City Council - Regular Meeting

Okay, we're going to get started, everyone. I'm going to start our special meeting of the Hollister City Council, September 9, 2026. The meeting is now called to order. It's 5.02pm. Councilmember Pichet, will you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, please?

Okay, city clerk, can we do roll call, please?

Okay, thank you. We're going to move on to our consent agenda. So we only have one item. Any questions from council? Any comments about this one item? Okay, not seeing any. Go ahead, Dr. Resenda. Sorry.

It is warrant registered September 8th, 2026. So it's that document that has the listed warrants.

Okay, thank you. And Dr. Resendez, in the event that I forget you're on Zoom, please shout out to me if I'm not... paying attention and you need to say something so please please shut up thank you because i may forget um and then okay so can i get a a motion on the consent agenda please move to a dot second all in favor oh sorry i think we have to do roll call right i'm sorry since we have dr rescind us on uh zoom we're gonna have to do roll call for everyone so i apologize go ahead

Yes. Okay, pass it five to zero. Thank you, everyone. So we're going to move into closed session first and then we'll come back for the public portion of our agenda. So I'm going to ask the city attorney to read the closed session items.

Okay, thank you for that. Do we have any public comments on the closed session items? Okay, thank you. So let me just check in. We will go into closed session. Are we going to stay where we're at with Dr. Resendez on Zoom or are we going to go into the side room?

Is he set up there as well? Okay. Okay. We're going to go into the conference room.

we're okay okay thank you to the public for uh your patience as we had a very long closed session um and i'm gonna just check in with city attorney and city manager if we have anything that we need to report out no there was nothing to report Nothing to report. Okay. Nothing to report at this time. So we're going to move on. So just as a point of process, we are going to hear 7.1 and 7.2. And because of some other things we're going, we're asking that 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 be tabled. So we will be hearing those items at a later date. But for the rest of today's meeting, we will be only lookin

Okay, thank you for that. So we got some new legal advice related to the way in which these types of funds are structured, and we just learned that in order to meet this legally, it has to be paid back in a year. We don't have that ability, so we are asking that this be rescinded. Correct. Okay. So anyone on the dais, any questions or comments? Do we have any public comment on this item?

Thank you, Mr. Casey. Any other public comments? Okay, thanks for bringing it back to the diaries. Any further questions, comments? Questions, comments on this side?

Any opposed? Okay, so 7.1 is approved. So we are going to be continuing the other items and moving on to 7.6, resolution of the city council of the city of Hollister authorizing the city manager to execute a professional services agreement with Hanson Bridget LLP for city attorney-legal services. Staff report please.

Okay, thank you for that. Do we have any questions or comments? Questions or comments? Okay. And I too, just want to express my appreciation. Jennifer passed along to others and Lozano Smith for the legal support that we've had. And so we appreciate the work that you've done and we wish you well, and we will be moving on to a new firm. Thank you, Jennifer. Do you have any public comments on this item? No, we do not. Okay. So I'm going to bring it back for a motion.

Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? No. Okay, so 4-4-1 against. Motion passes. And thank you again, Jennifer. Okay, and then with that, we will be adjourning. Okay, thank you all. To adjourn? No. I don't think we need a motion to adjourn. No, we don't need one.