City Council - Regular Meeting

agency order this time. Please call the roll call. Mayor Baka present. Mayor Prom Scott present. Council member Caris present. Council member Perez present. Council member Mononttoya present. City attorney Eric Val present. City manager Tanya William present. Thank you. At this time we'll go into close session. Call on the city attorney.

Thank you mayor. There are four items on your close session agenda uh this evening. The first is a conference legal counsel with regard to potential initiation of litigation. Your second item is a conference with real your real property negotiators. Uh that has to do with property located at 134 Willow Avenue in the city of Rialto. Item three was or is a conference with legal counsel with regard to anticipated litigation. This happens to relate to a uh matter brought by the regional water quality control board that ask that we continue that item over to your next meeting. We've got an extension of time from the regional water quality control board to consider their settlement offer and uh staff needs a little bit of time to consider it and see if it's reasonable.

So then let's continue with uh item number three. That's right. Uh and item four is a conference of legal counsel with regard to two items of existing litigation. Uh both of these are Robertson versus City of Rialto, but they are different subject matters. That's in the report. Thank you very much. Is there anyone in the audience that wishes to address any of the items in close session? Seeing none, do I hear a motion to close to continue item three and uh move to close session?

Motion been made by Mayor Pro Tim Scott to continue item number three and close session. Seconded by Carla Perez. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposition? Hearing none. Motion carries. We'll move into close session.

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Hi guys, welcome back to our show. What are we calling this? Vendor shoutouts, farmers market, whatever the case is. If you have any suggestions, leave a comment down below. But we are here at the Rialto Certified Farmers Market and today we will be talking to one of our vendors who is Happy Hog Farms. They have been here with us for a very long time at the farmers market. So, let's go check them out. All right, guys. We are here in front of Happy Hawk Farms booth. All right, let's get started. Are you ready?

So, can you tell me a little bit about your business? Uh, we're we're local. We're in downtown Riverside, so we try to come out and try to support people for access to like fresh fruit, uh, organic, uh, a lot of stuff that we sell right here is it's we grow it, whether it's sugar canes, avocados, limes, the juice machine, that's oranges from from Riverside County. Everything is local. Do you have any bestsellers or anything that customers love?

The guacamole, that's the best seller. My brother makes it. Uh but little bit of tomato, a little bit of uh lime and there's a lot of guacamole, a lot of chunks of avocado. So it's really really good. That's our bestseller. And the tamales, everything is freshly made. And uh they're Mexican tamali cuz people ask are they what kind are they? Do cuz some people use banana leaves. We use corn leaves. We have beef, pork, chicken, and cheese for the people that don't eat uh meat. And then uh we sell ceviche, fish, shrimp, vegan. All right. Do you have any fun or interesting facts about the business?

Well, what people don't really know that we're only allowed to use local. So when we like when we press the juice, we're only allowed what's in season, you know? So sometimes it's not as sweet as it was because we'll once we run out of the navl, we'll start the Valencia and it'll have to like it'll get sweeter as the weeks go by. So people don't know that. So they'll think like, "Why aren't you just getting the the sweetie that is that's on right now?" But we don't get our stuff from like the markets or the commercial. It's all locally farmed. All right. Well, thank you so much for joining us today. I appreciate it. All right, guys. Well, that was Happy Hawk Farms. We will see you guys next time. Bye.

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Hi, good morning everyone. My name is Lynn Brown Summers and I am a master gardener and master food preserver with the county of San Bernardino. I am with one of the three community gardens here that is in the city of Rialto. here. We teach free classes. We are stewards of the land and we just would like to invite everyone to come out and learn a little bit about gardening and all the volunteer opportunities. So, welcome to Rialto's Community Garden. What brought me here was the food prices are kind of going up. So me and my girlfriend are trying to figure out the self sustainability. So this is one good way. I mean, if you're interested, there's a community here. There's classes. Take advantage. Throughout our daily lives, we encounter times where the equipment we use needs to be taken in for service or for upgrades. From system updates on our computers and phones to maintenance on our cars. During these periods of maintenance, the equipment is usually not available for use. The electrical system is no different. Occasionally, Southern California Edison needs to deenergize and take portions of the system offline so that crews can safely make repairs or upgrades. When Southern California Edison schedules maintenance,

we will begin mailing out outage alerts 7 to 10 days before the outage to ensure that you have time to properly prepare. When you receive one of these maintenance outage notifications, here are some key things to pay attention to. Number one, the outage number. If you have any questions about the outage or status of the outage, you can call or visit our outage map atce.com for more information. Number two, the estimated start and end times. These times are estimates. We will try to reduce the length of the outage, so the actual times may be different. Also, be sure to understand the times and the length of time of the outage as some outages are conducted overnight. Number three, the impacted address. This may seem obvious, but many customers have more than one location where they receive electricity. Number four, resources and tips for how to prepare for an outage, including tips for electronic items and food safety. If you want to get even more time to prepare for an outage and to receive communications digitally, including updates if an outage is canceled or the restoration time is rescheduled, please log into or register your account atce.com and select your desired notification preferences, email, text, or Hey, Rialto. My name is Maria from the city of Rialto's Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Department, and I'm excited to share some awesome news with you. We're thrilled to announce the completion of the resurfacing project at Rialto City Park, reinforcing our city council's commitment to maintaining highquality public spaces that meet the needs of our families. As a family first community, we believe that well-maintained, safe, and accessible parks foster a stronger sense of togetherness and community pride. So,

what's new? First, check out these bold, vibrant colors. Not only do they look amazing, but they're designed for better visibility and to bring energy and enthusiasm. These colors reflect our city's identity and our dedication to providing top tier recreation anemities. Plus, we've introduced Rialto's first ever pickle ball courts. As part of the project, one of the tennis courts has been converted into four designated pickleball courts, giving our residents a fun new way to stay active. There's still more. We added our city of Rialto's parks and wreck logo to the basketball courts and extended the fence between the pickle ball and tennis courts to enhance the experience of our players. Interested in playing on the pickle ball and tennis courts? Visit the Rialto Fitness and Aquatic Center for access. The basketball court is open for public use. So, come in and shoot some hoops. We know that recreation plays a vital role in building a healthy and active community. That's why we continue to work towards keeping our parks, recreational facilities, and gathering places to a high standard that enhances the quality of life for our residents. This project was made possible by funding through department funds and the California Prop 68 per capita grant program. At the city of Rialto, we take pride in shaping a thriving and innovative recreational landscape, ensuring that our city keeps pace with growth while maintaining high standards our council desires and our residents deserve. We are committed to the future of Rialto, where families thrive, public spaces inspire, and recreation brings people together. We can't wait to see you at the courts.

What do you think about the new courts? Awesome. Love the fiberglass backboard. Nice. And I was here the other day when they were painting it. So, yeah. But I got to come with my son and shoot some hoop. It's impressive. You know, they did a great job with them. And the colors, I love the colors. They're so vibrant and welcoming. It's like you just want to come and buy a new basketball. I love them. Gets your attention right away. Um, and it's uh very nice to see that the city's actually doing something for for the for the park. It's a really nice upgrade.

I like how you can you you can raise a court, you can make it higher, I mean lower and higher for the little littleer kids. I like everything about it. I like the environment. I like how it's gated up for the kids. I like it. Shout out to Rialto. Y'all doing your big one. I think about the courts is is fire and thank you for our community. Nice. I think about the court is that I love it so much. This is every group's dream and thank God for everything. Nice. What do you think? You like them? Fire.

Yeah. You fire. All right. You guys want to shoot? Yeah. Go, go, go. I'm going to shoot. Hello. I'm Scott McAfee of Dons's Bikes and we are rooted in Rialto. The stores opened on April 1st, 1959, so 66 years ago. A long time, which is pretty wild. Um, it was a little hole-in-the-wall store up the street at that point. And, uh, my dad pretty much ran it all by himself. And I'd say, you

know, as a kid, I grew up in the business, so I would do a lot of the purchasing for him. I'd work on bikes. And I think at that point I got a rough idea of like how to run a small business. 5 days after my 18th birthday, my father passed away. He was actually riding his bicycle home. He had a heart attack and passed away. So I became a small business owner at 18. Was not what I planned on doing for a living. I was actually in college at the time and was getting my degree in psychology. I wanted to be a counselor. End up getting my masters in in counseling. And uh but we decided to keep the business because it was generating an income. It was getting me through school. So we thought, okay, let's let's keep this thing. And we ended up moving down here at this current location in the early 80. We just ran out of room. So we made the big leap and kind of tripled our size. And I remember it was pretty scary at that point like, wow, are we gonna be able to afford this rent? You know, will the business accommodate that? And sure enough, it did. And we continued to grow. I started hiring people to run the business to help help run it. We did several expansions at this location, Rialto. And then in 2012, we opened up a Redland store, which is like three times the size of this place. And that took off like a rocket from day one. And here we are like 66 years later. It's one of those things if my dad could see us now, he'd be blown away. Not only as far as the things we do, but just the depth and the difference of products that we offer. Now, electric bikes are incredibly popular. We're actually selling electric motorcycles now. Something I never thought I would be selling. Um, we sell a lot of high-end carbon bikes that have electronic shifting. My bike has electronic shifting on it. We have entry- level bikes. I mean, if you want something for like 13 grand, we've got those. But if you're want more like an inexpensive bike just to commute back and forth to work, we do sell used bikes as well. So, it's a variety and there's a lot of different categories of riders. That's I think the thing that keeps me interested and uh motivated in this business. You just never know who what you're going to work with next. It's a very very diverse group of people. Uh but what they all share in common I think is a love of cycling. Um, and I see the expression on people's faces when if they have if they've been off a bike for a while when

they come back from a little test ride, they've always got that smile on their face like, "Wow, it's like being a kid again." So, it's it's really cool. Our address is 384 South Riverside Avenue in Rialto. We're open from 10il 6 Monday through Saturday, 11:00 to 4:00 on Sundays. Or you can go online to donsbikeshop.com. We do a lot of repair work. This place isn't as is crazy. On a weekend, we do a ton of repairs, so we have quite a few mechanics. have 22 employees total. A lot of them are dedicated mechanics. This is what they do all day long. They fix other people's bikes. And we work on all kinds of bikes, not just the ones we sell, but pretty much bikes from all over the place. Cool thing about this business is it is about health, fitness, psychological health. You know, as I know, just getting a masters in counseling, psychology, anything you can do to reduce stress is is just a win-win. Um, and so we are tied in with fitness, with health, with recreation, uh, with community, with, you know, giving people groups to ride with. We do events with the city and we partner with them on on a lot of different things. We do have, um, the ride out for the teens. A Rialto PD gives us an escort for that. We also had some really cool celebrities come out. These are people from the Viking world from like the 80s or kind of the stars, if you will, of the of the the BMX world that came out to be part of our event. So, you know, we we kind of been part of this community for a very long time. And, you know, when people have asked, well, why do I like to give back to my community? And it's because of my community has given so much to me. And I probably one of the favorite things I like about doing this is you get to really know people in this business. Kind of like a barber or hair stylist where you talk to people and you get to know their stories. I mean, I had an exchange with a gentleman just this morning who shared some some sorrow and some loss uh from a family member who' passed away. Those are the kind of relationships we develop with people and we've done so over literally decades and it it's just kind of cool because most businesses they don't get to get that personal I guess with people but that's probably my uh my favorite thing is just all the relationships the friendships

that we have made uh with all kinds of different people over the The city of Rialto's upgraded permitting center is a seamless userfriendly experience for permit applications, business license requests, and secure online payments. Designed for efficiency, transparency, and convenience, this platform is built to service residents, contractors, and city staff alike. Everything you need all in one place. Check out this introduction video to the new online permit center coming June 2nd. Welcome to Civic Access, the online customer access portal for the city of Rialto. This introduction will navigate you through the various online services and functions offered by the city of Rialto. As a guest visiting the site, you will be able to pay invoices, search for records, and view scheduled inspections. If you are a registered user, you will have access to see more information about your applications and records, and even apply for certain development applications. To log in, click login or register in the top right corner of the page or with the tile in the center of the screen. If you have not registered for Civic Access, please create an account prior to logging in. After successfully logging in, you will see additional tabs and functionality. The first tab is the homepage. This will bring you back to the main page again from wherever you are in the website. The next tab is the apply tab. This is where you can apply for available online permit plan and business license applications. After clicking apply, you will be

automatically redirected to the city's decision engine, which is a guided application to help you find the correct permit plan or business license application to apply for. The next tab is the dashboard. In the dashboard, you will be able to see the progress of your permit and plan applications that you submitted to the city. You will also be able to view all of your inspections and their associated statuses. Your dashboard will also show your open invoices. You can make payments by adding them to your cart and making a payment with a credit card. If you have business licenses with the city, they will be listed at the bottom of the dashboard screen. My work is another way to see all of your associated records in a list view. It is sectioned out into permits or plans, inspections, and invoices. If you applied for a permit or plan at city hall, you should see the record in this screen. If you have difficulty finding a particular record, you are able to filter and sort your records. There is even an option to export your records into a Microsoft Excel file. Providing the correct email address and contact information on your application is essential to being able to see your records in the online portal. Please contact the city if you are not seeing your applications in the online portal. If you want to see scheduled inspections, click on the today's inspections tab. If you would like to see upcoming scheduled inspections or past scheduled inspections, simply change your desired date. The search records tab allows you to search and view information available for permit, plan, licenses, and inspections records. You can search with record numbers, keywords, or partial descriptions. Click on the record number to see more details of the record. If

you cannot locate the record you are looking for, please contact the city. The last tab is the help tab, which is where you most likely found this video. Along with this introduction video, there will be other instruction videos and help guides available to you. If you need additional assistance, please contact the city. Now that we have gone over all of the menu options, let's quickly go over the six tiles that you see on the homepage. These offer you another way to quickly navigate the most frequently visited menu areas of Civic Access. This has been your introduction to Civic Access, the one-stop shop for development and permit application needs. If you need any additional assistance or information with Civic Access, please contact the city. Thanks for watching. 19 emergency has hit working families hardest. That's why all across the country, community action agencies are open and here to ensure the well-being of every American family. For over 50 years, we've been delivering hope and opportunity. Now more than ever, working families need life-changing services, solutions, and stability. Contact your local community action agency today. To give your garden a boost while helping the planet, the city of Rialto has you covered. Rialto residents and businesses can pick up free mulch and compost. Open to the public 24 hours a day. Located at 246 South Willow Avenue in the south parking lot. Bring your shovel and container to this self-s serve station and do your part to keep Rialto green. It's first come, first serve. Transform your yard and support

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We'll call the meeting to order. City Council, City of Rialto, the acting successor agency to the redevelopment agency, the Rialto Utilities Authority, the Rialto Housing Authority will now come to order. Will the city manager please call the role? Sure. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, Mayor Jbaka, present. Mayor Pertam Edcott, present. Council member Annie Carzales, present. Council member Carla Perez, present. Council member Edward Mononttoya, present. City Clerk Barbara McGee is not present. City treasurer Edward CO present. City attorney Eric Bale, present.

And city manager Tanya Williams. Thank you. All present with the exclusion of the city clerk being absent at this point. So at this point if everybody could uh please stand up for the pledge of allegiance that will be led by our mayor pro Tam Scott. Please join me in the pledge to our flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. If you can uh remain standing, we'll have the uh invocation by Pastor Javier Reyes from the Calvary Rialto Church. Let's go ahead and pray. Father, we pray this night, Lord, as this meeting is underway. We pray that Lord, you would be the one that would lead tonight's meeting. I do pray first of all for all the city officials that are here beginning with Mayor Bodaka and the rest of the council members and all those that are seated around him. Lord pray that they would realize that the responsibilities that they have no matter how small or how great Lord has been entrusted to them by you. And so I pray tonight dear God as they make decisions dear God Lord that they would realize that it would be a lasting impact Lord for the city of Rialto. Lord, it's going to affect not only people but growth pro and uh Lord, furthering, Lord, uh just the city of Rialto's boundaries, Lord, as they're going to discuss numerous resolutions, dear God, they needed wisdom from you and discernment, Lord, and the things that they must make, Lord, that it can affect not only one individual or a whole community, Lord. It all is important to you. And so, I do pray for your favor upon tonight's meeting. Do you pray for your leading, Lord, through your spirit, Lord, as they make these decisions, dear? Give them clarity of mind, Lord, and that they would not waffle in the decisions they must make. But I do pray that you would be with them, dear God. Thank you, Lord, for uh Lord, the responsibilities that they hold. And we ask and pray all these things in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. And we all say, "Amen."

Amen. Thank you, Pastor Reyes. At this time, we'll begin with the report from our city attorney on close session.

Thank you, mayor. There were four items listed on your close session agenda for this evening. The first was a conference with legal counsel with regard to initiation of litigation. Council voted unanimously to initiate a receiverhip action with regard to property located at 134 Willow Avenue, Rialto, California. Your second item was a conference with your real property negotiator. You did have a briefing from your real property negotiator and discussion, but there was no other reportable action on that item. Item three, which was a conference with legal counsel with regard to one item of anticipated litigation, uh was continued over by unanimous vote of the city council to your first meeting in February. The last item was a conference with legal counsel with regard to two items of existing litigation. you had a briefing and gave direction to your special counsel for both of the listed cases. There's no other reportable action on that item. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh next we'll move into oral communications. But before we do, I just like to say uh welcome to all of the labor family members that are here uh to today's council meeting. Uh, with that are there I'll call on our city clerk to mention any individuals that would like to speak under oral communications. Thank you. Uh, good evening, Mayor Baka and members of the council. I am here representing Miss Christina Ramirez here with me present. uh property owner of 157 South Sycamore in Railto. Uh we wanted to take this opportunity to bring to your attention issues that we are having with this property and seeking your support to find a reasonable solution or resolution to our issues. Miss Ramirez with her husband purchased this property in 2023 under false pretense. It was presented to her as a threeunit property. uh when she toured it and purchased it, there was tenants there, three separate entities. They continued to be the renters once she purchased the property. However, 3 months into ownership, uh one of the tenants or requested an upgrade to one of the facilities. She denied it and told her that at that time it was in a reasonable

request and as a consequence that tenant reported Miss Ramirez to the city as an illegal unit that she was renting. Unbeknownst to Miss Christina, sure enough, there was plenty of issues with that property to the extent that there wasn't even a second or third unit recorded with the city. Again, she was sold this property under false pretense. Regardless, she complied with the city, seized all renters, removed all rentals to seek a resolution and make the property compliant. Once she contacted the city, they informed her that there was no more records of the blueprints and was then forwarded to the county to secure blueprints so that she can secure permits. Went to the county and the county told her that those records were destroyed two years prior to her purchasing that property and therefore no more access to these records. She then secured an engineer and an architect to develop these blueprints because the city told her, "You need blueprints before we can start processing any type of permits for these properties." She now has the blueprints. She's been working with the city for these permits. However, we've reached the point where the city is now telling her that she needs to demolish more than 50% of the property because the solutions that the architect and the engineer are providing are not acceptable to the city. We have letters from the engineers and the construction firm and the architects providing alternate solutions to some of the com some of the problems with the property. However, the city continues to state to her that she needs to demolish. So, we're here today to bring this to your attention and seek your support in encouraging the city to not be so rigid and find alternate solutions other than demolishing. Again, she hasn't been receiving rent for over a year. She bought it under false pretense. So, we're just asking for a little bit of

consideration and support from the council to help resolve this issue. Well, thank you very much for bringing it to our attention and our community uh director Christina Taylor will get together with you and see hopefully we can come up with some form of a resolution for this. Thank you. Thank you. Next

sorry I have someone want to speak on the consent calendar but everything else would be for tabs. All right. Um, seeing that there's no other individuals uh that would like to speak under oral communications, we'll move on to the consent items. The consent Mr. Mayor. Yes.

Um, under the category of city council considering moving or continuing items. Um I would like to request tonight that tap number two be which which is the uh proposed approval of water or wastewater that it be split into two separate items. One being water the other one being wastewater. Um, and I will be recusing myself on the water item as I became aware in the last committee meeting we had that I am the only resident and property owner that resides in the Rialto Water Service territory. Therefore, as to not put off an appearance of being biased or self-serving, I would u abstain on this item per recommendation of the city attorney this morning um and let the council do its deliberation and make a decision. I will participate in the wastewater uh rate discussion.

Okay. Uh thank you. With that, uh, Mayor Pro Tim has recused himself from tab two under the item of water, but he will participate in the wastewater aspect of Right. Correct. With any other objections? If not, then I'd like to He also asked if we can split the item into two items. Are we able to do that?

Uh, yes, you're able to do that. uh you can hold the discussion on the water item and staff can give any presentation. You can ask any questions about it and then you can take a vote. Uh Mayor Pro Tim will of course have to remove himself from the DEIS during that discussion. Once you finish that then you you can come back and you can have your presentation questions on the wastewater subject. Okay. Thank you. With clarification from the attorney any objections to that? Seeing none, then what we'll do then is move on to the consent item. Any consent item may be removed at any time from any member of the council or member of the public that wishes to address that. Um, we have a member from the uh

they want to speak on F2. Is is Sophie here?

No. Seeing that there's no one and we called the individual that wanted to address uh F2 on the consent item. Seeing none, do I hear a motion to approve the consent item? So moved.

Motion's been made by Mayor Prom. Scott, seconded by Andy Karacetis. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposition? Hearing none. Consent item is approved. Now we'll move in to tab one. Good evening, honorable mayor, mayorm and council members. I'm Daniel Casey, community development manager. I'll be giving the presentation on tab 1 tonight. Um, this project is entitled the Locust Gateway Development Project. Um, and the applicant is IV5 Locust Gateway Logistics Center LLC. I'm going to start here on the first slide just going over some of the background of the project. Beginning with the its location, um you can see an aerial image here where I've drawn a red boundary around the project site. Uh it is comprised of approximately 38.89 gross acres of land located at the southwest corner of Locust Avenue and LOL Street. Uh this property is within the Rialto airport specific plan and within the specific plan has a land use designation of general manufacturing. Um, as you can see, the site is currently vacant, uh, just covered by some natural, uh, grasses and shrubs. Um, and then the surrounding area is an already established industrial area. Um, on all four sides, you have existing industrial developments. And so, what the applicant proposes to do is to construct a 664,859 foot industrial warehouse building on the site. And in addition, they'll install associated paving, landscaping, fencing, lighting, and drainage improvements. Um, I want to note that industrial warehouse is an allowable use in the general manufacturing land use district. Uh, the building that is before you tonight, uh, does not currently have a tenant identified, but it will be able

to accommodate various storage and distribution uses. Just moving on to the next slide here. This shows you the site layout. Um, as you can see, the building will be placed on the west side of the property. Then there will be truck courts on immediately adjacent to the east side of the building and then also at the northeast corner of the site closer to the intersection of Locust Avenue and LOL Street. The truck courts will be enclosed by concrete screen walls uh so that none of the views of any of the trucks, trailers or activities within the truck court will be visible from the public right ofway. Um within those truck courts, they will accommodate the parking of up to 480 uh truck trailers. And moving on, there will also be passenger vehicle parking areas on the north, south, and west sides of the building. Um those parking areas will be able to accommodate 365 passenger vehicles. Um and that exceeds the minimum amount of parking required in the general manufacturing land use district. Um, additionally, you can see the green on the site layout here that indicates all the landscape planters that will be installed. They'll be installed around the street frontages, the perimeter of the site, also the perimeter of the building, and then throughout the parking areas. Um, the applicant will also install five new driveways that are indicated on the uh map there with the red arrows. Uh there will be three driveways on the north side of the property connected to Lol Street and then one driveway on the east end connected to Locust Avenue and there will be a fifth driveway on the west side, the left side of the map there, uh that's connected to a private street, Lake Paddin Lane. Uh that particular driveway would be for emergency vehicles only while the other four drivers would be for passenger vehicles and trucks coming in and out of the site. Uh next slide. This is the floor plan. Uh the applicant proposes that 657,146 square feet of the building would be

dedicated to storage space. The remaining approximately 7700 square feet will be used for office space. Uh the offices could be potentially located at any four corners of the building. That will ultimately be determined by the tenant. Um additionally, the building will have 82 uh loading docks uh dock doors on the east side of the building. Next slide. Moving into the architectural exterior design. Um the image you're seeing here, this is the north elevation of the building. So this is as we would see it from uh LOL Street if we were looking south. Uh the building will feature significant wall plane articulation as required by the city's design guidelines. Um that includes uh horizontal articulation, meaning three-foot offsets approximately every 100 linear feet just to help break up expanses of wall planes. and then also height variations. Uh the building's height will range from uh 42 and a half feet up to 50 feet from the finished floor. This building's construction will be of concrete tiltup walls. Uh it'll be painted in a palette of five different colors, um various gray tones, white, and then a couple of blue accent colors. The exterior of the building will also feature stone accents, composite wood siding, and then some standard architectural features, including panel reveals, metal eyebrow accents, and glass glazing on all four sides of the building. Now, this next slide, this shows you a 3D rendering of what the site would look like upon uh completion of construction. So, this angle is if we're looking uh southwest uh above kind of LOL Street there. So we can see the truck court with the landscaping along the street frontage, the screen walls that will screen the views of the truck court activities and then we can see the various architectural features on the building. So kind of gone over the details of the building and what their actual

development proposal is. Now kind of move on to some of the other items of the project. There is a tenative parcel map that has been filed with this project. though the site is comprised of one parcel of land. That's not something we typically see when we have one parcel of land. Um however, there were some past maps uh on this site on this property. It kind of complicated the legal description. Um and so to resolve the underlying past recordings and kind of simplify the legal description in addition to the development applications, the applicant filed a tenative parcel map as well. Um so in addition to resolving the issues with the legal description, the tenative parcel map will also u facilitate the necessary street dedication along the project frontage. Um once the street dedication's complete, the final parcel size would be 38.78 net acres in size which exceeds the minimum parcel size required by the general manufacturing land use district. Uh moving on to some of the traffic analysis that was conducted for this project. There was a transportation impact study that was prepared for this project. Um that study identified that the project or estimates that the project will generate up to uh 1,138 uh daily vehicle trips. Of those 455 uh would be truck trips. The peak hour trips were identified at 113 trips in the AM peak hour and 120 trips in the PM peak hour. Um then that trip generation was incorporated into the analysis which looked at 12 local intersections and what the impacts of the additional trips would be on those intersections. The study identified infrastructure deficiencies at three intersections um Locust Avenue and Kasa Grande Drive and then Locust and LOL Street and then Locust and Casmelia Street. Um then the study makes recommendations on how to get those intersections to an acceptable

level of service. Um those recommendations, the first one includes the installation of a new traffic signal at the intersection of Locust Avenue and Kasa Grande Drive. Um which I improvement as a part of the Locust Avenue roadway improvement project. Um that signal is planned to uh be installed around the third quarter of this year. Um so that signal would be installed uh and operational long before this building would be completed with construction or operational. Um then the second um recommendation in the study was to extend the eastbound left turn pocket of the on Casalia Street at the intersection of um Locust Avenue and Casia Street. Uh there's a raised median there currently that has a turn pocket with a depth of approximately 150 ft. The study recommends that that uh pocket be expanded to 250 ft to allow more Q cars to queue in the turn pocket and to avoid them backing into the through travel lanes. And then the remaining recommendations were to uh restripe LOL street. This is in front of the project. Um so that vehicles traveling eastbound on LOL uh will have both a dedicated left turn lane and a dedicated right turn lane. Um just again to help improve efficiency at that intersection. And then the last improvement is to restripe or add a northbound left turn lane at the intersection of LOL and and Locust Avenue. Um this would be to a dedicated left turn lane to allow uh vehicles to turn uh to head west on l towards the project site. Um so then the traffic impact study and the uh city's adopted traffic guidelines um determined that uh fair share mitigation fees uh constitute adequate mitigation for these recommended improvements. And the study identified

the project's fair share at about $365,000. um those fees would need to be paid prior to the certificate of o issuance of a certificate of occupancy. Um this next slide I want to cover that there is a development agreement that is before the council tonight for this project. Um that development agreement includes a uh $4 million monetary contribution that the applicant would make to the city of Rialto. Um those four mill that $4 million the staff's identified some needs that that could potentially go to uh that include uh funding the as I mentioned the Locust Avenue roadway improvement project also some of those additional improvements I'd mentioned as far as the left turn uh pocket expansion um but also could go towards commercial vehicle enforcement and other uh traffic and public safety needs in the city. But that said, the funds will be able to be used at the sole discretion of the city council. Um, in exchange for that $4 million contribution, the city would vest the project entitlements for a five-year period and then also lock the development impact fees at the current rates as of the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Um, now I'll move on to the environmental analysis that was prepared. Um, there was an environmental impact report uh that was prepared by Kimley Horn and associates for this project. Uh the environmental impact report identified uh significant and unavoidable impacts to greenhouse gas emissions. Um the city contracted with Echotiier Consulting to conduct a peer review on behalf of the city uh peer review of the ER on behalf of the city. uh that EIR there was a notice of preparation that was first sent out um circulated to the public from June 27th of 2024 uh to July 26 of 2024. Uh there

were a few comment letters that were received during that time

and then those comment letters uh were addressed in the draft environmental impact report um that was then uh circulated for public review from September 5th of 2025 to October 20th, 2025. Um there during that 45day public review period for the draft DIR, uh the city received eight comment letters. Uh, five of those comment letters were actually letters of support for the project. Um, there was uh two other letters that since have been withdrawn. Um, and then the last letter was a a general letter uh that uh requested that there be a condition of approval that requires all the truck traffic to utilize Locust Avenue to and from the site, which I will note that is a standard condition of approval that is incorporated into the resolutions uh before the council tonight. Um so then those comments were uh comment letters were um put into the final environmental impact report uh that was dated December 2025. So the environmental uh review that's been conducted for this site uh has been completed in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act. Now, I do want to note that the the resolution for the uh environmental impact report that's before the council tonight, it does include a statement of overriding considerations. And these items are the benefits uh that would outweigh the potential impacts uh from greenhouse gas emissions. Um and I've kind of summarized those benefits here for you, and I'll go through them. Um the project tonight is uh it its benefits would that would outweigh those impacts are that the project is consistent with the goals and objectives of the general plan and the Rialto airport specific plan. As I mentioned, this is an allowable use in that area. Uh the project will develop and a vacant and underutilized site with the highest and best use allowed in the general

manufacturing land use district. Uh the project will provide 100% of its energy load from on-site renewable energy generation. Uh the project will also create uh employment generating opportunities in both uh temporary and permanent jobs. It's estimated that this project would generate up to 550 permanent jobs. Uh the project will also provide an increase in tax revenue in the forms of increased property tax, business license tax, sales tax, and utility users tax. The project will also attract related businesses fostering long-term economic growth in the city of Rialto and it will also improve the efficiency of regional and national goods movement. And then lastly, as we already discussed, there was also the $4 million monetary contribution as a part of the uh development agreement. Um, one more thing I do want to note is that I discussed this with the applicant in advance of the meeting. The project will also have three uh labor. It does have full three fully executed labor agreements um with various labor union groups. Um and moving on here to the recommendation on uh December 17th of 2025, this project went before the planning commission uh that they they voted 70 at their meeting to forward a recommendation to the city council to approve the project. Um, and with that, both staff and the planning commission recommend that the city council adopt the resolutions that would certify the environmental impact report, approve the tenative parcel map, the conditional development permit, and the precise plan of design, and then introduce the first reading of the ordinance approving the development agreement. And that concludes my presentation. Uh, the applicant and their teams also in the audience if there's any questions for staff for the applicant.

Are there any questions? Not I'm glad that you mentioned uh community uh a labor agreement. Uh I wanted to make sure that it did have a labor agreement and you indicated that it would Yes. This is a public hearing and we need to open it up to the public first before we speak. All righty. We'll open it up to the public. Any member from the public wishes to address it?

Are there any members that have signed up? Sorry, Julia. Yes, she's coming up. Julie Lou. All right. Good evening, uh, city of Rialto, uh, Mayor Jobaka and city council members. My name is Julie Lou and I am a representative with the Western States Regional Council of Carpenters and uh we are here among all of our labor organizations to express our strong support for this project. We appreciate the developer for committing to working with contractors who hire locally and utilize apprentices from state certified apprenticeship programs. Uh these commitments ensure that highquality well-trained local workers will benefit directly from this project. I also believe this project will provide meaningful environmental and economic benefits to our comm community by implementing protocols that protect worker health and safety and incorporating appropriate environmental mitigation measures. The developer is taking responsible steps to reduce impacts while supporting good jobs and local investments. Um we really hope that you guys consider uh improving this project and uh we appreciate your time. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Any others? Luis Lopez. Good evening, honorable mayor, council members, staff, community. My name is Louis Lopez. I'm a business agent for the Iron Workers uh Local 433. And I want to I want to emphasize that projects like this,

every job is important. I've been hearing a lot lately that these are temporary jobs. They're not. It's as if you sent your child to college and they had to do an internship. Um this is what this is like. It's on the job training. Uh our apprentices need these jobs. And it's these jobs that also are important um to many of us our trades. um for it's it's an it's a it makes it able for us to when men and women like myself did two tours in the Marine Corps come back from honorably serving their country and I know I've been there. I didn't know where I was going to land. What was I going to do? Plus, you know, all the other stuff going on from being in a combat zone and the trades were there. you know, we work with organizations uh such as helmets to hard hats. I also sit on the workforce development board. So, I work with the veteran uh agencies there and also some of our community organizations that help us also capture some of the troubled youth. Um and along with the probation departments, uh many times I get calls from probation officers say, "Hey, I got this candidate that uh is doing everything that we're asking them to do and they're ready to make the next move and be a productive member of society." and so that they don't have to return to crime or whatever they were doing to get on probation. Um it also uh it helped us in many many different um just just different areas in the community. Um and I love that part of my job is seeing uh jobs like this change people's lives for the better. You know, it's like anybody that has their uh Is my time up?

Okay. Anybody that sends their send sends their kids to college, when they get that degree, whether it's a bachelor's, masters, um that child should be getting good wages and benefits. They took the time to go to college. Our apprenticeships are anywhere from four years to five years. And they're state accredited. They train our men and women to be a productive skilled and trained whether it's a carpenter whether it's an iron worker whether it's an electrician whether it's a labor skilled and trained accredited by the state. So and their credits that they earn some of them are transfer transferable uh traditional college credits. So, when we start them out at anywhere from $25 to $30 an hour, uh, and we just take them in and we pay for our own apprentichip programs, it's a win-win situation. And a lot of these folks, as you see, uh, behind me, every one of them carry a story, you know, of they're just grateful that they had the opportunity to join the union, get into an apprenticeship program because there were jobs available. We need jobs available. This is a partnership with the community, with stakeholders to help our local residents to strive, buy homes, raise a family. With that, I ask that you guys that I'm sorry, I ask that the city council um adhere to the planning commission recommendations and approve this uh this project. Thank you.

Thank you, Mike. Next. Robert Ramos.

Good evening, mayor, council members. My name is Robert Ramos and I belong to the Iron Workers of Local 416 business agent for over 30 years. I'm here to express the bea on behalf of my local to support this project tonight. Building a project such as this creates jobs and builds a stronger and better community from day one. Pretty much like all my brothers and sisters here already stated that local hire is key for the economic growth of Rialto. The developer has made a commitment to hire from this pool. local hire from apprentices to formerly incarcerated to veterans. That's a big commitment. So today I ask for a yes vote on this project and um hopefully we move this project along. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Speaker you have is Amy Smith. Is it Amy Smith?

Hi, good evening council. I don't know how I'm going to follow that up, but that was amazing. Um, my name is Amy Smith and I'm a representative of Care California and we are also here to support this project and to ask for your yes votes tonight. The commitments that this developer has made ensures that our local residents are going to benefit from this project from day one. The communities are going to be strengthened and growth will surely come and is a good sign of development and the future of not only Rialto but Southern California and California as a whole. We are all in this together and Rialto is a great step in pushing California to what it deserves, what our country deserves. In this time of economic uncertainty and widespread hardships, this development is a guarantee to be positive for the city of Rialto and something that we should all be welcoming and embracing to strengthen and work for uh economic growth that we all deserve. We support this project and the many benefits that are going to come with it and we ask for your yes votes tonight. Thank you.

Thank you very much Amya Lamas.

Uh good evening everybody. Uh, city council, mayor. Hopefully everybody's having a good night. Uh, come with uh, not much to say. Everybody's kind of really beat me to the punch to say what I had to say. Uh, but just like my brother from the iron workers was saying, everybody has their own story, you know. Um, I I did like two months in community college and I couldn't find a path. I said, I'm not doing it anymore. The laborers opened up the opportunity for me to start my career. Since this day, it's help it's helped me take care of my parents. My parents no longer work. They retired before they're allowed to retire. Don't ask me how they did it. Um, my younger brothers, they're going through that whole process of growing up having kind of what we didn't get to have growing up. It's uh it's like a bittersweet moment, too, in that aspect of where opportunities like this. It like it makes me kind of want to tell my brothers like, "Hey, you know what? There's these opportunities. There's these opportunities. You could take whichever route and both routes are going to definitely take you. Whether you take education, obviously I push that on them more, but the unions, they take care of you. They provide you health care, benefits, you know, a pension, all the unions kind of do. They they really change your life. And that's what the labors did for me. And projects like this gave me that opportunity to show that change. Every everybody in my family started asking me like, "Oh, chaosis, you know, what are you doing?" All my friends started asking me, hey, how do we join? You know, it the doors open up and that kind of really shows the community that that's kind of the route to take. The apprenticeship program puts you through the trenches. It shows you what it is to be out there earning your wage and that's actually a really really good like work ethic that it develops after time. But um we come in full approval for the project and hopefully you guys can push it too. All right. Thank you.

Thank you, Steve. Can we have Larry Butos?

Good evening, honorable mayor and staff and city council. My name is Larry Butos and I am a 20-year member of the labors international union in North America. I'm here tonight to speak in support of this project and its developer. This good and responsible developer has made a choice to use the very best craftsman in the industry and that also builds to the highest standard. Along with that, projects like this will keep our local members working close to home with the ability to continue to make strong wages with good benefits to support their families. These tough economic times affects all of us and this is exactly why we need these types of projects. These projects uh invest in the local community and deliver hundreds of highquality union construction jobs that provide good wages with health benefits and a pension. This opportunity is right here in our community and our local and skilled trained union members like those you see standing behind me tonight stand ready to build it. Thank you.

Thank you, Larry. Next, uh, John Sislet. And after John, we have Joseph. That's your last speaker.

Hi, my name is John Sisley. I represent all the union plumbers, pipe fitters, and refrigeration for Sanino, Riverside County. I'm also a delegate to the Building Trades Commission and the Inland Empire Labor Council. I grew up in Rialto. Um when I was a boy, I spent my time uh catching lizards in the orange groves and the great vineyards all around here. I think there was 38,000 people in the city at that time. So through the years I watched it grow. Um, and as any city grows, right, you kind of look at it and you're you're in favor of some of it. You're not in favor of some of it, but progress comes and things go forward. It's my pleasure to be representing a project like this tonight in my hometown that's going to provide sustainable wages and benefits for local community members. Right. I find it ironic that most of the folks that oppose warehouses are probably at home right now either looking at something online or purchasing something online supporting the warehouse and logistics industry right and I don't think that online purchasing is going to go away despite what we do in RATO I think a better way of looking at this is that every warehouse built is an opportunity and real easy to come here and complain about development. That's an easy thing. It's more difficult to go out and organize a warehouse, to influence local government and legislation, to put in place tiered salary setups based on seniority, higher pay for supervisors, representation for workers inside of warehouses. Those are more difficult things to do. But imagine what we do when we do that, right? either we're too expensive for them to afford to build the warehouse and they stop or the community comes up. It's kind of a

winwin situation, right? And things like moratoriums kind of take it out of the the department hands, right? You have a planning commission, you have a city council, you already have a system to approve or disapprove of jobs, right? So, I think each one of these projects is an individual, right? and one with a a labor agreement on this one. It's a good project. It's good for the city and it's good for the people here. Um I'd encourage you to vote yes. Thank you. Thank you very much, John.

Yes, Joseph. And that's your last speaker that has put in the records request. I mean, I'm sorry, not a record, a speaking request. Hey, um I'm back in my office, but I'm here now.

Good evening, council members. My name is Joseph Casada. I'm a UDM proud I'm a proud representative and member of the Labors International Union of North America, Local 783. We are here tonight in strong support of Brockville's properties project. This project represents respons responsible investments into our community. Owners of privately funded projects can choose to either include the community or not. And we are happy to say that they have included the local workforce. This project brings major public benefits, good paying jobs, infrastructure upgrades, and long-term economic opportunities for Rialto. When private developers step up like this, they don't just build warehouses. They build roads, utilities, and services that benefit the border communities. This is growth helps. This group this growth helps us move forward. Let's we ask we ask you to prove this project. Let's bring these jobs, this infrastructure, and this private investment to real. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Joseph. And I believe that that concludes the last uh individual that indicated that they wanted to speak on this particular item unless there's someone else that did not file their paperwork to speak. Uh we can move to uh close the public hearing. Motion's been made by Mayor Prom Ed Scott, seconded by Carla Perez. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposition? Hearing none. Now, we'll move it on to the council's uh questions. And I'll start first of all uh first of all, I as I stated before, I'm glad that it did have a labor agreement. I think that's very important. It does have some community benefit agreements too as well. And I think that's very much uh good. uh the thing that that uh I look at when I look at the what we might suggest or do because of the traffic congestion in that area. Uh, and this is a suggestion coming from me and hopefully that we can look at the federal government and trying to have an exit off of Locust that would create a truck route versus having to come in either through Ayala or through uh Elder as a possibility and that would alleviate a lot of the traffic. I know that that you presented on your maps, you know, coming out of uh Locust to Chameleia, but uh we should also look at the possibility of creating cuz I I actually traveled it the other day just to see how far one exit was from the other exit. And actually an exit could be created in that area as well. and that we should look at the possibility that would make it a lot easier for people to get to and from their jobs if it's creating the new jobs, the 550 jobs that could be created or for the uh laborers that are going to be doing or

the building trades or the iron workers that are going to be doing uh the work or IBW or whomever the case may be, they would be able to get to and from. I know it takes a while. We were able to do that off of Pepper and there's no reason why we can't request the same thing here uh as well. That's just a suggestion that I have uh in reference to uh what needs to be done uh because I did take a take a trip there. And then my question is that would we have sweepers that would be going through that area to clean it up once it's built or or what how would that be done or would that be a contract that would be done with Bert or or what? Do you know uh Daniel? Yeah, the the applicant uh their contractor will will certainly have to clean the site upon completion of the uh development to the city standards and then then afterwards then there would be ongoing uh maintenance by the city's uh street sweeping.

Yeah. And then for the roads improvement, I like to hopefully that the the developer will look to continue to repair the the roads uh as well in in that area. Is that part of the agreement that they would continue to repair the roads or would that responsibility then fall in the city? The applicant will be repairing uh lol along their entire front which is the entire length of l street and then also their frontage of Locust Avenue. So those those streets will be fully repaired resurfaced as a part of this project along the frontage and then they'll be paying development impact fees uh that'll be going towards the ongoing maintenance.

Okay. And then just one other suggestion that I have uh and this is in reference to the part of the community benefit the $4 million that have uh will be allocated to the city of Rialto to do at their discretion. I'd like to hopefully uh bring it back for the city council members to actually come back with a recommendation as to where that money can be spent or should be spent on particular projects that maybe that we may want to have versus going into the general fund and then later on deciding uh is that a possibility too as well? Absolutely.

Yes. In this way it gives all of us an opportunity to give input in terms of where we feel that money should be spent. uh instead of just sitting there. Okay. Um I'll open it up for additional questions. Uh Mayor Prom at Scott. Yeah, I have several questions. First off, I want to welcome labor here tonight. We really appreciate you supporting the growth of Rialto and good paying jobs in Rialto. So again, thank you for being here. Um I have a several questions. One is related to the um project fair share amount of $364,699.

Um I see one of the items is this signal at Locust and Cassag Grand but I believe in reality that project is already funded by another development across the street. Is that not correct? That's correct. There has been funding provided from other projects. Yes. So why would we list that as one of the items that this money is funding when it's really not? Um there this the other projects have not fully funded that signal. So this project would fund its fair share of trips through that intersection. Well, I'd like you to take a better look at that because I believe we voted for the project across the street to fully fund that intersection. Okay.

Okay. Mhm. Um lastly, does this money go into the development impact fee fund? The uh development agreement monies or the uh this this $364,000 it'll be collected. Yes. As part of the development impact fees. Yes. Okay. I as part of the motion that I'm going to make to approve this project, I'd like to condition that that money be used specifically for these items. Okay. that it not go into the development impact account and then disappear a year or two down the road and then these items never get done because all of these items are very important to this project. The striping,

the uh turnpocket, etc. It's extremely u important. Um I also like uh Mayor Baka's idea of the Locust Avenue offramp. In fact, we had been toying with that for a while. So, I'd like to revisit that and see if we we possibly can make that happen. Um, as to the the $4 million, Mr. Mayor, I agree that the council needs to decide how to spend it rather than to dump it into the general fund and watch it go into Never Neverland. But again, as part of my motion tonight, I'd like to make a motion that $1 million of it go to the Rialto Police Department for its crime center and for um uh traffic and truck enforcement in that area. Um the other three million, if council members have an idea, we can certainly decide tonight if we choose what to do with that money. And I know recreation.

I know there's a lot of projects, but I want to give everybody an opportunity. The mayor and Carla just gave $7 million to soccer and parks last meeting. It needs a lot more, you know, but we it does. And but we also need money on u on our roads. For instance, Cactus Avenue. Um the county paved their portion of Cactus below the 210 freeway and it made our portion look even worse. So from the 210 actually I think it's maybe walnut all the way down to uh baseline is really in bad shape. In fact it's in bad shape all the way down to maybe I'll second your motion.

Thank you. And that's the only items I have. But I I want to make sure that when we condition projects with money that that money gets used for what it's supposed to be used for, not go into Never Neverland.

Okay. There's a motion on the floor that uh I don't know uh the city attorney then can give us uh some guidelines on this because this is uh we have not taken action on the actual item itself but uh indicated that $1 million would be put aside for public safety going to the police department and then the $3 million can be decided by the council members that are here. if they already have an idea, they can do it. And if not, uh, we could bring it back at another time. I just wanted to give people an opportunity to think about projects that maybe they wanted to do or think that are important for the city. And this way, I'd get everybody involved in part of the process versus uh me saying where it all should go because I could spend all $4 million on on different projects that I feel need to go within the city of Rialto. But 1 million's already been gone. Well, we'll we'll be gone if we vote on it.

Mayor, the motion that I heard only pertain to $1 million of that. You can vote on that. Now, I would suggest that you incorporate that motion as part of your overall motion when you get to approving the project. Um, I know there hasn't been a motion to approve the project yet, right? I would just hold that in reserve and then add it in when you if the second withdraws their motion and the and the motioner withdraws that until that point and we could go ahead and do that. Well, I'm happy to make the motion now unless I think maybe unless there's somebody else discuss Yeah, he he

So, the question I had was regarding the fair share uh the fair share 364,000. Uh it was already answered. It was asked and answered by Daniel, but I would like to welcome uh labors union, pipe fitters, welders, and the carpenters union. I really appreciate what you guys are doing for veterans, our troubled youth. Um I I can really appreciate that. Thank you guys. I appreciate you guys and uh I hope we can get this done. Okay, with that, I think that um I think everybody here welcomes, you know, the labor that is here tonight and representing and standing up for what you feel is very important. Uh uh that helps not only improve the jobs but security and the opportunities that it gives to many of the employees or individuals that go through whether it's an apprenticeship or a full-time job uh as laborers and we know the benefits that labor does provide. So, I think that we all speak in favor of that right here. So, hearing that there's no other comments, I'd like to u have a motion on the floor with the the amendment. Mo motion to approve resolution 8455 approving an environmental impact report environmental assessment review number 2023-0051/state clearing house number 2024 061274 approving resolution 8456 approving tenative parcel map number 2023 23-006 TPM 20809. Resolution number 8457, conditional development permit 20230032.

Resolution number 8458 approving precise plan of design number 2023-000041 ordinance number 1708 approving development agreement number 2024-002 a development agreement between the city of Rialto and and an IV5 Locust Gateway Logistics Center LLC to memorialize certain benefits and terms related to the development of a 6,000 600 664,859 foot industrial warehouse building on site

with the amendment of with the amendment of $1 million dollar of community benefit money going to public safety for the purpose of truck enforcement and or um crime center and 3 million to for the council to decide and the other three million for the council to decide at their convenience. Second. Additionally, additionally, um the the community the or the uh

$364, $699 as designated as project fair share be specifically used for the items with the exception of Locust and Casmelia Drive signalization. be specifically used for those items and held by the finance department until such time as those funds are used. Okay. Motion's been made by Mayor Proam at Scott, seconded by the mayor. Uh any other discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposition? Hearing none. Motion carries. Congratulations. Well, I I need to do a roll call for the ordinance.

Roll call. Roll call for the ordinance. Uh for the ordinance, may I have uh Mayor Prom Scott I. Council member Baka I. Council member Caris. Hi. Council member Perez. I. Council member Matoy I. Thank you. Next we'll move into item number two. Uh this is the item where the uh

Yeah. Mr. Mayor, as a as a reminder, I will be abstaining on the water portion of this item due to a conflict of interest as I own a residence and live in that residence which is located within the Rialto Water Services area and as as a fact that I am the only city council member that lives in the Rialto Water Service area. And you'll come back and vote on the wastewater, right?

Yes. Okay. And so, mayor, so what what will happen is uh if the city manager has any staff that are making a staff report or answering questions to council, you'll can just limit those to just the water right now. Uh no information about the wastewater will be discussed at this point and then we'll come back and do all of the wastewater stuff.

Okay. Thank you. Y uh good evening honorable mayor uh and members of the council. Uh my name is Sachin Shavela, director of utilities and uh the staff heard the concern and clarification that the council needed at the last meeting and under the leadership and guidance of uh the city manager, the staff work with our consultants, our partners uh to come up with a new recommendation for the council which is uh lesser than the lower than the prop 280 notice rates that were proposed last time. So uh here we request the city council and Rialto utility authority to continue deliberation and consider approval of the revised uh water and wastewater rates. U as suggested we'll we'll go with the water presentation first uh and that will be done by Sanjayor.

Thank you Sanjin. Honorary mayor, city council, staff and public. It's my pleasure to be here today. um to talk about this important matter about the water um rate study. First um as mentioned um we heard you um your concerns about the water rates. Um we worked diligently with staff and tried to come up with different approaches and I believe we did do that. Um first thing is the Prop 218 notice is the maximum amount of rates. We are recommending lower. Um staff has identified $ 8.65 65 million of additional money to help ease the rate increase. So that's a substantial um savings um for the customers. In addition, we also um looked at grants that we've applied to and we are we felt very confident that we'll receive those grants. Um so we took those into account too in our analysis. Um based on that information, we're able to have a 8% increase in water instead of the 23. And for wastewater, we're able to do 3% instead of five. Um the proposed impact with those two together will be $7.31. So this is the financial plan um associated with water where we're funding those critical CIP. Um we're getting grant fundings associated with that by doing an 8% increase each year. Um we're showing you the average dollar increase um for those customers. Um, as you can see, they range from $5 to a little bit more than $4 each month. Um, and um, it's a the first few years is 8% then followed by six and six. What that means to our customers is that the bill will go from $65 to $7051. This is a survey of neighboring um providers that you see over here. It should be note that West Valley and Hurupa do receive significant amount of

property tax. Um West Valley receives $4.4 million. It is a aorium property tax. So it's based on the value of the property when they purchase it. So it gets a bit challenging to try to determine how much that is per customer, but roughly it's around 10 or $15 estimated. So if we added that 10 or $15 to West Valley, you could see that you West Valley's rates would be comparable to Rialtos. So that's um it for water. I'm going to pause here because we're going to talk about wastewater next. Now you should have any questions for staff about the water rates and any deliberation and then a vote on the water rates.

Staff or city council? Staff if council has questions for staff. Yes. Okay. But you have a oral that wanted Okay. Uh we have uh someone that would like to address that from the community. Oral comm. Ben Pratt. Ben.

Good evening, mayor and council. How you doing? My name is Ben Pratt. I currently serve as the vice president of IBW Local 477 representing the electricians and power professionals here in Sanino, Ino, and Mono counties. Um, I'm here tonight to speak in favor of these rate increases. I know that uh that can be a very unpopular thing to be in favor of, but I know there's a lot of experience in this room that informs us that not investing in infrastructure can be catastrophic in the long run and eventually way more expensive. Um in addition to that, bringing our water infrastructure to state-of-the-art uh creates efficiency which is uh in the short term and long term beneficial to rateayers. Additionally, uh through our lens at the IBW, what this does is it uh creates, you know, skilled and trained jobs for our members and more importantly than that, it creates apprenticeship opportunities. um the more local jobs that we have available uh for our journey workers uh that creates more apprentichip opportunities and outreach opportunities for us to do with our veterans, formerly incarcerated populations and uh outreach at the high school level. So al although um it is an immediate inconvenience to the rateayers, it's long-term savings uh and a long-term investment in the community. Thanks so much. Appreciate it.

Thank you, Ben. And also, mayor and council members, I just like to which I passed out to you earlier, a letter of support from Albert Duty from the end empire building trade. They was in support of increasing the rates. So, I want to record that for the record. Thank you. Any other uh No. Hearing none. Okay. Yes.

I'll turn it in later. uh right now after this. My name is Thomas Reese. I'm a representative with the Labors International Union North America. I want to thank you for uh having having us speak on this tonight. Uh before I um became a representative for the Labors Union, I was doing a lot of research uh mostly tracking water infrastructure throughout the country uh throughout the state. and water infrastructure is probably uh the most expensive. Uh but it's hard to raise the the revenue in order to do the needed uh improvements uh that you need in order to convey water. Um and most of your power that is used throughout the country uh is used to actually move water, right? And so, um, we're in favor of the the rate increases as well because we know that if if you don't invest into your infrastructure, you're only kicking the can down the road and eventually you're going to pay twice as much or three times as much later on. So, uh, with that being said, uh, this is also another opportunity to create good paying jobs and put more members of our community to work and also, uh, allowing folks to get into apprentichip programs that you all heard tonight. So, you guys got a double whammy tonight to to get this moving and approved. Um, and I know that right now is very tough on a lot of folks, especially talking about any type of increases to any anyone's bills. Um, but sometimes that's why you guys got the the big seats, the cushy chairs, because you got to make the tough decisions that are actually going to make the community better. So, uh, I hope that we can encourage you to, uh, move this rate increase forward. Um, and we'll make our promise to build that infrastructure safely uh and and and quality. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. Are there any other individuals? If not, this is not a public hearing. So, no, I'm just going to ask for,

you know, either uh any discussion from any members of the council or do you want to take a motion to I'll start it off then I guess in in reference to I I think it's we've already kicked the can down once before uh and u we didn't increase the rates and we have not increased any kind of rates. I know that we all hate to to increase any any kind of rates, but if we don't pass this, it's going to cost us a lot more in the long run. And there are projects that need to be done now. And the the cost of materials could escalate a lot higher in the future if we don't begin to take action on some of those projects. I I want to commend the staff, you know, for coming and and looking at this presentation that we had on January the 13th that really had a 20% uh I think it was $20

23 $23%

23% and we're down now to 8%. So we really have reduced it quite a lot by looking at additional dollars in revenue. uh because we we took money before and we took monies out of the general fund and we never got subsidized for that money. And if we ended up doing the same thing again that we did a couple of years ago, we're not going to retain that money that should stay in the general fund for other projects that we need to improve. and and if I can ask what effects uh would it have uh city manager on some of the projects that could be affected if we don't take this uh rate increase.

Sure. Thank you, mayor. So, um it's a little bit tricky separating out the water from the wastewater, but we do have estimates from our um consultant and our utilities team that if the increases are not passed both on the water and wastewater side, it would require at around a 14 to$16 million contribution from the general fund this fiscal year as well as an additional around $15 million next fiscal year. So, it could be in total $30 million that we would have to contribute again from the general fund. Um, now that would likely come out of the general fund reserves, but that's our essentially the savings account, right? And that's what we utilize for um emergencies, ongoing infrastructure projects such as parks um and potential future public safety investments in infrastructure as well. So, uh, there is definitely a trade-off with having to utilize general fund dollars to, uh, support the utility,

especially, you know, we've just had rains and we need to improve our roads, our potholes that are currently there right now. And this would jeopardize some of the funding that we would need and have to go and dig into our reserves or general funds to make sure that we do. And we know that we have a little storm coming up and we don't know when other storms are going to come up. But the one thing that I always hear from residents, when are you going to fix our potholes? You know, when are you going to fix our sidewalks? Well, we need the money in the general fund so we can go out and do that. And I think by taking the action that needs to be done tonight, even though it's a it's not very much in terms of dollars and maybe you can tell us exactly what it would be on the individual, uh what they would actually end up paying. Uh so on the on the water side uh mayor uh the dollar side in year one would impact would be $529 and next year it'll be $5.66 and then following year it will be less than that. So $4 and so

right so it's very minimal in in terms of the amount of dollars for the amount of services that we need because some some of these pipes are really outdated. Isn't that true? I mean

yes that's correct. Some of them are 50 years old or more. Yeah. And and the corruption that's there and then if we don't can you imagine you know the contamination of that water you know if you know if we don't fix those pipes and then you know people will start complaining why am I you know getting you know this quality of water that shouldn't be this way it should be a lot better. That's why we, you know, we need to to look at the repairs that need to be done and to make sure that we start preparing now for the future as well without looking at additional costs that could cost us a lot more in the future. Uh, Council Member uh, Edmontoya.

Yes, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Um, I I just kind of want to piggyback off some a couple of things that you said. um the the way that this was pitched last time around, that would have given us 64% in in 5 years. 64% increase in 5 years. So, I'm really glad that they went back to the drawing board and and came down um to the 34% over 5 years because this this was already a difficult position to be in. You don't want to raise people's rates. However, we know that the infrastructure really needs to be uh dealt with being that this hasn't been a focus for a good amount of time. So, uh yeah, I I agree with everything you said and and plus it'll get some of these men and women to to work as well. So,

thank you. Have there any other discussion? If not, do I hear a motion? But before we do that, I just have a question for the city attorney with the two resolutions. Um, how are recording has the motion and the motion in the second record on which resolution? So the first action that they will be taking up the first motion will be to approve resolution 8446 that pertains to water rates? 84 46. No, one's for one both are for one is for the city and one is for RU for city and one for Yeah, but both are for water and wastewater.

Yeah. Um uh we're going to have to go back and split these into two, but they can take an action to approve the water rates and the and we'll end up having an 846 A and B. I can do that. I'm just let the record reflect that I will be uh for the water rate and the sewer rate I will make uh one resolution dash A and one resolution dashb for the uh waste water. Yes, that's right.

So we'll have two motions then that will be approved. Then we'll have one for the increase of the the water rate and the other one for the wastewater. Is that okay? You will, but you're going to end up with you have to do two resolutions because you have a RUA one that we have to do also. Correct. So, you're going to have a RUA 26-1A and 01B. Yes, I can do that.

And so, mayor, the the motions that will be before you now are to approve resolution 846A and resolution 26-01A. So, who would like to make that motion? Then hearing that there is none, I'd like to make the motion that we approve it. Uh, that's that's resolution 8446A. Correct. Yes. Do I hear a second? Second. Second it by council member Edward Mononttoya. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I.

Okay. Now we'll take up the wastewater. Right. But now you have to pass the RUA resolution which is 26-01A. Okay. Then now I'll make a motion that we pass the RUA resolution 26-01. I think not yet. No. Okay. A motion's been made by me. Do I hear a second? Second. Seconded by council member Edward Mononttoya. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I.

Any opposition hearing? None. Motion carries. Now we'll take on the wastewater. Right. Is that correct? Uh, city attorney. Yes, mayor. That is correct. Okay. So, we can call him in, but he's already in. Too late.

Uh, now we'll discuss uh we wastewater. Thank you, honorary mayor, city council, staff, and public. It's my pleasure to talk about the wastewater rate study. Um, we worked on looking at grant funding associated with the wastewater, updating that. We also took into account additional money um to help smooth out the rates. What we're proposing is instead of a 5% increase is a 3% increase each year. As you can see, that's roughly around $2 and some change a month for the for a residential customer. We are also suggesting and proposing a $6 million debt issuance in 2027. Um this shows us the rates um over here um where Rialto is um going from $67 to $69. Um just as a reference point here, the city of Coloulton um hasn't increased its rate since 2017. they are um in the anticipation of increasing the rate substantially and within the five years they'll be in the same ballpark as us in in these proposed rates. One of the reasons why Rialto is a bit higher than the average peers is that Rialto's done all the hard work already in the investment in the wastewater treatment plant. So in conclusion, um what we're proposing with when when we combine these two together, um the water wastewater and also the reduction in the um red um um suspending the utility tax is actually a reduction in customers bill between $2.40 to $41. Um staff will continue to look for additional funding um for projects and look for alternative source. And we're recommending that we move forward um with um this. So, I'm looking um to see if there's any questions I can answer about the wastewater rates.

Are there any questions by any member? U mayor prom Scott. Um in the committee meeting, we asked a question about U West Valley and including the portion that they get out of the uh uh property tax. Was this graph modified to show that or did we get that number? West Valley is West Valley. That's That's in the water side, right? That's the water side. But don't they also get property tax on the wastewater side, too? I'm sure they do. We We did We compare West Valley from wastewater? We did not compare waste valley.

I mean, they does their money all go into wateride or does it get split between water and wastewater? From our understanding, it goes to the water side. Only the water side. Yes. Is that true? Are you Do you know if that's true? Don't know.

Can somebody confirm that? I I I mean I just think we need to know what that number is because it's it gets it's art it's an artificial number for us when we don't include everything whether it's property tax or the rate fee that goes into the wastewater side and it makes it look like we're we're higher than anybody else. So, Mayor Prom on on Colton, just to clarify what Sanjay said, um we did a thorough analysis on Colton, which is our neighboring city on on the wastewater. Yeah,

Colton approved uh increase in rates in 2024. In that year, there was a difference between us, Rialto and Colton at $34. And by the time it's 2029, the difference between Rialto and Colton wastewater rates is only going to be $5. $5. $5 by 2029. Uh but it's not depicted in the graph, but we do have another graph if you want to pull it up. And that accounts for them upgrading their facility, I assume. Yes, they are they're in the process of upgrading the facility and doing all the other work that we've already done.

Okay. Okay. And and I you know I just want to say I appreciate staff going through this and adjusting these numbers um and adjusting stuff and actually getting the rates down. Um that's a little more reasonable especially for senior citizens and especially for lowincome families in our community because everybody is struggling right now to pay bills. I don't care what bill it is. So I I really appreciate all the hard work you guys have done on this. Can can I add something that uh Mayor Prom just said for our senior citizens? There is a discount that seniors can apply to as well. Is that correct?

Uh yes, that is correct. We have uh there are there's no care program or low-inccome housing program, but the city of Rialto offers two programs. One is to the senior citizens and one is for low-inccome. Uh if you qualify for those two criteria, there is 20% each on both the programs and both programs are mutually exclusive. So, so actually they would be paying less than some of the other individuals that are not uh senior citizens. Is that correct? Yes. If they they have to apply for it,

but they they can apply for it, but they would be paying less. So, it's just that that the those that are listening out there know the seniors that you can apply for a discount, which means then that you'll be paying less than the average person would be paying for water or waste water. That's correct. Okay. Do do we know how many residents currently participate in that? I'll have to ask my other staff members if to ask if Do you know maybe when we last checked last year it was about a thousand residents but I'll need to check with our finance department to get an updated number and

and there's still money after those thousand residents to be able to do that program. Correct. Yes, that is my understanding. Okay. And the money that that funds that program comes from late fees. Is that my correct understanding? Correct. Okay. All right. I I think we need to do a better job advertising that for senior citizens because Okay. The mayor and I didn't even know about it. So, if we don't know, nobody knows. And we're younger than senior than who? chairman. Is there I'm trying to get you one.

Is there any other discussion? If not, do we uh we need a motion uh to approve the wastewater uh rate increase? And mayor, your motion would be to approve uh resolution 8446B. That's the city's resolution to approve the wastewater reads. And then you would need to approve Rua's resolution which will be 26-01B and that's for also just the wastewater rates.

Okay. Do I hear a motion to accept resolution 8446B and RUA resolution 26-1B? I'll make the motion. Uh, do I hear a second? I'll second it. Seconded by uh, Mayor Prom Ed Scott. Motion by uh, Mayor Jobaka. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Roll call. Okay. Roll call.

For the wastewater. Um, Mayor Baka. Hi. Mayor Prom Scott. Hi. Council member Carouselis. Hi, Cara Perez. I Montoya I.

Thank you. Motion carries. Any opposition? Hearing none since we did roll call and it carries. The next item is tap uh three.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Uh Mayor Prom, members of city council, Yasam Ronnie, your public works director. Uh at the last uh council meeting, we were directed by the council to um go back and uh get a revised proposal from our construction management and inspection uh proposer as well as all the other on call uh construction management and inspection firms for that portion of the project for fire station 2011 safety improvements. uh we did so we uh received three proposals uh and uh those costs are summarized in table one based on what we received and deeming all uh proposers qualified to do this work uh we are hereby recommending the award of the contract to Specs Engineering for the amount of $136,92920. Uh and that concludes my presentation. Be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. Uh is there any discussion? We did discuss this uh thoroughly last time. The only thing that was concern at that point was going out to bid to make sure that others had an opportunity to bid. Apparently, we've come back with the same individual that was there last time, but we did go out to bid. Uh any discussion, Mayor Pro Tim Scott? It's a reduced amount though, isn't it? It is. Uh their cost was 188,000. 188 correct. And now it's 136. You're at 136. Okay. Okay, even better.

Um, I I I appreciate again the the work on that, but um I I just got to reiterate my comments from the last meeting that 20% construction services on a project is extremely excessive, especially on a project this small. Um, now I understand that public sector work might be a little more expensive, but this is way above anything that would go on in the private sector and we should be focusing on a 10%. And what bothers me even more is we've been pounding on Violia and Rialta Water Services about them wanting to charge 20% and telling them it should be 10%. But yet we're doing the same thing. So I I would like some discussion within public works, Rialto uh the water utility and probably Mr. Sullivan about uh keeping our construction management services costs down in this city. This is taxpayer money and that's 20% is excessive. I don't care what anybody says, it's excessive. You talk to anybody in the industry and they will tell you that. So I would encourage you not to bring 20% back to this council again because we'll be watching. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other discussion hearing? Not, do we have a motion? Move for approval. Motion's been made by number 8458. Motion's been made by Carla, Councilwoman Carla Perez, seconded by Andy Caretes. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposition? Hearing none. Motion carries. Congratulation. That concludes all of the items on the agenda. Uh, next we'll move into council's uh report. I'll start with my uh Did I start there on this side last time with you? I have no report. Okay. Thank you.

Council member uh Mayor Prom Edscott. Um the the only thing that I have tonight is again paving. I'm noticing a lot of bad paving in the city and a lot of potholes. So, I I hope we have some crews out fixing potholes and I hope we're taking a look at some of these streets that we need to spend some paving money on. Um, we were doing a good job there for a while, but I haven't seen us do anything recently. So, I'd like to see us continue to work on it. And that's all I have. Thank you. Uh, Councilwoman, uh, Carla Perez.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, I just wanted to share that, uh, we had the opportunity to attend Rialto Unified School District's u meet and greet with their, uh, new superintendent, Dr. Alejandro Alvarez. Um, it was attended by Mayor Baka, uh, Council Member Mononttoya, and myself. And um so it was really nice uh to you know see that they now have a new superintendent and we look forward to his leadership with our students here in the city of Rialto. And that is all mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Uh council member Edward Montoya.

Yes sir. Thank you. Uh I only have a couple of things but first off I want to say congratulations to my son and my daughter-in-law Eddie and Trinity. Um they had their most recent child a couple of days ago. my fourth grandchild and I just want to say congratulations to them. Uh so I'm a a grandpa times four I guess. Um but yes, I also went to the meet and greet for Dr. Alvarez uh Rialto Unified School District Superintendent uh with the mayor and council member Perez. Um, but I also received a phone call from a concerned citizen and also a business owner uh regarding parking issues on First Street. I've spoke to Chief Clling regarding this and he's going to look into it and follow up with me and let me know what's going on. Uh, but I guess there's a couple of businesses in that area that are parking their customers cars and leaving them for a few days and to beat uh parking enforcement, they roll it back and they wait a few days and then roll it back forward. But it's leaving the residents to have to park three or four blocks away. And uh I just wanted to bring that to the attention of everyone and you know be completely transparent. Uh but that is all that I have and thank you all.

Thank you very much. Uh mayor, if I may, I of course left out one very important uh note as well is that it was the mayor's birthday last week and so just wanted to wish him a happy birthday on behalf of all of us here. I turned 58 if anybody wants to know. So that's why he didn't know about the senior programs. Got it backwards. I'm 58. Look at me. Look at you. Hey, I didn't have the easy life you had.

Oh my lord. Okay, we won't get into that. I'll give my report. I'll give my report. Uh, thank you very much. Uh I along with of course uh Carla Perez and Edward Mononttoya attended the meet and greet uh with the uh new superintendent Alejandro Alvarez. There was quite a few people that were in attendance. I know that a lot of people from the water board also attended. Uh I know my friend you know Kevin is here more attended that as well that's sitting here in the audience. Uh I also had an opportunity to talk to him and he's very much interested in the possibility that I've talked to uh at that time to our not only our city manager but also our assistant city manager uh Tim Sullivan about the possibility of land exchange uh between Dalahan and uh the city of uh which city of Rialto owns and the the land that they own right behind ind the Lord's worth administration building as a possibility uh for land exchange. We should follow up on that uh because it's fresh on his uh on his mind and he's very much interested in it and this is where we could possibly even build the soccer field uh right behind in that area as a possibility uh if you know if we're able to do this uh land exchange. The other thing I'd like to uh mention to as well is that I attended uh uh Carter High School site council meeting uh and it was very informative with a lot of the parents and students and some faculty members that were there that talked about their safety plan as well. I presented that to our city manager so she can look at and give to our police department in terms of what they're doing uh in that area. Uh, last but not least, I hope that uh our parks

recreation uh director can look at the possibility of uh having splash uh pads at uh four of our parks. Uh I mentioned this when I'm out in the community and they're very much interested in the possibility of having the splash pads uh at uh Frisbee uh Ferguson and Rialto Park and Samson Park, Joe Samson Park. So, those are four areas that we might want to look at in terms of uh looking at the heat waves that we may have this summer so people will have an opportunity to cool off. Uh and that concludes uh my report. So, at that point, I'll start with our clerk, Barbara McGee.

I have no report. Thank you. Next, I'll start on our city treasurer, Edward Karo. Thank you, Mayor. Happy birthday. I have nothing to report. Thank you. Next, I'll start on our city manager, Tanya Williams. No report this evening, mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Next, I'll ask our assistant city manager, Kim Sullivan. Thank you, mayor. Uh, happy birthday. And Cynthia may have a couple senior activities coming up in our announcement for you. But, and congratulations, Council Member Mononttoya. So, thanks a lot, Tim. You know, you're getting close. You're getting close. You're only 58, so I want to make sure you're prepared.

Uh, next, I'd like to call on our city attorney, Eric Vale. Uh, thank you, mayor and councel. Um, there's been some mention of having a a special session with regard to some ethics and AB 1234 training. We'll get that scheduled. will work with Latana in your calendars to do that and we'll include the uh AB77 issues that you requested and I'll discuss that with the clerk also. Uh but that's the only thing I have to report tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Uh next I'd like to call on our police chief Mark Lane.

Good evening Mayor Mayor Promic Council. I'll keep my uh comments brief tonight. Actually, it's more of an observation. Uh first of all, I want to express my appreciation not just on behalf of the police department, but actually the city for your foresight to actually set money aside for this traffic issue that we have in the city that is most likely going to go back to what um Mayor Pro Tim Scott said was um the and and Mayor Baka approved uh with the second is the real-time crime center. I I don't think folks in in the community yet realize the impact that what you just did tonight with the addition of what these cameras are going to do in in these really key areas in the city. So, I want to say thank you so much for your foresight of understanding it uh as we start rolling that out in the next few months. Um and then from the observation, I want to just give some compliments to my colleague across the street with the fire chief. Uh it is so impressive and nice to see the command staff for both the police department and fire departments here uh to see exactly what the council does. Uh so I just want to actually make that observation, but it's really nice to see the public safety team together uh to actually push forward to make Rialto much safer. That's all I have tonight. Thank you.

Thank you, Chief. Uh next, I'd like to call on uh our fire chief, Chris Jensen. Thank you, mayor, and thank you, Chief PL, for recognizing the excellent uh command staff that both departments have that work and function together. I just had one thing I wanted to um remind the council and the community is that January um is designated as firefighter cancer awareness month to address the high rates of cancer among firefighters caused by hazardous exposures throughout their careers. And as a further reminder, we've had three line of duty deaths in our own department here in the city of Rialto from jobreated cancer. Engineer Scott Swingingle, January 27th, 2018. Battalion Chief Mike Peele, January 18th, 2022, and Engineer Johnny Thompson, January 21st, 1999. I would also respectfully request that the city council close tonight's meeting in their honor. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Uh I think we can adjourn in in their honor and and as you're aware um when I was in the state legislature uh I actually carried the cancer presumption legislation that would allow a lot of these firefighters and future firefighters uh to at least uh get compensated uh for their service and for any cancer that that they may have had. So, uh, if you can, you know, we'll adjourn in in memory of the, uh, four individuals. Thank you very much. Uh, next, I'd like to call on our public works, uh, director, Yats. Thank you, mayor. No report.

Thank you. Uh, next, I'd like to call on our community development director, Christina Taylor. Thank you, mayor. Nothing to report this evening. Thank you. Next, our park and recreation director, Cynthia Alvarado Crawford. Good evening, mayor, mayor prom, and members and take it light on that senior uh point, you know. You got it.

Good evening, mayor, mayor prom, and members of the council. Happy new year. Um, here's what's going on in Rialto. The youth mentoring program session one is uh Wednesday, January 28th at the teen uh center from 4 to 6 PM. our very own um Captain Ria from the fire department will be presenting to the youth um on on a topic. So, we're really excited to have that opportunity with her. Uh wreck and roll was going to be on Saturdays. Uh the first one is January 31st at Joe Samson Park from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Our senior Super Bowl spirit day, wear your favorite football jersey, will be on Thursday, February 5th at Grace Vargas Senior Center. Um, that's going to be going on all day. If you do go to visit our seniors, please take some selfies and tag us in it so we can post. Um,

that was for everybody. That was not for you. Well, the Rams the Rams are out. I just know we have a lot of football fans. I'm just I'm just rooting for the numbers.

Okay, where was I? Super Bowl. All right. February, uh, swim, uh, swim lesson registrations are going to open back up. We do have some Red Cross scholarship, uh, dollars that our community will be able to take advantage of if they qualify. Those registrations will need to be in person. Um they will be opening up February uh Saturday, February 7th, um starting at 8:00 a.m. Our Sweethearts dance, our senior sweetheart dance will be Thursday, February 12th at Grace Vargas Senior Center from 3 to 6:00 p.m. And then your Save the Dates uh spring extravaganza will be Saturday, April 4th at Frisbee Park from 10 to 2. Rialto on Wheels will be Saturday, April 25th at Rialto Civic Center from 9:00 am to 2 pm. And our international festival will be Friday, May 1st at Rialto City Park from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. And that concludes my announcements.

Thank you very much. Uh, next, I'd like to call in our finance director, Scott William. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Our human resource director, uh, Shama. Thank you, mayor. Nothing to report. our uh utilities director Sasheen. Uh just wanted to thank the council for making a decision that's going to, you know, help us continue to provide safe and reliable service for the rate payers of Rialto. Thank you. Good. That concludes all of the items on the agenda and the reports that have been given. Do I hear a motion to adjurnn? So moved. Second. Motion's been made by Councilwoman Carla Perez, seconded by Edward Mononttoya. All those in favor signify by saying I.

I. Any oppositions hearing? None. Council is adjourned.