City Council - Regular Meeting

We are ready to go. Who's in charge? Oh, you're in charge. Oh, yeah. Where is Where is Oh, Tanesha's right here. Turn it off. I just like that I This is a fun You have to call you. This is you? You have to close close close session. And then I can start. All right, we are doing a lot of things today, but we're going to start by closing closed session. So, is there any reportable action from that? The council met on four items on the closed session and took no reportable action, and that concludes my report. Okay, very good. So, we'll close that meeting and we go to you.

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All right, I would like to call to order the special meeting of the Redding Housing Authority for April 7th. May we have a roll call? Commissioner Audet? Here. Dr. Danuka is absent, and Commissioner Joe Dutra is absent and Commissioner Munns Here. and Vice Chair Resner Present. and Commissioner Lata. Here. All right, thank you. Move to item two, which is the consent Are we missing two Are we missing two? Is there another member of the public who needs to come sit up here? Who I'm missing? Okay. Okay. They're together. They're all doing the same thing. All right, the consent calendar contains items considered routine and or which have been individually scrutinized by the Redding Housing Authority Board members and are anticipated to require no further deliberation. If a member of the public wishes to address an item on the consent calendar, please enter your name into the electronic kiosk located in the lobby before the consent calendar is considered. It shall be the prerogative of any board member before the consent calendar is acted upon to one, comment on an item, two, respond to any public on an public comment on an item, three, request the record reflect an abstention or a nay vote on an item, or four, remove an item and place it on the regular portion of the agenda for delivery of the staff report and or extended discussion or deliberation. Do we have any public comment on consent? Okay, then I will entertain a motion or any questions. I'll make a motion to approve. All right, I have a first. Do I have a second? Second. All right, I have a first and a second. All in favor? Aye. Passes unanimously. Item three is a public hearing. A court challenged to action taken by

the Redding Housing Authority on any project or decision may be limited to only those issues raised during the public hearing or in written correspondence delivered to the Redding Housing Authority Commissioners during or prior to the public hearing. Item 3.1 is a public hearing to consider resolution approving submission of the Housing Authority City of Redding's Public Housing Authority annual plan. I'm going to open the public hearing. Yes, Nicole, do you want to [snorts]

do a presentation? Oh, there you are, sorry. Good evening, honorable chair, members of the board. The Housing Authority of the City of Redding administers a Housing Choice Voucher program on behalf of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. This program supports income eligible eligible elderly individuals, persons with disabilities, and families by subsidizing rent payments directly to landlords. Eligibility is based on household income not exceeding 50% of the area area median income, which is currently about 2,800 a month for a family of one. RHA is authorized to issue up to 1,811 vouchers, including traditional Housing Choice vouchers, Head VASH for homeless veterans, mainstream vouchers for non-elderly persons with disabilities, project-based vouchers, and emergency housing vouchers. Our current lease-up rate in 2025 was 97% and we fully expended our $14 million budget. Tonight's [snorts] item 3.1 is a public hearing regarding our fiscal year 2026 streamlined annual plan. This plan outlines RHA's policies, programs, and strategies for achieving the goals established in our previous five-year plan. Key goals include expanding housing supply, serving vulnerable populations, promoting self-sufficiency through our FSS program, and advancing advancing fair housing in the community. Tonight, we need to conduct a public hearing and upon conclusion, adopt the resolution approving the 26 annual plan, which includes updates to the administrative plan as a supporting document and authorize the chair to execute all necessary documents for a HUD submission. This concludes the presentation. We welcome any questions or public comment this evening.

To date, no comments have been received by the Housing Authority. I'm uncertain if any comments have been received by the City Clerk's office. However, public comments received tonight will be included in the final submission to HUD. Thank you. I believe that we have one public comment. Do you want to share that? Yeah, it the public commenter is Kim Moore. Greetings, my name is Kim Moore. I'm a resident of the Woodlands and I'd like to ask how how would a tenant with a HUD voucher know that there's changes coming and how how can you elaborate on what these changes are going to be? I but just as a HUD somebody on a HUD voucher, I never got a letter from HUD telling me that you guys were going to make any changes and I don't understand how the general population receiving HUD would know that there could be changes coming that could affect their vouchers. And so, is there a way in the future to help educate people like myself when you guys are making changes or that may impact us? Thank you. Sure. Actually, um on we put a notification in the paper 45 days prior to this evening's meeting. And we also have the information on our website um for 45 days. Um we also have what you may be interested in is a resident advisory board. Um you can actually be a member of that board and come in and participate um in advising the Housing Authority on our plan. Um I would reach out to Shauna Flanagan Young in our office and she can talk with you about that. Okay. Um I am interested. Can you say her name

again? Shauna what? Shauna Flanagan Young. Okay. And then the other thing is um people on HUD can't afford the record search. So, I don't care how cheap it is. It's not on our that that expense is nowhere on our on our minds. Um We do post it on our bulletin board as well in the office. that's what we need to do. So, HUD people who are on a HUD voucher need to be watching. Thank you. It It happens the same time every year. Okay. Is it on our website, Nicole? Yes. Okay. Thank you. [snorts]

All right. Um if we have no other comments or questions, then I'm going to close the public hearing. And if there are any comments or concerns from any other members of council, if not, I'll entertain a motion to adopt the resolution. I'll make a motion. All right, I have a first. I'll second. A second um to conduct a public hearing and support items one through four. All in favor? Aye.

Aye. Passes unanimously. All right, we have no regular calendar reports [clears throat] or communications. Any suggestions from the board on potential topics for future meetings? Okay, hearing none, we are adjourned. on any item considered at this meeting before or during council's consideration of that item, please enter your name in the electronic kiosk located in the lobby. The City Council will allocate up to a maximum of 3 minutes per speaker for each agenda item. Staff reports are available online at the city's website at www.cityofredding.gov and also in the public view binder located on the podium at the north side of the chambers. We're going to call this meeting to order. We will start with the pledge of allegiance. If you'll rise with me. So, I thought we'd like to do this. 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. If you'll stay standing, we have our invocation by Debbie with the Redding Police and Fire Departments Chaplain. So.

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Good evening. Would you please bow your heads with me and join in welcoming the presence of our Father. Our gracious and loving Father, we are thankful for the privilege of meeting publicly to discuss the topics that concern our city. Thank you for the partnership between our civic leaders and citizens in seeking solutions for the betterment of our community. We thank everyone present here tonight for their participation and pray for a safe journey home at the conclusion of tonight's meeting. Bless and protect the men and women whom you have called as protectors of our city and nation, those that serve in public safety and the military. Surround them with your armor of protection and we pray that you guide them home safely at the end of each shift. We thank and praise you for for provisions. It is in the name of your son that we pray. Amen. Amen. All right, we can start with roll call. Council member Adair. Still here. Vice Mayor Dunlap is absent. Still. Council member Mens. Yes, ma'am. Mayor pro tem Resner. Also present. And Mayor LaTour. Here. Okay, we'll start the meeting off. We have a couple presentations. I'm going to go to the uh the podium up there and we'll get this meeting started. All right, today we have a couple presentations. Um first one will be a mayor's proclamation uh presented to the First 5 Shasta. We're going to be declaring April 11th to the 18th, 2026 as Week of the Young Child in the City of Redding.

Uh First 5 Shasta in conjunction with the National Association for the Education of Young Children, we're celebrating the Week of the Young Child, April 11th to the 18th, 2026. Um as Mayor of the City of Redding, I do hereby proclaim April 11th to the 18th, 2026 as the Week of the Young Child in the City of Redding and encourage all citizens to work, to support, and invest in early childhood. Uh we have Wendy here today, so we're going to have her say a few words on behalf of First 5 Shasta in this proclamation. Well, thank you, Mayor. I need this stepstool cuz I'm so short even with my heels on. This is the problem I have at Rotary as well. [laughter]

Uh thank you all very much for um entertaining this proclamation and for having us here. We know that the earliest members of our community are the most important for us to rally around and to support as we move forward into their growth and development. The earliest years are the most important for brain development and this week really helps us support them in different activities that they have and in ways that as a community we can pull together and help their family. So, thank you for being leaders in this as well and for providing a proclamation for all of us to understand the importance of the Week of the Young Child. Thank you, Wendy. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. Okay, we have one more. I don't think Nancy is here for this one today. Uh so, I'll say a few words on this, but the second presentation is for the mayor's proclamation presented to the Shasta County Arts Council declaring April 2026 as Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month in the City of Redding. Um the Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month of April is the sixth annual statewide celebration first established by the California Legislature in 2018. As Mayor of the City of Redding, I do hereby proclaim April 2026 as Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month in the City of Redding and we encourage everyone to join in the celebration this month. All right, thank you.

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Thought about a third presentation as it's my 25th wedding anniversary with my wife, but I couldn't get that on the agenda, so we'll but we do have a quick meeting today, so therefore I'll get to go home early. So, but um it's uh time for public comment, so pursuant to the Brown Act, the City Council cannot take action of a public comment items. Uh the City Council will allocate up to a maximum of 3 minutes per speaker for 30 minutes total at the beginning of the meeting for public comment for non-agendized matters within the city's jurisdiction. The Mayor will determine the order of the speakers. If 30 minutes is not adequate to accommodate all the individuals who submitted their name through the electronic kiosk, the Council will trail this item to the end of the open session agenda. The remaining speakers will address the City Council at that time. We have four speakers today. Um looks like we have Kim Moore, Mary Floro, Shasta County Watchdog, and we have Nick Gardner. So. Good evening again, council members. Um I'm basically here just to get a bunch of stuff on the record. It's none of the fault of any of you, even you guys. Um So, a few weeks ago Mary Floro and Shannon Schultz and myself came in from the Woodlands to talk about serious problems and and mainly the security of the gate and and the mold problems. And so, I can update you on a situation with the two units that I noted have the mold contamination is that new tenants have been put in those apartments. And we're buffaloed with I was personally, you know, given the excuse that they tested the air. Well, yeah, you can go in and put kills on the wall and put the layers of paint and put new carpet and new flooring and yeah, you can get it to pass an air test, but if you don't open up the walls and address

the mold where water was leaking for 6 years straight, then there's mold inside the walls and you can't tell me that water ran, not dripped, ran through the walls for 6 years without studs and drywall being impacted. So, at this point all we can do is wait for 6 months to a year when the residents in those apartments start beginning and begin having health issues like the last tenants that occupied those apartments. That being said, Ms. Resner, I was slightly [clears throat] disappointed because we didn't ask for the appointment with you and we didn't ask you for your phone number, but you asked all three of us for ours and we left our numbers and you failed to contact anyone of us. You didn't follow up with us. Whereas the person you're running against is showing up. He's had meetings and he's facilitated change for the Woodlands. I wish that that had panned out differently, but that's that's what happened. As far as the hood the security gate, which is the most important issue to us tenants, um everybody's getting hoodwinked in that. So, we had told management and NMHSA prior to um in a meeting about all the problems at the Woodlands that if they were going to hire a security company that was just going to drive through once or twice a night a night it would be inadequate. Don't even bother. So, they're wasting money. The gate was supposed to be fixed by now. It hasn't and in the 9 years that we've been open that gate has only operated for less than 1 year of the 9 years that we've actually for the past 8 years that gate has not been closed. And now what they've done is they've hired a security company that comes in about 12:00 or 12:30 p.m. They check all the facility doors to make sure that they're locked on the main offices and the gym and the laundry rooms and then they leave and they're not back. That does nothing for the homeless people. We're only two blocks from the Good News Rescue Mission. People who don't qualify for the mission, but use their other services during the day flock to the park across the street. We

have needles. Mary's been finding needles in our facility. It's but the security it's not security. If it's them saying that they're addressing the issue. The The way to address the issue is to fix the gate. If they want to have security, they need to bring them on at 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. and they stay on site. [laughter] Thank you, Kim. Are you Mary? Yes, I'm Mary. Hi, Mary. Hi. Um [clears throat]

I used to I was the one there cuz of my post-traumatic stress and anxiety. Um there was so many people coming in and um Step up. Oh, so many so many people coming in and out digging through our garbage cans, trying to steal our gas. Um put it doing drugs in our place and I just I'm I feel so unsafe there and I've one of the first tenants that went there and I am a mental client and I have a lot of health issues and mental health issues, but I'm the one that had been doing it for the last almost year a walk in two or three times to make sure all our doors are locked. Um two nights ago I found a rig outside of our bathroom by the pool where our kids go. And security came up and uh the people had been there and I told them, "You need to get off our [ __ ] property." Excuse my language. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I asked them to get off our property and you're not allowed to come here and do drugs. We have kids here. You don't live here. This is private property and I'm calling 911. And I called. Oh. Yeah, so we won't go there. Um security came up and after they had already left and I said, "Well, you're supposed to be here at 11:00. It's 12:30 and here these people are here. The rig is still here." And I'm glad that I did because it would have probably still been there and the kids could have gotten And it's just not Our gates need to be fixed, bottom line. The security of driving through one time, walking one time, and then getting back and leaving and just driving a couple times is not doing it. We have people coming in and out all the time. And it's not safe. Some Someone's going to get hurt and I pray to God it's not going to be our kids. Thank you, guys. Thank you, Mary. All right, Shasta County Watchdog.

Good afternoon. Um I just came from Anderson. My blood pressure is up a little bit. Not that I have any. Um but my concern is um I'm sure you guys are all aware about this project. It's called path pathway camp. The They're They're going They went to I guess this organization or 9501, whatever it is from It belongs to Mr. Les Baugh, who used to be the previous board supervisor. Him and and his wife are, you know, on this property. And you know that he's um Kevin Crye is going to get a kickback by able to do his ninja coalition in the building. And and and he he voted he actually made motion to approve this $1.9 million to able to have the facility to able to have in Anderson. Um this is corruption. This is a conflict of interest. Prohibit laws. And and and it's so upsetting to for me to to accept that this is what's going on right under not even under our noses or behind our back. Kevin Crye is going to get a a section there for he could just bring in kids and make money. As we all know that he also went to try to get funding for his private school. Well, I actually filed complaint with the state already and contacted all the board members in regarding him trying to get uh money for his private school because it's a conflict of interest and he's still under investigation what by the FPPC and there's emails. If you go on the website, you could see that it's pending. Jeff Gore and I actually succeeded to able to have the open case against Kevin Crye. And he continues to do this. So if those who I think it's okay for a freaking board of supervisors to break the laws and think

they're above the law. It It's just amazing. It's amazing. And now we also have another problem that he's supporting measure B knowing that it's against the law, federal and state law. We can't have people who actually claim to be a board of supervisors trying to convince [clears throat] and mislead the people to say it's okay. Pass measure B knowing that the the Clint Curtis actually is violating multiple laws and we have 133 emails showing how they actually found a loophole to able to manipulate to to able to kind of fit it in there to able to put say we got enough signatures. No, they didn't because they didn't have the numbers, but yet they're pushing it. This is is It's for me it's upsetting because it's not here, it's there, you know. And I just hope that you you know, Erin I hope you beat him in the race because I am sick of Kevin. I am sick of how he plays this oh, I have cancer. I have my treatment. You know, it's every time he gets on the radio, he's playing that, you know, to get pity. Before it was God, but now it's his cancer. Uh Nick, you're up. So Government watchdog's full of crap. Kevin Crye doesn't have anything to do with that gym that's going in down there. Uh he could probably get him to use a different name being as he's got a patent on his name. He's got no financial interest. It's ridiculous. The reason I'm here

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is because I'm disappointed that Tenessa Audet isn't on the committee that is going to do the audit of the different departments because I feel like she deserves that. She's the first one that brought to everyone's attention that there's a deficit. She did the digging. She came up with it. And all four of the others have up us council members didn't go for it, didn't believe it, and finally it proved to be true. And uh I believe that she deserves to be on the audit part of it and uh Erin Resner should be on the uh part that's suggesting on how to do the financial things with it. Uh how to spend the money. And I was disappointed when uh it was being discussed up there and Jack at the time was the mayor wouldn't let Tenessa put her charts up here on the projector. It's like you can hear our side, but you can't hear her side. And I just thought that was unfair and I wanted to bring that to your attention. Uh we want transparency. That's what we want from our government. That's what we want for our elections. Uh those people that are putting measure B on the uh ballot, they collected 10,000 signatures. That's the will of the people to have that on the ballot, whether it's legal or not. The The point about it being legal will be addressed if it passes. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Nick. All right. Moving on to consent calendar. The consent calendar contains items considered routine and or which have been individually scrutinized by city council members and are anticipated to require no further deliberation. If a member of the public wishes to address an item on the consent calendar, please enter your name in the electronic kiosk located in the lobby before the consent calendar is considered. It shall be the prerogative of any council member before the consent calendar is acted upon to one, comment on an item, two, respond to

any public comment on an item, three, request the record reflecting abstention or or nay vote on an item, or number four, remove an item and place it on the regular portion of the agenda for delivery of a staff report and or an extended discussion or deliberation. I don't know if we had any speakers. We had no speakers for consent. Okay. So is there any discussion or we'll entertain a motion from council? I'll make a motion to approve consent. I'll second. Okay. Without any other discussion, all in favor? Aye. Aye. All right. Okay. Moving on to appointments. The city council 5.1 consider mayor's appointments. Mhm. [snorts] Uh well Yeah. Here we go. Council mayor's appointments to the city of Redding Planning Commission. Uh asking for recommendation to appoint the following applicants to the city of Redding Planning Commission. One, to appoint Ken Manuel to serve an unexpired term effective April 7th, 2026 through April 30th, 2029 due to the resignation of Planning Commissioner Blake Nance uh on March 3rd, 2026. And the second appointment is Joshua Johnson to serve a four-year term effective May 1st, 2026 through April 30th, 2030 uh due to the completion of the planning commissioner's Michelle Goadert's second term. We do have one speaker for today. So once again, Shasta County Watchdog. Welcome back.

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I was looking at your item 5. 0 or whatever. Um For number two, appointing Josh Johnson. I do believe since he has a um he's a contractor, private contractor in the city of Redding. I do believe it's a conflict of interest for him to be also to be appointed as the planning commissioner because it actually it would benefit him. So I think um you appointing him, you will cause the will cause some liability because I'm telling you right now and if you go ahead appoint appoint him, then I am going to have to report not just him, but also you guys because if you appoint him knowing knowing that it's a conflict of interest for him to be appointed, then you become liable. So I don't see why you're going to appoint him. I mean Yeah, he also tried to run for city council. He doesn't He didn't get elected. But yet, why are we bringing the same old people over and over to be appointed to make these decisions knowing he's going to benefit from this. I I I I mean, is he the only one in in city of Redding, Shasta County? Can you get a regular citizen who has a better investment to able to make a better decision? He's not going to benefit. He's not going to have a personal gain. Can you get somebody who's going to be balanced to able to make the right decision for the citizens? I mean, here you are doing the same thing that other people do. Conflict of interest. Prohibit laws. You're going to violate those. I I mean Why Why you have you feel like you have to point appoint him? I know you can't answer me that, but ask yourself, why do you have to do that? What experience does he have? What is he bringing to the table? People who get on these committees, they're only getting on there because it's going to benefit them. They're not doing for the people.

Now unless one of you asked them to to to sign up for this position. Why can't you just postpone and get somebody else or open it up to some for somebody regular citizen to to apply? I I I mean, it's like repeat the same people. You put in the same seat. If not, you rotate them and you put them somewhere else. Same old people. Just like this every time somebody from here goes to Shasta County Board of Supervisors and then the same people who are in the Planning Commission run for the City Council over and over. Why don't you just get regular people? Who have better interests on doing the right thing? Because this guy, I tell you right now, isn't he's not in it for the right thing or to do the right thing for the citizens. He's going to benefit. And he's not going to stop there. I'm sure he'll run for another position. And he's and I don't get it. If you guys break the law then We'll see. All right. Thank you. Um any comments? I I just have a few comments there. Josh did serve on the Planning Commission 2 years ago. Um I think we preach this all the time up here that there's so many different commissions, ways to serve in the city and you know, we wish that we just had more people that apply. We have 100,000 people that live in the city uh to serve on a commission uh to serve the city of Redding. Uh you don't just have to live here, you could work here, you could own a business and um I think that would be good to have more applicants in the future anytime something comes up. We should get a good pool of people and interest but you know, sometimes it does feel like the same people are wanting to serve the city and get involved and it it it is a lot of work. It's a lot of work and not everybody has the kind of time to get involved in the city and I completely understand that but in the future when

we do get things that open up, anybody could apply and and it'd be great to see more applicants in the future but uh Josh would have to recuse himself in the future. So I think uh anytime he's involved in something uh that's a conflict of interest, I am pretty positive he will recuse himself but um Councilmember Rezner, I see you up here. So I mostly wanted to speak to what you a little bit touched on but I I think it's really it would be very, very nice if we had a really large pool of people to to choose from because in my opinion, that's one of the best ways that we can get really good, balanced information is to have a large array of expertise who are speaking their mind and most importantly showing up. So when I called the mayor to ask whether or not he had spoken to who he had spoken to, what their comments were, did he think that they were going to show up to meetings because I have in my personal opinion been disappointed at the level of attendance and voting record of um desire to vote um by the Planning Commission over the course of the last year. The mayor assured me but that both of these gentlemen plan to participate and read their packets and engage in a really healthy manner. I know that um various different members of us have argued over appointments and and and I intend today to approve these appointments by the mayor because these are the mayor's choice and he does feel like they will do a good job and in the spirit of us being supportive of the mayor's

choice and not arguing all of the time. Um I am going to be supportive of these. What I would really, really, really like to see is a diversity in in background of people who are going to make educated sort of recommendations and read their packets. So if you know anybody um who would like to apply for any of the commissions, I'm pretty positive and so staff can correct me. I'm pretty positive that you can put in an application for any of those commissions via the City of Redding website at any point in time and they live on there until there's an opening. I was disappointed. I think that there were 3 years. 2 years. They live on they live in our files for 2 years. Um I was bummed that there were uh very short list of folks who applied for this. Um and I am hopeful based on their based on their answers that they will do a good job and I'm really hoping that they will. Councilmember Mann, so Um I am definitely in favor of these two gentlemen as noted here that he Josh Johnson was on the Was he on the Planning Commission as well for a little bit? He he was. And on the City Council so he has a and a wide variety of educational experience and practical experience in this field. Um uh Mr. Manuel um has, you know, limited experience, I would say. Was that right, Kent? Would you say limited? Kent was on the Planning uh Department for decades and has a master's degree and bachelor's degree in planning and is a is a would be a great, great pick for this. So I uh I commend your choices and I'm in fully in favor. Yeah. And to echo Councilmember Rezner, what she said like when I look at appointments,

the biggest thing I looked at the Planning Commission is we need people that can vote yes or no. And uh unless they need to recuse themselves or or not vote on a matter and it's tough to be up here. It doesn't matter if it's being on City Council or Planning Commission or any commission, you know, you have to deal with the public and that can be intimidating uh for people and that that's a question I ask everybody if I'm going to appoint them as are you able to vote yes or no? Are you able to talk about the issues, do your research, do your homework? It doesn't mean I need to appoint someone where I agree with them on every single issue. We just need a good representation, a wide representation of people that have different thoughts and opinions uh that collectively really make our city good but just really being able to stand up here and vote yes or no is really important to me. Uh Councilmember Audet, I see you. Um my general philosophy on mayor's appointments is that the mayor should get to choose whomever they deem uh worthy for the appointment. It's your choice to make so I unless they're, you know, a known axe murderer in some other town, I will probably that on that I will definitely vote against it. Um but it's it's your judgment and so um you know, if the public can like or not like but this is one of those times where you singularly make your own judgment and so you stand and fall by those decisions and I think those are great opportunities for the public to see who we're choosing. Now when there's only three applicants and they're strong candidates that actually have background in this. I'll tell you um uh Planning Commission, Development Services, it's a it's a it's a vast field. It is a constant complaint that we get about um that department and how developers in town are interacting and so this job is a tall order to really come and you can really influence sort of what the the look of our city is going to be and how

things are built and what they look like and um the continuity within our city. So it's a really valuable role and not many people are wanting to serve these days and so I'm grateful that we have three. I'm grateful for who actually stepped up. I know it may feel like a conflict of interest but I think it those are qualifications that are helpful. Um if somebody has something to gain from serving the public on one of these commissions, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. If it's a monetary gain, that's a totally different story and they will by law have to recuse themselves and say why so that the public is aware of what that conflict is and that's a really important aspect um that we won't overlook here um but I I do think that um we need people with vision. So if you are one of those people with vision and you want to serve on a commission, it's one form and all 12 or 13 commissions are all on there and you can rank the ones that you want to serve on and um please do that because um and especially if you have a vision for planning and zoning. I know it's really exciting. You'd think there'd be hundreds of people signing up for zoning. Um but I'm grateful for um who these two are and I think that um this will be a good addition to the Planning Commission and apparently now the word is out. You have to vote yes or no on things. So you heard it here. We want you to make decisions. I like that. So um I'll make a motion to pass this. Okay. I'll second. All right. Uh we have a first and a second. So let's vote. All in favor? I. All right. The motion passes. So Moving along. All right. To Public Works 9.11 G. Consider adopting a resolution declaring an emergency for the City of Redding Tarmac Road Storm Drain Emergency Replacement Project and Associated Budget

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Resolutions. So Michael, are you up on this? Is that correct? Yes. Yes and thank you, honorable mayor and members of the council. Uh this evening I'll provide a uh brief yet informative presentation ultimately with recommendations that align with the staff report before you um and of course be available for questions and answers at the end. And I believe I'm going to get the clicker here. So bear with me one second while I grab that. Uh thank you. So as council may recall, uh this last December, uh early January, um here in the city and in multiple parts of the North State, um we experienced a pretty severe weather. Um we had a 2-3 week period with pretty constant intense rain. Um with two significant events within that 2-3 week period where the rainfall intensity that we received actually approached and was very near the 50-year event um for short bursts. Um all in all, the city fared pretty well um through that. Um obviously, there were some areas where damage occurred, um and one of them is before you this evening. Um we have a 20 by 6-ft natural bottom arch culvert, and you can see the picture on the bottom right there. Um and the damage that was um as a result of the heavy intense uh rainfall, um essentially, what happened was the amount of water flowing to this um storm drain cul- large culvert, if you will, um jumped the channel, um and scoured the inlet, which um in engineering terms means it eroded the bottom of the concrete footing so the foundations, which ultimately uh triggered the culvert to collapse, um which is why you see that big large sinkhole up above that. Um of course, this is very alarming um

to not only the Public Works Engineering team, but the city as a as a whole, uh because the road that is on top of this fill is the primary um and really only way in and out for approximately 50 residences um in the green dashed um area on the bottom left of your screen. So, of course, this was of utmost concern to us um once we were made aware of uh the condition. Um so, back not long after the the damage occurred, um we immediately had staff out there consisting of our storm drain crew, uh engineering team, um as well as others, and a contractor with the primary objective of um stabilizing the fill so we could prevent any future damage because at that time we were still experiencing so much wet weather that it was unsafe to put somebody in the culvert and actually determine uh the extent of the damage. Um so, we did go to council. Um let me back up a little bit. We did implement multiple protective measures, um including rock buttress at the culvert inlet, which you can see on the top right. You can see the the riprap or the rock slope protection down there. Uh we graded the slope, we covered the slope with plastic, um and used uh fiber rolls. Essentially, the main intent of that was to prevent um additional water from getting into the fill um and damaging the culvert um any further. Um not long after that, we were able to safely get staff into the culvert, analyze it, pull samples of the soil, and figure out what the appropriate um emergency repair should be. And unfortunately, at this this time, given the extent of the damage, we are looking at a complete replacement of the structure, um which will be a 10-ft by 7-ft reinforced concrete box culvert. Um we are implementing a number of

additional elements, if you will, um to prevent something like this from happening in the future. We're looking at headwalls um and other things down to prevent um erosion and scour in the future. And of course, up top where the road is, you can see on the picture on the bottom right, um we actually did experience quite a bit of settlement where we saw sections of a sidewalk and the roadway and the fill essentially just, you know, sink by a couple inches, almost a foot in a number of areas. So, very alarming. Um you may recall as well um that back um December 22nd, uh the interim city manager, Kibler, um did declare an emergency um we went to before this body the day after Christmas, December 26th, um with the governor actually declaring a state of emergency, which included Shasta County and a number of other areas on Christmas Eve, December 24th. Um at that time, uh the declaration um gave us the ability to hire a contractor to support us to stabilize uh the damage. However, we did not ask at that time um for the ability to bypass competitive bidding because at that time we did not know the extent of the damage and or if we would be able to repair it with our own staff. Um however, as I mentioned on the previous slide, we've subsequently been able to get out there and complete the investigations, and and we are looking at a complete emergency replacement, which is well beyond the the scope and capability of our teams. And at this time, you'll see here in a in a slide or two that I'm ultimately recommending that we bypass competitive bidding um and uh authorize myself um or excuse me, the city manager or designee to enter into an emergency contract and and make the emergency repairs. Um right now, I anticipate the the total cost of this to be slightly over $4 million um with um with roughly around 3 and 1/2 million of that um funding the actual construction activities.

Um and I'll remind council or that this is a rather large project. We're talking about a 10-ft by 6-ft or 8-ft box culvert. We're going to completely remove uh an large quantity of embankment there, have to probably dispose of some of it because it probably won't be suitable to put back, and we'll have to bring in soil that is suitable to build back and put it all back um and build embankment. At the same time, we need to maintain access to the 50 residents that use Tarmac Road every day, um and that adds another layer of complexity that that we'll have to work through um to make sure that not only um can people still get in and out, but that we actually construct the fill properly so this doesn't happen again. Um and with that, I'll I'll read through the recommendations, and again, these are in the body of your staff report as well, but um first is to adopt a resolution by not less than 4/5 vote to declare the emergency and authorize the city manager um or designee to negotiate an emergency public works contract for the project in an amount not to exceed $3.5 million, um and um authorize a construction contingency amount up to a total of 300,000, approve 50,000 to cover the costs for project development, approve an additional 300,000 to cover costs for construction management and inspection fees, and then adopt a resolution approving and adopting the 33rd amendment to the budget, resolution number 2025-049, appropriating the $4.15 million for said purposes above, and ultimately find that this project is exempt from review under CEQA uh pursuant to section 15269B, emergency projects. Um this will approving these will allow us to make these repairs in a a much expedited fashion with a goal of having them complete prior to the next rainy season because we do not want to be doing this work next December, which is of utmost um

priority from our perspective. And with that, I'd be happy to entertain any questions that council may have. Hi, Counselor Ordway. Um so, um we we did get the declaration of emergency. Does that guarantee that we will get the emergency funding to pay for this, or is that just make it very likely? Um I I would say there's no guarantees, but we are very, very likely to get that um with the the state declaring the declaration as well and including Shasta County. Um my team has been working extensively with CalOES. This location was included in our damage assessments. We've been coordinating with Shasta County Sheriff's Office and others. Um we we are anticipating getting reimbursement of 75% of the costs. So, is it up to 75% or or likely 75%?

7- 75%. Okay, so we'll we would be able to get back 75%, and then the 25% that's remaining is a loan. That That is correct. So, the the wastewater utility reserves fund reserve funds will front the entire cost, um and ultimately, we will um get reimbursed 75% of what the final costs are, um and then that will pay the loan down to the wastewater utility, and the storm drain utility will then be on the hook, excuse me, um have a a loan for the balance over 20 years back to the wastewater utility. Okay. All right. Thanks. You're welcome. [snorts]

What does that look like if we don't get the money? And number two, are there any other grants we can apply for? Any other sources where we can find money to cover the other 25%? Um I can definitely have the team look into grants um for the other 25%. Typically, we grants aren't for replacing existing, you know, infrastructure. Um so, I would be surprised if we were able to find one for that. Um if we are unsuccessful getting reimbursed um from the state, CalOES, for the 75%, um then the storm drain utilities payment will be considerably higher over over the term of the loan. Um and as council may know, um or may well be aware, the storm drain utility um does operate on a pretty pretty low budget. Um I don't have the number right in front of me, but if I recall correctly, we're storm drain utilities are around a $4.5 million per year operating budget. They maintain 400 miles of storm drain infrastructure, roughly 200 of that being underground or something similar to this, and the other 200 miles being uh consisting of open channels, either paved, lined, or otherwise. So, there is um quite a bit of storm drain infrastructure out there that we're maintaining and operating um with that budget. We we had an interesting conversation today and it just astonished me like to understand that the wastewater fund is very [snorts] minimal or depleted, whatever the right word is for that. And my question was, how do we fix that? How do we raise the revenue? What's the solution? And that would require a vote of the voters right there. And then you told me how much it's funded by the property taxes. And correct me if I'm wrong, I think you threw a figure out there that the residents contribute each year only $10 a year to the property taxes that goes towards wastewater. Something like that. Am I right? Or Yeah, with a few small clarifications.

Um so we're talking storm drain, not wastewater. Okay. So here in the city of Redding, residential parcels on their property taxes, there's a local assessment. I believe I'm using the correct term. I'll defer to city attorney Stock if if I um used an incorrect term, but if I recall correctly, it's around $10 per year per residential lot. And then for commercial lots, there's a base fee of around that amount plus an additional amount based on how many square footage the the individual lot is. And at the end of the day, it results in around two to two and a half million dollars of revenue to the storm drain utility um to maintain the the 400 miles of storm drain infrastructure that that we have. And so if we were looking to adjust that, that would be something that obviously would have to go before the voters um to to take a look at. Yeah. Got it. Thank you. Yeah, for sure. We were doing so good. I was doing so good.

quite a downer. Well, I mean They didn't even know they had that extra bill. I'm a pretty happy guy, but once in a while I have to [laughter] share some bad news with you, but you would you like to pay more? So No. Well, I'll make a motion to accept. All right. Is there a second for that? I'll second if you authorize and approve items one through six. All right. Thank you. Okay. Without any other comment, all in favor? Aye.

Aye. Aye. Okay. That passes. All right, moving on to a council travel reports. Does any council member have anything to report for us? Uh I could just look at your phone. I should look at my phone. Did I miss something? Pictures? Do you have pictures of travel? I do not. Well, um Well, you don't have a travel report I know. I'm sorry. Yes, I do. Got it. Okay. Um I did forget earlier to introduce our interim city attorney. I didn't know if you wanted to introduce yourself or I'm putting you on the spot. I'm sure you've done this before introducing yourself, so I am great at introducing myself. My name is Ben Stock. Thank you for the the prompt. Um I'm at Burke Williams and Sorensen and I'm going to be helping out the city for several months while you're undergoing your search for a permanent city attorney. I look forward to working with everyone in the city. And so far, so good. It's looking pretty good. And you like the Redding weather so far? It's

gorgeous day today. Okay. It's like this all year round. It's it's it's good. Okay. All right. [laughter] All right. We'd have to pay more. Uh any suggestions from council members relative to potential topics for future meetings? Anybody want to make our meetings longer? Nope. Nothing today? Okay. Well, without further ado, we're adjourned. Oh, praise the Lord.