City Council - Regular Meeting

There's lots of, big corporations and franchises, and so we decided this would be the absolute perfect location to bring a little bit of that here. The community in Chino has been the most important part, I think, of growing this business. Word-of-mouth in this community is so major. Everybody knows somebody, and it's such a tight knit community, especially in the wellness world. And so it's just been incredible to, you know, grow with the community.

You know, there's smoothie bars everywhere, but do they truly, you know, care about the ingredients? What's in it? Are they organic? And so, really, I don't think there's anywhere here in the area that really brings that to the community. So that's truly what sets us apart and the aesthetic, of course.

Sana in Arabic means brilliant praise and in Spanish it means healthy or healing and mana is the bread that God made rain, the nourishment, God's nourishment. And so altogether, it means praise God's healing nourishment, which is really just taking it back to the root of how he intended us to eat, not the processed foods, really just nurture our bodies with whole food ingredients. And then really the intention behind Santa Monica, it's there's such a bigger picture with the community and how we wanna grow. This is our first location, and we have exceeded what our expectation was within the community, and so it's so beautiful to see. Yeah.

Stay rooted in faith. Stay rooted in your beliefs. And when the tough when it gets tough, keep going because there was tons of times where we wanted to give up. But just stay true to, you know, your calling and what you what you believe in your vision, and you'll succeed.

On January 31, the city of Chino hosted the first annual Lunar New Year's event, an event that celebrated culture, heritage, and new beginnings in the city of Chino. Senryu Taiko and the Lao Material Club lion dance began the festivities with a fascinating performance as part of the opening ceremony. Afterwards from council member Mark Lucio, the festive confetti popped as the celebration began. Performances by Xiaolin Kung Fu showed off incredible martial arts moves with weapons, and the Chino Valley Chinese Alliance Children's Choir brought smile to the crowd's faces with singing and dancing. Vendors were all around the Chino Civic Center with festive merchandise, art, and a fun zone, making every moment fun and exciting.

Food vendors were plenty, giving residents a chance to try out various tasty treats. Lunar New Year is a time for family, gratitude, and connection, and an event like this brings Chino together, honoring diversity while celebrating what unites us. For more information on this and any upcoming events, please visit www.cityofchino.org/events.

We are here because we're brewing up business. Chino is absolutely a phenomenal place to be. Multigenerational city. We've been here over a hundred years and very business friendly. You're gonna love Tino.

As far as businesses are concerned, I personally wanna see something for everyone. I want our kids to be able to stay in town, have entertainment, places to go. I also want all kinds of entertainment for every age group. We need to stay here. We work here. We live here, and we play here. So I'm looking for businesses that are gonna fill any void that we have.

So welcome to the business roundtable. This is the brokers edition.

I was first elected in 1984. Chino used to be very, very heavily agricultural. And over time, we have evolved into something for everyone when it comes to housing stock, which is wonderful, and also businesses. We're growing by leaps and bounds. Very, very proud of our community, multigenerational. So we have grandparents, parents, kids. So Tino's a wonderful place to be, and I'm very, very proud to represent.

Hey there. I'm Samantha. I'm the community engagement manager here at the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire. We're the new animal services agency for this region. We serve Ontario, Montclair Chino, and the unincorporated areas of West Amendor Nio County. We provide all animal services for this area, things like pet licensing, microchipping your pets, supporting the community when they find stray animals, adoptions, foster opportunities. We also have volunteer opportunities. Come on down. Come meet some of our very cute animals.

Community support since we opened was pretty good, you know, very incredibly supportive. What I understand from the city part, the mayor and all the people around the city was very helpful since we started operation of construction and then, you know, fully operational opening in December 2023. Our business at Supard, I would say, being a Marriott hotel, we more focus on service as well as local community, what we support, and more hospitality, I would say. So it's not only just a basic room and, you know, guests can come and sleep, but we focus as a whole hospitality more warm and welcoming. That's what our goal normally we follow.

Business grown every year pretty much. I would say since opening 12/06/2023. Right? Now we are at about one and a half year plus, but every year we see significant growth. This year is much more, I would say, 10 to 20% more than what we were in the first year.

Surrounding area, what we see, a lot of opportunity still considering our location. And one of the biggest location, I would say, about the BAPS Swaminar and Temple. That helps a lot lot of weddings and a lot of events happening there. Guests do come and stay here. Besides that, we do get a lot of teams. That give us a good growth opportunity, and we are still seeing a lot of opportunity around the businesses in the area, which we are trying to explore too.

Well, interestingly, I opened up the very first LA Fitness that was the very first ground up they ever built here in Chino in December '96. And I just had become a new yoga teacher and decided I wanted to open my own studio and FitBody was nice enough to let me sublease space from them and it grew from there. About eleven years ago, we opened up the space you see here behind me and this weekend, we celebrate our fourteenth year anniversary and this just has become my home community. Most of our advertising is simply word-of-mouth. And so the fact that people continue to tell their friends to come here is something that we're eternally grateful for beyond words.

Not only do we have yoga, but we have heated kettlebell classes where people do barefoot kettlebell to good music in hour long heated room. And, we have ice bath classes in the backyard where people come together and get into the ice. We have sauna and lockers and showers. But I think really what sets us apart more than anything is this vein of mindfulness that we try to thread throughout our offering. You know, to go from a small boot camp spot subleasing behind Sprouts to this large 4,000 square foot space with lockers and showers and two big yoga rooms is beyond our original vision and literally a dream come true.

We're just super grateful that the community continues to show up for us. As long as they do, we're so excited about continuing to show up for them. Continue to persevere. Grit, work ethic are is something that goes a long way when you own your own business. We're just super grateful to be here. So, I would say more than anything, just the sense of humility that the challenges have brought, created this grit and gratitude for what it is we do.

President of the city of Chino, do you recycle your bottles and cans? Here's something you should know. Bottles and cans are good for the environment when recycled properly. The city of Chino encourages its residents to recycle their bottles and cans on trash day in their curbside recycling cart or by taking them to a certified collection center for a cash refund. Do your part. Keep Chino clean and recycle your bottles and cans. For more information, visit the city of Chino's website under recycling or call (909) 334-3289. This program is being brought to you by the city of Chino.

Chino has both modern side and countryside charm. My husband, he likes the countryside. I like the modern side. He loved eating here. He'll even bring his clients here. And when it was up for sale, he took the opportunity and we bought it. And we're very happy because we get to eat food here more often for free, and I don't have to cook as much. First, I really need to thank Larry and Shelly. They're the one who started the avocado house, and they're the one who made this a chain of favorite. When we took over, we kept the same recipes.

We just upgraded ingredients, switched oil to the avocado oil, and added new menu items. The support from community is awesome. Police officers, city staff, residents from Chino, and all around cities, they come and support us. So we're very grateful.

What sets your business apart?

First, food. It's a full homemade food made with love like grandma would. And that was Jelly's model, and we really like it, and we're keeping it too. And second is the high quality ingredient, especially the avocado oil. It costs us $3,000 more per month to use avocado oil instead of canola oil, but we made the decision to do it because we care for the health of our customers, our employees who eat our food every day, and for our family.

If you want cozy countryside warm feeling, you could eat eat inside the restaurant. And if you want a, like, a more modern feel, you can eat at a veranda and the backyard, which is everyone's favorite. It's like having a picnic. You can relax and enjoy, you know, nice Southern California weather. We're very grateful as we continue to grow. So we plan to increase hours, and we're gonna open for dinner. So, you know, people can now enjoy avocado house all day long. We started a coffee shop called Rabbit and Bean in La Habra, and it's really doing well. So we wanna open a second coffee shop here. So, you know, customers enjoy specialty coffee and matcha.

We're very excited. First, you know, don't focus on money, profit, but just focus on giving joy and happiness to your customers and employees. Always serve, you know, high quality food that you would serve your own family. People will notice, and they'll come back. And also take good care of your employees because they'll take good care of your customers.

So my dad came, like, forty five years ago in City Of Chino. He thought that City Of Chino was a good opportunity to open a new business, and he was right. First of all, I want to thank the community of City Of Chino because all these years, we they support us and they love us, and I want to say a big thank you to them. Quality, the good quality for the products, the good customer service, and I think they love what we're doing for that. So we opened the first location four years ago, and now we move like two years ago over here with a bigger, nicer location with drive through.

Because it was the first project for us, it was a little bit hard at the beginning. Thank god we make it with the help of the city of Chino, the help of the people of Chino. We're here now to serve them.

We knew Chino was in demand for more restaurants, but we also knew that the location that we were gonna be going into, that there was a lot of growth, and there was gonna be a lot that was gonna come in. But we also knew it was gonna take time to get there, but still just with it, like how it is right now, we're still doing really good. Like we knew coming into it, were gonna be busy right off the bat. It seemed like a great, place for the second location for us to grow and, you know, make our name bigger. Customers, you know, have been awesome with us.

You know, we've been busy. It's been a year, and we've been busier and busier every day. You know, we've sponsored a lot of the youth baseball teams, football teams. We know customers on a first name basis, and, you know, we have a good set of regulars. So, you know, the community has supported us tremendously, and they're keeping this place open. They're keeping they're keeping it going. We always knew that this is what we wanted to do. You know, both the owners always, you know, wanted to own their own restaurants. You know, I knew them closely. I wanted to own restaurants as well.

And that was just the goal behind it was, hey, let's let's turn, you know, Kenwoods into a household name. You know, we love when, you know, even the kids that come in here, hey, we wanna go to Kenwoods. Like, that was the goal to be the next big thing. I would say, what sets us apart, one thing is we are a scratch kitchen. So everything is recipe based.

Everything is made fresh. Everything is made fresh daily. One thing that we really preach is giving the best service possible. Again, it all falls back to, you know, you can have great food, we do, and a great atmosphere, but at the end of the day, the customers are coming back for the experience, for the service part. And we try to teach our staff, you know, every day, hey. Make each visit count. Put a smile on someone's face. Get to know them on a personal level. You know, when that customer comes in, we want them saying, hey. Is so and so working today?

You know, we have a lot of good things going on, live music. We do a taco special. We have a brunch. We have a happy hour from three to six, Monday through Friday. So as, you know, the community, you know, hears about us and finds this thing out, we just continue to grow. My name is Matt Mraz. I am the general manager of Kenwood's Kitchen and Tap in Chino located in the Preserve Shopping Center off of Chino in Maine.

Chino is an absolute beautiful community. My husband and I are from Los Angeles, and so we were trying to get closer to family. We have a little toddler. And in LA, there's wellness bars on every corner, whereas here, we kind of noticed that there was missing link. You know, there's lots of, big corporations and franchises, and so we decided this would be the absolute perfect location to bring a little bit of that here.

The community in Chino has been the most important part, I think, of growing this business. Word-of-mouth in this community is so major. Everybody knows somebody, and it's such a tight knit community, especially in the wellness, world. And so it's just been incredible to, you know, grow with the community. You know, there's smoothie bars everywhere, but do they truly, you know, care about the ingredients?

What's in it? Are they organic? And so, really, I don't think there's anywhere here in the area that really brings that to the community. So that's truly what sets us apart and the aesthetic, of course. Sana in Arabic means brilliant praise, and in Spanish, it means healthy or healing, and mana is the bread that God made rain, the nourishment, God's nourishment.

And so altogether, it means praise God's healing nourishment, which is really just taking it back to the root of how he intended us to eat, not the processed foods, really just nurture our bodies, with whole food ingredients. And then really the intention behind San Dimana, it's there's such a bigger picture with the community and how we wanna grow. This is our first location, and we have exceeded what our expectation was within the community, and so it's so beautiful to see. Yeah. Stay rooted in faith.

Stay rooted in your beliefs. And when the tough when it gets tough, keep going because there was tons of times where we wanted to give up, but just stay true to, you know, your calling and what you what you believe in your vision, and you'll succeed.

On January 31, the city of Chino hosted the first annual Lunar New Year's event, an event that celebrated culture, heritage, and new beginnings in the city of Chino. Senryu Taiko and the Lao Material Club lion dance began the festivities with a fascinating performance as part of the opening ceremony. Afterwards from council member Mark Lucio, the festive confetti popped as the celebration began. Performances by Shaolin Kung Fu showed off incredible martial arts moves with weapons, and the Chino Valley Chinese Alliance Children's Choir brought smile to the crowd's faces with singing and dancing. Vendors were all around the Chino Civic Center with festive merchandise, art, and a fun zone, making every moment fun and exciting.

Food vendors were plenty, giving residents a chance to try out various tasty treats. Lunar New Year is a time for family, gratitude, gratitude, and connection, and an event like this brings Chino together, honoring diversity while celebrating what unites us. For more information on this and any upcoming events, please visit www.cityofchino.org/events.

We are here because we're brewing up business. Chino is absolutely a phenomenal place to be. Multigenerational city. We've been here over a hundred years and very business friendly. You're gonna love Chino.

As far as businesses are concerned, I personally wanna see something for everyone. I want our kids be able to stay in town, have entertainment, places to go. I also want all kinds of entertainment for every age group. We need to stay here. We work here. We live here, and we play here. So I'm looking for businesses that are gonna fill any void that we have.

So welcome to the business roundtable. This is the brokers edition.

I was first elected in 1984. Tino used to be very, very heavily agricultural. And over time, we have evolved into something for everyone when it comes to housing stock, which is wonderful, and also businesses. We're growing by leaps and bounds, very, very proud of our community, multigenerational. Multigenerational. So we have grandparents, parents, kids. So Tino's a wonderful place to be, and I'm very, very proud to represent.

Hey there. I'm Samantha. I'm the community engagement manager here at the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire. We're the new animal services agency for this region. We serve Ontario, Montclarachino, and the unincorporated areas of West Amarnado County. We provide all animal services for this area, things like pet licensing, microchipping your pets, supporting the community when they find stray animals, adoptions, foster opportunities. We also have volunteer opportunities. Come on down. Come meet some of our very cute animals.

Community support since we opened was pretty good, you know, very incredibly supportive. What I understand from the city part, the mayor and all the people around the city was very helpful since we started operation of construction and then, you know, fully operational opening in December 2023. Our business at Supard, I would say, being a Marriott hotel, we more focus on service as well as local community, what we support, and more hospitality, I would say. So it's not only just a basic room and, you know, the guests can come and sleep, but we focus as a whole hospitality more warm and welcoming. That's what our goal normally we follow.

Business grown every year pretty much. I would say since opening 12/06/2023. Right? Now we are at about one and a half year plus, but every year we see significant growth. This year is much more, I would say, 10 to 20% more than what we were in the first year.

Surrounding area, what we see, a lot of opportunity still considering our location. And one of the biggest location I would say about BAPS Swaminaran Temple, that helps a lot. Lot of weddings and a lot of events happening there. Guests do come and stay here. Besides that, we do get a lot of teams. That give us a good growth opportunity, and we are still seeing a lot of opportunity around the businesses in the area, which we are trying to explore too.

Well, interestingly, I opened up the very first LA Fitness that was the very first ground up they'd ever built here in Chino in December '96. And I just had become a new yoga teacher and decided, I wanted to open up my own studio and FitBody was nice enough to let me sublease space from them and, it grew from there. About eleven years ago, we opened up the space you see here behind me. And this weekend, we celebrate our fourteenth year anniversary, and, this just has become my home community. Most of our advertising is simply word-of-mouth, and so the fact that people continue to tell their friends to come here is something that we're eternally grateful for beyond words.

Not only do we have yoga, but we have heated kettlebell classes where people do barefoot kettlebell to good music in hour long heated room. And we have ice bath classes in the backyard where people come together and get into the ice. We have sauna and lockers and showers. But I think really what sets us apart more than anything is this vein of mindfulness that we try to thread throughout our offering. You know, to go from a small boot camp spot subleasing behind Sprouts to this large 4,000 square foot space with lockers and showers and two big yoga rooms is beyond our original vision and literally a dream come true.

We're just super grateful that the community continues to show up for us. As long as they do, we're so excited about continuing to show up for them. Continue to persevere. Grit, work ethic are is something that goes a long way when you own your own business. We're just super grateful to be here. So, I would say more than anything, just the sense of humility that the challenges have brought, created this grit and gratitude for what it is we do.

President of the city of Chino, do you recycle your bottles and cans? Here's something you should know. Bottles and cans are good for the environment when recycled properly. The city of Chino encourages its residents to recycle their bottles and cans on trash day in their curbside recycling cart or by taking them to a certified collection center for a cash refund. Do your part. Keep Chino clean and recycle your bottles and cans. For more information, visit the city of Chino's website under recycling or call (909) 334-3289. This program is being brought to you by the city of Chino.

Chino has both modern side and countryside charm. My husband, he likes the countryside. I like the modern side. He loved eating here. He'll even bring his clients here. And when it was up for sale, he took the opportunity and we bought it. And we're very happy because we get to eat food here more often for free, and I don't have to cook as much. First, I really need to thank Larry and Shelly. They're the one who started the avocado house, and they're the one who made this a chain of failure. When we took over, kept we the same recipes.

We just upgraded ingredients, switched oil to the avocado oil, and added new menu items. The support from community is awesome. Police officers, city staff, residents from Chino, and all around cities, they come and support us. So we're very grateful.

What sets your business apart?

First, food. It's a food homemade food made with love like grandma would. And that was Shelly's model, and we really like it, and we're keeping it too. And second is the high quality ingredient, especially the avocado oil. It costs us $3,000 more per month to use avocado oil instead of canola oil, but we made the decision to do it because we care for the health of our customers, our employees who eat our food every day, and for our family.

If you want cozy countryside warm feeling, you could eat inside the restaurant. And if you want a, like, a more modern feel, you can eat at a veranda and the backyard, which is everyone's favorite. It's like having a picnic. You can relax and enjoy, you know, nice Southern California weather. We're very grateful as we continue to grow. So we plan to increase hours, and we're gonna open for dinner. So, you know, people can now enjoy avocado house all day long. We started a coffee shop called Rabbit and Bean in La Habra, and it's really doing well. So we wanna open a second coffee shop here. So, you know, customers enjoy specialty coffee and matcha.

We're very excited. First, you know, don't focus on money, profit, but just focus on giving joy and happiness to your customers and employees. Always serve, you know, high quality food that you would serve your own family. People will notice, and they'll come back. And also take good care of your employees because they'll take good care of your customers.

So my dad came, like, forty five years ago in City Of Chino. He thought that City Of Chino was a good opportunity to open a new business, and he was right. First of all, I want to thank the community of City Of Chino because all these years, they support us and they love us, and I want to say a big thank you to them. Quality, the good quality for the products, the good customer service, and I think they love what we're doing for that. So we opened the first location four years ago, and now we move, like, two years ago over here with a bigger, nicer location with drive through.

Because it was the first project for us, it was a little bit hard at the beginning. Thank god we make it with the help of the city of Chino, the help of the people of Chino. We're here now to serve them.

Good evening everyone and welcome to the April 21 council meeting. We have a special presentation of our callers this evening. If you would please stand, I would like to invite the Chino Valley Young Marines led by private first class Hewitt to lead us in the pledge. Thank you. Please put your right hand over your height heart heart and take over any take off any headwear.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. Let's give him a hand. Okay. Next, we have a proclamation, donate life month. It's my honor this evening to proclaim the month of April 2026 as donate life month in the city of Chino. I'd like to call up Robert Ralston, one legacy ambassador. Please join me up front.

Hi. Nice to see you.

Nice to see you too. And the proclamation reads, whereas organ, eye, tissue, marrow, and blood donation are life giving acts recognized worldwide as expressions of compassion to those in need. More than 100,000 individuals nationwide and more than twenty thousand in California are currently on the national organ transplant waiting list. And sadly, on average, seventeen people die each day while waiting. Whereas one person can save eight lives and enhance 75 others through organ, eye, and tissue donation.

Any person can register to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor regardless of age or medical condition. Being a registered donor does not impact the quality of life saving medical care or a person receives the care or that a person receives in emergency. California residents can sign up to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor when applying for or renewing their driver's licenses or ID cards at the California Department of Motor Vehicles. California residents can sign up with the Donate Life California donor registry online at any time by visiting www.donatelivecalifornia.org, or for Spanish speakers, www.done, vida,california.org. And whereas California residents interested in saving a life through life giving kidney donation may visit www.livingdonationcalifornia.org.

Now, therefore, be it resolved that in recognition of National Donate Life Month, the month of April 2026 is hereby proclaimed Donate Life Month in the city of Chino, and we encourage all residents to leave a legacy through the power of organ, eye, and tissue donation.

Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My life was saved by the grace of God, miracles of modern medicine, and a man from Tennessee and his donor family. The phone rang for me.

I was on the transplant waiting list for about three years, and I finally got that life saving phone call. Like our wonderful honorable mayor and my friend Eunice Euloha mayor mentioned, there are actually a 103,000 people waiting for the phone to ring right now to get that lifesaving donation. To give you a little visual, with twenty twenty eight Olympics on their way, it'll be here before we know it. The Los Angeles Coliseum that was built in like 1936 to for the first Olympics here, That that holds over a 100,000 people. Imagine the opening ceremony at the Olympics and that place completely packed.

That's how many people are waiting for the phone to ring right now. Like I said, it it rang for me, and I got the gift, and I'm so grateful for it. I would like to mention on a well, like Eunice also said that 17 people, the phone won't ring for them tonight. They'll run out of time on that waiting list. I have some notes, but I'm not going to pull them out.

I'm going to wing it. But on a lighter note, in 2025, we had over nineteen eighty five lives saved through organ donation. That's how many people were saved in 2025. Also, fifteen eighty people that were blind through cornea donation were given back their sight. So over fifteen hundred blind people got their sight back.

So there is some amazing things going on with organ eye and tissue donation. First time in history of the world there was a bladder transplant. So they're getting better and better all the time and saving more lives all the time. But we really are just stemming the tide. The numbers of people that get on that transplant waiting list grows every year.

When I became an ambassador there was 126,000 people waiting for the phone to ring. We've got that down to 103,000 right now but by fighting the good fight and by raising awareness like we're doing right now like our wonderful fire department is doing. We've got the donate life flag flying on 13 fire stations throughout Chino Valley the whole month of April. And by raising awareness, we're changing that a little bit at a time. 99 of the donations come from that pink dot on your driver's license.

The thing that really inspires me is the fact that only 50% of the people that have a driver's license have that pink dot on their license. I was really surprised when I heard that. So we got a lot of work to do. We're halfway there. But there are lots of people that could get that pink dot.

And by raising awareness by being here tonight, we can change all that. This proclamation will proudly be displayed at Azusa Pacific University on the twenty fifth coming right up Saturday the twenty fifth. We have a five ks run walk that is put on by us in honor of the DMV. About 5,000 to 15,000 people show up each year for this. There's food, music, lots of live music. They have a really big stage. They have some famous acts that come. There was a boy band there last year. I'm not a big boy band fan, but there was a big boy. Everybody's going, oh, it's them.

And so but it really is a great turnout at a Zoosk specific college. Five to 15,000 people five ks run walk and this will be proudly displayed with proclamations from all the other mayors that have participated. Our fire district is one of the only fire districts that participates And all of these will be on display at the Remembrance Garden, is a spot where donors are honored for the people that lost their lives and like Eunice said can save up to eight lives. One person can save up to eight lives. So it's a really big deal and we need to get the word out and make it happen more.

These wonderful things and by you guys being here tonight we're all changing the world just a little bit at a time. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Okay. Next we have recognition of the twenty twenty six Chino Days Art Award recipients. As part of Chino Days, students enrolled in the Chino Valley Unified School District and Chino residents were encouraged to participate in Chino Days art contest. The contest was conducted in collaboration with Chino Cultural Foundation.

This year's art contest theme was my favorite place in Chino. Winners were selected based on age and grade categories, and winning art pieces will be displayed on the entrance wall of the Carolyn Owens Community Center. I'd like to call it Britney Zarkal, our community services parks and recreation supervisor, and the chinodaysartcontestcom committee lead. Britney? Hello.

Thank you. Good evening, everybody. Thank you, mayor and members of the council for allowing us to, recognize these artists, the young artists in Chino. So although due to inclement weather, unfortunately, Chino Days was canceled on April eleventh and twelfth, but we still had all of this wonderful art to display, so we definitely wanted to recognize them tonight. So, all of my winners, if once you hear your name, if you could go ahead and come on up and hold on to your certificates and we'll take a picture. So starting with category ages five to seven, in third place, we have Rosie Chen. In second place, we have Enzo Shen.

In

first place, we have Isaac Liam. Come on up, Congratulations to our winners for ages or category ages five to seven. Next up, we have category ages eight to 10. In third place, we have Kaari Kuo. In second place, we have Luna Chu.

And in first place, we have Destiny Shen. Okay. Congrats again to, ages eight to 10 category. And for our category ages 11 to 13, in second place we have Saili Shrew. And in first place we have Jalen Wu.

Great job. Yes. Art is displayed on the screen so make sure you take a look. And then finally in our last category we have ages 14 to 17. In second place we have Jade Barela.

And in first place we have Alexandra Almanza. Thank you again for allowing us to recognize them. Congratulations to all of these wonderful young artists here in Chino. Yes. We'll stay up for a picture.

Thank you guys. You guys can go ahead and go to your seats. One more.

Next, we have our business of the month. The first business of the month is a great place to get outdoors right here in Chino. For the month of April 2026, I would like to congratulate Prado Park Equestrian Center as one of our businesses of the month. Will a representative from the business, owner Jennifer Serpa, please join me upfront? Prado Equestrian Center sits on 13 beautiful acres here in Chino.

With over 100 horses and trainers, they provide boarding services, host annual horse shows, as well as year round community events. The team at Prado Equestrian are proud to host equine education days for children and families as a way to encourage people to get outdoors and enjoy nature as a family. They aim to bring community together through shared values of kindness, inclusion, love of horses, and the great outdoors. This business has been in Jennifer's family for over forty years. When searching for a place to start their small business, they felt Chino and the Equestrian Center had the room they needed to grow in a beautiful natural environment that has become their lifelong home.

Join me in congratulating one of our April 2026 businesses of the month, recipients Prado Park Equestrian Center. Jennifer, I have this certificate for you, and it reads, congratulations to Prado Park Equestrian Center, April 2026 Chino business of the month. The city of Chino thanks you for being a part of the Chino community, and it's presented this day. Thank you. You're welcome. How's your mom?

She's good. Good. Sure, Zayfie. I'll just

say being a part of the community in Chino here my whole life, I've watched it grow and really blossom. And it's really an honor to be able to sort of keep a piece of what it was long ago, of farm life and horse life here. And we invite everyone to come anytime. It's open to the public. And we hope that the next generation will learn represent to a lot of us. Yes, thank you very much.

When we used to like to go camping, we always picked the camping spots next to the trail where all the horses went by.

Yes, I

have three horses in my backyard. And I've known her mom for a long time, Carol.

I've known

you for

a long Yeah. Well, let's get a picture. Our next business of the month is a trusted dentist in our community. For the month of April 2026, I would like to congratulate Barsoom Dental Care as one of our businesses of the month. With over thirty years of experience, doctor Maher Barsoom and his team take great pride in providing dental services of the highest quality.

Patients praise Barsoom Dental for their amazing staff, pain free procedures, and post visit follow-up calls done by Mr. Bars Doctor. Barsoom himself. Doctor. Barsoum and his team could not be here tonight.

Their award will be delivered to them following the meeting. Prior to the start of our meeting, we did have a closed session that myself from. I would like to ask our attorney to read, to report out any action that was taken during closed session.

Thank you, mayor, members of the council, and all those present. The council met in closed session as explained by the mayor with the mayor not participating and abstaining from the closed session room. The balance of the council held the discussion on, the item on the agenda, namely conference with real property negotiator concerning the two parcels on Francis Avenue, 5412 And 0. The negotiating party being Grand West Coast Investment LLC under negotiation price in terms of potential acquisition. City Council received an update on the potential to acquire that parcel and held the discussion and no action was taken.

That concludes the report. Thank you, Mayor.

Okay. City manager, do we have any agenda additions or revisions?

No changes, mayor.

Okay. Under information within our packet is the external agency report for April 21. I would encourage you to access that online. Next, under public announcements, first, I wanted to thank you for joining us as we celebrated Chino during our twenty twenty six State of the City address on Tuesday, April 14 at the Chaffee College Chino Community Center. The theme for this year was always home, and we showcased everything we continue to do to keep Chino a wonderful place to live no matter how much we grow.

I'd also like to thank Oral Hirschheiser for joining us as well. To watch the entire State of the City address, please visit cityofchino.org/sotc. Now next, don't miss the annual Kiwanis Corn Feed Run car show and cruise happening this Saturday, April 25 from 8AM to 3PM right here on City Hall. The corn feed run will transform Downtown Chino into a massive classic car show featuring a 13 block cruise route and hundreds of beautiful classic cars and trucks as well as a live DJ and local vendors. For more information, please visit chinocoanos.com.

And finally, join us as we celebrate our planet during the annual Earth Day celebration happening this Thursday, April 23 from four to 7PM at Chino Creek Wet Lens And Education Park located at 6075 Kimball Avenue in Chino. In partnership with the Inland Empire Utilities Agency, this free and exciting event will feature educational activities, environmental exhibits, animal encounters, giveaways, a tour of the park, food vendors, and more. To learn more, visit cityofchino.org forward slash earth day. Next on our agenda is public communication. This is the time and the place for the general public to address the council on items that are not elsewhere on the agenda.

While we, encourage you to voice your concerns or opinions, we cannot take action on anything that's not actually on the agenda. Our first written request to speak is chaplain Marco Miranda from the Chino Valley Fire District. He's going to lead us in an invocation, so I encourage all those who would like to join us to please stand.

Good evening, mayor, council, attendees. Father god, we welcome you here to this meeting. We thank you for your great love, grace, mercy towards us. I pray that you would give the council wisdom to make good decisions that would honor and please you as they serve the people of Chino. I pray for all the first responders of this city, fire, paramedics, and police, that you would protect them and bring them home safe tonight. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.

Thank you very much, Marco. K. Next, for an SCE introduction, we have Shane. Is it Wasard?

No. It's Sood. It's okay.

Ah, Wasood.

Well, good evening, mayor and council. Again, my name is Shane Masood. I would like to introduce myself as the new Government Relations Manager for Southern California Edison. Over the past few weeks, I've had the chance to meet with city staff and connect with several of you. I'm looking forward to continuing that engagement as well as building on the strong relationship that my predecessor set, Melissa Boyd.

I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge all of her dedication and hard work over the last several years. In my role, I work closely with the cities and communities across SCE's service territory, really to support collaboration, communication and coordination on shared priorities. While I previously supported cities in the Coachella Valley, I now work with the cities of Chino, Chino Hills, Yu Caipa, Yucca Valley, Twenty Nine Palms, as well as the communities in the unincorporated area of the San Marino Mountains. I'm from the Inland Empire, born and raised here, so I really take pride in watching our region succeed. Before I wrap up, I did want to share that Edison International, that's SCE's parent company, is currently accepting applications for our Line Workers Scholarship.

This supports individuals who are interested in pursuing a career as a line worker with Edison. This scholarship is a $25,000 scholarship that helps with tuition and other materials necessary. We are accepting applications until May 8 year. So thank you for your time. Really appreciate it.

Thank you for being here, welcome to this area. Next, we have a written request from Sophia Cohen.

Hi. Good evening, mayor, city council staff. Again, my name is Sophia Cohen. I'm the field representative for assembly member Michelle Rodriguez that's assigned to the city of Chino, and I'm excited to announce we have an event coming up in the month of May. It's called stay safe, stay independent, senior safety and driving workshop.

The event is gonna feature two workshops, one from triple a called keeping the keys that will include information on safe driving tips, tools for independence, and resources for seniors. And then another presentation by the California Department of Insurance that is a senior scam prevention workshop focused on spotting and avoiding scams, protecting your finances, and staying alert and informed. The event will be hosted on May 15 at the Montclair Senior Center. It is a free event open to seniors, family members, and caregivers. We'll also feature a couple of resource booths, give out information for seniors and families, as well as an opportunity drawing and giveaway.

So I hope to see you all there. Thank you.

Thank you, Sofia. Next, have Melissa Campani.

Well, good evening mayor, council members, staff, and of course, our residents of Chino. My name is Melissa and I am here representing York County Supervisor, Kurt Hagman. And I do have a couple of wonderful events that are coming up and so I'd like to make sure that everyone knows about them. The first one I'm gonna tell you about is Supervisor Hagman's open house, which will take place Wednesday, May 20, and that'll be from five to seven p. M.

In front of his district office, is 14010 City Center Drive, and that is in Chino Hills. So please come join supervisor Hagman and different county departments for fun, food, and access to regional resources and information. I do have a flyer. We have a long list of county departments that are gonna come out. If you have ever wanted to talk with one of these departments, it's a very, very good opportunity.

We're a long way from the city center in San Bernardino, so it's very nice that they come out once a year so that our constituents can have a chance to talk with them. And then also other resources like the AQMD, just just a tremendous amount of resources for us. We do have food. It will be provided by the Chino Valley Professional Firefighters and Chino Police Officers Association. We have snacks provided by Chino Hills COP cops.

Please bring your whole family. I have a phone number for you if you would like more information. (909) 465-5265. We do ask that, you RSVP just so we have kind of a head count and it is a supervisor Hagman, it's h a g m a n dot eventbrite dot com, and it's all free of charge. There's, never any charge for something like this.

So please come out and visit us. One that we talked about before, council member Burton, we have supervisor Hagman hosting a low cost spay, neuter, and vaccine clinic. So just a couple of notes on that. The spay and neuter portion, it it goes really fast. But this time as an option, if you really need something done, we are going to have a standby line.

So if you do that, you know, you need to make sure that you don't feed your animal the night before, etcetera. There are special directions on supervisor Hagman's website. There are no guarantees. What we have learned is there will be a few people who simply don't show up for their appointments, and we wanna make sure that we can serve every animal possible. So if that is something of interest to you, the next date is April 26, and the location is at the Alma Hoffman Park, 5201 Benito Street, and that is in the city of Montclair.

Remember, it's it's not a great chance. If you see a 100 people in that standby line, we know that's those aren't real good odds. But if you wanna be there early early, and someone chooses not to show up, then then we can certainly, you know, use you. You can fill that space. And, also, we'd like to encourage the vaccine portion of the event. You do not need an appointment. The, vaccines and services will include rabies, the FVRCP. You know, there's a list of them. I won't go on with you, but the prices are very reasonable. So if you needed some vaccines for your animal, they're even gonna carry the rattlesnake vaccine, which I do get for my dogs. But at any rate, please come for the vaccine portion if you need those vaccines.

What time are those?

Okay, the vaccines are available from ten a. To two p. M. And this is all taking place at the same time, April 26 at the Alma Hoffman Park in Montclair. And one last one, we'll make it really quick. Coming up soon, just so everybody has a chance to get ready, is supervisor Hagman's document shredding event. This event is free. It's a wonderful event going to be taking place here in partnership with the city of Chino, Saturday, June 6. The trucks are there ready to shred 9AM to twelve noon unless the trucks reach capacity, in which case they do have to close. The location will be right here, Chino City Hall.

The address is 13220 Central Avenue in the city of Chino. We ask that you preregister, and the, address for that will be hagmanshred0626.eventbrite.com. We're trying to do two separate lines, one for people who've preregistered and one, one for the people who haven't, and we're hoping it moves a little faster. The shredding truck will destroy the documents right there, on-site, which is a wonderful thing. We're asking for no batteries, CDs, binders, DVDs, plastics, or x rays, etcetera.

And we are also asking that you limit your shredding items to three standard size filing boxes of documents per vehicle so that we have enough room to serve all of the residents who who want this service. If we have room at the end, then, you know, we can circle back at the room. We're willing to take everything we possibly can to get, all that important information out of the wrong hands. So thank you very much. We appreciate you, and thank you for your time.

Thank you, Melissa. Next written request to speak, mister Michael Sherman. Hello.

Hello, counsel. I'm a resident of City Of Chino for twelve years now, I think. On 11828 Monte Vista Avenue. I'm writing today to respectfully urge the city council to review and update the city's residential landscaping standards and code enforcement practices. Chino is a diverse and growing community, and many residents, including myself, wish to create attractive, functional, and environmentally responsible landscapes.

This includes a wide range of styles, traditional lawns, water wise xeriscapes, native plant gardens, and even productive food producing landscapes. As long as these choices create no measurable harm or nuisance to neighboring properties such as fire hazards, excessive weeds, spreading seeds around, flooding, or visual blight that clearly affects property values, residents should have the freedom to choose landscaping that fits their needs, budgets, water conservation goals and personal values. Unfortunately, current municipal code uses language that's subjective, like terms like substandard or neat or orderly without clear objective criteria. The vagueness makes it difficult for residents to know exactly what is expected when compliance has been achieved even after making good faith efforts to address code enforcement concerns. Enforcement that relies heavily on complaints can also lead to inconsistent application across similar properties, raising questions about fairness and predictability.

I respectfully ask the council to consider placing this matter on a future agenda and to direct staff to evaluate the following: whether the current landscaping standards are sufficiently clear, objective, and measurable or whether they unintentionally restrict reasonable differences in landscape design and plant choices whether enforcement practices are applied consistently and focused primarily on actual impacts to neighboring properties rather than purely aesthetic preferences whether the city can provide better guidance, examples or updated definitions that reflect modern best practices in water conservation, sustainability and diverse residential landscaping whether fine structures are appropriate when standards themselves lack sufficient clarity. Also, in regards to my specific property on a large street like Monte Vista, Setbacks for line of sight visibility for the streets, I understand for smaller streets, it may be a bigger issue. For large streets with lots of visibility, it's less of an issue. Many communities across California have successfully modernized their codes to accommodate drought tolerant native or edible landscapes while still protecting neighbors from legitimate nuisances. Chino has the opportunity to do the same, balancing community standards with individual property rights and environmental responsibility.

Given that my own property is currently subject to code enforcement action under these existing subjective standards, I respectfully request the city place any further enforcement actions or fines related to my landscaping on hold until the council has had the opportunity to review and clarify the standards. This pause would allow for a fair process while the city works toward clear, more objective guidelines that better serve all residences all residents. Additionally, I would like to respectfully respectfully note an area of concern regarding public interactions with city staff. In my experience, I was discouraged from recording a public interaction involving city business. Clear guidance for both staff and residents on recording rights in public settings would help reduce confusion and build greater trust between the public and the city employees.

I appreciate your time and leadership on these important quality of life issues. I would welcome the opportunity to participate in any discussion or provide additional input as a resident who cares deeply about residential responsible landscaping in our community. Respectfully, Michael Sherman. I have letters. I know you have many of them. I have two that you already have and two that you do not already have. They're letters of support. And that's all I have.

Thank you

very much. Okay. Those are the only written requests I have to speak. Is there anyone else in the audience that would like to address the council on any item that is not on the agenda? Okay. We have a tradition here, that is any students that are in the audience, we ask them to come up, introduce themselves, stay while they're here, what class they're attending, school and teacher. So I know we have one gentleman here this evening.

Good evening, madam mayor and city council. The reason why I'm here is I had the great opportunity given to me by my father over there in the back corner to connect me with councilman Flores. Councilman Flores has taken the, you know, opportunity for just simply talking to me, which greatly, greatly appreciated, sir, to, you know, connecting me with you, madam mayor, you, councilman Burton. And I don't believe I met you, councilman

blue face, but you have not met me.

It was oh, it was a city manager. That's who it was. Sorry about that. I'm here. I'm a student at Ayala High School, next door neighbor to the city, class of 2027. And, yeah, and while I have this opportunity, I really wanna express my extreme gratitude for councilman Flores. Thank you so much, sir.

It's terrific. Name for the record.

Oh, Lucas Martinez. Sorry about that.

Thank you, Lucas. Thank you so much. This young man is only 16. Amazing. I thought he was at least 25. Thank you. Thank you very much for being here this evening.

Thank you so much, madam May. Thank so much. Pleasure to meet you too, ma'am. Thank you, especially, councilman Flores. Have a great rest of the evening.

Thank you very much. Okay. We'll move on now to the consent calendar. Do any council members wish to have any items pulled? Seeing none, I would entertain a motion and a second.

Okay, there's a motion from Mayor Pro Tem Burton, second from Council Member Lucio. Please vote. The item passes unanimously. Under new business, item number seven, authorize the city of Chino to join public risks, risk innovation solutions and management for fiscal year twenty twenty six-twenty seven for general and excess municipal liability insurance coverage. Is to adopt a resolution authorizing the city to join Prism for fiscal years twenty seven, twenty six, twenty seven for general and excess municipal liability insurance coverage.

Terry Doyle, our director of community resources and risk management, as well as Crystal Murilla Murilla, deputy director of human resources and risk management, will provide our staff report this evening.

Good evening, madam mayor and members of the city council and staff. Tonight's presentation is a follow-up to the February 10 study session regarding the city's potential membership into a joint powers insurance authority, also known as a JPA. Tonight's At that meeting, the city council directed staff to move forward with membership into public risk innovation solutions and management, otherwise known as PRISM, with an effective date of 07/01/2026. Tonight's presentation will highlight key points from the February 10 study session, as well as present a comparison of the city's current coverages and premiums to Prism. As part of the membership process, staff is requesting the city council formally adopt resolution number 2026Dash zero 25, approving the city's membership into PRISM.

Next, I would like to turn the presentation over to deputy director Crystal Marillo to provide a recap of the February 10 study session and a comparison of the city's current coverages and prism.

Before we discuss the February 10 study session, we wanted to briefly highlight again the city's insurance history and how we came to our current insurance coverages. From 1996 to 2007, the city of Chino participated in an insurance pool called the Independent Cities Risk Management Authority. Due to the high cost of claims which created financial instability within the pool, the city decided to leave ICRMA and obtain standalone insurance coverage. Under standalone coverage, the city purchases its insurance directly from commercial carriers. The city obtains its insurance through an insurance broker who helps the city understand its risks, reviews coverage options, and recommends strategies to reduce costs and claims.

Tegner Mill Insurance was the city's insurance broker up until 2016. Since then, the city's insurance broker has been Aeon Risk Insurance Services West. This slide is an overview of the key points we discussed with the City Council during the February 10 study session. During this study session, staff presented four different joint powers insurance authorities for City Council's consideration with the purpose to find a jpa that could provide lower out of pocket deductibles for the city along with higher insurance coverage limits to better protect the city from significant financial costs. The four JPAs that were presented to the city council were the California Joint Powers Risk Management Authority, the California Intergovernmental Risk Authority, the Public Entity Risk Management Authority, and Public Risk Innovation Solutions and Management.

Out of the four JPAs, staff recommended PRISM as the best comprehensive choice as the JPA offers the best coverage limits, lower out of pocket deductibles, and the ability to allow the city to choose its own third party administrators to help manage the city's general liability and workers compensation claims. At the conclusion of the study session, city council directed staff to pursue membership with PRISM for fiscal year 2026 to 2027 with a lower out of pocket deductible of $1,000,000 for general liability coverage and $500,000 for workers compensation coverage effective 07/01/2026. This slide provides a comparison between the city's current insurance coverages and the coverages the city will be receiving through PRISM. Since the February 10 study session, we have received all premium estimates from PRISM allowing for a complete side by side review. The main takeaway is the significant improvement in both coverage limits and out of pocket deductibles with PRISM.

For example, coverage for general liability will increase from $20,000,000 to $15,000,000 with PRISM. And coverage for property, which includes city buildings, will increase from $3,000,000, and we just learned that the property coverage through Prism will actually increase from $700,000,000 to $1,000,000,000, offering greater protection to the city. Prism also offers lower out of pocket deductibles which help reduce the city's financial exposure. For example, the city's general liability out of pocket deductible will decrease from $5,000,000 to $1,000,000 with Prism. And the city's workers compensation deductible would be set at a lower out of pocket deductible at $500,000 with PRISM, which is for both sworn safety and non safety claims.

The total premium increase of approximately $1,280,000 also includes $640,000 for property coverage and aviation coverage. In return, the city gains substantially greater protection through higher coverage limits and significantly reduced out of pocket deductibles. This slide will highlight the city's membership timeline into PRISM. The first major milestone is tonight's request to the city council to approve the city's membership into PRISM, which includes authorizing the city manager to execute all required agreements and designate the city manager as the city's PRISM board representative and the director of human resources and risk management as the alternate representative. Next, on May 6, the PRISM underwriting committee will meet for final underwriting approval.

Then on June 5, the PRISM board will conduct its formal approval of the city's membership. And finally, once all approvals are complete, the city's membership will become effective on 07/01/2026. In summary, joining PRISM includes stronger coverage, reduced risk exposure, and enhanced support and resources. Without adequate coverage, the city could be exposed to substantial financial risks. Although the total premium cost for PRISM will be higher, the value lies in greater coverage and lower out of pocket deductibles for general liability and workers compensation, which help us protect the city from major losses.

Tonight, staff's recommendation is to adopt resolution number 2026Dash025, approving the city's membership into Prism and allow the city manager to execute all agreements as well as formally appoint the city's designated PRISM board representatives. This concludes the presentation. We are available to answer any questions. We also have Courtney Ramirez here tonight with us for a call to help answer questions regarding PRISM as well.

Is there anyone in the audience that would like to address the counsel on this item? Okay, seeing none, do we have any council questions or comments? No. No? Okay, then I would entertain a motion and a second please verbally.

I make the motion here.

Okay, motion from council member Comstock, second from council member Flores. Please vote. Item passes unanimously. Item number eight. This item is to approve the consolidation amendment and reconciliation of Lewis Company's construction credit reimbursement agreements for circulation development impact fees, or DIFs.

First amendment to contract number 2025Dash167 for the preserved circulation diff program and acceptance of the updated circulation diff credit reimbursement reconciliation for various project specific development projects through 05/31/2025. Our contracts and diff administrator, Sylvia Ramos, and our director of public works, Haijin Lee, will provide our staff report this evening.

Good evening, madam mayor and members of the city council. As you may be aware, the city is nearing completion of its development impact fee Nexus study with the city's consultant, Will Dan, and anticipates presenting the report to the city council at a study session in June 2025. As part of the Nexus study update, staff conducted a comprehensive audit and reconciliation of the DIP credits and reimbursements for the master developer Lewis Companies across all fee categories. This effort included a detailed retroactive review of every building permit issued from 2004 through 05/31/2025, to confirm that the correct fee schedules were applied, land uses were properly classified, and all fees were accurately calculated and collected. As a result, minor adjustments, both increases and decreases as applicable, have been made to the credits previously issued to Lewis under several active agreements, which will be discussed in detail.

It should be noted that the report tonight is limited to the preserved circulation diff reconciliation for this evening. The following items will be presented for your consideration. An amendment number one to the master streets agreement, which includes Lewis' improvements from 2004 to 2019 and the reconciliation of credits and reimbursements for project specific agreements and the repayment agreements with Lewis. To give a brief history, the preserve development agreement required Lewis to construct major circulation improvements to support build out within the preserve. In doing so, Lewis completed several eligible improvements including streets and traffic signals that qualify for reimbursement or credit under the city circulation program.

On 11/19/2024, the city in Lewis executed contract contract 252025Dash167, which serves as the master streets agreement for projects constructed between 2004 and 2019. It's important to note that prior to 2019, the city did not have a formal diff policy in place. Because of that, all eligible improvements constructed during that time frame had to be retroactively reconciled under one agreement. This agreement establishes the validated cost of the improvements completed, documents the credits issued to Lewis, and identifies the remaining balance owed to the developer. The original validated cost came in at approximately $35,100,000 Following execution of this agreement, staff identified another 2,900,000 in additional eligible improvement costs associated with tracked maps one eight eight four zero and one nine nine nine four, known as a harvest project and the block four developments that were not included in the original reconciliation.

This was not intentional, but rather the result of timing. At the time the agreement was finalized, these costs were still being completed and validated and were subsequently submitted through later CFD payment requests, specifically number 61, 60 another 61 supplement one, and sixty two. So as a result, contract twenty twenty five dash one six seven needs to be amended to capture those costs, bringing the total validated costs from approximately 35,100,000 to 38,000,000 as shown in the table. Carrying forward the revised total validated costs under the agreement of 38,000,000, staff then deducts the cash reimbursements received by the developer along with the circulation diff credits credits issued to date to establish a remaining balance owed to Lewis. As noted previously, all credits were thoroughly reviewed with minor adjustments, and the adjustments were made wherever applicable.

Under the reconciled totals, the Master Street agreement, Lewis received 4,000,000 in cash reimbursement in December 2024, along with approximately $28,500,000 in circulation diff credits. After applying the reimbursement and credits, the total validated cost of the improvements, the remaining balance of approximately 5,500,000 is still owed to the developer moving forward. We are now transitioning into the project specific agreements. This distinction is important because beginning in '9 in 2019, the city implemented a policy requiring that all the developer constructing diff eligible improvements and seeking DIV credit must enter into an agreement with the city prior to building permit issuance. This policy significantly improved transparency and accountability and makes it much easier for staff to track and reconcile credits moving forward.

The agreements listed in the table document the eligible circulation infrastructure tied to the specific tracks and phases of development. Collectively, the account the credits account for 10,700,000 and circulation diff credit issued to the developer through 05/31/2025. As with prior reconciliation efforts, these credits were thoroughly audited. Only minor adjustments were identified and no significant findings were, reported. Moving along to the covenant agreements with Lewis related to the prepayment of circulation DIF for projects along Pine Avenue.

Originally, Lewis was required to construct Pine Avenue improvements between Euclid And Johnson Avenue. However, that obligation was later shifted to the city and ultimately, we assume the responsibility for delivering the project. As a result, the developer was required to prepay a portion of the circulation diff to ensure that the funding would be available for the future improvements. I do wanna clarify one important point regarding the prepayment amount. While Lewis' total circulation diff obligation for these developments was $7,200,000 the developer was only required to prepay 65% of that obligation, which is $4,600,000 as part of this arrangement.

These prepayments were collected through development activities associated with Van Vliet and Block IV. As part of the reconciliation, staff conducted a full audit of all the prepaid balances and credit applications through 05/31/2025. The results confirm the following. Block four has no more no more remaining credit balance and, Van Fleet track two zero one six one has a remaining balance of approximately, $169,977.90. Just as a reminder, when a developer makes a cash contribution toward DIP eligible improvements, it's treated the same as if they constructed the public improvement.

As such, those contributions are eligible for DIP credit. Lastly, this slide is just an administrative process that we wanted to highlight in the staff report because we did do an audit of all the fees that Lewis has actually the fees that they have to pay. So, since we had to true up all of the building permits, we wanted to make sure that the fees we charged them were actually correct. So, this slide highlights the fees for which Lewis is required to make a direct payment. These categories are not eligible for credit or reimbursement.

And as part of that audit, staff identified that Lewis owed the city approximately a 160,000 in admin fees along with smaller amounts for police and fire. These amounts have been invoiced. At the same time, the audit determined that Lewis is entitled to a refund of approximately $309,567 from the congestion management program fees along with a small amount in general facilities fees. Staff is in the process of issuing these refunds because original fees were offset through CFD 2,003 dash three. A corresponding accounting adjustment is required, so we'll be working with Webb and Associates to ensure that the adjustment is completed in a legally compliant and fiscally defensible manner while avoiding any duplication of funding.

Therefore, it is staff's recommendation to the city council to approve the first amendment to contract 2025Dash167 for the preserved circulation to projects constructed between 02/2019 in the amount of $2,944,627.25 for a revised total contract amount not to exceed $38,076,155.62 and accept the updated circulation diff credit and reimbursement reconciliation for project specific developments in the amount of $10,720,544.70 through May 30 thirty first twenty twenty five. That concludes my report, and I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you, Sylvia. Is there anyone in the audience who would like to address the council on this item? Seeing none, any council comments, questions? Okay. Entertain a motion and a second verbally, please.

I'll make a motion.

Second. Motion from Council Member Lucio, second from Mayor Pro Tem Burton. Please vote. Item passes unanimously. Item number nine, purchase of real property at 13272 6th Street. Adopt a resolution authorizing the purchase and sale of real property and joint escrow instructions to acquire the property at thirteen thousand hundred seventy two sixth Street. Staff report this evening will be provided by our attorney, Fred Gallante.

Thank you, Mayor, members of the council and all those present. The item before the council is the consideration of an agreement for the purchase of property at 13002 And 72 6th Street. The purchase price is for $2,500,000 plus $11,000,000 pardon me, dollars 11,000 for due diligence, escrow and title and related costs. The city did a comparative analysis between the appraisal that it received from Dover Spike and Associates back in March of last year versus the seller's appraisal, and that comparative analysis supported the valuation of the property at $2,500,000. The property consists of approximately 2.38 acres and is improved with a 70 old commercial building of approximately 67,000 square feet.

As required in the purchase agreement, the city will make a deposit of $60,000 and retains the right to terminate the agreement during the due diligence period, which is ninety days after the sellers provide us with any documentation related to the site. If the city terminates the agreement, finds that the property is in a condition that is not satisfactory within those ninety days, it may do so and get the entirety of the $60,000 back. If it doesn't do it within that time, it could terminate the purchase but would forfeit the deposit. There is a tenant on the property related to the seller's business, and they operate a commercial cabinet manufacturing business on the property. But the agreement requires that the property be delivered free of any tenants.

So the escrow period is set at seventy days after the due diligence period, but the seller retains the right to extend that for up to ninety days so that it may complete the termination and vacation of the tenant so that the property can be delivered free and clear. The city is proposing to acquire the property for future uses, complementing the adjacent Civic Center At its meeting on 04/15/2026, the Planning Commission with a vote of six to zero with one member abstaining found that the acquisition for that purpose is in conformance with the city's general plan. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you very much, Fred. Anyone in the audience want to address the council on this item? Seeing none, council comments? You guys are quiet tonight. Okay. I'll entertain a motion and a second verbally, please.

I'll make the motion, ma'am.

Second. Motion from councilman Flores, second from councilman Lucio. Please vote. Item passes unanimously. Next on the agenda is mayor and council reports. I'll go through mine very quickly. Wednesday, April 8, I attended the Mayor's Prayer Breakfast. Thursday, April 9, I attended the Omnitrans admin and finance committee. Friday, April 10, I attended the Chino Valley Fire District's Fire Ops one hundred one. I wasn't able to stay the whole time, but I was able to be there for part of it.

It's very exciting, I hope that, Jeremy, you guys hold that again because I'm not gonna go into the burn room ever, but it was very interesting to watch everything. And I encourage other council members to attend if they have this again. It was very, very interesting. I had to leave that early. Unfortunately, a neighbor of ours, Cindy Laii, passed away and I attended her funeral and celebration of life.

Monday, April 13, I attended the Siroptimus Bingo, and for the first time in forty three years, I won a bingo. Congratulations. I actually won a bingo. Yay. Amazing.

I

was shocked. Stubby, I was shocked. See, on Tuesday, April 14, we had the state of the city. And again, I want to thank staff for all their hard work. It turned out really, really nice. And Oral Hershiser surprised us by actually showing up. So that was really nice, and I think the audience was really thrilled. Thursday, April 16, I attended SBCTA transit at Metro Valley committee meeting. Friday, April 17 was grandparents day at OC Elementary School. We still have one small grandchild.

She's nine, so I got to attend that. That was fun. Saturday, April 18, I attended the funeral and celebration of life of Dick VanderMeulen. Monday, April 20, yesterday, I attended a Zoom regarding priorities within our community and and plans to move forward. Tuesday today, mayor pro tem Burton, several staff members, I attended a meeting at Ontario to discuss water issues that we have in common.

And I would like to encourage everyone to please attend the Corn Feed Run car show this weekend. It's gonna be a lot of fun. It's always a great event. It's like a big family reunion. It's very interesting because there's pockets of of car lovers in areas that have been together for years and years and years. It's really, really fun. Mayor Potemburton.

Thank you, mayor. On the fourteenth, I attended the state of the city. The fifteenth, I attended the planning commission meeting. And then on the sixteenth, the water master advisory committee meeting. On the twentieth, my one on one with the city manager, and I followed that up with a priorities meeting with the mayor, and then I finished off the day with the attendance of the Cultural Arts Foundation meeting.

Very, very great organization here in town. Today, I attended the water issues meeting again with the mayor and our staff, and then to wrap it up by closed session right before the city council meeting. And that's all I have, mayor.

K. Councilmember Comstock. Thank

you, Mayor. I only have one comment tonight. Melissa, can I invite you back up to the podium just really quick? I want to speak to the State of the City, Mayor. That event just gets better and better for us every year.

To our staff and all the hard work that we accomplished this year, we should be proud of ourselves in what it is we're accomplishing. But one of the things, Melissa, I'm happy you're here today is we made a mistake at the State of the City. In spite of having Mr. Hershiser there and all the exciting things, which was phenomenal, I think we were all During bored when Oral was our video, we failed to actually recognize some of the good work that our county supervisor, Kurt Hagman, has done for us and continues to do for us. So, I'm happy you're here because even though it was a great event and we also acknowledge some of the great work that we're doing with Norma Torres and our innovation facility, but what's important about this is government is working together in this community.

We have a great relationship with the supervisor, our congresswoman, our assembly member, and our senator. And the supervisor is responsible for bringing us a couple million dollars in both our park project that we highlighted as well as our airship, our helicopter that's coming our way. So I just wanted to make sure tonight, since we failed to recognize him, but we did recognize the congresswoman, that he got our most heartfelt apology for that. Could you please pass that on to him? I've actually already called and apologized to him for our oversight. And, you know, when we do actually take possession of our helicopter, we'll we'll make sure to not make the the same mistake, you know, moving forward. But I just wanna point that out to you

Thank you.

And and make sure that, you know, Kurt knows how much we appreciate him and all he does for our community and you for being here, you know, weekly to to update us with the things that the supervisor is doing for our area. So thank you, Melissa.

Absolutely. Thank you so much, and I will be sure to take that back to him. I'm sure he'll be very happy with that. So thank you all for all the work you do.

Thank you. You're welcome, Melissa. Thank you. That's gonna conclude my report for tonight, mayor.

Council member Flores.

Thank you, mayor. We all share the same sentiments. You and I spoke last week. So, again, send our regards. On the April 8, I attended a ribbon cutting for the Prado Regional Park Improvement. On the fourteenth, I attended the State of the City. And, mayor, I gotta say, still to today, I still think you're FaceTiming. Or if you guys haven't seen the video, I mean, they were going back and forth, and I promise you, mayor, you did such a good job at timing that. That was really good. And on the seventeenth, I attended the carbon ribbon cutting ceremony, another business that that opened up recently, homegrown business, homegrown, you know, two young men who are, you know, grown men now with their families.

It's just it's always great to see people opening up businesses in town who were born and raised here in the city of Chino. But with that, mayor, that concludes my comments.

Thank you. Councilmember Lucio.

Yeah. I'll keep mine short. On the tenth, I attended the Chino Valley Fire Training one zero one. Sofia and I were the only ones that got into the burn house. But it was it was good, it was it was it was interesting the way the fire works. But I thank you guys for putting on that training for us. On the eleventh, I attended the grand opening of the club on Main Street over in the preserve. And then we walked the facility with Randall Lewis, and then we walked some of the new communities that are coming in. And we had an opportunity to meet some of the folks that are looking to buy in in Chino, and some of them are born and bred in Chino, and and they wanna stay here. So it was it was exciting to connect with some of those folks out there that were looking to buy houses.

On the fourteenth, I attended the Citizens Advisory Committee meeting. It's for CIM and CIW. That was a mistake. The person that's actually retiring is the warden from CIW, not the warden from CIW. The warden from CIW is remaining, and the warden from CIW is the one that's retiring.

And then I attended the State of the City. Was it was even better than it was last year, so congrats. You guys did a really good job. And then then on the twentieth, I met with with council member Comstock and Lisa Fraga. I'm planning on defending our title at the demolition derby and and then obviously using the funds to for the Thanksgiving giveaway. So we're the planning stages of that, so we got together in the morning to discuss that.

You're drive this year?

No. It's my my daughter's got to defend the title. So and this morning, I had a meeting with the city manager, and then I also had a meeting with the resident from the preserve over in Homecoming by the name of Tamika Carter. And then after that, I had an opportunity to meet with Stubby, and we walked the Ivy. I identified several issues that are going on with the in within the Ivy, and I've discussed some of those with their city managers. So we're gonna address some of those, and, I'll end my report

with that.

Okay. City manager Reich. My button, it wasn't working. No report, mayor. City attorney Galante.

Just a short report. The, the bill that's s b fourteen thirty nine that prohibits campaign contributions from parties or individuals who have pending licenses, entitlements or contracts was originally $250 per twelve month period. It was raised last year to $500 I just wanted to note it wasn't raised again for 2026. I suspect it tracks the same cycle as the gift contribution limits under the FPPC, which remain at $630, which is the same as last year. Those, know, get updated every other year, every odd year.

So just wanted to note that. No further report.

Thank you. Do we only direct to reports this evening? Sylvia this time.

Good evening, mayor and city council. Just wanted to share that the CSPR team is getting ready to kick off the annual corporate challenge event. This annual corporate challenge event will be begin on Saturday, May 2 at nine a. M. At Ayallo Park. The city of Chino, the defending champions, along with 10 other organizations to business businesses will be participating in 19 events during the two week competition. Closing ceremonies will take place on May 16, and we look we're looking forward to seeing you on May 2 at nine a. M. At Ayala. Thank you.

Sylvia, can I have an ask for you for next year? So now that they're getting 200 and something additional employees at CIM, they said they wanna join next year and and compete in the corporate challenge since our fire department no longer competes. Okay.

Gotta throw that out there. Chief Manson, here we go.

Good evening, Mayor, Member Council. So last Wednesday, I'm sorry. Yeah. Last Wednesday, we put on our student against drunk driving program at Chino High School. It was extremely impactful. We had the parents of Benjamin Matalvo who was tragically killed in 2020 from a DUI. He was riding his bicycle in front of Centennial High School. And so the parents spoke there at Chino High School. Very, very impactful. And I think was you, Mayor. Normally, we alternate them. We've in the past years past just because the the amount of work that goes into putting on this event, and then we alternate between the two high schools. But I think it was your request, Mayor, last year that we if we can have if it's possible for us to do both schools. And so we're doing that this year. So this Thursday, we'll be doing it at Dahl Nugo High School.

The fire department plays a very big role in that as well in the mock traffic collision scene. So this is a a spin off from the every 15. We think it's actually it's improved. It's more efficient and very impactful. And just a stat. So 29% of young drivers 15 to 20 years old are killed in crashes that had alcohol in their system. You know, we do a lot of a lot of work that goes into both of these events, but if we're able to save just one person's life, by all means, it's it's totally worth it. So we're looking forward to to another good event here on Thursday.

Thank you for doing both schools. Absolutely. Jeremy.

Yes. Good evening, everyone. Jeremy Alt, deputy chief for the Genoa Valley Fire District. I do wanna begin by thanking those that attended. Apparently, the burn room wasn't hot enough for council member Lucio's comments, but message received. But no, in all seriousness, we really appreciate the collaboration. Yes, we are making plans for next year. And yes, we will have different topics to be explored. So for those of you that attended this year, never fail. There'll be new information to share next year, so we encourage everyone to attend then.

So, again, thank you so much for attending and we're looking forward to for next year. And the only thing I also want to share is just to keep it brief is we did have three brand new firefighter paramedics begin our mini academy this last week. They started their second week, and we're looking forward to bringing them back to introduce them to the council soon. So with that, thank you so much, and have a

great day.

Very much, Jeremy. K. With that, we will adjourn to our next regular meeting on May 5 at six with closed session starting no earlier than four We are adjourned. Because we're brewing up business. Chino is absolutely a phenomenal place to be.

Multigenerational city. We've been here over a hundred years and very business friendly. You're gonna love Chino. As far as businesses are concerned, I personally wanna see something for everyone. I want our kids to be able to stay in town, have entertainment, places to go.

I also want all kinds of entertainment for every age group. We need to stay here. We work here. We live here, and we play here. So I'm looking for businesses that are gonna fill any void that we have.