electric and fun place for kids vehicle and electric bus to spend their Spring charging stations will also Break. The Covina Public be available. Construction Library will celebrate is anticipated to begin by National Library Week the end of this year. April 8-14, with a host of The City is also updating the Covina Town Center activities for the whole family. For our active adults Specific Plan which is a plan that will help guide the 50+, programs are in full swing at our new temporary development in the Downtown area. The Plan is a valuable location at the former Lark Ellen Elementary School tool from an economic development perspective, and it campus. will also identify strategies to improve existing public Finally, the City’s budget development will be spaces and create new ones. Public meetings to discuss the completed before June. The task of preparing a balanced Plan by the City Council and Planning Commission will budget and building reserves is challenging, but attainable. be held in late Spring. Please be on the lookout for those Management staff will continue to make the organization notices on our website and around town. We would love to more efficient, while providing exceptional customer hear from you! service to our residents. Work is continuing on the new Senior and Community Center. Conceptual plans have been presented and Warmest regards, approved by the City Council, and staff continues to work Brian Saeki 4 Covina TODAY www.covinaca.gov Community Development City Homelessness Planning Grant In November 2017, the City of Covina received a June 30, 2018. It is envisioned that this plan will include $30,000 grant from the County of Los Angeles to fund the following strategies and information: the preparation of a City Plan to Combat Homelessness. • Assess the resources currently available to Covina to Covina was one of 47 Los Angeles County cities that address the homeless challenge; received the homeless planning grant. These grant funds • Identify opportunities for Covina to collaborate with were a result of the recently approved Measure H. the County of Los Angeles and neighboring cities on The amount of grant funding awarded to Covina for the initiatives to address homelessness; and, preparation of the homeless plan was based on the number • Identify how Covina can coordinate efforts and of homeless persons residing within the city at the time resources to collaborate with the County of of the 2017 Homeless Census. The Homeless Census is Los Angeles and neighboring cities to achieve conducted by Los Angeles County each year in an effort mutual goals. to quantify the number of homeless persons residing in the During the development of plan, the city will sponsor county. At the time of the Census, 80 homeless persons several workshops and meetings with the public, homeless were identified residing within the City of Covina. services providers and other community stakeholders The grant funds will be used to pay for a consultant to obtain feedback and information. Please visit www. to assist the City of Covina in preparing the City Plan to covinaca.gov for more information on preparation of Combat Homelessness, and must be completed by Covina’s City Plan to Combat Homelessness. JOIN OUR TEAM! The City of Covina continuously seeks energetic and knowledgeable individuals to fill current job vacancies for both full and part time employment. Learn more about how you can join the City team by visiting us online at www.covinaca.gov/hr. You may also subscribe to our online notification system to receive an email when the job you are interested in applying for becomes available. www.covinaca.gov Covina TODAY 5 Police Department Take Back Our Communities In previous editions of Covina Today, the Take Solutions, a leader in providing essential information Back our Communities campaign was introduced. to help communities assess, predict and manage This program is designed to educate and engage risk. LexisNexis’ public Community Crime Map residents on matters related to public safety. The connects law enforcement with their communities in previous article outlined recent legislation AB109 an effort to reduce crime and improve public safety. and Propositions 47 and 57, which have had negative Community Crime Map increases public awareness effects on our community. of crime activity in their town. The program goes Crime rates statewide, including in Covina, beyond crime mapping by automatically alerting the have spiked at an alarming rate. Law enforcement public about recent crime activity and improving officials believe these increases to be an unintended communication between the public and local law consequence of the new legislation. The goal of enforcement. Community Crime Map empowers Take Back our Communities is to provide a uniform the public to make better safety decisions by putting approach to engage and educate elected officials, technology that is used to analyze and interpret crime residents, and business owners on these issues. It activity, into the hands of the community. provides a venue for the community to let their Residents may access the Covina Community voices be heard on these matters. Take Back our Crime map at https://covinaca.gov/police/page/new- Communities is a call to action at state, county and crime-report-map-covina.