City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening, everybody, and welcome to a meeting of the Ontario City Council. First order of business is a roll call, Madam City Clerk.

Okay, so before we move on, abiding by state law, obligated to ask if there's any possible conflicts of interest. Nope. Okay, so then... Let's begin with our Pledge of Allegiance tonight, led by Mayor Pro Temperata, and tonight's invocation will be Rabbi Stephen Epstein from Temple Shalom of Ontario.

Please join me in the pledge to our great flag. Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

All right, that takes us to public comments. We have over 30 public comments tonight, which if you do the math, we would be here for almost two hours listening. I'm going to cut the time allowance to two minutes, and hopefully you'll get what you need to be said said, and then we can move on with the rest of the meeting. We want to hear everybody. Most of these cards are on the same issue, so... We can be repetitious if we like, but we're gonna cut them down. Your minutes will be two minutes. And you'll be alerted when you have one minute remaining. In accordance with state law, remarks during

Thank you. Any other? Any other communication other than that? OK, thank you. So let's get started with this stack. Our first speaker is Mr. Chris Robles.

All right. Thank you. Our next speaker is Lois Sicking.

No. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Vanessa James?

Thank you. Our next speaker is Daniela Ramos.

All right, thank you. And I want to remind everybody that we have a policy that at 7 o'clock we begin the meeting for the business part. And if we haven't finished public comment, we have to suspend it until the end of the meeting and then come back to it. So it's already 20 till. Nicola LaLama.

All right, thank you. Did I already call Jeffrey Munoz? Okay. Now, Jeffrey.

All right, our next speaker is Benjamin Wood.

Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Marissa Ragasa.

All right, thank you. Pastor Ted Burnett.

All right. Thank you. Our next speaker is Ashley Ayala.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Tina Silva.

All right. Our next speaker is Marty McBride.

All right, our next speaker is Tommy Mush again.

All right, thank you, Brad. Okay, as I had announced earlier, it's past 7 o'clock. We're going to take up the rest of public comments. We have 15 more public comments. That's why we cut it down to two minutes. So we've got 15 more. So we're going to go ahead and move into the rest of the agenda and come back to public comments just before council comments. So if you would allow me, do you have any agenda review, Mr. City Manager? All right, so we're going to move on to consent calendar, and all matters listed under consent calendar will be enacted by one motion unless a council member pulls an

All right, thank you, Art. Next speaker is Brad Newman on item 14.

I'm going to wait until all of these comments are done.

It's amendments to the design services agreement with a DURA group.

I was laughing at Dutch Mafia. I thought that was funny. Anyway, so that ends that. So I'll entertain a motion or conversation from the council.

I apologize. They didn't announce this earlier. Item number 16. I have a potential on conflict with maybe an interesting part of this item. So I'm going to show myself as an abstention on item number 16.

So we're going to pull item number 16 for a separate vote off of the agenda. of the consent calendar. But then Mr. City Manager, I think that you had an opportunity to respond to some of the comments that were made. If you like.

I'm sorry, I couldn't really hear you. I have no financial interest in this at all. There's an LLC that's on the agenda, and I might have received a contribution from one member of the LLC that's not listed.

No, just record during the vote on that. Just record me as an extension of that one particular item. Okay. So we don't need to pull the item out?

Okay, so I'll hear from the city manager.

Okay, so that being said, I'll entertain a motion or discussion from Council. Motion to approve by Mayor Pro Tem. Second by Mr. Bowman. Electronic vote. All right, thank you. That takes us to public hearings. Madam City Clerk.

and let the record reflect if there's any written comments. No, ma'am. Any blue cards? I see some for 18, but I don't see some for 17. So Madam City Clerk, do we have any pink cards? No. Okay. So then we're gonna go to, I'd like to proceed as appropriate then close the public hearing and I'd like to have a motion. I have a first and a second, and could we now place our votes? If you're waiting for Paul, that's, yeah.

Okay. Okay, then that takes us to item number 18. Madam City Clerk.

So at this time, I will let the record reflect any written communications for which there are none. And then I will like to call upon Fire Chief Mike Gerken to give us a brief overview of the program.

Chief, does anybody else would like to comment on this?

Yes, Mr. Bowman. My pleasure to support this and move it and I think there's a tremendous amount of applaud and thanks should be giving to our chief and the department and all of the professionals that have come together to make this happen. It's really an historic moment for the City of Ontario and thank you sir.

Okay and before we get to um the vote we do have a speaker Mr. Chris Robles.

All right, so it's now time to entertain a motion. We have a motion by Mr. Bowman. Second. Second by Mayor Pro Temporata. So we'll go ahead and we'll take the vote. Item passes 5-0. That takes us to staff matters. Mr. City Manager.

All right. Thank you. So that Looks like it takes us back to public comment. So thank you for being patient. So our next speaker is Elsa Hernandez. Remember you have two minutes. Is Elsa still here? Can you give me just a second? Make sure you get somebody with this one. Communicate with them how it works so that we don't find ourselves in that delay. Thank you. Okay, I'm sorry. Your time isn't going.

All right. Thank you. Our next speaker is Lucia Maldonado. And just to speed up this process of people getting in here, the next speaker will be Russell Wadigee. And be ready, come on up to the front.

Okay, next speaker is Come up to the podium.

Thank you. Next speaker is Michael Rios, followed by Roxana Bautista.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Roxana Bautista followed by Alec Aragon.

All right, Alec Aragon followed by Javier Gomez.

All right, thank you. Javier Gomez followed by Luz Maria Hernandez.

Thank you. Luz Maria Hernandez, followed by Maricela Contreras.

All right, thank you. Maricela Contreras, followed by Ana Gonzalez.

Thank you. Ana Gonzalez followed by Joaquin Castillejos.

All right. Well done. Joaquin Castillejos followed by Jennifer Ayala.

All right. Thank you. Jennifer the Ayala followed by Maria Galvan.

All right, thank you. Get Scott teed up. Maria Galvan.

Thank you very much. That ends the public comments portion, as you see. Thank you all for waiting and being patient with us and getting it done in order. That takes us to council matters. I'll start all the way to my left. Wait, wait, no, I'm sorry. No, no, no. We got one more. We have someone on the phone.

Uh, thank you. Thank you. I guess. Okay. So, uh, that ends the public comment portion of our meeting and I'll move all the way to my left with Mr. Watner for council matters. Ms. Prada.

Coming up will be the Ontario Heritage Cemetery Tour where they look up five distinguished individuals at the cemetery. They talk to their history about the people. They dress up in the period clothing. So tickets are on sale at Logan's Candies. And so please support the Ontario Heritage. Thank you.

You weren't going to mention that? No, that's okay. Somebody else can do it. Ms. Macias?

Mr. Bowman. I think a lot's been said here tonight and I think the messages are clear. I want to thank the chief one more time. You know, this is a, a huge accomplishment that he and his colleagues throughout the valley have accomplished. It's historic, it's life-saving, and a tremendous amount of applaud and thank you needs to go to the fire chief, his crew, and what a wonderful job they're doing. Thank you.

I want to impress upon people to make it to one of the greatest events in the city and the region, our car show coming up, and you'll all have a great lot of fun. Also, the great comments from the public. Don't think that we don't hear you. We do. In this setting, without it being agendized, we can't really talk about it. A lot of things are gonna come forward from the many, many recommendations that we heard tonight. So with all of that being said, we thank you for participating in our meeting. Our next regularly scheduled meeting will be October 6th, 2026. Oh, I want to, by the way, with cou