City Council - Regular Meeting

Alrighty. Good evening, everybody. I would like to call this regular session of the city council meeting to order. And I will call it to order at 6:02 p.m. Can I get a roll call, please? Council member Laura here. Council member Finn here. Council member Martinez here. Mayor Pro Tim White here. Mayor Foe here. And um city attorney, can we get a report out on close session, please?

Yes. The council met in closed session. Item B1 was conference with legal counsel regarding existing existing litigation. That's the Rosa Maria Ruez versus City of Bulmont matter. There was no reportable action taken. Item B2, conference with legal counsel regarding potential initiation of litigation. Two potential cases. No reportable action. Item B3, conference with labor negotiators. Uh, the A agency designated representative Henry Garcia or his design unrepresented potential employee. City manager, no reportable action. Item B4, public employee appointment, employment and the title of the position, city manager, no reportable action taken. Item B5, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, significant exposure to litigation. one potential case. There was no reportable action taken.

All righty. Thank you. And if you could please join me in an invocation by Mr. Kent Spencer and followed by the pledge of allegiance uh by Council Member Martinez.

Good evening. Let's pray. Lord, I thank you for the privilege to pray for this council meeting tonight. Give each member of the council and key representatives wisdom in the decisions that affect the people and the businesses in Bowmont. May you bless all that is said and done here tonight. We ask all this things in your name, Jesus Christ. Amen. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance.

Ready? Begin. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

All right. Uh do we have any adjustments to the agenda? Yes. Mayor and city council, we would like to uh pull item G6 from the agenda uh with no further action. Okay, very good. We will be pulling item G6 from the consent calendar. Okay. Um do we know if there's any public comments for item G6? Thank you. I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line for item G6? We have no callers at this time.

All right. Excellent. All right. And we will begin our meeting with um recognition for a special young man today. So tonight we have the pleasure of recognizing a very special young member of our community has who has earned a truly remarkable opportunity. So Alonszo, are you here with us today? All right. I see him sitting over there. Alonzo is joining us this evening as he was recently invited to join the Real Madrid Soccer Club. That's exciting. That's a I think a local club here, isn't it? No, it's a um club in Spain. It's the best club um worldwide.

Oh, awesome. So, for those of you who follow soccer, you know this is an extraordinary achievement and a rare opportunity for a player of any age. At just nine years old, Alonzo has already shown that his dedication, discipline, and love for the sport are setting him apart as a truly talented young athlete. We are also honored tonight to have Alonzo's mother, Anna, here with us along with his coach, Ivan, and representatives from his school. Um, can we have Alonzo and um his mom and his coach come up to the podium, please? Alrighty. Well, Alonzo, you have worked incredibly hard to get here and the city of Bumont is very proud to have you representing our community on the field field. We will be cheering you on every single step of the way. So, we have a little certificate for you and the certificate says in certificate of rec recognition, excuse me, Bumont Youth Real Madrid Foundation, Alonzo Guen for the athletic achievements of being selected to train with the Real Madrid Soccer Club in Madrid, Spain. Alonzo was one of 22 soccer players chosen by Real Madrid from a nationwide group. The city of Bumont is pleased to honor you and your achievements. Yay. Come on up here. All right. Ready? One, two, three.

All right. One, one more. One, two, three. Let's take one one more. Let's do one more real quick with mom. Sorry.

Yes. All right, there we are. Ready? One, two, three. Good.

Yes. As a soccer player myself, I am and my kiddo, I am proud of you. That's a lot of hard work and keep up the dedication. It can take you far. The things you learn in sports can really help you in life. All right. Um, we have one more recognition uh as well, and this is recognition of our finance director, Jennifer Ustation. So, Jennifer joined the city of Bulma in 2017 as a senior accountant. In 2021, she briefly served as interim finance director before being selected for the permanent position in which she currently holds. Jennifer has been a valuable contributor to the city of Bowmont's growth and success. And while we will greatly miss her leadership, we wish her continued success in your next endeavor. Jennifer, we really appreciate all that you've done. You've brought um significant knowledge, the GFOA awards, um and truly financial transparency. um to a city that needed that. Um and so we really appreciate all of the work that you have done for us and we really wish you the best. You are dynamite. Um and I know that wherever you go, you will lead with grace and you will shine. So congratulations.

Anybody else on the council want to say anything? On top of everything else that you've done for the city, you've improved our reputation significantly and we appreciate that. And Jennifer, thank you for making um finance something that everyone could understand. I appreciate all your efforts in that regard. Made our city proud and we're going to miss you. So, good luck in your future. Jennifer, you did a wonderful job. Um built a good team and and having served on the finance and audit committee, um I certainly learned a lot and it's and you've been a good resource and and we wish you the best in in your next endeavor. We're going to miss you.

Congratulations. Good luck. Yeah, I do.

I I I wrote something so I I have to say something and I'm going try to get through this without crying anymore. So, I thank you, mayor and council. It has truly been an honor to serve the city of Bumont. I started here in 2017 as a senior accountant and I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to grow into the role of finance director. I'm proud of the work we've accomplished together. Strengthening financial policies, building sustainable reserves, modernizing systems, and creating long-term forecasting tools that support informed decision-making. But none of that happens because of one person. It happens because of strong leadership from this council and a dedicated finance team that works hard every day behind the scenes. I've been fortunate to work alongside people who genuinely care about this community. So, as I move on to my next chapter, I leave knowing the city has the tools, policies, and framework in place to navigate whatever the future may bring. So, thank you for the opportunity to serve this community.

Thank you.

One more photo. All right. Ready? One, two, three.

Good. What else?

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All right. Ready? One, two, three. And one more just for good measure. Ready? One, two, three.

Good. All right, we will be moving on. Hold on one second. All right, we will be moving on to our public comment period for items that are not on the agenda. Any one person may address the city council on any matter not on this agenda. If you wish to speak, please fill out a public comment form provided at the back table and give it to the city clerk. There's a threeminut time limit on public comments. There's no sharing or passing of time to another person. State law prohibits the city council from discussing or taking actions brought up by your comments. Um Nicole, do we have any public comment? I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line?

We have no callers at this time. All righty, then we will be moving to consent calendar. Um, are there any items to be pulled for discussion? Okay, seeing none, are there any public comments on consent? I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any new callers on the line? We have no callers at this time.

All right. Well, prior to um making a motion or taking a motion, I would just like to make a comment on item G7. Um I just really wanted to say thank you for once again bringing this forward as Highland Springs traffic and continuing uh to improve traffic along Highland Springs has been a priority for the council. So, I appreciate uh seeing an item on here for um us to continue that with the implementation of the AI traffic signals. So, thank you. And I will entertain a motion. Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve consent calendar items G1 through G5 and G7 through G9. I'll second. All right. Can I get a roll call? Council member Laura?

Yes. Council member Finn? Yes. Council member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Promay. Yes. Mayor Foy, yes. Right, that takes us to item eight, youth council report. Do we have a youth council report tonight? Yes, we do. Great. Come on up, ladies. So, we Oh,

okay. Uh we had a meeting on February 10th and we got to meet our lovely mayor and we got to ask her questions all about uh why she became mayor, what are her plans, what she's hoping on accomplishing during her time and we got to learn a lot more about just why she why she is mayor and more about her in general. We got to learn about her passions and what drives her to continue working and it was great. Wonderful. Thank you guys. It was an absolute honor to be with you guys. You truly surprised me with your questions that you guys asked. They stumped me at times. Like, oh my gosh, I wouldn't have even thought to to ask that question. So, just a word of encouragement as always to you guys. Like we talked about, you know, continue to focus on the community, continue to provide services and and get involved. and I'm really proud of all the work that you guys are doing um under the direction of council member Martinez. It's really awesome to see you guys push forward. You guys have a very bright future.

Thank you. So, thank you. All right, we will move to our public hearings. Um item I uh the third amendment to the fiscal year 2026 through 2030 capital improvement plan. And we will have our first staff report by Matthew Mendoza. And yeah,

good evening, Mayor and Council. Just give me one second to get a slide up. All right, we can see it.

Good evening, mayor and council. Again, sorry. Um before you today is the proposed third amendment to the city's 5-year capital improvement plan from fiscal years 2026 through 2030. Staff is proposing to amend the CIP by adding one new project, revising five project budgets, and closing three projects. Uh starting with the new project request F2604. Uh this project is intended to provide funding for the rehabilitation of building E uh to serve as an interim animal shelter um with the potential for future growth. Um while this item was brought forth for a discussion on February 3rd, um this CIP amendment is necessary to formally establish and fund the project. Um secondly, uh staff is requesting a budget change for CIP 2604, which is for the traffic signal installation at Second Street in Pennsylvania. Um these funds uh will be transferred from a recently completed uh CIP uh CIP R34. Um so there is no fiscal impact to the general fund. Nextly, uh staff is requesting a budget change for uh the bicycle and pedestrian path. Uh this is associated with the adopted city's uh bike and p pedestrian connectivity plan master plan. Uh the majority of these funds come from a recently approved SB821 grant agreement um with RCTC. uh and the remaining portion will be uh coming from CIP R36 which was also recently completed. In addition, uh staff is requesting a budget change for uh R25-14, which is the uh Petrero bike lane upgrade. Uh this project will be funded

through the remainder of the funds in CIP R36 um that were not allocated to the previous uh master plan implementation. Um next we have a amendment to a grant award uh for the transit yard. Um this is the Carl Moyer grant uh for the CNG station at the new transit yard. Um due to some uh due to some uh updated projections um there is no longer um as high of an output projected and part of the grant was calculated based on uh what our expected annual usage would be. So with our transit fleet converting to CNG but then with zero mission transition the projected sales are going down and so the scale of the station will be decreasing. Um so this is uh to memorialize that funding change. And lastly, um staff is requesting to close out CIP R2505 for the 8th Street uh sidewalk feasibility. Um this project was recently completed. Uh and the remaining balance can be transferred back to the city's diff balance uh to be used for a future project. And with that uh that concludes my presentation and I would like to open up uh the conversation for any questions. All righty. Great. Thank you, Mr. Mendoza. I will open up this public hearing at 6:23. And Nicole, do we have any public comments?

I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. All right, then I will close the public hearing at 6:23 and open it up for further council discussion. Council member Martinez.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Just a quick question on the R2514. Um, it says that we're reallocating from R36 uh back to 2514. Correct? Because we that one's complete. So, we're putting it back to Well, we're putting it 2514. My question is, so it shows general fund. So, is that something we typically do? We move it over to general fund and then move it over to the CIP that we're we plan to reallocate it to. Typically, uh we would bring it forth during the CIP amendment if we plan to use it towards other projects. Uh if not, then it would go straight to the CIP general fund balance.

Okay. So, it's going to be then going to the um bike lane project fund. So, that's going to increase it um court to looks like 23981. Correct. Um, and do we have a plan for that money now or is it just in that account until we have further projects? Uh, since that project is complete, uh, there's there's no need for that funds in the current project it's in. Um, but for the pro I'm asking. So, sorry. For the new project. Yeah. So, for the Peturo project, we're loading it with 239. Do we have plans for that money or is it

Yes, we do. I'll address that one, Matthew, if you're all right with that. Yeah. So, council will see the the Petero bike lane uh improvement very quickly. We we had a field walk out there. We think there's a a a great opportunity to do some really neat enhancements along in between First and Pennsylvania Avenue. The extra cost, the extra cash or or uh money, excuse me, will allow us to um really enhance it a little bit more than some striping.

Okay. and and when you reallocate and you prioritize. So, we moved it from the citywide uh street since we're complete with that project. We're moving it over here to this one with the Peturo bike. How do you prioritize from all the different projects we have that it's going into that one? I mean, how did you decide to put that much into that one? Is it

Sure. It's based on it's based on need and amount. Uh we for that project in particular, it's kind of been lagging because we knew that the I believe it was $50,000 originally wasn't sufficient to to carry it all the way. So we're kind of waiting for additional funds to come available. uh these did they're not substantial enough to really impact like the grade separation or a paturero project. However, council is free to direct staff to uh apply it somewhere else. Well, and that's that's the only reason I ask is just because, you know, as we had talked in the past about funding um shortfalls and so forth, you know, I have this vision of anytime we can save money instead of, you know, going forward with the possible project, let's see, is there anywhere we can infill, you know, without cutting projects because I know council member White you had mentioned, you know, we won't want to stop going forward with projects and I agree with that. I was just wondering where the priority came from as if you just is there any other way you can look and see where else we can put not that it's not deserved. I'm just questioning that process. That's all I'm doing. So, um I'll go ahead and and I don't have a problem with it being there, but what I do have a concern with is going in the future some coming up with shortfalls somewhere and then saying, "Well, we had money here, but we used it over here instead." So, if you can kind of use your crystal ball and predict, you know, if we're not going to have any shortfalls right here immediately, then I'm okay with moving that money there. If you guys think that that's the, you know, proper place to put it. I don't want to micromanage. So, you know, I agree with your professional opinion, but that's that's the premise I always put out. Just remember that as things come up, I don't want to come back and have, oh, we could have used that to

something somewhere else. You know, that's all. So, just a word of caution for that. Thank you, mayor. Anyone else? All right. With that, then I'll entertain a motion.

Mayor, did we open and close the public hearing? Yes. Okay. Apologies. All right. So, I'll move that we wave the full reading and adopt by title only a resolution of the city council of the city of Bowmont amending the 5-year capital improvement plan for fiscal year 2026 through 2020. I'll second. I get a roll call, please. Council member Laura, yes. Council member Finn, yes. Council member Martinez, yes. Mayor Pro Tim White, yes. Mayor Voit, yes. All righty, that takes us to action items. Item J1, approval of professional services agreement with Spicer Consulting Group for fiscal impact model development and fiscal impact analysis review services. And Miss Station, one of your last ones,

one of them. I'm not gone quite yet. So, tonight I'm requesting approval professional services agreement with Spicer Consulting Group to develop a city-owned fiscal impact model and provide fiscal impact review services. So, as development activity comes through the process, it's critical that the city evaluate projects using consistent assumptions and methodologies to protect the long-term sustainability of the general fund. Um, historically staff have relied on applicant prepared studies and consultant reviews on a projectby-p project basis. While effective, that approach does not provide a standardized framework owned and controlled by the city. So, this agreement would allow us to establish a uniform fiscal impact model that applies consistent revenue and cost assumptions line with adopted budget and fiscal policies, distinguishes between fixed and variable service costs, identifies service thresholds that may require additional staffing or capital investment, um, and is delivered in an edible format under city control. So, this model will serve as the baseline tool for eval evaluating all future development projects and reviewing applicant prepared analysis. In addition, Spicer will use the city's model to conduct project specific fiscal reviews as needed to ensure consistency with our policies and assumptions. Um, staff recommends Spicer based on their familiarity with the city's general fund structure and prior fiscal analysis work. Um, staff also reached out to two other firms who indicated that they could not provide these services um or recommended our current CFD administrator for this scope. So, the fiscal impact model will cost 12,500 funded from contingency. Project specific reviews will range from 2500 to 12,000 depending on complexity and are anticipated to be funded through development review fees. The total agreement is not to exceed 40,000. Uh and staff recommends um approval. So I'm happy to answer any questions you have and Shane Spicer is also in the audience for any questions.

Great. Thank you. Do we have any public comments for this item? I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. Okay. Seeing none of then I will open up to council discussion. Is there a condition that Miss Station follows this project through? Should be. I I agree.

I I just want to say thank you for doing the due diligence to go out and see if there was anybody else um uh for the project. And as we hear it sounds like we have the person for the job. So, I will go ahead and uh make a motion to approve a new professional services agreement with Spicer Consulting Group and an amount not to exceed 40,000 to provide fiscal impact model development and fiscal impact analysis review services. I'll second. Can I get a roll call, please? Council member Laura, yes. Council member Finn, yes. Council member Martinez, yes. C Mayor Prom White, yes. Mayor Voit, yes.

All right. And that takes us to our neighborhood traffic program. Um, and we will have an staff report by Robert Bestl. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. It, if I can get my screen shown. Thank you.

All right. So, the city of Bulmont's neighborhood traffic management plan, uh, NTMP, is designed to address traffic safety concerns in residential neighborhoods such as speeding, increased traffic, uh, volumes, and changing land use. The program uses a balanced datadriven approach that prioritizes neighborhood livability, public safety, and efficient uh, mobility. Solutions are developed through collaboration among residents, the public works department, law enforcement, schools, traffic engineering professionals, and other city stakeholders. Uh, all measures follow state law and standards, including the California code, CVC, California Vehicle Code, excuse me, CVC, and the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, also known as MUTCD. The NTMP, the neighborhood traffic management program, includes five key steps which is initiated first with the request or petition is generally initiated by residents, uh, other staff members or even council members. Residents submit their concerns or petitions to to public works online. After we receive it, we initiate phase two, which is the evaluation. City staff conducts traffic studies, field reviews, and data analysis. That moves to the third phase, which is a response. Findings and potential solutions are shared with the resident. And then lastly, not lastly, excuse me, uh second to last, implementation.

Excuse me, Robert. If you're doing slides, we're not seeing any changes. Yeah, I'm not doing I'm sorry. Okay. All right. Just making sure. We're missing out. So boring. We're missing out on the slides. Yeah, I apologize. So implementation approved measures are installed. Uh timelines vary by measure. And then finally, lastly, review post installation monitoring ensures effectiveness. Hey.

Yeah. Sorry about that. That was way too long for one one slide. All right. Uh, so purpose and why this matters. This formalizes the city's approach to neighborhood traffic safety concerns. It's transparent and has a consistent framework. It complies with the state law and engineering standards. uh residents frequently request traffic calming measures which is why this really is uh important and why it matters. In this last year we received 33 requests. Uh half of those about 16 were requests for stop signs. about five of them were for speed humps or speed bumps uh in their request and then a a mix of traffic signals, curb painting uh and some specialties. Uh and lastly, this this program is comparable with other cities like HIT, Riverside, Redlands, Anaheim, and several others. Key benefits as mentioned before it it's a citywide consistency. It ensures compliance with the California vehicle code and the MUTCD. It's datadriven decisions. It's transparent and fair. And it's bal it balances livability and emergency access. All right. So, traffic calming measures. Just a quick note, the the items listed here are the ones that we routinely implement. As the city

develops new measures and adopts um emerging measures from other cities and other uh agencies, we'll add this into the the document. A good example of a a measure that's not included is traffic striping. Similar to when you get off the uh SR60 onto Sixth Street. You'll notice that there's lines on either side. That is a visual uh measure to help reduce speeds. I didn't slow down, so I'm not not sure of its effectiveness, but uh certainly potential to be added into the uh the document. So the ones that we routinely implement are enforcement that that's exclusively through PD uh traffic signs and pavement markings. That would be speed limits. Uh additional signage uh no truck routes would be one. stop signs, traffic signals, and then lastly, speed humps. Speed humps is in addition to this document. Um I I don't think I mentioned this earlier, but uh council has heard a verbal um presentation of this document about three years ago. It was done under the city manager's report, so it wasn't a formal document. We have since formalized it, and that's what you're receiving today. All right. So, let's get into speed humps. I think we're all familiar with stop signs and traffic signals, but the we're not, as of yet, the city has not

adopted a speed hump policy, which is why this document is really being brought forth. So, what are speed humps? Speed humps are raised pavement features designed to slow vehicles on residential streets while maintaining reasonable driver comfort. They differ from speed bumps because they provide gradual deflection, reducing discomfort and vehicle damage. A speed bump is typically found in a commercial parking lot. It's very abrupt. No one really enjoys those. A speed hump is an engineering engineered measure um really designed for the speed at which you want to control traffic at. The purpose is it it's intended to reduce vehicle speeds and improve neighborhood safety commonly used in residential areas where speeding is a concern. In this document, the policy and approval process uh requires a petition. So it starts with a a citizen petition where a particular resident or a group would need to secure 70% of the affected households uh within that that street. The city would review uh traffic studies and emergency service coordination. We would engage fire and PD to make sure that the site uh warrants speed humps, but also that there are no objections to the installation of a speed hump in that location. And then it would require city council approval via a public hearing before installation. The timeline typically 6 months to two years from request to installation. The elig eligibility is what's shown on your screen. It has to be a residential uh street,

one lane in each direction. Has to be a quarter mile or longer. Uh with a speed limit of 25 miles per hour or less. The street width has to not exceed 40 ft. And the grade has to be 8% or less. And it lastly, it cannot be a primary emergency or transit route. Some of the considerations and drawbacks of speed humps is it does slow traffic and improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists. However, it does increase noise from breaking and acceleration. Drivers may speed between humps. uh longer travel times for residents in emergency vehicles and increased vehicle emu emissions. Oh, I was supposed to take that out. Sorry.

Yeah, for sure. So the the action today is to uh adopt this policy as I had mentioned earlier the city has been implementing all of the other criteria except for the speed humps within the last year and we've been very effective about it. Our response time is within two weeks to notify the the um the resident and then implementation time after that really depends on our ability to collect data and then also the uh actual measure implemented. So a traffic signal can take up to two years. A stop sign can take up to a week to to six months. So with that, I'll open it up to any questions. All right. Thank you, Mr. Vestal. Do we have any public comments for this item?

I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. All right, then I will open it up to council discussion. I can You want to start us off? You want me to? I just wanted Yeah, if you would. Yeah, sure.

I just wanted to give them a comment that I appreciate the speed hump in there. When I was mayor, it was one of the frequent things that I was called on about speed humps and we really didn't have a way to talk it out with the residents about why or why they would be or wouldn't be a good idea, you know. So, I like the way that the procedure set out and it is consistent and would follow this for everyone and and go with whether the criteria matches or not. So, I appreciate that. But I think this is going to really help um with those residents that un don't understand or perhaps want it but they don't they have to now get their neighbors involved within the neighborhood. So I appreciate that. So that was all I wanted to mention.

Yeah. Thank you. And um I have a I have a question regarding that. Um with regards to the 70% of households in the area, is that specific to the speed humps or any of these uh changes that are requested? Yeah, it is specific to the speed humble only.

Okay, very good. And then um just a a question and maybe a discussion for my other council members up here. I if we have designated that um fire I think where you can paint the curb colors. We have designated that authority to the public works director. Um, is there an appetite to continue to direct this decision to the public works director versus bringing it forward as a council discussion if it meets all the criteria? I mean, it seems very data driven and kind of approached. I I don't know if there's an appetite for that, but that was something that I was I was thinking about. If they met all the requirements, it's going to be the recommendation from the um director of public works, then does it need to have a further level of bureaucracy from us? I I don't know the answer, but just a a thought um that maybe we could walk through.

Um Mayor, yeah, may I? Thanks. Um I think it's a good question. U Robert, we have some other cities that have put those in. Do you know if they have gone to council for all those decisions? Some do, some don't. The ones that do um have emphasized the ability to make it a public notice is really the emphasis, not necessarily the council. um approval. Okay. Gotcha. Perhaps maybe a good compromise would be that it'd be, you know, come forward as a consent, you know, item that it's there. It's it's it's noticed

noticed and so forth and then the council if they need to comment on it or or so forth and then we could we could pull it for discussion if it was needed, if it was maybe somebody there's opposition to it outside of maybe the support, you know, that gives the the the public opportunity to come and and voice their opinion. Yeah, I think that's a good perspective. Council member uh excuse me, Mayor Pro Tim White, um just uh the first restriping of the road out here, did that come to council uh on Sixth Street? Yeah, it did not. Yeah, I think we should have this come to council. Okay. Council member Lara.

Yeah, you did mention that once you have finished your review, it does come to council for approval, correct? or no, for the speed hump only.

Okay. So, yeah, for speed hump only. I'm okay with that. I I do appreciate the fact that you've got this in a policy now that has a specific flow to it. Obviously, um it's data driven, Mr. Engineer. Um appreciate that. Um have you ever considered in lie of speed humps? I know that some cities have done um I just call them larger size truncated domes um similar to they're similar to like the ADA ones only they're they're bigger and they're I think they also work as a traffic calming and aggravating and agitating as well.

Yes. So that that is definitely a possibility. I I think public works should explore that further. Okay. H. However, just on on the surface, they are quite noisy and they require continual maintenance. They they pop up, get dislodged frequently. Okay. Yeah. No, then I'm I'm good with the humps. If the noise, I guess, would be an issue as well if you don't I hadn't thought of that. Thank you very much, Mr. Vestto. I appreciate that. Good job.

All right. Well, if nothing further, do we have uh a motion or any other discussion? Mayor, I'll move that we adopt I move that we adopt the neighborhood traffic management plan. I'll second. Right. Can I get a roll call? Council member Laura? Yes. Council member Finn? Yes. Council member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Proim White? Yes. Mayor Voy? Yes. All right. That takes us to item J3, the Cherry Festival 2026 relocation analysis. And the uh staff report is going to be by Mr. Mr. Romo.

Yes. Thank you, mayor, members of the city council. So, the idea today is to give you a cost breakdown for the potential relocation of the cherry festival to the city-owned 30acre site over on Cougar and Bowmont Avenue. Uh on February 3rd, uh you requested that staff look at what these costs would entail uh and return tonight with a cost breakdown. uh the analysis that we have presented to you tonight. It identifies the anticipated cost categories that are associated with the cherry festival um at this proposed site but also distinguishes between the city and the foundation's cost. The cherries of the past foundation who by the way we do have uh staff members here and board member correct? Yes. So we are identifying with the exception of entertainment, community engagement and food beer categories uh estimates that are primarily based on the 2025 event costs. And given um our timeline here, these are planning level estimates. We have not yet taken the site plan to the city's DRC for review. Uh so in looking at what we broke down, we first looked at the planning level city costs uh to be able to prepare this site for the temporary event. So again, we're looking at what we look would look at uh Noble Creek, which would be the full service traffic control, uh the perimeter fencing that would be needed. Keeping in mind that after putting this report together, we did talk to the foundation about the foundation taking on the responsibility of the fencing. So you'll see in the cost breakdown that the foundation has an estimate for perimeter and interior fencing, temporary fencing of a little under $15,000. So if they were to take on that responsibility, this 78,000 would go away. So the city would no longer be responsible for that. Uh we're also

looking at the temporary lighting for the parking lot and the event area. Um the temporary water service and we have talked to our water uh agency about this. There's a possibility for sponsorship there but we don't know just yet. Uh portable restrooms, handwashing stations, event security uh again everything that we anticipate for a vacant site. contracted wheat abatement, but also keeping in mind that that is a possible sponsorship opportunity. So that might not have to be city costs. It could be a sponsorship cost. Uh and also there is a cost savings in the sense that we're already anticipating the weed payment for that site because it's city-owned and we have to do it prior to the Fourth of July event. So again, that's a cost that not necessarily would take place because we're already doing it overtime for police services, supplemental fire services, uh shuttle services to and from the event. Uh public works staff for the event and community services staff as well. Um temporary shade structures, again that could also be responsibility of the foundation. uh special event insurance system for collecting parking fees if the city decided to charge fees. And again, we have a total of about 1320 parking spaces possible at this facility. Um the idea of also having just VIP parking as part of the pre-sales could be put in there. That means uh maybe we could have a hundred VIP parking spaces dedicated uh for anyone that wants to come in and you know be parked right in the front so they can enter the event quickly. So the total cost with a contingency of 10% we're talking about $412,766. Now in uh 2025 the city had a total event cost of about $260,000.

When we look at the cherries of the past foundation costs, they would be saving the first item that you see there, the rental of the facility, or they could be providing that to the city to offset your costs. So again, that's 50,000 that they would have paid for the Noble Creek rental. Um, we look at tables, chairs, food court, and stage areas, which they would also be doing. Uh either way, also event security, uh the water truck and sanitation services. And so looking at all these uh and keeping in mind too, we put this in here, the entertainment has been fully sponsored, but we're pending official statement. So last year the city provided $100,000 as a donation. This year it's fully paid for. So the city has the opportunity to provide that for something else, but it wouldn't have to go to the entertainment anymore. So all in all, the foundation costs are $264,819. Currently, the Cher's Foundation has a total uh budget of $142,500, but they're here to elaborate on that, too. So we're anticipating a gap of 122,000. But again, keeping in mind what I just told you about some of the things that could be sponsored that could go down to as low as $70,000. So, additional considerations for this site, there's a middle school located across Cougar. Uh, but to reduce any conflicts with school operations, festival activities on Thursday and Friday are planned after 5:00 p.m. So, there wouldn't be any conflict with the school. Uh and the scheduling approach is intended to minimize noise, pedestrian activity, anything that's happening to Long Cougar. Preliminary public safety review. Now, both police and fire, we have talked to our chiefs and our staff. Uh they don't see any issue with this site. Um no uh

additional concerns that would say these are unsurmountable. Uh however, there will be additional review as part of the DRC process. Uh so the site plans are being refined and the event details as well will be finalized as part of that DRC review process. The other thing to consider is weather and site conditions. As you know with an event taking place on a 30 acre vacant site um there's always risk uh risks that are related to weather conditions. If there's ponding for instance on the site, if there rain uh winds, heavy winds, you know, with dust control and so forth. But keeping in mind that the cherry festival has historically always operated on a rain or shine event. So they would be taking place anyways. The only thing is we would have to make sure we mitigate those uh impacts on this um if that were to happen. Cost efficiencies like I mentioned the Fourth of July fireworks prep that's happening anyways. So you would still need the fencing for that. And if we were going to go ahead and do the fencing, the cost for the fencing is really the installation and the removal. So, it really hasn't do not much to do with the month-to-month. So, we'll keep that on there. If the foundation ends up paying for that, um, what we'll do is we'll just pay the monthtomonth, which I believe, uh, Robert, correct me if I'm wrong. The monthly would be about $500 a month roughly. Okay. So, there wouldn't be much cost, you know, if we had it for two additional uh, months, you know, till the end of the 4th of July. Uh so again looking at all of these costs and looking at avoiding the rental facility of 50,000 knowing that we have city-owned equipment also to be able to provide and help for that event like generators uh third party rentals that we can help out with. So all of this we feel are feasible. Of course keep in mind that

the easy way to do it is to just keep going with the Noble Creek. Um there is additional considerations you know for the 30 acre sites and again all costs right now are preliminary for planning purposes only. Optional city costs are included for transparency and council direction. And again the final costs between the city and foundation would be subject to your direction and any applicable agreements. If you wanted us to amend theou to have other considerations you know that's up for discussion. Uh so all in all city has approximately $219,000 budgeted 100,000 for the sponsorship 59,000 for traffic control 14,000 for the weed abatement 10,000 for budget budgeted for the fourth of July fencing individual department overtime costs 6,000 for transit services and 30,000 for community services those are already budgeted police department budgeted 63,000 in overtime costs um it also shows this as revenue reimbursement. So again, we can get this reimbured by the foundation. And the other thing to keep in mind, um this could be covered by the economic development budget. So economic development has uh 500,000 that are set aside for economic uh promotional activities. If you recall, this is something similar that was done with Bulmont Knights. So if you were to do this, we have that budget in place. we could take from the 500,000 to cover this. So, the additional impact of the general fund, we're identifying 1936, but 500,000 covered through the business and center programs account. Um, so if there's any questions that you have, again, we're here to answer those as well as the foundation. Our staff is here. They work very diligently uh and hard to put this together for you on a timely basis. We do need uh an answer today uh one way or the other. Thank you.

All right. Thank you, Gus, uh, for that and thank you to the staff for your hard work in getting this together. I know we kind of dropped that on. Yeah. Uh, do we have any public comments on this item? I have no written requests. And then, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. Right. Seeing none, I will open this up to council discussion. All right. Council member Martinez. All right. Thank you. Uh, let's start off with numbers just to make sure I clarify. So the 412766 you're saying does not include the 100,000 anymore because that's now covered. Correct. So that would be right now what we would be looking at, you know, at the planning level. But 412766.

That's correct. That 100,000 um could go towards something else. Okay. But I mean Yeah. So the 412 then would be what it costs with all those tallied up. um and 100,000 is not there because that's been covered. So my question then for 25 when you show that the total event cost is 259884 was that with the $100,000? I should say the 412 is um separate from the 259,000 that were allocated last year. So the 412,000 does not take into account the 250,000.

Oh, I know that. But what I'm asking I was trying to to compare. So this year if we were to spend all that 412 without getting reimbursed or whatever um that would be what we're spending and then last year we spent 259. Did we spend is that 100,000 a part of that or is it 259 plus 100? The 100,000 was part of the 259.

Okay. So then the difference then for this year comes out to 152 more or less um of an increase. And that's assuming that that nothing's adjusted up there. So, it brings us to my my second question is the duplications that we saw between the Cherry Foundation and our costs like the restrooms and the fencing and stuff that still needs to be discussed to see who's going to do what and what's going to come back and so forth, right? So, that has to be fine-tuned still.

That's correct, sir. And knowing that the foundation has a total of 142,500 right now for the event, they're looking to cover that gap, you know, for the remainder. Um but also if they could help out by not having the city pay for the fencing fencing for instance that's 78,000 off of that 412. Now the entertainment you say is covered this year. Is that including as that music and carnival? So I haven't seen anything about carnival. I believe it's just the music but uh we do have um here there was no carnival anywhere. I think the carnival is separate but we'll confirm. And then the question is why if it is

Hi, good evening. Um the carnival is a uh partner. We are contracted um in partnership with them and they reimburse us um a a settlement check um for their revenue. So they are not um an expense uh that comes out of the foundation's budget at all. Okay. So you don't rent them. Correct. Okay. So they come in and their money comes off of their sales. Yes. That they get. So foundation's not taking a percentage or portion of those sales. No, the foundation takes a percentage of the sales. We do not um contract them and pay for them to be there. It's the other way around. So there's no expense, but there is revenue. Correct.

Okay. That that explains a lot. So I appreciate that. Okay. Thank you. And then Gus, um, so for the weather, you know, I get concerned about having a rainy rainy time and having a muddy event. I know that we're at um, Stewart Park, most of that was in grass, so I mean, it gets soggy and stuff, but it wouldn't get muddy. And then, um, at Noble Creek, of course, you still had the same grassy area except for the Carnival was a lot of dirt and then most of it was on pavement. So, we haven't really for seen a cherry festival totally on dirt um or whatever weeds are there at that time. So, my concern is what kind of mitigations would we be able to do if any? You know, I don't want it to be a Woodstock event where we've got mud all over the place. So, what would you say could be done if anything in that case?

Well, we could always have a mud run. We might have we might have new carnival things. Yes. Well, our public works director and city engineer uh has actually done a sample on a corner of the site uh to look at three different options of a discing. I'm going to turn it over to uh Robert to explain what that looks like.

Yeah, sure. So, the the leg of the property closest to the school uh city staff performed two separate treatments, I guess, on two independent acres of that that area. Uh we just walked it today. We we did receive substantial rain and on one of them we compacted it so well that it it is still stable. We were able to walk um just fine. Didn't pick up too much dirt. Barring uh a large storm event during the event. I'm not sure what we'd be able to do at that time. It is on dirt. There there's not really a whole lot we can do. However, the site did perform very well under the rain that we just received.

Would that be your prediction that it would be able to hold the heaviness of the carnival rides as well? Uh I am not able to that that was one of my concerns is that I know for pedestrian walking that's one thing but to have the ferris wheel and stuff sitting on a dirt lot you know that's not prepared or even if it is prepared my concern is you know do we have that contingency? Do we have the ability to, you know, if they come in and say it needs to have this compaction? I don't know. I'm just making things up. But it's a concern I had. So,

I I don't have I don't have an appropriate answer for you. What I do have is that they do this professionally. They do it all over. They generally pick lots that are in dirt of of comparable status. So, they do an inspection beforehand and let us know if there was something that they didn't see was going to work. I'm not able to maybe the cherries of the past can uh aid in that discussion.

Hi again. Yes, they do. um if they have an engineer coming out um prior to setting up uh where they map everything and they um determine whether or not it's a feasible lot, that is something that we um can do even sooner than a week or a couple days prior to um just to make sure because I I also had the same concern if the carnival rides would be able to um withstand the dirt. And that's two weeks prior to the event or we can we can do it earlier than that. Okay. Yeah, but it it normally it's about a week before. Okay. Well, I might suggest an expedited just just because we're on, you know, a territory that we haven't been,

you know, though. Okay. I appreciate. Thank you. And um the last question I had might be for Cherries also. Um my question had to do with the on a part of the report it says that the foundation's broader costs are not included in the report. So, can you just refer to what that means? Are is there costs that you have like office expenses and so forth that come out of Cherry revenue or do you have uh a separate revenue source to cover those? So, um yes, there are office expenses and other foundation expenses that are not included in the cherry festival budget. Mhm.

Um so we do have additional um revenue source. Do you have money coming in that pays for that or do you use cherry money for that? That's my question.

Historically it's always been cherry festival revenue that has paid for um all of the organization's um expenses. So with our um new nonprofit status and our new organization, we are trying to um create more events to generate more revenue so that way it offsets foundation costs rather than having um the cherry festival revenue off uh paying for everything. And I appreciate that because when you first brought that up at the very beginning

last year or so that you were going to try to do more things, my concern came up was like, so you know, are we looking at using cherry revenue for your those, but it sounds like you're doing just the opposite. You're trying to get that revenue to cover instead of Yes. All right. I appreciate that clarification. That was a concern I had. Thank you. That's all, mayor. All righty. Uh, any other questions? Council member Fen?

Yes. Um, so I'm a I apologize. I'm a little confused by the numbers in that if we were to not move it, what would and and then we have and we'd spent 260 last year, what would we be looking at or what would the charities of the past be asking for a donation and, you know, to help make the event happen? If you were to continue with Noble Creek, um right now that 100,000 that you provided for the entertainment would not be needed. However, they could ask for that for something else to cover other expenses, which is the 122 or so that they are short per shortfall. Okay. Yes.

All right. So, if so, should we dec if we decided to cover all of that? We could we would it be a fair comparison to say it's 122 to stay there um at the parks district versus 412 by bringing it to our facility and then that 412 could change in reference to the fencing and and a couple other line items in there. Correct. Yes. The 78,000 and the 42,000 could go away. Okay. So then that would bring it down to about 300. Correct. Okay. So 300 to move it 122 or so to keep it there viewed that way. Okay. All right. Thank you.

I think one point of clarification that I would have on that is that the 300 um looks like there's actually 219 that will be going towards that 300. So you would actually have 300 minus the 219 because of the sponsorship, the traffic control, the weed abatement, the fencing, the transit overtime, the community services overtime, and the police overtime have all been budgeted essentially. You make a really good point, Mary. That is correct. Okay. And then um

so on there's an attachment on here on the relocation analysis which brings up um the preliminary costs. So if you're looking at what we are expediting, you can see the 412 or we're putting out there's a 10% contingency showing 412. We currently have it budgeted at 219. So this is what is currently budgeted is the 219. So if you were to take the 412 minus the 219, you we as a city would have a gap of 1937620 that we would need to to cover if the fencing is picked up. So you have 193766 if the fencing is picked up at 73K and the

the discing the discing is picked up as a donation which was 42,000 42 There we go. Then that ends up at approximately 70 to 75K that we could then cover under the GL budget from community s or uh under the GL for economic development

for economic development as a community engagement um event and it would be budgeted at 70 to 75,000. Really, my suggestion would be that we probably need to think about a h 100,000 uh and wrap our minds around a h 100,000 that would need to be expended out of this community engagement fund to cover the cherry festival there. So really we have no impact to general fund except for what's already programmed. That's correct, mayor. And keeping in mind that we did put that 37,524 contingency, correct? Which may not be used.

Okay. Thank you, Mayor. you know, I just wanted to kind of further um just kind of bring up my thoughts on this. Um, as we as we've discussed over and over again with regards to these events, it's it's nice to try and think of a longer term plan. Um, and while I want to feel like the police station will be built in the next, let's say, seven to 10 years, um, I think this gives us a five-year plan. Um, and gives us an opportunity to hold some other events for now and at least gives us a home for a little while while we think about another home. Um, and I do think that this gives us the opportunity for Cherries of the Past to continue to grow their program, which is what they're really trying to to do. And I think that what we've seen here uh in my opinion is an excellent good faith effort by charities of the past to continue to go out and search other opportunities which I don't think that we've seen in the past. So it's very encouraging to see um the potential donation for your entertainment. Um and I think that I've heard that they've been pounding the pavement with a lot of different people uh to try and get sponsorships. And more than anything, I think that that good faith goes a long way. And I want you guys to be recognized for that because I think that that takes a lot of work um and a lot of grit. And I think you still have the time to do it to even lower cost potentially. Um and I think has been mentioned numerous times on this DIS that the city has really subsidized this event for a long time and we didn't really recognize that at the beginning. Um, and I do know that while we're putting a lot of pressure on um on our staff to do something of this um size and nature, I I know that our staff um and I have full confidence that they believe in this event and that they

want to see it to be successful as well. And I think with the partnership, we can really bring uh an event that knocks it out of the park. Um, oh, probably a poor choice. Wow, good one. Um, and I just think that we really have some great opportunities um to continue to develop this partnership. I really do. Uh, Council Member Lara. Yes. Um, I'm sorry. Can I get you back up again? That the representative I've forgotten your name. I Yes,

I want to just echo the mayor's comments and your efforts. I understand that you've already replanned the layout of the carnival as well. I did. Uh you've already gotten the sponsorship of the entertainment. So that kudos to you for that. Thank you. So let me ask you, are you comfortable with moving this this project or did I put you on the spot? A little bit.

Okay. Um I I would like to speak for all of my board. Um my executive board, my board of directors. Um there is some hesitancy. Uh we're concerned about um environmental um concerns of is it going to be feasible? Is it going to be ready in time? Me personally, um, with the determination that the city staff has put into it already, um, I feel like they are really, really devoted to wanting to get it done and have it be successful. Um, so I think I think we just want we want the festival to happen. We want it to succeed. Um, and I when I say succeed, I I I literally probably just mean like have opening day happen and have people come in like

as long as that um is everybody's goal. Um, I I personally think that it could be possible. Um, but that doesn't mean that I don't have hesitations or concerns. Sure. I think I think as you can tell, we all do, right? I mean, it's it's something that's new. We're going into territory that we've never ventured into before either. But I think that as the mayor indicated, I think there's an opportunity for a great partnership here. I agree. Um, one of the concerns that I've had for years is, you know, how does this how do we sustain this? And I think maybe we're looking at a potential option of of sustaining this and hopefully it's the beginning of something new. So, I just wanted to commend you for your efforts though and thank the board for their support. Thank you. I will definitely take that back to them. Thank you.

Thanks. That's all I have, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member White or Mayor Prom, excuse me. Uh that's okay. Uh so first of all for the knock it out of the park comment that's jvo gt at bulmontca.go.

Um did you guys see the speed bump that I the uh the cleanup? Um I know that was a concern that parks district had. So, is the cleanup something that staff's going to be responsible for the Cher's Foundation or do we need to just think about that and add it to the to the list? That was factored in the community services overtime budget. Correct. Okay. As added. And u in response to one of your comments, Mr. Martinez, where's the grass at Steuart Park?

Okay. Okay. because I did it's always been dirt there for me. Um, council member Laura pointed out there is some grass around the pool or was. But anyways, um, and if there is a huge large storm, I would imagine the I hate to say this, but I would imagine the attendance is going to be way down, you know, if it if it's just full on what we had the last day or two. So, I'm not real concerned about that. And I also I think we've got a plan in place as far as making sure that the ground meets the needs of the Carnival people. You know, this is a decision that I don't take lightly. I don't think any of us do given the additional cost, but our responsibility is not to choose the cheapest option. It's to choose the most reliable and most defensible. Uh the district has twice failed to honor specific terms under which we agreed to hold the cherry festival. Once may be a miscommunication, twice establishes a pattern. Proceeding again without enforcable insuranceances would reflect a breakdown in oversight. Um, spending an additional $150,000, $200,000, whatever that number is is difficult, but doing so to ensure certainty and accountability is risk mitigation and not ma, not waste. And at this point, the issue is not trust, it's governance. So, uh, continuing under the same conditions to me would not be optimism. It would be negligence. And I think we need to move forward with moving this to, um, the city's property. That's all I had.

All right. I will entertain a motion. Um, looks like this is a receive and file and to provide the direction. So, I guess we don't really need a motion. We need to provide direction. I'm assuming that there needs to be modifications to theou. Um, yes, and that's something we'll be talking with staff and the board about foundation. Uh, but we do need direction as to whether you want to continue at Noble Creek or move forward with the 30 acre site. You know, I personally think it should be a motion. There should be a motion as well. So, I'll I'll move that we uh go the uh way of the city property at Bowmont and Cougar. I'll second. Can I get a roll call, please? Council member Laura, yes. Council member Finn,

yes. Council member Martinez, yes. Mayor Pro Tim White, yes. Mayor Voy, yes. All righty, let the adventure begin. At least we can have full direction and a plan. All right, we'll be moving on to item J4, and this is a follow-up report uh number 20 for our local state of emergency sewer mainline failure and emergency repairs in Fairway Canyon. and we will have a staff report by Thaxton Vanbell.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um, these items uh have been a uh reoccurring staff report since the incident uh March of last year. We are uh at a point where we have hit the $1 million budget on paper and therefore this has become an action item to request uh city manager authority for an additional $100,000. As of today, we're out of pocket 540,000. We have incumbrances that would total 1,28,000. That would be if we spent every dime of contingency, extra mitigation, etc. The wild card in all of this is uh any continued legal fees. U Miss Mendoza shared with me this morning that we have about $5,000 in legal fees that is not reflected at the time of the staff report. So the 28,000 um does not reflect those totals we just got today. So, uh, that's why we're here with this on as an action item.

All right. Do we have any public comment on this item? I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time.

All righty. And uh I will open it up for council discussion but for just one point of clarification uh so the extra funds the 100,000 that we are requesting for the grand total of 1.1 million do we feel like this is going to be adequate to cover the fees moving forward uh with the new information you've been given? Sorry, I should have added that caveat. I mean, that that still gives us about a, you know, roughly a $70,000 buffer. I I I feel like we're at the end. Um, construction has started for the final repair. Um, obviously the rain this week is uh put a pause on it, but I I think this will be wrapped up in a couple weeks. What I can answer is how far and how long the legal portion will drag out. that because they all they're dealing with the insurance company and and other items like that kind of outside of the direct um advice and repair.

Do you know what we I mean besides the 500 that you just mentioned is that the total in legal fees that we have acquired I know we have a special lawyer at this point. Um just to be clear that's not just legal fees that is the initial response construction that's the renting the pumps and it's the so that's what we've actually outlaid out of pocket. We still have a commitment for a contract of, you know, the the the next um 300 plus thousand to do the final repairs and then things like contingency, ongoing mitigation, things like that.

Okay. Just trying to see if you have another number that you'd like to say. Well, there's a chance that we won't even hit the million, but we are currently encumbered for 1,28,15, so we don't want to move forward without uh authorization.

Very good. Any further council discussion? I will entertain a motion. Mayor, I'll make a motion to wave the full reading and adopt by title only a resolution of the city council of the city of Bulmont extending the declaration of a local emergency and authorizing the city manager to take action increase the spending authority of the city manager by 100,000 for a grand total of 1,100,000 to be used uh to address this emergency sewer mainline fail. I'll second. All right. Can I get a roll call, please? Council member Laura. Yes. Council member Finn. Yes. Council member Martinez, yes. Mayor Pro Tim White, yes. Mayor Voy, yes.

All right, everybody doing okay up there? All right, we will move on to J5, recycle water update. Uh, Mr. Van Bell as well.

Okay, this uh item today is a um receive and file. It's a it's uh as requested. It's kind of a recap of uh recycled water specifically, you know, what what's still ahead of us. Um but to to know where you're going, you kind of have to know where you've been. So within here, we have a recap. We have a really high level. Um things really started going getting going in 2018. Um when uh city council brought on staff, um approved the plans, did the kickoff for the the new plant, the brine line. etc. And there's multiple moving parts here. So I think um one area um some of the feedback I get is confusion over brine line and recycled water. So I'd like to address that one specifically. The brine line it is a serves as a byproduct to create the recycled water and also satisfy the state's anti-degradation uh limits that they published in 2015. 2015 they said you got to take the salt out of the groundwater. Bumont did not do that at that time and then that became what we call our salt mortgage. So we kind of owe the debt all the way back to then. And all of that is handled through the plant's reverse osmosis facility and the reject water goes down the brine line which runs from here to San Bernardino and then it ties into the Inland Empire brine line that actually takes that water all the way to Orange County for treatment. So that forecast that we owe um we are currently projecting to first quarter of 2028 to be satisfied with that.

If we were to stop discharging in the creek, we couldn't make up the the debt because we wouldn't be putting the the clean water in there. So we're so there's kind of one um marker in the ground. You we have to get past that. We owe that. At any time if we fail to meet that, they will come back and institute all fines dating back to 2015. So our full intention is to satisfy that and we're well on the way. The next is the environmental and I use that as a giant umbrella. In order to pull our water out of the creek, we get involved with the division of water rights. Uh a few years ago, myself, city staff, and a couple council persons went up, talked to the state board in Sacramento, and at that time, they indicated we'd need to do an environmental study that we call an AMMP, a mitigation plan, and that's to look at the effect of pulling your water out of the creek. What's it going to do to the riperian habitat? We came back, we got an approval um to uh have somebody start on that plan. It's an environmental study, so the first year is to get the baseline. And this kind of goes in with the time when you're when you're looking at the effects of habitat. These studies have to go year round. It's not just what's happening in five minutes or a month or they're they're year-long studies for that, you know, the birds, the nesting, the different, um, species of plants that are growing, etc. Uh, recently, um, as we've moved forward and getting ready to file that change petition, we were told we'd have to perform what's called a full environmental study or SQA. We hear that all the time. SQA goes

beyond just what the water is going to do. It's not just the lo the loss of the water by diverting it for a recycle project. It takes into account things like if we have to build a pump station to move the water, how much electricity, carbon, etc. If we have to build a pipeline from here to somewhere else in town, what are the environmental impacts, greenhouse gas, etc. And that's where we are now. Um tonight we have um Clay Sorenson with uh West Yoast. Uh they are performing the AMMP. They performed the first portion. They we did the um the report and they are continuing now. We have engaged them to do the uh the squa and they've wrapped that into their um their total package. So Clay's got a few slides here to kind of talk about where we are and and where we're going and what's involved. And with that, I'll turn it over to Clay. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Thank you for having me. Um, I just have a few slides to present to kind of give the overview and update on this project. Um, so there'll just be three main slides here. wanted to give the overview and purpose um a few accomplishment highlight a few accomplishments um and then discuss the path forward and next next steps. Um so as Thaxon mentioned there's a ton of um steps you have to take uh to get to your your main goal up in the upper right here of utilizing uh treated waste water as recycled water in Bowmont, California. Um so the past year and a half we uh spent a lot of time there's a lot of data in this area um which has actually set up the city of Bowmont very well for for future steps um to characterize both

the riparian and hydraologic systems. Um we're currently setting up the baseline monitoring program which is which is outlined in that uh baseline um excuse me the historical characterization report. Um we've been uh beginning uh the taking steps to file the SQA documents um which is also a large amount of of um work and a lot of technical studies that go into that. Um, another document that uh, Thaxton mentioned um, and is required by the state board uh, and will help uh, certain a um, appease certain agencies to not petition this project uh, is called the adaptive management and mitigation plan. Um, and it's it's something that can actually be called out as a mitigation measure within SQA. Um and as as Thaxton mentioned, what it will do is is outline any potential impacts to riparian um you know from a reduction in surface water flow and how those will be managed, monitored and mitigated. Um so one of the last steps here um and probably one of the more significant ones is the change petition to the state board that that um that document itself really requires those squa documents as well as the AMMP. Um and then once that's uh accept submitted and accepted by the state board uh there would be some ongoing monitoring uh through the AMMP document. Um but that could likely occur um you know after that that recycled water is is able to be utilized. Um again wanted to highlight some of the

accomplishments um and and uh steps we've taken uh to to where we're at today. Um so talked a little bit about uh the characterization report. Um as well uh as well mentioned the uh baseline monitoring program that's outlined in that report. Uh at the end of last year, we helped the city secure a grant from the DWR um to install a few stream gauges um so reducing overall project costs to the city. Uh we begin we've began the SQA process and and one of our project team members uh Caitlyn with Tom Dodson is is leading that effort. Um and then um to set the project up for success, we've engaged a number of regulatory agencies including the state board and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Um and today I was actually visiting a few of the potential stream gauge sites. So we're well into setting up uh the baseline monitoring program. Um so this is ba a pretty high level timeline of um what we've done and where we're headed um and given some general time uh frames on when they will be completed. Uh and I think if you want a more detailed um overview of the different tasks that go into each of these, you can find it in the uh uh agenda or board packet. Thank you. Thank you, Clay. Yeah, I think a couple of the the highlights there to are that we are we're doing things like engaging um fish and wildlife now instead of the first time talking them after we file. Um if we if we get them on board as we're going um make sure it satisfies everything. Those are the kind of steps we're taking now

so that we don't get held up later. It does take more time. You know, you have to interface with them. We have um meetings set up. We uh do feedback, you know, back and forth, etc. But it's better than them coming in after we finished everything and hitting us, you know, with something out of left field saying, you know, we object and then and then we're out there trying to gather uh and and start over again. So, uh I I know it's a lengthy process. I know sometimes it, you know, it doesn't feel like things are happening. We don't, it's not a building, so you don't see a lot getting graded. You don't see a foundation getting poured. You don't see, you know, um, structures going up, but there's there's a lot of activity happening in the background. And then, uh, finally, you know, we we have engaged our our local partners. you know, we we recently kicked off the project with the PASS agency for a sighting study for groundwater recharge um when we get to that point. And then um we continue to work with Bulmont Cherry Valley on anou for the use of the water and purple pipe and possibly moving it. Bulmont Cherry Valley also provided feedback on this uh squa project because they would be a partner. So, with that, um, I'll open to questions or comments from council and, uh, as is Clay.

Thank you very much for that report. We appreciate you being here as well. And, uh, Nicole, do we have any uh, public comment? I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. All righty. I will open that up to council discussion and start with Mayor Promite. Uh, thanks for the report. Um, and I agree a lot of stuff is being worked on and and I also agree it seems to take a lot longer than it should. Um, but I'm not a water guy. Um, so Mike, the concern I have, let me ask a couple questions.

Okay. Um, when we talk about the agency repair and uh mitigation, bottom line, if if if someone downstream is impacted by our changing how much water's going down the stream, then we have to mitigate that or go through a legal process. Correct. Yeah. when you actually file the change petition, uh it's published and there's an open period for anyone essentially to come and, you know, file, you know, a a uh an objection.

Okay. And I think you brought up the fact that one of the processes, and I'm not sure which one, um involved trying to to lessen that impact of of having to mitigate by getting ahead of the game on that.

Yeah. And that's what so much of the study is is to make sure and you know and and that you're not impacting in a negative way the environment. Um many of the if I look at other uh local agencies that have been that have had objections. There's a few uh environmental groups that are out there and they pretty much just cart blanc will file one. But the first one is always California uh Department of Fish and Wildlife. I mean, that's going to be your first their internal there. If if you haven't worked with them, that's going to be a serious um hold up for sure.

And what role does our um water master play in any of this? Um really at this level, really none.

Okay. Um, and it is likely Ukipa Valley Water District would be one of the our biggest concerns as far as um the rumblings we already hear as far as what may happen once uh we limit the amount of water that's going down there. Anyone downstream has a potential um to to to throw their hat in the ring, so to speak. There are things like, you know, water from outside of basin going to another basin and that that's again that's another legal group that we have uh on on board. But doesn't the water master manage the the basin issues?

The water master uh deals with groundwater levels in the adjudicated portion of the basin. for what we're looking to do that water wouldn't necessarily leave that that area. We would be using the water our current proposal is to use the water within the basin. Okay. Okay. That's all I had. Thank you.

One question for you. Um it seems like I don't know I like to be a mediator sometimes. So it seems like there's a way in which you send some down the creek, right? And then you you you put some back in. So is that part of what the study is doing then to look at and say if I send 60% down the creek and I recycle 40% and monetize it, then that's where we're at. And it's going to give us all of those options and the mitigation at each point. That is exactly what we're doing in part of the first phase study. And we had a couple we were kind of at a fork in the road as these studies go. And one of the items we came to council with was the initial findings of the study supported pulling out anything in excess of a rate of 1.7 MGD daily. So there's already some scientific support that everything downstream of us would be supported in the same way that it is today by leaving that roughly 40 to 50% flow going downstream.

Right. Excellent. Thank you. I think there's always a way forward with some type of compromise and you know finding out those. So, I appreciate the work that's going in and I'm sure that that's what those monitors uh in the stream beds at strategic points down the line are doing. And that's exactly the intent. If we just came in one day and said, "We're taking it all," you'd have everybody lined up. Sure.

with their pitchforks and torches. And I know that with the amount of money that we put into recycled water, it is important to recoup um you know at the highest point possible so that we can uh reap those benefits. And I think that that's something that we need to be continually balancing is, you know, how we find uh that sweet spot for a lack of better terms um to be able to, you know, we put forth a lot of cash for the infrastructure and now we need to make sure that we are being responsible uh with what we are doing. And I I think that's really the key point that we need to hold on to is that it was a lot that we fronted and we need to make sure that we're looking at the best way to ensure that we are paying that back in a fiscally responsible way. Uh council member Fen.

Yeah. Quick question. Thank is there a point at which if we don't if we're not able to recover enough that it's just not financially feasible to pursue it any further. Um you mentioned the 1.7 that's million gallons a million gallons of water per day. Correct. Per day.

So if we continue that do do we have the potential of as the city continues to grow expect more water to go through the system. So therefore then we can if we we maintain that 1.7 then we have more than to recover. And and is there a potential of hey we're not going to have enough. This doesn't make sense. pull the plug now. It's not worth spending the money. We're not looking at that, are we? Well, I mean, are are we looking at it, but we're not not necessarily going to run into that issue? I would argue that the money's spent. Okay.

The the plant is functioning, the water's being produced. Now, it's the effort to keep it. And then, um, I'd be remiss if I didn't quote, uh, Mr. Jaggers with his conservation of a way of life, things coming in the future that there's a threat that even as we grow as a city, there may be less and less water that actually comes uh to the plant through the pipes as new state laws cause tighter and tighter restrictions on things like your showerheads, your toilets, your faucets, etc., etc. Okay. At least at least we're got our eye open to it. So, all right. Thank you. All right. Very good. Any last comments from council? Okay. Thank you both. We appreciate that.

Thank you. Sure. All right. We will move on to J6, city population and wayfinding signage. Uh staff report by Julie Van Hook.

I'll take this one, Julie. Thank you. You can kick it off. Can I get it to share my screen?

Yeah, a few slides. So, on January 20th, uh staff prepared a provided a recap of prior efforts related to the downtown revitalization plan. And during the discussion, council expressed interest in two related items. replacing the city's outdated population signs and developing a coordinated wayfinder sign signage program. Just a brief note on population and elevation signs. They serve as more than just markers. They provide a quick standardized information about our community. Population signs give residents and visitors a sense of scale, helping them understand local resources and infrastructure. Elevation signs are equally important, offering a geographic data that supports weather awareness, emergency response, and safety, especially in areas prone to flooding or altitude related health concerns. Together, these signs reinforce our civic identity and provide essential information for both residents and visitors. A note on wayfinding signs. Wayfinding signs play a critical role in guiding people to key destinations such as downtown civic facilities, parks, cultural assets, and public parking. As we continue our downtown revitalization and economic development efforts, clear and consistent wayfinding signs will improve navigation, enhance the visitors experience, and strengthen our city's brand. Attractive standardized signage creates a sense of place and support tourism and local business growth. The list on the right is a tentative destination proposed is the tentative destinations proposed to be highlighted. The communication division in coordination with staff has developed a conceptual

design aligned with the downtown revitalization plan. The city's PIO Julie Van Hook will discuss the design. Thank you, Robert. Um, so council, what you see before you is kind of an ad adaptation of what you saw in the downtown revitalization plan. Um, it's reinforcing our city branding. Um, and these are some proposed design concepts for both population and wayfinding. And like Robert had mentioned, it's for, um, navigation, um, for more welcoming environment and to create a kind of safer, easier way to travel in town. And so what you see in front of you is um an example some some variations there um um of using our city branding colors and some sample um areas that we would highlight. Um and tonight we're seeking um you know your general input and direction on whether staff should proceed with the design concepts or some adaptation thereof. I'm up. Um all right. Do we have any public comment? Thank you, Julie. And Mr. Vestal,

I have no written requests. Someone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. All right. Well, I will open it up to council's discussion. Council member Fen. All right. This is a joke. Mayor, welcome to the tile discussion. I know you guys as I was reading this I was like I do I I I don't want I've already messed up today once so I'm going to keep my comments quiet. Um but I do I do have a little bit more. Thank you. Go for it. Uh Robert, our elevation is that um how is that determined? Is that the location of city hall or the highest point within the city?

Yeah, that's a great question. So I did pull it from city hall. Our differential throughout the city is hundreds of feet. So it is city hall. Okay. All right. Thank you. Um, no. I on Can you pull it the the the signs back up? Um, so if I had a preference, um, I'm leaning towards, um, three and four just to start the conversation. I'm good for now, Mayor. All right. Very good. Uh, Council Member Lara.

Well, thank you very much for putting this together for us. Uh, I I also like number four. Um, on the monument sign, this is just for wayfinding, right? It's not entry monuments. Those are separate. That's a different type of a structure. Correct. Yes.

So, of the A, B, C, and D, I like B, but I'd like to know which is the easiest to maintain of these because I I don't want something like E looks like that'd be very difficult to maintain. You got a photo may fade out. I want something that looks good for an extended period of time that's easy to maintain. I don't mind the slumpstone block on on B or even if you do like a port and paste concrete. Maybe this stamped. I don't know. But um what would be easiest to maintain for long-term purposes? I I think the difference would be negligible. Okay.

Um if you want the absolute easiest, it's going to be C and D. However, the maintenance on A and B, like I said, is is negligible. Okay. I like Well, I like B. And that could either be on a port and paste concrete or the lumpstone. either one. Wonderful. And just to note too for council that brick uh matches the monument in the front for the memorial plaza. We have pillars and so it's the same type of brick that we're going to use cohesively. If you went with the brick or you know you were leaning towards that aspect. Thank you. That's all I have here. Council member White.

Um I have two comments. Number one, um I'm going to defer to my colleagues on the colors and uh shapes and sizes. And my second comment is we should definitely limit this to 30 minute discussion. Okay. Sure. Sure. I I I do like four because it's already got two votes. So if we can move on, I'll go with four. All right. Council member Martinez, let's roll the dice. Quick question on the A and B. Are those um closer to the ground? Yes. Is Is that what that shows? So similar to what we have right now, maybe in front of Stater Brothers and so it's a little closer. Much?

Yeah. I prefer taller myself as I do find that a little bit hard to see sometimes as you're going. You have to kind of look down. Um especially if you put a rock in front of it. But um the but uh so anyway, I'm okay with um four. I do like three or four. I'm not gonna, you know, I'm okay with really anything. I just like the higher rather than the lower.

Okay. Well, very good. Well, um I don't I don't want to continue to drag this out by any means. I do though, however, want to go back to the list of suggested uh places. And I want to highlight that I appreciate the addition of some of our other governmental uh groups with the library as well as Noble Creek. Um, and so as I was reading through those, I started to think about uh people coming as visitors into the city. And so I would like to suggest that potentially we just add the high school there um as people come to see uh other events at the high school uh and is a is a destination and since we've included two of our other partners, it might be a good idea to include them as well. And uh I was leaning towards three, but since four seems so popular, we can go with four. And I too like B as well. Do we need any other direction?

Uh, mayor, I had only mentioned four. So if we go back to the other one, um, the other slide, how how tall would we expect be to be off the ground? Three feet. No, it'll be more like four or five when it's full. All right. So, I'm good with B as well. And we're thinking about those in um main entry points. Is that what we're thinking for those kind of monument? Okay. So the the red represents where you'd see those the the lettered monuments, the population, and then the blue represents the wayfinders. We also could combine

for the red the wayfinding and the population signs. we have that option just because some of the spots are duplicative and for visual clutter. Um we just need to kind of see a design physically to actually see can we can we read what we want them to read and is it too much for them to read in in one location. So there is that option too. Yeah, I was going to say the one other thing is we have a lot of options there. We don't necessarily need to see them all on one. Um so that might you know just be something to think about as well. So, it seems like we've gone with B and with four and then I imagine you guys will bring back a more refined discussion with costs and things along those lines.

We can So, we do anticipate developing a CIP for these uh which you'll see at the fiscal year. Okay. Does council want to see the design or are you happy with moving forward with four MB and allowing the PIO to um exercise her judgment. Are we good with that? Yeah. May the force be with you. Have fun, Julie.

All righty. Uh so do we have enough direction and we'll see that back as a CIP. Okay. Very good. So, we will keep this rolling. J7, our 202526 midyear. Am I going in the right? Yes. Midyear budget report. Uh, Miss Station and you guys didn't even need a 30 minute time frame because I kept the choices. Just give us two choices. I was really looking forward to some longer discussion. We can bring it back. Nope. All right. We are all set.

All right. Great. Oh, slides are up, too. Okay. So, we're'll be presenting the 202526 midyear budget report. We're going to go over a quick economic update, general fund status, revenue and expenses, wastewater fund status, transit fund status, and recommended budget amendments. So starting with our economic update, the US economy remains stable entering 2026 with GDP growth around 2.5%. And inflation moderating to 2.7%, unemployment is slightly higher at 4.6% but still historically healthy. Um while recession risk is low in the near term, rising federal debt and potential asset market volatility present longer term risks. Um overall there is not an expected uh recession according to Beacon Economics. As far as uh the California economy goes, California's unemployment rate is higher at 5.6% with growth uh concentrated in healthcare and government. Housing affordability and policy uncertainty continue to be um to constrain expansion and the state's reliance on capital gains revenue also creates ongoing budget volatility. The overall takeaway is that conditions are stable today, but long-term fiscal caution remains appropriate. Uh going to our local economy, the unemployment rate in the Riverside, Sanino, Ontario region was 5.2% in December 2025. And that's slightly improved from November, but still above last year's 4.9% level. Riverside County is at 5.2% in Sanino County at 5%. Locally, permit activity declined in calendar year 2025 and is down 15.9%

compared to 2024, indicating a moderation in development activity. Um, the overall takeaway for our local economy is the regional labor market remains stable, but development activity has slowed compared to last year. And now before I go into general fund, I'll just stop and see if there are any questions. Okay, continue. Mayor, we have a quick question. So, back to the the slide for the permits that were pulled. Do we have any numbers from the county, you know, countywide and how do we compare to that? Do you know? I do not have those numbers, but Steph might be able to grab those.

Okay. because I know that just in general, you know, a lot of our new home neighborhoods are reaching near sold out. We've got one that's going to have grand opening coming up, but our heyday is kind of over, you know, for now. Um, so I think that probably reflected in that, but I still think there's probably a lot of regional growth still going on in in Riverside County. Um, Gotcha. Yeah. Okay. Uh that's probably something that staff can maybe are um planning or building just just as a comparison to say okay if we've you know if we're comparing unemployment and so forth you know and different things you know county to state and then we if we looking at permits then if we see a drop or an increase how are we doing with with the county right gotcha you know as a as a comparison thanks

okay for general fund overview as of December 31st 2025 general fund revenues total 21.8 million. That's down 21% from last year. Uh that's largely due to timing differences in prior one-time revenues. Expenditures total 27.5 million, up 12% from last year at midyear. It is important to note that several major revenue sources, including property taxes, are received in the second half of the fiscal year. Historically, the city relies on its 16% operating reserves during the first six months to manage cash flow and avoid short-term borrowing. Taxes account for approximately 69% of the general fund, primarily property tax, sales tax, and other local taxes. Um, overall takeaway is mid-year performance reflects timing differences and reserves continue to support stable cash flow management. For general fund revenues, sales tax remains one of the city's largest revenue sources. Midyear collections are lower than that last year, and that's primarily due to a onetime 6.2 2 million audit correction received in the last fiscal year um which was not included in this year's budget numbers. We knew that they were one-time um audit finding. Additional sales tax revenue from November and December will post in the third quarter of the current fiscal year. Property taxes are currently at 33% of budget was which is typical since most receipts occur in the second half of the fiscal year. Other taxes are up 16% year-over-year and franchise fees are up slightly at 2%. And as you can see, it's kind of hard to see all the the different columns or the different years on the other taxes. Taxes is a majority of the revenue sources. So, um it's it's much larger in comparison to the other other sources that are on here. Uh general fund expenditures and uses of

funds are 27.5 million or 36% at midyear and this represents 11.5% or a 2.85 million increase from the same point last year. Um and as you can see the largest uh expenditure for the general fund is personnel um and then operating and then uh the others are are smaller amounts. The following chart is where departments stand at the major point. Departments that are highlighted are either uh plus 50% 10 10% or um less 10% from the 50% mark. So those have been highlighted just so that you can see um and I'll I'll pause here to see if there are any questions before I move forward.

Can you explain that last um column you just mentioned? Go tell me again what the yellow is and the the percentage of budget. So that's that's if you are over under by more than 10% from your midway point. So you're either less than 40% or you're above 60%. So that would mean that you're just you're not tracking right on to the 50%. Okay. And Jennifer, is that um increase in personnel due to the healthcare increase recent or increase in personnel numbers? We did increase our our um FTE counts.

Okay. last fiscal year. So it would be a portion of that as well as your other regular increases that occur from year to year. So it could be um step increases and and and and health cost. Okay. Thank you. So your question was in reference to the 76% for risk and HR or well yeah basically but I think I understand where it's at. Can you speak a little bit more to that? Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but HR and risk, there's a backend allocation that occurs probably midy year at the end of the year for an allocation over to one of the special funds that we oversee as well as part of that. Is this typical for this time of year that for HR and risk, it's it's typical for that year. Okay. Yes.

Risk and HR. So, and that's your um a lot of it too is is the insurance payment is at the very beginning of the fiscal year. So, it's a a very large onetime cost out of the budget. So usually that budget's mostly spent by the time it comes to the the middle of the year. But the increase though between years is due to the increase in FTEEs. That that would be for the personnel. That would be correct. Okay. May I have to Yeah. Can you go back a slide? Sure. One more.

The investment earnings, what's the uh 2324? How what was that spike there? So with investment earnings um I will say in this fiscal year there is and I don't want to get too technical but um accounting has to do a entry to marktomarket is what they call um so you would essentially have to if as interest rates rise essentially your portfolio value goes down even though you would never recognize that you would hold your you'd hold your investments up until a point of maturity but Gatsby requires you to make that adjustment in your in your financials. um something I don't necessarily agree with because you're not going to necessarily do it, but they have you do it. I will tell you that in our current fiscal year, we have received about 850,000 investment earnings, but it's not recognized because of that um adjusting entry. So, you might see that increase later on at the end of the year once we start um re-justing for what happens during this current fiscal year. So, you're talking about project projected um interest rates, but over the last year, aren't the interest rates down from what they were a year ago?

They they are. They have decreased, but you'll see that that it was it was opposite in prior years. So, you had low interest rates, but a higher market value. Got it. Okay. Thank you, Council Ortitz, do you still have? I'm done. Thank you.

Okay. Go ahead. Okay. So, um we estimate our results. Um and these are just estimates, but general general fund revenues are projected to come in above budget by 6.7 million, mostly due to HTL projections of higher sales tax than budget. General fund expenditures are projected to have savings of roughly 3.6 6 million and that would result in a net amount above budget of an estimated 10.3 million. Um and then our fund balance for the general fund, the unassigned fund balance at the start of the fiscal year was 26.8 million. This balance is your available reserves. Um but we have made some adjustments to that already within the current fiscal year. So a reappropriation of un unexpended expenditures from fiscal year 2425 was adjusted in the amount of 618,000. On August 19th, 2025, the city council approved a CIP budget amendment to program 800,000 of the assigned reserves reserves balance to the Petro CIP project. And there has been an amount um set aside and as you'll see later on in the slide we have a budget amendment requested for uh 68,000 set aside forou required bonus payment from the fiscal year 202425 audited financial results. The current available fund balance this is your savings account. These are like your rainy day funds um account is at 24.9 million and unprogrammed revenue. So this is your checking basically like your checking account where you know the money comes in and goes out available funds of $66,446.

Jennifer before you move on a quick question for you. Can you uh let us know with this savings account what is that percentage are in our reserves currently? Are we at the 16% or is it higher than that? So, in total, I don't have it calculated just for your on your available balance, but in total, which would include your 16% working capital cash flow, you have a $5 million budget stabilization reserve as well as a $1 million emergency reserve. With those reserves plus what you have available for spending, it's about 61%. 61. Thank you. And um the uhou bonus pay I think we all know what that is but can you explain that for someone who may not know what that is?

Sure absolutely. So in in theus there's a stipulation that that states if um revenues um come in above 10% I believe over the budget then there's a onetime 2.5% lump sum bonus to to employees. Okay. And um is that also in place for this current fiscal year? The theou is in there. So if we were to come in over budget of the 10 the 10% then you would have another payment next fiscal year. And does your projected uh budget show us that we would be paying that? It currently does not. You would be under the 10%. We'd be under the 10%. Okay. Thank you.

But that's an estimate. So you know what's that? That's an estimate. Yeah. Understood. And yourus expire June 30, 2026 of this year. So So this would be the last year potentially depending on what the nextou looks like. Got it. They will have expired before your next audited financial comes out. So correct. Okay. And it will not be So the way theus are written currently, they would I I would think they would still be paid out for this fiscal year. No. Okay.

Um, per the city's financial policies, unassigned fund balances, and that's your your savings account that exceed any policy requirements. So, that's your available amount to spend, will be brought forth to the city council for options of use that meet the strategic goals that have been established within the budget process. So, I would imagine that um during your your budget workshop, you would probably be discussing what what to do with some of these dollars. Before I move forward, are there any questions on this uh long-term fiscal forecast? Um, so where we stand today, if conditions remain exactly as they are today, so we're not looking at any type of future adjustments, the general fund begins to experience structural deficits starting at fiscal year 2033. Under this scenario, revenues do not keep pace with growth and inflation resulting in declining service levels over time. So you'll notice that as the expenditures, which is your orange line, starts to increase over your revenues, the blue line, then your fund balances start to decrease. um as they're making up for that lost cash flow essentially.

Are there any questions before I leave this slide? Council Roy. Yeah. What's that? Go ahead. Yeah. Okay. Um so the general fund um revenues that you have projected there u what percentage of that in general is uh sales tax. So this is this would still be like um it's the majority. I don't have the exact percentage of what sales tax is in here, but we we project a certain amount of increase and I actually did a statistical forecasting for the revenues moving forward. Um and we had these numbers validated by our our um financial advisor um UFI who who

does that take into account projects like Target that is not open yet? It does not. So it's only looking at if we stayed exactly the way we are today.

Got it. Okay. Thank you. Okay, we're going to move on to wastewater fund. Um, as of December 31st, 2025, wastewater revenues and sources of funds totaled 5.8 million and that's a decrease of 3% uh 180,000 from the same point last year. And expenses and use of funds totaled 5.6 6 million which is approximately a decrease of 16.8% or 1.1 million from last year's midway point and I'll get into that a little bit in the next slides. So your wastewater revenue service or um sewer service charges fees are build by monthly and the midyear report represents two billings. Wastewater revenues are slightly down this year in comparison to last year and that's um it's very slight and that's due to lower investment returns which we already kind of touched on. Wastewater expenses are down from midpoint last year. Um that's mostly due to reduction needed in the transfer for uh debt service. Um if you all remember that there was a wastewater bond refinancing earlier this fiscal year and so there wasn't as much needed for that transfer for the debt service. So that is that is what contributes to that reduction. And your wastewater revenues are projected to come in at 1.9 million over budget and expenses are projected to be 1 million below budget u with savings and personnel and operating costs. Before I move to transit, are there any questions for transit revenues? As of December 31st, 2025, tra trans transit revenues and sources of funds totaled 1.8

million. That's a decrease of less than 1% 17,000 from the same point last year. And that's mostly due a delay in the measure A payment. Expenses and uses of funds are 1.7 million or 46% at midyear. And this represents a 21% or 288,000 increase from the same point last year. um and that's mostly in personnel. The following table shows midear expenditures and organized um the same way that we've done all the other ones um as well as the two preceding years. Transit revenues and expenses are projected to remain within budget and any funds not spent by year are returned to RCTC. Before I move on, are there any questions? So for recommended budget adjustments, uh we do recommend the umou bonus pay the $67,888. Uh that would be from the general fund fund balance reserve. Um general fund operating is community enhancement is requesting additional funds for increased weed abatement and vector control costs in the amount of $75,337. uh general fund operating for building additional funds for several large development commercial project plan reviews at 70,000. Wastewater has requested additional funds to cover cost of repairs and protection of city sewer mainline at $356,197. the self-insurance fund. There are settlements and claims from litigation in the amount of 1,317,253. Um, and for other funds, we have professional services agreement for care

coordination services utilizing the opioid settlement funds of $45,000. And um, we also have a purchase of a K9 dog with the offset of a donation and that's in the amount of $20,000. as well as you have your CIP um budget adjustments that were discussed earlier in this meeting are also attached. So with that, that concludes my report and I'm available for any questions you have. All right, thank you for that. Uh Nicole, do we have any public comment? I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. All right, then I will open it up for council further discussion questions.

Council member Lara. Yeah, I just have a a couple. Jennifer, back on uh you have the general fund uh slide. Don't know what slide number it is. I apologize. You looking at revenues or expenditures?

Well, I'm looking at revenues and expenditures. you have u what you do you listed the 23 24 midyear then you listed the 2425 the the question is the 2526 midyear there's a $5 million gap where we have expenditures over revenues do are we missing something from the county as far as my because I know that this is just a projection and we get money on different payment cycles but I would kind of hope that the county would kind of maintain their payment cycles so that when I look at midyear your projections like we can see some type of consistency but this is a concerning I'm just wondering are we missing something that they didn't send us out or

we I I went back and look at that and actually the the payment that we were missing um that was delayed was uh in the transit fund. So what this is is actually those investment returns that we had discussed earlier but also too that costs have increased for this fiscal year. So, a lot of that difference that you're seeing is that you have higher costs um and and the revenue is not increasing at the same amount as the cost. Okay. So, you but there you're good with it. You don't see any red flags that we need to be looking out for as we move because the estimates do show that revenue would come in higher than what's projected as well as um expenditures would come in lower.

Okay. And then on the status quo, I I like that you show that. Um, but does that include current capital improvement projects, right? You include all that. So, obviously status quo doesn't include the police station because we haven't budgeted for that yet in future fire stations or anything like that. So, if we just stayed the same,

right? So, we So, when we budget for capital projects, those are transfers out and those go directly to the capital projects fund, right? So they don't stay within the general funding count for any future years. So that does this does not um incorporate any future projects that are are on the list because that can be that's that's council council decision at the point in time when you have budget workshops. Right. Um and yeah it's it's just mostly your operations and if those were to continue the way they are now. Right. Okay. So no additional staff or or anything like that.

Right. Staffing is going to impact that. Contracts will impact that. Yeah. So any ongoing costs that you add from this point forward would essentially move that needle forward. Okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. All right. Very good. Okay. Thank you for that. I think it's just a is it a receipt file and approve the budget amendments that are attached. All right. Then I will make a motion to receive and file and approve the budget amendments. I'll second. I get a roll call. Council member Laura, yes. Council member Finn, yes. Council member Martinez, yes. Mayor Prom White, yes. Mayor Voy,

yes. All right. Thank you.

It was a good one. All right. We will move on to item J8. Request to approve a second homeless enforcement officer position. Staff report by Mr. Lent.

Good evening.

Good evening, Madame Mayor. I'm city council. Uh I'm before you this evening requesting approval to create a second homeless lison officer position which would be assigned to a weekend coverage and would allow for 7day a week homeless enforcement services. Uh the request is due to an increased homeless population and regional impacts that have compounded uh the issue of homeless in our community. Neighboring cities and jurisdictions have recently disable uh disbanded several large encampments and increased their enforcement of uh their homeless. Specifically, one of our neighboring cities recently added a second homeless officer themselves and they've uh increased their enforcement efforts. um they're they also went to a seven day a week enforcement um as well. So uh due to the proximity of these jurisdictions, these uh actions have resulted in displacement of homeless individuals into our community, specifically our retail commercial areas. We're seeing that effect. Uh for this reason uh the additional uh second homeless lison officer will assist in immediately addressing the increase uh in the homeless population here in the city of Bulmont. Uh with that um I'm available for any questions uh that you may have.

Righty. Great. Thank you. Um do we have any public comment for this item? I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. All right. Seeing no public comment, I'll open it up to council discussion or a motion. Mayor Promway. Nope. Uh, Council Member Martinez. Uh, yeah. Thank you, Mayor. Couple of quick questions. Um, is this something that's open internally first? If an officer wants to go to this position, then they can apply for it. Is that how that works usually? And then we would fill their position or

Yes. Uh, this would be considered one of our So, we have our existing homeless ladies and officers. This would be a second one. and it would be open to um our officers. They put in a memorandum and a request and then we would um take that from generally our patrol officers and then backfill this with the requested position for um and hire hire a new officer. Okay. And you discussed with um the interim manager and finance perhaps the sustainability of the new position going into future budgets. You'd be able to to handle that in your budget. I believe this well this one's on uh the remainder of this year will be on the salary savings that we currently have

and then the uh remainder um has been discussed uh as far as sustaining that throughout for the additional position in the bud upcoming budgets. Okay. So the I think it's something like 211 or something like that. That would be something that you've discussed that we'd be able to Okay. All right. Thank you, Council Member Fed.

Uh yes, thank you, Mayor. Uh Lieutenant, thanks uh thank you for the report. I appreciate that showing the number of difference of what has transpired from 2024 to 2025 and certainly helps us to understand the need there. I do have a question with the 25 numbers in that um is it possible an individual could have been listed more than once on that list? For example, could they have see mental health facility at one point? Were they arrested prior to that? you know, um, this looks like there's an awful lot of homeless in Bulmont and I know that's we we we manage it well and we typically don't have that many, but I just want to get your perspective on that. Um, that is there a possibility that one individual for per se could be listed in multiple categories there?

Yes, there could be there could be multiple um contacts. We try to differentiate on what is a new contact and what is existing but that's not necessarily uh split up on those numbers when it comes to the um additional breakdown. It could be duplicate as you said. Yes. Okay. But we are seeing more individual contacts as a whole. Correct. Correct. Okay. Thank you.

All righty. I too appreciate the the data that you guys were able to find here to to prove that uh increase as well. I think it's important that as we continue to ask for employees and other support that we can provide the data and the background on why they're needed. So I really appreciate that um and the effort that went into that. Um with that I will entertain a motion. Mayor, I I move that we approve the addition of one police officer position to the police department's fiscal year 2526 budget and approve the necessary budget adjustment of $70,000 to the personnel budget to fund the position for the remainder of the current fiscal year. I'll second.

Can I get a roll call, please? Council member Laura, yes. Council member Finn, yes. Council member Martinez, yes. Mayor Prom White, yes. Mayor Vo, yes.

All right. Thank you for continuing to keep our city safe. All right, we will move to um our last action item, J9, city council meeting dates for 2026. And um Miss Wheelright, can we get a report from you? Good evening, council. This item is for review um of the 2026 city council meeting dates. Um, this is to help determine if any meeting dates need to be considered for cancellation based on conflicting schedules or upcoming holidays. This helps staff plan um for staff reports and meet deadlines. So, in your staff report is a list of all of the city council meeting dates. I've bolded the ones that have potential conflicts and ones that have been cancelled previously during the summer months for your review. And I'm happy to answer any questions.

All right. Thank you. Do we have any public comments on this item? I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. All

righty. Thank you. Uh I will kind of start us off. Um we wanted to bring this forward um for council discussion as I um think that we have some opportunity to continue to move things forward. um the conflict with Washington DC. Uh there will still be a quorum on the 21st uh with three council members. Um and my suggestion would be that we continue that meeting. Um and we assign somebody uh to run the meeting as the mayor proim and myself will be in Washington DC. Um but I do think that we can continue if we have a quorum. Uh and if anything needed to be continued uh we could continue that meeting if we if we needed to. Um, ICSC, I think we had previously uh talked about that. I believe there are two of us going to that event again. Uh, the same two that will be attending DC. We could continue to leave that on as well if we wanted to, unless there were more council members that were planning on attending ICS, which uh, you know, are are good to go with. Um, historically, we have canled the July 7th one. Uh, I personally have no oppositions to keeping that one uh, dark. I would prefer to keep August 4th moving forward and not be dark uh so that we can continue with business. And uh I think we've all agreed in the past that election day, especially with three council members uh is difficult. So I would suggest that we go dark on on that um on that meeting. So essentially I would be replacing August 4th as a canceled meeting uh with November 3rd. Uh, and so looking at this, my suggestion is that we um only cancel or only go dark on July 7th and November 3rd.

Mayor, if I could interject. So on the the top of the next page on the agenda shows January 25th. I'm sure it was a typo um because it says 2026. It should be 2027. Oh, sorry. I did not. So, I think that is far enough into the new year away from the holiday that perhaps we we keep that meeting on the schedule. Also, I'm good with that. Any other input, Council Member or Mayor Pro Tim White?

No, I I agree. I think the uh the uh list here makes sense. I had a feeling last year that we um or 2025 we were um we were sort of loading up on on a number of meetings that we um should try and avoid that so that we don't have the long meetings and we can also um better time the the issue. So I agree with the suggestions that have been made so far.

Member Laura, any objections or discussion from you? Just a just question on uh April 21st. Um there's no way to relo that meeting to Washington on the one in Washington. You have to be it has to be that week. So we have an item that we'll be discussing on the city manager report which is our budget workshop. Uh we as as I discussed this with uh city staff earlier um the proposal was for April 28th to be that budget meeting

um for our budget workshop if we would like to consider another date. Um I'm okay with that. It depends on everybody else. Um but my thoughts were you could continue with the Wouldn't that have to be a special meeting if it's not on our regular schedule? Yes, I I'm not talking about moving the our meeting. Our meeting could be held. I'm just didn't know if there was a way to move the Washington DC meeting. Oh, I see what you're saying. If I may, uh, mayor and council, so initially April 20th was what was brought out and then we talked about uh moving the Washington trip to the next week. However,

uh there were going to be problems with Congressman Ruiz being available and so we went back to the 20th. Um, however, since then, uh, council member Fen has indicated he will not be attending. So, there's only the mayor and the mayor PM attending. Therefore, the idea was to keep April 21st open and not cancel April 21st. Okay. Do will we know do we know that um this temporary partial shutdown is going to still make it beneficial for us to be in Washington? We we had a call with Jamie Jones yesterday and uh we're we're good to go for the 20th

then. Yeah, we can keep that council meeting and then one on May 19th as well as long as we have a enough staff or enough council members. So So if I can clarify what I'm hearing is cancel July 7th and November 3rd only and everything else stays open, stays on, I think so. Yeah, that's as I hear it. I think All right, we have enough direction. We're good. Okay, very good. Then we will move on to K1, our legislative update. We will have Miss Navvice.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. This item provides um a brief legislative update on Senate bills from the 202526 session that staff is currently monitoring for potential impacts to the city. The state legislature reconvened in January and activity has picked up as bills moving through committees. At this point, many bills are still being amended. So staff's focus is on tracking potential impacts and keeping council informed as things continue to develop. One important timing note for the council's awareness is that February the 20th is the final day for bills to be introduced this legislative year. So because of that, we expect to see additional bills uh introduced or amended over the next couple of days and staff will continue to monitor and report back on those as needed. Now, a few highlights from the bills included in the staff report include AB35, which would speed up how Proposition 4 bond funding guidelines are developed. This could help uh accelerate timelines for infrastructure, water, and climate related grant programs. AB1421 directs the state to study mileagebased road usage fees. While this is only a study, it could have long-term implications for transportation funding and for future compliance requirements. There are also several housing and transit oriented development bills, including SB 677, SB722, and SB908, which may affect development standards, densities, and local land use authority depending on their final form. SB423, which is expected to be reintroduced, could eliminate local real property transfer taxes, which may

affect local revenue if enacted. SB77 is cleanup legislation which is anticipated to clarify Brown Act language access and teleconferencing requirements adopted last year. I want to also briefly flag two last minute bills that were not included in the written report but are now being tracked by staff as well. And this includes AB1439 which relates to public retirement systems and would require CalPERS and Calsters to report on how labor standards affect investments. While largelyformational, it could influence future discussions related to public workforce and retirement policy. AB 1383 affects public retirement systems for safety members and city staff is monitoring it due to the potential impacts on retirement benefits or system requirements for public safety agencies. Overall, staff will continue tracking these bills and evaluating their potential fiscal and operational impacts um and will return to council if policy or direction or advocacy is needed. Tonight's recommended action is simply to receive and file the legislative update. And I'm available if you have any questions.

All right. Great. Thank you. Council member Finn, do you have a question? Yeah, just a quick comment, Britney. We I really appreciate the format of this and having the description of the bill and the link and so forth. It's nice and user friendly. So, I appreciate that because as we write down numbers and so forth, it's it's so easy to get lost in the number of the bill, but to have it right there is is great. So, appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. And Mayor Promoy, uh, nothing. All right. Well, very good. We will receive and file this report and thank you for the hard work in getting all this together. We do appreciate the format. Uh, as discussed earlier, it's nice to be able to reference it when we need to. Excellent. Thank you. All right, we will move on to economic development update.

Uh, we do not have an update this evening. All right. And I don't believe we have a planning commission update as they did not meet. That's correct. Okay. City treasurer, no update. All right. City clerk. All right. City attorney. Nothing. All right. So, that will move us to our city manager report.

Yes, we have the January city manager monthly report for your review. And also, uh, we'd like to set the date and time for the budget workshop. Staff is recommending Tuesday, April 28th. That's um wouldn't be um continued meeting. We're talking about just a separate meeting from the 7th and the 21st. So, I'd like to ask uh the mayor and the council if you would be okay with that meeting or if you'd propose a different time and date. We will check our calendars really quick. That date works for me. What What time are you looking at? We were thinking five o'clock. Okay, that's fine for me.

Oh, not time. No, not not nap time. Noon works for me, but you know, just so that we could enjoy the the festivities all day long, right? 5:00 works for me. You're good, council. All right. I'm good, too. 5:00 PM April 28th. We will miss you, but I know we're in good hands. All right. Do we have What' you say? I said he told me to bring a blanket. Oh, well, we All right. Do we have it is your favorite sub all of our favorite subject isn't it? Um do we have any future agenda items? Um mayor I have one.

Yes. Um so as part of our pastcom meetings that I attend um the question was brought up is is what was what is the city's emergency plan? And so if we can get a just a general review as to how we work with the state, the county, what what do we do within the city? How do we communicate with the HOAs? Um Excuse me.

It there was talk there that and I don't know if this is correct or not, but it just I'll share this and it might help staff understand that I think the fire perhaps through the fire department or Cal Fire that um the city's required to do an update. Maybe the last one was in 2021 or 2022 or something like that. So how often are those updates? What is involved from the city? So just kind of as a general update maybe as a receive and file report and then we can share that information with our passcom and and as a update on passcom it's a sanger pass area emergency preparedness group um and we have other individuals that come in for everybody from um oh now I'm brain lock um HOAs with their emergency preparedness um um um certification um oh what do they call um

Calert class, you know, CERT classes and so forth and even um what's the organization that comes and helps out when there's a disaster? FEMA. FEMA. Thank you. Um and um Red Cross, you know, so Red Cross is there and so forth. So, wow.

So, anyway, there's a a big group of folks that come together and and and we all want to just have it some better direction so we can better work as a as an information committee in a sense. Um, and so we we feel like we're just we're losing a little bit of focus and that we're just getting individual updates of what's going on with each organization versus, hey, well, what's the do we have a general plan? Do we have a regional plan? That sort of thing. So, I don't want to get too far into the weed, but something to to to for us to better understand and share with with that group. That's all. All right. That's all I have on that one. All right. Excellent. And Mayor Promay.

Um, yeah, I have a couple. I don't know why, but in the last week I've had a number of people come up to me and ask me about why we don't have bike racks at all of our businesses. Um, and so I think they made some good points. Uh, they were a little dumbfounded when I asked them, "You mean all our businesses?" And they said, "Yes." And and then I asked them, "Um, even a mattress store?" And they were, "Well, maybe not that." So I I think we should we should consider that whether or not that becomes part of a planning process or not. Um and then the other thing um I think we need to have aformational and discussion on our water master. Um, you know, I've got some concerns there with the way it is made up and the controlling um the controlling legislation or judgment um that was originally written by the three of our former uh department heads who've all been convicted of felonies. Um, and I I really believe we're at a disadvantage, the city of Bumont, because there's some other folks representing the other agencies that um are acting on um without the kind of accountability that I believe they should be having. And that was why my discussion my questions earlier was what role the water master and Ukipa Valley water district has because if we get to the point where we're going to have to have that kind of um discussion about mitigating the water going down. I just I just want to revisit where we stand. I I don't think a lot of us even know what the water master is made up of and what what the controlling document is on that. But um I think it's important that we consider that for a future agenda item.

Okay. All right. And anyone else? All right. We will put those down. All right. Can I get um Council Member Fen for your council reports?

Certainly. Thank you, Mayor. Um I've got a few meetings I attended in the last two weeks. Um on the 4th, I attended the city's community visiting workshops. I appreciate the economic development team for putting that together. Um, also that same day I was given the opportunity to give a property tax presentation to Birkshshire Hathaway's real estate office here in town. And so I so I continue to show off our little CFD search tool there and help them out. So that was that was beneficial. Um, also attended that same day um, Riverside Transits Finance Committee meeting. Uh, the following day after that on the 5th um, I attended our T our local T now. That's the transportation now um committee. And then on the 5th um we had a veterans expo recap. Um and what the ex the the group was doing in the past is we were having a large veterans expo in January um tied in with a job fair and then another smaller event in August. And so I proposed and the group agreed to drop the August, focus on a yearly event and then make it an expo only. The job fair was adding a layer of difficulty, you know, to that some disruption as well. Um, some of us experienced that. We've gotten better as we were, you know, as as years gone on. But I propose that with then we leave that with staff and our economic development department. They are the experts. let them put that on with the little plug, hey, hire a veteran when you can, you know. And so, um, I pass that information on to our city manager and to, um, our economic development director as a suggestion. Um, and so I think going forward that will be more productive and and we'll leave that to the experts. And then um final two meetings, Cal City's regional meeting and then also I had the opportunity to um participate with the Bowmont Police

Department for our drone demo and I am super excited about that. So um so that's my report for the evening. Thank you, mayor. Yes, thank you. Maybe include uh county workforce development. I'm sure staff will take that up for that job fair as well. All right, Council Member Lara. Uh thank you, Mayor. Uh February 4th, I attended the Bulmont Unified School District CTE showcase, which is uh amazing. I appreciate Laura and Joe for going out and attending that to support that. Um I can remember back in the day when it was just wood shop and auto shop. Uh now there's uh 12 different awesome

vocational paths to take, which is excellent. Um February 11th, Coffee with a Cop was well attended. Was great as always. uh 12th. Yeah, the the drone demo was was definitely amazing. Um looking forward to having that come back to council. Um and then finally, I just want to know um one of the things I I like to ask a lot of frequently on the heavy rains, how how did the wastewater This is critical to me because failure to maintain our wastewater ends up could cost us the city money. So, um, our plant

No, I I actually appreciate you answering. It gives me opportunity to recognize our staff. Um, yeah, we did experience really high rain flows. Um, I've got some graphs here. You can see it just jumps off the page what happens when we get those kind of flows. And we had staff out addressing um, you know, high flows at both the plant and uh, throughout the collection system. It also shows that our monitoring systems working. Yeah. Um, we have the uh the smart covers. We had one go off out there by the golf course, so the crews responded. We had some high wet well levels. Uh, Noble Creek area got a lot of inflow in the plant, but um we had no spills. We had no violations and the plant uh processed all the extra flow.

See, that's what I love to hear. It's uh this council invested a lot of time and energy into that and money. And again, thanks to your staff for monitoring that. Uh, I know it interrupts uh, it's late night and interrupts sleep, but I do appreciate their efforts. Thank you. That's all I have. Mayor, thank you for highlighting that. Agreed. I always think about that. Council member Martinez.

Yeah, just very briefly, um, attended the Cal City's Riverside County Division meeting uh, at Dwit um, sponsored by Manning. Uh, the youth council again continuing to meet. Great um, uh, number of students are participating. Thank you, mayor, for attending. they really um really learned a lot and you can tell by their faces they were really engaged. So, thank you for that. Um the economic development uh city visioning workshop, I attended that last one via Zoom and the PD drone demo. Um I'm really looking forward to that discussion when it comes. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mayor Pro.

Um so, Robert, what is the P phase and transportation? Okay, turned off. a project initiation document. Okay. So, that was approved by RCTC for the Bowmont 79 interchange about uh 1.2 million to 1.3 million and it's all funded by TUM at this point and that's all I have to report.

Well, that's good news for another large area for the city. All right. I was fairly busy the last uh couple two weeks. So, uh, February 4th, we had the, uh, collaboration committee. Um, the Sanonio Pass Water Agency is now hosting that. Uh, so we appreciate them for hosting us and always a great, um, meeting. Council member Fen, the focus for this meeting, they want to talk about um, emergency and have an emergency focus. So I think part of the conversation and and maybe that um presentation that you asked for we can take to that uh team as well. On the 5th uh I had the opportunity and pleasure to speak with the um the Rotary Club here in Bumont. Uh very engaged. It was awesome to be there with everybody. Uh I was able to show off our CIP. Well, not really show off but direct them to our CIP. um I don't want to call it a workflow, but I guess project status uh I'll say for that and they had some excellent um questions. I really appreciate all staff that came for that. Also, I attended the economic development on 26 Calvary Christian uh came and met us here uh to learn about what we do here at city council. They also were very engaging. 29 we were at the Cal's dinner. 211 uh was a four seasons meeting. I really want to thank um assistant or excuse me our uh interim city manager. Uh you spoke very eloquently to that um group of people and I really appreciate the engagement and all the efforts uh that went forth from the city along with um our fire chief uh Chief Hopkins did an excellent job as well um talking about fire mitigation in a concerned area for four seasons. So, I really appreciate all the work that went in to that and the collaboration that's going into that

with uh the developer along with um the agency that's going to help mitigate 212. I am happy to report that we dismantled Erica in a record meeting time of like 4 minutes, I think. So, uh of course it was on a day that I was not in the desert already and had to drive to the desert for that 4-minute meeting, but it's all good. We have um we have finished our obligations there and all cities have signed to move over to the PAC and they will be reimbursing whatever is left um amongst the cities. So how many years was Erica in place 2008 it started in 2008.

Yes. So that I can we can officially check that off and whoever is the next mayor does not need to sign an Erica represent. I do have to bring I do have to bring the resolution back to this board for you all to sign up. city now has to go back to cities. I hate to interrupt you, but I do want to let um let those on council know who may not have known, but it was because of the relationship of the uh city of the attorney for Erica that led us to our city attorney. Oh, excellent. that many years ago. So, so we can thank that. We can we can thank that. Uh

there's a lot of collaboration that came out of that. And then I too attended the drones. Uh I think that that is uh I'm looking forward to that coming back. So with that, I will continue um this meeting uh this clo our for close session to Monday the 23rd at 1700. Um and we will adjourn for now and reconvene on Monday. At what time? Monday. I said 1700. 5 p.m. Sorry, I wrote 1700 down so I just read it. 5:00 p.m. I don't know if I should do that.