City Council Meeting - Regular Meeting

Today's meeting consists of the following. City council successor agency. We wanna note that all meetings for the consent calendar will be done at the same time. At this time, I would like to call to order the meeting of the Fontana City Council. Before I pass the gavel to our next chairperson, which has one of our meetings, I just wanna let everyone know that today will be the last day we have a meeting in these sessions in this building.

And we're gonna be releasing more information of our plans for this city and this council's chamber and this city hall at a later date. But as you sit here today, you're making history. I'm taking selfies afterwards. Just letting you know. So at this time, I'll pass that gavel to the successor agency, which is chair Cochran.

Now call the meeting in order for the Fontana successor agency.

And, also, this is the last meeting of the year, 2025. So we're gonna start with our roll call. We'll start with mayor pro tem Garcia. Present. Councilman Cautran.

Present.

Councilman Sandoval.

Present.

Councilman Roberts.

Present.

Council member Roberts is going lead us in our invocation, and I've asked mayor pro tem Peter Garcia to lead us in our pledge. Please join us by standing.

Let's bow our heads. Heavenly father, we thank you for the many blessings you've given our community. Father, we ask for your wisdom and guidance as we deliberate the matters before us this afternoon. Father, be with those in public safety and communities community services and also those in military service. We ask this in your name. Amen. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. You may all be seated. Special thanks to councilmember John Roberts for our invocation, and special thanks to mayor pro tem Peter Garcia for our pledge. That brings us to city attorney. You don't look like Ruben, by the way. So this is Steve Doge, and he's going to provide our closed session report.

Thank you, mayor. The city council met in closed session before the open session and considered the three items listed on the posted agenda under closed session, the first being conference with real property negotiators, the second, pending litigation, and the third, labor negotiations. There was no reportable action taken. Thank you.

Thank you. Mayor mayor also just as a reminder, the last item, item number three, the council will reconvene the closed session to discuss that item.

Thank you for bringing that up. Thanks, Matt. We're gonna now go to our ceremonial items. Just to make sure the notes are proper, city clerk, we're going to come to closed session after this meeting, and then we'll reconvene for the results in a council meeting. Okay. So don't let me adjourn the meeting, whatever you do. Okay. Great. At this time, we're going to do our ceremonial items. This first item is really hard for me.

I really love you, Kathy. We're going to recognize our record coordinator, Kathy Kensinger, on her retirement. So we'll have our chief deputy city clerk, Christine, come forward to present.

Thank you, madam mayor. Good afternoon, everybody. I am Christina Rudzold, the Chief Deputy City Clerk and I am glad that Kathy has joined. You know how it works with our council meetings. It is an absolute honor today to celebrate Kathy, who has truly been the backbone of the city clerk's office.

And as our records coordinator, Kathy is retiring after twenty five years with the city plus three years as a temporary employee. We were very smart enough to bring you on permanently twenty five years ago, and she has spent her entire career here in the City Clerk's office growing with us and keeping us organized and compliant and transparent. As our Records Coordinator, she has managed retention schedules and mountains of documents with incredible accuracy and most important patience. That is a lot of documents. If we needed it to be found, fixed, filed, explained, she is the person that we all go to for that.

So I have had the pleasure of working with Kathy for the last two years and three months and her historical knowledge has been a complete lifesaver for me as somebody new to the city. She always knew the backstory and then sometimes she knew the backstory to the backstory. So that reminds me, and I want to remind all of you, we only have two weeks from this day to ask her all of our historical institutional knowledge questions. So ask them before our official historian leaves us. But beyond her expertise, Kathy also brings invaluable institutional knowledge and she has been such an important part of our incredible city clerk team.

And we are going to really feel the difference when you are not here with us and I am going try to keep it together. I really want to thank Kathy's family who is here with us today, your husband Dan for sharing you with us all of these years. And I am sure you all have heard plenty of records management stories over the years. Really, I just want to thank you for everything. Your retirement is very well deserved and we wish you nothing but the best in this next chapter. Please don't be surprised and please answer your phone if we call you when we cannot find something. But with that, please join me in congratulating and recognizing Kathy. And we've got some beautiful flowers for you, which I'm going to come grab.

You. Thank you, Christine. Thank you. You you have been so special, to all the council members and myself. But more importantly, how you have treated our public, it has been second to none. It is not unusual for me to go to a meeting and people tell me. I came to City Hall. I didn't know who to ask, and Kathy helped me. And that means a lot, particularly for our seniors. That department, people do not realize just how vital it is to run-in a city, and you have made it clear how it ought to be done, and you've done it that way.

So if any of my other colleagues would like to say anything before we have Kathy speak.

Oh.

I think it's great that you and the city hall are leaving at the same time.

Yeah. That

was good. Thank you.

How about

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yeah, I I agree with the mayor. You know, you have been a tremendous asset here. You know, I've been here almost as long as you have, I think, maybe a little longer. And, you know, you've you've definitely left your mark on Fontana as being a a great place to work and what you have done for the public here is just amazing. Know, there's always a smiling face. No matter how irritated they are, you come in and you make sure they leave happy. And so I just want you to know how much I appreciate your service here at Fontana. Thank you. Yeah.

I also, Kathy, wanna thank you for everything you've done since I've been here since 2012. Smiling face. Ask a question where it is. You knew where it was, how to get it, and when to get it. I'm grateful that to have someone that has all the knowledge in the background to find what we need to find. So thank you for that. Always smiling. Always, how can I help? How can I solve the issue or the problem? So I thank you very much.

Kathy, thank you for everything you've done since I've been here at the city. You've been great to work with, great to see out in the halls, and and you just embody everything that we value here in an employee at the city and just part of the family and we wish you all the best.

Alright, Kathy. So I've known you since I was what, 14? 15 now? At least on that side of things, probably longer than that. Kathy has always been my cool aunt at City Hall.

She's always the one that snuck you candy or anything that you wanted in your office or anything you're not supposed to have. She was always there to take care of you just like an aunt would would be, and so you're going to be terribly missed. I know that when we make our move from this building over the next, City Hall is not going to be the same without you in it. So without your smiling face, without your personality running the halls, without being able to hear you pick up the phone call, or whether the bell is ringing down the hall from us, it'll be someone else that has to answer that. But you have been a tremendous part of City Hall for all these years, and so, we cannot replace you, but thankfully you have an amazing team that's beside you that you have that you have lent some of your experience to, and, they will continue pushing forward to make the city of Fontana as best as it's ever been, but you will be tremendously missed.

And my last story for you on this side of things is I was, we were moving our offices, and as I was taking a bunch of junk out of my office, she just kept coming in and taking papers and stacks of everything I didn't want anymore. She had her office completely cleaned, ready to go, just as she normally does. And now, all of sudden, all of my stuff was stacked on her desk because she is the type of person that will take that responsibility and and take it from you because she's always giving and always caring about others. And so that is a a tremendous mark that the city is going to miss from you. So but thank you very much for your years of service and for her family for letting her, letting us borrow her for a couple on that side of things. But I look forward to the many endeavors that you have, yet before you. We

have a certificate, and then you can speak. And just on a personal note, I don't know who you assigned to me when I am in my office going crazy. So somebody over there better stand up soon, okay? Twenty five years of service. Whereas Kathy started her career with City of Fontana on 09/25/2000, in the city clerk department, served as city records coordinator, making sure to protect all the city's official records.

She has played a key role in implementing and modernizing the city records management system, making sure it is accessible for staff, departments, and the public. Her professionalism, strong work ethic, and unwavering commitment to public service has earned her the respect and appreciation of all of her colleagues. On this great occasion of her retirement, Kathy is deserving of recognition for her loyalty, her exceptional service, and her lasting contributions to the city of Fontana. So in recognition, I, mayor Warren, and my great council colleagues, all of us together, wish you best luck, answer your phone, and we love you.

Wow, that was really nice. A little overwhelmed right now. I just want to thank the good Lord above for the opportunity that He's given me to be here, Mayor and Council, for everything that you've done for us, for the city, for me. I'm more than appreciative. I've had great people to work with. I have a great bunch right now, which makes it a little bittersweet to go. But I know you're in good hands with them because they are all wonderful ladies and have a wonderful boss. And I'm so blessed to have been here, this opportunity and just to work here has just it has been a blessing. So I just want to thank you all very much.

Thank you. Can we give her a standing ovation, everyone? Next, we have captain James Burton to present. We're gonna recognize corporals and different staff members for the October 2025 employee of the month.

Wow. That's a hard act to follow. If I could have Cassandra Pimentel come up here, please. Cassandra is a valued member of the finance team currently assigned to accounts payable, helping manage departmental purchases and maintaining monthly invoices. Even when faced with urgent requests and tight deadlines, Cassandra consistently demonstrates exceptional professionalism, reliability and a positive attitude.

She always takes the extra step to research products and ensure the department is getting the best value. Over the last year, she's collaborated closely with the City Hall Finance Units to develop and implement new procedures that greatly improved workflow and efficiency across the departments. During the rollout of the tax increase in Fontana, she proactively reached out to both purchasing and accounting teams and worked with vendors for direction on adopting the changes, helping to prevent costly errors and saving valuable time. In addition to her regular duties, also volunteers to be part the peer support team and K-nine pals and she dedicates her own personal time to organize and support numerous K-nine fundraising events that directly benefit the Fontana Police K-nine unit. I'd like to thank Cassandra for her hard work and helping our department and all the work that you do outside of your normal duties all the time.

You can always be relied on. You're a great employee and we appreciate it.

Okay. I have the pleasure of employee of the month, Kansadra. Thank

you very much.

Alright, if I could have the next group come up. I'll call you guys all by name once you get up here. All right, as they're coming up I'll introduce them. This is Corporal Chris Romo, Officer Josh Rodriguez, Corporal Luis Rios, Corporal Josh Patty, Forensic Investigator Kurt Wagner, Corporal Paul Beltran, Corporal Sammy Syne, Officer Isaiah Sandoval, Officer Celestine Casares, Officer Chris Dreyer, Officer Dante Gentry and Officer Bishop Thompson. So they were all chosen for our October employees of the month and sorry I wasn't sure if this was picking up.

They were all chosen as our October employees of the month and it really boils down to two cases in particular where our patrol officers responded out to what would seem like routine calls or kind of minor calls, but continued to develop information and which ultimately led to our detectives being called and then the investigation continued and we had evidence collection and analyzation of electronic devices and they turned into some pretty in-depth investigations. So in the first incident, officers responded to a local restaurant after a suspect, an adult male, propositioned a minor in the restroom. When officers arrived and contacted the suspect, they became aware he was already with another minor at the location. Officers continued to investigate and discovered that the minor and the adult suspect were involved in a relationship. They found evidence of this both on scene and later at his home.

Ultimately, the suspect confessed to the relationship and was arrested and the minor was returned to his family. In another incident, officers responded to a local business who had reported that some photos were being processed that depicted exploitation of minors. The officers were able to identify a suspect with very limited information from the business. Detectives responded out and they later a search warrant on the suspect's residence in a neighboring city. That investigation led to additional information involving an international sex trafficking ring.

The case was then turned over to federal authorities who are working to identify and rescue those victims. Both of these investigations started out as very minor incidents. The officers refused to give up and followed their instincts knowing there was a bigger crime occurring. As the investigation continued, detectives became involved and they too continued to work every possible lead. The teamwork between patrol officers, detectives, forensic technicians who collected evidence and analyzed electronic devices is outstanding.

Everyone involved went above and beyond to seek justice and rescue these minors. The work they did on these cases makes such a positive impact on the victims that were involved and our community as a whole and that's why they were chosen as our employees of the month. On

behalf of our community, we just wanna thank all of you. You are keeping everyone safe. We get the reports and on a daily basis, and I just we just all pray for you because you are there. When everybody else is running out, you're running in. And what you're doing, particularly for children, children that cannot protect themselves, we just thank you for your great work. So at this time, my colleagues have your certificates. We'll start with councilmember Cawthren.

Thank you, madam mayor. I get the honor of presenting this first certificate to corporal Christopher Rommel. While he's going down, I'm gonna honor corporal Luis McReal. Corporal Sammy Sines. I'm gonna call you Sammy.

Thank you, sir.

And I have the honor of presenting to police officer Isaiah Sandoval. And I also have police officer officer Christopher Christopher Dreyer. Dreyer and police officer Celestine Casares.

Thank you, madam.

And police officer Bishop Thompson.

Sir.

Next, we'll have council member Roberts.

And, police corporal Paul Beltran. Police officer Dante Gentry. Police officer Joshua Rodriguez.

I have the honor of presenting to police corporal Josh Patti. Next one has a long title. So, police digital forensic tech to Kurt Wagner.

Let's give them all a big hand, everyone. Okay. Alright. Okay. Keep going keep going right there.

I get her a ladder.

Let's give him another big hand, everyone. Thank you so much. This concludes our presentations. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

This brings us to public comment. Good afternoon, and thank you again for attending this meeting of the city council. The Brown Act revised that members of the public may offer comment on any item or interest within the subject matter jurisdiction of the city council and on any action item, including items on the consent calendar. What this means is that the council welcomes and encourages your input on issues of city business and on action items on today's agenda. Issues of city business do not include personal attacks on city officials or city staff.

While we acknowledge your right to comment on our actions or activities with respect to city issues and business, You will not be allowed to just do purely personal comments, not having to do with official performance of city duties. Please do not use profanity, name card, or any other behavior that would disrupt the proceedings this afternoon, speech or other activity that disrupts the orderly business of the council. This will not be allowed. After a warning, continued behavior that disrupts the meeting may result in you being asked to leave the meeting. Thank you. City clerk Key, how many communication cards do you have?

Mayor, we have five requests to speak today. Okay. Each speaker has up to three minutes. I will call the first three to go to the podium. Dale Evans from the exchange club, Grace, and Margie.

Good afternoon, mayor. Good afternoon, deputy city clerk, our city clerk, miss Key, treasurer Brooks, councilman Catherine Garcia, Robert Sandoval. Again, I thought I'd try to do it the right way. This time, I wrote it down so I could do it right. Thank you all so much. I'm first of all here to invite you to remind you that on Saturday, it's Christmas, the parade, 10:00. We'll meet you here in Downtown Fontana, for a great Christmas parade that'll be followed up. Our parade is called the festival of winter after that afterward. I guess kids around from Illinois, and so I've seen snow. I know what snow really is.

And so to see that here and have kids to get an idea of what a taste of it is like is great. They love it. Now as close as I wanna get to snow is watching it on the mountain just down from my house. In fact, I change the channel on the television when I see snow. What I'm going to share with you today, though, is just a bit of a background and then my request. In 1968, there was a journey that was started to make Martin Luther King Day a national holiday. That was in 1968. In 1984, Ronald Reagan signed to make Martin Luther King's Day a national holiday. Now there was a change that happened again to make it actually a day of service. Now there's only two days of service in the country.

All the others are just holidays. Does anybody know what that other day of service is? That day is September 11. Now the reason that there was a second change with the family,

they wanted it to be

a day of service, is that they they found that their father's birthday had turned into 50% off sales at the stores, fundraisers, dinners, breakfasts, but what they wanted it to do is to be about service. So the title of it is a day on and not a day off. We started here in Fontana six years ago at Loveland Church with 12 volunteers, that did three projects. We moved up three or four years, and we actually worked with, Mountain View Church. Last year, we had over 200 volunteers, and we finished 20 projects.

My appeal to you today is is to join us so that this year, we can hit the goal that we've set is 500 volunteers, and we can finish 50 projects. The city has always been a great partner. I kind of don't like public works because we can't clean up the parks. Took bags to the parks and couldn't get a full bag of garbage at seven parks. So that's not one of the projects that we do. But the police department has been great partners as well. Last year, the officers delivered over a 100 meals to the homeless here in the area. We had the AKA group come out and do things. Valentine's Day cards is our major project. We'll do Valentine's Day cards for seniors and veterans throughout the area.

So go to exchange club or fontana.org. Bring your kids out with you. They can't be too young to learn to serve. Learn to give before you get. And see, the reason that we do what we do is because somebody taught us to do it. Join us.

Thank you. Grace?

Good afternoon. I'm here to speak again following the deeply disappointing and disrespectful incident that occur that took place at the last special meeting. At that meeting, I followed the instructions given to me and stayed on topic. The toy drive and the car show scheduled for this upcoming Sunday. I I want to remind the city council that you were elected to represent all residents of Fontana.

This body is not meant to function like a throne room nor should it operate as a dictatorship. Transparency, Transparency, accountability, and respect for the public are fundamental expectations. Today, I am once again asking the council to publicly denounce the involvement of ICE at community events and to assure the safety of all families attending the toy drive, the car show, and the upcoming Christmas parade. For months, our city has been experiencing a climate of fear, and this council has remained silent. Just last Wednesday, a U.

S. Citizen was reportedly taken by four masked individuals outside of Fontana Courthouse while holding his naturalization documents. This is alarming, and the community deserves to know. Will the mayor or any council member address this incident publicly? If immigrant families do not matter to you, perhaps the fact that a US citizen that US citizens are also being targeted will prompt a response.

I would also like to request that Fontana consider adopting a policy similar to the one implemented in Pomona last week, which requires local police to shut down DUI checkpoints if ICE or any other federal immigration enforcement agencies appear. That policy also mandates clear signage stating that the checkpoint is not an ICE operation and allows residents to observe freely without interference. This is a practical, humane step to restore trust. It is heartbreaking to know how many families, right here in our own city, have been torn apart, especially during this holiday season. We deserve leadership that protects our community rather than stand silent in the face of fear and intimidation. Thank you.

Margie.

Good afternoon, Mayor and Council members. My name is Margie. We request that the Municipal Code be revised to prohibit balconies when homes are built at close proximity as their structures create unavoidable privacy conflicts. A balcony at this distance allows a direct line of sight into our bedrooms and backyards, eliminating any expectation of privacy inside our homes or in the backyard. There is an ongoing pattern of activity that makes our household uncomfortable, including the neighbor consistently watching our family in the backyard and even climbing a ladder to stand on his patio covering cover to observe us, and an elevated platform would only intensify this intrusion.

We were previously informed by the Building and Planning Department that balconies were not permitted. They were exclusive to Hunters Ridge, so we are asking to clarify what has changed and why. Other neighbors share similar concerns about proximity and privacy, but many cannot attend due to the two p. M. Timeframe. A one does not fit all. One size approach on a balcony approval does not work in neighborhoods where homes sit close together and where privacy cannot be preserved. You are our voice. Thank you for your time.

Doctor. Floyd Gross.

Hello, miss Mayor. You know me from at the PATH. I was placed at Aldia Apartments, and, miss mayor, you absolutely restored my faith in humanity when you popped up with that that Thanksgiving dinner, I actually thought nobody even ever cared, especially about me. That's always been my way. You know?

But you show you show me what Fontana is really about. I went from losing my house in a fire. The next day, I was contacted by a Fontana police officer. His name was I hope I don't murder this, but it's b z o z a y a. He told me if, if I had any relatives close.

I said no. He said, follow me over to the path, and it's been one blessing after the other since then. The reason I'm here today is because because of the crime there. There's I don't know if it's tenant on tenant or if there's outside people coming in when the gate opens, but I wasn't a victim. But several months ago and this didn't happen. And

there was a

jump my cat alerted for me that there was something going on in the back my back patio. So I opened the door, and there's some guy laying on the ground hiding behind my plants in a garden outside garden chair. He was evading arrest, I'm I'm assuming. Okay? The gentleman, a few minutes later, three three of Fontana's finest were running up the back sidewalk behind the patios at the back building.

Okay? And what happened after that is I was getting ready to handle stuff myself. I went I started to turn to get my walking tall stick, and I'm telling this guy, you you you're not allowed here. You gotta get out of here. And, know, he even jiggled my door trying to get in.

Lloyd You're gross. You're three minutes.

Is up. Yeah. But can you we talked to you right before Thanksgiving. You can you talk with captain Burton? Yeah. K. I understand, but can you talk to captain Burton? We care about you, and you're gonna be just fine. I like to hear something. Right. I understand. He's gonna talk to you, Okay? Was it Margie that was the speaker before? Okay. Margie, will you talk to our deputy city manager, Phil Burn, about your request? There he is right there. He'll talk to you. Okay? Alright. Your next speaker?

Yes. That would be bishop Emery James. And he's our final speaker, mayor.

Good afternoon, mayor and council. First of all, let me say what a privilege it is to sit in a council meeting and see how much we have grown and how we have been so accountable to the community in terms of addressing problems, which is what we are at the onset of dealing with Doctor. King has been all about. We are a much better city than we were when we first started this meeting. But that being said, I wanted to announce the Martin King celebration for 2026.

It's going to be held at Stage Red, January 17 at 7PM. This year's theme will be celebrating gospel music, the Los Angeles chapter, the Gospel Music Workshop of America. And the three time Grammy nominated artist Brent Jones will be our special guests. Tickets will be $35 to $75 And then we have the meet and greet tickets for $130 I hope that we can get as many of you to come out. If you've never visited the Red Theater, you're in for a great, great, great evening of sound and entertainment.

The other thing, since I got another minute and thirty two seconds, I might as well use it up. I was driving down Sierra Avenue about a week ago. And my mind flashed back to the inception of Doctor. King's holiday. We started in 1977.

At that time, it was quite a place. We had Klan involved and all kinds of crazy stuff. But we marched down to the old Performing Arts Center. I don't know how many of you here still remember that. And we had Martin King, the son of the slang civil rights, Martin King was with us that day.

And all of Fontana turned out in the rain. And that was the onset of change for our community. And I just want to thank God for all that he has done to bring us to where we are right now, to our growth, our development, and the things that we see now we never would have imagined. And I've made a lot of friends along the ways. I'm sure I've made a few enemies along the way, but we're still here. And this celebrates thirty nine years. And next year will be the fortieth year for the King celebration. So I appreciate this opportunity to speak to you today in hopes that, you will be a part of our celebration this year. Thank you.

Our speakers, mayor.

Alright. Thank you. This brings us to our consent calendar. Do we have any announcements related to our consent calendar? Are we pulling any items? Or

Mayor and council, I recommend you pull item w. That's the third amendment to the city manager contract. That'll be the discussion at your continued closed session, after which we'll come back into open session. And you, at that point, can take any action you wish regarding matter w on the consent calendar. Thank you.

Thank you, city attorney. I don't have any items that were pulled, but can I have a motion to approve the consent calendar for the following, the city council as well as the successor agency?

Madam mayor, I'll make the motion for approval. And I'll second.

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

Five in favor. Motion is passed with the exclusion of item w.

Thank you. Motion passed. That brings us to public hearings. Public hearing item a is an appeal number 25Dash002 request to overturn the Planning Commission's 08/19/2025 decision adopting a category exemption per section one five three three two, class number 32, and approving of a mixed use project, a 163 multifamily units, and 5,000 square feet of commercial retail within our five zoning district. District that includes a five story 83,125 square foot mixed use building and associate improvements on a 3.5 acre site located on the Northeast corner of Foothill Boulevard and Sultana Avenue and identified as assessor's parcel number 1110 Dash 331 Dash 13 and 1110 Dash 331 Dash 25.

The public hearing is now open. City clerk, are there any requests to speak on this item?

We have no request to speak, mayor.

Okay. Staff is recommending that city council continue this item to 01/27/2026, which is our regular city council meeting. May I have a motion to continue public hearing item a to the 01/27/2026 regular city council meeting?

Move to continue. Second.

Motion and a second. Please cast your votes.

Mayor, something happened to my screen. It's not popping up.

How do you vote?

Yes.

Okay. Yeah. You broke everybody. Oh, here we go. Okay. Something's wrong with, mayor pro tem Garcia's, but we have his vote in poorly as noted.

And with that, the motion is

Motion passed. That brings us to public hearing item b, municipal code amendment NCA number 25 dash zero zero one one. Consideration of an urgency ordinance amending section 30 dash four six seven of the Fontana Municipal Code regarding accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units to comply with recent changes in state law and finding the action to be statutorily exempt from CEQUA under section two one zero eight zero point one seven of the public resource code. The public hearing is now open. City clerk Key, do you have any written correspondence on this item?

We do not, mayor.

So we're gonna have a staff report from our associate planner, Cecilia Gomes.

Good afternoon, madam mayor, members of the city council. I will be providing the staff report. So before you is an urgency ordinance, for ADUs and junior ADUs to align the city's code with the recent changes to state law, including, assembly bill four sixty two, assembly bill eleven fifty four, and senate bill five forty three. These bills all become effective on 01/01/2026. Therefore, an urgency ordinance would be required in order for it to go into effect also on 01/01/2026.

If we did not or if we do not adopt an urgency ordinance, our current ordinance would be null and void since it wouldn't be compliant with state law by the effective date. And that would leave us with out the local input or local control, the minimal opportunities we have for control or standards for ADUs and JADUs we would not have. Some examples of those are certain setbacks, also maximum size for certain ADUs, and then also not being able to convey separately or sell the ADUs separately, which is currently in our code. So just so you're aware, staff will bring a permanent ordinance back before you at the beginning of 2026 to go through the normal ordinance process. But this urgency ordinance will hold us over until that point.

So just a brief overview of some of the new requirements that are in state law that are being put into our ordinance. Plan reviews of ADU plans have to take place within fifteen business days of submittal. There's also no parking requirement for ADUs that are 500 square feet and smaller. So this was already clearly stated in state law for junior ADUs. But in order to make explicitly clear that it applies to smaller ADUs, the state legislature included that language there.

So our language will align with that. Also, owner occupancy requirements for junior ADUs. As currently in place. If there's a JDU on a property, the owner has to reside somewhere on the property. The state has made a change that says that owner occupancy is only required when there's a JADU that has shared restroom or sanitation facilities with the main house, which is allowed.

So if the JADU is completely independent of the main house, then there's no owner occupancy requirement. Also, state made it very clear that there are no short term rentals for JADUs, meaning less than thirty nights or thirty days. And then last but not least, there are limited times that the state has provided an opportunity where a certificate of occupancy can be issued for an ADU, before a certificate of occupancy for the primary dwelling, and that's in the case of a declared emergency. So I think it stemmed from the fires where people are building the ADU, living in it, and then building their homes. So it's just very explicit about when you can use this exception.

I did want to point out that we did receive a letter from the Housing Defense Fund, and they pointed out a couple of errors that were in the ordinance. So we did complete a memo that should be on the dais for you. One of the things is a reference to certain sections of state law. So we updated those as shown in the memo. And then the other is that deed restrictions only apply to junior ADUs.

And I had or we had the ADUs in that section as well. So it's just a strikeout of ADUs. So it only applies to the junior ADUs. These changes satisfy the request of the letter and also will be reflected in the permanent ordinance as well as this urgency ordinance. And with that being said, staff does recommend that you find that the adoption of the urgency ordinance is statutorily exempt from CEQA and then actually adopt the urgency ordinance. And that does conclude my presentation. I'm available for any questions that you may have. Thank you.

Thank you for that presentation. Are there any questions for Cecilia? Anybody?

I had a quick question. So just for clarity, is a so there's making some distinctions between the ADU and the junior ADU and the need for a deed restriction. So where there's an attached ADU, that's considered a junior ADU?

Attached ADUs can be considered junior if they meet the size requirement, which is 500 square feet or smaller. And it would have to meet the setbacks that are applicable to the main house because JADUs are intended to be a conversion of existing living space or an attached garage. So if someone were to build an addition in order to have a JADU, that's allowed. Or you could have just an attached ADU.

So an attached state based on the on on the new rules, an attached ADU with its with its own restroom shower facilities can be sold separately from the

Oh, no. So the city has elected to not allow j ADUs to be sold separately. The only difference is for the ADUs that are independent is that the owner does not have to live on the premises. If they are if there is an interior connection and they share sanitation facilities, which is allowed for JADUs, then the owner of the property does have to reside on-site. So it just depends on the design of the JADU.

So if they don't share if they don't share facilities, the owner does not have to live on-site Correct.

Per state law.

They cannot be sold separately?

Absolutely.

Okay. And there's no deed restriction for that anymore?

The only deed restriction is if it's for j a d JADUs, excuse me. 500. Yes, for the 500 or smaller.

Thank you.

Madam Mayor Paveh? Go ahead. All right, Cecily. Talk to me about the plan review must take place within fifteen days of submittal. Is that has to be in the works? It has to be completed? What are we what are we I'm just trying to keep you and Patty from losing your hair at this point.

It per state law, we do have to complete the actual review of the plans within fifteen business days. So it probably, in looking at our normal turnaround times, we'll have to tweak things just a little bit, but we'll have to meet that for state law.

So essentially, the state of California is now costing the city of Fontana more money because now I'm gonna have to eventually hire more staff and get this thing through faster because they decide that we have to do it within fifteen days. I mean, I'd love to tell the state of California you have to review my laws and everything within fifteen days of me submitting things, But they just ignore me and laugh me out the out the house. So alright. Thank you very much. Absolutely.

Are there any more questions? Okay. Thank you. City clerk Key, do you have any requests to speak?

We do not, mayor.

Okay. I'm going to close the public hearing. And may I have a motion to approve staff's recommendation as provided in the staff report? One, waive the reading of the text in its entirety. Retitle only and adopt ordinance number nineteen seventy six entitled an urgency ordinance of the city council of the City Of Fontana amending section 30 dash four six seven of the City Of Fontana municipal code relating to accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units and find the action to be statutorily exempt from CEQUA under public resources code two one zero eight zero point one seven. May I have a motion?

I'll make the motion, mayor.

Okay. Okay. Have a second?

Second.

Have a motion to second. Please cast your vote.

And just for clarity, we're we're approving the amended one that strikes out, the deep restriction for you

to use.

Thank you, mayor.

It that was noted. Is it working?

All in favor, motion passes.

Motion passed. Okay. We're working. Let's go to public hearing item c. The city council will now consider public hearing item c, which is consideration of master case number MCN24Dash006O.

General plan amendment GPA number 24 dash zero zero four. Sony district map amendment c as in zebra, c a number twenty four zero zero zero four. Tentative track map, 24 dash zero zero zero nine. TTM, number 2712. Conditional use permit, CUP, number 24 dash zero zero twenty three, and design review Doctor number 24Dash0031.

A request to change the general plan land use designation from multifamily medium high r dash m f m h to multifamily residential r dash m f. A request to change the zoning destination from multifamily medium high residential r dash four to multifamily residential r dash three, a request to subdivide 35 parcels to establish a condominium map and abandon a portion of Knox Avenue, a request to create a planned unit development, PUD, and request for site and architectural view of new 393 multifamily unit development with associate improvements on approximately 30.99 gross air acres, constituting a combined amendment to the city's general plan, which is the first general plan amendment for the cycle 2025 cycle one. We'll have our associate planner, Alexis, will present master case number MCN24Dash0060.

Good evening mayor and members of the city council so the diversified Pacific communities applicant is requesting to do a zone change tentative track map general plan amendment conditional use permit, design review with the ultimate goal to build 393 multifamily units. The project site is located along Knox Avenue between South Highland Avenue and Walnut Avenue as you see on your screen. Here we have the site plan. The project includes a 177 attached townhomes, a 103 detached cluster homes, and a 113 detached motor court units. This will be a gated community both off of Highland Avenue and Walnut.

The applicant is proposing three different architectural styles being the Spanish cottage and farmhouse. All styles use a combination of tile roof, decorative lighting, decorative siding, brick veneers, shutters, window treatments, arched doors, and arched garages. And then examples of the renderings are on your screen. Here we have the proposed recreational building, which has a gathering space inside as well as a kitchen, showers, and restrooms. The applicant is providing 10 amenities while the code only requires five of them.

So amenities include a pool and spa, cabanas, fire pits with lounge seating, barbecue areas. There will be a tot lot, bocce ball court, cornhole, open grass areas, and a paseo with fitness stations. On November 18, the Planning Commission recommended approval by a vote of four o. Staff's recommendation is that the city council approve the Walnut residential project as recommended in the staff report. This concludes my presentation. Staff, the applicant, and their environmental consultant are available if there are any questions.

Thank you for that presentation. Counsel, you have any questions for staff? Okay. I'm gonna open the public hearing. Are there any speakers on the master case number MCN24Dash0060?

I have no request to speak, mayor.

At the conclusion, of this public testimony, the city will be closing this portion of the, public hearing. So I'm gonna close the public hearing right now. Public hearing closed. And I'm a call for the vote for the following motions. One, adopt resolution number 25 dash one zero nine as provided in the staff report.

Two, read by title only and waive further reading of and introduce ordinance number one nine seven seven, an ordinance of the city council and the city of Fontana approving, present to mitigated negative declaration zoning district map amendment number 24 dash zero zero zero four to update the zoning map for multifamily medium high residential r four to multifamily residential r three for 35 parcels. APNs 0228Dash051Dash01Dash14Dash1516171920 and 21. 02280520 one dash 25 dash twenty six and twenty seven zero two two eight dash six one dash o two three dash fourteen sixteen seventeen eighteen twenty through twenty five and two two eight dash three one one dash zero five on approximately 31 acres and that the reading of the title constitute the first reading thereof. May I have a motion?

Mayor, I recommend two separate motions, two separate votes for those items.

Then the actual reading? Okay. We need a motion to adopt resolution number 2025Dash01 no. One zero nine as provided in the staff report.

So moved, mayor.

Second. Have a motion and a second. Please cast your vote.

Five in favor. Motion passes.

Motion passed. Now the next motion was read by title only and waived for the reading, introducing ordinance number one nine seven seven. Is that all I need to say? Can I have a motion for that ordinance?

Madam Mayor, I'll make the motion for approval. Second.

Motion is second. Please cast your vote.

Five in favor. Motion passes.

Motion passes. That brings us to public hearing item d, a master case number MCN 25 dash zero zero eight two, general plan amendment GPA number 25 dash zero zero zero one, and municipal code amendment, MCA number 25 dash zero zero one two. General plan amendment to modify the community mobility and circulation element to incorporate the updated truck route map and modify existing policies and actions as well as add new policies and actions under goals two and seven of the circulation element to meet the requirements of assembly bill 98. Municipal code Fontana Municipal Code amendments to chapter 17 motor vehicles and traffic. Article x, truck routes to modify the listed city commercial truck route system to be consistent with the proposed community mobility and circulation element amendments to an amendment an addendum to the general plan final environmental impact report, FEIR.

This public hearing is now open. City clerk Key, did you receive any written correspondence?

Mayor, we did not.

Thank you. We'll now have a report from our engineering manager, Ruben.

Good afternoon, madam mayor and members of the council. I am here to present to you the general plan amendment for our truck route update and municipal code amendment to reflect those changes in our code to bring our truck routes into compliance with the requirements of state assembly bill 98. So the request is to update the general plan to show the revised routes as well as the policy update to reflect the requirements of AB 98 as well as the municipal code update to clean up our truck routes and reflect the changes we are proposing today. With that, just a high level overview of what truck routes are. They apply to commercial trucks exceeding 10,000 pounds.

This means both truck and trailers as well as just the cabs. It's reflected in our municipal code and is enforceable by RPD. It designates regional connections but it does not restrict local deliveries to destinations that are off the truck route. So for example, the grocery store just north of us is not on a designated truck route, but trucks are allowed to legally provide deliveries to that use. Assembly Bill 98 was passed in September 2024.

It requires Fontana and about half a dozen other agencies to come into compliance by 01/01/2026. Every other city in the state has until 2028 or later to come into compliance. Luckily, Assembly Bill 98 is just an enhanced version of what the city had already passed in 2022 with the sustainability ordinance. So the city gets kudos for being ahead of the game with that. The requirements of AB 98 in essence are to maintain access to logistical uses, avoid impacting residential and sensitive uses to the extent possible, providing visible truck route signage and making the maps available online.

So a high level of all the changes that we are recommending, the intent of these changes is to strike the balance between efficient truck movement as well as quality of life for our residents. We want to encourage trucks to use the freeways as much as possible and not use our local streets for regional travel. But we also want to make sure that when they are passing through the city they are doing it as efficiently as possible. With that, the removals that we are proposing are shown herein. There are several other removals that are in our municipal code where it reflected roadways not in our jurisdiction.

So in the unincorporated County, in Rialto, and in other areas that we are striking from our municipal code as we do not have jurisdiction over that. The removals that we are showing here is to encourage the trucks to stay on the freeways and not to use the city streets as a bypass when there's congestion. We are recommending a few additions. These are already primarily used by trucks. So Philadelphia Avenue down south has a lot of warehouses fronting it and is used by trucks.

We're just legitimizing that and making sure it's within our code. And then, the east extent of Sierra Lakes Avenue, East of Sierra is connecting to Mango, which connects the backside of all the warehouses along Sierra. We are also proposing to add a portion of Citrus that provides a direct connection to the 210 instead of forcing trucks to make several turns to take baseline or foothill to get back to the freeway. So this means less trucks turn in the turn lanes, more efficient movement, less idling, less risk of collisions. With that, before we brought this to you and before we took it to Planning Commission in November, we did a lot of public outreach.

There was a web based map for residents and stakeholders in the logistics community to provide input. We also held a workshop for both the stakeholders separate from the community workshop to get feedback. Overwhelming, we received support. There were several items that were brought up that were already working on in terms of truck enforcement and signage. With that, the general plan amendment is shown within your packet.

We're adding a new map. The municipal code amendment is also shown within your packet. After this hearing we have several next steps so we will be preparing our typical work order signing and striping plans to implement the recommended changes. But we are also working to implement some innovative and new ways of making sure that the truck routes are enforceable besides the typical sign on the side of the road. We want to try things that will make sure that the trucks follow our truck routes and not just put pretty signs that people can ignore.

The second reading of this ordinance will be in January. We will be holding community outreach events and public noticing between now and March And that'll allow us time to finish our plans, put the signs up, and begin enforcement in April. With that, that concludes my presentation.

Thank you. Are there any questions staff?

I had a question, Mayor.

Go ahead.

So Ruben, you mentioned that and I forgot what the term was, but there was supposed to be let me see here. It was on your presentation. You talked about oh, truck routes not restricting local deliveries per the California vehicle code. And then so can you provide what that definition is of a local delivery? I know, for example, a grocery store or something like that. But is is there is there a a strict definition of what a local delivery is?

I don't have the vehicle code definition memorized, but I believe the intent is that if a truck driver has a destination to make that delivery, whether it's to a business that they've been contracted with, a homeowner that's moved in and has a large truck bringing their furniture, those are legitimate deliveries. If they have a delivery, for example, in the city of Rialto, that does not allow them to travel through City Fontana Streets off of designated truck routes to get to that delivery. There is some wording about the shortest most direct path to that destination from a designated truck route. So if there is a certain location they would look at what are the most adjacent and closest routes that they can take and then follow that and then deviate from it at that point.

And then, of course, there's delivery trucks like the trucks that deliver your furniture or stuff like that. Right? And there's a delivery truck like, you know, the big rig that has a big tractor trailer. Is there a distinction between that and local delivery or no?

Our ordinance is based on the weight of the vehicle. So if a vehicle is over 10,000 pounds, it follows our municipal code for truck enforcement. If a vehicle is less than that, then it does not need to follow our truck ordinance.

Okay. Thank you.

Any more questions?

Yep. So I see that, the next I appreciate the next steps because you always know that we're going to ask about, okay, we're making these changes. The next thing is the city's, the residents are going see these changes go into effect and say, that truck is still driving down my street. Right? That's going to be the biggest complaint that all five of us are probably going to receive out of this whole thing.

Mostly, impact that I've received is positive from the residents that they're happy that we're updating, reviewing this, and we're taking the matter seriously. But at the end of the day, we have our outreach team that goes out and talks to our industrial developers and things of nature, but you're still gonna get truckers that are coming from out of town that are not local delivery guys that don't know the roads. Right? I personally I this is my my bias, of course, because I see the big billboards that's the trailers that we put up. And those are great because the residents know that, hey, we're trying to talk to the truckers, and they see instant gratification. Right? Are we going to be purchasing some more of those as a part of their PR program? What is the best way that you see actually moving forward on this side of things?

You provide the budget, I'll buy them.

No, I see, see. Just cut and simple. Like

it. Have four already out in the field. We have several in our yard. I believe currently we have sufficient to move them around through the city to do proper noticing. We also have a project underway due to the budget you've allocated to us to purchase a system that would do dynamic truck messaging and enforcement sort of like a radar speed feedback sign that you see tells you you're going too fast. This device is supposed to tell truck drivers hey we see you, you're not supposed to be here, get off our road in a nicer way.

A nicer way. So not having a big metal beam that swings down on the road to stop them. Not an option, right?

Not yet.

Okay. And

I'm sure the chief would love to have more of those signs out as well because it would make his life easier, especially the ones that have license plate readers. Those those are always great. We like those. Alright. Well, I appreciate it. Just I'm sure you can report to your boss's boss, about what that would take to maybe get a couple more of those. If you think it's sufficient, great. Residents are always gonna be like, I want one on my street. Right? So that's the problem that we have. Thank you.

We were

in a

period this morning that we actually made a design for them. So maybe we should just submit that. We'll just Are submit that to there any more questions? Thank you for that presentation. Let's see at this time. City clerk, do you have any requests to speak?

Mayor, we We do not.

Okay. This public hearing is now closed. May I have a motion to approve staff's recommendation as approved in the staff report? And by the way, I'll just thank you for doing the outreach to the public. And I'm sure we'll try to get more information out. I'm looking at Monique. She can't wait to write it up. Thanks, Monique. One, read by title only. Way for the reading of and introduce ordinance number one nine seven eight, an ordinance of the city council of the city of Fontana approving master case number 25 dash zero zero eight two and municipal code amendment number 25 dash zero zero one two amending chapter 17.

Motor vehicles and traffic. Article x, truck routes to modify the listed city commercial truck route system be consistent with the proposed community mobility and circulation element amendments, and that the reading of the title constitutes the first reading thereof. If I can have a motion.

May I make a suggestion first? If, you could refer to the very first recommendation, which is the environmental finding under CEQA, If you can have a separate motion for that first, then second, you've already read the title of the ordinance that already suffices, but that would be a separate motion after the first one dealing with CEQA. Determine that the ordinance is not a project.

I only I only okay. We can do that. But is there gonna be a problem because we didn't put it in that format in the agenda?

I'm looking at the the cover page to the agenda, and that's what I'm actually looking at right now. No problem.

Okay. Great. Okay. We'll have the first motion to waive further reading and introduce ordinance number one nine seven eight. That's okay?

I recommend instead, although that would be the second motion Okay. That there be a first motion, which would be to determine that this ordinance is not a project pursuant to sections one five one six two and fifteen thousand one hundred sixty four of the California Environmental Quality Act guidelines and section eight zero six of the City Of Fontana's twenty nineteen local CEQA guidelines because this addendum to the general plan environmental impact report, state clearinghouse SCH number 2016021099, does not propose any major revisions to the general plan FEIR, and no new additional impacts beyond what was anticipated have been identified and direct staff to file a notice of determination. By the way, the reason I recommend that that proceed the next two motions is because it's appropriate to make a CEQUA finding first before you then take action on an ordinance and a resolution. So that would be the first motion.

Now did you get that note there, city clerk? Okay.

So I will

You'll you'll move staff's recommendation based on

recommendation based on mister Deutsch's reading.

Absolutely. Is there a second?

Second.

Okay. We have a motion and a second. Please cast your vote.

Five in favor. Motion is passed.

Motion is gonna relate to the action, which is read by title.

That's correct. That's the ordinance. You've already satisfied reading it by title. Oh. So the recommended motion is to waive further reading and introduce.

Use ordinance number one nine seven eight. May I have a motion?

Make a motion.

Is there a second? Second. There's a motion and a second. Please cast your vote.

And who seconded that mayor? My apologies.

That was, mayor pro tem.

We're gonna have to do a voice vote.

Break it again? I know. Wow. Okay. What is your vote?

Aye.

Okay. We can okay. It's not working for anybody. We'll just start with council member Sandovald giving us the oral vote.

Aye.

Council member Roberts. Aye. Mayor, aye. Mayor Pro Tem Garcia. Aye. And council member Cawthren. Aye. Okay. Unanimous. The ayes have it. Motion passed. Okay.

And mayor, the third recommended motion would be to adopt resolution number twenty twenty five dash one ten, general plan amendment cycle number two of 2025, a resolution of the city council of the city of Fontana approving general plan amendment number 25 dash zero zero zero one, amending the City Of Fontana general plan community mobility and circulation element to incorporate the updated truck route map and modify existing policies and actions as well as add new policies and actions under goal two of the circulation element to meet the requirements of assembly bill 98. Recommended motion is to approve.

Madam mayor, I'll make a motion for approval.

Did you get all that?

I'll second.

We have a motion and a second. Just one question, attorney. What about the FEIR? Do we need to reference that in that third motion? No. Thank you. Alright. Motion and second. Please cast your vote.

Five in favor. Motion is passed.

Motion is passed. Now you know we're overtaxing the computer right now. Okay. Your money's You you you think? We're gonna have to talk to Ruben. We need more motions, Ruben. What's going on here? Okay. That brings us to our new business item. New business item a, an ordinance of the city council of the city of Fontana adding article nine of chapter 23 of the Fontana Municipal Code regarding prevention of pollutants into storm drains. We have our very own public works director, Jia Kim, here to present a staff report.

Good afternoon, madam mayor, members of member, city councils. The proposed new item is new business item is to introduce the updated ordinance related to the prevention of pollution from entering the city storm drain system. Since the city updated a last ordinance, there were significant changes of the MS4 permit which is state regional board permit called California as a municipal separate storm sewer system. So the ordinance, the proposed ordinance of 1980 includes the following items. We include the updated development and redevelopment requirement that it's indicated in the latest permit.

And then second item is we strengthen our enforcement abilities to relate it to MS four permit, which also permit requirement. The third item is we also updated to give us authority to staff to apply the latest user fee that are adopted by the city council recently because the older the current existing ordinance does not have that ability. So that concludes my presentation. If you have any question, I'm here to answer any questions.

Are there any questions for public works engineering director? Okay. With that said, may I have a motion to approve staff's recommendation as provided in the staff report? And one, read by title only and waive further reading of and introduce ordinance number one nine eight zero, an ordinance of the city of council of the city of Fontana adding article nine of chapter 23 of the Fontana Municipal Code regarding prevention of pollutants into the storm drains. Motion, please.

I'll make a motion for staff's recommendation of approval.

Second.

Alright. Please cast your vote.

Five in favor. Motion passes.

Motion passes. Thank you. That brings us to new business item b, introduction of first reading of ordinance number one nine eight one, an ordinance of the city council of the city of Fontana, County Of San Bernardino, California. Amending Fontana Municipal Code sections one five dash eight two zero permits required and 15 dash eight two one, review a permit application decision to comply with new state law and help protect the city's community by effectively regulating the sale of food, goods, and merchandise that create a health and safety danger. I think we had our deputy city manager doing a staff report.

I'll give the report, ma'am.

You'll do

it for us? Okay. Thank you, Matt.

Thanks, mayor and members of the council. SP six thirty five was approved by the legislature and requires us to make some modifications to our ordinance. And essentially, what it does is it requires us to strike language as it pertains to providing fingerprinting or any backgrounds. The spirit of originally having that in there was that if we had any vendors that located near schools that we had some type of background check, but the state feels that that's not necessary and is requiring us to strike that language. So what before you what is before you today is just to simply strike the references as it relates to the fingerprinting, and background checks as part of the business license process.

Okay. Are there any questions of Matt regarding this issue? Okay. May I have a motion to approve staff's recommendation as provided in the staff report and one read by title and waive further reading of and introduce ordinance number one nine eight one, amending municipal code FMC sections one five dash eight two o, permits required, and one five dash eight two one. Review of permit application decision to comply with new state law s b six three five and to protect the community by effectively regulating the sale of food, goods, and merchandise that pose a significant potential health and safety risk to the public. If I can have a motion?

So moved, mayor.

Second.

Have a motion and a second. Please cast your vote.

Five in favor. Motion passes.

Motion passes. Next, we have new business item c, introduction of ordinance number one nine seven nine, amending sections two dash three nine of the Fontana Municipal Code regarding the salary from members of the city council and mayor. City manager Matt Ballantyne will provide staff report.

Thank you, mayor and members of the council. The last time the council considered a rate adjustment, for the board was back in 2002 or '22. And per the government code section, it allows a 5% increase for each year. So now that we're in 2026, that's four years. So you're eligible to provide a 20% increase.

What before you right now is just simply a 5% increase, which is not even keeping up with CPI. CPI during that time frame was 18.9%. And, also, it's important to note that this will go into effect after the November. So we're we're approving something that other members of the community may be able to benefit from. That concludes my report. Thank you, mayor.

Does council have any questions of staff? Okay. May I have a motion to approve staff's recommendation as providing the staff report? One, read by title only and wait for the reading and ordinance ordinance number one nine seven nine, an ordinance the city council amendments sections two dash three nine of the Fontana Municipal Court regarding the salary for members of city council and mayor. Can I have a motion?

Move approval.

Is there a second?

I'll second.

Please cast your vote.

There are three in favor and two nay. Councilman Sandoval and Councilman Coffin voted against this motion.

Motion passes. Motion passed. Okay. That brings us to the city manager communications report. City manager?

Matt I have, three items. First, as we mentioned, this will be our last meeting in the council chambers. I believe the planning commission meets, in December, I think the sixteenth, so that will be the last meeting in this venue. I just want to make sure the community is aware that we'll be moving our meetings to the Steel Workers Auditorium, which is adjacent to the library. Secondly, we've moved our finance in the lobby area all over to the old Community Services Building, which is located on the Northeast Corner Of Valencia And Nuevo at 16860 Valencia.

In addition, the city clerk's office will be located there. Finally, know, today, we we kind of recognized that the council had purchased a ladder truck and a couple engines. And so we have those same type of pieces of equipment that have used their has gone through their useful life. They're more than 20 years old. And typically, these are sent to auction for parts.

And we partnered with the Rotary Club. And last Wednesday, our chairs of the fire district, is council member Cawthren and council member Roberts were present. And those two or actually, the two pieces of equipment were donated to Mexicali and San Felipe. We have had a tradition over the last ten years to provide these engines rather than parting them out to these communities, and they've been able to to benefit from that. And so each of those Mexicali and San Felipe provided or presented the city with plaques, and they were present and appreciated the contributions by the city of Fontana.

And that's it. That concludes my reports. Thank you, mayor.

Thank you. Let's start with our city treasurer, Janet Brooks.

Thank you, mayor. Since this is our last meeting, our last council meeting in the chambers, I want to take the opportunity to thank the city for all the wonderful memories. It's just amazing. And those are including those of my father, Charles Kohler, who served thirty three years of elected service with this city. Thank you.

Next, we have our city clerk, Jermaine Key.

I want to say congratulations to Kathy again for her well deserved retirement. Congratulations, as always, to our PD staff on being, nominated employees of the month. And gosh, I'm not ready. But Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, everyone.

And now before I do the council items, we need to do the elected official communication reports as it relates to, discussing and taking possible action regarding the appointment of our Park Community, Human Service Commission, and Planning Commission. A list was provided of our existing Park Community and Human Services Commissioner members. Do I have to name everyone off? I guess I should or no. Everybody okay. Never mind.

Okay.

All right. May I have a motion to appoint our existing individuals to Park Community and Human Services Commission?

I'll make that motion, mayor.

I'll second the motion, madam mayor.

Okay. I have a question. Sure. Okay. I think last time we voted on it, we were gonna wait a year, to open it up to the whole community. This is the same people that were on there a year ago. Also, I asked at that time at that meeting for, a revise of the application that, they filled out because there were some issues on some of the application that a person filled out that was not transparent. I never got that. And my question is, did they, renew the new application that was supposed to be proposed that was I never got to see it.

So a couple couple items. So the first question pertaining to the application, it has been revised. So when we do go out, we'll be using the revised version. And I'll be sure to give you a copy of that. The recommendation here is we appointed these individuals, I believe, in February. And the Community Services Commission had maybe met two or three times since that. And so they really haven't had an opportunity to actually get a full year's worth of experience. And that's why it's it's a recommendation that we continue their service for an additional year. So, we did not go out and solicit. Certainly, it's at the discretion of the council if if you'd like us to go out and solicit.

But it was direction the way the code reads is is the the mayor makes a recommendation. It's up to the council to ratify that appointment. And at this point in time, we're just recommending that we continue to serve because they really didn't have a full year worth of service.

That's just the community service, correct, not the planning commission?

What's before, I believe what's before is both the planning commission and the community services.

No. But I mean, the planning commission had to really serve the people on there served the year already.

You have some folks that have served, but you also have some new folks that have been appointed on the planning commission. And part of that is is just to provide some succession planning. So even you have some planning commissioners that really haven't served a full year.

But they're still under the old application thing. They haven't filled out a new application with Correct. Any revision. Correct?

That wasn't yes. We did not go out and solicit just because of the short term.

Alright. Thank you.

Okay. We have a motion and a second for the appointment of the existing park, recreation, and community services commission. Please cast your vote.

In favor, one abstention.

No. A no. Not an abstention. I'm sorry.

That's okay. Yes. That's correct. One no. Councilman Sandoval voted no.

All

right. Thank you. Motion passed. That brings us to the appointment for the Planning Commission of our existing Planning Commissioners. May I have a motion?

Move approval.

I'll second.

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

Favor? One, no. Councilman Sandoval votes no. Motion is passed.

Motion passed. Before I go any further with the elected officials' communication, I wanna make sure that I note that we will be adjourning today's meeting, at the memory of Jasmine Jones, Richard Cardenas, Earl Ossivia senior, Theresa Garlaval, and Joe Ramirez. At this time, we will have council member Sandoval. Do you have any comments?

Just the one that Ramos is the our assembly, James Ramos' mom that passed away. Yeah. So that's one of the missus Ramos James mom passed away. Yes.

When?

A couple of weeks, I think, ago, they had she his mom passed away.

That's okay. That was

an important one that I wanna make sure I get on there. Aero service.

Full name and

Yeah.

You know what we'll do, so that she gets the same honor. Yeah. I we'll have it at our next Yeah.

Forward it all to the city clerk and the city manager to give you the the names before.

Really? Okay. Well, what I'd like to do is we're gonna go into closed session, And I can pull that up real quick and give that to you. Because we want to make sure she gets the full on

But forwarded all to them, told them who they were.

Okay. Thank you for bringing that to

And then Earl Sevres, senior, he was a coach. Southwest Little League would no longer exist, but he was a coach of youth. I remember coaching with him back in the early '90s. He passed away. He was also he brought a car to the car show, the little antique car model t to the car show.

Teresa, she's, also, the president of the special needs group that meets for the school district, Montana School District. Her mother passed away. Her service was a day. And then, Joe Ramirez was active in the Art Depot with, Becky Peck and them with his artist, things that he had over there that he kept that going. And Richard Cardenas was a coach way back when we had girls softball back at Veterans Park before we made those four fields at Veterans Park.

So he was a long time. He had five daughters, no boys, but they're all softball players. But, you know, they're part of the community to help grow with our youth and, you know, working with our assembly personnel, so with his mom passing away. So moms are very important, and that's all I got. Thank you.

Alright. Thank you. That brings us to councilmember Roberts.

Merry Christmas and happy New Year.

John, that brings us to councilmember Catherine.

Thank you, madam mayor. You been to any parks recently?

You know what? I know I've been challenged, but I have a plan. Uh-huh. And you're not gonna like it.

Oh. We got a challenge going on.

I like this. I'm going to win.

Oh. Okay. This is good. This is good. I saw Peter at a park. It was his local park. He didn't take a picture, though. It's okay. Anyways, Monique is challenging all the residents here in the city of Fontana to a wonderful Fontana Park challenge to visiting all of our parks. Now, this is my request to staff. The park list that we have online is not complete. It's not comprehensive. You go on there and there we are probably missing 15 parks on our website. So I'd love to be able to get that updated to make sure when residents are visiting them because they're not sure which ones are counting and which You ones are

just messed me up. I wasn't gonna say.

I see I got called out by a resident because I went to a park that wasn't on the list and they said that didn't count and I said, oh it counts. It's one of the parks. It has city logo on it. It counts. So if you're interested and you guys want to get out there and participate and see how beautiful your city is and all the beautiful green space that you have, highly encourage you jump out there, visit our parks. My kids are finding we have new parks in the city that I've never even been to. And I am fantastic and I'm excited to go out there and see them. Some of these we sat up here and we were part of the design process for them. Other ones came before I came on city council and it's been built. And of course now I'm going down and I'm visiting some of the parks that I went to as a child.

So I get to experience it with my kids and show them the exact playgrounds, the baseball fields, everything that I played on in this history through the city of Fontana that their grandparents also played on. So show your kids a great time, take them out to the parks, show them all the beautiful amenities that we have out there and tag the city of Fontana. Monique will keep track of everyone that is going through and figure out who actually wins at the end of the day. So there is no bias, it's not us, it's her. And I think there is some sort of prize, some secret prize. She's saying that she has some really good swag out there. So if you love Fontana swag and you wanna get some, I challenge you to visit all

Can the you also turn in cheaters? Because it doesn't count if we're in a meeting and I have to speak and you take your kids out and take the picture and forget about

me. How many how many what am I at? What are we? Fifty five? Fifty two. 52. Say, 52. Well, there's some debatable three in there, I guarantee you, because I'm being challenged on those three. Anyways, Merry Christmas, congratulations to all the staff. Police Department did a couple calls for service for them. I am still amazed by today how quickly our police department responds out. You get a text message instantly, get status updates. I don't know any other police department around our community that will do that when you call. I mean, good luck calling CHP. They ain't gonna give you a text message.

But they are doing fantastic, so kudos to all those guys. And then, the fire station and the partnership we have with the county as well as the Rotary Club and the City Of San Felipe to give them vital resources that they need man. It's amazing to see the photos when you go down to Mexico and you get to see photos that say City Of Fontana and San Bernardino County fire on a fire truck that's driving down the road in Mexico and servicing other residents. The City Of Fontana's legacy and and what we're doing is spreading out far and wide. So I'm just I'm just grateful to be part of it. That's

it. I have

a question about the parks. So do we get double points if we recognize it as Juniper Park and Cypress Park before they rename Bill Martin and Jack O'Leary? He's going OG

now. Okay.

Okay. Wanna know. I mean, that way, it's double points.

You know, I gotta tell you guys, you can come up with all your gimmicks, but I got my little helpers helping me. It's about 20 of them going to the parks with me.

She's gonna have a cut a cardboard cutout of herself at every single park. I guarantee you. I could see where this is going right now.

Yeah. So the as as one of the speakers mentioned, the festivities continue and looking forward this weekend to the Fontana Christmas parade. And weather should be great. And I just looked at the weather. It should be 72 and sunny, so not too hot, not too cold. And, looking forward to see ever seeing everyone out there, and I just wish that, everyone has a very merry Christmas and a happy holidays. Thank you.

Thank you. One of the things we talked about early on that this is the last meeting in this building. I mean, this this is something. This city has come a mighty long way. We, we looked around the facility, and we've been trying to figure out how could we reconstruct and improve and be seismic and all that stuff, you know, for earthquakes.

And it just didn't work. So what we have done is been able to follow a very prudent financial model where you bond your assets and pay for the new building. But what has gone into that new building is something that this community really deserves, and that is meeting places and and having adequate electronic technical upgrades and places where people can come in and get the resources that they need and expect. And our community is growing. So this building we're building will be for the next seventy five years or eighty.

And we won't all be here, but at least our children and their children can point to the pictures of the previous building and say, wow, I was there that last meeting, or I saw it, or I remember going into that building. But Fontana is on the up going movement. We say Fontana together moves Fontana forward, and I I'm so proud that our residents have adopted that viewpoint. And wherever I go, people are bragging about Fontana. And I love hearing people whisper, she's from Fontana.

Because Fontana, has a a knowledge level or, let's just say, a a view from outside that we pulled ourselves up. And that didn't happen with justice council. Community members that you saw speak today are part of that. People in this community have gone and represented us. We got, I think, the pop warrant teams out there winning the championship right now.

There's so much going on, and we try to acknowledge all of that. One of the things that this town is known for is charitable, where we really try to help others. And so I just wanna say Thanksgiving was incredible. The giveaways and the help and assistance was unbelievable. People were all over the community helping people in need, their neighbors.

We had an opportunity to go to the apartments that the city now has purchased for our permanent housing for our homeless. And they were just shocked when we came to the door with their entire Thanksgiving dinner. And it was such an honor to work with our supervisor. And all of you were in attendance. We had a great time talking to the residents and making sure they knew that they are cared for.

Going forward, though, every year, we try to get toys for all our children. And I found that the best way to do is coordinate that through the Fontana Boys and Girls Club. I they're servicing Fontana and Bloomington, and they're doing an incredible job with the children. And so this Sunday, after this incredible parade, by the way, that we're gonna have. And by the way, the grand marshal is our supervisor, Jesse Armadares. And Jesse has worked with the exchange club for years. He was the president a couple of times. He's been, involved with being out there at five in the morning putting the barricades up. And so when they talked to me about the grand marshal, it made sense. Here is Jesse, and he's out here really helping the nonprofits.

And everybody's excited about this parade. It's in our book. Got much more organized, and everybody's gonna have a good time. It's gonna be fun. But the next day, we're gonna see a toy drive. A toy drive is where you bring toys. We're not gonna be distributing toys. You bring a toy. Everyone must bring a toy. And those toys will be given to the children of Fontana.

Worked with Fontana Boys and Girls Club. That is the organization that we're donating all the toys to. So far, there's over 328 cars registered. So we're taking between Juniper and Sierra completely over on Spring Street. And these cars are last year, we did this with Sonora Auto Center. I gotta tell you, Arroya and Hector are amazing. They put that toy drive together with us last year in two weeks. I was panicked. The Boys and Girls Club was short, so many toys. It was unbelievable.

We were calling, trying to get donations, trying to get different stores to help. And no matter how hard, you know, I worked on that phone and grabbing people and saying, will donate a toy, we just knew we didn't have enough and just happened to have a meeting with them. And Hector, he's like, you know what? I got some friends. And, boy, did he have some friends. We took Foothill over. Of course, the police department wasn't too happy with me for a couple hours, but I'm sorry. It just kinda became organic. Okay? But even they were having a good time when they saw what we were doing.

And we had so many toys. Poor Robert Torres and Daniel Snyder. They were not speaking to me for a week because they were hauling toys for long times. Thanks for your help, Daniel. But this year, we're organized more, and we're on this street, and we're all asking the residents to come out. Have a good time. We're gonna have a ball. We're gonna have good music by DJ Is, you know, the Avalon brothers. They don't play. Good news I already put my playlist in. So if you're trying to get your playlist in, nothing gets played till my playlist gets played. We're gonna start with the IZ brothers and work our way down. And we're gonna be, visiting all the different cars. They bring cars that we don't ordinarily see in this community. I'm talking really high priced, nice cars.

And some of these groups come in, and they have put so much investment in these cars. And everybody's having a great time. I like the baby remote control cars too. But they come in with toys, and then people bring toys that wanna be a part of the show, and then it's just a party. So that will be on this Sunday from ten to three. So join us, and we'll have all a good time. When we adjourn our meeting in memory of people, we really decided that we wanted to give people that dignity and show if we had a picture of the person. So as I read the people's name, we may have some pictures. I'm not sure if do we have everyone's picture, or were we able to get everyone's picture? Or two?

Okay. Two, we do not have. No disrespect to those families. We just did not get a photo of them. So I'm gonna adjourn this meeting to our next regular city meeting on Tuesday, January 27. But before I do, I'm going to name those people, see their picture, and then we're we, as a council, are gonna stand in our last meeting in this chamber. And we'd like to take a picture of our last meeting, all of council members and our treasurer and our city clerk. You know, we're not adjourning yet. We're gonna actually I saw all the heads come forward. I got it.

Calm down. See, that's the thing. That's why I tell people I don't make mistakes because they don't allow me to make mistakes. Yeah. But we're going to adjourn to our closed session, and then we'll come back in after we finish our business there. So we'd like to, adjourn our meeting at this time, for Jack.

Actually, mayor, it would be we we probably recess the

meeting. Recess.

Thank you. We're gonna to close session, and then we'll come back to open session, and we will, adjourn in the honor of the individuals, including Rowena Ramos.

See there? They make it easy. So we're going to recess our meeting in memory of Jasmine Jones. Picture? Okay. We'll start in memory of Rowena Ramos. This is Jasmine Jones. Her mother still lives here in Fontana. Great family. We also have the Fontana girls softball coach, Richard Cardenas.

And right now, we're showing Earl Asidas. And now we have Richard Cardenas. And who's next? And Teresa Garjava. Okay.

And Joe Ramirez. Could you all please stand with us as we adjourn as we recess our meeting? Meeting is re to when we return back from closed session. Thank you. Okay.

We are back. We are returning. And so we're going to revisit the consent item. And that item number was W. W. How could you ever forget that? Okay. For Warren. I'm only kidding. Okay. We are going to go to item w, and, I need a motion. Oh, you need to talk. You go ahead.

Thank you, mayor. For purposes of agenda item w, which was pulled from the consent calendar, government code section six five four nine five point three c three requires that an oral report be given in open session at this council meeting regarding a summary of a recommendation for final city council action on a city manager contract or an amendment. And we have the third amendment to the city manager contract before you here. The oral re report that I'm about to make must, touch upon proposed salary and compensation paid in the form of fringe benefits pursuant to the Third Amendment. So I can report as follows.

The Third Amendment includes the following. It extends the city manager's contract for an additional two years to 04/17/2030. It also provides a 5% merit increase in salary effective 07/01/2025. And as a result of that, the base salary of the city manager is $383,320.77. The city manager will continue to receive cost of living adjustments equal to the city's executive group employees.

Finally, the amendment increases the salary of the city manager in an amount equal to the employee flexible savings account contribution each year, which is $3,300 annually for twenty twenty five and thirty four hundred dollars annually for 2026. However, the third amendment also provides that the city's payment for the city manager's 125 cafeteria fringe benefits will be reduced by the foregoing flexible savings account amounts that I just read. Mayor and counsel, with that report, the foregoing oral report satisfies the requirements of the Brown Act with regard to a proposed amendment, the third amendment, to the city manager's agreement. Staff's recommendation is to make a motion to approve the third amendment. Thank you.

Okay. Move. May have a motion?

The amendment.

Okay. I'll second.

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

Five in favor. The motion passes.

Motion passed. This meeting is adjourned for the city council. We'll now have the successor chair, Catherine, adjourn the successor's agency.

The successive agency has now been adjourned for the final time in the Grover Taylor Council Chambers.

Wait a minute. I wanna do the council chamber like that too. Okay. Anybody taping?

I got your

We're watching you. You know, I'm a be on the Kardashians next episode. I thought I'd bring that up.