City Council - Regular Meeting

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All right, good evening. I will call this meeting to order at 5.01 p.m. Can I get a roll call, please?

Council Member Lara?

Here.

Council Member Fenn?

Here.

Council Member Martinez?

Here.

Mayor Pro Tem White? Here. Mayor Boyd? Here.

All right, we will move on to public comment regarding closed session. Do we have any public comments for closed session?

I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? Sorry, can you try that one more time, Simone? Do we have any callers on the line?

No, we don't have any callers at this time.

Thank you.

All right, so seeing no public comment, can we please have the items read for discussion?

Thank you, Mayor Voigt. The council will adjourn to close session to consider items B1, conference with legal counsel regarding potential initiation of litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9D4. B2, I'm sorry, one potential case under B1. b2 conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation pursuant to government code section five four nine five six point nine d one ll an individual versus beaumont police department uh the rest of the information required by the brown act is set forth on the agenda itself b3 conference with labor negotiators pursuant to government code section five four 957.6 the city designated representative is the emergency administrative services director carrie mendoza employee organizations are police managers seiu police officers association managers professionals technical that concludes my closed session report all righty and we will adjourn to closed session at 503.

All right. Well, good evening, everybody. And welcome to our regular session of our Beaumont City Council meeting. I will call this meeting to order at 602. Actually, I will not call this meeting to order without our city clerk. I just looked to my right to see that she's not there. So we will wait a second. So to look to the right first.

She's always there.

All right, we will try this again for round two. Sorry about that, Nicole. So I will call this regular session of the Beaumont City Council meeting to order at 603. Nicole, can I get a roll call, please?

Council Member Lara?

Here.

Council Member Fenn?

Here.

Council Member Martinez?

Here.

Mayor Pro Tem White?

Here.

Mayor White? Here.

And can we please get a report out for closed session? Thank you, Mayor. With respect to item B1, I want to announce that direction to initiate litigation has been given. the action defendants and other particulars once the action is commenced shall be disclosed to any person upon inquiry a unanimous vote of the council with mayor voight mayor pro tem white and council members martinez finn and laura voting yes with respect to item b2 and b3 there is no action to report that concludes the closed session report

Alrighty, thank you. And if you would please join me in an invocation by Pastor Rod and followed by the Pledge of Allegiance by Councilmember Lara.

Oh Lord. Even though that was a hard day today, and all of them, they were on their own working places. But here, this evening, they are all for something important. They left their families at homes, but still there are many, many families in these cities. Businesses, schools, police department, and many other things, Lord. So it's a big, I'm guessing, agenda is this evening. I pray that you can bless all of them, give them courage, wisdom, So they can help people in this community. And that's why we are here, Lord. Be with us and bless us, especially them. And I pray in your precious name. Amen.

Please join me in the Pledge for Nations flag.

All right. And that will take us on to any adjustments on the agenda.

Good evening, Mayor. I'd like to pull item J4 from the consent calendar for clarification for council.

G4?

G4. Apologies. G4. G4 from consent.

All right.

Okay. And do we have any conflicts of interest disclosures this evening? No. All right, then that will take us to announcements and recognitions. And we will start off with Beaumont's American Planning Association California Chapter Inland Empire Section Excellence Award. Stephen, Mr. Stephen Jones.

Thank you, Your Honor. Good evening, Mayor, members of the Council. It's my privilege to announce and formally recognize the City of Beaumont's Community Development Department Planning Division for receiving an Award of Excellence for the 2026 Zoning Code Update Project. They're going to stand behind me. They're the ones that do all the work, though, so I don't know. I just feel like I'm at home when I change the light bulb and the family's been working all day. So I can just say, yay. The honor reflects the division's exceptional work in delivering a modern, comprehensive, and community-focused zoning code that you yourselves have done the work to adopt and that code aligns with the Elevate Beaumont 2040 general plan, supports the general's the vision for balanced growth, economic vitality, and high quality development. Their dedication, technical experience, and commitment to the public were insightful and instrumental in producing a zoning code that we can all get behind that improves clarity, enhances development standards, strengthens cities' long-range planning framework. Just one example, we can process uh restaurants which is one something that i'm sure the mayor and a lot of council members hear about when you go out uh without further delay and without uh super onerous requirements now so those are things that your planners will be doing and this recognition celebrates not only the work completed but the professionalism and collaboration that continue to advance beaumont's future so thank you very much and we appreciate your recognition

Great, thank you. And thank you to this team. I know that you guys process so many things on the regular and ensuring that the zoning code update came through and was modernized was a true undertaking. So thank you for all of your hard work on that and congratulations on your award. And you guys want to come up for a picture?

Thank you.

Three, two, one.

All right, and that will take us to our next recognition, which is recognition of the city of Beaumont's approval for inclusion on the California Risk Reduction Community List, FRRCL. And for that, we'll bring up Mr. Clay Shepard.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council. Thank you for the recognition of Beaumont's approval for the 2026 Fire Risk Reduction Community List, otherwise known as FARCL. First, I'd like to acknowledge that this was a team effort by many different departments, including fire. Big thank you to Assistant Planner Kylie Presadio for assisting with locating archive documents needed to be supplied for the review, and Dr. Darren Usher for his assistance with the application process and response to the items, which were needed to be addressed throughout the application. Also, Fire Safety Specialist Ken Johnson, who held down the fort when I was needed for compiling all of the documents. The Farkle designation recognizes communities that are taking proactive steps to reduce wildfire risk and improve preparedness through local planning, public education, and wildfire mitigation efforts. Communities included on the list are better positioned to compete for state and federal grant funding opportunities that support wildfire mitigation and resilience projects. This designation may also support homeowners through California's Safer from Wildfires Framework, which encourages insurance companies to recognize actions taken to reduce wildfire risk. This designation is valid through June of 2028, and in the mid-year of 2027, we will need to reapply to qualify for the 2028 list. Thank you.

Great, thank you. And once again, thank you to you and your team for all the hard work in getting this whole process going. It's exciting to see something that can impact our community and rates in which we pay. So thank you so much for all of the hard work and come on up and we'll get a picture.

Kylie, Darren, Kim.

All right, and continuing with the fire theme, we now have the Four Seasons Firewise Community Recognition. And for this, we will bring up Chief Dutton.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'd like to invite any of the board members from Four Seasons to come stand with me because this accomplishment is truly a collaboration between our department and the community itself. Being a Firewise community, It takes some work by the community members. There's an assessment program that goes into it to assess risk for wildland fires. And then it's centered around defensible space, vegetation management, and home hardening, all of which now Four Seasons is in a better position to accomplish that. And they're actually the first community in Beaumont to be recognized. So that's a big achievement. With that, I'll turn it over to the board members if they have anything to add.

just something a little brief to say a thank you to the mayor and the city council and on behalf of Four Seasons we're very proud to be the first community to have certified Firewise USA for our community We're grateful for the support of the city, but mostly for CAL FIRE. Without Riverside Fire, we could not have accomplished it. They have educated us, and some of you have even been in our sessions. We have had a wonderful time learning what we needed to do, which is considerable. So I'm thanking you for celebrating this milestone with us.

What a tremendous feat that you guys went through in getting this, and truly commendable for all of you and your residents. It's awesome to see such collaboration among you, and I agree. Some of those education opportunities were so wonderful to be a part of, and CAL FIRE, as well as some of the conservationists and other people who came in to help were really an excellent opportunity for us. such an example for other communities that we have here in the city.

It was a dramatic learning curve, for sure.

Absolutely. Any other council members have any comments? All right. Well, congratulations, you guys, and let's get you up here for a picture as well.

Thank you.

All right, and now we'll go to our public comment period for items that are not on the agenda. Any one person may address the city council on any matter not on this agenda. If you wish to speak, please fill out a public comment form provided at the back table and give it to the city clerk. There's a 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 this evening. And Nicole, do we have any public comment?

Yes, I have an in-person request. Tom Daniel.

Thank you. No, Tom Daniel. I'm owner of the Beaumont Town Center. And as public comment, I'd like to talk about city business license applications. which we have talked about it for many several years. And I want to thank Mike and Lloyd and Joe and everybody else that we managed to get the application reduced from 25 to 30 pages and down for a little while we had it down as low as six pages, which four of them were very relevant that I could provide as a property owner. And only two of them had to be filled out by my prospective tenants. And the fee got down to a more reasonable less than $300 fee rather than the $1,800 to $3,000 check that was requested previous. Unfortunately, that has gone by the wayside or went by the wayside. And more recently, it's back to... And I shouldn't get specific about it because it's no longer in service per Joe. But anyway, it went back to 18 pages with the same six pages of stuff that was relevant and another seven or another dozen pages that were totally irrelevant depending on, anyway. As of yesterday, I sent that to Joe to remind him that it had gone back from six pages to 18 pages. He immediately sent me the link to the current and new city business license application. It's now on the computer. There's no paper. If you walk in, you don't get a batch of paper. you get a link to a computer program. And I cannot tell you if it's any good or not because you got to fill out item by item before you can go to the next page and it might be 50 pages, but it might be six pages. I don't know. So that's all new and that's progress that has been made just yesterday and today that this meeting was part of it. I said, Joe, I want to talk about this meeting. And I sent it to him, and he immediately sent back this new link. So other than that, anything else to do with business licenses, I would like to see people, if they send me stuff, I'd like to see their name on it, of who it came from. Not something silly like, here's something from the compliance division at Fresno, California. I get something like that that's supposed to be from Beaumont, California, and it comes from Fresno, it goes in the trash. I mean, I'm sorry. I don't have time to deal with people in other parts of the world and nobody to talk to, no person to talk to about what the heck it is. So I trash it. So anyway, we've made some progress on city licenses. And we definitely are going to continue, and with the help of the entire council. We hope to be able to streamline our city council, or I mean our city license application. And my next tenant, which whenever that will be, I'm going to have that person report back to me page by page. So thank you very much.

All right. Thank you, Mr. Daniels. We appreciate your time.

Simone, do we have any callers on the line?

We have no callers at this time. All right. Seeing no more, we'll move on to our consent calendar. We heard previously that item G4 was going to be tabled. Are there any other items to be pulled for discussion? Oh, just for clarification, not tabled. OK. Yes. ANY OTHER ITEMS? ALL RIGHT. OTHERWISE, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.

MAYOR, I'LL MOVE THAT WE APPROVE CONSENT ITEMS NUMBERS G1 THROUGH G3 AND G5 THROUGH G17. I'LL SECOND.

CAN I GET A ROLL CALL? YOU KNOW WHAT, ACTUALLY, CAN I MAKE SURE THERE'S NO PUBLIC COMMENTS ON ANY CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS?

YES. I HAVE NOT WRITTEN A REQUEST. SIMONE, DO WE HAVE ANY CALLERS ON THE LINE? We have no callers at this time. All right. Can I please 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 for G4.

G4. Mayor and Council, I just want to bring your attention to the attachment, and I would like to remove the 2007 MCS Freightliner from the list. We're about three to six months out from a replacement, so we decided that was a little bit premature to put on the surplus list at this time. And I did receive some questions, and just for confirmation, the two police units were involved in traffic collisions and were deemed total losses. That's why they were added. So I'd like to leave those two units, Zebra 8 and Zebra 12, on the vehicle surplus list for authorization this evening and pull the MCS vehicle, mobile command support vehicle. Thank you. All right.

council member white or not white excuse me council member laura anybody have any questions on that all right i'll entertain a motion mayor i'll move that we approve item g4 with the with the correct with the correction of removing um the line item three which is the freightliner m2 motorhome i'll second can i get a roll call please

Council Member Lara? Yes. Council Member Fenn? Yes. Council Member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Boyd? Yes.

All right, that takes us to item H, Youth Council. I don't believe we have a Youth Council.

We do not, Mayor.

All right. Summer, how lovely is that? All right, we will then go on to our public hearings. So item I-1, public hearing, placement of delinquent solid waste handling service charges on the Riverside County Auditor's property tax rolls. And we have a staff report by Ms. Gouraud.

Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. You have before you the annual staff report for consideration of placing delinquent solid waste charges on the county property tax rule. Pursuant to the Beaumont Municipal Code and Health and Safety Code, every year we have the right to levy properties that have delinquent service charges with waste management. This also includes our waste haulers agreement with waste management. These delinquent service charges are for services provided from May 1st, 2025 to April 30th of this year. Starting in June, Waste Management sent out notices to all customers listed, notifying them of this public hearing today, as well as a deadline to pay the charges. I would like to point out that the spreadsheet attached shows the total amount is less than the amount on the staff report due to the balance continually dropping as accounts are brought current and taken off the list. As of today, 1,105 accounts are being assessed for a total of $445,330 on the property tax roll. City staff also works closely with waste management to make sure they, there are no unnecessary discrepancies. We will continue to do so until July 30th, at which time the city will receive the final delinquency list to be uploaded to the county tax roll this evening. I have waste management representatives here and myself to answer any questions you may have.

Right. Thank you. So I will open this public hearing at 6 25. And Nicole, do we have any public comments?

Mr. Daniels, did you want to speak on I-1 and I-2? Yes. Okay. Mr. Daniels, you can come up.

Our previous business meetings that we used to have, and I'd like to see those happen again. As far as delinquent payments for, especially for waste management, I would love to have a person's name on that list. I got a past due notice for $80 out of my $2,000 bill that gets paid every month. But nobody to talk to at the city. I've got 36 people to talk to at waste management. I talk to them almost on a daily basis and I'm not interested. But if somebody in the city wants to get interested in between our business and waste management, I'd love it. I'd love it. I'd like to see the city more personable. When they send a notice, If something's delinquent, I would like to see a name on it. I'd like to see when it was last paid and who I can talk to about getting it paid. In addition, in addition to my tenant that I call you and have to call, but I'd like to see the names and the addresses and when they got a notice. So you want me to go into that other stuff at the same time, which is basically the... Yeah, this is... All right. Yeah, I'll wait. Anyway, just getting a notice with a city name and contact on it, I would love to see that instead of just a notice that something's past due. Thank you.

I could certainly give them a call tomorrow. I could give you a call tomorrow and we could work something out.

Thank you. Do we have any other public comment?

Simone, do we have any callers on the line?

We have no callers at this time. Okay. I will close this public hearing at 627 and open it up for council discussion. Council Member Fenn?

Yes, thanks, Mayor. So a couple questions. One, this might be more directed to waste management. With each of the accounts that are listed there, I assume that these are all businesses and residences that have current trash pickup that they are picking up actively from those locations, correct?

Yes, that's correct.

Okay, thank you. And then this is for waste management and staff. I've seen this every year, you know, and there's a good number of people that don't pay their trash bill, and I understand why this has come to this point. But how does this compare this year compared to numbers last year? Are the number of delinquent accounts looks like it's increasing? And so we just wanted to see what's being done for public outreach to make sure that, you know, people are well aware of it.

Yeah.

Reason behind the question is I'm a real estate agent and I often hear from other agents and buyers and so forth. They don't always know what utility companies that are being used or the communications not passed on to them. And correct this statement if I have this wrong, but I was told that if a seller has sold their home and moving out and canceling their service, trash cans are picked up and then the new owner, the new tenant, has to call and then set up to have new trash cans come out. And at that point then, the account is transferred over to the new owner, correct?

That is correct. Okay. Yeah, as soon as the accounts cancel from the previous owner, yeah, we'll pick up the carts, or they're left there if, you know, time restraints, and then the new owner will call in to set up service.

Okay, and so has that procedure been in place for a while, or is that relatively new? No, that's been in place. Okay, so I only heard of it more recently, and so I was just wondering if that has any impact in terms of the number of delinquent accounts and so forth.

I will get you those numbers for sure because I want to see that myself to make sure that I don't see it going up that much. But maybe the dollar amount did.

Because each year it looks like the list is really long. Maybe just a little bit more. Yeah, and it just, from my perspective, it looks like it's growing, but it's hard to know without going back and counting. I'm not going to count 1,000 or so. but just in general it looks like a big problem and we want to make sure because then we want to make sure that the homeowner knows and so then that way they're dealing with late fees and you know and other issues that yeah and we want them to call us and talk to us about their service and you know if the late fees were an issue you know we'll talk to them about that and maybe take care of it before all right very good thank you sir

Council Member Fenn, just so you know, Waste Management does send something out as soon as an account goes delinquent. So they're being notified also to the property owner if it's a renter and that kind of thing. It goes to the property owner's address as well. So they are being notified.

I think we've sent it from October to April. We've sent it every month except for January because I think in December we sent it out on the 22nd of December and then the 3rd of February. So it was really close. But they do get notification if the property owner's address is different. They'll get it through them and they'll also get it at the property.

And I go through each one to make sure, and I check it against county records to make sure everything is current.

Very good. I appreciate that. Thank you.

You're welcome. Council Member Finn, CO did prepare a five-year tax roll kind of trend line, and I have those numbers in front of me if you'd like to know what those are.

That would be nice to hear. Thank you. Okay.

So in 2021, there were 638. In 2022, there were 709. In 2023, there were 774. In 2024, there were 836. And then 2025, there were 1,012. This is six years, Sue.

And just to confirm, this is the number of delinquent accounts, correct?

That is correct. That moved to the tax roll.

OK. All right. Thank you.

That is trending.

Yeah. And so again, the whole reason behind the questions is, I know we do well with public outreach. Is there something we can improve on? Is it a sign of struggling economy?

You know, there could be any number of factors there, but let me reach out to our, our taxable department just to see if there's anything that they can spot out. I mean, that's a good idea.

Okay. Thanks.

Okay. Yeah. I will let you know.

All right. Thank you, Robert.

One of the things that I did spot is that a lot of, a lot of the accounts are the same as last year. They're like repeat. that they just let it go to their taxes. Sometimes it's easier, I don't know.

And then when they do so, then they're paying the penalty late fees and penalties and so forth. Okay, all right, thanks.

All right, any other questions? All right, then I will entertain a motion.

mayor i'll make a motion i'll hold a public hearing away the full reading and adopt by title only a resolution of the city council of the city of beaumont approving the collection of delinquent solid waste handling service charges and the property tax roll i'll second it can we get a roll call please council member lara yes council member fenn yes

Council Member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White?

Yes.

Mayor Voigt? Yes.

Right, that takes us to our second public hearing. Item I-2, a public hearing to consider the placement of delinquent sewer service charges on the property tax roll. And this will be a staff report by Ms. Carrie Mendoza.

Good evening, Mayor and Council, to piggyback on waste management. So what you have before you now is your sewer service charges to be placed on the Riverside County tax roll. as authorized by the Bill Mutt Municipal Code and the California Health and Safety Code. Staffs repaired the required reporting requirements to all properties. We've sent two inserts. We're in the last two billing cycles. The last two late billing cycles also had inserts warning that if they were two or more payments behind that they were in jeopardy of being placed on the tax roll. We also mailed out individual mailers to over 1,800 accounts that were in jeopardy. in total that 1.56 million. Again, we're also seeing an increase in the trend in the number of accounts. When I looked back five years, I didn't pull the account increase per se, but the dollar amount definitely 574,000, and now we're looking at 1.5 million. So definitely it's tripled in the last five years. The accounts have increased. I don't have the exact trend for you, but we are approaching 20,000 billing accounts for sewer. So that increase has definitely impacted that. So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. Like I said, we sent out, there was a total of five different types of notices to the residents that were in jeopardy of being placed on the tactical.

All right. Thank you. And so I will open up this public hearing at 6 35. Do we have any public comments on this item?

Yes. Mr. Daniels.

I want to keep it separate because this is a different issue as far as I'm concerned. I am responsible for nine city sewer bills of which I only pay two. And my tenants are supposed to pay the other seven. And I have no objection to receiving any notices when they're late. I would like to receive a notice. I'd like to know who to talk to I'd like to know when their last payments were When they quit paying as far as my tenants are concerned. It sounds like my tenants are getting plenty of notices But but I'm not I get one notice that said here's a late late sewer bill and I have to look up the account the address and finally figure out who my tenant was that forgot to pay the bill. I would love to see all that on this notice to me to make it easier for me to call and get it current. If it never gets current, goes on the property tax bill, well, so be it. That's, you know, good for you, and I don't have a problem with that. Thank you.

Thank you. I can have my team reach out to you tomorrow and go over your bills and ensure you're a property owner on all of them.

yeah yes simone do we have any callers on the line we have no callers at this time all right seeing no more i'll close this public hearing at 6 37 and open it up for council discussion councilmember fenn

Yes, thanks again, Mayor. So a question for staff along with Mr. Daniels' comment. Those notices get sent out, do they get sent to the property address or do they get sent to the owner of record?

They do go to both.

Both, okay, very good.

As long as we have it on record, correct.

Okay, thank you. And then does it make sense if there's a list that's obtained from the Beaumont Cherry Valley Water District of new accounts that are opened and would then, would it be beneficial for us to receive that list and take a look at it because The knowledge level of the public is even lower when it comes to setting up water because with the city of Beaumont and the Beaumont-Cherry Valley Water District, they are only an irrigation company, so therefore we provide the sewer. We are not the norm in Southern California when it comes to that. And so someone moving to our area, if they're represented by an agent from out of the area, they have no clue. They would rely on going to the city website, and I know that information is there. But just, again, as much outreach as we can do, I think the better, because in tripling in five years in the dollar amount, that's big. And so we obviously want to try to help recoup those funds as soon as possible without having the homeowner pay or property owner paying the extra fees that they wouldn't need to if they knew otherwise. So thank you.

Absolutely. And staff does work with sewers, wastewater's team. to audit that data from Beaumont Cherry Valley Water District to identify those. We also work with the developers on new home development as the new homes are turned over. Protocol should be, and in a perfect world, they send over a list on a monthly basis on the homes that have sold and been turned over. When that doesn't happen, obviously there's delays. When we do find those new homeowners, we reach out to them. We do our due diligence. We try to set them up on a payment plan to get them caught up. to avoid putting them on the tax roll. But as Waste Management pointed out, some of these are repeat offenders, and some people just prefer it go to the tax roll. They don't want to deal with the payment plan. They just want to go from here forward and deal with the ramifications and penalties on the back end.

All right. I appreciate the very thorough process. Thank you for the update.

All right. Any other council discussion? All right. Seeing none, I will entertain a motion.

May I make a motion to waive the full reading and adopt by title only a resolution of the City Council of the City of Beaumont, California authorizing submittal of delinquent sewage service fees and charges to the Riverside County Auditor-Controller-Treasurer-Tax Collector for recordation and special assessments on the 2026-2027 tax roll against the properties identified in the report.

I'll second.

Can I get a roll call please? Councilmember Lara? Yes. Councilmember Fenn? Yes. Councilmember Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White?

Yes.

Mayor Boyd? Yes.

All right, and that takes us to item I3, public hearing for the first amendment of the fiscal year 27 through 31 capital improvement plan. Mr. Vestal.

Thank you, Mayor. If IT can share my screen. All right, so this is the first update to the recently adopted CIP. The reason why you're seeing it so soon is that we had a bid on a later item in the agenda come in a little high, so we needed to adjust the budget in order to award that. There's a lot of housekeeping items on this CIP adjustment, so I'm just going to focus on the CIPs that have a budget impact And that's what's shown on the screen. There are five projects that have budget adjustments. The first one is the item I briefly discussed. You'll see an action item J2. It's wastewater master plan update. The initial wastewater master plan was originally issued or started in 2019. There are several updates needed for that master plan, and on May 1st, 2026, Wastewater issued a RFP to update them. The Wastewater received four proposals. The highest ranked and deemed most qualified was, excuse me, Albert A. Webb and Associates. The fee to perform those services came in at $260,780. Subsequently, staff is recommending to increase the CIP for that CIP, excuse me, the budget for that CIP from $150,000 at its current level to $300,000 to match the actual fee amount received. Funding is provided by the wastewater diff. The second CIP is R2507, which is the traffic signal at Oak Valley Parkway and Palm Avenue. That is currently out to bid. We are expecting to receive bids in August, mid-August. This is a cleanup item. Excuse me. That's not a cleanup item. The engineer's estimate for this traffic signal came in slightly higher than we anticipated. So the current original budget was $660,000 approximately. The engineer's estimate came in approximately 700,000. There are significant amount of median improvements necessary to install the traffic signals at that location. So as a preemptive measure, staff is requesting to increase the budget by $276,000. It is coming from general funds. However, it is a transfer from a project that we're closing, so no net effect to the general fund budget. All right, the next project is R2513, the Pennsylvanian first traffic signal upgrade. This is a cleanup item. The city has already awarded this project. We're having a kickoff meeting later this week. And the construction contract and PO was issued using budget from this CIP and then remaining budget from the Cougar and Beaumont Avenue traffic signal. So we are closing the Cougar and Beaumont Avenue traffic signal project and transferring those funds to this project. There's no net effect on the PO or the actual budget amount. All right, the next project is R2502, the citywide sidewalk improvement. This action consolidates fiscal year 25, fiscal year 26, and fiscal year 27 sidewalk projects into one. The funding for those specific years is not sufficient to develop an actual project, so we're consolidating. Additionally, we're including a city match of 5% or approximately 26,000 from general funds reallocated again from closed projects. The three projects were primarily funded with community development block grants, CDBG, and this project is ready to bid pending tonight's approval of the grant, which happened in the consent items and CIP amendment. Okay, lastly, R2605, which is the citywide traffic signal system upgrade. So this project, which is the AI system, will be sent to procurement Thursday of this week pending the outcome of this item. The engineering cost estimate has increased slightly due to staff and the designer selecting certain items that have a significant benefit to this project and then the future citywide project. So staff is recommending an increase of $108,000. It is funded with traffic signal diff. And again, it's a reallocation from closed projects. So the net effect of all these CIPs is zero general funds. In fact, I believe there's 265,000 going positively into the general fund account. That concludes my presentation. The recommended action and the motion are in the staff report.

right thank you for that report i will open up the public hearing at 646 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 seeing none then i will close it up 646 and open it up for council discussion councilmember martinez

Yeah, I just want to point out, so at first I was concerned with the 150 for the plan, but then when you read J2, it outlines the increases for technology and the adjustments to the plans and stuff that was necessary. So I just want to reassure from you that that's pretty much where that cost came from with the adjustments that we had to do for the new plan.

Yes, I believe that is the case. Thaxton can answer that more thoroughly now or as part of J2. Yeah.

I'll go over it with him then, but I have to approve it now. So, but that's okay. I'm confident. Oh, there's Thaxton.

Well, hello, Thaxton.

It's a premature question probably, but, you know, the 150, that was I'm assuming set up back in the 2019

Yeah, and that's part of it. At that time, we didn't incorporate an automatic escalator on the CIPs. It's something we've subsequently addressed. So a lot of them sit there, and they don't increase in value over time. So that's part of it as well.

All right. And then I read further where the hydraulics and the technology and stuff that we need to update it went up. Correct. All right. If I have any more questions, I'll pull it back on for J2. I appreciate it. Thanks, Mayor.

Yeah, absolutely. Mayor Pro Tem White?

Yeah, I have a quick question. I know it's not one of the items on there, but Second Street and Pennsylvania, what's the status on that one?

Yes. We awarded the contract on that, and we are in the process of procuring the traffic signal poles ahead of that, or ahead of now.

Yeah, when we did that at First Street and Beaumont Avenue, it took us a couple of years to get those polls. I know that was a different case. It was during COVID and all of that. Do we have any estimate on how long that's going to take?

No. It is significantly less. The traffic signals on Beaumont and First took eight months. That's what we initially anticipated for Second Street and Pennsylvania. However, the phone calls we've been in are significantly less. I don't remember the exact month.

I misspoke. I meant Oak Valley and the 10th. That was the one that took two years to get the phone. Oh, yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you.

All right. Any other council discussion? I'd just like to highlight that I appreciate the cleanups all the time, consolidating some of the projects help to keep them manageable. And so I really appreciate staff's time on doing that and then outlining it in the way that you guys have done here. It makes for quick time and being able to understand where everything came from. So thank you for your work on the CIP for sure. All right, and with that, I will entertain a motion.

Mayor, I'll make the motion to waive the full reading and adopt by title only a resolution of the City of Council, the City of Beaumont, amending the five-year capital improvement plan for fiscal year 2731 and approve the budget adjustment.

I'll second. Can I get a roll call, please?

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

Yes.

Mayor Voigt?

Yes. Great. And that takes us to our last public hearing. And it is a public hearing on vacancies to comply with Assembly Bill 2561. And staff report by Ms. Carrie Mendoza.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Thank you again. As you stated, last public hearing for vacancies as it relates to Assembly Bill 2561, which is our city's annual workforce vacancy report to be in compliance with the Assembly Bill requirements. So the staff report lays out that as of July 1st, 2026, there was 284 full-time equivalent budgeted positions. Of those 284, 12 are elected officials. Of the remaining 272, you have a 7% vacancy rate. The process and methodology is laid out in the staff report if you have any questions. You can see the vacancy rate by bargaining unit and group. You can see where each vacancy is at in the recruiting phase of the process. We also point out the separations throughout this last year. There was 27 in total and for the various reasons on why people have left the city. The city's focus is to remain centrally focused on workforce retention and strategies to recruit the best talent, if you will. And I think council supported that effort tremendously with recent negotiations and should help us in moving forward. The city's committed to maintaining a skilled and resilient workforce and complying with AB 2561. The report was sent out to all respective represented labor groups. I received no comments and I don't see anybody in the audience tonight either, but I'd be happy to answer any questions if you have any.

Great, thank you. I will open the public hearing at 6.51. And 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. Then I will close the public hearing at 6.52 and open it up for council discussion. All right. Seeing none, I will entertain a motion.

Mayor, I'll move to receive and file the 2026 report regarding city staffing vacancies, hiring, and retention efforts, and workforce trends and compliance with Assembly Bill 2561 or AB2561. I'll second.

Can I get a roll call, please? Councilmember Lara? Yes. Councilmember Fenn? Yes. Councilmember Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Voigt? Yes.

All right, then closes out our public hearings and that takes us to the action items. For this first action item, which is proposed refunding and outstanding bonds, I will state that I will be recusing myself due to a conflict on the recommended actions for action number one and action number four as I reside in the area community facilities district number 31- I'm sorry, 93-1. Due to the flow of the proposed motions, while I do not have a conflict for motions two and three, I will recuse myself for the entirety of J-1 to ensure that we have procedural flow. I am acknowledging publicly that this does not impede me from future participation on motions related to items two and three. But to keep this procedurally smooth, I will recuse myself. And Council or Mayor Pro Tem White, you're up.

This isn't much help. Do you want me to start? We have a report from staff. Yes. Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor Pro Tem and members of the City Council. Tonight's item is a continuation of the direction provided by the City Council on April 7, 2026 to evaluate the potential refunding of five outstanding community facility district bond issues. These bonds relate to portions of Sundance, Tournament Hills, and Fairway Canyon, and currently have approximately $44.5 million in outstanding principal. As previously directed by the council, the financing will only move forward for an individual bond issue if it achieves either at least 3% net present value savings or at least $200 in annual savings per parcel. Because market conditions can lead to change due to geopolitical pressures, the final determination will be made at the time that the bonds are priced. The recommended action presented before council tonight is to approve the refunding of the outstanding community facilities district bonds. The alternative to approving is to decline the approval of the refunding and direct staff to continue monitoring market conditions until the minimum savings thresholds can be achieved. To provide an overview of the proposed financing, current market conditions, estimated property owner savings, and the anticipated schedule, I'd like to now introduce the city's municipal advisor, Brandon Kifori, with Urban Futures. And he has a presentation.

Do you have the presentation?

It should be automatically loaded for you.

IT, can you bring up the attachment for the item, the PowerPoint?

Yeah. Let's do a slideshow.

Thank you, and good evening, members of the city council, staff, members of the public. Brandon Kafoury with UFI. I work closely with Michael Bush. I'll be covering for him this evening, presenting the first part of this item. As Lisa noted, this is related to the proposed refunding of several CFD bonds related to 93-1, 2016-1, and 2016-2. So we have a short presentation. I will take us through the financing overview and items subject to council approval. I'll then turn it to Tom Jacob from Stiefel to walk us through a market update, present the financing details and our tentative schedule. We also have bond counsel from Stradling in attendance if there are any questions related to the legal documents. So just to provide a bit of background, as Lisa noted, back in April, we last presented this item to the council and received direction to start the process to move forward with preparing documents and start to evaluate the viability of refunding five CFD bonds. As noted, those are in 93-1. involving three separate improvement areas, 2016-1 and 2016-2. The purpose, as is consistent with past CFD refundings done by the city, is to generate annual savings for homeowners subject to certain thresholds established by the council. In April, those thresholds were set at a minimum of 3% net present value savings or $200 in annual savings per parcel. So the bonds this evening that we are evaluating over the five separate CFDs total about $44.5 million. Consistent with prior issuances of refunding bonds, similar to the ones done in 2025, will be issued through the Beaumont Public Improvement Authority. as a pool for funding. And with that, there's a number of benefits that Mr. Tom Jacob will talk about, but mainly there's economies of scale, efficiency, and we're pledging more parcels, so it's a stronger credit as a pool. With all of that said, we are working through the process right now on credit. We expect these bonds to qualify for an investment grade rating from S&P, bond insurance, and a surety reserve, all of which should enhance the savings to homeowners. So I'll speak a little bit about the item subject to council approval this evening. There are a number of documents in your pocket. We're requesting approval for various resolutions related to the individual CFDs. as well as the authority to issue bonds in an amount not to exceed $42.5 million. The resolutions essentially do a number of things. They permit the issuance of bonds. They also approve the certain documents and other actions that are needed to execute the financing. Those are all included in your packet. They're listed here. In addition to the preliminary official statement, there's the indenture of trust. There are the local obligation indentures for each of the individual CFDs, bond purchase agreement, the escrow agreements, and continuing disclosure certificate. So this resolution this evening would authorize the issuance up to that par amount and subject to those certain thresholds that I discussed earlier. So with that, I'm going to turn it now to Mr. Tom Jacob from Stiefel. He will take us through the next part of the presentation.

All right. Good evening, Mayor Pro Tem, Council Members, Tom Jacob from Stiefel. So I'm going to walk us through a little bit about market conditions, walk through the estimated savings, and then talk about the tentative schedule moving forward. So here we have in front of you very, we presented this slide something similar to you in the past, but this shows municipal market yields going back to the beginning of 2025. We've highlighted the two-year, the 10-year, and the 30-year, what are called the AAA MMD yields. Those are the tax-exempt benchmark yields. The blue being the two-year yield, the orange being the 10-year, and the green being the 30-year yield. We've highlighted a couple of events here just to show you, give you some perspective on how rates have trended over the past year and a half. The first item that we have here is when the city was last into the market, which was in June of 2025 with the pooled CFD refunding. You can see if we compare that, you know, eyeball it compared to where we are, we were in a relatively higher interest rate environment. But just as a reminder with that refunding the city generated over 8 million in total cash flow savings to homeowners by refinancing five outstanding CFD bonds If we kind of work our way down towards the right-hand side of the chart we see more recently of course we had the start of the conflict in the Middle East the start of the Iran war and which impacted oil prices, inflation expectations, and did cause interest rates to increase. In April, you can see that while still elevated, interest rates were slightly coming down when city council approved moving forward with exploring this transaction back in April. And fast forward to today, excuse me, I should say as of last Thursday, the two-year was at a 243, the 10-year was at a 3.12%, and the 30-year was at a 4.32%. So we're a little bit lower in terms of where the yields are compared to when Council gave its approval back in April of this year. So before we review the estimated savings of the pooled refinancing, I just wanted to remind Council of the benefits of the pooled refinancing, some of which Brandon touched on a little bit earlier. We talked about the economies of scale. That reduces the expenses paid by each one of the bond issues, the likelihood of achieving that stronger credit rating and qualifying for insurance and a surety reserve. If we wanted to, you know, take some of the, for example, some of the bond issues out of the pool, that would, you know, reduce the strength of the credit quality, would likely increase the interest rate that you could achieve on such bond deal and also result probably in a lower credit rating. So we've assumed a package deal of the five CFD bond issues. So based on current, relatively current market conditions, we estimate that three of the five series of bonds achieved at least one of, or excuse me, achieved the savings threshold of $200 in annual savings per parcel. You can see 93-1, each one of the 93-1 improvement areas are north of the 200 in savings per parcel. 2016-1 and 2016-2 are slightly below at 150 for 16-2 and 177 for 16-1. We did run a sensitivity analysis estimating how much interest rates would need to decline in order for all five to meet at least one savings threshold. And we do estimate that to be within 10 basis points or 0.10%. interest rates would need to decline in order for all of the underlying obligations to achieve at least one savings threshold and and also i wanted to remind council that of course the savings are driven uh primarily by interest rate movements but then also the amount of cash applied towards the refunding as well so think of it as a equity that you're putting into um you know if you're applying for a mortgage the more equity that you put in that's going to reduce the payments that you're going to make over time. And so that's going to increase potential savings. Oh, the one last thing I wanted to touch on is just in aggregate, if you look at the totals and the averages at the bottom, the total MPV or blended MPV is just over 2%. But if you look at that aggregate annual savings per parcel, it's north of the $200 in aggregate when you look at a blended calculation of that. As we typically do in full transparency, we wanted to show the estimated costs associated with the transaction. I do want to note that members of the financing team went through an RFP process not too long ago, and so a lot of these are contract fees, which you'll see are footnoted here at the bottom of the chart. I would say that all of these fees are contingent on the successful sale of bonds, with the exception of the standard and poor's fee, the estimated $42,000. That will need to be paid regardless of whether the bonds will sell. will be paid upon the successful sale of the bonds. And I will note that the estimated savings are net of all of these costs. So these are not in addition. You will not have paid this from the savings, but these are already baked into the financing. And then lastly, the financing schedule, assuming city council and the authority approve moving forward this evening. We will assess the next steps, and the next steps being we have certain hurdles to go over or milestones to achieve before we would potentially price the refunding bonds. The first one would be a due diligence call, and that's just an obligatory call that we need to hold before We make the preliminary official statement available to prospective investors. That's an obligation that we have as the underwriter. Then the next step would be to post the preliminary official statement, start marketing the bonds to prospective investors, and should the market conditions at that time support either one of the two savings thresholds, so we would make sure that those would be achieved, then we would proceed with pricing the bonds. We've noted here the deadline for the county tax roll information. I'm sure Shane Spicer here from Spicer Consulting Group can speak more about it more eloquently than I can, but that is the deadline to get on the tax roll for the fiscal year 26-27 levy. However, I know that amendments can be made after that, but there is a modest fee, which, you know, I know Shane knows more about than I do, so he can speak to that. And then we would close the the refunding bonds a couple of weeks after pricing. That gives Mr. Forbath and his team time to prepare the closing document, all the legal documents to memorialize the transaction. And that concludes our presentation. Myself, along with all the other consultants, are available for any questions. Thank you.

Thank you. What was your name again?

Tom Jacobs.

OK. Thank you, Tom.

You're welcome.

And at this time, I'll see do we have any public comments.

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

OK. At this point. I'll open up for discussion, but seeing there's no lights on yet, I'll go ahead and get started. So when we came on council in 2015, the previous city administration had created one single Melrose District or CFD District, incorporating all of the parts of the City of Beaumont that were not yet parts of the City of Beaumont. So once those became annexed in, they were treated as individual improvement areas. And this is an unusual approach to this. And it's also what led to all of the scandals and the money lawsuits, people getting arrested, people convicted, was a result of the process, in my opinion, of the way the CFDs were managed at that time, which was basically there was a blank check. Every improvement area, regardless of the size, was estimated to most of them were 15 to 20 million on the improvement areas. Mine is a good example. Ours was 11 million. And it only took about 3 million to build out our infrastructure for our homes. So the other $8 million was sort of left on the table, and what was happening in 2013 and 2014 was the city at that point was going back and taking that money off the table. In other words, they were going back to people like us and say, you know, we're going to take another $2 million for use in the Belarus district. And if you remember, the Belarus district is the entire city. So they were able to take money from my neighborhood to build, for example, the Centennial Bridge, things like that. And that led to a lot of problems. And so we have taken a very aggressive approach on trying to right the ship on this. We no longer, we have not approved, as far as I know, with the exception of one infill CFD, we have not approved any CFDs that were not obligated by development agreements, which would result in millions of dollars in legal fees and possibly millions of dollars in a judgment. Other cities have challenged the ability to not approve a CFD after it's already in the development agreement. We weren't willing to do that at that point. We have only approved, with the exception of the one infill, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but we've only approved public safety CFDs. All of those CFDs, we were told back in 2015 when we bought our home that those CFDs would cover police and fire. They do not. They have not. We have now done that moving forward, every improvement area, every Melrose district. may or may not have a CFD. If it was obligated by the DA, they probably do. That's a development agreement. If they were not obligated, then it's likely only public safety what we're doing. So now if I can just clarify some things for people who aren't paying as much attention as as we are, the terms. So if you, Tom, I think it was Tom, you were the finance person, right? Yes. Okay. So when you talk about two-year, 10-year, 30-year bonds, we are not extending the term past the original term of the CFTs, correct?

That is correct. They're all matching terms with the outstanding bonds.

Okay. One other statement and then I'll see if anyone else has questions because I do have some more, but I asked staff to reach out to, I believe it was Urban Futures to get some numbers of what we've done so far. We've had four pooled refunding bond issues, pooled meaning we're doing more than one area at a time. We've refinanced bonds related to 17 distinct improvement areas. 5500 parcels, 9.7 million of total NPV is what net par value?

Net present value savings.

Net present value savings, averaging 12.5% of the refunded. The NPV for each CFD has ranged from 0.8% to 33%. We've also are realizing a $26 million, when I say we, property owners, not the city, property owners are now receiving $26 million of total cash flow savings, aggregate savings to the end of the term of the Melrose. And that's an average annual savings of 214. If you look at the numbers that we're talking about for the cost, I think it was, what, $600,000? Is that what the cost was? That's right.

That's right.

That is a number that is very hard for us to deal with. Are we going to pay $600,000 to save people on what is a relatively small amount? But we've set some ground rules. Ground rules are... It either has to be a 2% savings, correct?

3% net present value savings or $200 in annual savings per parcel.

Correct. Okay, so it's difficult for us to look at the $600,000 fee it costs to do this. But it's also very hard for all of us to not save you money if we can. And so that's how we approach each one of these items that come up. And one question. On the 630, so if what you're showing us today, this is three of them qualify for our requirements. The other two do not. Correct. The other two do have savings. They do. And so I have a question that, Does the 630 go up if you do the other two? And also, I'm worried about doing the other two because it's not meeting our rules, but it will bring everything else down possibly in a lower interest rate. But that would also put us in a position that those two areas that we may save less than what we had set out as a goal to save. might be eligible for refinancing or refunding, I'm sorry, in next year or the year after that and maybe have a better chance. If we include those other two in this pool, is there a time limit before you would be able to, you know, if interest rates drop next year, would we be in a better position? Would we be able to refund those again if we refunded them this time?

So your first question was regarding the fees. And so there are some variable components. However, the variable components are only the underwriter's fee, which is based on the par amount. Okay. And so this $630,000 assumes that all five will be refinanced. It does. It does. So it is likely the only fees that are going to be driven by par value are going to be the underwriter's fee, but if that if the par value goes down then our fee goes down as well so just you know ebbs and flows with the paramount and as far as I know I think all of the other fees the rating agency fee there's a range if the paramount goes up but it's not going to change drastically so all the other fees are pretty locked in okay there are some small changes that could happen if if the paramount shoots up drastically but they shouldn't change much okay sure

Please correct me if I need to.

No, good evening, Mayor Brotton, YF, Council Members Bryan, Fort Bethlehem, Stradling. I think you summarized it well. I think just the one thing I just wanted to just clarify for everybody here. The approval tonight authorizes us to move forward, the financing to move forward with all five of these. assuming each one, each one of these CFDs meets this threshold. So by approving this tonight, it allows us to move, play this forward a week or two or three with the hope that the market improves and we get that extra 10 basis points that Tom's talking about. But if for whatever reason that doesn't happen, we're not going to move forward with the pieces of the transaction that don't meet the savings threshold. And depending on where the market comes back at that point, we will be working closely with staff. And there might be a possibility that we say, hey, You know, I know council approved this, but based on where savings are, only one of these deals or two of these deals now make sense and costs are too much on that. And so let's put it on pause and we'll come back and do it next year or we'll do it in the spring when the market improves and so forth. But the approval tonight. Authorizes all these transactions the five transactions and the authority bonds to move forward So long as these thresholds are met and if and if a piece of it doesn't satisfy that piece is gonna not happen So I just wanted to make that crystal clear with with what we're approving today.

Thank you.

I appreciate that Councilmember Laura Thank You mayor pro Tim white just real quick. I thought I Remember, if memory serves, which it may not. We had to wait 10 years before a bond became eligible to be refunded. Am I missing?

Yeah, normally when the bonds are sold, they're sold with 10-year call protection. Some of these ones had what we call like a sliding scale redemption where they're callable after seven years at 3%, eight years at 2%. nine years at a 1% premium and that 10 years it's par. And so that's, so, so that we're at the point where all of these deals that are here are currently callable and Tom helped me, but I think one or two of them have a premium that's in effect for all of them have a, have a small premium that's in effect and that premium next year will go down. Right. So, That's a possibility that, you know, if you do nothing and rates stay the same, there will be better savings next year. But, you know, we don't know. No one knows what the market's going to have on the market.

OK, so that so if we do wait right now, we're paying a premium. If we do wait. there's a chance that we would save even more money than what's reflected on the five. Potentially. And then I think as Tom indicated, I think it's $605,000, then that too would also drop. So the cost to refund would be lower. Is that correct?

The cost of refund will be essentially the same. I mean, the cost refund is fixed fees per contract for Stradling, for Spicer Consulting, for Urban Futures. Okay. Stifel gets paid based on the size of the transaction. So assuming all five transactions are in, they're going to get paid the same amount. And by the way, if next year there might be additional transactions, that would be here for you to do. And so their fee may go up next year depending on if there's additional transactions.

Okay. Thank you for that clarification. I appreciate that. That's all I have.

Mr. Finn.

Yes, thanks Mayor Pro Tem. So I'm not sure if I missed the answer to one of Lloyd's questions. How often can these be refinanced? If we do one now, can it be done in a year if conditions are better?

So if these bonds are refinanced, these five bonds are refinanced, there would be another 10 years of call protection. So you wouldn't be able to refinance these bonds for another 10 years.

And we would expect the same thing with the seven year with 3%, eight to two and so forth.

That typically applies to bonds when they're non-rated bonds. So when it's a new project, there's a lot more development. When there's a CFD, a brand new CFD, There's a lot of development to be had. Those bonds typically have that sliding scale that Mr. Forvath mentioned. But given the strength of the credit quality of this, usually there's a longer call protection being 10 years at par.

Okay, thank you.

You're welcome.

Mr. Martinez.

Yes, thank you, Mayor Burnett. So thank you for clarifying that the costs are already subtracted. That was important to understand for me, and I had that as a question. And on that 10-year maximum or minimum call, if they are going forward with finance, is that why it's so critical to make sure that we're doing it at the right time? Because once we're locked in, we can't bring it back.

I think that's the tricky question, right? I mean, it's always going to be dependent on market conditions. And so that's why I know council has their set thresholds. And so it's at council's discretion when you hit those thresholds, if you want to refinance them, you're locked out for a 10-year part call. You know, to Brian Forbath's point earlier, you just don't know what the market's going to hold in the future. You don't know where it's going to go.

Thank you. And thank you, Mr. Forbath, for talking about if it just doesn't make sense, you'll come back. Because I do remember a time where you did come back and we had had a plan and it just didn't work. And then we came back and said, you know, we're going to have to take another look at this at another time. So I'm more comfortable knowing that you have direction of what we're looking for. And if it just doesn't work, you come back and let us know, hey.

and again i mean the direction that you all provided of three percent two hundred dollars you you could change that that was just a direction you provided in the past if you said you wanted something higher or something lower that's in your prerogative to do but we've been the financing team's been proceeding based on the previous direction that we got i think last year and then i think was reiterated in in april but that's a decision for you all to direct the financing team if you know, that's what you're still comfortable with.

Well, my biggest concern is just the cost, just to make sure it makes sense. Yeah. So, you know, you don't go after something if there's just too much overhead there. So that's all I wanted to comment on.

All right.

Excuse me, can I add something here? Absolutely. So something that I think is important to note.

Mr. Spicer wants you to say who you are and where you're from. Sorry.

Shane Spicer, Spicer Consultant, Cities Tax Consultant. So something that I think is good to understand is timing. Obviously, market uncertainty. But we were just here a couple weeks ago approving the annual tax rolls for 26-27. So those were ready to set. We're still in the process of submitting them. And as was presented, we have till August 14 to submit the tax rolls. We have an opportunity in October to adjust them with a modest cost if all five were to go about $15,000 of cost. That wasn't really factored, but it's not a significant cost for that type of savings. And something, because I'm on the ground level, you know, taking property on the calls, we have property finder, we, you know, understand as we set new maintenance or public safety CFDs, we look at escalators. So I think it's important to understand, you know, the three CFDs that qualify are meeting both of those threshold requirements. And the two that are on the verge are the largest of the five. They also are the lowest annual tax amount. So their savings, that $200 threshold, represents a larger percentage than the other three mathematically. I'm a math guy. So if you can think about that, the smaller the dollar that's being levied, the smaller the to equate to the same level of savings to the other CFDs, you would have smaller dollar amount being saved. So, for example, $200 would represent 15% for 2016-2. again, 15% a year for their tax bill if there was no refunding whatsoever, versus where it's 13% for the other two of the other CFDs because they're larger amounts. So I just wanted to clarify that there's a, not a disparity, but there's a difference between all five of the CFDs and annual tax rolls. Just something, food for thought.

Thank you. And you brought up something I do want to clarify when I said that we are only doing CFDs for public safety and maintenance as well. So there are some areas that we have a maintenance CFD if the HOA is unable to fulfill their duties and maintain the property. I just want people to understand that we are doing it in a different way. And I think we're doing it in a much more responsible way. And one other thing that the old gang was not doing that we are doing is once your improvements are built out, We are declaring these areas closed. So what the other group was doing was they would see that as equity that they could go get, because they could go get that money. And you're paying for, again, my scenario, we're paying the bond service on $11 million, even though they only used $4 million. So what we're trying to do here and what we've been doing for the last 10 years is trying to roll that back and get it back to an amount that makes us more responsible. So again, every time we face the cost and we think, well, we're only saving someone $200, we're saving somebody $200. And we're not increasing the terms. That's all I have. If there's anyone else? Oh, Mr. Penn.

Yes, thanks, Mayor Pro Tem. So question then with those five CFDs, are they all fixed amounts or do any of those have a current escalator?

All of those have the escalators.

Okay, so one thing that we can consider now is any savings now... is gonna reset that back a little bit. So future escalators and future percentage increases is gonna be smaller because it's based off of a lower dollar amount. So a little extra hidden savings down the road to the homeowner. So it would equate to more than the, than the $200 a month, because you reset that clock back, in a way, because you're now dealing with, and I'm gonna just make a number up here, if it was a 2% escalator on one of them, that 2% is now on that lower dollar amount. And so, the next year that 2% increase is on a lower dollar amount, you know, and so forth. So that long-term savings, I think 10 years from now, if we're locked in for that period, there may be some additional savings for that homeowner versus letting it ride in that larger dollar amount continuing to grow because it's going to grow exponentially compared to any adjustments that we make. Right?

That's correct.

Thank you.

So these ones that you're going out to bond on would or would not have an escalator?

They would continue to have an escalator. There's not enough savings to get rid of the escalators like we've done in some of the past transactions, I don't believe. Three of the five have escalators, excuse me.

Now or after?

Now and after.

Are there any more questions up here?

Last one. So of the two that do not, are they the two that don't meet the threshold right now?

That's correct.

Oh, OK. All right. Thank you.

OK. Any other comments, discussion? I am comfortable with, because of the way you guys have worked in the past, of giving you the, I'm comfortable with giving you the authority to look for all five of those. But we really do want to stick to our numbers. For some of us, I moved here in 06, so my Melrose should be done in 36. And there may be others that are in the same position where theirs are getting to the point of that 30 years. So I'm good with giving you the authority to go forward. What the rest of you think? I'm comfortable. Okay. So I get to make the motion? Is there one motion? There's four. Four motions. Yeah.

I was just going to step in just real quick to make sure we're clear. So there's CFD 93-1 is a single CFD. and you're approving the issuance of bonds by three of the improvement areas within there. So there's one resolution for that. So that's one of the motions. Another motion is for the approving the issuance of bonds by CFD 2016-1. That's a separate CFD where you sit as a separate legislative body of that. And then there's CFD 2016-2, which, again, is a separate CFD which you sit as a legislative body of. And then the fourth hat you get to wear today is as the financing authority. So what will happen is each of the CFDs will issue bonds that will be purchased by the financing authority. And then the financing authority will sell bonds that are secured by each of the underlying CFD bonds. So there's really four actions for you tonight. They should each probably be done Separate motion.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So question, Mayor Pro Tem? Sure. So when it's listed as 93-1 in the first recommended action, do we need to list each improvement area such as 8D and 8E in those?

It's part of the resolution. In the resolution, it specifies each of the three of it. So if you prove the resolution itself, it specifies each of the three improvement areas inside of it.

I'm sorry, I don't see that on our recommended motion on page 941.

It's not in the title of the resolution. It's not in the title of the... But it's in the body. It's in the body of the resolution itself, yes. Okay, thank you.

Yeah, here it is.

It's in the resolution.

So at this point, we have four motions, and we have four members up on the dais. So who wants to go first, grab a motion?

I'll take the first one when we go down this way.

All right, it's yours.

So, Mayor Pro Tem, I move that we waive the full reading and adopt by title only resolution of the City Council of the City of Beaumont acting as legislative body of Community Facilities District 93-1, authorizing the issuance of special tax refunding bonds and taking other actions in connection therewith and recess the City Council meeting.

I'll second that.

Councilmember Lara? Yes. Councilmember Fenn?

Yes.

Councilmember Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White?

Yes.

All right. Next, I'll waive the full reading. I move to waive the full reading and adopt by title only the resolution of the City Council of the City of Beaumont, acting as legislative body of Community Facilities District Number 2016-1, authorizing the issuance of special tax refunding bonds and taking other actions in connection therewith, and recess the City Council meeting.

And I'll second that.

Councilmember Lara? Yes. Councilmember Fenn? Yes. Councilmember Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White?

Yes.

Yes, sir, three. I'll let you go.

All right. Thank you for asking. I will move to waive the full reading and adopt by title only resolution of the City Council of the City of Beaumont acting as legislative body of community facilities district number 2016-2, authorizing the issuance of special tax refunding bonds and taking other action in connection therewith and recess the City Council meeting.

I'll second.

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

Yes. So now do we have to open the meeting of the board of directors? Yes. OK. So the motion is convene a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Beaumont Public Improvement Authority and waive the full reading and adopt by title only resolution of the Board of Directors of the Beaumont Public Improvement Authority, Riverside County, California, authorizing the issuance of its local agency refunding bonds in one or more series in an aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $42,500,000. approving certain documents and taking other actions in connection therewith and adjourn the board meeting and reconvene the City Council meeting. I need a second. I'll second. And can we roll call?

Councilmember Lara?

Yes.

Councilmember Fenn? Yes. Councilmember Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White?

Yes. And so we're back into the City Council meeting. We're all done, correct? Correct. All right, so if she doesn't come back, I'll take over the meeting here. Let's assign her to some committees.

All right, we will move on to J2. Award a PSA for the wastewater master plan update. CIP WW26-5, report by Taxton Van Bell.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Yes, the item before you tonight is consideration of award for a professional services agreement to update our master plan. You heard a little bit about it from Mr. Vestal earlier. And I'll go over a few of the items that I think Mr. Martinez was referring to. Right off the bat, I think it's important to note that our last master plan was the city's very first master plan. So that was the first run at it that kicked off in November of 2019. In that time, Beaumont has grown at quite a clip, as we all know, everybody that's up there. Also, the software model that's used, that is no longer supported. That company has closed shop. Additionally, kind of ties into the previous item. Before that, developers kind of decided where all the infrastructure went. And some of the information was as good as what was provided to the city at the time. So in that interim period, you know, we brought on a collections crew, a camera truck, We've updated a lot of inaccuracies that we found throughout the system, infrastructure that was said to be there that wasn't, infrastructure that really, you know, heads south instead of west, things like that, which has a snowball effect on the flow patterns of the sewer pipes in the sewer system. So what we're looking to do is update that master plan. Also take into consideration the future growth that's coming in a large part, and not just in the city limits, but also in the city's sphere of influence. So that's an important component too. A very big component for me in this is the CIP element. It's really important to get CIP triggers, projects, accurate forecasts. So that's another component in this. When it's all said and done, we should have triggers by this many developments come in, this many units. It's going to trigger an upgrade of this pipe size. Who's responsible? Is it the developer? Is it overall to the city? Things of that nature. And then just a couple other things that are new since then is really the advent of the ADU concept. And then as you hear, Mr. Jaggers always referred to conservation as a way of life. There are city or state plans for water conservation and less flows to a sewer. So we've incorporated that into the RFP. Chris with a K. Danielson is in the house tonight. He is the project manager assigned to this. And with that, I'll take any questions or Chris can certainly answer them.

Okay. Thank you for that. Can we see if we have any public comments?

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

Right, and I will open it up for council discussion. Council Member Martinez?

Just a quick question. Does it include the plan anything for recycled water? I know we're still working on that, but does it have any, well.

No, the recycled water. wouldn't end up in the collection system and coming back to the plant. So that's after?

Yeah. So this is just the actual true wastewater? Correct. Okay.

And it's waste, sorry, wastewater to the plant, not what we do with it after that?

Correct. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Thank you for clarifying.

Any other comments? Okay, then I'll entertain a motion.

All right, Mayor, I'll make a motion. But, Faxon, I just wanted to say thank you for everything that you've done to bring this plant up to speed and guide us in that direction. I know you've standardized the lift station pumps and to make it easier for us and more cost effective for us to maintain that. And you're playing ahead rather than trying to play catch up. So I do appreciate those efforts. So I'll move to approve the award of professional service agreement to Albert A. Webb Associates not to exceed $263,780 for an initial one-year term to complete wastewater management plan update with two optional one-year extensions for continued support per our Beaumont Municipal Code 302.070 and to approve a 10% contingency of $26,378 for contract amendments and authorize the city manager to approve amendments up to $26,378 for a total budget of $290,158. I'll second. Can I get a roll call, please?

Councilmember Laura. Yes councilmember Fenn. Yes councilmember Martinez. Yes, Mayor Pro Tem White. Yes Mayor Boyd.

Yes All right, that'll move us to j3 public works agreement for the construction of the fiscal year 26 annual citywide street rehab and maintenance capital improvement project number r2601 report by Mr. Bustle.

All right. Thank you mayor. Just a brief correction on a The second street traffic signals at Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, I was referring to first street in Pennsylvania where the contract was awarded. Second street, we are finalizing the construction package, getting it ready to bid. The poles are out to bid. Okay. So I apologize for the need for that.

I apologize for not catching that.

Yeah. All right. If I could have IT share my screen. This is for the award of your annual citywide street project. Council approved the street selection back in June of 2026, of 2025, I apologize. On June 3rd of 2026, the city advertised for this project. On July 7th of 2026, the city received bids from Madditch, All American Asphalt, and RJ Noble Company. The bid tabulation for each of these bids is provided in attachment A. However, for full transparency, I'll just read them into the record. For Madditch, it was 2.8 million Approximately, for All-American Asphalt, it was $3 million. And for RJ Noble, it was $3.2 million. So Madditch was identified as the lowest responsive bid, bidder with a base bid of, more specifically, $2,794,698. The project has four additive bids for various work on Highland Springs. and I'm gonna navigate to Highland Springs. These images are in your staff report as an attachment. So the city is partnering with the city of Banning to perform work along Highland Springs from 8th Street to the south limit of the UPRR Railroad. This will allow both cities to fully improve Highland Springs on both sides. It will be a mill and overlay. Council can expect to see a cooperative agreement in the near future for that that will describe the partnership. Banning's portion of the cost is approximately $400,000. The total construction contract amount is, with the four additives, is $3,428,548. Staff is also recommending a 10% contingency for a total construction cost of $3,771,403. This concludes my presentation. However, if I can just entertain you for a minute on our GIS. If IT can continue to show my screen, if anybody from the public or you can navigate to this screen, the Public Works screen, ignore the ugly person, and pull up the GIS system. If you ever have a question on when a street was done, if it was done, In our publicly accessed GIS, you can go to general map and it has tons of information, but the one in particular is a street moratorium. Turn that on. I will turn off our trash service. There we go. You will be able to see all of the streets we've ever done, well, not ever done, but since 2020 to current. The green represents streets that are no longer in a moratorium. However, they were performed in the years specified. You can click on them and they have great information as in the treatment, when it was performed, the notice of completion date, and also the project that was associated with it. And then the red are projects that were recently done that are still under the moratorium. And as you can see, you have been quite busy in the last few years. But there's also a substantial amount of other information that's not related to public works, so I'm not interested. All right, I appreciate it. That concludes my presentation.

Thank you, and thank you for sharing that quick little tutorial on how to find that. Do we have any public comments on this item?

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

All right, we'll move on to council discussion. Council Member Fenn?

Yes, thanks, Mayor. Just a quick question. Will there be any special instructions for Madditch when it comes to doing Highland Springs? Would that be late, early hours, weekend work, night work, or anything like that just to help for traffic mitigation while they work on that road?

Yes. In the technical specs and the special specifications, there are... different guidelines for Highland Springs. In addition to that, they'll be working under or within the Caltrans Right-of-Way and UPRR Right-of-Way, which require completely more robust guidelines.

Okay. Thank you.

Council Member Lara.

Real quick, Robert, one of the roads that we're going to be working on, I don't know if it's Mill and Overlay, but it's on 11th Street. It is west of Pennsylvania. There's a new track development that just started grading, and I would hate to... um pave that 11th street and then have that developer tear it up i don't know if there's a maybe we can work with him to see but he doesn't seem to be anywhere near ready to pave his cul-de-sac street that he'll be putting off of 11th street so that's a concern just want to put that on your radar

Council Member Martinez.

Thank you, Mayor. Two questions. One, because we had issues in the past with other companies, we had talked about quality control. Did we decide if we were just going to keep staff the ones that go and check, or did we go with the consultant idea that there was going to be someone hired to go and check projects when they're completed?

On this particular project, we felt like keeping the inspection in-house. If council is recommending to go outside to the same company, we can perform that.

No, I was just wondering if we had gone going forward. I know that problem's been alleviated. So going forward, I'm comfortable with in-house. But I'm sure that if it becomes too cumbersome for staff, you'd come to us and let us know for that.

We'll monitor it and make sure that we have adequate resources on inspecting it. If we feel like additional resources are needed, we will bring something back to council.

Perfect. And then second of all, if there was a concern where Banning couldn't or decided not to go through with their MOU, do we have a plan to where we would continue our site only or put the whole project on hold or what's kind of that out thinking of that?

Yes, absolutely. Because we bid it as an additive, the quantities for the remainder of the project are unaffected. We cannot perform that work and it not be an issue with the contract.

Oh, good. Okay. Thank you. That's all.

Mayor Pro Tem White.

Oh, sorry.

So in the past, so when we approve these, if we approve these tonight, when does construction on these start? Uh,

It varies from project to project. With your approval, the contract will be executed within a few days, and then we will issue a notice to proceed, and generally that has a 10-day kind of parameter built into that notice to proceed.

So I know in the past we've had some requests for certain streets to be done, and then we approve them. And then they come back and say, well, how come those streets aren't done? Well, we had approved them for the next year. So that's why I'm asking you the timing of it. I don't want people to get their hopes up and start coming to us and saying, you said you would approve this. So is that still the same approach?

That is the same. Council receives these streets and approves the streets in question that you're referring to a year in advance. And then it takes a year to accumulate funds for that particular project, which is why this is the fiscal year 26 project. And next year, it'll be the fiscal year 27.

OK. I just want to manage expectations on that. I think that's all I had. Are there any streets that have already been approved that you have not completed at this point?

No. In this particular project, we've added additional streets because the funding was available.

Okay. All right. Thank you.

Any other questions on this item or discussion? All right. Then I will entertain a motion.

Mayor, I move to approve the Public Works Agreement with Manage Corporation in the amount of $3,428,547.50 and approve a 10% contingency of $342,855 for a total amount not to exceed $3,771,402.50 and authorize the City Manager to sign off on any preceding contract change orders within the authorized contingency.

I'll second.

Can I get a roll call, please? Council Member Lara?

Yes.

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

Yes. All right. That takes us to our very exciting J4, Grant Agreement for the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Program, ORLP Stewart Park. And a staff report by Mr. Storey.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. Tonight's staff report and motion is in regards to officially receiving the grant money for the Stewart Park renovation project. This is to officially receive just over $2.5 million for that park renovation. project this is the conclusion of the process that we have been on the laborious process that we have been on for the past 12 months in getting through the NEPA and all the environmental requirements for this process and this is The part where we are officially accepting that money in the grant agreement lays out the specific criteria that we need to follow in the bid process and in the executing the project for the phase two portion of the project. So this gives us all the parameters that we need to follow and all the things, and this begins to officially allow us to start charging for phase two. So as part of this, we will begin to continue to move forward on items with the Stewart Park. The next item that we are going to discuss is the J-5, which is an amendment to the Place Works contract. This item here does trigger a couple of items and some things in that as well because now there are some requirements and things that we need to change in that process so one of the things that everyone has been asking is how does the phase two portion work for this now that we are receiving officially receiving this grant money what does this look like and what does that process entail so we will be finishing phase one. And so construction has restarted. Residents and people that pass by the park will notice that they have started regrading the project. And so it looks more like a park that is in process right now rather than a park that is not moving forward. And we've had some pretty exciting things that have happened. One of the things that was paused in the last 12 months was we were unable to have Edison come on site to do some of the work that they needed to do which was remove their power lines that run through 10th Street which was previously abandoned. That part has been completed by Edison which was very exciting because that process is we are at the will of Edison and their timing and when they're able to come out and so our contractor jumped on that immediately and our public work staff was able to coordinate that to get them on site and so That looks like that has been completed. The transformer has been put in place and so now the power no longer goes across 10th Street. The other item is the fiber and the frontier. So frontier has been out on site this week. They are removing their line that runs across and then that's going to be able to remove the power poles that are on 10th Street that used to run. through the middle of the park. And so there's some of those things that have been happening in the phase one portion. Phase one is back up and running. We are and have reinstituted some meetings and a new schedule that's been submitted to us to complete phase one. And so we are aware and we were holding that contractor to those things there has been when you have a 12-month delay there has been some restart stuff and getting subcontractors and everyone back lined up into their schedules and getting our project back on there and our staff has done a great job coordinating all those different timelines and we now have a new updated schedule from the contractor on what phase one will look like While that is happening simultaneously, our staff is also preparing the phase two bid. And so that is what is in conjunction with the next item in J5, some of the new requirements and some of the things that are going to be specific to the new phase two bid portion. When we go out to that, some of the required documents and the required verbiage that needs to be in that bid document, also the process where we're now bidding phase two as a separate project. And so because of that, There's a little bit of overflow into the next item, which is the amendment for Placeworks and their work on the project. But I can turn it over to each of you to ask any questions you might have for Stewart Park. If there would be any, I wouldn't imagine why, but if you have any product questions, I would love to answer them at this time.

All right. Thank you. We'll pause for a second for public comment. 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. Well, I will open us up for some council discussion. And I think I'll start it really quick. Thank you for your brief kind of synopsis of everything that's going on with regards to this. Just as a point of clarification for the public, because there's been a lot of discussion online about Stewart Park recently, probably at our prompting. One thing I would like to remind the public of is that phase one when it did start was fully funded So there's been some discussion around whether or not that was fully funded. It was fully funded We did start this project with all money in our pockets and ready to execute When we then submitted for the phase two portion and started working on that knowing that we needed to go out for some grants the grants had other requirements which then required us to pause phase one and which once again was fully funded and moving forward in order to get that section completed through this federal grant funding. So I know there's been a lot of confusion out there. I just kind of wanted to add some clarity around that. And now that we have this grant, we have the match funding available, we are able now to go and start the process of truly looking at phase two, which is what we're talking about for J5. So just kind of wanted to highlight that and add some clarity for the public. This is a really exciting time. This has been a lot of work on staff's part. This has been a lot of work on this council's part and really going out a lot of work from the city manager's office and our elected officials in helping to procure this grant and ensure that we were able to get the funding available so that we could utilize more of taxpayer dollars for other projects throughout the city as well. And I think that that's really been the due diligence part for this council. So that was what I had to discuss with regards to that. So Mayor Pro Tem White.

Yeah, Doug, you pretty much gave us a staff report for J5. Is there anything else you'd like to add? Because I'd like to bring both of those items together. Absolutely.

No, that's totally fine. Yes, correct. That's pretty much the staff report. Okay. Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, one more thing. Again, from what we've heard, there's a lot of miscommunications. And if there's a way that we can do a little bit better messaging for some people who just drive by there and get all angry with us. But it's moving forward. And like I said, I look forward to approving these these two items tonight. Thank you.

Mayor, if I may, I do have just some information that might be useful. The advertisement date for phase two is estimated to be September, the later part of September of this year. As Doug had mentioned, construction for phase one will now be anticipated to be completed in approximately March of 2027. the phasing of the project, depending on how the award for Phase 2 is issued or whoever receives the construction contract for Phase 2 will, staff will work with them diligently and also with Act 1 on Phase 1 to ensure that we can open up parts or portions of phase one while phase two is being constructed. Yeah, that's all I have.

Thank you for that. I think that's great news because in the past we've heard that potentially it would just go through. So if we can continue to look for ways to give that park back to the community, even if it's small portions while undertaking the other, I do think that that's a great compromise for the community.

And that also falls in line with the update in J5 for the architect is some new things that we're pushing on them that has to be done now.

Great. All right. Well, with that, I will entertain a motion.

If there's no public comments for J5, I want to go ahead and make a motion for both items.

Can we check and see if there's any for J5? I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time.

Okay, I'll move to approve the recommended actions on both J4 and J5.

I'll second.

Can I get a roll call, please? Council Member Lara? Yes. Council Member Fenn? Yes. Council Member Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Boyd?

Yes. All right, that will take us to Item J6, Contract for Painting with Kodiak Painting for the Citywide Facility Painting Project. Also, Mr. Dexter?

Yes, we are excited to bring another one of our ISF projects to council. This is for our citywide facility repaint, as we have been working through over the past year or two to repaint facilities. This particular award to Kodiak would be to paint the police station, the PD annex, and then the exterior of the community center. So this is something that we have been strategically going through all of our facilities and updating the facade and the exterior of them. This was put out to bid. We received a great response from bidders, 14 different bids ranging from $73,000, which was the low bid for Kodiak, all the way up to... 261,000. So everywhere from 73 up to significantly more. We're excited to work with Kodiak, and he's also a Beaumont business. And so excited to get going on that. And this should conclude most of the exterior paints that we've been redoing over the last year. We originally had these items in the rotation. But when the city purchased the building on California, the Biz Hub, we switched the order so that we could repaint the Biz Hub in a timely manner. And so that's why we're coming back in the later years to add these three back into the route. So if you have any questions, I'll take them at this time.

All right. Thank you.

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

All right. Then I will open it up for council discussion. Mayor Pro Tem White, is that your light on?

No.

All right. If no other discussions then, I will move to approve and authorize the city manager to execute a public works contract with Kodiak Painting, Inc. for the citywide facility painting project in the amount of $73,000. Authorize a project contingency of $7,300 or 10%. for a total authorized project amount not to exceed $80,300 and authorize the city manager to approve and execute change orders within the approved contingency amount.

I'll second. All right.

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 J7, also for Mr. Story, is the amendment to our sports field handbook.

A lot of tabs open here. I have a PowerPoint presentation, if we can switch over to my computer here, just to point out a couple of items that we're updating in this policy. Just so we know, we originally adopted this policy for our sports field. IN 2023. THIS WAS AN OPPORTUNITY AT THE TIME TO CLARIFY FEES. WHEN I FIRST STEPPED INTO THIS DEPARTMENT, THERE WAS A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE WEREN'T MONITORING AND WEREN'T DOING, AND THIS was one of the first major steps that we took into helping control some of those items out there when we instituted this these fees is also the same time that we were able to collect monies that would offset some of the maintenance items that we were doing at the sports park so for example the turf planing and some of the uh turf rehab that we did on certain areas was all due to the fees that were collected due to this policy the big reason that we are adjusting and making the proposed adjustments to this policy is of course we are very close to being complete with the new synthetic turf fields at the sports park we're very excited to open those I do not have an exact ribbon cutting day yet, but it is coming shortly. And so we're hoping to have that dialed in in late August, early September for council to come to and more importantly, to announce to the community that those fields are open. My staff is inundated on a weekly basis with teams and clubs and people that want to host tournaments and are begging for those gates to come down so that they can start using those fields. So we're very excited to do that. With that, we needed to implement some new fees for those turf fields. And so that was also the main crux of why we wanted to bring this policy for update. to council. And also, we've had now three years of experience with the current policy. And we've found a couple of things that were great ideas that we needed to tweak a little bit. We found a couple of bad ideas that we probably just needed to eliminate, and just some items that we needed to change. And so we took all those lessons learned and began to move some things. You can see some of the cool pictures that we have. This is really our fields that you see there. I will point out that I love the photos on the right because you can see the two synthetic fields. And then you can immediately see the sidewalk at the north end of those fields. And then you see the turf, the regular grass fields right above them. And from that drone view, I promise you there is no CGI. And we did not put this in chat GPT to clean up or anything. This is like what it really looks like. And so the fees and, most importantly, our staff's dedication to maintaining these fields really shows. So this is something they're really, really excited to bring to our community. So in this update, you'll see the specific rates for the synthetic turf fields. As I said, one of the other main differences to this policy and one of the things that we reviewed with all the user groups was we are changing some of the designations of our parks to non-reservable spaces. In talking to other communities and other cities and talking amongst our staff, what we wanted to do is if we are reserving a space specifically for sports fields or if we are giving permission for leagues or teams to use certain parks, we want to make sure that those parks are sufficiently equipped to handle additional residents and additional people coming to that park. For example, we now, as part of our policy, will only be designating reservable spaces to fields that have a restroom facility and some of the park space that have parking. One of the things that we were finding was we were not comfortable giving permission to teams and to organizations to use parks that weren't necessarily designed to hold that additional capacity. For example, there is a park in our Stetson community. Stetson Park is a great, beautiful park. It's got a ton of grass and it is right underneath the power lines and people love playing soccer out there. However, when we give permission for four different organizations to use it because it's that big, what we're essentially doing is sending an additional 80 to 100 cars that night into that neighborhood that's not designed to receive that type of capacity. And so we are changing the list of which parks are reservable and which ones are not. The nice thing is that our city has been able to add spaces that are reservable, like with the addition of Mickelson Park and with Sorenstam Park. Both of those parks have restroom facilities. Both of those parks have sufficient parking. Both of those parks are designed to be able to withstand an influx of teams or an influx of players and community members coming for, say, an hour, hour and a half for practice and then leaving. And it doesn't impact the surrounding community and homes as much as some of these other parks would. So with the addition of new parks that we needed to add to our list, we took a couple of them off. This was something that we're explaining to all of our teams. It is changing a little bit of how reservations used to be, where certain organizations would come in and then just hand us a paper that says everything. They would literally just write all parks or every piece of grass you have, and they would expect us to be able to give them permission to use everything. And so we're trying to scale it back We are also trying to keep into consideration we want fields to be used what they're designed for. So we want baseball fields to be used for baseball. We want soccer fields to be used for soccer. We want football areas to be used for football. We're trying to keep that with the understanding that our leagues are growing and there's a lot of additional space that they need. So that was one thing that we did with that. We also updated some of the definitions because we found that individuals and teams would come in and They would tell us that they're not doing a tournament, that they're just doing a practice scrimmage games with referees with out-of-town teams. But it's definitely not a tournament, but it actually was. And so they were trying to get around some of those. So we clearly defined what a tournament is. We clearly defined what a special event is. We clearly defined some of those things so that It's a little easier for staff, and it's more of an understanding for the user to fully understand exactly what they're trying to put on at the park. And so those were some of the big updates. This was taken to our Parks and Recreation Committee on April 27, 2006. This was a great opportunity for us to share it with our committee members, for them to have some of their comments. and for us to have a discussion with it. They unanimously recommended that we bring it to council and we made a couple of tweaks from their comments. We also had a meeting in May with all of our user groups. We have a leagues meeting every other quarter and that allows us to bring them in to talk about this new policy. So we were able to sit down with ASO WITH JUNIOR ALL-AMERICAN FOOTBALL AND WITH SOME OF OUR LARGER GROUPS. THE INVITATION WENT OUT TO EVERYBODY. WE'VE MET WITH THE PARKS DISTRICT AND FOR THE BASEBALL FIELDS AND THINGS THAT THEY WANT TO USE IN THE SPRING. AND SO WE'RE ACTIVELY MAKING SURE ALL OF OUR USERS ARE AWARE OF THESE CHANGES AND THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE BROADSIDED BY ANYTHING. WE HAVE BEGUN THE PROCESS ALREADY FOR THE FALL APPLICATIONS. AND SO THEY KNOW THAT THIS NEW POLICY IS GOING TO BE IN EFFECT IF APPROVED TONIGHT BY COUNCIL. And our staff is ready to give the adjusted fees and reservations for the turf fields and all that type of stuff. So, yeah. Any questions about the policy or anything, please let me know.

Great. Thank you for that. 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. And I will open it up for council discussion. Council Member Lara?

Yes, thank you, Mayor. I'm sorry, Doug. While you were going through this, I was just thinking, AYSO uses a number of parks throughout the city. Some of those, they can reserve. Some of them are coming off that reserve list. So does that mean that those become a first come, first serve? Correct. So those parks that, you know, kids use for practice may not be available even though AYSO says this is your practice field.

We are working with ASO to be able to have enough reservable space. If a coach wanted to take their team to Wildflower Park, right, where teams have practiced, that's not one of the fields that we would reserve and say, hey, ASO has this from 6 to 8. But if a coach was like, hey, this is closest, this is easiest, everyone loves it, this is what we're going to do, they can do that. I'm just not reserving it and making it a space that is designated for them. It would be a first come, first serve. If it's most convenient for you, absolutely. And there's a few of those parks on there, on that type of list.

Just realized with our little practice fields that we have. But thank you. Correct. Appreciate that.

I would like to say thank you to the staff for taking the time to review this and go through that. a lessons learned section is always valuable. Sometimes you have the best intentions and they don't always go as you think they will. And so being able to, you know, come back and have some solutions, I really appreciate it. I have to say that the sports park looks absolutely fabulous. And we threw an incredible 4th of July event on that and to see the picture of that grass already looking as good as it was after everybody trampling on it looks amazing. So

We did start our annual turf planning. So that's what has happened in the last two weeks. So after, after 4th of July on July 6th, we started turf planning that site. And so we're leveling it. That's what some of the stuff is. I've got a couple of calls and people telling me that someone ruined our grass. I said, Nope, it's on purpose. We are do it. We've replanted new seed. It's coming in.

So it's part of the process. Calm down.

It's going to be okay. I promise. Trust the process. Trust the process.

I also appreciate the effort it went to go in to meet with the other teams. And I do think that the fees seem reasonable and the parks that have been identified as reservable are definitely parks that are worth reserving. And once again, thank you to all of your team and the parks that you put into play for our community. All right. So with that, if no other... Oh, sorry. Council Member Martinez.

I was looking through, do we have a definition for first come, first serve? I mean, is it a team that's there active, or is it a person sitting in a chair saying, I'm here first at 6 in the morning?

In our meeting, we've told teams that there needs to be at least four players for this to be a team. It's not just an individual. And so we are going to be monitoring it. The nice part of... in addition to this policy is we will have we do currently have staff that are available in the evenings and so they're making their rounds at parks and so we have these park monitors that are monitoring situations like this and if I can't guarantee that it'll never have someone that might be out there flying a kite and they might have the best intentions they want to use that space They might have to move to the other side of the park or get creative.

I'm thinking more of the parent of the team that goes and sits there at 3 o'clock and plants the flag at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Three hours ahead. So, okay. I'm just thinking about that.

We have ways for our staff to be aware.

Okay. Thank you. And it looks great. I really do. I think you did a great job on that, and I'm glad to see that the commission looked at it. That was a big concern of mine, and you covered that, so thank you.

Thank you. All right. Mayor Pro Tem White.

If the line gets too long, you hand out wrist bracelets? Yes.

The little thing you use to pull the ticket.

Long lines and too many people showing up is a good thing.

Well, with that, I will move to approve the amended sports field policy handbook.

I'll sing it.

All right, can I get a roll call, please? Council Member Lara? Yes. Council Member Fenn?

Yes.

Council Member Martinez?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem White?

Yes.

Mayor Voigt?

Yes. All right, and that takes us to our last question. But not least, action item, item J8, which is adoption of the Uniform Compensation Plan and reclassification of current positions. And a staff report by Ms. Carrie Mendoza. Good evening again, Mayor and Council.

Yes, last but not least, you have before you the new and improved compensation plan. This implements all of the changes that were a result of the comprehensive classification and compensation study completed by Evergreen Solutions that placed everybody at the 50th percentile mark within our surrounding neighbors. The study evaluated the classifications, compared compensation to other comparable agencies, tried to ensure our structure remains competitive in recruiting and retaining. So it implements all of those changes. For your reference, the organizational charts that are on the dais to help you illustrate the following departmental changes. because the staff report outlines corrected titles, if you will, that Evergreen recommended. And then in addition to that, you had heard previously the chief of police talk about his drone program and the need for staffing. So we're eliminating one police sergeant in an effort to provide for CSOs to run his drone program. Community services between the building grounds maintenance department Facility portion and the parks and recreation portion. There's a need to restructure a couple titles there to ensure they have adequate supervision so you have those Org charts in front of you and I have the chief and mr Story can come back if he wants to answer any questions related to those org charts if you have any I wanted to point out two clerical errors in the uniform compensation plan in consolidating a couple of the classifications there were two errors to the two police officer association ranges. So I have corrected those. There's copies at the back of the room. Council was afforded copies before the meeting with those corrections to those two classifications. All the adjustments were incorporated into the 26-27 budget. As discussed during negotiations, there was a cost of living adjustment on top of that that will come back to you as a mid-year adjustment along with a vacancy savings rate. And The organizational changes between the police department, parks and recreation, and facilities resulted in almost $80,000 in savings. And with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions or bring up the chief or Doug.

All right. Thank you for that. Do we have any public comment on this item?

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

All right. I will open it up for council discussion. Or I'll entertain a motion.

Mayor, if there's no questions, then I'll make a motion to approve the attached uniform compensation plan with the recommended position classification changes.

I'll second.

Can I get a roll call? Councilmember Lara? Yes. Councilmember Fenn? Yes. Councilmember Martinez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem White? Yes. Mayor Voigt? Yes.

All right, that will take us to legislative updates. Do we have any done tonight? Economic development update. Okay, we had the planning commission on consent, there we go. City treasurer, nothing. City attorney, all right. City manager.

I have a few. So first off, Beaumont PD in conjunction with our Parks and Recreation Department held a successful coffee with the cop this AM at Panera Bread. It was a great turnout. Also, this Friday, the 24th, Mayor Voigt is going to be throwing the first pitch at the Lake Elsinore Storm Baseball game. So great opportunity for the public in Beaumont to see how well she pitches. Bring in the heat. Thursday, July 30th is National Night Out and the final market night downtown. So we invite everybody to come out for that. It should be a great event. And also just wanted to announce that State of the City has been set at October 7th at Morongo Casino Resort and Spa. And with that, that's my updates.

All righty, thank you for that. And future agenda items. Anybody have any?

I have one there.

Council Member Martinez.

Thank you, Mayor. Chris, I'd like to not have a deep discussion or a pro or against discussion. I'm just looking for kind of a report on data centers on where they fit within our code. Where would they fit? Where would they be zoned? What constraints might we have? You know, just kind of different things so we can kind of get ahead of anyone that came in to request one. You know, what is the likelihood of them fitting in Beaumont anyway? They'll need a water will serve. You know, just some things so we can kind of get an idea of if that were to be something in the future that, you know, do we have our code up to date or should we have some concerns already addressed before they came. I'm trying to always get ahead of everything and since that's the big thing going on, I want to make sure that whatever it is our code needs to adjust or so forth to allow or not allow or just kind of that approach without going into whether we should have them or not have them and stuff. That's really not the intention here. I just don't know where they'd fit, where they zone, You know, kind of things like that.

Certainly, we can bring you an agenda item on that in September if that works for the council.

Yeah, that's fine. There's no rush on that. That's clearly up to how it fits in your schedule. No rush for that at all. And again, it's not my intention to have a big, I just want to know, you know, where they would fit on that because you're hearing all the hullabaloo about it. And I think to myself, well, if one were to come, you know, what would that look like? You know, so that's my request.

All right. Anybody else? All right, that takes us to our council reports. Council Member Lara, you want to start us off?

Sure, Mayor, thank you. All I had to report on today is just the coffee with the cop. And I did like the fact that the Parks Department was there as well. They had all their little handouts and stuff ready to go and their merch, which was nice. And it was well attended, and I always appreciate having that. That's a great event. That's all I have, Mayor.

Great. Mayor Pro Tem White.

Yeah, I have two things. First of all, the 4th of July was an amazing event. And you guys made it really work. The whole team did. So I want to thank you all for that. We had a guest singer to sing the National Anthem, and her name was Addie Boyd, and she did an amazing job. Actually, I think it's Addison, correct? Addison Boyd? OK. And then I also want to comment on Beaumont Knights. I won't be there tomorrow. It continues to improve every year. I think what's the numbers this year, even with the heat, even when it was really hot, we still had quite a number of people coming out. So I want to thank Doug and the PD and everyone else who's been involved. I know it's not just one department. So good job and just keep it up. Thank you.

Council Member Martinez.

Thank you, Mayor. Just, again, great job on Fourth of July. I've been getting a lot of great feedback from the community. It's a great job. Everyone involved, it takes, of course, a village to get that done. RCA was dark this July, and I've been out of the area mostly for conferences and vacations, so nothing else.

All right. Council Member Fenn?

Yes, thank you, Mayor. Also, a big thank you for the 4th of July celebration. I got a good number of comments as well from the public. And I stay home because of my dogs. But with a new location, I could see it out the bedroom window. You sure could. So it's fun. Our Riverside Transit Agency is dark in July. But from their report previously from the month of June, they had numbers from May. Ridership is up 5.2%. And total boardings for the fiscal year 2025 was up 3.3%. So public transportation continues to improve. And partly due to reasons like this that Riverside Transit Agency provided rides for the World Cup. And from the report, it went out sometime middle of last week, I think it was, but from July or from June 12th to the middle of this last week, they had given over 3,475 rides for the World Cup. So that's pretty cool that they were able to contribute and connect, you know, Riverside County with the World Cup. So that was kind of neat to report on. So that's all I have.

All right. Well, in the theme of World Cup, a huge shout out to the Beaumont Knights crew. They were able to get us the soccer match for USA to watch. That was fun seeing people out there with their USA gear on. Right in line with our crosswalks that are now painted downtown, which we've seen a lot of positive responses to those as well. Big shout out for all of those events. To echo the Beaumont Knights just continues to be excellent. And I love the Battle of the Bands and have heard some positive things about that as well. So thank you for making that happen. I also attended the Peace Pole Dedication at the Chattanooga Center and an absolutely wonderful 4th of July event by our past chorale. So it was an honor to be there for you guys and just truly what an incredible event. There was participants from the Beaumont High School band along with the Pasquarelle and the multimedia that they had along with the choir and the orchestra was truly amazing. So thank you. It was an honor to be there. And I cannot say enough about the 4th of July event. We really set a precedent with that. I was beaming with pride. My cheeks hurt from smiling so much after that event. To see that sea of people and our community and from other communities traveling in was absolutely amazing and a big shout out to our police officers who ended up directing traffic because it was a little chaotic and i have not seen people walk that far to get to an event here in beaumont ever i think they had wagons and children in tow and it was definitely a great event that slide was a huge hit so please thank the team for that Economic development was great. And then also I had a meeting with our California Senator Rosalicio Choabog earlier in the month of July as well, just about our priorities. So just a little meet and greet. But other than that, it's been a great summer and make sure to attend the last few Beaumont nights. And with that, we will adjourn our meeting at 8.31.