City Council - Regular Meeting

ALL RIGHTY, GOOD AFTERNOON. I WILL CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER AT 430 P.M. CAN I GET A ROLL CALL, PLEASE? COUNCILMEMBER LARA?

HERE.

COUNCILMEMBER FEN?

HERE.

COUNCILMEMBER MARTINEZ?

HERE.

All righty. This meeting is open to the public and conducted in a virtual format to be inclusive of all participation preferences. And public comment participation is encouraged by emailing comments to the city clerk's office or by calling and using the phone number provided on the front of the agenda. Do we have any public comments for closed session?

I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? Simone, can you hear me? Do we have any callers on the line? I'll check back with her.

Okay. We'll have a readout on our items for discussion, and then we'll come back. Mr. Pinky?

Yes, the council meeting closed session. Item B1 is conference with legal counsel, initiation of litigation involving two potential cases. Item B2 and B3 are being continued to June 16th. Item B4 is conference with real property negotiators. THE PROPERTY IS DESCRIBED BY THE APN NUMBERS THAT ARE LISTED IN THE AGENDA. THE AGENCY NEGOTIATOR CITY MANAGER CHRISTOPHER BOATMAN IS DESIGNATED AND THE NEGOTIATING PARTIES ARE THE CITY OF BALMONT AS POTENTIAL PURCHASER AND DOUG JONES AS POTENTIAL SELLER. ITEM B5 IS CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS. THE CITY DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE IS THE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DIRECTOR, CARRIE MENDOZA. THE EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS ARE THE POLICE MANAGERS, SEIU, POLICE OFFICER ASSOCIATION, MANAGERS, PROFESSIONAL, TECHNICAL.

ALL RIGHTY. AND DO WE HAVE ANY CALLERS ON THE LINE?

NO CALLERS ON THE LINE.

ALL RIGHT. THEN WE WILL ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION AT 432.

is that we are all people who belong to this city. And in unison, we come boldly to your throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need and owe how we need your help. And so for those who have accepted the responsibility of serving the citizens of this city, we ask for your wisdom upon our mayor, council members, city staff, first responders, and all who labor for the well-being of our community. Grant them discernment as they consider the matters before them, courage to do what is right, and humility to serve with integrity and compassion. Lord, help this council to seek justice, promote peace, and work together for the good of all people. May every decision made this evening contribute to the safety, prosperity, and unity of our beloved Beaumont. We pray for the families, businesses, schools, churches, and organizations that make up this community. Bless them and strengthen the bonds that unite us as neighbors. As your word says, if any of us lacks wisdom, that we should ask of you, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to us. And so therefore, we ask for your guidance and for your favor upon this meeting. We commit this time to you and ask these things in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen and amen. Thank you.

Thank you. If you're going to join me in the Pledge of Allegiance, please place your right hand over your heart. Any veterans, you're welcome to salute. Ready, begin.

I pledge allegiance 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.

Thank you very much for that. All right. We will be moving on to adjustments to the agenda. Do we have any adjustments? All right. Seeing no adjustments at this time, we will move on to any conflicts of interest. All right. None at this time. So we will move on to announcements, recognitions, proclamations, and correspondence. And today we have the honor of swearing in formally our new city manager, Chris Boatman. So Mr. Boatman, if you'd like to join me down at the... All right. This is an exciting day for Beaumont, so we are really excited. You've been with us a month already, so thank you. So all right, go ahead and raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, state your name, do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California.

I take this obligation freely without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion.

And I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. Excellent. Congratulations. All right, and at this time, we're going to do something a little bit different this time, and we're going to ask for Pastor Mike Thompson to come up and pray over this position as a leader within our city.

Like Alex, I would like to start with a word of scripture. Romans 13 says, Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will be commended. For the one in authority is God's servant for your good. So today we gather with joy and expectation and also the weight of leadership as you, Mr. Boatman, step into this vital role as city manager of the great city of Beaumont. This is more than a position. This is a sacred trust. Mr. Boatman, you've been entrusted with the well-being of this community, the people who work here, the families who live here, the businesses that operate here, the neighbors and the neighborhoods that are cherished, and the future that is being built in this great city elevated. Mr. Boatman, you carry incredible gifts of leadership, of integrity, of heart and vision that are needed for this hour. Leading a city demands wisdom beyond human understanding. It needs courage that comes from beyond yourself and a steady heart that is sustained by something higher than all of us. Just as God anointed leaders in scripture, giving them the strength and clarity and favor for their times of leadership, we believe Christ is equipping you for everything that this role will require now. So may the Lord Jesus Christ, may he lead you as you yourself lead with all humility and boldness May you listen with compassion and make decisions with all grace. May you bring unity where there has been division and hope where there has been discouragement. And may your leadership reflect the light, integrity, and excellence of Christ in every decision that you make. We stand with you. We're praying for you. We appreciate your service. And so I will anoint you in the name of our great God and King, Jesus the Christ. And then we will pray. So I anoint you in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, for this incredible act of stepping into leadership, Lord. We know that it is not without great consternation inside of a man, inside of a woman, to step into roles like this. And so we pray that your great wisdom would be upon, as was already prayed, would be upon our brother, Christopher Boatman, and that you would bless him with incredible favor in the city, with the staff, with the council, with the first responders, and everyone who works in this city and calls this city home. Endue him with great power, wisdom, understanding, and discernment, and bless him for this work in Jesus' holy and precious name. Amen.

Amen. Chris, do you want to say anything or invite your family in?

TO GET USED TO THIS MICROPHONE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW HONORED I AM TO BE HERE AND BE PART OF THIS COMMUNITY AND HAVE THIS JUST AMAZING OPPORTUNITY. I'M SO HONORED TO BE ENTRUSTED BY THE COUNCIL AND REALLY EMBRACED BY THE STAFF IN THE COMMUNITY SO FAR. IT'S BEEN JUST AN HONOR TO ME. AND I'VE LIVED IN A RESIDENT OF THE AREA FOR A LONG TIME. I'VE LIVED IN BAUMONT Previously for a number of years. It's always represented family friends and community to me And I've always seen it as that and I look you know very much forward to helping support and build that and especially build on the Momentum Beaumont has I think it's one of the most exciting communities and all of Southern, California So I'm again. I'm very honored to be here. I also want to thank my family for being here It's actually my daughter's birthday today, so happy birthday Taylor and Yeah, thanks again

And just a quick word to the family before you go. We appreciate the sacrifice that you guys put into this as well. We know that with any public service, it takes a village. And so we appreciate you guys as well. So thank you for being here to support. All right, we will, in speaking about public service, we have an exciting new opportunity as well as we will be witnessing the swearing in of one of our new police officers as well. So I'd like to bring Chief forward and we will go through that process.

Mayor, Council, I just wanted to introduce you to the newest member of the PD family and this is Officer Deja Anderson. He started his career with the California Department of Corrections where he did 10 years. After that he went to the San Bernardino Police Department where he served for two years and is now joining Beaumont. Beaumont is not only going to be his place of employment, but it's also his home. It's where he's raising his family. In fact, during this hiring process, Everywhere I went including City Hall people were telling me I hear you're hiring Deja. He's a great guy So I know right away even before he started that he's in this service community great I wanted this opportunity to introduce you and offer him a few words before we swear him in Thank you, well everyone I just want to thank everybody for a

having me here, giving me this opportunity, Chief, Beaumont Police Department. I am thankful for just giving back to my community and serving them. Thank you. Aye. State your name. Aye. Deja Anderson. Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear. That I'll support and defend. That I'll support and defend.

The Constitution of the United States.

The Constitution of the United States.

And the State of California.

And the State of California.

Against all enemies foreign and domestic.

Against all enemies foreign and domestic. That I'll bear true faith and allegiance. That I'll bear faith and truth and allegiance. To the Constitution of the United States. To the Constitution of the United States.

And the Constitution of the State of California.

And the Constitution of the State of California.

That I'll take this obligation freely.

That I'll take this obligation freely.

Without any mental reservation.

Without any mental reservation.

Or purpose of evasion.

Or purpose of evasion.

And that I will well and faithfully.

And I will well and faithfully. Discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter. Discharge the duties which I'm upon to enter. Welcome to the family. Thank you.

Father, would you like to... The more blood the better. Yeah, come on up.

Let's get some pictures.

All right, everyone looking at me? Okay, ready, one, two, three. One more for good measure.

Thank you, Officer Anderson, and welcome aboard. We look forward to having you on the force with us and protecting the community. And as always, thank you again to the family for being here and your support of your loved one. Welcome in. All right, we will now enter into public comment 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 three minute time limit on public comments and there will be 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. Nicole, do we have any public comment? Yes, ma'am.

First one is David Fustaldo.

Thank you, Mayor, distinguished council members, and you too, Lloyd. Appreciate it. I really do love my city, and I enjoy serving and I enjoy living here. Some of the things that the council has done has made that more of an enjoyable experience. Those are two tough acts to follow, I'll tell you the truth. I think I'm very lucky to live here. I think we are all very lucky to live here. I think we're all very lucky to live in this time. I have the luxury and the privilege of having a man that died for me on a cross that paid for my sins. And I also have at least 15 blood relatives that were in the Revolutionary War that died so I can have the right to speak and vote today. I take my patriotism very seriously. About a year ago, I was notified by the Department of Defense that I had a relative that passed that was on the Arizona July, excuse me, December 7th, 1941. They wanted DNA, and I guess it was confirmed that I have a third cousin once removed that passed away, and I made it a point to visit that site. When I was there, I had the opportunity to purchase a flag that flew over that site on December 7th. I bought one flag for myself, and I also did buy a flag for the city of Beaumont. I was trying to present that flag to you at the last council meeting, but that date was canceled. However, I did have Doug's personal cell phone number, got a hold of him. He was supposed to meet me at In-N-Out, but it was a little bit too busy, so we went to Chili's, and he ran over there and got the flag, and he made it for Memorial Day, and I really appreciate that. So I would like to at least give you the certificate for that flag, and thank you for everything you do.

Thank you, Mr. Castaldo. We appreciate that contribution. It was an honor to have it flying over our Memorial Day ceremony, and we truly appreciate that. You're very welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. And I love the new fire engine, by the way.

Oh, thank you.

All right.

Next speaker is Roger Burke.

Good evening mayor and council members. I come here tonight because of an issue I'm having on my street with a construction yard and Material processing yard it was placed in the residential area by the water company's contractor now city staff's been great i already talked to to our new city manager mr boatman and he got on top of looking at some things and i've talked to code enforcement traffic control i've talked to police department done a great job but the problem i've got is looking through the ordinance it's not clear They are bringing in all sorts of material that they dug up in the street, brought it in there, bringing in trucks starting at 6.30 in the morning, not supposed to start before 7. They shouldn't even be on our street. We're not putting a water line through there. Our street's only 36 feet wide. It's so tight. Why they went ahead and did this, they didn't put... waddles around there to control runoff until I complained about it to the water company. They had their toilets set out on the street. And there's little kids that are riding back from work to school, and plus the dirt, when the dust is flying, it's not wet down. They just bring a water truck once in a while. Constantly got to keep an eye on them. That's not my job. It's not the city's job. They should be doing it so what I'm saying here is Please somebody make those guys get a water buffalo and put it up there and spray that thing down now It's too late to get them out of here. Let's finish the project and get it over But the noise the disruption on the street you wouldn't want that next to your house in a residential area and it's something we need to look at but it's gonna happen more and more as they do things and I know the gasket when i was on the council when they did stuff here they gave the money back to the city to destroy and destroy the streets and everything else and it's just not right you guys have got a great department that's taking care of things and this guy's taking advantage of it and not the way it should be i worked down at the fires with the court of engineers i worked for 40 years and just down there in los angeles and we had water buffaloes cleaning the streets and everything else but trying to make it clean and safe for the people that are still living there. And that's all I'm asking is take a look at it. You got a wonderful staff here now, but I felt I needed to come and bring it to your attention so that you knew what was going on. Because when I was on there, I didn't know everything all the time. So I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you for bringing that forward. You're absolutely right. Sometimes we don't know about those unless they're brought forward.

Next speaker is Ellen Casale.

Hi, Mayor and council members. Over the past four years, I live right by Sundance on 8th Street. Between Xenia and Pennsylvania, it's become a racetrack, especially going east. I don't know what they think. They leave that stop sign, and they gun it. I'm a half block away from Sundance. On March 28th, a guy flew through there, broke the telephone pole in two places. He was going so fast. We have it on a video. He had been going 60, 65. I mean, my husband and my great granddaughter were just out there. Thank God they weren't there when this happened. He took out a 30-foot Queen Palm that split in half. He took out two Cypress. Anyway, lots of property damage. My point is that we need speed bumps. We really do need speed bumps. The guy across the street from me, two weeks after this happened, a car hit two cars parked in front of his house. He lost both cars. The guy didn't have insurance. The year prior to this, the same thing happened. A year prior to this, a lady came through, ran that stop sign, took out three cars from across the street. A lot of it's going east. I don't understand it. Maybe they're leaving, you know, they think they got a clear shot all the way to Pennsylvania. All I'm asking is your consideration in putting in some speed bumps. We are right by Sundance Elementary, and it is, it's dangerous. I've seen them, I'm out there watering in the morning, and I see them going to Sundance, and I mean, they're whizzing by. Sometimes Sometimes I yell, slow down, you know, but okay, thank you for hearing me. Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate that.

Can we make sure just to get the contact information? Thank you. Robert will grab it.

Next speaker is Tony Rossetti.

Hello. I'm still alive. I'm sorry for not participating in two or three court cases you guys have against me, which last one was a couple weeks ago on Thursday. You guys were, I was sick. I didn't know about it. I got up and two days later, it was later, wanted to come to your last meeting, which I did. I was here May 5th, the only representative from the city. Now I came into this town Many years ago in the 80s, I went out with Ms. Beaumont, but in 2000, I remodeled your high school. At that time, now it's the middle school. At that point in time, I got into real estate, and I acquired a few properties in town. I bought two properties nobody wanted. They went to HUD. They couldn't get loans. I acquired them. They needed a major fix-up. I built over 25 schools at that time or more with my family. I've done construction for many years. But I'm here about 635 American. I've had neighbors. The first neighbors, when I first bought it, owned a church. They were working the church. There was a pastor. He wanted to buy the building next door, which is right on 6th Street. I wanted him to buy it, so I didn't buy it. Well, in turn, he didn't buy it. Somebody else did. But a year and a half ago, in December or more, the building caught fire. It burnt down, most of it, pretty unrepairable. I had two or three guys go by there, look at it, give me an assessment. I even gave them 15 sheets of plywood to help board it up, and they did. Prior to that, all of a sudden, then I get a thing that it's an abandonment letter in February. Before that, in December, you guys gave me a letter, or November, October, that there's going to be a lawsuit on April 1st. Okay, the February came, the other came. I'm getting ready to do some research and homework to go to the city to get all the law cases I've had at that building. I've owned it for 27 years. I've worked on it. It was an office for my real estate because I built schools in 2004. I got into real estate. I bought over 200 properties. During COVID, I fixed it up. I let a friend's son move in there. All of a sudden, he wouldn't let me in there to work on it. It wasn't even done. He took over the whole building. I really haven't worked on it since then. All I'm asking is, I had a checkbook. It's in my other truck that I know I owe you some fees on things. You guys had a court case Thursday of last week, a week before, saying you're giving Mr. Adams, which at the time when I met Adams or Mr. Dobbs, I told code enforcement, put on the tax roll, I'll pay everything. I pay everything, everything else. You call my building abandonment, but yet for 27 years, even last December, I recovered the taxes. I had to wait on a father that passed after COVID or during COVID so I could have money to acquire and work on things. That happened. I finally have money to do things, but then you guys took my building away. I know it takes more than three minutes to get over the things that I've done in the past, and my time is out. I'd like to talk again. If I could add others for it, fine, or if I can extend it a few more. My object is to fix up things. I'm in five lawsuits with five cities. I have over 200 properties that I can take care of. But since COVID, you know, after a loss of my last, you know, my dad, It wasn't worth it. Back in 01, when I came into this town, I lost my mom back right before COVID. So I left you my phone number. If I have to write you a check, I have three or four guys that want to buy it. But last Thursday, you guys sold my building. You gave it to the guy that aborted it up for five times during COVID, which isn't right to take it away from me. It's one of my retirements. Every two years, I can sell a property and I can put money in the bank if I want to.

We'll get your information, Mr. Rossetti, and we'll be in contact.

Simone, do we have any callers on the line?

We have no callers at this time.

No other comments. All right. All right.

Any other comments? Okay, then we will be moving on to our consent calendar. Do we have any items to be pulled for discussion?

Mayor, I just want to add on that. I'm not suggesting that it be pulled, but on item G11, I just want to amend the motions on that to state execute and finalize. So you'll see that several times within that paragraph. So wherever there's the word executed, be execute and finalize.

All right, seeing nothing to pull, I'll entertain a motion.

Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve the items on consent calendar from item G1 through G11 with the modification to G11 indicating execute and finalize as indicated by the city manager. I'll second.

Can I get a roll call, please? Councilmember Laura? Yes. Councilmember Finn? Yes. Councilmember Martinez? Yes. Mayor Projimoid? Yes. Mayor Voigt?

Yes. You know what, did I ask for any public comments on consent?

no but i can check i have no written requests do we have any callers on the line we have no callers at this time all right excellent all right we will move on now to youth council

Thank you, Mayor. So just for the year-end recap, so May marks the last month that Youth Council meets. And as you can imagine, a lot of the seniors are doing their senior activities this week. So I am given the task to go over three caps. So just a couple of things I want to, well, some things I want to point out. So basically what we do every year at the last meeting is recap what's gone over. What were our objectives? Did we accomplish those? kind of get some highlights and so forth and we discuss them as a group. So the recap for this year shows that the Youth Council participated in three city events. They gave report outs to three city council meetings. They established their goals and objectives at the beginning of the year. They implemented a new Youth Council logo. They collaborated with the Banning Youth Council. They toured the city using one of our transit buses and stopped at several sites. And they were really nice to see some of the part of the town they're not used to seeing. They attended six committee meetings. They completed a citywide survey as a group. And we had four guest speakers come to the meetings for review of different departments. THEIR OBJECTIVES WERE TO HOLD A YOUTH COUNCIL BOOST AT THE CITY EVENTS, TO WORK ON RECRUITMENT, PROMOTE SOCIAL MEDIA, COLLABORATE WITH OTHER YOUTH COUNCILS AND PARTICIPATE IN COMMITTINGS AND ESTABLISH SUBCOMMITTINGS, ALL OF WHICH WERE MET. AND AT THE END OF THE MEETING, WE HAD A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION FOR THEM THAT THEY CAN USE FOR COLLEGES AND JOBS. So it was a very successful year, and we look forward for the recruitment for next year. And we, again, we target 10th and 11th, 10th, 11th, 12th grade. There have been talks about moving that to ninth grade, but we're not quite sure about that yet. So we'll discuss with the city manager and so forth to see if we're ready for that. But at this point, though, we have a few of the members that are juniors that want to come back. So it looks like we're going to be starting with a strong group and hopefully adding on. So it was a very productive year. Thank you.

Great. Thank you for that recap. It was always nice to have their enthusiasm here and the report outs were always well. I think their public speaking was excellent this year. All right, public hearings. We will head to our first public hearing, I-1. First reading and introduction of an ordinance for annexation number one, Baldwin Ranch into community facilities district number 2025-M for maintenance services. And we'll have a staff report by Mr. Short. Just hit the, there you go.

Yes.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, council. Tonight on the agenda, you have the consideration of the annexation for TT M38879, Baldwin and Ranch to CFD number 2025-M, maintenance services. Tonight, the public hearing. This is to receive the public input on the annexation number one for Baldwin Ranch to the CFD 2025M, consideration of the annexation and authorization of the special taxes, conduct a landowner election for all annexations, and consider resolutions qualifying and certifying election results, and then introduce the ordinance to levy the special taxes on 25-M. Here in the picture, you can see this is the project description. It's on the northwest corner of 11th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. It's roughly about 2.3 acres with 10 detached single-family residential units. CFD 2025-M maintenance services is what it is maintenance. So this is the fund maintenance of streetlights, streets, and pavement, parks, and graffiti abatement. The annual special tax rates are $577 per residential unit. For special tax A, there is a contingent tax just in case the POA doesn't take care of it, which would be $316 per residential unit. The escalator on this would be CPI or 2% annually, the greater of. So for election, landowner election is required. No registered voters. There are registered voters within the annexation area. Under the act, landowner receives one vote per acre and portion thereof. And the developer has executed consents and waivers to expedite the election timelines. The recommendation for the actions to adopt the resolution, calling the elections, conduct landowner elections, adopt resolution certifying election results, introduce the ordinance, and authorizing the special tax for 25-M. I'm here if you have any questions.

All right. Thank you for that report. So I will open up this public hearing at 6.50, and we'll start with public comment first. 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.

Okay, and then has the Deputy City Clerk received written protests to any of the manners addressed in this public hearing from any registered voters or landowners of more than 50% of the acreage located within the property to be annexed to Community Facilities District number 2025-M? I've received zero written protests. Okay. So I will close this hearing at 6.50 and open it up for any council discussion. Council Member Martinez? Okay. Mayor Pro Tem?

Yeah, so this is facilities district number 2025M. Have we had any action on this up to this point? Is this the first time it's come to us?

Yeah, first time.

And do we have a development? A lot of the other Melrose districts that we've created, we created because there was a development agreement which made the city required to help find the funding sources and that sources they're choosing are CFDs. Do we have any type of development agreement on this?

Yeah, so this was a condition of approval for this project. So as is common for many developments in Beaumont and around the area, there's areas around the periphery that are visible to the public and accessible to the rest of the community and oftentimes are dedicated to the city and there's this funding mechanism established to ensure that they're maintained in good order. So that's how it was handled in this case as well.

Okay, so the reason I'm bringing this up is I'm not a big fan of Melrose districts and the only reason that I've gone along and approved these Melrose districts as over the last 11 years is because we are facing a lawsuit if we don't because our development agreement says that we have committed 30 years ago, 25 years ago, we committed to help fund Melrose District, if that's the funding mechanism. We don't have that liability and that requirement here, is that correct?

No, we don't. Just to go in terms of sequencing, you know, whenever you have a development like this and you have common area open space, which is what we would require for like a PRD or areas where you have residential clustered together, for the required open space, you'd either establish an HOA or a CFD. So this has already gone through its entitlement process. It's an entitled project, and this was conditioned. So in this case, we created a mechanism where the lands dedicated to the city, and the CFDs established to fund it. Otherwise, it's essentially a no man's land. Going forward as a policy, we can certainly look at, as a city, handling those in a different manner for future tracts, such as the cases which you mentioned.

So my understanding, when you say that it's entitled, the requirement has been approved by Planning Commission, but it has not come to council yet? This is the first time it's come to council?

The subdivision did come to council, even as a tentative track map. And this is direction that the council had given a while back with regards to any new subdivision. So in this case, it's a 10-lot subdivision.

What direction did we give?

Well, in terms of the maintenance district being annexed into it, as well as the public safety district. Those are two things that we want to make sure they provide it towards. Okay. Thank you.

But again, we can certainly look at that from a policy standpoint going forward.

Well, now that I understand, I apologize for not understanding, but this is a maintenance service. Correct.

Okay. And there is, I think the next public hearing will be for public services.

Okay. I'll hold my comments for the next item then. Thank you.

Do we have any other council discussion? All right, then may I have a motion to adopt a resolution of the City Council, the City of Beaumont, acting as the legislative body of Community Facilities District number 2025-M of the City of Beaumont Maintenance Services, annexing in territory to Community Facilities District number 2025-M of the City of Beaumont Maintenance Services and calling elections therein.

So moved. Second.

All right, the resolution, do we need a roll call?

Roll call?

Sorry, it doesn't say roll call there. So can I get a roll call? Council Member Laura.

Yes.

Council Member Finn.

Yes.

Council Member Martinez. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White. Yes. Mayor Voigt.

Yes. The resolution that we have just adopted calls for elections within the property to be annexed to CFD number 2025-M to approve such annexations and to authorize the levy of the special tax in accordance with the rate and method of apportionment to provide certain services within such property, which is to be held at this time by the Deputy City Clerk. Okay.

All ballots have been cast in connection with the election for CFD number 2025-M, and the election is now closed. Each of the ballot propositions have been approved by more than two-thirds of the votes cast in the elections for CFD number 2025-M.

Okay having received a Certificate of the deputy city clerk certifying the results of the election I would let I would entertain a motion to approve resolution of the City Council the city of Beaumont acting as a legislative body of the community facilities district number 2025 dash M of the city of Beaumont maintenance services Certifying the results of the June 2nd 2026 annexation and special tax election so so moved second All right, and then let me just read this last little bit and then we will take a roll call. I would now like, oh wait, I just said that, hold on. All right, and now we will ask for another motion to waive further reading and introduce by title only an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Beaumont, California, amending ordinance number 1198 and levying special taxes to be collected during fiscal year 2526 to pay the annual cost of the maintenance services and servicing of streetlights, parks, parkways, streets, roads, and open space. The operation and maintenance of storm drainage systems, a reserve fund for capital replacement and administrative expenses with respect to the City of Beaumont Community Facilities District number 2025M, annexation number one for maintenance services and schedule for second reading and adoption on June 16th, 2026.

Also moved. Second.

All right. And can I get a roll call for those motions?

Council member Laura? Yes. Council member Finn? Yes. Council member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Voigt? Yes.

All right. That will move us on to I-2, which is a public hearing and election for annexation proceedings for annexation number one, Baldwin Ranch, into community facilities district number 2025S, public services. And we will have another staff report by Mr. Schwartz.

good evening again madam mayor council again this is for the consideration of the annexation for 2025-s public services for ttm 38879 baldwin ranch so tonight's public hearing is to annex in baldwin ranch into cfd number 2025-s public safety services or public services the consideration of the annexation authorization of special taxes and a conductor landowner election. Consider resolutions calling and certifying election results and introduce the ordinance to levy the special taxes against CFD 2025-S. Again, the project description, the location is on the northwest corner of 11th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, roughly about 2.03 acres. It's going to consist of 10 detached single-family residential properties. CFD 2025-S public services. The purpose is to find essential public safety services, police protection, fire suppression, paramedic, and emergency response services. The annual tax rates are $639 per single family residential unit and $526 per multifamily unit. The escalator on this is the greater CPI or 5% annually beginning in fiscal year 2026-27. Again, this rule will require a landowner, landowner election required, but no registered voters. Under the act, landowner receives one vote per acre or a portion thereof. The developer has executed consents and waivers to expedite the election. Adopt recommended actions as adopt the resolution calling elections, conduct line over elections, adopt resolution certifying election results, and introduce the ordinance authorizing levies of special taxes for CFD 2025-S public services. And if you have any questions.

Great. Thank you. And I will open the public hearing at 6.59. 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. Okay. And has the deputy city clerk received written protests to any of the matters addressed in this public hearing from any registered voters or landowners of more than 50% of the acreage located within the property to be annexed into community facilities district number 2025-S? I've received zero written protests. Okay. So we will close the public hearing at 7 o'clock, and I'll open it up to council discussion. All right, and seeing none, may I have a motion to adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Beaumont acting as the legislative body of the Community Facilities District Number 2025-S of the City of Beaumont Public Services, announcing territory to Community Facilities District Number 2025-S of the City of Beaumont Public Services and calling the elections therein.

So moved. Second.

And can I get a roll call? Council member Laura? Yes. Council member Finn? Yes. Council member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Voigt?

Yes. So the resolution that we have just adopted calls for elections within the property to be annexed to CFD number 2025-S to approve such annexation and to authorize the levy of the special tax in accordance with the rate and method of apportionment to provide certain services within such property, which is to be held at this time by the deputy city clerk.

All ballots have been cast in connection with the election for the CFD number 2025-S, and the election is now closed. Each of the ballot propositions have been approved by more than two-thirds of the votes cast in the elections for CFD number 2025-S.

All right, and having received a certificate of the Deputy City Clerk certifying the results of the election, I will now entertain a motion to approve resolutions of the City Council of the City of Beaumont acting as the legislative body of the Community Facilities District number 2025-S of the City of Beaumont Public Services certifying the results of the June 2nd, 2026 annexation and special tax elections.

So moved.

All right. And can I get a roll call on this one, please?

I'll second that.

Oh, thank you.

Mm-hmm.

Council Member Lara?

Yes.

Council Member Finn? Yes. Council Member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Voigt? Yes.

All right. Thank you. And now we will move on to I-3, the public hearing for our fiscal year 2026, 27 to 28, 29 short range transit plan. And we will have a staff report by Mrs. Mendoza.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Before you, you have the 26, 27, 28, 29 short-range transit plan. My staff had some emergencies, so they are not here to present this evening, so you are stuck with me. All right. Let me bring it up. They didn't send, the presentation is attached in the agenda. I don't have it in a PowerPoint format to share, I just learned, so I apologize for that. So I thought I would just focus on the actual staff report. And then if you have any questions, we can go off that if you have any objections. So in the short-range transit plan, we have a couple of proposed changes. We're going to restructure Route 2 and remove some duplication of service that heads out to Morongo and the casino. Let me bring it up really quick. Just as a quick review, so currently transit provides three weekday local bus routes, three weekday peak bus routes, two commuter link routes, two routes operate on Saturdays, and then we also offer a dial-a-ride and ADA service. I think you're all pretty familiar with that. So proposed changes going into this year, like I said, are route two. We're proposing to remove the duplicate service to Morongo and Cabazon, um, banning and, uh, responds out there. And we also share, you know, from our site at Highland spring. So, uh, quick recap of our, um, projected annual boardings. So our boardings are back to pre COVID levels and still rising with our youth passengers, as most of you know, so over 142,000 projected annual boardings. We offer over 22,000 hours of revenue hours, revenue service hours. I love how they tongue twisted me right there. And over 576,000 miles traveled. We do fair promotions throughout the year to increase our ridership. We've done major rider outreach this past year. As you all know, we're undergoing our comprehensive operational analysis. We are currently in phase two. Um, to phase three, we're waiting for the final plan to be presented to council in, uh, fall winter this year. Uh, we are exploring things in that like micro transit and other alternative options, other funding options, federal funding, et cetera. Um, we're also looking at alternate ways to fund our transit maintenance yard that we're trying to build. So overall, transit has a $3.9 million budget, primarily funded by local transportation funds and Measure A. Oh, he did get it up for me. Look at that. Very good, Greg. Thank you. And then other grants. We do our best to seek out as many grants as possible. So Beaumont Transit must meet fare box recovery on an annual basis. Quick recap, we're currently at the 10% recovery fare box ratio. This is our last year at that rate. Fiscal year 27, 28 will be required to hit that minimum 20% now that we're an urbanized area. Since we- Carrie, just one second.

Can we advance the slides? It's there. I will catch up. You got it? Okay. I apologize. There you go.

There we go. Thank you. Thanks, Greg. I thought because it was a PDF it wasn't going to work. Um, so we have that 20%, we've got a hit for, um, urbanized and non urbanized area. So we have that blended rate of 20% that we have to hit next year. Our projected recovery fare box for 26, 27, the way the budget is currently built is 17.02%. We have a capital budget of 4.2, almost 4.3 million. And that's primarily to maintain equipment. upgrade our cellular router devices online so that we can ensure that real time passenger or bus location data for the passengers. keep our passenger information systems up to date, retrofit those, and continue our zero emission bus platform. So the recommendation this evening is to hold a public hearing and adopt the fiscal year 26-27 through fiscal 28-29 short-range transit plan for submission. And as a caveat, this plan has been submitted to RCTC in draft format. They do always come back with recommended changes and suggestions. So in its entirety, as it stands today, it should pass our CTC's measures as an FYI. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions. I know there were some questions initially about fare box and recovery and where we're at. So if you have any questions, I will answer those.

All righty. Well, I will open up this public hearing at 7.07. And 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, so seeing none, I will close the public hearing at 7.07 and open it up to council discussion.

Councilmember Martinez. Yeah, just a quick question. Are they continuing the grant for the Youth Ride Free program for 26-27?

That has not come through to my knowledge yet. They have not determined that. That was the last update I had from staff is they were still waiting on direction.

Has there been a... campaign then to notify parents that they'll be having to pay next year?

We will once we know for certain. For sure, okay. Absolutely.

Thank you.

We meet with the school on a regular basis, try to keep them apprised, and we'll still have manageable bus passes and rates that are reasonable for the families.

Council Member Lara?

Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate the efforts that are being made to monitor the on-time success. I'd also like to know on the comprehensive operational analysis that's identified in the report, when do you plan on bringing that back to Council?

That should be late fall, early winter this year.

And then I think I asked this every year when we're looking at that 20%. It's good to see that there's an increase in numbers. So you're comfortable that we're inching up every year.

So the trend is showing that we'll be very, very close next year. And we'll be very, very mindful of that when we build next year's budget based on ridership trends and budgeting, capital, et cetera. What counts towards Fairbox and what doesn't?

Thank you very much. That's all I have, Mayor.

Mayor Potemoy?

Yeah, somewhere in here, I can't find it now, but there is a mention of maintaining and the current bus stops. Can we add bus stops?

We can.

Okay. We need a bus stop in front of 106.

Yes.

Because the kids are all over those hills and they're going to fall and they're going to sue us.

And I actually have an update from the transit manager for you. The cop, the COA is looking at that location. The issue right now is they don't have anywhere to turn around. Um, I guess, and they're not, they asked, um, all of what, if they could pull in to turn around and we're told no. Um, So it's merely trying to find a route that's safe for the bus to turn around and get out of there, I guess.

And I realize that they're going to widen as part of the bridge, but we've got to do something now because you drive by there and there's 10, 15 kids that are just on the sides of the hills. Okay.

Okay. I'll see if there's anything we can do sooner than that because part of the COA is a bus stop improvement plan that includes the addition or elimination of bus stops, where they should go, where they should be. So I will see if we can move that up.

We're probably okay until August at this point, right?

The summer break. Yeah. We'll try to get something in place by then.

Oh, by the way, when you said late fall, early winter, when is that?

It should be sometime between September and December.

Okay, because I never know when we go from fall to winter. We go summer to winter.

We live in California. This is true. This is true. Welcome to California.

That's on the slide from the COA. Council Member Martinez?

Yeah, just to follow up, I can see you later about the contact information for Hollywood. That seems absolutely insane to say no, and it's half of their people in there. So I'd like to follow up with him. Okay. We'll talk.

We can do that. Absolutely. Alrighty, seeing no other further discussion, I'll entertain a motion.

I make a motion to adopt the fiscal year 2026 through 27 through fiscal year 2028-29 short range transit plan for submission to Riverside County Transportation Commission with any recommended changes.

I'll second. Can I get a roll call, please? Council Member Lora? Yes. Council Member Finn? Yes. Council Member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Foy? Yes.

All right. And that will move us on to the fourth amendment to the fiscal year 2026-2030 capital improvement plan. And we will get a staff report by Mr. Bestel.

Yeah. Thank you, Mayor. If I can share my screen. All right, so this is the Fourth Amendment to the current CIP. The proposed amendment is driven by the need to increase budgets for three projects, the wastewater treatment solar generation project, Public Works' storm drain inlet upgrades, and IT's integrated alarm camera system. For wastewater and Public Works, staff received construction bids that exceeded current budgets. For wastewater, the solar generation project is proposing a cumulative increase of $1.4 million approximately, with, again, approximately $850,000 from bond proceeds and $550,000 from available sewer diff for a new CIP budget of approximately $2.9 million. Wastewater is proposing the award contract under item J8 this evening. Public Works is requesting an additional $33,000. Staff is proposing to reallocate general funds from an existing CIP. The Cherry Channel project, the Cherry Channel design is nearly complete and the project will close in the future. Public Works is proposing the award contract under item J3 later this evening. Lastly, IT, IT's project integrated alarm and camera system is currently under construction and anticipating a change order that may exceed the current budget. Therefore, IT is proposing to increase their budget by approximately $100,000. Using general funds from cost savings in their current operating budget, a future item will be brought to council proposing an increase to their contract and possibly contingency for that project. Lastly, it should be noted that Public Works is the lowest requester on here.

All right. Thank you for those comments. And I did notice you were wearing a green tie today because you were asking for money, although the lowest. All right. So I will open up this public hearing at 7.14. And 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. Okay. Seeing none, we will close at 7.14 and open it up for council discussion. Council Member Fenn?

Yes, thanks, Mayor. So a question for staff. So I had the opportunity to get this question answered via email, but I was going to ask in a public format so staff could share it with the rest of the council and then be to the benefit of the public. So for the solar generation, the new budget is nearly double what the original projections were. So, Chris, could you take a moment and just explain the differences in that and how that came out?

Yeah, absolutely. So the original CIP budget was approximately 1.5 million, a little greater than that. That was based on cost projections at that point in time. Since then, there's been a number of escalations in the market that have led to the cost increases that you saw in this bid, namely prevailing wage increases and also a strong demand for contractors in this sector right now because we're seeing the incentives for these programs dwindling away. SO THERE'S A BIG RUSH TO TRY TO GET THESE INSTALLED WHILE THE INCENTIVES STILL EXIST, WHICH, BY THE WAY, WE ARE GOING FOR AN INCENTIVE, AND THAT WILL BE DISCUSSED AT A LATER AGENDA ITEM. SO THIS PROJECT, WHILE THE CIP BUDGET WAS $1.5 MILLION, IT IS FULLY FUNDED THROUGH TWO MECHANISMS. NUMBER ONE IS OUR BOND REFINANCE PROCEEDS, AND NUMBER TWO IS THE REALLOCATION OF DIFF, WHICH WAS DISCUSSED, THE 550. WHAT'S REALLY NOTEWORTHY ABOUT THIS ITEM IS THE USE OF THE BOND SALE PROCEEDS. must benefit all rate payers with it. So this project is, specifically relevant because the revenue that it generates will help offset the cost of running the wastewater treatment plant, which will in turn result in lower rates over time. So because of that, it's an eligible project and staff felt like it was a good investment for DIF and those other proceeds. And I'll just note too, I had a conversation with Council Member Fenn about this, that We've seen, it's been very difficult to estimate costs on projects over the last five years because of all the changes in the economy and CIP. So one of the mechanisms that I've used in the past and we're gonna institute I think going forward for larger projects is doing constructability estimates and that's where a contractor is looking at costs in addition to the architect or engineer and they're working in concert with each other to help

mitigate um mitigate risk and uncertainty all right appreciate that thank you sir thank you mayor

All right. Well, if we have nothing further, then I will move to waive the full reading and adopt by title only a resolution of the City Council of the City of Beaumont amending the five-year capital improvement plan for fiscal year 26 through 30 and approve the budget adjustments. I'll second.

And can I get a roll call? Council Member Lahr? Yes. Council Member Finn? Yes. Council Member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Temoy? Yes. Mayor Voigt?

Yes. All right, and then we'll take us to our last public hearing, and that's a request to table the public hearing to consider adoption of an ordinance amending Title 17 zoning sign provisions. And we'll have a staff report by Mr. Boatman.

Thank you, Mayor. As noted, staff has been working with the Planning Commission on an amendment to the sign code. However, due to changes in case law, that requires additional legal review, and we're recommending this item be tabled at this time.

Okay. Do we need a motion for the tabling, or are we able just to proceed?

Motion to table, yes.

OK. All right. So I'll entertain a motion to table.

Mayor, I'll move to table.

And I'll second. Can I get a roll call?

Councilmember Laura? Yes. Councilmember Finn? Yes. Councilmember Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Voigt? Yes.

All right. That will take us to our action items. And our first action item is J1, an award of a business attraction and expansion program grant application to Cloud 9 Espresso. And we'll have a staff report by Mr. Polster.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. I'm pleased to bring you tonight this and the following item, a similar action. This first one is for a coffee house, something we need and actually where you walk in and get coffee at 790 North Beaumont. So this would be Cloud 9 Espresso. because of the categories that we have in this program they're not considered a premium dining it's more of a casual operation and so the program allows for up to twenty five thousand dollars on this loan grant and similar to what we did for good intentions a couple of months ago this will not be the second time we've used this element of the program it's designed that if they stay in business for three years it's fully forgivable to twenty five thousand If they do not, then there's a loan note procedure in here with interest rates that would be accrued and repaid. But let's keep our hopes, fingers crossed, that they certainly will operate successfully. The young lady who's going to be doing it has done pop-up and mobile coffee for several years. She has that experience, and we feel very confident that she's going to do quite well. All right. Recommend approval.

And what was the location of that?

790 North Belmont, Tom's building. Okay. It's kind of Tusconos, I think.

All right. Excellent. I will, or 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. Okay. And I will open it up to council discussion. I would just like to state that it's nice to see the momentum that's coming through with this from our Economic Development Committee and from the community members as well. It's awesome to be able to see these incubators move forward. I think it's very exciting for the community. Mayor Pertamoy.

I'll move to approve the award of a loan grant under the Downtown Business Attraction and Expansion Program for application ED2026002, three O's, in the amount of $25,000.

Mayor, I'm sorry. I was remiss. Our operator is here tonight, and if you'd like to meet her in person or have any questions, she's here and available for comments.

Well, great. We are very happy. I'll make a second. Oh, there we go. Council Member Lara made the second. Thank you. All right. And can we get a roll call, please?

Council Member Lara?

Yes.

Council Member Finn?

Yes.

Council Member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Voigt? Yes. And we are very excited for you.

Would you like to say anything if you'd like to? You don't have to. I don't want to put you on the spot. Thank you. You're welcome. We are very excited for you. And thank you for taking... The opportunity. All right, that will take us to our second business attraction and expansion program grant application for Cornerstone Barbecue.

Yeah, same staff report, if you will, but I think you all know Cornerstone. They've been sort of a hallmark of what we're trying to achieve in the community and in the downtown in particular. Very thankful that we have that business and that they have expanded to this location. So in this case, it would be a $50,000 forgivable loan, and I'm quite certain they will be in business the full time.

Yes. All right, and 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, and seeing no public comment, I will open it up for council discussion.

Mayor Pro Tem? Is this a five-year as opposed to a three-year like the last one?

$25,000 would be forgivable after three years and the full $50,000 after five. Got it.

Okay. You're making us famous. We hear about Cornerstone all throughout the Inland Empire now. Thank you.

Yes, absolutely. I would echo that just a sentiment that we appreciate all of the work that you've done here. It's really a spot that everybody loves to go to. So with that, I will move to approve. What's that? Oh, sorry. I apologize.

All right.

Thank you. Thank you.

So I saw the video for the cherry festival. That was awesome. Thank you.

sorry it was it was great i agree i really do i agree all right well then i will move to approve the 50 000 uh grant under the downtown business attraction and expansion program for application ed 2026-0001 to support a qualifying downtown business investment to cornerstone barbecue i'll second and can i get a roll call

Council member Laura? Yes. Council member Finn? Yes. Council member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Voigt?

Yes. And Anthony, would you like to say anything?

Yeah, I would. I wanted to say thank you to...

So I wanted to say thank you to the council. Thank you to the city. It's been a pleasure and an honor to do business here. Thank you to staff, Kurt, Joseph, Laura, and all the team. They really have helped us get to where we are now. And I look forward to new businesses and all the businesses around town or different cities to see what Beaumont is doing so that they could follow suit. So thank you once again. Appreciate you guys.

Great, we appreciate that. And would you guys both come up and take a picture with us by chance? All right, come on up.

All right.

Always exciting to see our smaller businesses thriving as well, so thank you guys. All right, that takes us to item J3, award of public works agreement for the construction of a storm drain inlet upgrades, capital improvement project number R26-07. Mr. Vestal?

Yeah, thank you, Mayor. In our current general permit, Issued by the Santa Ana region regional water quality control board the city is obligated to install full capture trash devices within all of our catch basins with a due date on in 2030 so in in an effort to accomplish Excuse me accomplish that the city is incrementally providing these trash capture devices and And that's what you're hearing tonight is the award of a construction contract for the installation of approximately 40 of these trash capture devices. We approximately have 513 catch basins throughout the city with roughly 210 of those. Having these already installed, we need approximately 60 to meet the nearest milestone number. And the 40 will get us quite a bit there. The CITY ADVERTISED FOR A COMPETITIVE BID ON APRIL 8TH. WE RECEIVED BIDS ON MAY 12TH. WE RECEIVED FOUR BIDS WITH GENTRY GENERAL ENGINEERING BEING THE LOWEST WITH A BASE BID OF 120,000 APPROXIMATELY. The city staff is proposing a 10% contingency on top of that of approximately 12,700 for a total amount of 133,000. That concludes my presentation.

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

Okay, and I will open it up to council discussion. Mayor Pro Temway.

So you're familiar because I think you were in on that flood control meetings. Banning's doing something similar to this. Is that right? What they're getting support from the flood control to pay for some of the work that we're looking to do here?

I'm not familiar with them getting funding for what we're doing here.

I don't know if it was catch basins. It might have been the... I'm not sure. I thought it was catch basins. It could have been storm drains, except that's a different piece.

It is, yeah. This is exclusively catch basins.

Because we approved support for banning to get that done on the Flood Control Commission. I'm just curious.

This is a pretty notorious, unfunded mandate of the Water Board that's hitting every municipality around us. And it's a pretty substantial requirement to basically capture all storm drain runoff before it exits the city limits. I'm not familiar with other outside funding sources either. We'll certainly look into the one you're noting. OK.

Council Mayor Fenton.

Yes, thanks, Mayor. So question for staff. The additional servicing requirement on the city to go in and clean those up, does that fall within the wastewater side of things, or is it just strictly with just like general city maintenance and so forth?

No. So it will be a function of Public Works and the annual operating budget. Okay. All right. Thank you.

These are things that when I went to school to be a nurse, I never thought I'd learn about. All right, well, anything else? Otherwise, I'll entertain a motion.

I mean, if there's nothing else, I'll make a motion. Where did it go?

Yeah, that's all.

Recommended action.

That's all.

I apologize, to award and authorize the mayor to execute a public works agreement with Gentry General Engineering Inc. in the amount of $120,264 for the construction of CIP R26-07 storm drain inlet upgrades and approve 10% contingency of $12,736 for a total not to exceed $133,000. and authorize the city manager to sign off on any contract change orders within the authorized contingency and authorize the issuance of a purchase order to the Gentry General Engineering Inc. in the amount of $120,264 for construction of this project. I'll second. Can I get a roll call?

Council Member Laura? Yes. Council Member Fenn? Yes. Council Member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White?

Yes.

Mayor Voigt? Yes.

That takes us to Item J4, Award of Public Works Agreement for the Construction of the Pennsylvania and First Street Traffic Signal Upgrades, Capital Improvement Project Number 25-13. Also, Mr. Vestal.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor. If I can share my screen, please. Thank you. So this project proposes to convert the through lanes on the southbound Pennsylvania Avenue into a combo left turn through lane. Additionally, staff observed the tendency for cars to form two through lanes on the eastbound First Street, where only one through lane exists. If you look at the photo, you can see the car on the very far Right of the screen. I believe that is our current deputy city manager Gus Romo illegally So to make this intersection safer staff is recommending the restripe along first Street as well to provide two distinct lanes The project was formally bid on April 8th this year. The city received 11 bids. On May 7th, the lowest responsive bidder was Elecnor Belko Electric with a base bid of approximately $55,000. Staff is proposing a $10,000 contingency, which is approximately 18% of the contract. The staff report has additional information, including the full list of bidders and funding sources. Just a brief comment on 2nd Street extension. The city is still proposing a traffic signal at 2nd Street. It is very close to this one. However, the safety of the left-hand turn movements on westbound 2nd Street are what's driving that traffic signal. So that concludes my presentation.

All righty. Thank you. 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 righty. Then I will open it up for council discussion. Can I first ask that we get the screen back up really quick? Sorry. And Council Member Fenn?

Yes, I was just getting clarification. I feel out of place asking this. But this is just to confirm, if you're eastbound on First Street, it's two left-hand turn lanes to go north on Pennsylvania? No. Okay, all right. That's what I thought you said a minute ago, and so I got confused. So the two is to then, if you're southbound on Pennsylvania... two left-hand turn lanes going east on first street that is correct there's currently an existing through lane only and that will be converted into a left-hand turn also through lane all right very good and i just want to give a shout out to the public for bringing this up when we did our road shore tour for state of the city we got a couple of requests for that and staff looked into it and so this is a nice result of public outreach public feedback and a good project moving forward so thank you

And then for further clarification, will we be re-striping the eastbound lanes? Did you mention that as well or not?

So the eastbound lanes are already two lanes, the receiving lanes. This will help effectively separate them prior to the intersection.

Okay. To stay as one through lane and one turn lane or to stay as two through lanes and a turn lane?

Just to be clear, we're talking about eastbound First Street. Eastbound First. Yeah, so eastbound First Street, the ultimate configuration or the proposed configuration will be one left-hand turn lane onto Pennsylvania and two through lanes to continue east. Okay, excellent. Thank you for that.

And then those two will then connect with the two that are existing on the other side.

That is correct, yes.

And just for public knowledge, I had asked Mr. Vestal, about the validity of still having those now that we were going to come in and have the turn lane, the signal intersection at 2nd. But it was clear through our discussion that there's still a need. It's still warranted. And even with that mitigated section coming up in the future, it's still necessary to have those two lanes. Because I thought maybe the whole idea was they didn't have that and we didn't have that street. So everybody was piling up on 1st, you know, going, In that direction, but it makes sense. It's a volume still still high So I appreciate that and the timing will be coordinated between the two, you know Yes, and you mentioned that and also the efficient traffic flow Mayor Pro Tem I just want to thank you that's been Confusion that I've seen the entire time I've lived here.

So I think it's about time on the eastbound two lanes

Okay. And entertain a motion.

One more comment or question. So thinking forward in the future when we have our grade crossing done and all the traffic that comes up from him at San Jacinto, that is a I'LL CALL IT A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE COME TURN RIGHT ON FIRST, HEAD TO PENNSYLVANIA AND GET ON THE 10TH FREEWAY AND HEAD EASTBOUND. WOULD WE THEN RELOOK AT THIS INTERSECTION WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE WIDENING OF FIRST STREET TO POTENTIALLY MAYBE EVEN HAVE TWO LEFT-HAND TURN LANES HEADING NORTH ON TO PENNSYLVANIA AND THAT WOULD BE LOOKED AT AGAIN IN THE FUTURE? YES.

OKAY. ABSOLUTELY. THE SOUTHERLY CURB OR ASPHALT ON FIRST STREET IS NOT IN ITS ULTIMATE WIDTH AND THERE WILL BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE THAT INTERSECTION WITH PROBABLY MULTIPLE LEFT TURN LANES AND PROBABLY CONTINUING THE TWO THROUGH LANES.

OKAY. BECAUSE I'D IMAGINE WHEN WE FINISH THE GRADE SEPARATION THAT WILL BECOME A POPULAR ROUTE THROUGH THERE. SO ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHTY. SEEING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.

Mayor, I'll make a motion to award and authorize the mayor to execute a public works agreement, PWA, with Elkner Belco Electric Inc. in the amount of $54,989 for the construction of Pennsylvania Avenue and the first street traffic signal upgrade and approve a contingency of $10,000 for a total not to exceed of $64,989 and authorize the city manager to sign off on any proceeding contract change orders within the authorized contingency and authorize the issuance of a purchase order to Alec Norbelco Electric Inc. in the amount of $54,989 for the construction of this project.

I'll second. Can I get a roll call? Councilmember Laura? Yes. Councilmember Fenn? Yes. Councilmember Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Voigt? Yes.

All right, Mr. Vestal, you'll be up again with J5, pedestrian crossing at 8th Street and Allegheny.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. So this item was requested by council to be brought back as a future item for discussion. City staff received one public concern submitted to the city's report of concern link on the website, identifying the need for a better crossing at the intersection of 8th Street and Allegheny Street. The concern was mirrored by the firefighters located at Station 20 who observed several pedestrians crossing northbound on 8th Street without the protection of a crosswalk, and also the city mayor brought that same concern forward. City staff conducted an analysis of the intersection and found the location does not warrant a stop sign or a traffic signal. CONSEQUENTLY, ANY NEW SIDEWALK WOULD BE CONSIDERED A MID-BLOCK CROSSING AND EXPOSED TO PEDESTRIANS TO A HIGHER LEVEL OF RISK. SO THIS STAFF REPORT AND PRESENTATION OR EXCUSE ME, THE STAFF REPORT IDENTIFIES SEVERAL OPTIONS, BUT FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS DISCUSSION, I'M GOING TO LIMIT THE PRESENTATION TO THE RECOMMENDED ACTION. STAFF CAN ADDRESS OR ATTEMPT TO ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING ANY OF THE OTHER OPTIONS. SO IN 2025, THE CITY HIRED EXP TO PERFORM A FEASIBILITY STUDY TO WIDEN 8TH STREET TO THE ULTIMATE WITH INSTALLING CURB, SIDEWALK, GUTTER. THE COST TO PERFORM THAT WORK WAS ESTIMATED AT 3.5 MILLION. AND AGAIN, THIS IS AT THE ULTIMATE LOCATION. The length of that segment is approximately one quarter mile long along 8th Street from Xenia to the existing apartment complex. The project was placed on hold until further funding and other priority projects were completed. As an interim to the future project, And in response to the public concern, staff evaluated placing a temporary sidewalk along that same segment, which would allow pedestrians to travel west, indicated by the red line there. to Xenia, where a stop-controlled crossing currently exists. Since the alignment would be significantly less invasive to existing residences and require substantially less infrastructure to accommodate the sidewalk, the cost is significantly less. The cost to construct the temporary sidewalk is estimated to be approximately $58,000. The sidewalk will be replaced when it's widened to its ultimate width. Regardless of Council's direction, staff has installed no crossing signs to dissuade pedestrians from unsafely traversing or crossing at Allegheny. Staff is recommending that council direct staff to construct the temporary sidewalk. It will be gray, broom finish, not stamped. This concludes my presentation.

Did you say not stamped? All right. Thank you for that report. Do we have any public comments on this item besides the one we heard already?

I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line?

We have no callers at this time.

All right, with that, I will open it up for council discussion. I can start us off. Thank you for bringing this forward. Did we need something? Oh, OK. I really appreciate you guys bringing it forward and reviewing this. As I was driving back and forth along that street, I witnessed multiple students trying to run across that area. And the picture that you had shown there, if you could bring it back up again. Sorry for that again. As you can see between Allegheny where those apartments are there are cars parked along the street and in order to even see to go across there you can't even see around those vehicles which is what creates that hazard there. Also we have our police substation right across the street and so it was just a little concerning for me. I do think that allowing access down the road in a safer manner through the use of sidewalks I think is a good step towards safety in this while we work towards the ultimate goal of widening. And I think it would be a huge added benefit. I know that there was some discussion earlier about whether or not we've discussed this with the school and maybe looking for some outreach from the school as well. Obviously we're at the end of school, but maybe something we can plan for next year to kind of establish some messaging from the school not to cross at that point, sending out some information through their parent square and things along those lines. But I think from a safety component, this also not just impacts the school, but also this is a heavy thoroughfare for people walking or riding their bicycles along that. And this creates a safer pathway with the sidewalk. So Just kind of my two thoughts on on that councilmember fenn.

Yes mayor. Thank you. Robert are where this Sidewalks gonna go in it. Is it going across? Is it in the public right-of-way or is it on personal property going? You know, would we be encroaching on any private property?

Yeah, so it is within public right-of-way Exclusively, however, there are several amenities, landscaping, several driveways that will have to be re-poured so that there will be a strong outreach from the city staff to just be in contact with these residents.

Okay, so the goal then, if there's a driveway there already that we, as we go through and pour that sidewalk, then it reconforms into their driveway and hopefully be a nice finished project for the homeowner, or product for the homeowner, correct?

Yeah, that is correct. And that'll be driven by, one, the ability to meet ADA requirements, and then two, just the general overall condition of their driveway.

Okay, any trees that need to be removed or anything like that to add to the potential cost or?

No trees. There are some shrubs, particularly on the westerly portion. There's one resident that has a lot of hedges, and so staff is still kind of working out how we're going to approach that situation.

Okay, and last question. Any block walls along there that need to be removed?

No. Luckily, the only block wall that exists already has sidewalk there.

Okay. All right. Very good. Thank you.

Okay. Council Member Martinez?

Thank you, Mayor. So, I mean, there's a lot of things. So one, I think it's important to say that the need is absolute and the safety is absolutely imperative. However, there's some concerns I have that I want to throw out there. So when this goes in, you said it was going to be a little bit more narrow than a standard sidewalk, I think. Did you say that? No, it'll be ADA compliant. So it'll be ADA compliant and we don't have any issues with, Is it going to be with curbs so it's elevated to make it different than the street? I'm trying to see what the differentiation is between this temporary and the street. So is there some kind of a curb thing that goes along?

Yeah, so there is existing curb out there for a portion of it. City staff will pour additional curb where needed. With the caveat that the westerly portion is still being finalized.

Okay, so I'm more concerned about this area. So this part over here, which would be the eastern part, as I walked it, I was concerned that the sidewalk is going to be parking for the residents. That's my question. because they're parking along there now, and now you're pushing them out into the street. So now my concern is, did we get input from those residents to let them know they're going to lose their parking? That's significant.

No. The sidewalk will be elevated, so they will not be... It will be dissuaded from parking on the sidewalk.

Okay, and they can't park along the curb because they're going to be too far in the street.

Is that correct? No, there is reasonable amount of room. They parked there already. And we're not moving the edge of the pavement. We're starting at the edge of the pavement and building kind of towards the residents. So their ability to park will not be impeded by the sidewalk.

OK. So they won't technically lose the curb along parking. That's correct. That was my concern. The other one, yeah. but um okay so that one's ada's got a curb the next the other question i had concerned staff time i mean we're looking at six months or so and what we tried not to do in the past is you have a plate of things you're doing and now we've just added something and you know where's the priority is something else being kicked off you know what i don't want to do is spread the staff in a thousand directions So I don't know if that can be answered now, but it's just kind of a question that I pose is like, we don't want to be in a position where we come up with something and here you go, staff. Okay, I got to do this. And I've already got other stuff that we're expecting. So I would need at some point to let us know where your workload is, how we can make this work, you know, because I don't want to keep adding to your plate because we have other stuff that we're expecting as well. And that's why I said I started with that. This is ultimately important because of the safety, but it's also important to balance our projects and make sure that it's coming at the right time for the schedule that we have going with whatever else we have going. So if it's something that we have to put off a little bit, wait a little bit, you know, I'm okay with that, knowing that, you know, we're going to work it in. And then, of course, my ultimate question is the money. You know, where are we moving that around? So those are just things that I throw out here for the council to comment on as we discuss.

Chair, I have some input on that, if you wanted it.

Yep.

Okay. So there are clear phases out there. You walked it. There are areas that need some remedial grading. There are areas that already have the curb that just need the sidewalk, and there are areas that need both. just in general there are about three to four phases out there so your public works manager has already been fitting into the schedule in anticipation of this being the direction from council how to schedule the crews to to you know to your point to not be impacted on the rest of their duties they will be however you know there's openings in the schedule for them to to come out here uh THE DIVISION OF LABOR IN PUBLIC WORK STREETS ARE KIND OF COMPARTMENTALIZED, SO THERE'S A CONCRETE CREW, THERE'S AN ASPHALT REPAIR CREW. UNFORTUNATELY OUR DEPARTMENT IS NOT BIG ENOUGH THAT JUST THE CONCRETE CREW CAN COME OUT HERE AND POUR CONCRETE. IT WILL PULL IN OTHER DIVISIONS, SUBDIVISIONS IN THE STREETS CREW.

public works manager is really good at organizing and scheduling the work to accommodate our current load and then kind of you know these specialty projects very well and then on that note from the city manager's point of view coming in comment at some point about how we're going about you know with our projects what we tried not to do in the past is keep adding stuff that we have to have some sort of a process. And we do more or less, and this is something that was important that popped up, so I see that. But I would like a comment at some point of what you think we should have some sort of a process to make sure that even though everything works well and they're willing and able and can, your input about, well, maybe we should do this before we go to that step.

Certainly. Well, number one, I want to say I'm very cognizant of putting too much on staff, and that can happen easily without care. So I always am mindful of that, and I appreciate Robert's comments about scheduling it in multiple phases. Also, I'll say that I've already spoke with Robert about taking a look at the CIP schedule and bringing council an update probably later this year, late summer or fall, just to give you updates on it and make sure we're in alignment on priorities and scheduling. So that's one of the items we talked about earlier. Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Yeah, absolutely. Mayor Pro Tem White?

What is a HAWK system? I don't think we saw pictures or if it's described.

Yeah, absolutely. So a HAWK system is for where there is not a signal or a stop sign. It's exclusively to stop vehicles when pedestrians are present.

Is that one of those light up?

Yeah, exactly.

Not necessarily a sidewalk, though. Usually it's like a crosswalk, right?

Yeah.

No, sorry. I said that. You said crosswalk. Yeah. Yeah, it's a light up crosswalk.

Yeah. Okay. I suggested that to the school district about 10 years ago regarding where they're at now. And about the same time, about 10 years ago, I met with the homeowner in the far right of the red line. That was before the corporate Sundance Center was there. That was before the whole 7-Eleven area was developed. That was before anything was put in and banning. And I can tell you back then, this is very dangerous. IT'S SCARY STANDING OUT IN FRONT OF THESE PEOPLE'S HOMES, LET ALONE THE KIDS CROSSING. SO IF WE'RE DOING, YOU MENTIONED THE HAWK SYSTEM WOULD BE TEMPORARY UNTIL THE FULL WIDENING. WHAT'S GOING TO GENERATE THE FULL WIDENING?

I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY. THE HAWK SYSTEM WOULD BE A PERMANENT SOLUTION INDEPENDENT OF THE WIDENING OF THE STREET. signal at 8th and Allegheny.

No, I'm sorry. I do understand. After you explained to me what the hawk system was, I thought it was some kind of temporary sidewalk, but it's not. But you did mention until widening, something would be in place until the street was brought to its full width. What would generate the street becoming widened?

Sure. Either a CIP project sponsored by the city or development that would trigger the need to widen a street in this location.

And if we did the higher cost item that you talked about, that would be the CIP item that you're talking about in the future that would widen the street?

No. So that wasn't an option in the staff report. That would cost approximately $3.5 million. And if that is the direction of council, we can bring back an item to kind of discuss the priority of that and the funding. But the other options were the HAWC system. And then an actual traffic signal, I believe.

The HAWC system doesn't fix the fact that there's no sidewalk. I understand that there's, and you can see it here, a couple of the properties extend past where a sidewalk would be. So if you stand down here and you look, starting from the far west and look east, you're going to see some properties that stick out. I'm just, I was told when I brought this up years ago that it just wasn't going to get done. I can tell you I think it's very unsafe that we have it that way.

I just want to clarify that the widening would never get done? Or any sideline?

Nothing, they wouldn't, back then the staff and administration said it was not, they weren't going to do anything about it basically.

Council Member Lara?

Thank you Mayor. So driving that you can see where they have existing curb and there will be enough room for cars to park alongside there because it looks like parents park there all the time as they're doing the drop off and I think that's what's a concern of mine is well this is under construction if we do the the recommended action we'll be potentially under construction for about six months. School district uses that and then what happens or what concern that i have is people will still cross where they're not supposed to cross in lieu of using the sidewalk that we just put in um is it because those apartments have been there for 20 years and my what i've seen is that they walk from the apartments on the dirt road along the street um to the crosswalk and then cross it at the crossing um if putting a sidewalk takes six months is would it be And I don't know if there's any appetite for it, but to put an asphalt curb that would prevent the cars from parking where the kids would walk. An asphalt curb could be done fairly cheaply and fairly quickly. I just don't know if there's an appetite for that. The six-month time frame, where do the kids go when the sidewalk is shut down for construction?

The appropriate path would be for them to head west, east, excuse me, east towards to Highland Springs, go north and then traverse east. But it's about a quarter mile of additional,

So the kids will be getting their steps in at that point.

The kids won't do it.

No. Well, and that's my concern. So for six months, those kids are going to be crossing in that location. And maybe even after we put the sidewalk in is... That that's as we head down this this route, I understand the need for it. I just don't know if we want to invest that the money when we could do a curb asphalt curb, which would still provide a walkable area behind the asphalt curb. That they've been using. For four years, the other thought was is the. Maybe using. The yellow tough curb delineators. Those could be put down fairly quickly. It really is a. Is. Invisible to the eye obviously. I don't know if that's a reasonable I don't know what the maintenance is on those but that's something that could be done quickly I think the other thing driving that when you drive east on 8th street I don't see any school signs a school zone slow down 25 you see them driving west on the school side but we don't have any you know flashing lights any caution any slow kids at play or anything like that and I think that would help well besides a speed bump like you proposed earlier, I think those would be beneficial to slow traffic down in that area. So those are just some thoughts that I had. Robert, I don't know if those are feasible, but again, blocking that off for six months gives me a little bit of a concern. That's all.

I can just add on that note if the direction is for us to go forward with the sidewalk you know two things number one will of course coordinate the construction with the school district but number two as we do it in phases we can implement traffic control measures to still allow safe pedestrian access and parking as we do segments to try to minimize minimize the impact so it wouldn't be a situation where the entire segment would be closed down all at one time okay

Okay, so Councilman Martinez, do you have anything further?

I just wanted to add, did you have a comment on the asphalt comment? Because I didn't know about that, and I don't know anything about that.

Yeah, I think that that would need to be explored a little bit further. I'm hesitant to put the kids further into the path of traffic, even if it does have an asphalt curb as a barrier.

And then my last question is, when we did the study for that apartment complex coming in there, that didn't warrant anything to that street, right? Widening, curvings.

The one just to the south?

Yeah.

We explored it. There was no nexus for them to improve 8th Street.

Unfortunately, because I remember we had the discussion with the polls, but I didn't know if that was a discussion sidewalk or curve or anything. OK, thank you. Thank you.

But Robert, on that, the asphalt curb, my thought was, is that rather than having the concrete curve, the asphalt curb would go in that location. so you're not moving them out further into traffic it's still the same area that we would use it's just they still walk on dirt unfortunately and they'd have the asphalt curb to more or less kind of delineate that walking surface was just a thought that's all yeah and then you push the button sorry we were um

We were, I think they're excited that the polls closed. Since I'm noticing that it's 8 o'clock now.

I thought it was the asphalt curving idea.

I thought it was the asphalt curving that got them so excited. I apologize. We were looking at a picture of what a hawk looks like. I pulled it up real quickly. It's more of like a crossing with Like a signal like he stated and you push the button and then it allows you to go across where I've seen this Is that a school intersection in Palm Springs as you're going down racket Club? They had a lot of them that blink I've also seen though where you can activate lower ones that are on the ground and those will light up But I don't know what those costs are look like.

The only downside to those, they are implemented, especially in areas where I think especially crossings seem inevitable. But the only consideration with those and the reason why most agencies tend to prefer moving people towards intersections is they could create a false sense of security for the user. So when they push a button, a lot of times you don't find them looking both ways as much as they should.

And I have witnessed that at the Palm Springs intersection for sure. Well, for me, this is a big safety concern, I think, regardless. I like the opportunity to explore the asphalt options. But from my perspective, I do feel that we should move forward with... With the sidewalk construction, you know, understanding that we will create better traffic flows and things along those lines while it's under construction. I think it's short-term pain and risk mitigation from our perspective, as we know that there are auto pedestrian opportunities a lot of places on here, and if we can provide a safer space for them. Think we're mitigating risk to the city in general and I think it's worth the 58,000 that we would be spending for the sidewalk up front While we're still working towards the 3.5 million to widen it, which I do think needs to come back as a CIP though Or look at whether or not the other things that have been conditioned further south require some input there mayor protein white yeah, does it

You brought up a good point about moving people towards intersections, but the road in the middle of the homes, isn't that going to be an entrance to the development that's coming south of it?

Yeah, that is correct. At the very end of the single-family residence, there will be a, I think it's an emergency entrance and exit for the apartment complex to the south.

Okay, but it's in the middle of these residential homes now, the one I'm talking about.

It's in between the apartment complex and the last residential home.

Okay. Yeah. So that's what I'm looking at. It's the middle. That's a driveway?

It's two driveways back to back. It's two. It goes into either one.

Yeah. Okay. I'm just thinking if you had the hawk closer to the school, you're going to have...

Better compliance.

I think it's going to be safer. But I don't know. Redlands has something similar at the high school. And it makes me slow down, and it makes me look. And you put up a couple of the signs that Mr. Lara was talking about. It seems to work in Redlands.

Again, I think where it's effective is where I think where it's best implemented is where you know they're going to cross no matter what.

And and you're not gonna probably you're not likely to be successful in in having them utilize the intersection But I I think this what I just pointed out makes sense because I think are they gonna really walk all the way down to either side They're gonna try and cross right in the middle as they do now And I'm just, I guess it wouldn't be prudent to put a hawk system closer to the school.

Well, I think that maybe the discussion that needs to head towards do we want to put the hawk is 400,000.

What we could do is we could add the hawk. So the area needs a sidewalk, obviously, no matter what to traverse. we could add you know we could add a hawk as a cip item on the list to be discussed and prioritized as well or we could bring it back as a council item if the council wishes us to look into that immediately but either way we could add that

Okay, so it seems like what we have on the table currently is to move forward with the sidewalks and bring back an item to review the Hawk system as well as widening of 8th Street and what it would take. And that discussion would come later, but we would move forward with the sidewalks now. I can make that motion. All right, so I will make a motion to proceed with construction of the temporary sidewalk along the south half of 8th Street from Xenia Avenue to Allegheny Street at the interim location and to bring back the Hawk system and whitening in further CIP discussions.

I'll second.

And can I get a roll call? Council Member Lara?

Yes.

Council Member Fenn?

Yes.

Council Member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Voigt? Yes.

All right. And now we're just going to move on to another widening discussion, which is our Allegheny widening discussion. And Mr. Vestal, you were up on this one as well.

Yeah, thank you. Last one, I promise. All right, similar to the last item, this item was at the request of council to be brought back as an item, future item for discussion. Allegheny is a critically undersized street for its current use. Allegheny is a primary access for three apartment complexes, several single family residential dwellings, and the secondary access for the fire station number 20. The street is approximately a quarter mile long. The existing pavement varies in width from 20 to 33 feet. The 20-40 circulation element identifies Allegheny as a local street, which should have a minimum width of 36 feet and a right-of-way width of 60 feet. The estimated cost, which is included as part of the report, to widen Allegheny to its ultimate width is estimated to be approximately $2 million. The estimated cost includes design, improvements, and right-of-way. The majority of the improvements needed are located adjacent to the fire station and the adjacent property to the north. That's where there are encroaches into the road the most. At this time, staff is not recommending a CIP project. However, staff will ensure that future development contributes to the fair share of widening Allegheny. Staff will also pursue right-of-way dedications and outreach. Council may direct staff to bring back a future item for discussion to develop a CIP and possible funding options. Happy to go over this image that you see or address any other comments or questions you have.

Okay, thank you. 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, I will open this item up for council discussion. Council Member Fenn?

Yes, thank you. Robert, when this is brought back for a future discussion, could we get a report from the fire department as to how often they use Allegheny in responding to calls? I would imagine if they're having to use that, they could get bottlenecked in there with too many cars parked in there, or do they just always go around and therefore it takes longer to get to a call? So I'd love to hear from them.

I saw them go through it today. Did you? Okay. The hook and ladder went through that thing today. Really? Yep. I saw it. I witnessed it. I was like, oh my gosh. I have a question though on that.

Yeah. Council Member Martinez.

Does that still allow for the parking on the curbs with the widening? Yes, I know there's no parking on one side right now against the apartments.

Yeah, there's some red curb out there so it would It would if we widen it to the 36 feet minimum that does allow for on street parking okay, and you're saying that the the only right-of-way that we need is just a piece of Westerly piece Southwest Southwest piece there are multiple parcels that need right away one would be fire station number 20 the Parcel directly the vacant parcel directly north of that and I apologize the the north is To the right on this screen And then the commercial center to the south of fire station number 20 And that's included in the cost Yes, in the $2 million.

And that was construction, design, and right-of-way, you said?

It is, yeah. So that is a very high-level cost estimate, particularly for right-of-way. That can be very expensive, but I'm using numbers we used in recent projects. However, location, amenities on their parcel is very subjective on cost.

WHY IS THAT ONE SO MUCH CHEAPER THAN THE 3 MILLION ON THE OTHER SIDEWALK? IS IT BECAUSE THERE'S MORE RIDAWAY ACQUISITION OVER THERE?

NO, IT IS BECAUSE OF THE RECONSTRUCTION OF DRIVEWAYS, RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BLOCK WALLS THAT COUNCIL MEMBER FINN MADE A COMMENT ON. OKAY. THANK YOU. THAT'S ALL.

COUNCIL MEMBER LARA?

yeah i don't want to burst your bubble but i think you started out as asking for the least amount of money and ended up with the most so i just just just saying

I once again I appreciate you bringing this back. I too have witnessed the fire engine going down there. I have driven it myself and squeezed through there and it just does feel to be and as we noted a very narrow street especially with all the parking and I think with the amount of traffic that rolls up and down that street is really the concerning part of it. And then not to mention the kids then crossing across that street when you have the volume of traffic that goes up and down that street. I recognize it's a heavy, heavy lift, and sometimes I wish I didn't ask for this to be reviewed, but I do think that it's necessary. And for me, I think this is probably something we bring back during the CIP planning as well. I don't know what the rest of the council thinks about that but to me that seems to be a feasible and Responsible response is to bring it back to then look at the list of priorities and then decide from there But I do think that this poses some safety issues. I think response times need to be addressed and looked at on here I think hearing from the fire department with regards to it while they're very good at threading the needle you know, we don't we don't need a

engine down or anything along those lines from a public safety perspective, so if If the council is okay with bringing it back yeah council member fed Thank You mayor so with apartments being nearby and with blossom there as well is there any designation for that part of town that could That could be potential for grant funding to help for that and the fire station public say you know that whole mindset of MAYBE THERE'S NOT MONEY NOW, BUT KEEPING AN EYE OUT THAT IF THERE'S SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT WE CAN CHASE A GRANT THAT MIGHT BE BENEFICIAL FOR THAT AREA SINCE IT'S, I DON'T WANT TO CALL IT LOWER INCOME, BUT BECAUSE THERE'S APARTMENT COMPLEXES AND THEY'RE IN A HIGHER DENSITY, YOU KNOW, IT MAY BE BENEFICIAL.

NEW SPEAKER I THINK THAT THERE ARE A COUPLE STRATEGIES THAT WE CAN LOOK AT AND I'D LIKE TO DISCUSS THAT WITH THE CITY MANAGER. NEW SPEAKER OKAY.

THANK YOU.

think there's probably opportunity once we widen it as well to look at a transit perspective from there because right now I think they have to walk up to the bus station or walk down to the bus station so this you know with the winding would also increase access for them with regards to that as well okay and we're all okay with bringing it back okay all right thank you for that discussion and now that'll take us to item j7 our Stewart Park update

Good evening Council. So many things have happened since our last meeting and I am very excited. So obviously you know we prepare these reports in advance and so when we submit them into the system and into the agenda things happen even after we make those submittals in not in accordance to our time frame but the great news is prior to or after our May 5th meeting we did receive notice from SHPO, THAT EVERYTHING WAS APPROVED AND A LETTER OF CONCURRENCE WAS PROVIDED. THAT LETTER IS PUT IN THE STAFF REPORT. THAT BASICALLY SAID WHAT WE HAD BEEN ORIGINALLY STATING ALL ALONG, THAT THERE WAS NO HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE PARK AND IT COULD CONTINUE TO CARRY ON IN THE REVIEW PROCESS. We were told shortly after that that we were allowed to start some weed abatement activities, but we weren't allowed to start construction activities after that. So you will notice that last week we did have staff go into the park to perform some weed abatement because it was in dire need of some weed abatement. So we had staff from community services and from public works in there for a couple of days just knocking down weeds and making it a little safer. uh in the area so um that big shout out to robertson and his guys to help out as well too for that and then on friday while we were in the middle of cherry festival activities we received a call with some exciting news that said that the process is complete and everything is done in terms of our application and in terms of the approval process and all the things that we were waiting on from OGALS and the state and Sacramento, and then also from National Parks on the federal side. And so everything has been approved. We were given permission to begin construction again. And so Monday morning, first thing Monday morning, we began discussions with the contractor to let him know that we can be on site, we can disturb earth, and we can put on tractors and we can do all the fun things to get phase one going again. And so that is the plan right now. The contractor received a signed letter from the city stating that the pause has been lifted and that construction activities need to start as soon as possible. The contractor is going to be giving us, and we will provide this probably through an update with the city manager or to council, A REVISED CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE AND THREE WEEK LOOK AHEAD AND ALL THOSE THINGS FOR THE CURRENT PHASE ONE PROJECT. AND SO ALSO CITY MANAGER HAD US NOTIFY THE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER AND SHE IMMEDIATELY PUT SOME THINGS ONLINE AND SO WE STARTED ANNOUNCING TO OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE ARE RESTARTING THE PROCESS AGAIN FOR PHASE ONE. WITH THAT BEING SAID, NOW WE ARE GOING TO BE GIVEN THE REQUIREMENTS FOR STARTING THE PHASE TWO BIDDING PROCESS, AND SO WE'RE ALSO WORKING WITH OUR CONTRACTED DESIGN TEAM AND ARCHITECTS TO PUT TOGETHER THAT BID PACKAGE WITH ROBERT'S TEAM AND OUR PROJECT MANAGERS TO PUT THOSE THINGS. NOW THAT WE ARE OFFICIALLY GETTING THE GRANT, THERE'S A FEW VERBAGE AND CERTAIN THINGS THAT THEY REQUIRE TO BE IN THAT BID PACKAGE. SO WHEN THAT'S ALL COMPLETE, WE WILL BE GOING OUT TO BID FOR THE PHASE TWO PORTION OF THE PROJECT. WE ARE ESTIMATING AT THIS TIME, AND WE'LL CONFIRM THIS ONCE WE GET THE CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULES, BUT WE'RE ESTIMATING ABOUT SIX MONTHS REMAIN IN THE PHASE ONE CONSTRUCTION PORTION. WHILE THAT SIX-MONTH CONSTRUCTION PORTION IS GOING ON, THAT IS WHEN WE WILL BE CONDUCTING THE PHASE TWO BID PORTION, AND OUR HOPES AND EFFORTS ARE GOING TO BE TO ALIGN THOSE PROJECTS TO HAVE PHASE ONE CONSTRUCTION ENDING And then we can immediately go into phase two, construction. And so that is the latest update. And I think I mentioned it at our last meeting. And just a big hats off. I was able to talk to Congressman Reese this weekend at the Cherry Festival and also Rosalia Ochoa-Bogue and just thank their staff and their offices and everybody. And for those of you that went to DC and everybody in this room. everyone that's been at home praying or doing whatever you've been doing to help us get to this point. We appreciate it. And so I do send a sincere debt of gratitude to everyone that's kind of chipped in and done all that. I know our city manager had some great contacts and We started to get the governor's office involved and put some different angles of pressure on people, and I believe all those things kind of helped out, and we pulled this elephant across the finish line. And so we're very excited. So this is the best Stewart Park update I've given in the last nine months by far. So I'll take any questions, or if City Manager Boatman has any comments, you can add as well.

NO, I JUST WANT TO THANK THE STAFF FOR BEING SO VIGILANT AND STAYING ON THIS AND KEEPING STATE STAFF MOTIVATED AND FEDERAL STAFF MOTIVATED. I ALSO WANT TO THANK SKY CONNERS FROM THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE AND ALSO HER SUPERIORS, NICK. TRIED TO LOOK FOR HIS LAST NAME, BUT I CAN'T FIND IT. BUT THEY DID A TREMENDOUS JOB TRYING TO COORDINATE BETWEEN ALL THE AGENCIES. THERE WERE A LOT OF COOKS IN THIS KITCHEN THAT NEEDED TO BE PULLED TOGETHER, AND THAT WAS A BIG CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN US GETTING ACROSS THE FINISH LINE. AND LAST, I ALSO WANT TO JUST GIVE A THANKS TO DON GRENDA FROM SRI AND REDLINDS FOR PULLING TOGETHER A REPORT THAT WOULD NORMALLY TAKE MONTHS AND LESS THAN FIVE DAYS. SO THAT WAS A BIG CONTRIBUTING FACTOR, TOO, FOR GETTING THE SHIPPO CLEARANCE.

Yes, absolutely, and I think we speak up here collectively, and I'll give them all a chance in just a minute, but we appreciate all of the hard work. Before we go into any further discussion, do we have any public comment on it?

I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time.

Okay, great. Yes, I just want to echo the appreciation that we have for the staff of really pushing in and putting the pressure on. And a big shout out to all the members of our legislative teams that you mentioned before. I mean, it took a big, hearty, healthy team to get this done and across the finish line. So I really appreciate it. Mayor Pro Temp.

So will the park be open at the end of phase one while phase two is going or is the park going to be closed to the public until phase two is complete?

It will remain because there's work being done in both ends of the park. It will remain closed after phase one is complete.

Okay and phase two you think is what another six months, year?

I would, yes.

So we're going to be another year and a half without a park? Yes, yeah.

we'll take a look at the phasing too and if there's anything that can be done to expedite that or get a section open sooner we'll do that i'll take a fresh look at that as well thank you yeah trying to phase it in i think would be excellent the community is really really really driving for that and i think it is a definitely missed piece of our city for sure all right anybody else have anything Okay, very good. Thank you for that update. All right, we will move on to J8, award a contract for wastewater treatment plant solar generation project. Thaxton Van Bell.

Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve the award and authorize a public works agreement to motive energy in the amount of $2,563,139.

I would second that if there are no public comments.

And to approve the 10% contingency?

Yes.

Okay.

And to approve the 10% contingency?

Mine's different.

Oh, is it?

Yeah. So what she said.

How about what's in the agenda? which agenda mine's different true true do we need to restate it no we can go with the recommended we can go with the recommended action okay very good i'll second or did we have a second we did but yours is much better than mine so you can check it that's good all right can i get a roll call please oh you know what actually do we have any public comment man we got all messed up i have no written requests simone do we have any callers on the line

We have no callers at this time. All right. Can I get a roll call?

Council Member Laura?

Yes. He said yes. Sorry.

Council Member Finn? Yes. Council Member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Foy. Yes. All right.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks. Great presentation.

That was awesome.

Well, I would be remiss if I didn't point out that unlike the public works projects, this will actually generate money.

All right. Any any legislative updates today? Not all right. Economic development update. Mr. Pelser.

Economic development does a lot of revenue generation, too. Nothing in particular, Mayor and Council, we had a May meeting with the EDC. It was limited to a series of updates on all the various things that are going on. I will tell you that we had a very successful, I believe, ICSC venture again earlier this month, and the Mayor and Pro Tem were with us. We will have a full report on that, including all costs involved at the next Council meeting. And that's all I have tonight.

All right, thank you very much. And do we have a Planning Commission update?

Yes, Mayor, members of the City Council. So on May 27th, the Planning Commission had two items. One was a workshop on the 2026 Beaumont Sustainability Plan, which has also been known as the Climate Adaptation Plan. and recommendation to the city council was to move forward with the ALTA planning design presentation. So the presentation included a summary of the plan, overview of outreach efforts that have happened, and also discussion regarding measures in the plan. So this is going to be coming before you on June 16th. So at your next meeting, it's been noticed. So you'll get a full presentation from the consultant on that. And then the second thing they had is a public hearing to consider a plot plan amendment and finding consistency with CEQA. This is 600 and something thousand square foot warehouse that was amending the plot plan to reduce the square footage to about 457,000. Now normally when you have a reduction And density or intensity you don't have to bring it back But in this case there were factors in terms of circulation and also it was no longer one lot It was two lots and this is next to the Wolverine warehouse So that action was taken and approved by the Planning Commission and that's all Just a question on that.

Will we be seeing that back here then?

No, that was something that the Planning Commission has authority to approve

All righty, and then city clerk? All right. Very good. City attorney? All right. City manager?

Thank you, Mayor. The City Manager's monthly report is included in your packet, but aside from that, I just wanted to, this is Gus Romo's last council meeting, and I just wanted to thank him for his service with the City of Beaumont. I've had the pleasure of knowing Gus for a number of years, and he is just a consummate professional, and I know he is going to serve the City of Coachella well where he's going, and I certainly wish him the best. We didn't get to work professionally together in Beaumont for very long, but I know we're going to stay in touch, and I look forward to seeing them at conferences and other functions. So thank you, Gus. Thank you.

Yeah, absolutely, Gus. We appreciate all the time that you stepped in during the time of need for the city, and we really appreciate the way in which you've led the city with grace and integrity and really continued to help push us forward. I wish you the best. Yeah. Alright, and that will take us up to a future agenda items. We have a couple that are on here that will be coming forward in June. Do we have any other agenda items that we would like to add? Oh, you're missing.

Yeah, I can read those agenda items.

Yes, it says amend bylaws for committees to count alternatives for quorum when needed. We don't have a date on that. Emergency operations update, I believe that was Councilmember Fens will be coming back in June. And then I believe the e bikes and parks is not going to be coming back in June, but will be moved to a to a later council date as it gets reviewed through legal and a couple other things. Any additional All right, then we will move on to council reports. Council Member Lara.

Oh, thank you, Mayor. Attended WRCOG yesterday. I just want to remind everyone we have the General Assembly on June 18th. And as a reminder, per the bylaws, that is the opportunity that all council members have the opportunity to vote on the budget for WRCOG. So it's highly recommended that we all attend. If you would please, if you do plan on attending, if you could contact Nicole, because we do need to get everybody registered. It's not an automatic. So if you would do that, we'd greatly appreciate that. um and then the the other thing i want to mention was the the cherry festival so i'm glad i get to to start this off um i cannot thank the staff enough for the job that they did in putting it together from our pio pd fire parks public works maintenance transit Everybody I ran into at the festival, all staff members smiling, very kind, generous with their time. walked out of that that festival very prideful of the of the staff that we have in this city and the effort that they put forth on that festival i know it couldn't have been done without them carrying a lion's share of that load and i i believe they pulled it off very well and council looks good as a result so i can't thank you all enough please make sure your staff knows what we how much we appreciate their efforts that's all i have mayor

Excellent, thank you. And Council Member Fenn.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. I've got a few things, so I'll try to go quick. On May 6th, I attended the Riverside Transit's Finance and Audit Committee, and we reviewed and recommended for the general board for their short-range transit plan like we did tonight for our city. And then... FAST FORWARDING TO THE 28th FOR THE GENERAL MEETING, WE DID APPROVE THAT SHORT RANGE TRANSIT PLAN. ON MAY 7th, I ATTENDED THE TEENOW MEETING HERE LOCALLY AND RIVERSIDE TRANSIT AGENCY'S MEMBERSHIP, I'M SORRY, MENTORSHIP PROGRAM, RAMP 22, WHICH IS A VERY SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM, WAS SHARED WITH THE GROUP AND OUR OWN KERRY MARTINEZ, THE HEAD OF HR, WAS TAKING COPIOUS NOTES AND SO FORTH. WE APPRECIATE LEARNING MORE ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND PERHAPS BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT THAT WITH CITY EMPLOYEES IN THE FUTURE. ON MEMORIAL DAY, ATTENDED THE CITY HALL MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATION WHERE WE ADDED TWO AIR FORCE VETERANS NAMES TO OUR MEMORIAL OUT FRONT. SO I APPRECIATE ALL THE SUPPORT BEHIND THAT. ATTENDED BANNING SUNLAKES BOULEVARD EXTENSION GROUND BREAKING. WE'RE EXCITED FOR THE CITY BANNING AND THAT WILL HELP TRAFFIC ON HIGHLAND SPRINGS. On the 27th, I attended the Regional Water Alliance. They reviewed their MOU and are reaching out to some of the other member agencies for a recommitment. We've got two or three that haven't been attending. And then for leader, for first chair, Daniel Slosson from Beaumont-Cherry Valley Water District was chosen again as chair and Stan Houghton from High Valleys Water District as the vice chair. And then finally, I attended the Cherry Festival Parade. And then obviously, we had the fun experience to be able to ride on top of our new fire truck. But then afterwards, I got an update tour of Station 106. then i got to drive the tiller in the back um that was pretty cool um so you guys missed out on that one but a nice tour of how the how the truck works um how that team operates and works together very proud of our organization and appreciate the opportunity thank you great and councilmember martinez

Thank you, Mayor. I don't think we met since you did your chamber of breakfast, so congratulations on that. That went really well, and that was well attended, as usual, and you did a great job. The last youth council meeting, of course, was in May. I stopped by the Beaumont PD Awards, and I appreciate all that they do, and I didn't have time to stay through the whole ceremony, but I did want to CONGRATULATE THE AWARD RECIPIENTS. RCA ATTENDED YESTERDAY. WE ADOPTED OUR BUDGET AND HAD A DISCUSSION ABOUT CONSULTANTS AND SUCH. AND THE CHERRY FESTIVAL, I CAN'T STOP SAYING HOW PROUD I AM OF STAFF. THE STAFF REALLY WAS JUST AT THEIR OPTIMAL. and everything, and even behind the scenes, because I would talk to Doug a little bit, and he'd tell me, oh, see, this is what we did, and it's like, it's just absolutely incredible, you know, the prep, and then the afterwards, filling up the generators, getting everything ready for the whole thing to happen again the next day, and You know, there's a lot going on there and, you know, slightly pessimistic that I am worried about, you know, mud and I worried about, you know, how is it going to do this and that. But, you know, everything worked out well and I was, I had to eat crow because it worked out pretty good. So, you know, congratulations there for your staff and everyone, Cherry Festival Association. and pd and everybody involved it just was a um a whole village to make that happen and i was very appreciative and and proud of that so so thank you for that and the parade of course was awesome and the truck was awesome and it was just a great time so thanks everyone involved all right mayor pro tem

Thank you for reminding me about, good morning, Beaumont. So all the former mayors up here, how many of you have been asked to speak in front of Beaumont? Never have. I have not.

Looks like they found a good speaker. There's a first for everything, right?

Well, Mike and I did cut their budget 10 years ago, so I can see why. Thanks for bringing that up. I agree. The Cherry Festival, I was really concerned, especially with the effort I made to move it from Noble Creek to the police department area. There's a lot of places we can improve upon, but I think it was a great location, and I think the traffic worked out perfect. The parking was good. So I'm very thankful that we don't look bad, and I think we do look good at this point. I'm not sure everyone in the Parks District would agree. I, too, got to drive the tiller.

Yes, I did.

And then I wanted to let you know that on Friday, the RCTC opened or had a ribbon cutting for the Smart Freeway project in Murrieta. and Temecula in that area. So I plan on going down this next weekend. I'll be going down and back up. So I'm going to check it out. But that's where it's coordinating the lights of the on and off ramps. What else I got here? ICSC. That was an amazing setup. I mean, you guys really kept us busy, so busy that the first night I got sick and wasn't there for a lot of the rest, which leads me to Memorial Day. I apologize for not being there. It was the first night that I got a full night's sleep, and I woke up, and it was 9 o'clock, and I said, I'm not going. So I apologize for not being there. And then, Gus, I wanted to congratulate you on your new position. I know how badly you wanted to be a city manager, and I think you've got a good location, especially if you can get us tickets to Coachella.

I didn't even think of that.

And that's all I have at this point. Thank you.

All righty. Well, I obviously attended the Good Morning Beaumont Chamber Breakfast. It was such a fun event. And I was able to introduce our new city manager there. So that was a great event. and nice to be there for that. I also was here for the first day for Mr. Boatman, for him to start his time here with us. And then on the 13th, we attended the Morongo Community Awards. Morongo gave out over $400,000 in funds to local nonprofits all across the area. It was a really great event to go and see just the generous giving nature in which they have supported multiple organizations Beaumont organizations. We also were able to attend the police award swearing in, which was awesome, and the awards, it's so nice to be able to see our officers recognized. It was a great event, truly coordinated very well, and happy to be a part of that. Breezing through Beaumont was a great success 650 registered for that event And it was awesome. I was not a great runner, but I did it in 12 minute mile Which isn't something to write home about but I still ran the whole thing and it was a lot of fun ICSC the team absolutely knocked it out of the park the booth was excellent and The location was great. The meetings were absolutely dialed in, productive, and we felt really great going into all of those meetings and meeting with some great potential. So I thought that was amazing. In the month of April, the Parks District unfortunately lost one of their directors, Dan Hughes. I attended his memorial service on May 22nd. He was truly, it was one of the most heartfelt memorials I think I have ever attended. They truly were speaking from the heart and his ability to give back to the community was just his servant's heart he wore on his sleeve. So Great to be there. And then the Memorial Day ceremony. Thank you to the Daughters of the Revolution who provided us with the wreath as well as Mr. Costaldo as we had today for our flag and then our VFW for their support during that time as well. And once again, I thank you to the staff for getting that all set up. Sun Lakes Extension ribbon cutting is just a great opportunity for the pass area. And then I can't even begin to echo everything that's been discussed about here about Cherry Festival weekend. I think my cheeks still hurt from this weekend of just smiling and feeling so proud. for what this community put in and the staff put in so a huge thank you to The cherries of the past I know that this was a big feat for them all of the volunteers that were out there Carol's kitchen Deanna's past kids and numerous other volunteers along with our police officers who were in full force out there. I can't thank you guys enough for all of the work that you did there. Morongo's contribution to making sure that we had great entertainment and global talent as well for making sure that stage was something else, wasn't it? It was really something else. And then also to our fire marshals, they were out there the entire weekend, as well as Doug's staff, all the great work that the PIO team did and everybody else in public works. You guys The parking lot was awesome. And so was the traffic. I was really nervous with 8,000 people coming in, but you guys did it. And that's a testament to teamwork and the great leadership that we have here. So great job, you guys. All right. And with that, I will adjourn our meeting at 8.38.