City Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you.

Good afternoon. I'd like to call this City Council meeting to order. Is there any public comment? I don't have any speaker slips. I don't see anybody on Zoom. Madam City Attorney, what do we have on our agenda?

Thank you, Mayor. Item number one on the closed session agenda, performance evaluation of public employee pursuant to government code section 54956B1, the position of city manager. Item number two is removed from the closed session agenda and won't be considered tonight. And item number three, conference of legal counsel, existing litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9D1, one case pending litigation, Coyote Aviation versus City of Redlands. at Hall San Bernardino County Superior Court, case number CIVSB2418252.

Okay, thank you. We'll stand in recess until open session at six. Thank you. Go to invocation by Mayor Pro Tem Shaw and Pledge of Allegiance by Kingsbury Elementary School. Thank you, Mayor.

Audience, if you'd please stand for the invocation and for the Pledge of Allegiance. Let us pause for a moment of reflection on this St. Patrick's Day. We give thanks for the rich traditions, cultures, and stories that shape our community. As we gather to serve the people of this city, may we be guided by wisdom.

Good evening. Please remain standing. Put your right hand over your heart. 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.

I'm going to take a photo with you guys now, so stay there.

Did we get everybody? Any more? One more. Hold on. Thank you very much for coming.

Good job.

All right, thank you so much, the students from Kingsbury Elementary School. Now we'll move on to item G, which is presentations. I have one as a proclamation for acknowledging Cesar Chavez Day. And let's see, gonna put the image up there, Cam. This is a proclamation. Cesar Estrada Chavez was born March 31, 1927, and raised by farm workers who lost their home and livelihood during the Great Depression. He toiled alongside men and women and children who performed the daily back-breaking labor for meager pay, and in deplorable conditions and who were denied the most basic protections, including minimum wage, health care, and access to drinking water. And whereas, having witnessed such conditions, Cesar Chavez resolved himself to to bettering the plight of farm workers and encouraging the organization of the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, later known as the United Farm Workers of America, wholeheartedly championing the cause of farm working, organizing multiple hunger strikes, marches, and nonviolent resistance. I'll drop down. Whereas Cesar Chavez has left a legacy as an educator, environmentalist, and civil rights leader, reminding us that every job has dignity, every life has value, and that everyone, no matter who they are, what they look like, or where they come from, should have a chance to flourish, and whereas the City of Redlands has historically benefited from the community of the rich diversity of agricultural laborers who would become an integral part of its social and economic fabric, continuing its farming tradition, many members of which are still active, involved with the agricultural community, and now, therefore, let it be resolved that the City Council of the City of Redlands does hereby proclaim March 31st 2026 as Cesar Chavez Day in the City of Redlands and encourages all residents to promote service to the community in honor of Cesar Chavez's life work. Thank you. I have one speaker slip from Doreen Yashamiro. Yeah, Ms. Shiro, thank you. Come on up. If this is your first... Oh, you can give it to her after you make your comments. So what you'll do is you'll come up, you'll have three, introduce yourself. You have three minutes. There's lights up on the dais there that'll let you know when your time has started, when you've got 30 seconds to wrap up, and then the red finishes your time.

I would love to, I would like to give everybody a copy. I don't know if you want me to do that now. Okay, thank you so much. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Take your time. And also I noticed that you checked the box here that you want staff to follow up with you after your public comments.

Yes.

And they'll do that.

There should be six. Dear Mayor and City Council members, I plan to request that my statement be entered into the minutes in its entirety, and there are images included. I am here tonight to bring your attention to an issue that is affecting our community here in Redlands and our neighboring communities where we work and travel. There have been a series of mutilations in the wild boroughs that live in the San Timoteo and Ritchie Canyon areas. Five of the cases have been in Santa Mateo Canyon. The injuries sustained have been catastrophic. Fourteen burros were found alive, and only four have survived. One was dead on arrival. The rest were humanely euthanized. The veterinarians think an individual is training their dogs to attack. Residents familiar with the burros feel that it is someone local who is trapping them so the burros can't escape, possibly for sport. The injuries are all similar, with severe injuries to face, ears removed at the skull, and genitals torn out. One mama burrow endured two separate attacks over the course of two weeks. She was blinded, her skull crushed, and was still on her feet. She had milk, so it was believed she had a baby. Another mama was euthanized on site where she was found. She had gone down in a pool of blood and could no longer stand. She was pregnant. Another disturbing incident occurred in the Pigeon Pass area where a deceased wild borough was found with its head cut off, genitals cut out, and the head arranged next to the body. This is concerning and pathological behavior. These attacks are unacceptable in the nature of their cruelty and in the danger this type of perpetrator poses to our community. The wild boroughs travel across eight jurisdictions. They provide vital fire prevention with no major fires in their area of operation since they've been in residence. We have a sanctuary for burros in our area called Donkey Land. It lies between Riverside and San Bernardino counties and has provided services to all the jurisdictions which have wild burros. DL has covered the veterinary cost of all the victims in addition to providing lifelong care and a permanent home to hundreds of our local burros removed from harm's way in their fully enclosed, excuse me, 500-acre sanctuary set within 2,000 acres. Residents from the City of Redlands and San Timoteo have called Redlands Animal Control to report injured or sick wild boroughs and have been told there is nothing AC can do but euthanize them. Why is the City of Redlands not partnering with DL? When residents fear calling AC for help, animals suffer needlessly and place residents in danger. These are large animals, and when blinded, painful, or ill, can injure good Samaritans trying to help. Please change this policy. DL has provided wonderful services to all of the jurisdictions with wild boroughs and can do so for Redlands. There is a reward for information leading to the capture of those committing these crimes. The reward currently stands at $50,000. DL is hosting a town hall meeting planned for March 23 in Riverside. I ask that the city send a representative to this meeting to work with the other jurisdictions to catch this perpetrator, protect our wild boroughs, and to protect us, the residents. Thank you.

Thank you. Moving on to item, where's it going to be located, the meeting? Sorry. Thank you. I don't have any other speaker slips. Is there anybody in the audience that would like to make public comment? I don't see anybody on Zoom. I'll close the public comment. Move on to item I, which is our consent calendar, one through six. No request to pull. What's the wish of the council?

Move approval of the balance of the calendar.

We have a motion and a second. Madam City Clerk?

Council Member Baric. Yes. Council Member Tejeda.

Yes.

Council Member Davis. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Shaw.

Yes.

Mayor Saucedo.

Yes. Before we get on to item J, which is a communication, I'm going to turn it over to City Manager Charlie Duggan.

Thank you, Mayor. Members of the Council, I just had two quick announcements tonight. Tonight's our last Council meeting with Ray Casey, our Interim Municipal Utilities and Engineering Director. I just want to publicly thank Ray for coming in when we had a gap. in management on that department. We had our former MUED director retire last fall, and Ray has done an excellent job. He had a good group to work with, and he made them shine even more, so I just wanted to say thank you to Ray for his time here. And I also wanted to announce Sean Riley, our newest director over at Development Services. We're excited about Sean. He's promotion from within. And we're looking at no pressure but great things coming out of the department. But he's got a lot of help and a great team to work with. So please welcome Sean when you have a chance.

Thank you. Welcome, Sean. So on behalf of the City Council, Ray, we would like to thank you for, as they say, keeping the water running. And we appreciate you coming in and stepping in and taking over the tremendous division that we have there. It's very diverse, very diverse. unique to what we do here in the city. And we really appreciate your leadership and your mentorship to some of the other underneath you. And so we really appreciate you taking on this responsibility. And to Sean, thank you so much for being able to step into this role. Again, we're here to support you and anything that we can help you with along the way, please let us know. And congratulations to both of you.

Okay.

Moving on to item J1, which is the discussion of possible action relating to the designation of voting delegates to represent the city at the 2026 Regional Conference of the Southern California Association of Governments. and General Assembly, and I would like to recommend both Mayor Pro Tem Shaw and Council Member Davis to be our voting delegates. Mayor Pro Tem can be the primary and you can be the alternate. That's fine? That would be my recommendation. That would be my motion as well. Oh, I don't have any public speakers. Second. I have a motion and a second.

Council Member Baric. Yes. Council Member Tejeda.

Yes.

Council Member Davis. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Shaw. Yes. Mayor Sacito.

Yes. Item J2, annual report of the Cultural Arts Commission given by Chairman Daniel Goleman, Facilities and Community Services Director Crocker.

Daniel beat me to it, but I was going to invite him up.

Okay. Come on up.

Yeah.

All right, my name is Daniel. Go forward. Hold on. I'm the chairman of the cultural arts commission. Let me see. So, those of you who don't know about the cultural arts commission, it is the purpose of the commission is to promote. Public interest in the arts and recommend new arts programs and funding for those programs. The commission recommends policies to encourage develop and support the arts and Redlands. And it also advises the city council in the administration of the city's art and public places program. This is the, there's the list of commissioners myself. Vice chair, Brian ball, Dan Rodriguez and Robert school is our new newest member that just had his 1st meeting last. Week, I think, um, so the topics I want to talk about is just updates on our public art program and then special projects and then future possibilities. Um, so the are on loan program is our temporary sculptural pieces that are located throughout the city and they're at least on a 2 year basis. So we approve those and recommend. Those to the council every year. So, like, this is the map, the most recent map that I have of where they are on on there. Um, and 1 of the things that we've talked about doing in the commission is re, kind of reinstating the goal. That is a stated goal of the commission to have the city acquire a new piece. Instead of, like, leasing them every, um, annually. So, um, 1 of the things we were talking about is possibly having a local artist do a commission or something like that in the future. But right now it's. Just the, you know, 2 year. The cycle, and those should be coming up soon. So we should be. Presenting a new list to you all soon. This is the 1st, ever piece. This last year, the commission worked to preserve this piece. It was the 1st, ever artwork commission under the cultural. arts sculpture program um and it was most recently at Lafarge Plaza over on Eureka Street and Dennis Christensen our past commissioner worked really hard to get them to donate that back to the city and I think now we're just trying to figure out a new location to put it and kind of hopefully have like a plaque talking about the history um and that and that's to be determined Um, so the newest another project is our lands reach regional eco arts community hub artists and residency program and a community garden at Sylvan park. This was approved. Um, by the commission, like, back in 2022, I think, and it's been, like, an ongoing project. Um, and it finally is about to open this, like, later this month. And I think we just took the fencing down on that and Sylvan park. So that's a native plant space and then it's an artist and residency program that's in partnership with the University of Redlands in the city. And the city staff has been great and making that happen and as well as the surf garden at the University of Redlands, like, it wouldn't have been possible without them being a partner on it too. So it's got a lot of community partners in the city, like, a lot of nonprofits. The relevance conservancy is a partner on it. The University of Redlands. Anca is supposed to do some programming there too. So it's like a whole community effort to make that happen. So that's, I mean, I kind of talked about that, but the, it started it with at the cultural arts commission in 2022 by a proposal from Danielle would eat C Wallace, who was a prior member of the commission. Who's no longer on there, but she proposed this. And then, uh, we, we were trying to get a grant through parks, California, through the city. And then it, Turned out that the city, it was too short notice. So we put it through my nonprofit, the art lands and got it and got a grant for it. And we were awarded the grant and then. Last year we were able to get a 105,000 dollar grant to build out the project. Um, so, yeah, the garden is almost done. It's on the corner of University and Colton, and it's got demonstration garden beds along with raised beds and a gathering space for arts programming, which there's going to be a residency program and artist free art programming for people to attend. It'll be free to the public. So, every, there's going to be 2 classes a month, March through June that will be free to the public to attend. Through this project, and then hopefully we're playing. for next year for it to keep going and maybe expand the amount of classes we can offer. And these are the first list of resident artists and they're all local to the Inland Empire. And yeah, pretty good list of artists. And they have a studio space provided by the University of Redlands to complete their work. So it's on campus in their old arts building on campus. Um, so the other major thing we did last year is we passed the cultural arts, uh. Master plan through the commission, and I think it's supposed to be presented to you all pretty soon for final for approval. Uh, and so the stated goal of that is to development to develop a comprehensive public art program, enhance cultural infrastructure and creative spaces, strengthen community connections through arts and culture. Strengthen cultural sector capacity and sustainability. integrate arts and culture into economic development, expand arts education and lifelong learning opportunities and preserve and celebrate Redlands cultural heritage. And it's like a pretty, Like, like, comprehensive plan, so we're hoping you all will approve it. Um, a lot of work went into it. I know. Um, and so some of the highlights, I just did a few of them, but basically exploring feasibility of having a dedicated staff to support. Arts and cultural programming, um, in the short term, having having maybe a net. Organization or an expert contract or something to do that work in the short term, preferably based in Redlands and keeping jobs in Redlands, um, developing sustainable funding sources, creating grant programs for artists and organizations, improving the public art program. Enhancing coordination among cultural organizations and allocating voluntary amounts for public artworks within capital improvement projects. And, um, in the short, in the long term, considering adopting a percent for the art ordinance. And this is the conclusion to say, let's make Redlands a destination for arts, culture and entertainment, building a thriving and sustainable, creative economy and be a leader in the inland region. So that concludes my report.

Thank you so much for your report. A very comprehensive report. Thank you for your volunteers. Time on this commission. It shows all the hard work that you all have put in your past and present commissioners on there to develop this plan, this cultural. arts public places the the garden has taken a while but Everything that's worthwhile takes a little bit of time and I'm glad that you all have stuck with it And now you're at this point and I think now you're really seeing we're really seeing the results of your hard work And so thank you you and your commissioners. Thank you.

I Just want to echo that gratitude. Thank you so much Daniel to you and the whole Commission I know this has been a long time coming especially the Garden the reach garden as well as the artists and residency program. I think that that's something the city should be very proud of I hope that at some point we can rival our neighbors over in Riverside They're having a mayor's ball for the Arts this month So I think that the more arts programming we can do the better. I think it's better for a Thriving culture as well as economy here in Redlands.

Thank you so much Thank you As a receiving file Our next item is J3, which is receiving file of the annual report of the Measure T Citizens Oversight Committee for FY 2025 Management Services Finance Director Garcia.

Thank you, Mayor and members of the Council. This item is the annual report for the latest fiscal year, fiscal year 2025. As Council knows, the Committee plays an important role in reviewing Measure T revenues and expenditures and ensuring transparency and accountability to the community. This evening, we're lucky to have Chair Ruth Cook here to present the committee's annual report, along with Committee Secretary Ed Milliken. Chair Cook, I'll turn it over to you.

All right, thank you. A little over a week ago, the winds were terrible. I still have remains of it in my chest, and the debris was all over the streets. It was tremendously messy. However, I was very grateful that just the previous week, all the palm trees on Olive got a very nice trimming, thanks to Measure T. In the past, it was 20 years before, every 20 years or so, my trees got trimmed. And then there were years where the city provided we could get a discount tree trimming if we chipped into it. But currently now with Measure T funds, trees get trimmed once every four years, which is pretty awesome, I can tell you. It's really a little thing, but it's really a nice thing. And it adds to the quality of life in our community. And it's just a little thing I like to tout when I talk to people about it, about Measure T and what it does for us. I have been on the Measure T oversight committee since it was approved by voters in April of 2021. And I've been impressed by the careful consideration that is given to these funds and the recognition that our City is fortunate to have citizens who want and are willing to dedicate an extra bit of sales tax for the improvement to services and infrastructure in our City. Okay, I will be giving an overview of the fiscal year 2025 expenditure of Measure T funds. Okay, so just as a reminder, Measure T is a one cent sales tax approved to supplement funding for very specific things when it was approved. Safety services, fire protection, paramedics, emergency response, homelessness responses, police patrols, crime protection, library services, parks, sidewalks, roads, and just kind of generally making Redlands that extra special place to live. For fiscal year 2025, the city's total general fund was about $128 million. And Measure T accounted for just about $20 million of that. So about 16% of the general fund. It's a stable 1% compared to budget estimates that we get. And it is higher each year than what was predicted when we passed it, which has been awesome. Combined with basic sales sales tax, the sales tax revenue plus measure T, accounts for 37% of the general fund. So it's a sizable amount. It's a sizable amount. I tell people you're talking about 20Million dollars of extra money that goes to benefit you every single year. So some of the things, it kind of falls into three general categories. You have public safety, public infrastructure, and then quality of life is what Measure T funds are spent on. So this year, some of the very exciting things that it got spent on. So under public safety, the bulk of the money, about $13 million went to public safety. That was a sizable thing that was promised to the community, but staffing for 37 police positions in the police department, including 12 sworn officers, many of which restored like covid area pre and even before that reductions. We had a fire station remodeled. They got a. A nice kitchen, there's a new gym in there and it looks it looks very nice. So it was started in August in April 2024 and completed in August 2024. So that was great for the fire station. We got a new taser system for the public safety. We got 12 computers and just an upgrade to the general public safety camera facilities within the in the city. Um, also there is funding for 44 vehicle leases, 21 new patrol cars and replace some of our aging patrol cars, which really is important in the response. The police and fire can provide to our citizens in the community. Additionally, under public safety, about 4Million dollars was put into the reserve for the upcoming public safety projects. And it's important to plan for the future and plan for those big ticket items. And that's why that money is being set aside for that. So it really maintains and improves the ability of our police department to protect our community. Okay. So under under public safety and quality of life. Uh, as I mentioned, the trees 5300 trees, I love how we have actually 5299 were trimmed 5 times the pre measure to average 222 new trees were planted in. 223 dead ones were removed. That's pretty awesome. Sidewalks, 1.5 miles of broken sidewalks, 1480-80 ramps were replaced, and four public alleys were resurfaced. Pretty awesome to see it happening in your neighborhood and see it working on. Um. Also, there were, uh, traffic cabinets replaced and upgraded signal video detection units. Uh, and I, I love this feature right here is that at the a case Miley library and the contemporary club, they updated the kitchen of the contemporary club. We got some new computers for the library, some new furniture and, um. The library is a gem of Redlands. It is the cross section of where all of the community goes. And it's a wonderful thing to meander down there on a Sunday afternoon and see the number of people that are out there using that facility. So the fact that we don't have to worry that it's going to be cut and that librarians are going to be cut and that they know that they have that security, it's wonderful. Okay, last category is the quality of life and our homelessness solutions. The city leveraged Measure T funds to secure over almost $10 million in grants. And part of Measure T, there may not be as much money coming out for homelessness because they've been able to secure those kind of grants. So that's... That's something I like to point out too, is that because we have that money, we were able to secure grants for it. So it's important to recognize that that has helped with our homelessness situation as well. Um, parks and recreation, new sports lighting and Martinez field flag poles at 6 city parks and, um. A continued work on the 7 to 10 year parks master plan finally, the community events. Enhance funding for movies in the park, senior transportation vouchers, annual tree lighting, mother's day activities, Halloween, June teeth. Juneteenth activities, so it's, it's, it's wonderful. And then the Redlands Bowl has continued to be upgraded with new HVAC and all the electrical improvements so that the quality of performance is put on there are fantastic. Just to wrap us up, the committee meets a couple of times a year. We met in June 2025, and we review the budget that's coming for the year and we just kind of make sure that things are fitting into the categories that they should. And then we just met in February 2026 twice to review the budget proposals for that are upcoming and review and see what was spent for the previous year. Uh, we confirm the committee, we confirm that measure T funds were collected and spent in strict alignment with the city's budget and the original voter intent. Um, it's very, uh, another thing is that this oversight committee ensures that so that the validity and the trust that the citizens put in passing this is maintained and it's essential that we do that. But the committee validates all those things and we appreciate the opportunity to do so. Thank you.

Thank you.

Any questions?

No, just a comment. I wouldn't have supported this tax, and if we didn't have an oversight committee, as you will, I'd really push for that. And I'm glad I did. You're doing a great job.

We take a careful look at it. Ed here carefully looks at all the lines, and he has lots of questions.

We do appreciate it, and we appreciate your time, too. I know this is all volunteer, but you're helping the citizens out, so thank you very much. Thank you.

I also just want to say thank you so much for the comprehensive report. We often get asked, what are the measure dollars being spent on? So thank you for really going into depth there. I think it's important for people to hear that. Their money's going to really amazing city services. And thank you both, and thank the committee for your service.

Thank you. Excuse me, can we have a copy of that as well?

Well, there is a whole, is this going to be given to them?

There's an even longer report with pictures.

He likes pictures. So no, I wanna thank the citizens for passing this. And again, as council member Barrett said, an oversight committee offers transparency and the economic development that it provides to this community. Without that, I don't think we'd be able to be in the position that we are in now with our revenue. And so having that ability to spend $20 million wasn't realized before is a great asset to this community. And so we appreciate your time. And I seen there were some recommendations, the timing of working those out with the director Garcia, the committee, you have two new commissioners, I believe, public safety and public services. So looking for great things to come from the oversight committee. And again, thank you for your service.

And I'll echo that just to say thank you. I know you two are both here at the podium. I saw Sue. Yes, Sue's out there as well. So thank you to Sue and the rest of your group.

He's editing our editing.

He's a master at that. So it was a very good report. So thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you.

All right. Moving on to item J4. which is a receiving file, FY2026 Mid-Year General Fund Revenue Management Services and Finance Director Garcia.

Awesome. Thank you again, Mayor, members of the council.

Don't we have to make a motion to accept this? It's a receiving file. It says it right here.

You're okay? The Measure T report is a receiving file. Without objection, Mayor, if there's no objection, that would just be a receiving file.

Are there any objections? No. Okay. Good. Thank you.

Director Garcia, so we've got a short PowerPoint for you tonight, but the intent is to cover our mid year 2026 budget review. We'll go over a couple of things on the next slide. We'll go over the fiscal year 2025 results, how the numbers came in. We'll go over our general fund revenues and expenses for the current fiscal year. And then we'll look at the budget schedule. So how do we do in 2025? Well, there, okay, let's see, this slide, conveys the variances between our 12-month estimate that we made last June and the audited results that were posted in November. So those variances in the columns highlighted all the way to the right, you can see there's a variance in financial sources or revenues of roughly 2.1. This is mostly due to higher than expected property tax revenue as well as investment income. And then as well, there is a positive variance, also known as a savings, of $12.3 million for expenditures or financial uses. Now, this is a result tied to project timing, as well as carryovers that will be brought into fiscal year 2026. So the true savings in departments is around $6 million. So all told, the difference between where we thought we were projected ending fiscal year 2025 and where we actually ended fiscal year 2025 was a savings of $14.5 million. On the next slide, we'll examine the revenues and how the actuals for fiscal year 2025 stack up against our 12-month estimates. So we've got that variance column again all the way to the right. Revenues did not vary significantly from mid-year estimates. Forecasts for fiscal year 2025 were off by a cumulative difference of about 2%, with various categories fluctuating differently. The largest variances were in the categories of other revenues, which includes investment income and the use of reserves. The lower than anticipated use of reserves corresponds to project timing for the drawdown of... the drawdown of these reserves while the project budget was approved it may not have had significant drawdowns in terms of expenses before the close of the fiscal year and the largest and most significant project in this category is the construction of safety hall so when the project isn't spent we don't release reserves therefore there's fewer reserves released So on the next slide, speaking of expenses, let's examine expenditures and how the actuals for fiscal year 2025 measure up against our 12 month estimates. Across departments, we see about a $15.9 million in spending below the mid biennium estimate, which is not unusual in municipal budgeting. The largest single variance is in facilities where several capital and maintenance projects were still in progress by year end and thus carried forward into fiscal year 2026. across police, fire, and other departments. The differences are largely timing related. Timing related in terms of vacancies, procurement cycles, and project schedules. Now let's take a look at the current fiscal year that we're in, 2026, how it's progressing. This slide summarizes the general fund position for the current fiscal year. We entered the year with a higher beginning balance than originally projected, largely because fiscal year 25 closed stronger than projected. So that's that variance column again, all the way to the right. Even with those adjustments, the financial plan for fiscal year 26 anticipates about $10 million in carryover projects for fiscal year 25, which appear both as revenue from reserves and corresponding expenditures. So you see the variance all the way to the right in terms of revenues and expenditures is around 10 million. The vast majority of that are carryovers. So they are carried over from prior fiscal year, they come in as the use of reserves in 26, and then they go out as expenditures in 26. The financial plan for fiscal year 26 still anticipates Some program expansion and capital priorities approved by Council and thus supporting the use of reserves. Going from the use of reserves 9.4M to 11.9M. Next slide. We have a summary of some significant capital projects. Just want to mention fiscal year 26 includes a major focus on public safety. You heard a little bit about public safety in terms of last fiscal year, but the current fiscal year includes funding for progress towards the new safety hall project, technology upgrades such as body-worn cameras, drones as first responders, and the real-time incident center. The city is also continuing quality of life and infrastructure improvements, including sidewalk and ADA upgrades, park and recreation facility improvements, traffic signal equipment, and upgrades at various city facilities. I will mention fiscal year 26 also includes the first full year of general fund support for the operations of the Museum of Redlands, a new community cultural facility gifted to the city and operated under the oversight of the library board. With that overall financial picture in mind, this next slide looks at how revenues are performing so far into the current fiscal year. So we do a seven-month actual. We look at the first seven months of the fiscal year. Revenues do tend to lag. behind due to the collection period so our major sources sales and property tax both get collected by other taxing entities namely the state collects sales tax from all retailers and then remits it back to the city same with the county the county collects all property tax and then distributes it these things cause a lag in timing so anyways as of january 31st the general fund has realized about 48 and a half percent of projected revenues which is generally consistent with historic seasonal patterns. Property tax is at 54.8% of budget, which aligns closely with the city's historical mid-year average of around 55%. Sales tax and Measure T sales tax are both tracking within expected ranges, with Measure T slightly ahead due to stronger activity in several regional retail locations. One category that appears significantly higher is charges for service at 78%, which is largely attributable to the timing of reimbursements. So particularly fire mutual aid, cost recovery, and other departmental reimbursements, these come in at various times throughout the fiscal year, and there's no real way to predict the timing of those. So overall, the mid-year revenue picture indicates the city remains generally on track to meet its fiscal year 26 revenue projections. So looking at the other side of the equation, the next slide summarizes how departmental spending is tracking at mid-year. At this point in time, general fund expenditures are at about 52.7% of the adjusted budget, which is generally within the normal range at this point in fiscal year. Most departments are tracking close to the midpoints of their budget, typically between 46% and 50%, reflecting normal operating and staffing costs. police and fire departments appear slightly higher which is expected because personnel costs make up in the majority of those budgets and the staffing costs occur consistently throughout the fiscal year whereas departments with capital budgets or project budgets will have more fluctuation at this point in the fiscal year staff does not anticipate any significant expenditure variances relative to the adopted 26 budget So looking ahead, this slide outlines the schedule for the development of the next biennial budget. During March, departments will review their current budgets and identify any modifications or priorities that should be considered for the upcoming cycle. In April, those requests will be reviewed by the city manager and the management team as we develop the city manager's proposed budget for fiscal years 27 and 28. proposed budget will then be presented to City Council in May for review and discussion finally in June the council will consider adoption of the mid biennium updates and the proposed budget and we look forward to working with council throughout that process with that I will conclude my presentation thank you for this time any questions or comment from director Garcia

I just want to thank you for what a great report really outlined where our revenues are going and what they're dedicated to. And it was great to see, you know, the council and staff is always looking how can we generate more money, I think, or more funding for these programs and the services that we provide. is really to foster good economic development with new businesses, small businesses, businesses of all sorts, to generate the sales tax and the Measure T tax. I think it goes a long way for providing the funding that's necessary to do the amount of services that we provide. So thank you for that. And it looks like we're in a pretty good fiscal position. So any questions or comments from the council?

If there's no public comment, I don't have any questions and it would just be receiving file Okay, no motions needed right you can do receiving file without objection Or receiving file without objection on item j4 Moving on to k1.

This is a public hearing to consider the following applications for a An approximately 8.5 acre site, located on the North East corner, going Avenue and Tennessee street within the special development district of the East values, but corridor specific plan. APN 0167-171-16-0000, 0167-171-110000 and 0167-171-12000 by applicant Regency Centers. I declare this a public hearing and a call on the department director for a report.

Director Riley. Thank you very much, Mayor, members of the council. The proposal before you tonight Includes entitlements to construct an approximately 71,000 square foot shopping center. The project will include a grocery store, a drive through building and 4 multi tenant buildings. As you can see in this image, the project is located north of Avenue and east of Tennessee street, or more generally to the north of Home Depot and to the east of state route to 10. The site's currently vacant with no previous development history. Recently, two residential projects have been approved abutting the site. To the east, the Lugonia Village project was recently approved, which includes 541 residential units, and the Tennessee Village project is located to the north. Tennessee Village is a mixed-use project with 460 apartments and approximately 18,000 square feet of commercial space. The site has a commercial general plan designation, and the proposed commercial center is consistent with the general plan land use designation as well as several general plan policies. Project is located in the special development district of the East Valley court or specific plan, and the applicant is proposing a specific plan amendment to remove the site from the East Valley court or specific plan, and to change the zone to general commercial. The General Commercial District allows for a wide variety of commercial uses and services which are consistent with what is being proposed by the applicant. This is the project site plan. As I mentioned, the project involves a construction of approximately 71,000 square feet of commercial space within five buildings. The major market tenant is approximately 36,000 square feet and the pad buildings range in size from approximately 4,000 square feet to 10,000 square feet. There are five access points to the site. The two primary access points are, the main one is on Lugonia across from Home Depot, and the other is in the center of the site on Tennessee. There are two secondary access points, which are in the corners of the site, in the northwest and the southeast. There's a fifth access point that is into the site from the Tennessee Village project. That's an approximately 30 foot wide access between the two, the commercial portion of the mixed use project into this site. This is a summary of the project's development standards. On this table, as you can see here, all the yeses on the right-hand side, it does meet all of the development standards for the C3 district, including parking, landscaping, building height, lot coverage, those things that you see there in the list. The project's required to improve and widen the roadways along the project frontages. The project will build an additional northbound lane on Tennessee, as well as a westbound lane on Lugonia Avenue. As required by Measure U, a traffic study was completed for the project, and based on the traffic study, the applicant is required to make some additional traffic improvements, which are included as conditions of approval. Those are listed on the slide and include at the intersection of West Lugonia Avenue at the Home Depot, there will be a modification to the signal timing. and West Lugonia and Texas Street, the northbound lane will require restriping to allow a left-hand turn. I may be missing a slide, but this is the, I was gonna touch on the landscaping when the slide seems to be missing, but just the site does meet all the required landscaping requirements. It includes about 239 trees of various types, primarily evergreen trees. It meets all the landscaping standards. The corner of the site they include a nice landscape plaza that includes seating and some pathways into the site. This slide shows the proposed architecture of the major market tenant. The architectural elevations for the project utilize a contemporary style with a variety of materials. They provide vertical and horizontal projections and short tower elements. Multiple building materials and finishes are proposed, and the architectural treatment is provided on all sides of the buildings. Finishes include stacked stone, brick veneer, metal awnings, and goose deck lighting. The previous slide was the major market tenant. The pad buildings are shown here in this slide. Here again, you can see the types of materials and colors that are proposed, as well as the vertical and horizontal projections, the awnings, and other treatments. This is the drive through building again. This includes similar treatments to the other buildings. There's no specific tenant identified for this site. At the planning commission, there were some additional treatments that were included as conditions of approval for this for this building, which are their landscape trellises, which are not shown here. But those would be placed on some of the some of these other broader panels or the broader sides of this building to increase visual interest for the building. The applicant is requesting two conditional use permits. One is to allow the sale of alcohol for off-site consumption for the grocery store tenant, and the other is for a drive-through restaurant. The city requires a conditional use permit for all new alcohol retail sales, and in addition to the CEP requirement, the ABC will require a Type 21 alcohol beverage sales license from the state. Alcohol sales will generally be incidental to the grocery store's larger operations where Shoppers would go in and they would pick up alcohol with their other groceries and things like that. So it's incidental to their primary use. Conditional use permit number twelve zero eight is for the drive through restaurant. The city also requires conditional use permits for drive throughs. The drive through building is approximately thirty nine hundred square feet with two drive through lanes. Again, no tenant has been identified for this building. The project provides space for 15 cars to queue within the drive-through. In addition, the drive-through lanes are required to be screened by the municipal code. This project does provide the screening as required by including short walls and heavy landscaping surrounding the drive-through lanes. Conditions of approval, again, I mentioned some of them, but they've been added requiring additional queuing space after the service window, the landscape trellises that I mentioned, as well as an access or queuing plan for the drive-through. project includes a lot merger which will include which will merge a small well site into the body of the main portion of the site and that just is going to present or prevent. The project from being built across property lines and the resulting lot meets all the development standards for the zone and a condition of approval has been added requiring recordation of the lot line adjustment prior to issuance of any building permits. As far as environmental review, a mitigated negative declaration was prepared for the project, and it was circulated for 30 days as required. During the public review period, there were no comments received on the project, and there are 11 mitigation measures that are included within the MND. With the recommended mitigation measures applied, there are no resulting impacts. Basically, all of them are mitigated to a level that is less than significant, and all mitigation measures are included with the project's mandatory conditions of approval. On January 13th, the Planning Commission reviewed the project. They voted unanimously to pass a resolution making a recommendation to the Council to approve this project. And if the Council agrees, the motions are here on the screen before you. And that is the end of the staff presentation. We have the applicant here as well as our consultants to answer any questions that you may have. And let me know if you have any questions. Thank you.

Are there any questions for staff? In preparation, or maybe a presentation from the applicant, I had a couple, I know that, um, uh, during the planning commissions, um. Review of this that they were a little concerned and I'm a little concerned. And let me preface this that this is an opportunity for the greater community to kind of hear this project and maybe have some of these. Um, comments are some of the reasons rationale for why the project is the way it is now, but 1 of them was the, um. Traffic on the entrance and exit on Tennessee, whether they could get across going out and going South on Tennessee what there was some challenges there and that probably needs to be explained for the greater public to understand that the other 1 was, um. the kind of plain or the blank walls, maybe some opportunities for some cultural heritage, citrus heritage on there to kind of help break up the solid walls. And what was the other one? I think that's all that I remember, but, um, and then I had a, maybe a question for director Casey that is there a non potable, uh. Opportunity close by this, this, this project.

I'd have to follow up and get back to you on that.

Okay. That would be good to find out if there is a non potable opportunity for that to be able to tap into those are those are my questions and comments.

I have a kind of a similar concern relative to the facade part. Obviously, there's there's a name of a major market on there. So that building to me in the plan looks like what I would normally see in a whole food. It's got dimension. It's got the siding. It's got. depth to it. It, it, it looks reflective of, of Redlands. Um, when we get to some of the sub buildings, it appears they're more just blank. Like that, that, It was the investment will be in the larger building, but not as much in some of the smaller buildings. So I would just like to make sure that that is a consistent theme of of how good that the major anchor would look will be carried through to the other the other buildings as well. Whether we do that through murals and so forth, or whether they do some of that dimension or whatnot, but. Clearly, we've seen, you know, in some of the downtown work, you know, the way that the brick and stuff is really helped to accent the buildings. Um, that would be important to see that over there, because that's gonna be a major focal point. Um, and then my other question is related to the traffic study. I know it is ancillary because it's San Bernardino in Tennessee, which probably doesn't fall necessarily in the purview of. The developer, but it is in the traffic study, which is already. a pretty dismal rating over there, only going to get worse. This would probably contribute some to San Bernardino and Tennessee. So if it's not the developer's responsibility, do we or does Caltrans, has anybody looked at that so that we don't make a bad situation already worse over there, basically where the on-ramp is for the 210 at Tennessee?

I'd also like to follow up on the signalization, the timing either at New York or at Texas and Lagonia. I think that was kind of brought up in the report. The other one was on the north, between the property lines, the north property line, the access to the other Lagonia Village, being able to have access or a clear access way to the project without having to go back out onto Tennessee and then into the development. They could explain that. That would be really good.

Is that just emergency access or is that like regular access through Ligonia Village?

That is regular. Maybe I should answer all these questions in order. But that is regular access for vehicles and pedestrians from one project to the other.

Oh, okay. Okay. We don't have concerns that that's going to become a cut through there basically for?

I don't believe there's any real major concern there. Okay.

Okay. Any other questions or comments from the council? If not, I'll ask, call on the applicant or his or her representative for comments on our testimony.

Good evening council members. Um, we don't actually have any further comments. I'm here to answer any questions that you may have for the project though. So I do appreciate some of them. I'd like to just get ahead of it and mention that the images that were represented are via sketch up model. There's a robust landscaping plan that's contemplated, which is going to do a really good job of breaking up a lot of some of those walls that feel. Plain, I think that's a good comment mayor South State. I really appreciated your Suggestion of potentially some some art components that we can incorporate into it. We can definitely look into that So those were the two that I noticed I know there's a couple questions on traffic We do also have the traffic consultant present here today who can answer some of those questions more specifically, okay?

I think it's important for not only us to understand that but the public under Understand the the the Tennessee coming left or right out of the project, out of the drive-through, the challenges that someone may have, or the stacking up behind one lane to allow one to go left, but as waiting and the other ones want to go right. Can you walk us through that?

Sure. Good evening, Mayor and members of the council. My name is Rawad Hani. I'm the professional traffic engineer working on this project with the city. And with respect to starting with the two exits, I'm assuming the two uncontrolled exits on Tennessee, there are currently basically these exits, both of these exits are not warranted to have any type of signalization over there. In order to put any type of signal, there is the... California MUTCD, Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, has a certain number of warrants. We ran through these warrants. Unfortunately, none of them basically meets, none of the locations meet the criteria to kind of have any type of control or any type of signalization. The volumes coming out from these during the peak hours, which is basically the, for the focus of this study are relatively low, basically 7 and 14 vehicles turning left. So these vehicles basically are anticipated to be able to kind of make the movement out from the site in in time, basically between the 2 signals. So the 2 signals basically on San Bernardino and only going here, they kind of meter the traffic if you want and basically once they. Through traffic goes on the parallel streets, then traffic coming out of the site will be able to exit. Now, there are, there's a situation where there could be kind of some backing up in the site, but that's basically typically when we do these studies, this is kind of an issue for the site itself as long as it doesn't spill back to city streets. And as long as it doesn't create issues on city streets. From from our perspective, basically representing the city, this is kind of what we care for. We want to make sure that all the projects traffic is contained within the project and doesn't create any issues for city streets. And that's kind of the major concern over there. The other question with respect to the exit on the I think there was a discussion during the planning commission, as you mentioned. with respect to pedestrians crossing and traffic coming out. And I think there was a solution that was proposed at that time, which is to kind of push the pedestrian walkway a bit into the site in order for vehicles coming out of the site to be able to see pedestrians. So enhancing the visibility basically of pedestrians so that basically any car that is exiting the site, they can see pedestrians out there. So these are the two kind of points that were raised, and if there's anything else, I'm happy to address it.

MINUS IT'S A SPECIFIC QUESTION THAT'S RELATIVE TO THE TRAFFIC ON TENNESSEE LOOKING AT THE MAP THERE SO THE ESSENTIALLY THE MIDPOINT ENTRANCE AND EXIT SO FOR TRAFFIC THAT'S TRAVELING SOUTHBOUND ON TENNESSEE THAT WANTS TO MAKE A LEFT TURN INTO THE CENTER. WILL THERE BE ANY TYPE OF PROTECTION WHERE IT WILL BE A LEFT TURN POCKET OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT OR ARE THEY JUST GOING TO BE BASICALLY IN A REGULAR THROUGH LANE TRYING TO MAKE A LEFT TURN ACROSS NOW AT LEAST TWO LANES OF TRAFFIC. Um, that's question 1 question 2 is I have significant concerns about traffic exiting and trying to make a left on Tennessee. Um, because you've got, I mean, that's a, that's a thoroughfare now at this point, and I get the fact that traffic is metered. Um, but my concern is a broadside collision from either a vehicle is traveling northbound on Tennessee. Uh, maybe they're exceeding the speed limit or somebody that's coming southbound on Tennessee and you know that now they've they've got a vehicle that stopped to turn left in it obstructs the view and somebody pulls through there and they get hit I just that seems like a it's just a recipe for disaster is what it seems like and I get that the numbers may not line up from the traffic study standpoint but I think from a safety concern that that intersection if you will it's not really an intersection but that in entrance and that egress is certainly concerning

So in my mind, there are two ways to address that. The first one, if Tennessee is to be a thruway, as you said, basically is to be a fast speed kind of road or a thrufer where traffic doesn't slow down, then basically the solution would be to kind of have some sort of restriction on the left turn. No left turn. The other option basically is the which which you see it in other places in Redlands is to kind of calm traffic down a bit on Tennessee in a way that it becomes less of a throughfare and more of a collector street serving the neighborhood more so than kind of traffic trying to avoid the freeway. So it's really kind of how do you want to as a city to kind of address that? Do we want to kind of calm it down in a sense of basically making the lanes a bit narrower, making it more of a walkable street, especially kind of as residents are are moving to that area primarily kind of to the east of the site and to the north of the site? Or do we want to kind of not say basically this is Tennessee will be kind of more for cut through traffic and we don't want to stop traffic on it. And that case basically starting to think about restrictions. I think in all cases, the volumes really that are using these exit points are relatively smaller. I think the northern exit, my understanding is primarily it's intended for service vehicles coming into the site. So most of the times these will be during non-peak periods. The middle one basically is kind of, again, during peak periods, these are relatively small numbers, less than 20 vehicles an hour.

I mean, Tennessee is essentially an extension of the on ramp to the freeway at that location. So, you know, people are already thinking, OK, I'm going to get on the freeway, a lot of that traffic. So speeds are what they are there. And then we already know that that San Bernardino and Tennessee Is in the traffic study as an F intersection because of just the volume of people coming through there again, because of the freeway. Um, so I think that we don't get me wrong. I love the plan. I would love to see this thing come to fruition. I just want to make sure that we're also being cognizant of the safety issue and we're not putting somebody in jeopardy. Um, so whether we do that through, I know. You know, no left turn out and no left turn in. I'm not really sure what our options are there, but I certainly think that that's something that I would like to see us address moving forward.

Again, I'm sorry, have you, there's a high school not too far from there, and people that are coming from the south side going north, they're going to take Tennessee to get to the high school because it runs right into high school. Did you keep that in consideration when you did your traffic study? Yeah. Mind you, you're talking about early in the morning and mid-afternoon, nine months of the year, but still.

Yeah, no, definitely. We did all our accounts basically during a typical school day where basically there is traffic during kind of, we captured the school traffic as part of that, absolutely. Yeah.

Thank you. Okay.

That's all the questions and comments I believe that we have from the City Council. Oh, you had one more?

Go ahead. Well, not for traffic, but for the general. Our last meeting, there was discussion about Power access, are you going to address that tonight? I see we have our representative from Edison here. So sorry, Mark.

First off, I'd like to thank the Council again. I really appreciate coming up here last time and your support and providing a letter. We are diligently working with Edison to find a solution. To date, we don't have one established yet, but they have identified sources where power can be provided within a timely manner. We're now trying to find one that is economically viable. So we're taking steps. We're not there yet, but we are making progress. And again, I appreciate the Council's efforts to assist in this matter.

Any other questions? Thank you.

Mr. Mayor, if I may, I did reach out to staff and an answer to your question. And the answer is that, yes, there is non-potable water available in that area, although the system is reaching capacity.

Okay. Thank you. I will now call for any comments or testimony from members of the public. I don't have any speaker slips. I spoke too soon. John Malcolm.

Hello. My main concern was the power which just brought up. On February 3rd, City Council meeting, the developer for that project, also in Lagonia and Tennessee, literally called the development dead in the water until that power issue was resolved. So it's good that that's been looked into and aware of, I guess.

Thank you.

Okay, any other? I don't see, I don't have any other speaker slips. Anybody in? Audience would like to public comment. I don't see anybody on zoom. We'll move on to, um, Madam city clerk. Did we receive any written comments?

There were no written comments received.

The applicant would like to make any rebuttal comments. Okay, I'll now close the public hearing. What's the wishes of the council?

I move that the City Council adopt resolution number 8752 to approve entitlements for the Regency Center's Redlands Marketplace project, and I move to introduce ordinance number 3001.

Second.

We have a motion and a second.

Madam City Clerk?

Councilmember Baric?

Yes.

Councilmember Tejeda?

Yes.

Councilmember Davis? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Shaw? Yes. Mayor Saucedo?

Yes, and you're going to work with staff on on making them might be some public art on some of those building. Okay, great. Thank you. All right motion passes. Thank you so much. Item K, 2 is a public hearing to consider resolution number 87 58. Overruling objections and proceeding with the weed abatement of subject properties fire chief.

Thank you. Mayor and council on a regular council meeting on February 17th, the council adopted resolution 8751, declaring weed to be a public nuisance following that adoption. We send out notifications to those properties identified approximately 123 properties. Um, tonight, the adoption of the resolution scheduled tonight is the adoption of 8758, giving us the authority to abate those properties identified from our last council meeting. If there's no objections from the public and. Okay, any questions we have to answer and they're all vacant lots. No residential.

Thank you. Um, after hearing the directory report, this is a public hearing. Are there any questions or comments from the city council?

How are you going to collect? I'm assuming these are fines. Is that correct? We do the work and then we bill them afterwards. Is that correct?

Yeah, for the most part, rather than a unique community, we have a lot of participation. But those that don't, we provide that service and then follow the lien process on those properties at a later date.

Thank you.

Okay. I don't have any written comments. I don't see any comments on Zoom. Public comments? Madam City Clerk, did we receive any written comments?

There were no written comments received.

I'll now close the public hearing. What's the wish of the council? I move to adopt resolution number 8758, overruling objections and proceeding with the abatement of subject properties.

Second.

Motion and a second. Madam City Clerk.

Council Member Baric.

Yes.

Council Member Tejeda. Yes. Council Member Davis. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Shaw. Yes. Mayor Sacito.

Yes. Moving on to item L1, consideration of resolution number 8757, updating the city's fund balance policy and recession... Recession of Resolution Number 7346, Management Services Finance Director Garcia.

Thank you again, Mayor and members of the Council. This item updates the city's fund balance policy to better align the written policy with how we already manage year-end results in practice. The current policy includes minimum percentage set-asides that are treated as automatic, whereas in reality, these decisions are made each year in the context of the current conditions, priorities, And long term financial planning considerations, so the proposed update clarifies that these allocations are discretionary and subject to city manager recommendation to the city council approval going through the approval process as normal. This maintains consistency with accounting standards and best practices while also improving transparency and flexibility in how we manage general fund reserves. There's no fiscal impact associated with this change. That concludes my presentation, and staff is available if there are any questions.

Okay, are there any questions from council to staff? I don't have any public speakers. Nobody on Zoom. What's the wish of the council?

I move we adopt resolution 8757, adopting an updated fund balance policy, Exhibit A, and rescinding resolution number 7346. Second.

We have a motion and a second. Madam City Clerk.

Council Member Baric.

Yes.

Council Member Tejeda.

Yes.

Council Member Davis. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Shaw. Yes. Mayor Sacito.

Yes. Agenda item L2, this is a consideration and recommendation. For the appointment of 3 trustees to the board of redlands public improvement corporation management services and finance director Garcia.

Again, thank you mayor members of the council. This item is a 1st step in reactivating the redlands public improvement corporation, a nonprofit entity originally formed to support municipal financing. The corporation has been act. The corporation has been inactive for many years and currently has no sitting trustees. Tonight's action simply reconstitutes its governing board by appointing three trustees as required under the existing bylaws. This does not authorize any financing or commit the city to a specific structure. It positions a city so that it can use this entity, if appropriate, to support the safety hall project. There is no fiscal impact associated with this item, and staff is available if there are any questions.

City Manager?

Yes, Mr mayor, under guidance of our bond council, this action would appoint 3 members. Any 3 members of the city council, there are bylaw changes that are suggested. If those bylaw changes are approved by the council tonight, and the, those 3 members. Meeting directly after this one then all five members as ex-officio members will be placed as the board of directors for this corporation So it doesn't really matter which three of you right now If you did three now the five would become and then the bylaws later will explain it creates some officers who have authority to sign papers and things like that everybody understand the motion before us, okay, which three One councilmember Barrett

Mayor Pro Tem Shaw, Council Member Davis. Yeah, I move to adopt Mayor Pro Tem Shaw, Council Member Davis, Council Member Baric to serve as trustees on the board of the Redlands Public Improvement Corporation pursuant to its bylaws. Second. Motion and a second.

Council Member Baric.

Yes.

Council Member Tejeda.

Yes.

Council Member Davis. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Shaw. Yes. And Mayor Saucedo.

Yes. Item L3, consideration of resolution number 8767, amending the bylaws of the Redlands Public Improvement Corporation, Management Services, and Finance Director Garcia.

Thank you mayor members of the council as city manager dug and explained, uh, following the board appointments, this item updates the corporations bylaws to reflect the city's current governance structure and administrative practices. The most significant change is transitioning the board from appointed trustees to the city council serving ex officio along with aligning officer roles to existing city positions. This simplifies administration, improves continuity and ensures direct accountability to the city council. The amendments also clarify meeting procedures and maintain consistency with the Brown Act requirements while preserving the corporation's original purpose. Like the prior item, this action does not authorize debt. It simply ensures the corporation is properly structured to support future financing if directed by council. Staff is available if there are any questions.

Are there any questions or clarification for this item?

I don't have any speaker slips. Move that the council adopt resolution number eight seven six seven motion a second I Don't want to be alone doing this so Councilmember Barrett.

Yes councilmember Tejeda. Yes councilmember Davis. Yes mayor pro Tim Shaw. Yes mayor Cicero.

Yes Moving on to item l4 consideration of the first amendment to the professional services agreement with Tilden coil constructors Inc. for the Master Construction Management Services for State Street City Hall to increase the total agreement to an amount not to exceed $2,108,510 amount of additional appropriation and determination that this action is exempt from the environmental review pursuant to Section 15061B3. of the state guidelines implementing the California Environmental Quality Act. Assistant City Manager Boatman.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. In 2024, we entered into an agreement with Tilden Coil for both construction and pre-construction services, with the pre-construction services being a unique aspect of their contract. At that point in time, we had some concept of what we wanted to do at the At the new city hall, but the design had just begun until then coil work hand in hand with the architect and staff to ensure that the plans were drawn accurately with very little ambiguity and that the budgets were projected correctly. Today, we now know the entirety of the budget. The bids have been awarded and constructions already began. So this is an amendment to their contract to reflect the full scope of this project, which at the time in 2024, we were projecting 10Million today. The full scope of the project is under 17. Um, and, uh, but again, we, as I mentioned in the report where we are word, all these businesses budget, a budgeted amount. And we're, we are funding this in all cash. So, with this, this increases their contract by 745,000 dollars, which is the proportional increase relative to the scope increase in the project. And I just want to emphasize, as I have before as well that I truly believe the Pre construction services have been. They have been vital in making sure we avoid unexpected cost changes. And I was very pleased when the bids also came in under budget. So with that, happy to answer any questions. Tilden coils also in the audience. If you have any for them.

I just had 1 clarification that not only is it increased the amount, but it also increases the time of completion. Correct?

Yeah. Thank you for the clarification. It does.

Okay, and so at least we now we have an estimated of 14 months instead of the 10 months, which is which is good. It gives us at least some certainty of when we might realize the completion. So thank you for that.

And so, and so far we're tracking very well, the council, as I know some of the council has been through the building things are happening fast.

So, estimated be done and we move in what about. March of next year, is that correct?

So there's a possibility we might be able to move offices in as early as this calendar year. The portions that have a little bit longer lead time are the council chambers and the actual exterior facade of the building itself. Those are tracking around March, April 2024. There's elements of it that will be done much sooner. Sorry, 27. Thank you. It's been a long day. Thank you. Back to the future, right? Back to the future.

Right on track. Any other questions or comments?

Okay. What's the wish of the council and with the city council find that approval of the 1st amendment to the professional services agreement with children coil constructors incorporated. Is exempt from environmental review pursuant to section 1, 5, 0, 6, 1, be 3 of the state's guidelines implementing the California environmental quality act. And I move that city council approve the 1st amendment to the professional services agreement with building coil constructors, Inc. Or master construction management services for state street city hall. to increase the total agreement to an amount not to exceed $2,108,510, and I move that the City Council approve an additional appropriation of $745,152. Second. I have a motion and a second.

I have a motion and a second. Madam City Clerk?

Council Member Baric?

Yes.

Council Member Tejeda?

Yes.

Council Member Davis? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Shaw? Yes. Mayor Sacito?

Yes. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Breyer. Moving on to item L5. This is the consideration of the First Amendment to the Purchase and Sale Agreement with Sarton Properties LLC Assistant City Manager Boatman.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. At the last meeting, the Council approved a purchase and sale agreement to sell a 4.67 acre property that the city owned on the far east end of town. Subsequently, it was brought to staff's attention that the purchase and sale agreement did not match the appraised value, and we confirmed that. And fortunately, the buyer was acknowledged the agreed upon price and executed this amendment, which brings the purchase and sale agreement price in line with the appraisal. I want to also note that since this time, we've put internal protocols in place to avoid this situation in the future. But this does correct the price to reflect that appraised appraisal amount with that. Be happy to answer any questions.

Are there any questions for staff? I don't have any public speakers slips. I don't see anybody on zoom.

City council, if you're ready. Yep. Yep.

I'll move the. to approve the First Amendment to the Purchase and Sales Agreement with Sartain Properties, LLC.

Second. We have a motion and a second. Madam City Clerk?

Council Member Barrett?

Yes.

Council Member Tejeda?

Yes.

Council Member Davis? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Shaw? Yes. Mayor Saucedo?

Yes. Moving on to our individual Council Member announcements or reports. Are there any?

I would just like to say thanks to everybody that came out for Community Day of Service last weekend. I see Mr. Malcolm there in the audience, probably one of the hardest people that I saw working all day long at Community Day of Service. So thank you very much. You moved a lot of dirt and planted a lot of trees. But it was a great community effort to see close to 600 people out there. So thank you to everybody that volunteered. It was awesome.

Who wants to go next? I'll go ahead. I was able to attend a career day along with Uh, human, uh, resource, uh, staffer, uh, at the, uh, 7th day Adventist Academy. That was really well attended. I want to thank Sophia for a great job of putting out all the different, uh. merch that was out there and her being able to kind of promote what opportunities we have here in the city of Redlands. A lot of students were interested, although we don't have any nursing programs or dentists, but we did give them the opportunity to interact with both myself and Sophia, so she did a wonderful job. Also attended the welcoming of our new CEO at the Redlands Community Hospital. And I might be leaving one or two other events off, but I'll stop there.

I just also wanted to echo the gratitude for the day of service. That was phenomenal. I saw you out there working so hard. It was a great event, and I cannot believe the turnout. I heard roughly 200 University of Redland students came out, which is incredible. I was there today on campus speaking to a public policy class. It was good to be back at my alma mater talking about the great work that we do here on the city council.

I think the number of volunteers was at 500 or more volunteers. I think that's the most we've ever had, or at least one of the top volunteer days of service. So it's wonderful to see all the improvements to Ford Park. Hopefully we'll get to see some images of all the rocks that were moved, the rosemary bushes that were planted, the sod, several trees out in the greater grass area. So yeah, it's a great day. All right. I'm going to recess the City Council to a closed session. And that concludes our... Then we'll come back into open session for Agenda Item O. So we'll recess our City Council back to closed session. Thank you. I'd like to reconvene the City Council meeting and report on a closed session.

Thank you, Mayor. Item number one on the closed session agenda, there was no reportable action. Item number two was removed from the closed session agenda and not considered tonight. And item number three, there's no reportable action.

Thank you. We'll now go to our last item of the agenda, which is item O. I'm sorry, we'll have to adjourn that City Council meeting and now open up a new Redlands Public Improvement Corporation agenda item. Um, there's no public comment, no public comment. I don't have any speaker slips. Nobody on zoom.

So, uh, the board of directors, uh, there's 1 item behind you before you. It's the amendment to the bylaws, which the council previous adopted tonight. The main changes in the bylaws would be that all 5 council members would be appointed to the board of directors as ex officio members. Meaning if a council member changed, the new person would automatically become a board member. No appointments need to be made. there's another key provision that I think I should bring out is that it appoints it establishes that the mayor would be the chair so run the meetings the city manager would be the president of the corporation the city treasurer would serve as treasurer of the corporation and the city clerk would be the secretary of the corporation the important thing there is that for documents that are authorized to be signed can be signed by The Chair, the President, the Treasurer, the Secretary. So that way, important financial documents, once they're approved by the body, we could then proceed and sign anything that needed to be signed. With that, I'm happy to take any questions or we can have a motion to adopt the amended bylaws.

I have one item. I just wanted to just remind the board that the three members who got appointed are the three that will vote on this particular item. The other two will sit it out and we'll adopt those bylaws once they're in place, then all of you will be members.

All right, then I consider we approve resolution number 2025-1, amending the bylaws of the Redlands Public Improvement Corporation.

2.2 I'm sorry what did I say?

Oh, sorry. That's correct.

Okay, Board Member Baric. Yes. Board Member Davis. Yes. And Vice Chair Shaw.

Sure, yes.

We would entertain a motion to adjourn at this time.

We stand adjourned.