City Council Meeting - Regular Meeting

I would like to call to order closed session meeting of the Fontana City Council. Public communications? Do you have any public comment? Mayor, we do not. Okay, thank you. Mr. City Attorney, will you please read our closed session items?

Yes, thank you, Madam Mayor. Good afternoon, members of the council. You have one item on your closed session agenda this afternoon. It is a conference with the city's labor negotiator, Mr. Ballantyne and Ms. Voss. Under Government Code Section 54957.6, the employee organization being discussed, excuse me, organizations are the PMA, the Police Management Association, and the POA, the Police Officers Association. Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Thank you so much. Well, At this time, we will adjourn to our closed session, and our regular meeting will begin at 2 p.m. Please come back and join us. Today's meeting consists of the following, city council, successor agency. Please note, we will open for the consent calendar at the same time. I would like to call to order the meeting of Fontana City Council. We'll now have our successor agency, Chair Cothran.

Welcome to the successor agency. The meeting is now in session.

We'll now have our roll call. Mayor present. Mayor Pro Tem Garcia.

Present.

Council Member Cothran.

Present.

Council Member Roberts.

Present.

Council Member Sandoval.

Present.

Please stand for our invocation led by Council Member Roberts, and we'll have our allegiance led by Council Member Cothran.

Let's bow our heads. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the many blessings you've bestowed on our city. Father, we just ask for your wisdom and guidance as we deliberate the matters before us this afternoon. And Father, a special blessing for our police department and all those in public safety and those in military service. We ask this in your name. Amen.

Please join me in facing the flag and join me in the pledge of allegiance. Thank you all.

Everyone may be seated. Thank you, Councilmember Cothran, and thank you, Councilmember Roberts. At this time, City Attorney, will you review our report from closed session?

Yes, thank you, Madam Mayor. Good afternoon, everyone. This afternoon, pursuant to the posted agenda, the council met to consider the one item that is listed on their closed session agenda. They received a briefing from legal counsel and staff and provided direction, but there is no reportable action this afternoon. Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Thank you, City Attorney Ruben Duran. This brings us to our ceremonial items, and we have quite a few today. This is a great day in Fontana. We're going to start with... are swearing in for new police officers we'll have our chief of police please come

Good afternoon, everybody. My name's Mike Dorsey. I am the police chief here in the city of Fontana, and it's my honor today to introduce eight of our new Fontana police officers. So let's give a roundup for them while I call their names up here. It's my honor, as I said, to introduce these eight men that have just joined the Fontana Police Department. Five of them graduated last Thursday and are entering field training today or this week. And the other three have been in various stages of field training. So we're super excited to have them to the Fontana Police Department team. And if you could come up when I call your names, Officer Jacob Claybaugh. Roberto Fonseca, Nicholas Kennedy, Alejandro Lozano, Seth Milleron, Isaac Pena, Brandon Webb, and Christopher Iglesias. Come on up, guys. Do you want them right here? You guys just want to line up right here, and I know they have your guests with you. Do you want them up now, man? And could the guests that are going to help in the ceremony come on up? Don't be shy. Come on up.

Can we give them all another hand? This is outstanding. If you're holding a Bible for someone, can you step up next to them so that you can hold their Bible?

There you go.

Okay, what you're going to do is you're going to be placing your left hand on the Bible and raising your right hand. So let's all line up. He was going for it. I got you. I got you. Let's see. We need you to turn around. Let's see. There you go. There. Everybody look this way. Are we all right down there? Okay. All right. Oh, the council member is helping. Thank you. Okay, now what I'm going to do is I'm going to say I, and I want you to state your name, not the people holding the Bible, the person being sworn in. Okay, everybody? Okay. I, state your name. He's still smiling down. Did you say your name, sir? Okay. What about next to you? I didn't see you. Okay, very good. do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of California that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter. So help me God. Let's give him a big hand. Congratulations. I'm going to give the mic to all of our newly sworn in officers, and you can introduce the person that held your Bible.

Jacob Claybaugh. The person that held my Bible is my father, Adam Claybaugh.

Roberta Fonseca. My wife is actually coming up, Italy Fonseca.

Nicholas Kennedy, and my presenter is my mom, Karen Kennedy.

Alejandro Lozano, and my wife, Vanessa Lozano.

Seth Milleron, and the person holding the Bible is my lovely wife, Megan Milleron.

Isaac Pena, and the person that holds my Bible was my father, Raimundo Pena.

Brandon Webb, and the person holding my Bible is my wife, Myra, and my son, Enzo.

Christopher Iglesias, and the person holding my Bible is my spouse, Jasmine Acosta.

Okay, we're gonna all take a picture with all the family up and then what we're gonna do is maybe we should do the council with the officers first and ask the family to step back and then your photos first. That's what I thought, okay.

I just needed confirmation.

Okay, we're gonna take a photo. Council members, can you kind of get in there somewhere too? Yeah, get close here. Now, before the council, we'll take the picture with the audience. Okay, welcome to the family, everybody. Our newly sworn in officers. People ask me all the time, why do you all do that? We do it because we want our young people to aspire and be inspired that they too can serve their community. And we're just so proud of them. Let's just give them one more hand. Next, we're going to recognize Sergeant Brian McLean and some other officers to do that presentation. We're asking for Captain James Barton to present. There he is.

All right, I'm gonna start by recognizing the ones that are present today. Sergeant Brian McClain, Officer John Isaacs, Officer Cory Garcia, the Mayor, Officer Christy Tomasek, San Bernardino County Behavioral Health Social Worker Jeff Everett, and Officer Joe Moreno. And I want to go back and recognize those that aren't here today. Reserve Officer Spencer Brumbaugh, Sergeant Mark Gonzalez, Officers Gus Lozano, Victor Reyes, James Escarpe, Jose Rodriguez, Tony Lozano, Reserve Officer Ryan Starling, and San Bernardino County Probation Officer Jasmine White. As you can see, the Reserve Officers are fire medics with the San Bernardino County Fire Department, and we have one attached to each of our MET teams, and then we have Behavioral Health and Probation that come out and help us out also. Not an exhaustive list of what I'm going to talk about, but you see just the resources that go into the homeless efforts here in the city. Back in June, it came to our attention that there was a homeless encampment problem in the flood channel that parallels the Metrolink tracks. So this team started working on that. They worked with our partners with the county. They worked with county flood control. They worked with our city yards people, Rivers Edge Ranch, which is a live-in rehab center, and tried to get services out there to everybody that was there. They spent the next couple of weeks going out, delivering notices to everybody that was there that they had to vacate. There's a lot of debris and trash and other things down in the flood channel, which obviously causes a problem if we were to have some kind of a serious rain event. So they went out there, made all the notices, tried to vacate everybody, tried to get them all the services that they needed. And then ultimately they had to go in and clean that area out, which meant they first had to go in and get all of the homeless population out of the area. And then these officers went through the tunnels that are attached to the flood channel and had to remove all of the waste and trash and debris and everything and get it into the flood channel. so that county flood control could come in and pick it all up. So they spent a few weeks doing this whole operation, cleaned all that area out, continued it down to the west with the help of city yards and got out there and cleaned up a lot of trash and debris. They worked with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department host team to help out with the people that were displaced there. They do a tremendous job for us every day going out, not only doing law enforcement, but doing outreach, trying to get with the community, the homeless community, and get them into services and get them off the streets. And so this is what they do every single day, the going through and picking up trash and picking up debris from encampments and things like that. These are the officers that go out and do that, and we appreciate all their efforts. and taking care of all the quality of life issues and trying to get these homeless people services. So we appreciate it. They do an outstanding job.

Thank you, Captain, and thanks to all of you for the great work you're doing. You are true heroes to this community, and people are beginning to really recognize that the efforts that you're putting forth and the rest of those that are working in this space is making a difference in this community. It's all about helping people get back on track. So I'm going to give the microphone to my colleagues. We have some awards for you all.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. To begin with, I have the honor of presenting this certificate for the Employee of the Month to San Bernardino County Behavioral Health Social Worker Level Two, Jeff Everett.

Thank you, and I have the pleasure of providing this certificate to Police Officer Corey Garcia. And one more for police officer Joe Moreno.

This afternoon I have the honor of making the first presentation to police officer John Isaacs. And the next certificate goes to Police Sergeant Brian McLean.

Thank you, Brian.

I have the honor of giving this certificate to Police Officer Christine Toppix. And I know he's not here, but Police Reserve Officer Spencer Bonrich.

Congratulations. Okay, we have one more employee of the month.

If I could have Patricia Lopez come up please. So Patty was our professional staff employee of the month. I've been lucky enough to have Patty as my secretary for the past few years. She does an outstanding job for us. One of her primary responsibilities is handling all of our asset forfeiture. So that takes a lot of time. She has to work with our financial team at the police department, making sure that everything is in order. There's strict guidelines for the federal system that Patty makes sure that we maintain on our end. And not only that, but working with all of our special operations teams. So she does an outstanding job with that. But Patty is what you would call the definition of a team player. She's constantly going around the station asking if anybody needs any help. She's happy to volunteer and help out. She takes on any tasks that she does. You don't have to worry about anything. You know that it's gonna get done and it's gonna get done right. She's always got a great attitude, no matter what you throw at her. I've never seen her come to work unhappy or not be willing to help. She's always willing to jump in. She helps with our overflow of work in our records unit. So because of all these things, for all the stuff that she does for us on a daily basis, her attitude, her loyalty to the department, we nominated her as our Employee of the Month.

Patty, I get the honor of presenting this on behalf of a grateful council and mayor in the city of Fontana. Thank you for being a part of our team here. We would not be a great city without you. So as to recognize you as the employee of the month, I have a certificate for Patty Lopez.

You are very welcome. Congratulations, my dear.

And I think we're going to come out and take a photo with you.

Next, we're gonna call Eva, our emergency service coordinator up. She has a proclamation related to, and it's emergency preparedness month.

Here you go.

Thank you, Mayor. This month of September is emergency preparedness month, and I would like to encourage everyone to do at least one thing to prepare for any upcoming disaster that is possible. You never know what is coming, but the way to prepare is to make sure that you know what you're going to do if something happens. That way you have more of a peace of mind if something does happen. And one way you can do that is to go to our city's preparedness website, readyfontana.org. There are classes that are coming up on that website. There's also a free ready guide that you can read. And lastly, I would like to thank our volunteers who help us teach the classes. and help us get preparedness information out to the public. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Volunteers make a big difference in this effort. We have a proclamation for you. Whereas National Preparedness Month creates an opportunity for every resident of the city of Fontana to join individuals across the United States in preparing their homes, businesses, and communities for emergencies and disasters. Therefore, be it resolved, along with myself and this great council, we are declaring the month of September 2026 as National Preparedness Month. And we encourage everyone to sign up for emergency alerts, take a preparedness class, and assemble an emergency supply kit to build a safer and more resilient community.

Thank you for your efforts also.

We're going to take a picture with you. I convinced the council to stay up here with me. Okay, next we're gonna recognize community service department. We're gonna have our director, Daniel Snyder, join us. Let's give him a big hand.

Thank you, Mayor, council. No pressure, all you guys standing right behind me. So it's my privilege tonight to introduce and recognize our 2026 Community Services Department Employee of the Year. But before we do that, we're going to show a brief video. Cue up the video.

Hey Hector, congratulations on your Employee of the Year for the Community Services Department for 2026. Just wanted to make sure that I told you how proud I am and how great you are at your job and the wonderful things that you do in it. You have a very challenging position. Thank you very much, congratulations, and absolutely undoubtedly well deserved.

I've had the extreme pleasure of working with Hector for the past several years. He is super knowledgeable and super supportive. In many years as a coordinator, a fellow coordinator, where he worked as a team member with me, great asset to the city and love working with him. Thank you for all you do, Hector.

You are somebody that we always go to when it comes to new ideas for help or even just to hear stories of how CSD has grown throughout the years. Once again, congratulations. You should definitely be proud. I know we are all proud of you, so congrats.

For the last three years I've been a sports coordinator and Hector is one of my colleagues. Coming into this position it was very nice because Hector really helped mentor me and really helped get me started back into sports and showing me how Fontana Pee Wee Sports operates. giving me the best leg up for really being successful in my job now. So it's been a real big blessing to come back as a full-time employee and work with Hector side by side.

Hector's always been a mentor to me. Early into my time here, driving around with Hector in the field monitor truck, and Hector's always been someone that I've really looked up to in terms of just how to be a great employee here for the city. And I appreciate all he's done for the sports department and for the city.

I admire his commitment to The city in itself, but more specifically, Montana sports. I learned a ton of a ton of things from him, especially in sports. But most importantly, I always knew where to go to eat. I commend you. I love your unique charm. I love everything about you from top to bottom. And I just want to tell you that I'm really proud of you.

When I first got hired here, Hector was my very first supervisor, and he truly is the blueprint of what a great leader should be. He genuinely cares about his people, not just as employees, but as individuals with lives and families. Now that I've transitioned into the full-time role, having Hector's support means everything.

All right, so it's my honor and privilege to announce the Community Service Department 2026 Employee of the Year, Mr. Hector Vasquez. Give a wave to the crowd, Hector, give a wave. So real briefly, I know my staff know that I don't like to talk much, so I'll make this brief. Why is everyone giggling? So Hector, I'm going to talk a little bit about what Hector does, how he does it. As soon as he's done shaking hands. Yeah, yeah. So Hector is our sports coordinator. He oversees the Miller Park. He's also, he oversees our park monitors. He also oversees our field allocations, which that sounds, field allocations is very unique. So we have 50, 49 athletic fields in the city Hector rents them out to over 150 youth groups, 12 that are resident youth nonprofit groups. That's Little Leagues, Pop Warner, ASO Soccer. So they are the priority for us. But Hector deals with all of these groups. They all want the fields at the same time, same fields, same price. They want everything. So for myself, it's a privilege to have someone like Hector work for our department because we don't really hear much about the heartaches of the fields. And if we do, he already has an answer for us. So he's responsible. And I know he's very proud of this because he talks about it all the time. He's responsible for bringing in over a million dollars in revenue for field rentals, which that's unheard of. And so, yeah, we clap it up. He definitely. Yes, he's very proud of that. But that's what Hector does and how he does it. But I want to talk a little bit about more of why he does it. Hector is very passionate. Hector loves the city of Fontana. Hector is the city of Fontana. He loves his staff. I know my days in a previous city. I worked very closely with Hector. I've known Hector since 2001 probably. He worked with my wife in 98, 99 when she worked in Fontana. But Hector is the true definition of a public servant. It doesn't matter if it's internal. For CSD, it doesn't matter if it's external with all of your departments. It doesn't matter if it's professional organizations that he belongs to or if it's on the field coaching his youth fast-pitch girls team with his daughter Jillian, who's now coaching with him, but he coached her for many, many years. Hector truly goes over and beyond for everyone. It doesn't matter who you are, what you need, he will help you. So that's definitely what separates him from other staff that we wanna recognize him for. But the other thing I wanna talk about is his leadership. Hector is definitely a leader in our department. We try to preach all the time that you don't need a title. We try not to get hung up on titles. We just need people to lead. We have a bunch of leaders out there, all of our staff out there that leads us. Hector is definitely one of our leaders and he is very responsible for everything, all of our success, our culture, everything that we do in CSD. We could not have done this without Hector. For those reasons, it's our pleasure and privilege today to recognize you as the 2026 Community Services Employee of the Year.

Hector, all of we on this council know the great contributions you have made, and boy, have you saved me so many times. When you mess with people's field time or you tell them you can't use the field that day, they change on you right before your eyes. And that includes in church. I had a person, we were in church. I said, we're in church. I'm still going to hurt you. I said, we're in church. Calm down. But all I have to say is let me talk to Hector. And it calms people down because they know you're fair, you'll try your best to do whatever you can, but the whole town just loves you. So on behalf of this council and myself, it's an honor to hand you this trophy for Employee of the Year for Community Services. And to honor Hector, if you work with Hector, you mind standing up and giving him a big applause? So now we're going to take a picture with you.

Well, I just want to say first, thank you, the Lord, for giving us this opportunity. My family, my coworkers, management, CSD, council, everybody here, It's all made it possible. And in this audience, I have a lot of employees that work for me, and I can't thank you all enough for being by my side, support. And my Miller staff, the two that are here, the four girls. And a big shout-out to Aquatics for continuing to send me a great staff. So I'm very blessed to have a great team. Since going on 29 years, I'm really thankful to be here. Continue to enjoy my job, and it's all made possible by everybody that's involved. Daniel, thank you again for the opportunity.

Appreciate you.

Wow, they did take over. Our next presentation will be from our Director of Innovation Technology, Jennifer Borsanis. Come forward. I think I saw her right there. She also will be presenting Employee of the Year for the IT department. Let's give her a big hand, everyone.

Good afternoon, everyone. I am excited to have the privilege to be able to present to you and recognize our Innovation and Technology Employee of the Year. I'd like to call up David Joyce to the stage, please. Our innovation and technology department is much, much smaller than community services, but I'd still like to take some time to recognize David Joyce. David Joyce has been with us for about a year and a half. And during that year and a half, he has made significant contributions to our organization. Our IT department employees are selected on three criteria by our own employees, our leadership team, and we also take into account our end user feedback. David has continuously demonstrated being able to be dedicated, knowledgeable, and helpful in our department. And when I say dedicated, I'm talking about weekends, vibe coding, designing software for our city, automating tasks, automating reports, I can go on. you're beyond dedicated it's without question the work that you've done for the city of fontana this last year and a half after filling a position that had been vacant for over a year so you came into a significant backlog of work has been tremendous david is part of our infrastructure team that is the backbone to our organization they oversee very critical systems for our city and ensure that the lights are staying on and the work that we're doing for our city continues david is beyond helpful At any time during the day, anybody can ask him for work, for help, for guidance, and David is without question and in the most compassionate and empathetic way available and leading our team and helping us out with whatever comes up. That's not just for our employees in the IT department, employees city around, and for our residents. Lastly, knowledgeable. I read often that a leader isn't the person with a title in the room, or the smartest person in the room, and that is very true when you're present, because you're easily one of the smartest people in this entire city of Fontana. We're very blessed and lucky to have him on the team, and it's without question that you are our employee of the year, and we're very grateful to have you. Congratulations.

I'd like you to say a few words before we give you your trophy.

I'll try. Thank you, Mayor and the Council. Especially thank you, Jen, for providing an amazing work environment for us. The infrastructure team and IT department is absolutely amazing. I can't say enough. and how enjoyable the work environment is, and allowing me to grow and learn more and do my thing. Thank you.

Well, David, on behalf of the council and myself, we have honor, and we are so happy to present this to you. Congratulations. Thank you so much.

Thank you for all of your hard work. My pleasure.

okay that brings us to public comment good afternoon and thank you again for attending this meeting of the city council the brown act provides that members of the public may offer comment on any item of interest within the subject matter jurisdiction of the city council and on any action item including items on the consent calendar What this means is that the council welcomes and encourages your input on issues of city business and on action items on today's agenda. Issues of city business do not include personal attacks on our staff members or the council members. While we acknowledge your right to comment on our actions or activities with respect to city issues and business, we will not tolerate purely personal comments not having to do with official performance of city duties. Please do not use profanity, name calling, or any other behavior that would disrupt the proceedings this afternoon, speech, or other activities such as yelling from the audience. That disrupts the orderly business of the council and will not be allowed. After warning, continued behavior that disrupts the meeting may result in you being asked to leave the meeting. Thank you.

City Clerk.

Do you have any public communications cards to speak?

Mayor, we actually have no request to speak.

Okay. I see somebody running up here.

Now we have one. All right. From Mark Noemi of Water of Life.

Good afternoon, Mayor and City Council. I'm rising to speak in support of consent calendar item X, which is a series of agreements between the city of Fontana and Water of Life Community Church. And I just wanted to highlight and thank the city for your continued partnership with Water of Life Community Church and CityLink in our campus development. I wanted to really highlight my thanks to the staff and city attorney who have gone through months of conversation, months of creative negotiations on how we could not only continue our partnership but expand upon what we've already done. And just to bring, the council is well aware, bring the community up to speed as well. At the corner of Citrus and Arrow, the city of Fontana helped facilitate our acquisition of those five acres to build our first phase of CityLink Campus. That first phase represented an investment of $17 million, 11 million of which came from our church congregation. The item today continues the partnership in a multitude of ways. One, Water Life Community Church is entering into a public benefit use covenant for 15 years where we will continue to operate CityLink and continue to provide the community services out of that facility for 15 years. The other agreements help us move forward the next phase, which is the development of 30 units of transitional housing on that campus. And just to give folks a sense for what that's going to mean, When we build the 30 units, we're going to replace the 20 trailers that are currently in existence on the campus. And just to give you a scope of the potential impact over let's just say a 10-year period, we're talking about the ability to help over 500 families move from homelessness to permanent housing. 500 families who otherwise would be scrambling through the community, through the region, searching for opportunity. What our program does, as you're aware, Mayor and Council, is provide wraparound services for six months for folks who are currently in trailers. When we construct the 30 units, they'll be moving into apartments that will be on floors two and three of our facility. phase two development the bottom floor will be a one-stop shop for social services retail and restaurant use it's going to be a sustainable self-sustaining transitional housing project and so just thank you again on behalf of uh pastor shane and our entire team at order of life we're so grateful for the the continued partnership um and just to give you one last number 20 000 is the number That's the number of volunteer hours we receive in one year's operation at CityLink. That's 20,000 hours of individuals coming out, whether it's at Everyone to the Table or food distribution or other community events. It's 20,000 hours of people, the boots on the ground, serving this community. So thank you. God bless.

Thank you. Can we give that a big hand? That's our community doing this for others. Thank you so much.

Are there any more public communication cards? No, there aren't, Mayor. Thank you.

Okay. That brings us to the consent calendar. To my knowledge, no items were pulled. Keep in mind, we're going to be voting on not only City Council items, but the successor agency. Council Member Sandoval, do you have anything?

I'd like to pull item B, S, T, W, X, and Y.

What is it you'd like to know about?

Just a... Not a report, just a couple of comments on those items. I'd like to make a couple of comments on all those items.

Okay, what we'll do is I see the city attorney has his, do you have any issues that needed to be pulled?

Just to remind you, Madam Mayor, that you have a recusal on item B for yourself personally.

Okay, all right. Now, do I need to leave or?

No, it's a consent calendar, so just state it for the record and then it will be noted in the minutes.

Why don't I do that right now? I'm reclusing myself from item B due to my residency. Okay. Now, Council Member Sandoval, you can make your comments now.

Yeah, I know this meeting, but I just don't really like change order items because this is a change order more than anything else, what the scope of the work is. I just want to make sure I let you know that I don't like change orders. That's just costly and takes away from part of the budget that we had to change the order that something should have been bidded on. And then item S and T are together. I know that's a service that's contracted out. I'd like to see stuff like that more done in-house or hire more employees to do this work. I think this work could be done in our in-house by hiring employees to do that. The block party permits reducing the amount. I just want to know how that's going to affect the budget and us financially because we are decreasing almost $150. know we're going to start decreasing things like this item i'd like to see us bring back start reducing some of the fees towards our seniors and youth that's a lot more important than reducing fees on block parties i think i need i think our seniors and our youth need a reductions on their fees for some of the things they do and then item y um i'm glad and thank God you see this thing move forward I mean it's been in the wakes for a long time I'm hoping to see the great financial benefit that we get from it from the community and citizens in the city so that it's moving forward those are my comments thank you okay I'm I'm gonna ask our deputy

city manager to comment on the, I think the S or T, one of them, or it might be both, on the graffiti. Yes, it's the number S. Okay.

Mayor, I'll just kind of go through the items. So certainly I understand item B, that's a change order. We got good unit prices on the paving in that area, and so we wanted to capitalize it. But I understand Council Member Sandoval's concern about change orders. The next one, S&T, that's for graffiti removal. So we were using – we had basically two firms on board that they did a lot of work as far as mitigation to nuisance properties, boarding up properties, and what have you. We went out and shopped for graffiti removal, and the lowest bid came in by, I believe – 86 is the name of the firm themselves, and so we have them on contract, and we budget about $200,000 a year to do special graffiti removal. So that's, again, items S and T. W, let's see there. The block parties. So we recently had Will Dan take a look at all of our fees and specifically how much it takes. We can't charge more than the actual cost of the service. And so when we took a look at block party fees, the fee was about $352. and what that cost consists of is providing notifications to the neighborhood that there's a desire to shut down that block and then also to supply the barricades the resident comes and receives those barricades and there was a thought that that might have been cost prohibitive what we had probably provided five permits a year, and there was a suggestion that we reduce that price to encourage community engagement for $250 a permit. So that's item W. And again, I understand Council Member Sandoval's concern about you know what do we do about our other fees but all of our fees we take a look at those and it's really up to the council to determine the level of subsidy so that's uh w x um actually uh that's the water of life property um and that took some time to to um finalize essentially what was explained under public comment we own that the property there was a outstanding loan and in exchange we took for that to look excuse me to forgive that loan we worked out a deal to acquire properties that are some similar value and so we're exchanging that and we continue to provide the wraparound services that water of life has so graciously been provided over the many years and so that's basically a lance swap And then item Y is dealing with the League of California Cities and that their annual conference is coming up. And we have one representative from council that's attending, and so we want to designate that individual, which is the mayor, to represent us. They do have at the very end of the conference a – meeting with all the delegates and in that conversation there was one resolution presented by the city of Murrieta and that conversation was about maintaining local control specifically in housing issues as you're fully aware the the state of California continues to make local decisions on our behalf and I think the council has much greater knowledge on what the needs are within our community and so we're advocating that we support the city of Murrieta's resolution

and so that's kind of a summary of of the items that were brought up by council understandable okay thank you matt but i do want to ask the deputy city manager phil burham a couple of questions about the graffiti we've seen a real upsurge we get a lot of calls a matter of fact most of our calls are related right now to graffiti removal i'd like you just to explain what are we doing now regarding graffiti removal

Thank you, Mayor. So just as a reminder, Councilman Sandoval and those in the audience that might not remember or might not be aware of what we're doing specifically In February, the council directed staff to implement a program where we would not only address graffiti on public property, which we already have a five-man crew that works full-time addressing graffiti on public property all week long, literally dealing with 100 reports a week just on our public properties. Because of the apparent uptick in graffiti over the last year or so, council directed staff to work out a program that we could also work with private property owners. And what we have done is council approved a budget to get us through the end of the year of I think it was $200,000 that we could hire a third party contractor to remediate private property graffiti. Now, we can't just do that. We can't just go into someone's property and remediate or mitigate for the graffiti. We have to work with that property owner, get them to sign a waiver saying, hey, we can do this, but we'll come as close as we can to the color and so on and so forth. So we implemented that process on March 1st of this year. And we had, as the city manager mentioned, a contractor in place that did some kind of emergency services for us when it was after hours or when our crews aren't working. and they did a lot of board ups and they do a lot of contract work for the code division. So we added that work onto their contract. But because of the volume that we anticipated, the city manager asked us to go out to bid and see if we can get some competitive pricing if we're gonna be doing this for the next couple of years. So what's on the agenda this afternoon is the approval of the selected contractors to continue that private abatement. But what I wanna share with the council is The number of calls, and the word is getting out. People are using 311 to report graffiti. The difference today since March 1st to anything before March 1st is before they would report graffiti on private property, code enforcement would then send that property owner a notice of violation and give them 72 hours to cure and then take all kinds of steps with potential fines and notice of violations. What we do now is since we get a report, we contact that property owner and say, if you sign this waiver, we'll take care of it for you. And then as soon as we get that waiver signed, then we'll abate that graffiti within 72 hours. That's the agreement we have with our contractors. So the contract that was on the agenda today is just to have two different service providers that can do that for us on a regular basis. The volume of calls that we've experienced far exceeds, I think, what our original projection was. Knowing that we do close to 100 calls weekly on our public property, we're now doing about 50 to 60 calls a week on private property. So the word is getting out and people are contacting us and the public is doing a great job at reporting graffiti, but this is a process that's going to take a little bit of time to get through and get caught up with. As soon as we get a property waiver, we take care of it. It's been a very expensive process to get us to this point, to abate the numbers of calls. We've addressed 450 calls in the last six months, and it has steadily grown. This summer, in fact, we peaked, I think, at 165 calls in the month of July. We're hoping that's because there was a lot of teenagers out of school and acting nefarious, and we hope it's not a norm. So we think we had a little bit of an increase in summer, but we do have a contract group that's out there abating this stuff as soon as we get the calls and as soon as we get the waivers. And I know there's a much bigger conversation about graffiti that the council is seeing the effect and seeing the impact, but wants to see more. So we're working on other strategies too. I'm not sure. I think I over-answered your question, but I'm not sure if I answered your specific question.

No, actually, you really lined it up because we've been discussing this problem. The public is upset about this problem. They are bringing it to our attention in so many formats wherever we go, and we appreciate those that are reporting it, but we've got to come up with some solutions. I'm going to let our mayor pretend he has his light on.

Thank you, Mayor. So I just had a question. You know, I appreciate all that the city is doing right now to try to address the problem. And I know enforcement is a big part of it. And I think enforcement is a big part of what we'd like to see as a council in terms of I mean, we can go out there and spend a lot of resources and paint over graffiti and such, but if the perpetrators go unpunished, then there's a potential for this to just be a recurring problem. And we need to address the core of the issue, which is catching the perpetrators and making sure that they get... prosecuted or punished or you know taken care of for and that they don't do it again so I was I was wondering if as part of your enforcement that you're looking at if you can please take a look at a potential community reporting system that may involve some kind of reward for information that leads to some kind of conviction or catching some of the the perpetrators and so just wanted to bring that up because I think including an incentive there for people to report and for some kind of enforcement outcome would be beneficial to at least having a long-term solution that may curb the problem eventually. Because I think spending all these resources that we have right now and having it continue where we just have to keep painting over and over again, that's a good service that we're providing, but we have to attack it from the other angle as well and take some preventative measures so that we have a strong enforcement program.

Yeah, that's one of the want to see the tricks of the conversation but it's almost a social engineering conversation the city manager and I and a few others have been talking about some different alternatives and we want to work on this a little bit further and come back with some very specific recommendations maybe that might modify our code because it is one thing to address it and I think that our staff is doing a great job addressing everything that they're aware of the mandate we have in public works for someone reporting graffiti is that it must be removed our staff is judged on whether it's removed in 72 hours 99% of its removed in 48 hours So once we get the clearance to remove it, we're a very good reactive staff, but I'm not sure it's conducive to city operations to spend, and if we trend on this trend line, it's $800,000 a year potentially. We think there's a spike, and we think as you address it quickly, it tends to demotivate the person from doing it, and that's a police conversation more than any other, but that's what studies will show. But there's not a lot of value to the city, and even if it's $500,000 a year, if you have to spend that forever addressing something as silly as graffiti, that doesn't really go in a different tangent. But we are looking at different ways. As you can imagine, it is a prosecutable offense to do it, but if you can imagine bringing a case for graffiti abatement to the district attorney, it's probably not as high on his list of things, especially that are going on in the county. So I think what the city manager has been talking about doing is we have a city prosecutor, and we're working on some strategies with that. I love the reward idea. Working... cooperatively with some of our commercial business owners that might have cameras that could help collect evidence for the police department as we further investigate them. I think the city managers talked to the chief about a task force specifically. Some of the graffiti is related to certain groups of individuals, and they're already on police's radar, and they're tracking those specific tags and codes. But yeah, it's something, if you don't address the root, it's just going to be a very expensive band-aid over the coming years. So we are working on putting something together. With code being as proactive as they are on this, it's a learning curve that we're getting into from this side. PD's been dealing with it for a long time, and we take photographic evidence before we deal with any abatement so we can track um the individual by their signatures they're typically when they graffiti they repeated the same thing and i'm not saying this literally but there's probably a hundred people that are doing a thousand of the tags um so tracking them and photograph photographing the log is very important thank you for that i see john's light on mr burham i was wondering if uh you know to get this information out to the public if

we could put your proposals that you discussed this afternoon on our website.

I think the proposals are still, you mean, I wanna make sure I'm answering the question you're asking, Councilman.

I just wanna give the public the same information that we received here today on what actions the city is taking to abate graffiti. If I may.

Clearly, the council's identified this issue, and what I'd like to do is just to come back with council with these strategies, and that includes kind of publicizing part of the discussion. And then right now, we only have the one item on the agenda, but it's abundantly clear to me that we need to, you know, it's been a while since we've taken a look at that section of the code. I think that code was last updated in 1999, so I think a refresh on that would be great. And I think we haven't done a very good job of publicizing the efforts that we are doing today. But certainly as part of our strategy, and I'll put together kind of an internal task force of folks and then bring that back to the council on the overall strategies. But part of that would be public relations because we can't do this alone. We certainly need the community to participate in this and help us.

Thank you.

We certainly want to keep people. Oh, go ahead, Council Member Cobb.

So Mr. Byrne, would you say the majority of the graffiti that's getting tagged on is gonna be commercial property?

I can't say that for certain, but that's my impression, sir.

Okay, that's my impression as well. So how are we working with our local businesses that own or these local owners of the commercial centers Say they do an incentive where they install security cameras or they update their landscaping to keep more of a defensible barrier from them being able to get close enough to their property to graffiti it. Are we able to incentivize them to say, hey, you do the work, show us the work was done, we will give you a break on your tax agreement with us. Not their sales tax, like their business licensing.

So one of the things that the city manager and I have been talking about The policy that the city council implemented in February was basically carte blanche across the city. Whether you're a personal residence owner or a commercial property owner, the city is going to take care of it. I think that if the majority of instances are occurring on commercial properties, because they're in more prominent corners and more prominent intersections, the most likely to get a message tag. they are certainly receiving the biggest financial benefit from the city council's investment into doing that abatement.

Well, that's if you painted the correct color and it matches and then it goes that way. 100%. Because they're still being impacted by the negative effects because it's still a stain on their business, right?

Correct. So it was the part of the conversation we're having about potential enforcement and legal action and civil actions beyond once we catch the individuals because these individuals are caught eventually. You either catch them in the act or you just catch them three years later when they do the same tag that we have evidence of. having businesses cooperate with camera footage and defensible spaces is something that we should definitely include in the discussion, but we haven't approached that at this point yet. That's the discussion right now. Something to think about. But I do love the landscaping, defensible spaces away from the wall.

Right, I mean, if someone's paying us $2,000 in business taxes, right, in their licensing agreement, I would rather them do defensible and beautification of their property to make sure this isn't a problem in the future, because then now you're making your property more valuable as well as your neighbor's more valuable, and then you're bringing more people to the city of Fontana.

Totally agree, yes, sir. Okay.

All right. We're going to do that for business. We need to do it for residents. Because me as a resident, somebody tags my house, it devalues my house. So we're going to have the city go, and I pay. Do you have a business license at your home? I pay taxes. I pay my property taxes. Yeah, but you have a business license. It doesn't matter whether I have a business license or not.

Just to clarify, everyone. Just to clarify. Just a minute. This is something, Matt, I think. When you get to that internal group, myself and the Mayor Pro Tem are very anxious to help you guys get that going. And let us come back and let this council have a document showing exactly what this is all about. But in the interim, we continue to put information out. We need you to dial 311. And we need you, if you have an area that has been hit before or you are worried about that, call and find out how you can get a waiver in advance. The amount of time it takes our rate servicing to occur is based on how they get that waiver. But we're gonna hash this out. I thank you for your comments. Deputy City Manager and the City Manager will take it from here. And we're gonna move from the consent calendar to our voting with the understanding that you pulled these items. If someone does not want to vote for a certain item, they can note that when they vote. We'll do it orally so that we can have that happen because I'm noting now that I'm reclusing myself from B. If I can have a motion and a second,

Move the consent calendar, Mayor.

Second the consent.

Motion is second. And I'm not supporting W. OK, let me, when I call your name, you can say that. We're going to start with Councilmember Coffin.

Aye.

Mayor Pro Tem Peter Garcia.

Aye.

Council Member Roberts.

Aye.

Council Member Sandoval.

I will vote yes on the rest of the consent calendar, but I will not be supporting W. Okay.

Aquanetta Warren, Mayor. I am reclusing from B, but I approve the rest of the consent calendar. Our tally is 5-0. Thank you, City Clerk Key, with the exception of the items that were noted. Thank you. That brings us to public hearing. Item A, which is a quarterly lien action for delinquent sewer and solid waste accounts. The public hearing is now open.

City Clerk Key, did you receive any written correspondence? Mayor, we did not. Okay.

We have a report from our Deputy Finance Officer, Malene Galvin, who will provide a staff report.

Good afternoon, Mayor and members of the council. The item before you for consideration are the city's quarterly lien actions for delinquent sewer and solid waste. This is an administrative process. It is not punitive action that is designed to ensure that unpaid service charges remain recoverable over time. The lien process protects city revenues, ensures the financial health of these services, and prevents the cost of delinquent accounts from being shifted to other ratepayers. Sewer and solid waste liens are processed under Health and Safety Code sections 5473. Property owners have received the required notifications, which include regular billing, mailed lien notices, and legal publications. For this quarter, the proposed liens cover 113 sewer accounts, 142 solid waste accounts, totaling approximately $209,000. These liens will be recorded with the San Bernardino County Recorder's Office, and any unpaid amounts as of July 1st will be added to the annual property tax roll. Staff's recommendation is that the City Council authorize staff to complete and record the liens for all eligible delinquent accounts and adopt the resolution authorizing the collection of sewer and solid waste charges on the county tax roll. This is a routine item and I'm happy to answer any questions. Are there any questions for staff regarding this item?

Seeing no questions, City Clerk Key, do you have any requests to speak? Mayor, we have no requests to speak. Okay, I'm going to close the public hearing. May I have a motion to approve staff's recommendation as provided in the staff report?

So moved, Mayor.

Second for approval.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. We're going to cast our votes this time.

Mayor Pro Tem Garcia, did you? Are you unable to vote?

I vote aye.

Okay. Five in favor, motion is passed. Motion passed.

That takes us to public hearing item B, a public hearing for consolidated annual performance evaluation report, fiscal year 2025-26. The public hearing is now open. City Clerk Key, did you receive any written correspondence on this item?

Mayor, we did not.

Okay, that brings us to our Housing and Homeless Service Analyst, Jessica Harrow, will provide the staff report.

Good afternoon, Mayor and City Council. As an entitlement jurisdiction in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the City of Fontana is required to prepare and submit a Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report, also known as a CAPER, which is an evaluation of the City's performance in carrying out and expending federal funds per established goals. Fontana receives three annual grants from HUD that must be included in the CAPER. These are the Community Development Block Grant, known as CDBG, Home Investment Partnership, known as HOME, and Emergency Solution Grant funds, known as ESG. For fiscal year ending in June 30th, 2026, the city successfully carried out each of these activities identified in the city's HUD approved action plan. Funds were expended in various areas, including police services, senior scholarships, homeless prevention, and housing rehabilitation program to assist Fontana residents. As required by HUD, a preliminary draft of the CAPER has been made available for public review for a minimum of 15 days on the city's website and multiple public locations. The notice of availability and invitation to comment was also published in the San Bernardino Sun and the Press Enterprise. No written comments were received on the draft consolidated annual performance and evaluation report as of this meeting. Following today's public hearing, the caper must be submitted to HUD no later than September 30th, 2026. That completes the staff report unless there are any questions of the City Council.

Are there any questions for staff regarding this item? Seeing no questions, City Clerk Key, did you receive any written correspondence?

I mean, I'm sorry, do you have any requests to speak on this item? Mayor, there are no requests to speak.

Okay, with that said, I'm going to close the public hearing. I am asking for a motion to approve staff's recommendation and the staff report.

I'll make that motion, Mayor.

Second.

I have a motion and a second. Please cast your votes.

Mayor Pro Tem Garcia, we need your aye.

Aye.

Five in favor, motion passed.

Motion passed. Thank you. That brings us to Public Item C, a public hearing for complete change proceedings to amend the rate and method of apportionment of the existing special tax of the City of Fontana Community Facility District Number 117, South Ridge. Good afternoon, Mayor, members of the Council. Well, before you start, I just need to kind of give the housekeeping part. This is the time and place for the public hearing on the proposed changes of the rate method apportionment of the existing special tax of the city of Fontana Community Facility District 117 South Ridge. Before I formally open the hearing, is there any interested parties who wishes to file a written protest that will not be presented by the author of that protest at the hearing? If so, the protest must be filed with the city clerk now. The hearing is now officially open. To have an orderly hearing, we will first have the presentation by our great staff about the proposed changes to the rate and method of apportionment of the existing special tax of the community facility district. After that, we'll receive comments and questions and any written protests from any interested persons. When all comments have been received, the hearing will be closed. City Clerk Keith, do you have any written communication on this item? Mayor, I have no written communication on this particular item. Now we'll have our senior accountant, Fabiola, provide the staff report.

Yes, good afternoon, Mayor, members of the council, and members of the public. THE ITEM I AM PRESENTING TO YOU IS TO AMEND THE RATE AND METHOD OF APPORTIONMENT OF THE EXISTING SPECIAL TAX OF CITY OF FONTANA COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT NUMBER 117 SOUTH BRIDGE. ON JULY 14, 2026, THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPTED RESOLUTION 2026-075, A RESOLUTION OF CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE ORIGINAL RATE AND METHOD OF APPORTIONMENT WHICH CALL FOR A PUBLIC HEARING COMMENTS PROCEEDINGS TO IMPLEMENT A NARROW TECHNICAL AMENDMENT TO THE ORIGINAL RATED METHOD OF APPORTIONMENT. THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THE AMENDMENT AS REFLECTED IN THAT RESOLUTION AND THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT RATED METHOD OF APPORTIONMENT OF SPECIAL TAX IS TO BACKDATE AN INITIAL BUILDING PERMIT DATE USING THE ORIGINAL RATED METHOD OF APPORTIONMENT ORIGINALLY STATED AS JANUARY 1, 2026. This backdating is necessary to include within the defined term developed property. And thereby, subject to that special tax, the nine model homes for which building permits were issued shortly prior to January 1st, 2026. For reference, the amendment substitutes January 1st, 2025 as the initial building permit date. The actions before this council today are required to implement the proposed changes to the rated method of apportionment, including conducting a public hearing on the proposed changes, adopting a resolution calling for a special election subject to no protest, directing the city clerk to conduct a special election and take certain related actions. Adoption of a resolution declaring the results of the special election. Adopting a resolution of change determining that the proposed changes are lawfully authorized and directing recordation of an amendment notice of special tax lien for the CFD. Conducting a first reading of a special tax ordinance amending and restating the original adopted special tax ordinance for the CFD. And this concludes the presentation.

Thank you. Are there any questions regarding this particular report? Seeing no questions request, City Clerk Key, are there any requests to speak on this item?

Mayor, we have no requests to speak on this item.

With that said, I'm going to close the public hearing. We have a recommendation or a motion approving staff's recommendation as provided in the staff report adopting number one, resolution 2026-086, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Fontana, California, calling a special election for proposed changes to the rate and method of apportionment of the existing special tax of the City of Fontana Community Facilities District 117, South Ridge. If I could have a motion.

Move staff recommendation.

Second. A motion is second. Please cast your vote.

Aye.

Three in favor and one nay by Councilman Sandoval. Motion is passed. Okay, motion passed. Yeah, he did say. Oh, and Garcia gave his verbal vote.

Okay, so we have four and one. Okay, got it. Let me repeat that. We have four in favor, one not in favor by Council Member Sandoval.

Okay, four in favor, one nay by Councilman Sandoval. All right. Motion is passed. Motion passed.

Now, at this time, I ask City Clerk Key to open the ballot and announce the results of the election.

The result results are yes.

So it is in favor. All right, thank you that results of the election being unanimous in favor of changing the rate and method of apportionment of the existing special tax, the community facility district, we may now proceed to the final actions of the community facility district. may have a motion to adopt one, resolution number 20-26-087, declaring results of a special election regarding proposed changes to the rate and method of apportionment of the existing special tax of the City of Fontana Community Facility District number 117, South Ridge. Number two, to adopt resolution number 2026-88, determining the change to the rate and method of apportionment of the existing special tax of the City of Fontana community facility district number 117, South Ridge, are lawfully authorized and directing recording of an amendment to the notice of special tax lien. Number three, read by title only and waive further reading of and introduce ordinance number 1997, amending and restating ordinance number 1986, levying a special tax within the City of Fontana Community Facilities District Number 117, Southridge. If I can have a motion made by council member.

I'll make that motion, ma'am.

Second.

Second.

I have a motion to second. Please cast your vote.

I'll vote aye.

Mayor Pro Tem does a verbal aye. We have four in favor, one no by Councilman Sandoval. Motion passes. Thank you. Motion passed.

City Clerk, please confirm your vote. that is a yes mayor thank you motion carried this concludes the public hearing on proposed changes to the rate and method of apportionment of the existing special tax of the city of fontana community facility district number 117 south ridge that brings us to city manager communication reports we'll start with our city manager matt valentine

Thank you, Mayor and Council. First, I want to thank the Council for taking the time to recognize our employees. Not all agencies do that, and certainly it has a huge impact on the morale of our staff. And so thanks again for taking the time to recognize the good works of our staff. As I customarily will do, there were several items that the council approved on consent calendar that I kind of want to highlight for the public's purpose. First is we completed the gym resurfacing at the JT Center, so if you haven't had a chance to come out and take a look at it, I certainly welcome that opportunity, but it turned out great. We also awarded more than a million dollars in curriculum for after school programming, which is reimbursed by the school district. However, our community services staff are the one that administer the program. So thanks to community services staff. Also want to note the council authorized the submittal of a grant for $23 million to develop a microgrid system and also provide gap funding for affordable housing in the downtown. We also awarded and we kind of talked a little bit about a contract for graffiti removal. Again, these are our ongoing efforts. I'm glad we were able to talk about what we're doing today. We need to do a better job of marketing that. But we will come back as directed by the council. The council is not satisfied with the status quo. And so we're going to continue to beef that up. And we'll come back with an exhaustive list of strategies to address this. But I also would reach out or ask that the public take an opportunity as our development services director deputy city manager phil burham noted that for when you see graffiti please use the 3-1-1 system we have a experience that we get the removal done within a 48-hour period and that's huge we will address the private property portion of it but i will bring that back to council after i've had an opportunity to internally review that with my staff and with that that concludes my reports thank you mayor

Thank you. Before I ask our other electives for their report, I want to announce that we will adjourn our meeting in honor of Kuvander Singh. We call him Cal. And so he is part of a family that has done business in Fontana for a number of years. And unfortunately, he is no longer with us, but we want to make sure that we recognize his great memory. And with that, we'll start with our honorable treasurer over there, Janet Kohler-Brooks.

Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to congratulate our new officers. We are so proud of you and glad you're with us. Thank you. We'll now have our city clerk.

Thank you, Mayor. Congratulations to all of the awardees, our employees that were awarded earlier. It's very important to acknowledge good work, particularly with our first responders who protect us. My comments will be short. I and my grandson had the occasion to visit Corky's South Fontana last week, and not only did we have... amazing food, but they are conducting a fundraiser to contribute towards childhood cancers. If you stop into Corky's, just buy a cookie. The cookies are huge and they look delicious. The proceeds gained from the purchase of each cookie will go towards the childhood cancers, those particular foundations. And that concludes, oh, wonderful national night out, Chief. I feel like I haven't been here in a while. So the last event that I remember attending was a national night out. Fantastic as usual. And the only other comment is that I'm declaring September my official birthday month. I'm celebrating all month long. So, and that's it.

We're not going to give you a certificate. Okay.

since he's hand-drawn we'll start with council member catherine thank you madam mayor i will hand draw you one or i'll have my kids do it they're a little better artist than myself i had the pleasure of riding up with eagle one eagle one is our helicopter for the police department this last saturday so if you saw an annoying helicopter with lights and sirens on that was me uh it's always great to see how proactive our police department is when you're able to watch them from the sky and see exactly how our city has grown and is changing and the fact that we are utilizing different capabilities and tools when it comes to our public safety. So thank you, Chief, on that side of things. You guys are doing a great job. Welcome to our new family, to our police officers that were just sworn in, and thank you to my colleagues. The lowering of the community block fees came as a request from one of my residents. After we looked into it with the city manager, we determined the city of Fontana should never be making money off of its residents. We should be simply breaking even to make sure we are not charging them for a single thing. It is their city. They should be able to use it. They should be able to host block parties and come together as a community on their street at the very minimal cost to the city of Fontana. So I'm thankful that we were able to scrape off about $108 there from tax revenue or from revenue that we should not be claiming from residents. So thank you, Mary.

Thank you. Mayor Potem Garcia.

Thank you, Mayor. Just hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend and have a good evening. Thank you.

you. Council Member Roberts.

Thank you, Mayor. Special thanks to our new police officers. You know, they're embarking on a very significant career, you know, that keeps this entire city safe. And, you know, we're one of the safest communities in the Inland Empire, and that's due to entirely because of our great police department who just do an outstanding job. I just want to thank all the other folks that were recognized this evening for outstanding employees of the year. I've known Hector for a long time. He is truly a magnificent employee that just makes a huge difference for all of our community. utilize our fields. He's just great. And also, thank you to David for keeping all of our tech stuff in good shape. We appreciate you. And finally, I think to wish my middle daughter a happy 55th birthday today.

Happy birthday there for her, John. Council Member Sandoval.

Hey, Chief. Does that bring us up to our 20th, or are we still lacking our 20th? Officers? A few vacancies still? All right, well, 13, 14 more? So out there in the community, if you want to become part of the best police department in the whole world, come and see the Chief. He's looking for good officers, so we are, too. Thank you, Chief. Next thing, I'd like to apologize to Eve. I forgot my green hat. If I knew who said I brought my green hat, I didn't bring my hat. So I'll bring it back next time. Lastly, I'd like to wish my grandson, Francisco, he's going to turn 12 on Thursday. Most of you know Francisco from a little baby. Now he's going to be turning 12. So in about six years, he'll be running for office, and he'll be taking over pretty much everything around here because he's a really fantastic young man. So I'd like to wish Francisco a happy birthday. That's all I got. Thank you.

Thank you. First of all, I want to congratulate everyone that we honored today. This was, for this city, it just shows the amount of people that make this work, that do the implementation of the policies that this council comes up with. But more importantly, it shows the dedication that everyone has toward making sure that the quality of life in this community is just where it better be, great. I want to thank Christina Farah. She did a polished etiquette class on Saturday that was remarkable. I couldn't stay the whole class, but I got to see the outline and not bragging, but I did get flowers. I was super happy. She does a phenomenal job, and she was just trying to uplift our community and understanding what is necessary when you're running a business or you're working places, just what makes you stand out. And she had it at our Heritage Center, which is just beautiful. So it was a really good program. So thank you, Christina, for providing that uplift. We had a remarkable Fontana car show last Friday. It was so much fun. The cars were outstanding. The band was off the chain. And everybody really seemed to be having a great time. We want to congratulate all you grandparents out there. It was Friday, Grandparents' Day. I got to participate with my grandchildren, and I had a ball. They drew me pictures. I'm wondering about the pictures they drew of me, but I think their drawing is getting a lot better. I have ears now, so it's getting much better. I'd like to also wish my son Jamal happy birthday. It's a big birthday for him, so I'm not allowed to announce the age, but I'm pretty happy. Let's just say he was born on Labor Day, so we always enjoy Labor Day for him. It was labor in so many different ways. The Boys and Girls Club by far had their best golf tournament this year. Well attended, well supported. The entire community was represented, and it just made such a difference for the young people. We had a great opening up on Summit. Councilmember Cochran joined me. That was fun. 7-Eleven is back in a big way. Now they have a car wash, and they're locally owned. I mean, it was really nice. So you've got to go up there and patronize them. Let's see, Saturday night I had the pleasure of going shopping down at the Stater Brothers in the South and ran into a lot of good friends and had a good time. they talked me into buying more food that was interesting it was uh just really interesting how our citizens embrace what we have going here listening to them hearing their stories of how they like living in fontana made a really big difference and i thoroughly enjoyed talking to all of them We here in Fontana, we have really embraced that we want the image of our city to be pristine. And we understand why that is so important. Fontana is that light for the region. People are looking to us to see how we lead, how we gather, and how we thrive. And it spills over in the other cities. and there was a time where the image was not there. Those of us that lived here always knew that it was there hiding somewhere, but it has blossomed out and it's not joking around. Fontana's image is important and part of that image is when you drive through this town that you not see graffiti everywhere. Fontana, we need your help. We need to have vigilance on who's doing this and i'm looking forward to the city manager's recommendation because our staff has done everything in their power to move this along we've got to give them more tools and we've got to give them more assistance and we need the public to help us with that we're partnering with you those that have cameras or might see license tags of people doing this and they're getting bold it's not always late at night they're getting bold they're doing this during the day so somebody sees this going on please do not do not try to go up on these people and ask them to stop leave them alone don't talk to them just try to get a good description and turn that information in and then if you see it It's okay to go to social media, but that does not get it reported. When I see those comments on social media, I always say, what is the address? We need those locations so that our staff can do the incredible job that they do day in and day out of taking that stuff down. And for those of you that have special colors on your walls after graffiti occurs, we're not going to be able to match that paint. So when you're matching and painting, you might want to get an extra quarter gallon if it's a frequent issue so that you can match the paint you want to see on your walls. But we always have come through. If you notice, we've had a little bit of downturn on people breaking into the mailboxes. Let me knock on somebody's wood, because then they'll go back up. But it's because we come together and we partner together. So Fontana is known for working together and resolving issues. And that's what we're going to do with this one. Before I conclude this meeting, we've lost a valuable member of our community. there is his picture we are going to be concluding our meeting and when we do this we give the family a certificate and it's in the official record of the city some years from now young people or people that come behind us will look up the record of what we did as a community to embrace people's memories and these wonderful people's names will be in that record So please join me as we conclude our meeting in memory of Kalvinder Singh. Fontana City Council meeting adjourned.

Successor agency? Successor agency has been adjourned.