City Council - Regular Meeting

All right. Uh, welcome to the Bumont City Council close session meeting for April 21st, 2026. Uh, in the absence of Mayor Voit and Mayor Prom White, I will be presiding over today's meeting. Uh, we will, uh, open the meeting at 50:01 p.m. Roll call, please. Council member Lara, here. Council member Fen here. Council member Martinez, here. And may we have a reading of our close session items.

Thank you, Mayor Perm. Uh the council will adjourn to close session to consider items B1 and B2 on the close session agenda. B1 is conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9 D1 Angel Rodriguez versus city of Bowmont the Riverside Superior Court case numbers set forth on the agenda itself and item B2 is conference with rural property negotiators pursuant to government code section 54956.8. I do want to point out that there was a correction to the agenda to eliminate the property described as 660 North Bowmont Avenue. That was an error. However, the APN numbers that were identified and are identified on the agenda are accurate. Uh the agency negotiator is the interim city manager or designate. Uh in this case uh Thaxton Vanbell will be the agency negotiator uh city of Bowmont as the potential buyer and Bowont Unified School District as owner under negotiation price and terms of payment. That concludes the report on close session.

Right. Thank you. And do we have any public comment regarding those close session items? I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. All right. Seeing none, we'll adjourn to close session.

Okay, here we go. Um, this is the uh regular session for the Bowmont City Council for um today uh April 21st. I'd like to call the meeting to order at 6:03 p.m. Uh, may I have a roll call, please? Council member Lara here. Council member Fen here. Council member Martinez, uh, here. And for those that, um, obviously I'll be filling in for Mayor Voit and Mayor Proen White, and I'll be presiding over today's meeting. Um, we have a report out from close session, please.

Thank you. Um, with respect to items B1 and B2 on the close session agenda, there is no action to report on either of the items. That concludes my report. Okay, appreciate that. And um, moving on, let's do an invocation by Pastor Bolognio, I believe.

Yay. It's the first thing I did write today. Okay. it. Well, um, if I may, just some FYI before, brief ones before I pray. There are 400 members that attend the Bulmont SDA church and Pastor Ron Dri is the one who who or um uh or organizes the prayer uh for this council. There are a thousand members of Lom Molinda Filipino Church of which I was uh I am now a retired pastor and uh live in resident of um Bowmont in beautiful four seasons for the last two years. Um some of you may know that the largest Adventist church is the Lolinda University Church. They have almost 7,000 members. And I checked with Google chat GPT. There are 31 churches and faith organizations in our beautiful city of Bowmont. I didn't know that. Okay. So, let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the opportunity to gather together to serve our community of Bulmont. We ask for your wisdom to guide the minds and hearts of the city council. Grant them the ability to work together in harmony even when there are differences and help them to make decisions that bring peace, safety and prosper prosperity to all of our churches and faith organization and citizens here. May integrity and fairness define their work today in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you.

All please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Place your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Finn. Moving on to um item E. This is the announcements, recognition, proclamations, and correspondence. We start off with E1, the recognition of wastewater treatment plant employee Carlos Napol. Um, so this is the C.WEA's annual gimmicks and gadgets awards highlight practical innovations that improve safety and efficiency in wastewater work. So, Bulmont Collections employee Carlos Naples identified how difficult it was to see inside deep narrow lift station pump wells while maneuvering Vector equipment. To solve this, he designed a hands-free light adapter that attaches directly to the Vector 2 hardware. This eliminates the need for a handheld spotlight. His innovation earned second place at the statewide competition and recognition at the CWEA annual conference. Carlos. All right. And with us we have Daxon Vanell.

We're really uh proud of Carlos and his efforts. You know, he saw a problem. He he did something about it and he came up with something. And I said, "God, I hope you patent this thing." That was my first thought of the And with this uh the CDWA recognized Carlos awarded second place at the state level and we're really proud. Awesome. That is amazing. Let's have a quick picture. Even though there's three of us, we're still

Good job. Congratulations. That's great. Awesome. That is really All right. Don't forget the little people here when you get it big.

Right. And with that brings us to item E2. This is the retirement recognition of Benjamin Hernandez. Saxon Van Bell.

Yes. We're here to recognize Benny's retirement as we all know him. Um Ben joined us uh in 2019 when we took over operations and went on our journey to build the wastewater treatment plant. Before that he had nearly 20 years with UKIPA became its first cross-trained operator and even before that he was in the private industry. So he's got total about 30 years experience. We couldn't have done it without him. In all that time I don't think this guy's called in sick one day.

We're really proud of him and I'm glad to call him a friend.

So good. UH, I'M NOT a very good public speaker, but I'll try to do my best. When I interviewed for the city of Bumont, someone mentioned that you were like family here. I wondered what kind of family it was. Was it dysfunctional? It didn't take long to learn it was the best kind of family. It was the kind that supports you in every way possible. The kind that cares about your well-being. There's no bigger examples of this than Carrie Mendoza and Shay Norville. Two extremely busy individuals who no matter what they were going what they had going on, always made time to help me with whatever issues I had. They are a huge part of what makes the city of Bowmont such an awesome place to work. I cannot thank the city enough. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work here. Thank you for letting me be a part of something truly amazing. That's awesome. Well, congratulations.

I like the shirt. I know. That already tells us he's getting in the mood. All right. Right here. First. Go. Count of three. One, two, three. One, two, three. Thank you. All right. Congratulations.

Good job. Great job, Ben. Okay, let's um move on to um item F. This is the public comment period. So, any one person may address the city council on any matter not on this agenda. If you wish to speak, please fill out a public comment card provided at the back of the table and give it to the city clerk. There's a threeminut time limit on public comments. There'll be no passing or sharing time to another person. And state law prohibits the city council from discussing or taking action brought up by your comments this evening. Right. And with that, um, do we have public comment? All right. I'll open up public comment at 6:11 p.m.

First speaker I have is Shane Sizens.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Shane Sison. I'm a union steward for SEIU 72 uh 721. I've worked with the city of Bmont for 20 years. During those 20 years, I've seen a lot of change and I've seen a lot of sacrifices. Behind me, you will see other employees from SEIU 721. We wanted to have a larger sea of purple. We wanted to overflow this room, but in reality, that's not realistic because of sacrifices. Members could not make it tonight at home because they're taking care of a loved one. Some members are coaches for youth sports teams and they're giving back to the community. Some members are working second jobs or are still working. Sacrifices. Normally we come up here and we talk about fairness or what is fair. Miriam Webster says fairness is the lack of favoritism towards one side or another. I'd like to talk to you about the word exceptional. Exceptional is something above average. When we look at employees gathered here, do you see average? When we look at the men and women protecting our community, do you see average? I don't. I see and hear exceptional customer service all day from our our counter staff processing sewer bills or directing customers to answers. When I hear about the great things our police department is doing, the term exceptional is used. When I think of transit drivers or building and public works inspectors, they are taking exceptional care for safety. We just had a grand opening at a new park. Was it an average park or was it an exceptional park? The point I'm trying to make, Bowmont is an exceptional city, is an exceptional place to work, and the employees are not average. They are exceptional. Thank you.

Next speaker is Ernesto. Have to lower this a little bit. Uh good evening uh council members, members of the public and of course members of SAU71. My name is Ernesto Guerrero. I am the regional director for SAU71. Uh here in the inland region, we cover uh Rivera County and Samura County. So it's a big land to cover, but not as big as SAU71. And that's uh kind of my point here representing over 105,000 members who are uh ready to support our beautiful members of the city of Bowman. uh as you hear exceptional uh these people is ex exceptional uh they are different type of breed I don't know how they do their jobs during COVID after co and now they keep driving and making the city of Bowman work we're here uh because we're about to start the bargaining process for the new contract and asking nothing but just to uh make sure that the uh leaders of the city provide and ensure that they will have a fair process to negotiate the highest contract possible for the families uh and themselves. they uh most of them live in this community which is exceptional right we represent so many members but members sometimes or most of the times can leave in the places where they work uh here in the city of Bowman a lot of the members leave actually here their residents so a lot of times they end up working for themselves their family and their family members because they serve the community so once again asking the leaders of the community to really support workers in this uh negotiation of the new contract uh and notate what the contract that they deserve they deserve obviously the pay they can uh use to bring uh what their family needs and of course the benefits particularly medical benefits that they need. Uh I can see any of them struggling with medical benefits uh working for the city of Bowman. So again

thank you for your time and we are actually expecting the best out of the leaders of the city of Bowman in supporting these workers. Thank you. Thank you. NEXT SPEAKER is Maddie Bogue. Hello. Hello. Good evening. Uh, members of the city council and city staff, thank you for the opportunity to address you this evening. My name is Maddie Bogue and I serve as the government relations manager for Southern California Edison. I'm here tonight to formally introduce you to myself in my new role. As many of you knew you may know, while I'm newer to this position, I'm very much rooted in this community. I'm born and raised Bowmont resident and a proud Bumont High School graduate. Go Cougars. I've previously had the opportunity to work closely with the city of Bowmont in my former role as public affairs director with OPR Communications as well as a field representative for state senator Mike Morell. In my role with Edison, I plan to prioritize being a reliable point of contact for the city and strengthening our partnerships as we work to support Bowmont's energy needs. I believe most of you have my contact information, but if not, I've left it with the city clerk. Thank you for the opportunity to introduce myself, and I look forward to working together. Thanks.

Thank you, Simone. Do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. and I have no emails. Okay, with that, uh, we will close public comment at 6:17 p.m. All right, I can't really. All right, then that moves to item G, our consent calendar. Items on the consent calendar taken as one action item unless an item is pulled for further discussion. Are there any public um comments on any consent item calendar items? No written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time.

Okay. With that, um, do we have any items to be pulled by council or I'll entertain a motion? I'll move that we uh approve consent um calendar items G1 through G11. I'll second. Okay. Roll call, please. Council member Lara. Yes. Council member Fen. Yes. Council member Martinez.

Yes. All right. With that, that brings us to item H. That would be the youth council report. Uh the youth council did not have quorum again. It's that time of year and seniors are are dropping down because of their senior activities and you know was we see that every year but we did have some small groups that uh we had you know underarm that attended. So we did um manage to have a discussion. So we uh broke up in small groups and had discussions and they discussed things from cherry festival to uh community um engagement and bulmont nights and so forth. So u we we made production out of it. So it was definitely not a wasteful night for those that attended. All right, moving on to uh item I that is the uh public hearings. We're going to item I1. So I1 is the resolution amending the Bowont comprehensive fee schedule to add new application types and revise specific service fees. Staff report Stephen Jones. Yes. Good evening council member Steven Jones for community development. Thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening. I'm here to request your adoption of a resolution to amend the city's comprehensive development related fee schedule using the adopted already adopted 2023 user fee study as the foundation. The agenda item is updated and reflected right now in the public record that it is a resolution and not an ordinance we're requesting action on and updated documents have been presented to the council and for the public to review. Over the past year to date, city has adopted major ordinances that update titles 15,16 and 17 to implement the elevate 240 general plan. These updates modernize our building, fire, subdivision, and zoning regulations and bring them into alignment with state law

and local policy direction. The 2023 user fee study demonstrated that the Bowmont city recovers approximately on average 94% of staff time uh associated with private development project review and processing. This level of cost recovery based on state and local restrictions is is a strict component that is strictly uh enabling fiscal responsibility of our development services model and one that which psays for growth and the city avoids shifting private development processing fees onto the general taxpayer. So many of tonight's clarifications in the documents provided to you just now proposed the use of deposit model for maximum cost recovery of private property development processing. Without updating the fee schedule, the city risks falling behind actual service costs, reducing our ability to sustain timely, highquality review, and ultimately putting pressure on general funds. The proposed update does not introduce new fees arbitrarily. Instead, it aligns existing fees with adopted user fee study, incorporates the regulatory changes adopted by council, and ensures that our development related fee services remain efficient, predictable, and financially suitable and sustainable. The update allows the city to continue delivering the level of service expected by development community while helping protect the city's long-term fiscal health. For these reasons, staff recommends adopting the resolution to update the comprehensive development related fee schedule. And I'm happy to answer any questions that we have tonight.

Very well. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Jones. Um, let's go ahead and open the public hearing at 6:21 p.m. Do we have public comment? I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. Okay, seeing none, we will close public hearing. um comment at 6:21 p.m. and um ask for any council discussion that we might have. Um, Council Member Lara, thank you very much. Um first off, Stephen, I'd like to say thank you to you and Sarah for providing the additional information based on the questions that I had earlier today. I appreciate that. Thank you for the clarification.

It helped it helped me understand have a better understanding of what we're doing. Um when you go back through it and you look at the the attached report that we had that was 2023 report or the 2022 um you see that the the goal of our deposit base fee or permit fees or planning fees is to try to recoup up to 93% of the cost of actually per providing the service. Um so with with that in mind, one of the concerns I had was on attachment C. um table A the applications currently processed without fees because when you when you look at that title it seems kind of contradicting to contradictory to the actual study that was done. So the the concern that I always look for is any place that we're losing money where money could be recouped.

Right. So can you explain why those would still be a zero fee?

Absolutely. And I could have been clearer in the applications currently processed without fees is for the planning division only. And so there are certain state restrictions that require us to review or pass along for example accessory dwelling units just to the building department. So those building permit processing fees are still in place but there's no uh availability no mechanism for planning to capture their part in the review. But we still do need to look at certain setbacks and things like that. So when we look at the residential application or administrative plot plans, those are processed by other departments for fees for example, building permits and planning is unable to capture costs of those reviews that we're performing as a courtesy. I would also add that sidewalk vending for example also per food truck permits uh state law limits the amount of fees that we can charge for those types of permits but business license captures a portion of that. Okay. And you said that's that's per state requirement, correct?

We get reimbursement from the state for that loss of revenue. We do not. I think we get left alone is the is the reimbursement in in many of these cases. That's very very kind of them to do that to us. Um so and and the reason that I brought this up council was because the information that was provided there in some of those applications that we review for free as a result of the state requirements are can be very cumbersome. Uh, one of them is a up to three hours that staff will spend working with customers through the process. And I understand the the the reasoning maybe that the state has, but it is it is a loss of revenue that we can't collect on. So, Stephen, thank you so much. I appreciate it. That's all I have.

Thank you. Yeah, thank you um Council Lar because again as I read through it u and I agree with what the study says that the equity between the taxpayers and the fee payers you know is so essential because um you know we try to do this cost recovery to to keep that equity. Um however I do understand the the idea of subsidy when it's appropriate. Um but um again I agree it's very essential that we try to balance as close as we can with what we can do. Unfortunately some of that is out of our control but we can look in the other areas but I appreciate that. Um counc

I didn't have any other comments but I appreciate what council member Laura brought up. All right. Very well. Okay. Um then I will go ahead and entertain um a motion. Is there a motion? Uh, Council Member Martinez, I'll move that we introduce and wave the full reading of an ordinance adopting amendments to the city's comprehensive fee schedule to add and revise user fees for building, planning, and environmental review services and direct staff to incorporate the updated fees consistent with the city's adopted 2023 comprehensive user fee study.

And if I may, just a moment. It's a it's a resolution. I apologize again for the for the updated information tonight. So, I amend my motion to for the um for the reading of um a resolution adopting the amendments. I'll second. Right. Roll call, please. Council member Lara. Yes. Council member Fen. Yes. Council member Martinez. Okay. Um yes. Yes. Even know you said that and I missed it. So,

uh great job. Okay. So, that will move on to item J for the action items. Uh brings us to J1, the resolution of intention of annexation of one. uh Baldwin Ranch into community facilities district number 2025-m for maintenance services. Good evening, mayor and council. We have Mr. Shane Spicer on Zoom for us this evening to handle this item for us. Very well. Oh, there he is. Good evening. Can you hear me? Yes, there you are, Mr. Spicer. Yes, we can.

Uh thank you. Uh appreciate the opportunity to present these items. Uh if it pleasures the council, I'll present both items as the same presentation. Um so uh again, thank you for allowing me to to present this. So the items before you, J1 and J2, are the first annexations into the city's maintenance service 2025-m and public safety services 2025-S. Uh both annexations are for the same project, Baldwin Ranch project uh tenative track map 38879. It's a small residential development located at the southwest corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 11th Street consisting of 10 single family homes at buildout. The purpose of these annexations are to uh to annex into CFDs that were established by the city in late 2025 to ensure that new development pays its fair share of ongoing services rather than relying on the city's general fund. CFD 2025-m as you may recall funds infrastructure maintenance and 2025-S is for safety services. These annexations represent the first implementation of that policy framework for CFD2025-m maintenance services. This annexation will fund ongoing maintenance, repair, and replacement of public improvements within and benefiting that development. These services will include street sweeping, street light maintenance, pavement management, as well as long-term uh maintenance, uh pavement repairs, sidewalk maintenance and replacement, landscaping and park maintenance, graffiti abatement, storm water and drainage facilities, which are included in the contingent tax. The special taxes include a maximum special tax A of $577 per unit annually and a

maximum special tax B contingent at $316 per unit annually. Combined maximum tax of $893 per unit per year and the annual escalation similar to those other maintenance CFDs that the city has is the greater of CPI or 2%. It's important to understand that these maintenance costs are funded by the development, ensuring that no impact is to the general fund, long-term sustainability of infrastructure, and the creation of reserves for future capital replacements such as pavement for the CFD 2025-S public safety services. This annexation funds ongoing public safety services needed to serve the development. These services include include police protectional protection and criminal justice services, fire protection and suppression, and paramedic and emergency response services. For this TA CFD, the maximum special tax is $639 per unit annually with an annual escalator of the greater of CPI of 5%. Again, this ensures that new residents will contribute towards the increased demand on police, fire, and emergency services rather than shifting those costs to the existing residents. So, tonight's action is to adopt the resolutions of intentions for both CFDs, which formally initiates the annexation process. A public hearing is scheduled for June 2nd and for both of these annexations. And following that public hearing, the council may at that time approve the annexations, conduct a landowner election, and finalize the levy of special taxes. So again, these annexations represent the first use of the city's new CFD framework, ensures that growth pays for growth, protects the city's general fund, and provides a sustainable funding mechanism for both infrastructure maintenance and public safety. Staff staff recommends that the city council accepts the landowner

petition petitions and adopt the resolutions of intentions for annexation number one into both CFDs. And that concludes my presentation. Right. Thank you, Mr. Spicer. Um, we will do we have public comment? I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. All right. I'll open and close public comment at 7 6:31. Um, was this the council discussion? Do we have any comments? Oh, Council Member Finn.

Thank you, Council Member Martinez. Um, so I appreciate staff and the the the questions that that I had um and were answered previously. Um, but I do have another one and it goes along with every time we have a CFD, I tend to ask the same question. How is this going to be disclosed to the new home buyer? I know that when we have large track neighborhoods with a sales office um that they are very good about disclosing um any CFDs to the potential home buyer and that information is shared through escrow and to the lender and so forth. a concern I have with it only being 10 homes, there may not be a sales office. And so, is there anything that the through um that process that we know up front that that homeowner is going to get disclosed what these taxes are and so they can be accounted for in their their property taxes and their monthly payment with the lender? Do is there anything that we do as a city or through um Spicer Consulting that a disclosure gets put out? Do we know how that works with it being a smaller builder?

Shane, do you want to take that or? Well, I I you know, that's a that's a very good question, Council Member Finn. Um, you know, unfortunately hadn't had the opportunity to ask this question to the um the uh home builder. Um I know that we do have a public hearing scheduled for June the 2nd and we can bring back uh an acceptable response for that. as as you know in real estate obviously uh full disclosure is part of every transaction. Um it's uh it's it's standard practice. Um but it is something that we can make sure that we have a prepared answer of how the um the uh developer plans on um disclosing to its uh 10 new potential owners.

Okay. And then also to then depending on the completion date of that home, would the CFD show up on a supplemental tax bill or would it be we expect it to be on the first issued yearly tax bill after the completion of the home?

So we would we would levy the uh the special taxes as we do our other CFDs upon building permit. And so dependent on the timing of that property um uh being developed and then subsequently sold, the supplementals don't tend to include these special tax. It tends to be the the assessed valuation adjustment, but um just as uh every property tax generated through Riverside County, um it would show up on the first available property tax bill after we levy it. Okay. All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Lara.

Uh, thank you, Mr. Spicer. So, on these, when money is collected, uh, say for street maintenance, that does that get co-mingled into monies that we currently set aside for our street maintenance throughout the city? That's a good question. Um, the intent is to be able to uh collect these uh special tax dollars for maintenance into their individual uh tax zones. So we're establishing uh a second tax zone for this CFD. The original uh development created tax zone O original and this tax zone would be tax zone one. As we collect those tax dollars from the county, we would get those uh uh aortionment of funds through the fund number and those those dollars would sit in city accounts. Uh we would work with city staff to uh account for those dollars and their individual um service elements and set aside the dollars for street maintenance or pavement management um so that they can be applied to say a CIP project that would be adjacent to this property to be used uh in lie of general fund dollars.

Thank you Mr. Spicer. That's all I have. And the only question I have um is that the escalator, the 2% that's standard practice that we're using for this uh all of our new service um bonds. Correct. For the maintenance, correct? To keep up the CPI. Okay. All right. And I would echo what um Mr. Spicer talked about. We have a kickoff meeting coming for our annual budget, for our CFD budget, if you will. And that's where he will guide finance staff and the rest of us in understanding where those fees are coming from and where they should be allocated and held separately and accounted for separately. Perfect. Thank you.

Appreciate that. Okay. With that then I will uh entertain the uh motion.

So we do have to do two separate recommended actions. Okay. I'll uh make a motion for item J was it J1 to accept the petition of Penn Street Development LLC tenant of trackm 38879 located on the northwest corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 11th Street into CFD 2025-m maintenance service as annexation number one and adopt by title only a resolution of the city council of the city of Bulmont California declaring its intention to annex next territory uh into the community facilities district number 20 25m uh of the city of Bulmont adopting a map of the area proposed to be annexed annexation number one and authorizing the levy of special taxes therein and

and I'll second that. All right, roll call. Council member Laura, yes. Council member Fen, yes. Council member Martinez, yes. All right, that brings us to J2, which is the resolution of intention of for annexation number one, Baldwin Ranch into community facilities district number 2025-s public services. Again, Miss Mendoza, as Mr. Spicer stated, he gave you the presentations um together at the same time, but if you have any additional questions as it relates to J2, we'd be happy to answer them. Thank you. Is there any public comments for J2? I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line?

We have no callers at this time. Council member Martinez, if it's okay, I'll make a motion. I I do have I do have one quick question. Okay. So, um just open and close comments at 6:37 p.m. Um Council Member Finn, your question. Yes. With this again being a small um track and the amount of 639 per per unit, if this was a large development, do we expect that same dollar amount um like say if it was 100 homes, would it still be approximately 639 for the um or would it be less? Because I'll let Shane answer that. I'm not sure if it would be spread more homes and it would be lower or

So is Yeah. Is is this set of 10 homes looking at a higher cost per home because of the small number of homes or is is it a service proportion?

That's an excellent question. Um actually uh as you may recall when we established the CFD25-S um we were setting the tax rate for all new residential development as they come to uh the city um for development and they will be paying the same rate as other single family or multif family depending on the type of development are um into that CFD. So um they are paying the same as the original development. Um and this is not based on the number of units. Um so this is equally shared an equal amount among all uh similar type of residential lots. As annexations occur in the future, um those new annexations will also come in at the then set rate for this CFD.

Okay. Thank you. All right. Um, Council Member Lar, I'll go ahead and make a motion to accept the petition of Penn Street Development LLC, tenative trackm 38879 located on the northwest corner of Pennsylvania Avenue in 11th Street into CFD 2025-S uh, as annexation number one and adopt by title only a resolution of the city council of the city of Bulmont, California declaring its intention to consider annexing territory to community facilities district number 25 2025- - s of the city of Bumont and to set a public hearing for June 2nd, 2026. And I'll second. All right. Roll call. Council member Laura.

Yes. Council member Fent. Yes. Council member Martinez. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Spicer. Appreciate that. Thank you.

All right. Brings us to J3, the professional services agreement for groundwater and service water monitoring services. Staff report by Mr. Taxan Vanbet. Good evening, council. As part of our commitment to the groundwater basin and our uh discharge requirements, we're required to do certain stream monitoring, surface water monitoring, and uh groundwater monitoring. We put an RFP out in February for these engineering services and we received back a bid from DUTEK and the recommendation uh tonight is to award DUTC with a 5-year contract for these services with two optional extensions. I'm available for any questions. Right. Thank you. Do we have public comments?

I have no written requests. Simone, do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time. All right. Open and close comments at 6:41 p.m. Council discussion or entertain a motion. Council member Lara.

Yeah. Just real quick, um, no other respondents other than Due Deck and they do a fantastic job. But is that just a a very small um group of companies that provide that type of a service for this area? We did have we I looked into how many people looked at the uh RFP and we had 45 people that looked at it and you never know what keywords, you know, sometimes people download everything. Sometimes they key off of certain words. Um the last time we went out to bid five years ago, uh we had two respondents and the other one was about four times the cost I think.

Okay, that's all I have. Thank you. Great. See? Yeah. Council member Martinez. With that, I'll I'll make a motion to approve the professional service agreement with Dudek to provide groundwater and service monitoring services in the amount not to exceed $348,736 for a 5-year period with two optional one-year extensions. I'll second. Great. Thank you. Roll call, please. Council member Lara, yes. Council member Fen, yes. Council member Martinez, yes. All right. With that brings us to item J4. Authorize the first amendment to the deputy city manager employment agreement. Staff report Carrie Mendoza.

Good evening, mayor and council. Before you, you have the first amendment to the uh deputy city manager's employment agreement. He engaged in uh labor relations and negotiations with the council on 47. And as a result um of his uh annual anniversary with the city and reassignment back on May 11th, um council appointed him within his current salary range. base salary is referenced in the addendum and that is the only change to the contract at this time. If you have any other questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Thank you. Do we have public comment? I have no written requests, Simone. Do we have any callers on the line? We have no callers at this time.

All right. Open and close comment period at 6:43 p.m. Any council discussion or entertain a motion? Right. I'll go ahead and make a motion and uh well authorize the mayor to sign the first amendment to the deputy city manager employment agreement. Second. Roll call. Council member Lara. Yes. Council member Fen. Yes. Council member Martinez. Yes. Okay. Brings us to item K, legislative updates and discussion. No legislative update this evening. All right. Item L, economic development update. No update on that either. He is in Washington DC with the team.

Okay. I am planning commission actions update. There's a meeting tomorrow, so you'll have an update next meeting. Okay. Uh item N, treasur report. Uh seeing none. Uh item O, city clerk. No report this evening. Thank you. Item P, city attorney report. No report this evening. Item Q, city manager report. In your packet, you have your city manager monthly uh March 2026 report. You have any questions? Any questions or concerns? Yeah, I know. They're really great. So, communications is doing a great job with the graphics and making it fun for all the departments to highlight their stats. That's a good opportunity for them. So, it is. It's great.

Um item R is the future agenda items. There looks like we have donation policy for May, the emergency operations in June, and the ebikes parks in June. Do we have any further items to add? Seeing none, council reports item S. Council member Laura.

Oh, thank you, Council Member Martinez. Um, I attended the um the ribbon cutting for Senorn Stamp Park on April 14th. It was well attended. That's a beautiful park with a massive grass area for um they said they were going to be doing soccer and I think baseball out that way. Um but it it was a lot of fun. Staff did a great job in putting that on and it was good to see everyone there. That's all I have. All right. Thank you, Council Member Finn.

Yes. Thanks. Thank you, Council Member Martinez. So on the 14th um I attended our uh monthly pastcom meeting and we talked about um fire pre fire prevention um in that you know springtime now but summer's going to be around the corner and so a good website that um members of the public can go to is firewise.org org and they've got some in good information on preparing the outside of your property um for potential fires, especially those are living in the outlying areas and and in the high fire hazard zones. And then also too, there's some nice information and some articles about how how to look out to prevent fires on the inside of your home. And I'll give an example is don't forget to clean out your dryer vent. Um that can that can cause a fire, too. So, um and then on the 16th, I attended the Riverside Transit Agency board meeting. Um we talked about um well we awarded a a new security services contract and that was nice that it was lower than the year before. Um and then also in we had a conference in close session regarding um security for their whole agency and what's nice is they have security 247 days a week 365 days a year. So they're in good hands there. So that's my report for the evening.

Thank you. Council member Finn. Um I attended the Bizub Mixer. Uh it was a well very good turnout. It was nice to see the um community there and a lot of businesses there. So, uh thanks staff for that. Great job setting all that up. Um I could not attend the Sorenom um park. I had the um youth council meeting. So, I apologize for that. Um but I do hear it's a a nice park and I have not been to it yet. I do need to make that um soon on my list. I attended the uh career day at Brookside Elementary and um I brought with me uh a gavvel. So, they got to use the gavvel. That was a hit. And that was my son's idea cuz I didn't know. I was like, "What am I going to do?" Cuz usually Nicole and I, we work on like stamps or something with the blueprints and things. We didn't have time this year. So, I was like, "God, what am I going to do?" My son, take take a gavvel. They love hitting the gavvel. I said, "Oh, okay." So, I did and they loved it. Oh my gosh. And then I took bone bow with me. Um, so they enjoyed kind of looking at the places around there and stuff. So, you know, I thought it was good. And thank you for my son for thinking out of the box as I have no originality. So I I need that type of of suggestions. And lastly, um I attended the banning chamber breakfast where the teamsters had their um presentation that day, but I had never gone to a banning breakfast uh chamber breakfast. So I decided to to attend and and I was glad I did. There was a lot of um members there from Bowmont as well. And it's it's nice to see how we can collaborate between the two different cities and so forth. So, I I I enjoyed that. And that's all in my report. So, seeing anything else, then we will adjourn today's meeting at 6:48 p.m.

Better. But now I understand why you didn't hit it so hard.