City Council - Regular Meeting

Evening, everyone, and welcome to the May 19 council meeting. We have a special treat this evening. Our flag salute will be led by troop Cub Scout Luke Garcia and the Scout Chino Cub Scout PAC three zero nine. So if you'd please stand and join us.

Thank you for coming and please stand if you can. I 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, There is he and justice for all.

Let's give them a hand. Have a good evening. Thank you all for being here evening. That's always such a special treat. Next, we have a proclamation for National Public Works Week two twenty twenty six.

It's my honor this evening to proclaim this week as National Public Works Week in the city of Chino. I'd like to call up Keith Martinez, Public Works Services Manager, and any other Public Works employees that are here tonight. Let's see. Let's move down this way even more. And the proclamation reads, whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities, and services that are of vital importance to sustainability and resilient communities and the public health, high quality of life, and well-being of the people of Chino.

These facilities and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works professionals who are engineers, managers, and employees at all levels of government who are responsible for rebuilding, improving, and protecting our city and the nation's transportation, water supply, water treatment, and solid waste systems, public buildings, and other structures and facilities essential for the community. It is in the public interest for citizens, civic leaders, and children of the city of Chino to gain knowledge of and maintain an ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of public works and public works programs in their respective communities. The year 2026 marks the sixty sixth annual national public works week sponsored by the American Public Works Association. The American Public Works Association or APWA has announced the theme for twenty twenty six National Public Works Weeks as rooted in service powered by community. And this year's theme acknowledges that the roots of service run deep in public works.

It's what has propelled public works innovations that have helped our communities evolve into places where people can lead lives of purpose and possibility. And whereas some work, like building roads and bridges, is highly visible, while other public works contributions, like maintaining fleet of city vehicles, water and sewer systems, and sometimes hidden from view are sometimes hidden from view. Together, these efforts form the foundation of thriving communities reminding that us that every project, seen or unseen, powers the connection connection between service and the people it supports. Now there I'm Eunice Mulelo, mayor of the city of Chino, to here to designate the week of May 17 through the twenty third as National Public Works Week. Keith?

Good evening, mayor, council members, residents, and staff here tonight. Thank you, mayor. On behalf of public works department, I would like to sincerely thank the city council for recognizing National Public Works Week and for your continued support of the work our staff performs every day. Public works is often described as a foundation of the community because many of the services that we provide happen behind the scenes, but impact residents every single day. From maintaining streets, sidewalks, parks, sewers, storm drains, fleet vehicles, and the public right of way to responding during emergencies and keeping our city safe, clean, and operating efficiently.

The recognition truly belongs to our dedicated public works employees who work tirelessly, often early mornings, late nights, weekends, and during difficult conditions to serve our community with professionalism and pride, just as our mission statement eloquently states here on this wall. There is a reason why there is city staff with twenty, thirty, forty plus years of service. This city is a home away from home and, in my opinion, a great place to work. I wanna personally thank our staff for their commitment, teamwork, and the care they show toward our city each day. In closing, I would also like to thank our residents for their continued support, patience, and partnership.

Public Works is most successful when we work together with the community we serve. The residents of Chino take just as much pride in this community as city staff does, especially since many of our employees are also Chino residents themselves. That shared connection creates a strong sense of ownership and commitment to maintain the quality, safety, and appearance of our city. It is honestly truly rewarding to serve a community that our employees not only work in, but also call home. We are proud to serve this city and appreciate the opportunity to continue providing exceptional services for everyone in our community. Thank you.

Would you like to introduce the operator?

We do have some staff here tonight. So I will pass the mic on. I'll start with Joey Ayala. Joey Ayala, Street supervisor.

Elena Ferrer, engineering aide.

Albert Espinoza, deputy director, city

engineer. Jesus Placencia, assistant city engineer. Mario Strata, associate engineer.

Eduardo Diaz, associate engineer.

Steven Galindo, Management Analyst.

Michelle Chapman, CIP Engineering Manager.

Jorge Alvarado, Associate Engineer, Land Development.

Ben Orosco, Public Works Deputy Director of Public Works Services. Dennis

Rawls, City Traffic Engineer. Sylvia Ramos, Contracts Administrator.

G Chan, Associate Engineer. Regina Diavila, associate engineer, traffic.

Brian Alimon, associate engineer.

Michelle Henderson, senior engineer.

These people keep our community going and flowing. So even if you don't see their work, you experience it every single day. So while they might not be visible right in front of you, they're very, very important to our community. Let's give them a big hand. Okay.

Now Ari's gonna try to get a picture of everybody. So you might some people might have to get down on their knees in the front for everybody to fit. Thank you again for coming this evening.

Thank you very much. You. You very much. Hi, Olivia. You. Now

for a very special presentation. This is the recognition of the twenty twenty six Hall of Fame Award recipients. This prestigious award is presented to the individuals who have made a major and lasting contribution to the development and progress of the city Of Chino and who have been outstanding examples of leadership and service in a manner that reflects honor and respect from a historical perspective. We will be inducting new members into the city of Chino's hall of fame. The award presented tonight will be on permanent display in the Chino Community Building.

I'd like to call up Chino Valley Historical Society president, Steve Halstead, and vice president, Bobby Martinez, along with any members of the Chino Valley Historical Society who are present this evening to assist in the presentation. Tonight, we will recognize Earl and Carolyn Owens. Would the members of the family please join me up front?

Thank you very much, mayor. And just a quick note, as we were going over a number of people that are well deserving of this, the historical society, we were going over all the records, and this is kind of unprecedented. This year, we are inducting two as a power couple for the city of Chino. And at this point, Carolyn Carolyn Owens and Earl devoted their lives to the city of Chino through education, civic leadership, and timeless community service. Through a lifetime of service, their dedication became part of the very fabric that defines genome.

Earl was born on 09/15/1936 in Rock Island, Illinois and served as the medic in the United States Navy from 1954 until 1957. He earned an associate arts degree at Mount San Antonio College in 1959 and a bachelor of Arts degree from California State University Los Angeles in 1963 and a Master of Science from the University of Southern California in 1968. He dedicated his professional career in education as a special education teacher at Ramona Junior High School and later served in the Los Angeles County School District superintendent's Office. Carolyn was born on 03/11/1937 to Jean and Anne Valenga.

Valparaiso.

Valparaiso. Thank you. Sorry. I didn't I didn't put my glasses on. And grew up in Chino at the family property on the Southeast Corner Of Central And Schafer Avenues, home to one of the city's earliest restaurants.

Cafe. She graduated from Chino High School in 1955 and Mount San Antonio College in 1957. Carolyn later earned a bachelor of science degree from Cal Poly Pomona in 1973, where she conducted an important research on historical Yorba slaughter adobe and interviewed descendants of the family who donated the property to the San Bernardino County. In 1962, the couple purchasing their first home in Chino established deep roots in the community they would serve for decades. Both of them were deeply committed to community involvement.

Caroline served as the Parent Teacher Association, PTA, President at Newman Elementary School in the late 1960s and early 1970s and organized the first volunteer group providing tours and educational programs for the school children of the Yorba Slaughter Adobe before formal museum program existed. Yeah. I happen to be on those tours.

I'm gonna complete the rest. She served twenty two years on the Chino Parks and Recreation Commission, helped guide the development and opening of numerous city parks including Ruben Essayello Park. She was an active member of the Chino Valley Historical Society in Saroptimus International while supporting programs benefiting women and community service initiatives. She serves, she served as chairwoman of the Chino Centennial Committee in 1987. Carolyn was also named woman of the year to for California's Senatorial District in 1987 and declared Chino's citizen of the year in 1988.

In recognition of her enduring contributions, Centennial Square was renamed Carolyn Owens Centennial Square in 2007, and the Carolyn Owens Community Center was dedicated in her memory in 2008. Earl devoted countless hours to community service. He volunteered with Chino National Little League and helped transform Heritage Park, into the league's home by clearing brush and helping create ball fields for local youth. He was a member of the Chino Valley Historical Society, Chino Chamber of Commerce, Chino Valley YMCA and a lifetime member of the Chino Rotary Club. Earl embodied Rotary's guiding principle of service above self.

He served on the Chino Community Center Corporation from 1979 to 2008. He chaired numerous sweetheart ball fundraisers. During his tenure, the former GTE Telephone Building was transformed into the 7th Street Theatre, strengthening the city's cultural arts programs. Continue his commitment to education, he served on the Chino Unified School District Board of Education from 1989 to 1983 and chaired the DARE Anti Drug Education Program fundraiser in 1989. In recognition of Earl's lasting contributions to the community and the arts, the two thousand nine Chino Community Festival of the Arts was dedicated in his memory.

Together, they contributed significantly through their lifelong dedication to education, civic leadership, cultural and historic preservation, and community service. Carolyn died 02/22/2007. Earl died 10/13/2008. And that is a mouthful for her two individuals. I tell you that your family is, well known in the community. I know the mayor is very familiar with them, and I'm sure council and staff are too. But you guys should be proud of them, what they've done. And as we're all adults now, we're older, you know, as kids. I think Phil, we were talking Phil and I go way back to little league days, and, we were talking about it. But, oh, mom and dad, they have to do this.

Mom and dad have to do that. But now we realize as adults what were what was going on. But I want you to introduce your family, Phil. Yep. A few things, please.

Hi. I'm Phil Owens. I'm, the son, and this is my uncle. This is, Carolyn's, brother. Favorite brother. Only. Only brother. Only. And Cody's the grandchild of Karen, my sister, and my my cousins are at the end, Joanne and And Grace. And Gracie. So we we we thank you. And I I I just have a couple words because it's you wonder why mom and dad weren't at home. And I guess after hearing all that, I know where they were at. Right? They're staying out of trouble.

But it's quite humbling to come back in and have my third baseman back at Don Lugo, you know, talk about my parents because they were just mom and dad. Right? But a couple words that I wanted to say, and this is very special because mom and your mayor had a very, very special relationship. And I think they still

do. And

so for for for our family, we wanted to say thank you city council. We wanted to say thank you historical society. Miss mayor, we wanted to say thank you for this honor. It's very humbling to stand up in front of individuals after you leave and and had a time to enjoy the Chino Rancho ride way back when and to go to the Chino Fair and bid on cows and and steers, and it it it's just humbling. So we're we're honored to be here. As a family, I was chosen to speak. But on behalf of our parents, our family, Earl and Carolyn Owens, we wanted to say thank you. This is this is quite humbling. In 1962, mom and and dad bought their first house in Chino. They never left.

They stayed here. They dug in. They said, okay. We're going to, spend the left rest of our lives raising Karen and I. She's carrying on the legacy. She retired as a thirty three year Chino Unified School District teacher, shaping the lives of a thousand people. So she's carrying on that. I left, but great coming back and knowing that your parents made an impact. For the next forty five years, they live by Rotary's motto, service before self. And I think although they've been gone since 2007 and 2009 or 2008, excuse me, I know they're looking down from heaven.

They're smiling. Huge smile and a humble thank you. Mom and dad believe the community is only as strong as the people who show up for it. And Chino showed up again for us tonight, and we thank you. It's it's quite quite honoring. We thank you for remembering them, and we thank you for seeing the buildings that might exist and know that they made a difference. And we're proud to be part of Chino's great history.

All right.

Well, I have very, very fond memories and I miss your mom. When it was the centennial, Carolyn went to a seamstress and had all of these costumes made that were period appropriate. So, looked like a southern belle out of, you know, the early nineteen hundreds, eighteen hundreds. I mean, it was quite something. And then the the balls that were held, the sweetheart balls, everybody had to get dressed up.

Karen, you remember. But Carolyn was a force to contend with. She could organize volunteers like you can't believe. She always liked to work for Fred Egwyer and helping him and all of his various, you know, political aspirations. And she would get Fred's aunts, and she called them Annie's aunts, and they would make homemade cookies for all of the volunteers. But she could rally people and get groups together to work like you cannot believe. We used to go out to dinner periodically and have our girls night. So, I miss that. I miss your mom. But Earl and Carolyn were quite a force in Chino and they're missed.

They are very missed. So, acknowledgement is very, very well earned. And I want to thank you all for being here this evening. Let's give them another hand. Next, have introduction of our new Chino Valley Fire District Fighter Paramedics.

I'd like to call up Deputy Fire Chief Jeremy Ault to join me upfront to make the introductions. Along with Lucas Tim, Arturo Villalobos, and Anthony Ramos.

Thank you, mayor. It's been a very busy day for us. I just hurried here from our second vegetation fire of the day, so forgive my dirty boots. Actually, in addition, what I'd like to do first is start off by introducing, one of our fire captains, Jeff Brady. Jeff Brady is currently our training officer, a very long time Chino resident. I'm gonna have him introduce our new firefighter program next today.

Jeff?

Good evening. So tonight, we have three of our new hires. They're in Tower 14. So they spend eight weeks at our training center, before being pushed out to the floor. So first off, we've got Anthony Ramos, Lucas Timm, and Art Villalobos.

Thank you, captain Brady. So they're all firefighter paramedics. As he mentioned, they're completing our, what we call, our mini academy. So in about a week and a half, they'll be out in the streets working on one of our paramedic fire engines serving the community. So thank you so much for this opportunity to bring them before the public. Hopefully, the public doesn't get a chance to see them. But if they do, we just want you to know that we have the best and brightest here to serve our community. So thank you so much.

Well, wake welcome to this area. I think you're gonna find it very, very rewarding to work with Chino's police department. There's a very unusual, very tight relationship between fire and PD, which every community doesn't enjoy, but we do here. So welcome to the family.

Thank you. You're

welcome. Great. We've got a

good picture. She always has to have her picture.

Thank you. Thank you, Jeremy.

Okay. City manager. Right. Do we have any agenda or revisions or changes or additions or deletions?

No changes, mayor.

Okay. Within our packet is the external agency report for May 19. I encourage you all to access that via online and read what's going Next, under public announcements, first, you are invited to celebrate Oral Hirschweiser Chevrolet at their grand opening ceremony on Thursday, May 28 from 11AM to 2PM right here at the Civic Center at 13220 Central Avenue. Presented in partnership with Oral Huttershiser Chevrolet, City of Chino and the Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce, the grand opening event will feature live music and DJ entertainment, food trucks, a parade down 7th Street featuring oral and special appearances by Dodger legends, including Mike Socia, Mickey Hatcher, Joe Kelly, Ramon Martinez, and more. Addition to the grand opening is free, though residents are encouraged to register in advance.

Please visit the Chamber of Commerce website to sign up for this great event, and we will see you there. Next, I invite you to join us for Chino in Action, reaching new heights on Saturday, June 6 from 10AM to 2PM at Steuvee Family Park located at 16050 East Preserve Loop. Be among the first to get up close with Chino's brand new police helicopter, explore a touch a truck showcase featuring police, public works, and Chino Valley Fire District vehicles, and enjoy activities for kids, a delicious barbecue hosted by the Chino Police Officers Association, and more. This is a one of a kind opportunity to experience your city in action from the ground to the sky. We hope to see you there.

Next, we're bringing back Cartino's summer nights movie series happening every Friday from June 12 to July 31 except for June 26. This year, we're adding a special twist. Half of our summer movies will take place at the newly opened Steuvee Family Park in the preserve. So be sure to bring your blankets, snacks, and lawn chairs, and enjoy a beautiful night under the stars watching exciting movies the whole family will love. To learn more, visit cityofchino.org/movies.

And finally, please note that city hall and city hall facilities will be closed on Monday, May 25 in honor of Memorial Day. I encourage you to join us as we honor our American heroes during the annual Memorial Day event hosted at the in partnership with the Chino American Legion at 10AM at the Chino Community Building located at the corner of 10th And B. Next, our agenda are public communications. This is the time and the place for the general public to address items that are not elsewhere on the agenda. Our first written request to speak is pastor Roy Robbins from Christ Lutheran Church, and you better behave.

If you'd like to join us in an invocation, please stand. I can say that because he's my neighbor and he's on it. Yep.

Actually, indulge me for just a moment, if you would. My ten year ordination at Christ Lutheran is coming up July 30. And it's my wife Janine's birthday and my granddaughter Kira's birthday also. Janine and I are so glad that we moved here to Chino after living in Anaheim for thirty five years. I love being involved in this city with the police. I've gone through three chiefs now. I'm on my third chief. So city government, the neighborhood house, care closet, all that. We just love this area. We love our neighbors too.

Well, most of them. Anyway, let's pray. Heavenly father, we come to you this evening asking for your guidance and wisdom as this meeting begins. Often, our lives can be a blur of activity. Help us to slow down and enjoy the beauty of your kingdom.

Thank you for the leadership represented here in these chambers, but also for those behind the scenes who tend to the business of the city each and every day. Fill them with compassion, grace, and foresight as decisions are made that affect our city and surrounding communities. May we always have a keen eye for the lonely, forgotten, and the ashamed and the shamed, and may our compassion spur us into action. Father, you're constantly inviting us to seek you and accept you. Thank you for never giving up on us. Lord, it's in your presence that we find joy. Thank you for your grace, which sustains us in Jesus' name. Amen.

Amen. Thank you. Pastor Kathy.

I wasn't too bad.

You're good.

If you really want to get to them, call them Kansas City Chiefs, yeah.

Okay.

Okay, we have Ms. Melissa Campani with us this evening from supervisor Kurt Hagman's office.

Well, good evening mayor, council, staff, and of course community members. My name is Melissa Campani, I'm here representing York County supervisor Kurt Hagman. Have you noticed? It's about that time of year, school's drawing to a close and what does that mean even though it's May? It means it's summer.

We're getting ready for that. And to kick off your summer, it would be great if you could swing on by supervisor Kurt Hagman's annual open house. This is our last call for the event as it is tomorrow, Wednesday, May 20 from five to 7PM. And the event is going to be held at his district office in Chino Hills. The address is 14010 City Center Drive, the street in front of the office actually.

We're closing that street so that we can host 20 county partners and services that people might be interested in. Maybe you've wanted to talk to a county department and just didn't know how to go about it, but we can get you set up. You can meet supervisor Hagman, meet people from many of the departments that you may need. And I would also like to say, please bring your whole family. We love to see little kids running around having a good time.

We have food. It'll be provided by the Chino Valley Professional Firefighters and Chino Police Officers Association and also some snacks provided by the Chino Hills cops. If you can, please preregister. It's an Eventbrite address, so it's supervisor hagman dot eventbrite dot com, or you can call the office at (909) 465-5265 for any additional information. Remember, that is tomorrow.

So get those reservations in. It's gonna be very crowded, but we're looking forward to seeing a lot of, friendly faces, new faces as a matter of fact too. And then that brings us to our shredding event. It's gonna be such a busy day here in Chino on June 6. We know it is, but my work partner, Suzette, and I, we are ready.

We are ready to go and help you get rid of those materials that you don't wanna hang on to anymore. The date for the shredding event, which is free by the way, is Saturday, June 6 from 9AM to twelve noon or until the trucks reach capacity. This event is free for San Bernardino County residents only and is held in partnership with the city of Chino. Please limit your shredding materials to three standard sized filing boxes of documents per vehicle, no batteries, CDs, binders, DVDs, plastics, X rays, etcetera. And the trucks are gonna just shred those materials right in front of you.

Whoosh. And they're gone. You don't have to worry about that information getting into the wrong hands. We do have on the website for supervisor Hagman or on flyers. We have a map of how we're gonna be entering, and then we'll get the materials out of the car for you and ride in those big trucks. So if you have any questions, please give us a call. Thank you so much.

I wish I had the enthusiasm for shredding papers.

It's tons and tons of paper. I once thought we wouldn't have as many shredding papers and materials because we just don't have as many papers. But guess what? Those papers are still out there. We're gonna get them all together.

She's determined. Those are the only written requests that I have to speak during public communication. Is there anyone else in the audience that would like to address the council on an item that's not on the agenda? Now we have a tradition to call on students if they're required to be here for a class, and I'm not sure. Do we have any students this evening? Okay. No. Then we will move on to our consent calendar. We do have a request to speak on item number 10. Stubby.

Thanks. Good evening, short council. My god. To see.

Yes. We are we are short two council members. Yeah. Councilman Burton and councilman Lucio. They are at the, International Shopping Center Convention in Las Vegas.

Hopefully, successfully. I hope so too. Nevertheless, item 10 is, they're at this the staff is asking you to approve a project that we did at San Bernardino County Airport. We patched, repaved, and slurried and restriped a parking lot. So as I have brought to, well, to counsel and staff, you know, 73 dozen times, restriping of parking lots under California law and under federal law is required to provide accessible parking.

We did not do so. I'm sure staff is going to say, hey, it's not our property. We don't own it. It's owned by the county and we did what we were told to do but nevertheless, I wanna read to you and I have done this in the past section of the California government code. This act was passed in 1968 before this building was even built, and it is the access to public facilities by persons with physical disabilities act, but no one uses that name.

We just refer to it as government code 4,450. The first paragraph reads as follows. It is the purpose of this chapter to ensure that all buildings, structures, sidewalks, curbs, and related facilities constructed in the state by the use of state, county, or municipal funds, or the funds of any other political subdivision shall be accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities. It goes on to, address the state architect creating the standards and that the standards have to comply with the federal standards. Federal standards at that time were the UFIS, which is the precursor to the ADA standards we have in place today.

It isn't a question of who owns the property. It isn't a question whether it's leased. It's a question of wherever we spend municipal funds. So whatever we spend municipal funds, we are required by federal and by state law to provide the required minimum accessibility features, and we did not do so here. So I just want to be on record for that once again. And, hopefully, someday in the future, we will start doing these projects in compliance with the law and and and stop discriminating against the disabled community because that's what it boils down to. The ADA is actually a civil rights law. Thank you for

your time. Thank you, Stummy. Linda, is is this parking lot that we fixed not accessible to people?

I don't know if Albert or Michelle. So if you recall, this was a project where the we put the median in on Kimball Avenue and it limited access to the airport. So the county came to us and asked us if we would repair that or open the opening, and then maybe they can address the parking lot.

Well, I think it was worse than that, Linda. They were just driving over immediate. Well, let you go there. So So we can with the

county to make those improvements.

Good evening. Michelle Chapman, CIP engineering manager. So for this project, this is entirely on private property as far as the county's airport. As far as building code jurisdiction, our we would default to our city building department. However, when we address this with the county, they said that because of our agreement, it's actually administered and overseen by the county's building department. And for them, that was not a requirement to add ADA additional ADA stalls.

And if I may add, on 03/31/2026, staff did meet along with the San Bernardino County representative, and they did the walk side of the project, and they also approved it. So, again, as Michelle mentioned, these were items brought up. Again, this project was something that was brought to our attention by Kurt Hagman. As a partnership with the airport, they were trying to do this work for this slurry work on-site. They weren't able to procure any sort of contractors to do this work.

They asked of us to assist them with this project. As Michelle mentioned, we did meet with county representatives and they approved this project as is. One key note, these are using ARPA funds, is the American with Rescue Plan Act funding, which does expire 12/31/2026. So there was a timeline where we were asked to see if we can do this a lot quicker so we can finalize the project.

It seems strange that that a project that supposedly is legally required to to do certain things, then for some reason, the county said they don't wanna do it or they couldn't do it?

So the the enforcing would be under building department, and they deferred that their agreement is with the count our agreement with them as as the authority to oversee building permits is the county in this particular case.

So the county paid for this project Correct. Totally Correct. And directed how it be done? Correct. Interesting.

And mayor, we can we can certainly go back to the county and talk with their building team and say that we believe there should be accessible parking spaces in here and encourage them to make those changes. And I know that's airport land leased by threshold aviation. Is that correct? So We did bring that to their attention.

That that is something that we did early on and we said any restriping of this because we understand the process and the and the policy, would require additional eighty day stalls or addressing of eighty day stalls when you restripe a parking lot. So we brought that to their attention. They said because their agreement is not overseen by the city, therefore, that property is not overseen by our building department to enforce.

Doesn't make any sense. Okay. So would you give back with the county?

Certainly, we can. Yes. Thank you

very much.

We we we'll follow through, mayor. We'll we'll reach out back to the county.

Thank you, Albert. One more comment, please. Thank

you. I would just want a short chance to read to rebut. The building official has no authority over accessibility on publicly owned facilities. The county should know that. You should know that. I've brought it up before. It's part of the government code, and it is specifically in the building code into section 1.9 states that responsibility for accessibility in any public where any public funds are spent is with the city council. So you guys have that responsibility. That's number one. And number two, just to reinforce, staff is saying it's private property.

It's not. It's public property. And it wouldn't matter if it was private property. If we spend municipal funds even on private property, it has to comply with the law.

We'll get to the bottom of it, Stubby. Thank you. We will get to the bottom of it.

Thank you.

Thank you very much. Do council members wanna have any other items pulled or any items pulled? No. Thank you, Okay. Then I would entertain a motion and a second.

I'll make the motion, mayor.

I'll second.

Motion from council member Comstock, second from council member Flores. Please vote. And the consent calendar passes three yes with two absent. Under public hearings, we have a community development block grant fiscal year 2627 action plan. I'm gonna declare the public hearing open, and our staff report this evening will be provided by our senior management analyst, Tracy Rosetta Smith, and our deputy director of development services, Christopher Corbin.

Good evening, mayor, council members. Tonight's staff presents the twenty six twenty seven one year CDBG action plan, which identifies the recommended usage of HUD funds in the amount of $575,170,458. Exhibit one displays the funding recommendations broken down by categories. This year, there were seven public service applicants recommended for funding. Each project was evaluated and allocated funding based on prioritization by the Community Services Parks and Recreation Commission, CDBG subcommittee, following a comprehensive review process in February.

The funding recommendations include Human Services Family Counseling at twenty one thousand Family Services Association for senior meals, 12,284 Chino Neighborhood House Food Assistance, 12,284 House of Ruth, services for women and children, 10,000 Public Works Graffiti Abatement, 10,000 Inland Fair Housing Landlord Tenant Mediation, 10,000 and Foothill Family Shelters at 10,000. Exhibit one also includes new capital improvement project funding in the amount of 370,900 seven ninety eight and carryover funds estimated at $3.00 $5.04 50. This public hearing fulfills HUD's citizen participation requirements. There were no comments received during the thirty day public review period, which was held March 7 through April 9. Staff recommends the council conduct this public hearing, receive any public comments, and approve the 2627 action plan to be submitted to HUD for their approval.

This concludes my report, should there be any questions.

Thank you very much, Tracy. Chris, did you have some questions or comments?

No, mayor.

Okay. Are there any comments from the audience this evening on this item? Okay. Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing. Karen, do you have any Okay.

Then I would request a motion and a second, please.

Make the motion, mayor.

Motion from council member Flores. I make the second, mayor. Second from council member Comstock. Please vote. Item passes three yes with one absent.

Next item on the agenda is mayor and council reports. I'm going to skip mine this evening. Mayor pro tem Burton is not here. Council member Comstock.

Thank you, mayor. I'll make mine, quick as well. On May 8, mayor, I had the pleasure of going to Rancho Del Chino Park and playing pickleball in corporate challenge with my ladies partner, which was Hai Jin from public works, our director. I'm happy to report out that we actually, I was feeling quite golden that day, but apparently, I was really only bronzy. So but yes. Yeah. So there it is. We were able to secure a bronze for team Chino, and I wanna thank Cajun for putting up with me. She is hard to get mad at, actually. So she would hit the ball, they would serve the ball to her and she would swing and miss or just hit the ball in the air and then she would just laugh.

And I would kinda look at her like, have you ever seen bridesmaids? Have you ever played before? So, no, it was a lot of fun. Like, our opponents were really nice ladies. And, you know, even when I got off the court, like, my family was like, I can't believe you just like, those people beat you. So but it was seriously a lot of fun. And I wanna thank Haijin for playing with me and putting up with my weird looks. But Yeah.

You need to understand. Karen plays tennis, and she's extremely competitive. So

It's better than I did last year. So maybe next year, but thank you again.

I played a few times with her before the competition.

Yeah. She's so happy all the time. Anyway, thank you again. On the ninth, I actually attended the No More Locked Doors event here. It was a trade event for young men and women who wanna go into the brotherhood of electrical workers or plumbing or HVAC or different things.

It was a co op between the chamber, our city, particularly Michael Montevallis and his nonprofit. It was extremely well attended. There was probably no less at any given time between 25 to 30 young men and women standing in line to get their resume and their name in front of these different trades, which if you know is just very promising for us. I mean, is the next generation of Americans who's going to continue to improve and secure our infrastructure and and build America. And I was just happy to see so many good young men and women there, and so many members from the trades there to mentor them and and and to help them into those those jobs in the future.

On the twelfth Mayor, I attended our legislative policy meeting here with you. We got some updates on some of the some of the legislation as the session comes to a close for summer break. And then on the fifteenth, I actually drove up on the fourteenth with the city manager, and we we discussed this operational matters of interest since I was not able to get to my one on one this week, but we had time to on the way up to Lake Arrowhead. But with with our staff, I attended the city county conference. And the last the panel that I attended, including an economic update, was a panel hosted by Chad Mays.

He's a former member of Assembly in Sacramento. But it was a former a it was a lobbyist as well as our lead legislative lobbyist, Jason Ryan from Cal Cities, and another gentleman, his name eludes me right now, but they were talking about just how difficult Sacramento is and how hard it is to get things done. Of particular, they were all kind of on alignment in housing law and legislation that's come through us in the last arena cycle and over the years. And they're just all in agreement that you know, the over 600, sometimes 800 plus housing laws that come our way and land use and different things really has actually, I think, served to stall more housing than it has to actually advance it. And make a lot

of sense.

Yes. So and and the expense involved in it. So I think that hopefully we're hopefully that message is starting to get back to Sacramento. And I'm not saying, you know, I don't know what the solution is, but there certainly is a, I think, an awakening happening like, hey, we're getting housing elements passed, doing different things, working with the BIA. There's been several things that you've passed either ministerially or by right, and we're still not able to effectively build housing in the state.

Or enough housing as required by arena requirement and to the affordability. So, I thought it was actually, I don't if the city manager agrees, but actually kind of an enlightening real conversation to have with people about what's happening with development and different things in the state. And then, course, the last session was an economic update. But, that being said, I wanna congratulate the Owens family. That's a really well deserved tribute to both Carol and Ann Earl Owens. I knew them, but I wasn't I'm kind of on the the end where I I wasn't old enough to spend time working with them, but I do know how engaged they were in this community. So, that being said, that concludes my report tonight. Thank you, mayor.

Chris. Thank you, mayor. I'll forego my reports as well. Just wanna share two things. Number one, to our police department. I'm excited to see this air support unit become fully operational this month. Really exciting. And to our fire district, we received good news this week, at least in my email regarding this Confire ground ambulance contract. So, good luck to you guys.

City manager Reich.

Thank you, mayor. So council member Comstock talked about corporate challenge. So I'm gonna give you a full update. So it ended on last Friday night and city of Chino for the fourth year in a row won first place. It was that bronze medal, Hae Jin and Karen, that took us over the top.

NFI was second, and Chino Hills came in third. So it was a really good competition. We have a really good team Chino team that runs our city team, and then the CSPR team always does a fantastic job for two weeks putting on this event, which is really fun for our community. And, I think most people come out of there, they have a great time, they make new friends and it's an awesome event. For city of Chino winning it four times in a row, it might be a little too much, but No. It it it's fantastic that we won it. So I wanna thank all of our teams for everything they did. There were a lot of gold medals coming our way, which is fantastic.

Great. Well, great.

So that's it tonight, mayor. Alright. City attorney Galante.

No legal report.

Thank you.

None. Do you

have something else, Karen? No. No. Just Linda, did you have anything? It looked like you had something else. Okay. Any director's report? You're Hae Jin this evening,

I'll be Hae Jin for the night. She is in Hawaii celebrating her thirtieth anniversary, so I am filling in for her for the director's report. We do have an update on the Euclid relinquishment. We did meet with Caltrans earlier today and Euclid will officially become the city's this Thursday, May 21. So, that's scheduled to happen.

Caltrans will be recording the final documents with the County Of San Bernardino And so, that will officially occur this week. And, within the next thirty days, we're creating the invoice to send to District eight who will then send it to Sacramento so we can get the funds of the $18,800,000 plus to the City of Chino before the end of the fiscal year. So, we're trying to get that within the next thirty days. So, that's the next step, but Euclid will officially be relinquished to the city this Thursday.

When are we gonna fix the potholes?

As soon as we get those funds, we've already been working with Ben and Keith and their team. We already have a plan with Michelle Chapman as well as putting together our CIPs. So, we do have a game plan once we get those funds to invest, to do some upgrades, ADA, potholes, pavement projects, traffic signal upgrades. And, with these funds, we've already been in coordination with City of Ontario. Dennis has been doing a great job of meeting with their traffic engineers.

Next time any grant opportunities come up, City of Ontario and City of Chino can partner for the whole Euclid Corridor if SBCTA puts out any grant opportunities with the state. So, we would use some of those funds also for matching for grant opportunities. So, we're excited having that local control. It's coming sooner than later. And, with those funds as well as potential other opportunities, we we can make Euclid how we envision it.

I think we also need to work very strongly with the county because a lot of that right away is county territory.

It is. Thank you very much. Of course.

Chief Minson.

Thank you, mayor. So councilman Flores said it. So I'm very excited to announce that yesterday we took delivery of our police bell five zero five helicopter. So long time in the works. A lot of people have been involved with this.

So we flew back from Hanger 1 Avionics down in Carlsbad where it's been for the past six months, having all the police equipment installed on it. And this week, they're gonna be doing some intermittent testing with it, some some some some patrol flights, kinda getting getting the bugs worked out of it, and then an all fully operational come come next week. The the scheduled flights for for starting for now is gonna be Wednesday through Saturday, kind of a 9AM to 7PM on on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and then a 11AM to to 9PM on Fridays and Saturdays. The schedule is going to fluctuate depending on the most amount of calls for service that we're getting. So we're continuing to evaluate our calls and then adjust our our patrol time for for that team.

And it's it's staffed. We have two part time pilots and then one full time police officer that's assigned to it. And so we we moved a patrol officer from from patrol and reassigned him to our aviation unit. So we're extremely excited about this. You talked about the the June 6 event down at Stevie Park.

That'll be the first opportunity for the community to come out and see it up and close and get hands on to take a look at it. But this is gonna be a significant movement to enhance public safety in our community. And just seeing you know, I'm a stats person, so we get our crime stats every month and seeing what's taking place. And it's a consistent theme of people coming in from outside outside of the community, coming into Chino to victimize our community. And so, obviously, we've been very successful with our real time crime center, our cameras, everything else.

And this is gonna help us just to take it to the next level and provide a significant amount of safety for officers and the community. And, obviously and then a a crime deterrent for for people coming into to the city. And and I talk about these hours nine to seven. That's prime time when a lot of your residential burglaries are taking place. And so people go away to work. They come home at evening time, they find that their house and it's probably one of the most when it comes to a property crime, one of the most like, you're violated. Somebody's been into your bedroom and and just ransacked your house. And so having that helicopter up in the air during those hours, I we're confident we're gonna see a decrease in our residential berries along with a bunch of other crimes. So very exciting times for us.

Do we have agreements with surrounding communities in case they need our helicopter? Like, now we call on San Bernardino County and stuff?

Yeah. So we've been using San Bernardino County is our first mutual aid agreement. That's who we count on. Ontario just because they have they have several helicopters that have a very robust aviation program that yeah. And in in the event, obviously, if it's a if it's a safety issue, an officer safety issue, we will respond to help other communities as well. They will, in return, now with Ontario, will be more of a mutual leg where we have something to provide to them if if they need our help and vice versa. Because we I mean, we're having one helicopter. The the hours that they're not flying the entire ten hours of their shift. And so if they're down or if it's on a day that we're we're not they're not deployed, they will immediately come into our city to help. So it's it's a it's a big mutual aid agreement.

And then, obviously, we talked about in the past the the challenges with the prison and having this where if we were to have, god forbid, something happen in the middle of the night, like we had the escape and it's 03:00 in the morning, all the helicopters are grounded. This is our helicopter. We will call our own team in from home and launch the helicopter.

What about some kind of aid for Chino Hills? Have they reached out to us at all?

No. I mean, they're covered by the county. And if it's a if it's a critical event, like an officer safety type issue, and they're requesting, then, yeah, then then we would we would respond. The system is designed where they actually the the the the tactical flight officer, he hears our primary channel, but in the background, he hears all the other surrounding agencies and hears. So if there's a critical thing, an event that's happening and maybe they're coming to our city or what and our need mutual aid, then we can assist.

Ontario has been been huge in helping us and train our tactical flight officer along with the Pomona Police Department, along with the sheriff's department. So it's I got to fly in it yesterday. I got to fly in the front seat to actually see. It is it is it's not an easy job being a tactical flight officer, but he's gone through a lot of training with some of our allied agencies to be ready for come next week to be operational.

So

Great. Very good. And by the way, congratulations on your daughter's graduation.

Thank you. Yes.

Welcome back home.

Very proud of her. She's they're actually in Flagstaff on their way home right as I as I speak right now. So, yeah, thank you. Alright.

You're welcome. Good question. Yes. Chief, what is the call sign of the airship?

Air five. Okay. And so the five number goes back in time back when and it's I mean, you know, obviously, 501? Yeah. It's it's a five always distinguished Chino. Ontario was one back when we shared before my time, we shared one radio frequency. So it's 5 Paul and then whatever the call sign was. So a little bit from historical of using a call sign from a using the the five number from from the history before.

So air five?

Air five.

Who's our TFO?

So it's it's it's officer Brown, Steven Brown. So he's he actually he's a tactical flight officer, but he actually has his private airline license, his his aviation license.

Okay.

He flies

next to

me on his own time.

Would a compliment be the first person selected for that assignment?

It is.

And then we have two alternates because, obviously, vacation or whatever else, we have two alternates that they will fill in if he's if he's out.

And the alternates are? Tyler Scott

and then Ryan and corporal Ryan Nguyen.

Oh, okay.

Yeah. Really good guys. And they've they've been good. We it's the our hangar. We got the hangar down at the Chino Airport. So we've they've already been down and developed your relationships with them down there along with the the tower staff. So, yeah, looking forward to

it. Congratulations.

Thank

you. Very exciting.

Deputy Chief Holt.

Thank you very much, mayor. Good evening again. Just a brief update. Yes, councilman Flores. Thank you for acknowledging the the ambulance program. We're gonna have some great messaging moving forward on what the next steps are, so look forward to that soon. I do wanna take a moment just to highlight. We had a unique opportunity this past Friday. Our urban search and rescue team actually hosted a drill for what are called Hurt teams, h e r t. So within the county, we have hospital emergency response teams that are available, and they're composed of trauma surgeons, emergency room physicians, and staff that come alongside them.

So in the event what we're doing is making our preparations for the Olympics and for the World Cup and to be more robust in our response for urban search and rescue and disasters. So in the event, like, our scenario was a parking lot parking structure collapse where we had victims in our scenario that couldn't be extracted because of concrete on parts of their bodies, if you will. So we were able to bring out these physicians, these trauma surgeons, into our training prop at our training center down in Schaeffer, and they were able to work alongside our urban search and rescue firefighters to get into that urban search and rescue prop and perform medical procedures on different dummies that we had in there. So it was a really great opportunity to work with our county partners. There's one team from Arrowhead and one team from Loma Linda, and this is the last time they did this drill was probably ten years ago.

So a really great opportunity to showcase what we have in the city of Chino and to bring those folks out and to help sharpen their skills, build relationship with our firefighters, and ultimately prepare and better serve the community. That concludes my report for this evening. I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you very much, Jeremy. Any questions? Alright. With that, we will adjourn to our next regular meeting, which will be held on Tuesday, June 2 at 06:00 with closed session starting no earlier than four if necessary. We are adjourned.

At Chino's 2026 state of the city, something unexpected happened. A surprise appearance from Oral Furchizer delivering big news for Chino. It was a night that brought the community together as the city of Chino welcomed residents, businesses, and community leaders for its annual state of the city presented in partnership with the Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce. Mayor Eunice Ulloa highlighted the progress shaping Chino today while sharing a look at what's ahead, all centered around this year's theme, always home. From continued investments in infrastructure and public safety to a growing business community, the momentum is clear.

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