City Council - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon, everybody. I'd like to call this City Council meeting to order. This is our closed session portion of our City Council meeting. Any public comment? I don't have any speaker slips. I don't see anybody in the audience, nor do I see anybody on Zoom. Madam City Attorney, what do we have on the docket?

Thank you, Mayor. Item number one, Conference of Legal Counsel anticipated litigation pursuant to California Government Code Section 54956.9 D2 and D3 in one matter. This is one case, Kenneth Kramer, adverse to the City of Redlands, a workers' compensation claim number 21-153-160. And then we have Conference of Legal Counsel existing litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9 D1 In one case, Armstrong Cal Builders Inc. v. City of Redlands, San Bernardino Superior Court, case number CIVSB 2505450.

Thank you. I'll now recess the City Council meeting to close session, and we'll see you back at six. Thank you. I'd like to call the City Council to order and reconvene our City Council meeting. I'll now ask for the invocation by Mayor Pro Tem Mark Shaw and the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thank you, Mayor. Please stand and join me this evening. Good evening. As this council reconvenes after our summer recess, we do so mindful of a difficult stretch beyond our own city, natural disasters that have devastated communities here and abroad, and acts of violence that have shaken the sense of safety so many of us take for granted. Let us remember those affected and let it renew our commitment to safety, care, and the resilience of the community we serve here at home. May we be guided tonight by wisdom, humility, and compassion as we take up the business before us. Amen. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands,

Thank you. Now we'll go to our closed session report. Madam City Attorney.

Thank you, Mayor. For items C1 on the closed session agenda, there was no reportable action. In item number 2, there was a reportable action pursuant to Government Code Section 54957.1A3A. The City Council took action in closed session to approve a proposed settlement in the matter of Armstrong-Cal Builders, Inc. versus City of Redlands based on the following material terms. Plaintiff shall release claims both known and unknown of any kind whatsoever against the City of Redlands. In exchange for the release of claims, the City shall pay plaintiff the undisputed retention in the amount of $55,920.49 and for change orders number 24 and 25 in the amount of $52,778 for a total amount of $108,698. Dollars and 49 cents without any admission liability by the city of redlands and the mayor is authorized to sign the settlement agreement on behalf of the city a Copy of the settlement agreement shall be available in the city clerk's office once executed by all parties The motion to approve the settlement was made by councilmember Tejeda and seconded by councilmember Davis and passed unanimously And that ends a closed session report.

Thank you so much The next order of business is our presentations. We'll go to our pet adoption Redlands animal control services

Testing, testing. Good afternoon, everyone. Mayor, members of the council. I'm the Animal Services Supervisor. Here with me, I have Haley Suck. She's one of our kennel attendants. And of course, we have a lovely guest. This is Ocean. We'll get more about Ocean in a bit. All right. We're gonna talk about the month of August. We had a pretty good success for the month of August. We were part of the Redlands Animal Services, participated in the NBC Universal Locals Nationwide Clear the Shelters campaign. So what this means, we have free adoptions for the month of August. If people adopted, they got the dogs for free. But it doesn't mean that they were free. We're actually going to get the money refunded back to us from the campaign. So we had quite a great success with Clear the Shelters event. We also had a low cost rabies vaccine and microchip event. This is helping out the community. This is only a service that we offered our community for the members that live in the city of Redlands. This was pretty good because we were giving out $10 rabies vaccines and $10 microchips as well. Excuse me. And this is something to help the community, especially when dogs get lost. Microchips is something that we highly recommend people getting. This is the way to find, get your dog, be home if your dog ever gets lost, right? But now I'm going to talk about our numbers. So for the month of August, we were able to do 23 adoptions. We reunited 10 dogs back with their owners. One dog went to a transfer to a rescue, and we were able to get 34 animals out of the shelter. So that's actually a positive outcome. Right now, our current population, we have 25 dogs, one cat. This is actually a pretty good month for us because having 25 dogs in a shelter is actually pretty good. If you guys are familiar with shelters, shelters are full with animals. And for us to have 25 dogs, that's actually a pretty good outcome. This is Ocean, guys. Ocean is a two-year-old Spade Pit Bull Husky mix. Ocean came to us back in May of 22 of this year. Super great dog, beautiful, gorgeous blue eyes. This is kind of like a Pit Bull mix with the Husky. If you guys can notice, she has a lot of energy, super friendly, likes treats, very social dog. If you guys are looking to adopt a pet, she's actually one of our longest-staying residents. So if you guys are looking to adopt, come check her out. We also want to put an update on Bugs. Bugs was our last dog that we brought for our last event. Bugs was actually adopted. This is a pretty cool dog. The dog had like a little hop every time it walked. That's what we named him, Bugs. But Bugs was adopted. Good success story. But that's our time, guys. Thank you so much for checking us out. And if you guys want to check out Ocean, check us out as well. Come pay us a visit. Thank you, guys.

Thank you so much. We have four presentations. The first one is our presentation of Adult Literacy Day Proclamation. I'll have Councilmember Baric be able to present this to Diane Shimoda, Adult Literacy Coordinator, Don McHugh, Library Director, and Kim Green, the Tutor and Computer Class Instructor.

Does he have the microphone?

And Dr. Rosa Gomez.

I want to congratulate. I'll tell you, if I had to pick out one program that's very, very important for the city, this would be it, adult literacy. If we can get people to be able to read and write, they become productive citizens in the city of Redlands. They can get a job. So it's very, very important that we are able to teach people to read and write, and you guys have been, you know, so dedicated to this, especially Diane. You've been to programs since it started, I think. Oh, Trudy. Okay, I'm sorry. Anyway, let me just read it real quick. I could read, but I need glasses. California Library Literacy Services has been providing literacy service for adults in California for over 40 years. How long have we been? We've been doing it 23, right? 16 years ago, it says. 16 years. Anyway, indicated that nearly 23% of California adult basic literacy illiterate skills. For the last 16 years, the Redlands Adult Literacy Program at Smiley Library has helped adults improve their literacy skills so they can get or advance in their jobs, help their children to school, participate in civic opportunities, and work toward their own education. WHEREAS THE ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM WORKS TO PROVIDE ADULT LITERACY SERVICES AT SMILEY LIBRARY AND OFF-SITE LOCATIONS PARTING WITH THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CALIFORNIA, OF REDLANDS, LAGONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND THE YMCA OF THE EAST VALLEY. THANK YOU FOR THOSE FACILITIES THAT LET US USE YOUR FACILITY. SO ANYWAY, THERE ARE A FEW MORE WHEREASES, BUT I DON'T WANT TO KEEP EVERYONE TOO LATE. SO NOW, THEREFORE, BE RESOLVED THAT CITY Council of the City of Redlands does hereby proclaim September 27, 2026 as Adult Literacy Day in the City of Redlands and call upon our residents to promote literacy efforts and education programs through our community. And they do take donations. I know my wife and I, every year, we're always glad to give to this organization. So, Diane?

Thank you, Paul. Thank you for recognizing Adult Literacy Day in Redlands, and we appreciate the support that we get from everyone at this dais. We appreciate support from the city, from the library, local donors, and especially our volunteers, many of whom are in the room today. Without community support, the literacy program would not exist. We appreciate the hard work of over 100 adult learners who participate in the literacy program each year. And they are changing their lives through literacy. And many of them are in the audience today, too. So thank you for coming. We are about to publish volume nine of our anthology, Our Stories, a Collection of Writings. And I'd like to invite the city council to join us on September 27th at 2 PM in the Contemporary Club, where adult learner authors will read their stories. With me today is Kim Green, a dedicated tutor and passionate computer instructor who will share her observations of the life-changing benefits of improved literacy.

Thank you, Diane. Thank you all for the opportunity to speak with you tonight. Making a difference is what brings all of us here, I think. Whether you're serving our community as an elected member of the city council, attending tonight's meeting because you care about the issues affecting our community, or like me, you are here to support the Redlands Adult Literacy Program, we are united by a desire to make a positive impact in Redlands. As a volunteer for the past 13 years, I would like to share two stories that represent many of many lives and how they have been changed by improved literacy. Because our services are confidential, their names have been changed. During my first year as a volunteer, I was matched with Melissa, whose goals were to be able to help her children with homework, feel more comfortable communicating with their teachers, and then as a result, to volunteer more at their schools. As her literacy skills greatly improved and she achieved her goals, she noticed the positive impact rippling through her family. Soon, she and her husband decided to pursue a shared dream, to open their own business in Redlands. Their family business is now in its eighth year and is very successful. But if she was here tonight, she would tell you she's most proud that all three of her daughters have graduated from college. As we know, computer literacy is a must in today's world. For this reason, the program offers weekly computer classes for the adult learners. For the past 10 years, I have had the honor of being the instructor of those classes. When I ask participants to share their goals for being in the class, the reasons vary. But for quite a few, it is to be able to advance in their jobs. For Craig, an employee at UPS, becoming proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel meant an opportunity to move from a part-time job on the distribution center floor into an office position and then to compete for other promotions. After faithfully attending computer classes for several months, he met the requirements and soon moved into the position he had been working towards. In closing, these stories illustrate how literacy changes the lives, not just of the adult learners, but of their families. However, what I couldn't have imagined 13 years ago is how much it would change my life. I've received much more than I've given, and the reward of seeing others reach their goals and knowing I played a very small part in that is immeasurable. The friendships I've gained along the way and the pride of belonging to an organization that makes a meaningful contribution to the Redlands community. Thank you for investing in adult literacy in Redlands, and you are all changing lives in our community. Thank you.

I can't add anything more than what's said here, so I'll just say, again, thank you for this recognition. We're very proud of our program, and hopefully we'll see you on September 27th.

And I just want to say that if you ever stop by the library and you feel that you want to be involved in this, whether you want to be a learner or provide some of the studies for these individuals, please stop by and contact our star here. And that's Diane. Thank you all for your support.

One of our staff members is going to get a quick picture so that we can memorialize this. Our next presentation is a recognition of David. He's our homeless coordinator. We have two presentations, one from the city council and the city of Redlands. And joining me is my city council colleagues. And then we'll have another one by the office of Senator Eloise Gomez Reyes to be able to present him a plaque. But I just want to read. Come on in a little closer here, David. Let me read it first. So David has since been here with the city, I don't know how many years, maybe five years now, and has done a wonderful job taking over our homeless outreach. He's expanded the department, he's expanded the number of teams that are out in the community, interfacing with our homeless community and really trying to provide compassionate care, compassionate outreach. And we're so proud of David and his staff for the wonderful work they've done And I'll just read a little something. According to the 2026 point in time count, Redlands has experienced an overall of 50% reduction in homelessness over the past three years. That's an amazing statistic. Including an 8% reduction from 25 to 26. And more importantly, more than 500 individuals have transitioned into permanent housing through rapid rehousing and supportive housing programs in the last three years. We couldn't be so more proud of David and his team and his department for the compassionate work that he's done in our community and providing those folks that are our neighbors, are our family, are our friends, to provide them a helping hand through the work that he's done in providing services. So we're proud to know that David has been recognized not only by the state senator, but also here in the city of Redlands for the work you've done. Congratulations, David. Can I have Maria Bruner come on up? And she has one for you. Thank you, colleagues. Oh, you know what? Stay here. Stay here.

Hello to the city of Redlands. I am Maria from the office of Senator Eloise Reyes. And last month, we were very proud to be able to honor David as our overall Man of the Year. I think he deserves another round of applause, please. Thank you. When our office first got acquainted with David, I believe he was pretty much a team of two, just himself and one other person. However, throughout the years, David has come back every single month to let the state and other partners know about his progress. And we knew that he was our man of the year when we heard that he was able to keep eight members of one family under one roof. And as somebody that comes from a generational house, that is a great feat. And I could never imagine being away from my family like that. So you not only make sure that people are employed, but you ensure to keep families together. And that is something that will just stay in our hearts forever. Plus, do know that David is constantly applying for state grants and does not shy away from asking for assistance from any elected official. He is proud and he is loud, even though he's sitting here a little quietly. But congratulations, David. Just know you have a partner for life, as long as we're in office. I would also like to say hello to my boss's sister, Rosa Gomez.

Thank you so much. Next presentation is the Accelerated Neighborhood Climate Action, ANCA, Neighborhood Redlands Disaster Preparedness Program. Council Member Davis.

Yeah, absolutely. It's my honor to invite up Linda Hamilton, Executive Director of ANCA, who's been doing this amazing program on disaster preparedness at the neighborhood level. Thank you all for being here. I'm looking forward to the updates and the presentation.

Thank you. Thank you. And you've got to introduce myself. I would just get right to this. Um, we're here briefly to update you on our neighborhood work. This is Anna Copeland. She is the coordinator of our neighborhood programs. And we, we believe, as I think most of, you know, that neighborhoods are absolutely essential to building a climate resilient community and to achieving the goals of the city's climate action plan. I'll say a little bit more about that in a minute, but, um. And then Ana is going to share with you very briefly what we've accomplished in the last couple of years at the neighborhood level. So as I know we're all aware, our changing climate is often talked about in global terms, but it impacts our experience locally, right? In our homes, on our streets, and in our neighborhoods. Here in the Inland Empire, we are always already seeing more extreme heat, right? the last few weeks, worsening air quality, impacts on our health, rising food costs, and other climate-related disruptions. These will become more severe in the coming decades. Meeting these challenges requires more than good public policy and physical infrastructure, as critically important as those things are. It also requires strong social infrastructure. Neighbors who know one another, who trust one another, We need informed residents, and we need organizations working together. And research consistently shows that neighborhoods with strong social connections recover more quickly from disasters, better protect vulnerable residents, solve problems more effectively, and adapt more successfully to changing conditions. In many cases, a community's resilience depends as much on relationships as on its physical infrastructure. And neighborhoods are where those relationships are built. It's where people work together to make the place they call home safer, stronger, and healthier. And that simple idea is at the heart of ONCA. Climate change may be a global challenge, but resilience is built locally, and there's no better place to begin than in our neighborhoods. Anna?

Hello. Everybody else had a mic. Do I face you guys?

Oh, okay.

I didn't know if I... All right, good to know. Good to know. This is obviously my first time. All right, so Map Your Neighborhood. How many of you guys have heard of Map Your Neighborhood? And who knows what we do? Well, hopefully by the end of this slide, you'll get to know a little bit more about us. I do want to say that ANCA does present this, but when we go into the community, we do not talk about climate action in any of our disaster preparedness meetings. The portion of Map Your Neighborhood is not about climate action. It's about disaster preparedness.

I just wanted you all to be clear about that.

Uh-oh. Thank you. Nope, that's bad. Oh, I see what happened. I only saw one arrow, because everybody, this has used so many times that there's no arrow. Okay, all right, great. All right, 86 Redlands neighborhoods know their neighbors. have a plan and are prepared. That's not 86 people. That's 86 of our neighbors. At the end of the slide presentation, I have attached a map that shows a red dot, so you'll get to see where all those neighborhoods are. It's about 1,400 people that have attended, but a lot more were invited. Oh, wrong arrow again. So it just takes one person one person to bring a neighborhood together That we are looking for hosts we're always looking for hosts to bring people in and we want a neighborhood host to call the coordinator or email and then we will the coordinator will meet with the host and Decide the 15 to 20 homes that are included in the neighborhood and And then we set a date. We use a smaller number because we want people to be able to work together in a very short period of time. You all know how important it is to work fast in a disaster. So ONCA provides everything. We provide invitations and workbooks for every household. We provide an enlarged map and then later map and spreadsheets for your neighborhoods that you can create your contact list. your skills and equipment lists and a few other things, which I'll show you in just a minute. Two trained presenters come and go through the whole program so that you don't have to do it for your neighbors yourself if you're the host. We come and go through the whole thing and help you develop your plan. We have a lot of great handouts, insert information, and then recently, if we get the information from Leastos, we also want to pass out those packets because they also have great information. And we think that we can be helpful in disseminating those to neighborhoods that are not wanting to host without a presenter. It's a big job, and it's not easy to do. So this is kind of, this is not exact. Ours look more professional than this even now. But we bring them in large map. It's very blank. And then we fill it up with all the things that you need. So we want to mark people's gas meters. There are some gathering sites of potential. So there's not two different gathering sites in each neighborhood. But as you can see, there's a primary one and a secondary one in case something is wrong at either one of those places. Then there's a care center. You guys get to see it too? You guys just looking at it? Okay, I'm just curious. All right, good. And then care centers. And vulnerable people to check on first are marked with a red circle, and a blue circle marks the pets in the neighborhood. That way everyone sort of gets to know where everybody belongs and where everybody um Anyone who needs help and then water for cleaning up we mark the pools or hot tubs after a disaster They can be messy, and we just want to make sure we have those on the map as well This is an example of skills and equipment think beyond your own supplies so we mark down who has what skills in your neighborhood that could be helpful and equipment and supplies Same thing all of these things are super helpful to know before a disaster afterward it takes quite a while to come up with this information Okay, so something else happens obviously when people get together they Sorry, lost my train of thought. When people get together, they will get to know the people that they didn't know. You see a lot of people in your neighborhood all the time where you might see them walking or driving, but you don't know exactly where they live. And also, sometimes you see people's pets, and now you get to know everybody. You all come together, and people get to know each other in a different way. So they end up leaving feeling connected, confident, and motivated. And that is true. The work is deepening. It's not just spreading. That means a lot. From the very first meeting that we do, and then we do follow-up meetings. So we do the first meeting that hosts that at their home, and then we do follow-up meetings, which sometimes are just in the neighborhood because we're doing preparedness practice so that people stay up-to-date with what they need to be doing. So every several months, we come back. And then we do an annual gathering, which was pretty cool because we've done one, we're planning the second one. That meeting was very cool because we had a lot of people come who didn't know that other neighborhoods right next to them also had Map Your Neighborhood in their neighborhood. The program is growing. Neighborhoods are growing food and resilience. This is a new program that we're, I'm gonna need my cheat sheets for this one, hang on. Okay, so we're also beginning to explore how this neighborhood model can address other important challenges. A team of volunteers is developing a neighborhood event similar in spirit to Map Your Neighborhood, but focused on food sharing. Its purpose is to help and encourage Redlands neighbors to grow food. By sharing knowledge, experience, and resources, our neighborhoods will be prepared when people face challenges and uncertainty in food supply. And this can be not related to, also not related to climate change. We have a lot of people in my neighborhood who have food insecurity because they don't make enough money to live, and they live paycheck to paycheck. And a lot of my neighbors, we have gardens, we share food. And that's another great thing that you can use this program for. In this new program, we do want to teach people the things they might need to know in order to be able to sustain a garden themselves and have food sharing in their neighborhoods. Oh, look at that. Look at all those people. This is not even all 86, obviously. I think it's like 33, but every event we try to get a photo. And I think one of our council members is up there somewhere. So 86, it is a very good beginning, but it's really not enough. The map comes right after this. And I do want you to see, hang on just a second. Yeah, I want to show you the map. This is just an example. But so many happy people. And I have to tell you, I've been to most of those 86. I've presented at most of those 86 events. And at each one, people are so relieved. As I'm packing up, I hear people talk about how relieved they are that they did this because they learn a lot of things but also, like I said, it's that confidence that you get of knowing your neighbors. Some neighborhoods are great and already know each other and they just love getting together and other neighborhoods don't know each other at all. So just getting together is a huge, huge step. So there's the map, and I want you all to take a good look at it if you can. There are red dots everywhere, so we're hitting a lot of spots in Redlands, and you can definitely see the parts of Redlands we're not hitting, which is almost as important as the amount that we are. I don't think I have time to go into that. Who gave me that? Is anyone keeping track of my time? Am I doing okay? Too long? Okay. Okay. All right, well, lovely to talk to all of you. Hang on a sec. Here's why I'm actually here. We would love it if you guys would lead by example. It would be great if you guys contacted us so that we could come and you could host in your own Redlands neighborhoods. It would be great for your neighborhood to see community leaders really acting on their behalf, in your own neighborhood's behalf, as well as the whole city, which we appreciate. Thank you. All right, and so that's my contact information, and you're welcome to contact me any time for a host meeting. We're also a volunteer-run organization, and so we would love the support. We would love support. We get very little support. We're always looking for grants and for donations and for sponsorships. That's not why we're here today, but we would like to be partners with you in some way, because we do feel like what we do is so important for disaster preparedness. She's done.

Thank you. Thank you so much for your presentation. Our last recognition will be Fire Chief Sessler will do our recognition of community members and emergency responders for life-saving actions on July 7th, 2026. Chief? Turn the little button on.

There you go.

Okay, I'm on now.

So I'm going to call up a few people right now, and then I'll start the talk part of it. So if I have Dominic Lopez, Caitlin.

Yeah!

We will see you tomorrow. Caitlin Arakawa and Jordan Priscilla. Come on up here. So Jordan is the dispatcher of this call, so I'll give a brief of... Oh my gosh! So on July 7th, there was a male unresponsive at a community pool. And the reason why this event's important is that community members took action. We're in a society now that films. Watching and filming or something else will handle the problem. And Dominic and Caitlin took action. They pulled the individual out of the pool, called 911, and tied in with Jordan. Jordan started the directions of critical care. Immediate CPR gave directions, and CPR was started within minutes of the victim being seen in the pool. Those actions are what we call the chain of survival. Step one, step two, step three. One, taking action. Step two, calling 911. Step three is providing EMS direction, immediate care, and getting the resources dispatched to the call. We have two of the gentlemen here tonight, Engineer Jerome Matheson and Firefighter Premier Orlando Ramirez that were on the call on that day. These are the things that separate Redlands The actions taken here, these are states that we can't be the quickest one sometimes, and the action taken by individuals changes the outcome of the call. You had direct impact of that situation, and by taking action, the person here is today. Daniel is here today with his mom, Michelle, who I'd like to have come up. Thank you. So the action for them is that, and then dispatchers often are not recognized. They're the multitasking machines. They can talk to you one second, do CPR, dispatch a fire, come back and carry on the conversation that you were just talking about. And it's absolutely incredible. And congratulations to you, Jordan. Direct impact to the outcome saved a lot. So congratulations to you. And also I want to recognize Fire Chief Chris Jensen from Rialto. That's a personal family member to Jordan. So thank you for being here. I'd like to call up Jerome, and Orlando to come over here for a picture with the group. And I'll give the awards after we do a quick picture. I'll give the awards and then we'll do a picture.

All right.

If it doesn't, it could like, slow down.

Thank you so much, Chief. That was pretty awesome to see our different phases of chain of response times to actually having a positive outcome. And congratulations and kudos to you and your department from the top to the bottom out in the field. So thank you so much, Chief. Okay, we're moving on to our public comment portion. The first speaker we'll have is Mr. Dennis Bell. I'm sorry.

Oh, Lord.

Thank you, Mr. Bell, for giving them a little bit of time to exit.

Ain't that big of a hurry. I guess we're okay. Whenever you're ready, Mr. Bell. Thank you very much, sir. You're welcome. Good evening. The bowl season recently wrapped up, read a slick program handbook. With all the sponsors and donors listed, I question why the bowl needed a fee waiver. The same can be said of all the rest of these poor little rich organizations who can't afford fees but can afford to sponsor other events, including those on tonight's agenda. Then the August 13th edition of the Very Good Online Redlands Community Foreign News had an article about five city hall issues to watch this fall with the council elections. One of those was how to expand fire coverage, especially on the north side of the city. With all due respect to the hardworking men and women of the Redlands Fire Department, It seems to me it's stretched to the point it can't adequately cover its ground. That's thanks to the city's short-sighted city leadership over the years. Another issue brought up was how the city was going to pay for its neglected infrastructure and public services while dealing with growth. The city going to raise taxes, fees, utility rates, issue more debt, cut all cultural amenities that don't generate revenue for the city. or have marijuana dispensaries. The city held bake sales to buy a new fire truck. We're gonna have bake sales for new fire stations. The city needs to tell residents their water rates will be increasing in 2028 to cover the debt service for the new Sunset Reservoir. That was glossed over in the Prop 218 PowerPoint for the current rate increase this past summer. The city has spent millions to rehab the streets, mostly using illegally collected money. Rehab streets still are just as bad or worse with the same bumps and depressions they had before rehab. Good example is Cajon between Vine and Olive. And Vine and Sixth Street were torn up twice, repaved twice, and are just as rough as before. Same thing goes for all the previously torn up streets, especially downtown, where the new fire hydrants were installed. The city owes its residents answers before November 3rd about the buff as it spends money on its guided and wasteful priorities, while it heads towards projected bankruptcy as stated in the current budget documents. The city's banking on the development impact fees from the proposed transit village projects to keep itself afloat, wishful thinking with financing rates going higher and higher. Thank you.

Thank you. Next public commenter is Andy Hoder.

Good evening, members of the Council and staff. Andy Holder. Just a couple of quick comments here. First, going back in time a little bit, you may recall the Redlands Mall shut down about 16 years ago. What a lot of people didn't know, and it becomes important as I go along with the story, is all of the parking around the mall belonged to the city. The mall itself sat on a parcel of land that belonged to the developer. So what developed in people's minds was parking in Redlands is free around the mall, around town. That's what stimulated a lot of business, a lot of sales in the city is the idea that you can park for free. Fast forward a couple years and we constructed the parking structure which is on Stewart Street right next to Starbucks there right off of the railroad tracks. When that was under development, the question came up again, will this be free parking or will there be meters in there, how will that work? A decision was made that will be free parking, again with the idea that stimulates business in that area when people don't have to pay for parking. Well, that all changed when the Krikorian, or actually Look Cinema, closed down in their parking lot. Suddenly, overnight became paid parking. It's the only place in town where you're expected to pay, only the signage is not exactly clear, and a lot of people are getting $30 tickets from a private enterprise for parking on their private parking lot. So my comment is, I think the city should look at this free parking concept for the city, how beneficial it is to all the merchants, and it may seem like a long shot, but consider acquiring that parking lot as we once had the parking around the mall, and make that into free parking again. And if the theater ever gets revitalized, you can certainly make an agreement with them where they would pay the city for use of that parking lot. But I really would strongly encourage the city to explore the idea of acquiring the parking by the closed theater and making that free for everybody. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Next public speaker is Stephen Rogers.

Honorable Mayor Saucedo, Redland City Council, Steve Rogers, Church Street. You guys were off last month, you were dark last month, and I think that the city manager thought that maybe he could go dark too. Because I was trying to work some things out with him about some pretty big issues that I had. And really, he made it impossible for me to get a meeting with him. I think mainly because he didn't have anything good to say about the situations. But, I mean, I've had to, I've filed two more complaints with the county, you know, with the DA's fraud unit, with the fraud, waste and abuse unit. And those two units are sort of, there's good and evil going over at the county right now. So, you know, you guys are gonna really make things difficult because of the way the county operates and I know that's the reason that you all operate the way you do. if you don't change your ways because they can only you know avoid doing anything about these complaints for so long and then something's gonna happen and it's not going to be pretty and uh... The one, you know, the Redlands Ironworks, I've talked about that before. I mean, it's ridiculous that that contract is over, they spent over 600 and something thousand on that contract. Or, excuse me, on that contract. They've only had a contract for the last couple years. but they've already exceeded that limit. So, I mean, I don't think you have any choice but gotta end that contract, or bring it back to the council, you know? The other one, though, to me is way, way worse, and that has to do with this certain properties up in Mentone, and I always thought that was Mentone up there, but no, it's City of Redlands. You know, the City of Redlands has wrapped themselves all the way around Mentone, and I didn't even realize how bad it was, but that one, it really looks like there's some major fraud that's going on, and of course, you all are the ones that approved this sale of this property. So, you know, if you're gonna let your city manager impose his will, let's say, on the department heads to do things like these, both of these contracts, you're really asking for trouble, thank you.

I don't have any more other public speakers request. I don't see anybody on Zoom. I do have a request to pull three items off the consent calendar for Mr. Rogers. We're pulling I-5, I-10, and I-12. The first one is I-5. This is the approval.

Mayor, I'd like to move approval of the balance of the calendar.

Second.

There's a motion and a second to approve the balance.

Council Member Barrett.

Yes.

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

Yes. Going back to I-5 is the approval of funding agreement with the Redlands Historical Museum Association for the Museum of Redlands Store and Event Pavilion Operations and Coordination Services and determine that the approval of the agreement is exempt from the environmental review pursuant to section 15061B3 the state CEQA guidelines, Assistant City Manager Garcia.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. As you know, the Museum of Redlands is a public-private partnership between the A.K. Smiley Public Library and the Redlands Historical Museum Association. The funding agreement tonight provides revenue or reimbursement to the city for services that are performed to support the event pavilion operations and the museum store. That ensures that an item that is appearing under new business is net neutral to our general fund. If there are any questions, I'm available to provide more information.

Okay, thank you. Any questions from staff? Mr. Steven Rogers?

Mayor Salcedo Redland City Council Steve Rogers Church Street This funding agreement, I guess there's really not any limit to it I Just this sort of scares me because it's on the consent calendar and I never heard about this before, you know and so where I haven't seen it on any other agendas and don't know exactly what is being consented to you know as far as this financing agreement and so anyway I I'm also interested in exactly when the museum is going to open and and when the structure over there adjacent to Sylvan Park where there was stuff from the museum being stored. when that building may be available because i've talked i've talked to mr bobeman i believe i spoke with mr barrett in the past about that building and the in the past he was always well we can't do anything because the the museum is storing stuff in there so that's over my neighborhood it's blight know it's not exactly that this but I don't know what this is so maybe this is what I'm talking about you know so that that is an issue for me that I I'm really interested in is knowing when that building becomes available to talk about other things with it thank you any questions from council to staff entertain a motion

I move the City Council approve the funding agreement with the Redlands Historical Museum Association for professional services associated with Museum of Redlands store and event pavilion operations and coordination and determine that approval of the agreement is exempt from environmental review pursuant to section 15061B3 of the state CEQA guidelines. Second.

Motion and 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 item I-10, approve a side letter agreement between the City of Redlands and the City Association of Management Employees. and the Redlands Association of Mid-Management Employees, and the Redlands Civilian Safety Employees Association, which amend and modify the respective articles within each Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to the health, insurance, human resources, and risk management. Director King.

Honorable Mayor and City Council Members, the proposed site letters increase the City's employer contribution toward employee medical insurance premiums during the second and third years of the existing agreements for the Redlands Association of Management Employees, the Redlands Association of Mid-Management Employees, and the Redlands Civilian Safety Employment Association. The adjustments are intended to better align the city's contribution with increasing health insurance premiums while helping employees maintain access to comprehensive medical coverage. I'm happy to answer any questions.

Are there any questions for staff, council members? Hearing none, seeing none, Mr. Steven Rogers.

Honorable Mayor Salcedo, Redland City Council. I'm a little bit confused about this, and the reason that I put a comment in, or I wanted to make a comment on this, is because there are two associations, I guess, that aren't listed here, probably more, but the Association of Department Directors and the General Employees Teamsters Group, I don't think... They're in this. I'm just wondering, have those people already signed a similar side letter or whatever this is? Yeah. A side letter about this. In other words, are all of these things being made consistent, you know, with all the employees groups and, uh, Basically that gets to my point whether these these other groups. I know they already accepted the MOU or Maybe it was a side letter just like this They've already accepted it on a previous meeting. So maybe this is just bringing these groups up to that level and Anyway, that's my comment. Thank you.

Thank you any questions or comments from from the council I

If not? I move to approve the side letter agreements between the Redlands Association of Management Employees, the Redlands Association of In-Management Employees, and the Redlands Association of Civilian Safety Employee Association, which amend and modify the respective articles within each memorandum of understanding pertaining to health insurance.

Second. Motion to second. Madam City Clerk.

Councilmember Barrett. Yes. Councilmember Tejeda.

Yes.

Councilmember Davis. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Shaw. Yes. Mayor Cecilio.

Yes. Moving on to item I-12, adopt resolution 8820, rescinding resolution Number 8790, reaffirming and approving levying of special taxes within the City of Redlands Community Facilities District. Number 2003-1, Redlands Business Center and directing the San Bernardino County Auditor-Controller-Treasure Tax Collector to place the City of Redlands Community Facilities District. 2003-1, special taxes on the fiscal year 2026-2027 tax roll. Interim Management Services Director Garland.

Good evening, Mayor and Council Members. Resolution number 8820 updates and replaces resolution 8790 to include required San Bernardino County language so that the special tax for CFD 2003-1 can be placed on the 2627 tax roll. The tax rates remain unchanged. Adopting the new resolution ensures compliance with county requirements and avoids delays in collecting the special tax needed for bond repayment. Thank you.

Thank you. Are there any questions from staff?

Yes. Basically, this is a cleanup, right? Is that right?

Yes, sir. Just housekeeping.

Right, housekeeping.

Okay.

It doesn't impose a higher tax or anything like that on the citizens?

No, sir.

Great. Thank you.

Honourable Mayor Salcedo, Residence City Council, Steve Rogers, Church Street. This, that was one of my, you know, questions was whether or not this was going to change what those assessments were. But, yeah, there's assessments. But I'm also interested in something else, and I know the finance, I haven't met the finance director yet, but maybe I will. You know, I put my number on this this time, so maybe I can get a call. But I'm interested in who does The maps for these community facilities districts, when you have reapportionment that occurs, like, when people are put into the district, you know, I'm familiar with that process from working in other cities and. Of course, engineers are the ones that handle this process. So I'm really concerned based on everything else I've seen that I keep on bringing up and nobody else seems to care about it. So I'm going to continue to look further. And, you know, this one here, it actually is really interesting to me because. Once I find out exactly how it's being done here, I mean, the auditor, controller, treasurer, task collector is the guy that I get to deal with. And that's going to be a dream. You know, I'm not going to have to deal with the DA's office, who, you know, they wouldn't touch anything with any city. You know, especially, you know, the situation that we have here. And so... I'm going to be able to talk directly to him. And so I hope that everything is, you know, because the engineering has been taken out of everything else. Can't imagine there's any engineering going on with this process. And, you know, the finance people can handle it, I'm sure. You know, everything, just ask AI. And, you know, you don't need an engineer anymore, right? I'm telling you. Maps have to be drawn up, and they're signed by an engineer whenever these apportionments change, and that's all information that's recorded. It then, you know, is over at the county. So I hope the county, I know Don's been the main man on this, so he's been the main man on all the questionable stuff.

Okay.

May I move to adopt resolution number 8820, rescinding resolution number 8790, affirming and approving the levying of special taxes within the City of Redlands Community Facilities District number 2003-1, Redlands Business Center, and directing the San Bernardino County Auditor, Controller, Treasurer, Tax Collector to place The city of Redlands community facilities district number two zero zero three dash one special taxes on the fiscal year 2026 2027 tax roll second Madam city clerk councilmember Barrett.

Yes, that's member data Councilmember Davis. Yes mayor Pro Tem Shaw. Yes, there's a Cito.

Yes We have one additional item that maybe I did not mention. I 21 was to be pulled off the consent calendar. I Item I-21, adopt resolution 8822 and resolution number 8823, rescinding resolution numbers. 87 72 and 87 73 and reaffirming street lighting district number one and landscape maintenance and maintenance district number one Annual assessments and directing the county of San Bernardino County San Bernardino County auditor controller tax treasurer tax collector and place the assessments on the fiscal year 2026 2027 tax roll facilities community services department director Crocker Thank You mayor members of the council

This is similar to the last item. So this is the cleanup item the replacement Resolution does not it doesn't modify the report the assessments or the property subject to the assessments I'm rather it provides the additional language that was requested by the county I'm available for any question any questions or comments from to staff Mr. Steve no, okay.

Mr. Steven Rogers Thank you

I move to adopt resolution number 8822, rescinding resolution number 8772 and reaffirming the street lighting district number one, annual assessments. And I move to adopt resolution number 8823, rescinding resolution number 8773 and reaffirming the landscape maintenance district number one, annual assessments and directing the San Bernardino County auditor, controller, treasurer, tax collector to place both annual assessments on the fiscal year 2026-2027 tax roll.

Madam City Clerk, all of you got a second? Second. Okay.

Council Member Baric. Yeah. Yes. Right?

Yes.

Council Member Tejeda.

Yes.

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

Yes. Thank you. Okay, moving on to our agenda under J, communications. This is a discussion and possible action relating to the designation of voting delegates to represent the city at the 2026 Annual Conference of the League of California Cities. I would like to recommend that Mayor Pro Tem Shaw and Council Member Davis be, well, Mayor Pro Tem Shaw to be the delegate, and the alternate be Council Member Davis.

Second. Second that.

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 Cicero.

Yes. Moving on to item K1. which is a continued public hearing to consider ordinance text amendment number 372 to amend the title 18 zoning regulations of the Redlands Municipal Code to prohibit new warehouses and logistics distribution facilities as defined and allow existing warehouses to remain as conditionally permitted uses, consideration of proposed amendments to the Chapter 18.156, Article 7 of Warehouses and Logistic Distribution Centers and add a new Section 18.156.970 for new rebuilding provisions for existing warehouses and logistic distribution centers and consideration of Resolution No. 8793 to amend the commercial and industrial-specific plans of the City of Redlands to prohibit new warehouses and logistic distribution facilities as defined and allow existing warehouses to remain as permitted or conditionally permitted uses. The proposal qualifies for an exemption of the Environmental Review in accordance with Section 15061B3 15308 and 15378B5 of the California Environmental Quality Act. Development Services Director Riley.

Thank you, honorable mayor and members of the council. Mr. Brian Foote, city planner and planning manager will be presenting this item tonight.

I'll declare this a public hearing.

Good evening, Mayor, Councilmembers. Item K1 is consideration of a new warehouse ordinance, and this is Ordinance Text Amendment Number 372 to the City's zoning regulations, as well as a number of related specific plan amendments. So first, I would like to note that this draft ordinance that you're considering this evening was amended after agenda publication due to correct some errors. And the council would be considering the ordinance as amended. So the amended ordinance was republished as needed, and that is what you're considering tonight.

It is also, a copy is placed at each of your seats.

The packet, the amended?

Yes, the amended ordinance. It says amended on the very top. That's the version you'll be considering tonight.

Thank you.

Okay, so some brief background the original warehouse ordinance number 2955 was adopted in April of 2023 and at that time that ordinance was written to achieve the legislative objectives at that time in 2022 to 2023 the Planning Commission discussed the matter in mid 2025 and on October 14th Made a recommendation to City Council to consider further updates to the ordinance the previous ordinance and The matter was then scheduled for council discussion on November 18th, 2025, and the council provided direction to staff. A draft ordinance was prepared and then presented to the Planning Commission on April 14th of 2026. The commission discussed and recommended some changes to the draft language at that time. And then the commission made a recommendation on May 12th of this year. And then the matter was subsequently scheduled for city council on June 16th, and the council received public comments and then continued the matter to a future date. So the current legislative objectives for this ordinance, as provided by Council previously, is to prohibit any new warehouses or logistics distribution uses in all zoning districts, but to allow for existing legal warehouses to remain as permitted uses, as legal conforming uses. So in other words, conforming to the zoning regulations. And also to allow existing warehouses that may be damaged for whatever reason, such as fire or other natural disaster, they may be rebuilt to the previously existing square footage and height. and furthermore to prohibit the assemblage of any parcels for the purpose of expanding or building a new warehouse. This code amendment would be applicable in various commercial and industrial districts. This is a map showing the distribution of those commercial and industrial districts, predominantly clustered on the west side of the city. The code amendment would delete warehouses and logistics distribution centers as conditional uses from these zones listed here, commercial, industrial, M1, M2, and IP industrial zones and a number of non-residential specific plans. And then a further text amendment would allow existing legal warehouses to remain as permitted uses in the commercial manufacturing M1 and IP zones as well as conditional uses in M2 and other zones. So this is the exact language that is to be added in the code amendment. Warehouses or logistics distribution centers existing as of the effective date of ordinance 3002, that's the ordinance this evening, that have 50,000 square feet in gross floor area or more or having more than five truck docks or dock high loading doors. And that's how the Redlands ordinance defines a warehouse. And if they were legally established prior to the effective date of this ordinance, then they would be considered permitted and legally conforming. And they would also be subject to a new code section that we'll discuss here in just a minute, section 18.156.970. In the M2 and IP zones under conditional uses, the same language with the added provision if the property has a valid land use entitlement approved prior to the effective date of this ordinance number 3002. So in other words, entitled projects for new warehouses that may not be yet built. And then a variety of specific plan amendments with similar text added to the list of permitted uses for a number of specific plans. Again, these are all commercial or industrial specific plans. The largest one is East Valley Corridor specific plan, and then a variety of other related specific plans throughout the city. and those are listed there on the screen, including several concept plans and plan developments. And all of these act as zoning for the particular properties they cover. An additional provision pertaining to the assemblage of parcels. This would prohibit the assemblage of any parcels to develop, enlarge, expand, or intensify the use of any existing warehouse or logistics distribution facility. There is a new section proposed, and this would pertain to existing warehouses that are legal and conforming. So in other words, the usual non-conforming provisions in the zoning code would not apply. If these are considered legal and permitted uses, they would not be subject to the non-conforming provisions. So this new section would create similar language, but this would apply to the legal and conforming warehouses. So they may be rebuilt to previously existing square footage and height, may be voluntarily rebuilt up to 100% of their square footage. It allows for ordinary repair and maintenance, subject to the building code or fire code. It allows for technology improvements and upgrades, so they may be more efficient. And then a change of ownership or tenancy does not affect their rebuild rights. The Planning Commission suggested a number of changes or additions to the proposed text. The Commission wanted to add a definition for both alteration and repair. So the proposal would essentially lift the definition of alteration that's already in the building code, and we would use that almost verbatim. And similarly for the definition of repair, we would lift that definition from the building code. The Commission also wanted to add some clarifying language to the applicability section just to make clear that a property that has a valid unexpired land use entitlement, such as a conditional use permit or a commission review and approval permit for a warehouse facility that has not yet been constructed or established, that they shall have the same land use rights as if the structure had been existing on the effective date of this Ordinance 3002. Let's see, the next section. This gets a little bit technical. I'll try to explain it as concisely as I can, but the commission wanted to add a provision to add additional height, or allow additional height up to 15% for existing buildings. And so with that in mind, I crafted some language to achieve that goal and to be as straightforward as possible. Requests for additional height would require a conditional use permit. So in other words, that request would need to come back before the Planning Commission for any request to increase the height of an existing warehouse. Such a request would also trigger the feasible provisions in the existing warehouse ordinance, and those pertain to the development standards. There's categories such as screening and buffering from adjacent sensitive land uses, sustainable energy, operation and maintenance, and some other requirements. And so the feasible provisions, as determined by the Planning Commission, would also be added to any project that increases building height. If an environmental review process is required, then that would trigger the California Environmental Quality Act. And then there may be some additional studies required, such as circulation or traffic studies, a landscape and tree planting plan, and then An economic feasibility report or market analysis to justify the need to increase building height This ordinance is exempt from environmental review under the following sections 15061 b3 and 15308 If it is considered a project and it's exempt under section 1537 8b5 Planning Commission did recommend that the council approve this draft ordinance 3002 as amended and the related specific plan amendments There are a number number of alternatives for council to consider if the council does not wish to allow for an increase in building height or additional truck docks then you may revise the draft ordinance by deleting one section, which is subpart C, within that new section .970. That can be deleted without altering or amending other provisions of the ordinance and would allow you to adopt the ordinance or introduce the ordinance tonight by simply deleting subpart C. Other alternatives include introducing or deleting other provisions in the draft ordinance language. Or there may be additional direction provided to staff for further revisions and then staff would ask for the matter to be continued and bring back a revised ordinance or resolution for a future council meeting date. Or there can be additional information requested as needed. And with that, that'll conclude my report and staff is available for questions.

Thank you. Are there any questions or comments from members of the council to staff? Hearing none, seeing none, we'll move on to our public comment for this item. First person is Michael Paisner.

Michael Paisner. I would love to have a warehouse ban in Redlands. Unfortunately, what you have in front of you is not an effective ban. It's more like a guidebook, providing specifics to the logistics industry on how they can expand their operations in Redlands. Increase height up to 15%, increase the number of truck docks, convert non-refrigerated space into a refrigerated space. Developers have proven very creative in ways to exploit these types of clauses. And I have one very specific question. Is it stated anywhere that they are limited to only one 15% height increase, or could they do multiple height increases, 15% each time? I think it's important to talk about where this proposal started and how it went off track. In the planning commission meetings, their conversation initially focused on preventing increases in warehouses' operational intensity. That was the goal. But unfortunately, that idea didn't make it into the actual policy. Instead, the conversation shifted to increasing efficiency. And guess what happens when you increase efficiency? Operational intensity increases, which means more truck traffic and more air pollution, which conflicts with the goal of a warehouse ban. Even more frustrating, the Planning Commission then downplayed these loopholes, saying they could say no to individual projects in the future. But history has shown that doesn't happen. You said you couldn't say no when the water park location became a warehouse. You said the same thing you couldn't say no when the former Lazy Boy factory was approved to be a nearly 40-foot tall warehouse. Are you really going to say no to any warehouse expansion when it is inevitably asked for? This ban was supposed to be your opportunity to finally say no to the logistics industry. But if you approve these loopholes, height increases, more truck docks, converting non-refrigerated space to refrigerated space, well, then we'll know where your priorities truly lie. I urge you to get back to the original intent of this policy. Take out the loopholes and implement a true warehouse ban. Thank you.

Next speaker is Jermaine Miles.

Good evening. I went back and looked at what I said in previous Council meetings on this same subject because I just couldn't believe we're here again. But one thing comes really clear and that is what your constituents have told you over and over again. No more warehouses. Why? Because of the truck traffic, because of how it looks and what it does to our beautiful little city. So here we have what was supposed to be, as Mr. Paisner said, a ban on future warehouses with these loopholes that allow warehouses that, God forbid, something happens and they need to rebuild, they can increase their truck docks. What does that mean? Increased truck traffic. They can increase the height of the building. What does that mean? Bigger, uglier buildings, again, in the city. This is not what we want. We want a ban on warehouses. And the existing warehouses, we're not going to take anything away from them. But what we need to say is, cool, you have what you have. You aren't affected by this. But if anything happens in the future, you only get to have what you already had. because that's what the people of Redlands want. These builders are not our friends. One of the things that I mentioned in November of last year when I spoke here was about the warehouse on California Street, Farrow's, right? And that man stood here and said to all of us in the room and all of you, upon completion, there will be 200 permanent jobs Awesome. Guess what? That warehouse has been completed for over a year now, and it sits empty with a for sale sign on it. And guess what? The same was said about the Tennessee place. We've got tenants lined up. Everything's great. Guess what? There is a sign in front of that building that says for sale or for lease. They're not being honest with us. He stood here and lied to us and said he was going to give us 200 permanent jobs. And I still ask the question. The same gentleman said, and as a concession for not doing the requested landscaping, because there's virtually no landscaping on that property if you've been by there, he'll give us $300,000 for public art. Where is that public art and where is that money? They're not our friends. The people of Redlands do not want any more warehouses, and we don't want these loopholes to allow our existing warehouses to just expand and get bigger and bring in more trucks.

Thank you.

Next public commenter is Bruce Laycook.

Bruce Laycook, council members, city staff, I'd like to second what Mr. Paisner and the lady prior to me just said. Developers have not been honest with you. And this proposed modification seems to give developers more flexibility when the people of Redlands have clearly said No more. You have the ability to say no more if you so choose, okay? Now I would like to make one exception and that's because I'm an environmental guy and I think an allowance on those buildings that allows for solar to be put on the roofs to make those buildings more energy efficient, that might be worth considering. But with that one exception, I would like you to consider deleting the language that has to do with additional truck bays and anything that would increase the electrical power demand footprint or the traffic on those streets surrounding the warehouses. That's what we've asked you to do repeatedly. And it seems like every time it goes to the Planning Commission, it gets somewhat diluted. I'd like you to stand firm and do what the citizens of Redlands have asked you to do many times. Thank you very much.

The next public speaker is Bill Blankenship.

Good evening, honorable mayor, members of the council, staff. My name's Bill Blankenship, Redlands resident and representing an organization named CREDA, also known as NAOP, moving to the name of CREDA. Been having many conversations with staff. Been at, I think, every hearing where this item has been discussed. And I think what's important to point out to you, and you all know it as well as I do, if not better, for 30 years the city has been building logistics buildings in the city of Redlands. And you as a city, we as a city, have carefully zoned and carefully placed those buildings. And our good neighbor policy today codifies that these buildings exist within a one mile radius, the 210 freeway and the 10 freeway. And those specifically are in those areas. Simply what's before you here tonight is a zoning ordinance that outlaws warehouses in the future. No new buildings will be built, but it also allows for the modernization of the existing investments. that have been made by companies here in the community who employ people here in the community. I would ask for one caveat that you eliminate the 15 percent height increase and he would change that to the max height in the existing zoning ordinance. I don't think anybody, when it comes time to modernize these buildings and maximize that partnership that exists between these companies and the cities, the opportunity to really rebuild. If you're only going up 5%, the building is 40 feet, you're only raising it six feet. I don't think anybody will ever make that investment. And ultimately, you have to compete with that 28 million square feet that's in the donut hole and the millions of square feet that are in the communities around you. Ultimately, you will have buildings that will be outdated and that will sit empty. And I don't think anybody in our city wants that. even the speakers behind me. So tonight, I respectfully ask that you eliminate that 15%. You go to the max height, the zoning area. You keep the other recommendations as made by the Planning Commission. Those decisions as made by the Planning Commission was after a lot of deliberation and a lot of public testimony. And... That's what's before you tonight. I respectfully again request that you make those changes. As suggested, thank you for your time. Good night.

I don't have any other public speakers left for this item. I don't see anybody on Zoom. Madam City Clerk, have we received any written comments on this item?

Yes, there was one written comment from Nicole Torspett of Prologis, pretty much in line with what Bill Blankenship had requested, and that is to limit the building height increase, eliminate that, and just go with the maximum allowable height in that particular zone. And the comments were distributed to each of you.

Okay, thank you. I'll now close the public hearing. I'd like to bring back the matter to the City Council for deliberations. Are there any deliberations from the Council? I'd also like to propose the City Council... Who? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I didn't see you and you didn't speak up, so thank you. Go ahead.

Sure. I just want to thank the public commenters tonight. I know we've been talking about this for years. And I'm glad that we're finally at this point where I'm hoping tonight we will approve a warehouse ban and listen to the people of Redlands who have been telling us for years that they do not want any more warehouses In this city, and I agree with the comments that we should not include the loopholes that the Planning Commission has added. We should just have a straight warehouse ban that considers, you know, if a fire or natural disaster should happen, then the existing buildings should be reconstructed to their existing size, and that's it. That's my thought on it.

I am also in favor of a warehouse ban when we can, but... Wanted to be able to give an opportunity for old warehouses to come into the 21st century Because you know that they have old Air conditionings and ducts and everything else and the whole idea of this was to be able to clean these These buildings up to make it more efficient And but it doesn't seem like we're getting there with this so I I'm not really comfortable with him with the modifications at all and I mean, the whole thing, it goes back to the old Lazy Boy building, and that thing is, what, 75 years old, at least 70 years old or close to it. And it's kind of an eyesore, and it would be nice if they would modernize this. But again, I don't know if these, again, these loopholes, I have a tendency to agree with, unfortunately, the warehouse that we did approve, I go by it all the time. It looks empty to me. And I don't know about you, but I hate to get bamboozled by people. You know, we take them at their word. And unless that thing gets filled, it doesn't endear me to their cause. I like to be, you know, straightforward. But I would like to have some vehicle. We need to improve that warehouse they've built. The developers are gonna have another exit because we were concerned about the traffic around the school, and I think they've corrected that. But again, I'm not sure if we're gonna get there with those modifications to get what I want that I feel is good for the city, and that is modern buildings that will keep the pollution down as much as possible. It's amazing. As you can say, if you lived in this valley as long as I have, you never thought we'd have twice as many cars, but this is really not the smog that we had in the 60s and the 70s because of modern science and mechanical improvements. And I wanted to see that continue with these warehouses. Again, I'm not sure this will get us to where I feel comfortable with voting for.

Sorry, can I follow up on that? Because I agree with a lot of what Councilmember Baric just said. And I have a question for city staff around the existing warehouses. What allowances are there currently? And if we move forward with this, what would that look like if modernization in a sustainable way, because I think that's the spirit of what you're trying to say, is we want to do something environmentally friendly. What would that look like? And is that included here? What would we need to do to allow for that to happen?

A REAL QUICK COMMENT AS WELL AS MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE DEVELOPER OF THE WAREHOUSE SAID THEY'RE NOT GOING TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF IT. THEY PULLED THAT BACK THAT WAS INITIALLY BROUGHT TO THE CITY COUNCIL A YEAR AGO, WAS IT? AND WE END UP TABLEING IT. THEY WERE JUST GOING TO IMPROVE AND BRING IT UP AGAIN UP TO THE 21ST CENTURY.

I'M GOING TO ADD ONE MORE QUESTION JUST SINCE MR. FOOT IS THERE AS WELL. Does that max height question, does that change? Would that be the same for all of them or are each of those in a different, could they have potentially different max heights based on their location in those obviously like Tennessee versus over in the kind of the north side? And what is that max height versus like the 15%? What does that difference mean?

Your question is slightly easier than council member did. Okay. I'll let you pick which one to do first, then. Mr. Foote, go for the second question, if that's okay. There are different zones, and the 15%, as it's written in here, would be a 15% increase over the existing height, up to not to exceed the zone that they're in, and each zone does have a different height.

What's the range of height?

There's why I believe there's one zone where it's not limited and others are generally in the 55 foot area Does anybody know the height of the old lazy boy building it doesn't appear to be very very high I Believe it's in the less than 30 on the 30 range now, and I think it was approved for 40 I

So I have a general question, so I'm sorry I Understood your question correctly it's the environmental impacts of an increase in height not necessarily I'm asking how we allow for no future warehouses, but if there's a current warehouse and How can we ensure that maybe we don't do a 15%, but how can we ensure that they can add solar, for example, or make amendments, make changes to make them more energy efficient and sustainable? Yeah.

So that type of request would, I'm thinking, trigger a conditional use permit, which would be subject to Planning Commission review. And as part of that, there would be environmental review. So we would take the project description, whatever it may be, have an environmental consultant evaluate that project, the incremental increase or the change to the existing building. So for instance, if they want to increase height by 10 feet, we would also look at are they increasing or improving their efficiencies, upgrading the HVAC or the electrical system. And so the environmental consultant would run some modeling for air quality impacts, greenhouse gas impacts, traffic, and so forth. And arguably, a slightly larger building may be more efficient in terms of energy use or other factors. So it would be part of the environmental review for the discretionary permit, which is the conditional use permit at that time.

And how would this impact that process, if at all, what we're voting on tonight?

Allowing for an increase in height could incentivize Some upgrades They have an incentive that gives them more height they may spend the money to do the retrofitting or the energy efficiency upgrades and so forth Is that something that's quantifiable so if we said?

Say they had a project and they said we want to come in and we want to add I don't know five more doors, and we want to go up 10 feet. And that's within the parameters of what's allowed for that zone, for example, and we approve the other things. Is there a way for the city to say, okay, you could do that, but we need to see a 15% or a 20% benefit or reduction in greenhouse emissions? Is there a way for them to quantify that? If we allow this, then you have to provide that. Is that something that's even... Quantifiable by somebody that it does that from a planning standpoint.

I'm not sure it's I Suspect we would be creating new performance standards. I don't know that any existing research exists on what that Quantifiable number is or should be It's a balancing act to offer you know, a carrot, so to speak, to incentivize upgrades.

We don't want, I mean, I don't want old dilapidated buildings 10 years from now. So the question is, okay, if we do something, how do we know that we're going to get that return on investment relative to the environmental side because of things that we permitted, basically? If I may.

So to add an increase in height or to do any of those types of reconstruction, there's a requirement to get a conditional use permit, and it needs to comply with our existing warehouse ordinance, which requires certain sustainability items. So that would be solar, cool roofs, landscaping, buffering, those types of things that are in place now.

Okay. I think that's really helpful. That's what I was looking for.

And it would add the proposed code section would require a market analysis, and that's the kind of detail that we could dive into on a market analysis to justify allowing the height increase or the additional truck docks or whatever the proposed changes are. It would be an individual analysis of that particular project.

Because I see the benefit from an incentivizing standpoint of, okay, well, it doesn't pencil out for us to do this at a 10% increase or whatever because we're not going to be able to recover it. But if we can get some kind of a guarantee that what they're doing is an improvement or it's not making the environmental piece worse, you know, then I think that there's some opportunity there to say, yes, this seems like a good idea. But I agree, if it's like, no, there's no way that we can hold them to any standard like that, then we're probably spinning our wheels. I don't know if we're on the same track there, but that's kind of what I'm... Yeah, I think so.

I think we are.

So I don't know how we... I don't know if there's language that goes in here, Director Riley, or if you're saying that language already exists because of the CUP process, that we would have that kind of a, to be able to guarantee that, or I'm not sure.

So you're looking for an identified threshold or a quantifiable number that doesn't exist? What does is there are requirements for certain sustainability items, like I said, to add solar or energy efficiency items. Those are required? Those things are mandatory? Those things are mandatory to the degree that they're feasible on an existing site that's limited by whatever those constraints may be on that particular site. So they are required to implement those and get a CUP to have any kind of increase in the building size. Height, I should say.

Okay, so would be we'd be looking to say if they did those things that we would not have any degradation of Or would be we trying to I can see It may be tough to get a percentage number, but maybe we say that nothing will be any worse Is that is that a way to is that something we can say if we can't quantify a number that it wouldn't create more? emissions or I Don't know how does that look on a CUP? Does that?

Let's, I think we're not necessarily spinning our wheels, but we're only talking about one building. We don't have capacity to build any more warehouses in Redlands, which is okay.

We're not talking about building anything new. That's already a done deal.

But I'm talking about the rebuilding of the Lazy Boy. That's the one I'm talking about.

Yeah, this is about like Donut Hole and things in the future, outside of the Donut Hole over there.

Unfortunately, we can't control the Donut Hole. And we got stuck with that. And if you drive down 10, go through Beaumont or going through Beaumont, they're loading up with warehouses there. And we can't prevent that. So I want to make sure that we just don't have a lot of, you know, we have efficient warehouses that they're up to code. They're up to the quality of what we're looking, again, like solar and. and new filter systems and things like that to keep them efficient. As you well know, it's tough enough already to get electricity to some of these buildings. Again, I'm not sure if this does what we need to do on it, so I have some reservations about it.

Do you mind going back to that slide with the alternative motion on it? I'm wondering if we just move forward with what was presented to us before the Planning Commission did some amending, move forward with this, which excludes the additional truck docks or the 15% building height, if that would be okay as a warehouse ban given we already have an ordinance in place that is meant for sustainability of any Revisions is that correct? Or would we need more?

My thought is that I mean that there wouldn't allow for if they said we need Eight more feet and heights to be able to put in a more efficient system with solar and all that That would preclude them from doing that I believe Because it wouldn't allow for any height increase

Well, it allowed for a height increase, but only 15%.

No, no, that's different. That 15% wouldn't even apply here. So this would be nothing. And I think that's what they're going to argue is, well, we can't fit that into space or whatever the case might be.

It sounds like we might need something else to come back to us.

Go ahead, Marlon. Let me ask this question. We're not approving any new warehouses, nor are we approving any assemblage of property to make warehouses a bigger footprint, correct? That is correct. Okay. So I would like to propose, and then we can deliberate after my proposal, that The City Council for consideration of modification to the ordinance section 11, section 18.156.970 subsection C1 to read as follows. Number one, the building height may... be increased up to the maximum height allowable within the applicable land use district to incorporate technology upgrades, energy efficiency improvements or other justifiable economic or environmental reasons and or increases the number of previously existing truck dock positions provided the structure meets the criteria listed below. The purpose of this modification is to remove the 15% language and simply allow the building height up to the maximum allowed in the zones. The modification aims to strike a balance between the business needs of the owner and the city's need to specify warehouse heights, but those things are already accomplished without adding the 15% language. Building height changes already capped at the zone height and changes to a particular building require a conditional use permit in addition to being capped at the zone height. So that's my proposal to propose this new amendment. And so that's what I have before you to, I think, accomplish what we're looking for.

My concern with that initially is just increasing the number of truck dock positions It seems counterproductive to the sustainability goals Can you answer can you speak to that director Riley?

again

They would need to provide justification for that. So there would be economic demand or need for it, feasibility for it, in addition to getting a conditional use permit and implementing all of the sustainability items to do that.

So they don't just automatically get the increase in docs. They have to justify it, and they have to be able to do the conditional use permit process through the planning commission.

Which comes to the city council. We approve conditional use permits. Is that correct? Typically, that would be the planning commission. Okay. The Planning Commission. Okay, so it doesn't come to the City Council.

In most cases, it'd be the Planning Commission.

The City Council does have the opportunity to call up for review approvals of the planning.

We have checks and balance. I don't want to begin. I'm not trying to degrade the Planning Commission. I appreciate what they do, but essentially it comes down to us. We're the elected officials.

So if I can add something to the conversation. Just in the... The many times that I viewed the planning commissioners discussed this item, one, they did receive the same training that we had with respect to how you approve and deny distribution centers and other types of development. And so that brought them to where they were with this recommendation. Initially, the conversation was to kind of tighten up or to see what they could do about a full ban. of just basically not letting these distribution centers come back. After having all the training that they had, they understood that we are probably better off as a community with this recommendation that they brought up. So I'm agreeable with whatever the council wants to do with this. So whatever changes you want to make,

I think there's a better path forward, and I think that Mayor Pro Tem Shaw's idea is a good one. I think we should pursue an amendment, but make sure that we are staying strict with our sustainability goals.

And in listening to what the mayor proposed, I don't disagree with that part. I just, there has to be something in the process, whether it's the CUP process or whatever, that says, because you're saying that they have to show X, Y, and Z in order for that CUP to be approved. I would want them to have to show that there is no further negative environmental and preferably a positive impact because of what these changes are that they're proposing. I think that's where we're trying to get is to say, don't make things any worse. And if we can make them better, that's even better. But you need to justify all these things. And here's why. And you need to show us. And again, that's the piece there that I don't know. how you show that. But if that's feasible and that is something that we can require of them, then I think that's what we're trying to get to. And taking away the 15%, that's just going to get ugly. If they say, hey, we need nine feet because this is what we want to do for solar and HVAC and all that, and it's eight times more efficient than what we have in there, then that might make sense. But they're going to have to prove that to you.

then ultimately to the planning commission and we would have essentially veto authority on that to see what that looks like um so i don't know if you can help shed any light on that or if any of that makes any sense or if that's if there is a path to that i think it does make sense i i think that what you're suggesting with the items that they'd be required to implement as part of getting the cup would probably show a net benefit getting the text into the ordinance would probably be the appropriate text in the ordinance is probably a challenge yeah

The good news is you're up for the challenge, I'm sure. So that is where I would like to see us to head. I would be far more comfortable if we were able to get some kind of language like that in there. And if that means giving staff another bit of time to rework that.

Can we move forward tonight with a warehouse ban and then come back with a separate item to talk about existing warehouses?

We already have that, don't we?

It's already banned. The ban part is already done, I think.

We've always had a ban.

We have a warehouse ordinance that limits... Good neighbor policy. Yes. This one effectively takes if you assemble property that you can't go by, you know, five different parcels, erase the lines, have a big enough piece of property within a mile of the interchanges and things like that. So that's the big difference that you're achieving here from your current ordinance. Currently there's I don't think there's any property that is suitable for 50,000 or above Warehouse right now. Is that is that currently true? I think they're very few yeah because well we had those six that we had showed the city when you pass the the warehouse ordinance and there are only two that really would lend itself well that would lend itself to a warehouse big enough for someone to build no one's building a 50,000 square foot or 60,000 square foot they're going for a hundred and larger so if that language is on the screen there so if that was if that was accepted

Is there further language that's required in this policy, or is it as a part of the CUP process that those amendments would need to be made? Because it may be something where this can be approved, and then we're doing the CUP part if that's where that resides, that efficiency piece. Or is it in here? I'm not sure. Efficiency piece I think you're looking for for the net benefit to be required Would be in the CUP in the in the I guess it could be put in here, too But the CUP portion I think is what achieves it Because we talked about it here, so if this is the the framework of it And then the specifics of what that looks like and what those achievements are is part of the CUP process Maybe we can move on something California Davis, I don't that's what you're I don't know if that's what you're asking or to get through because because then all the other things about making sure that There's no further warehouses. That's all that would be done Then we would just be coming back to say okay. We've agreed to this piece now. How do we?

Can we just add the language that we're looking for in in one of the bullet points that that's available and just add that we

Let me propose a proposed motion and see if it covers what we're talking about, Mr. Riley. That to introduce ordinance number 300 as amended by me during the deliberations section 18.56 and 970 subsection C1 and find the proposed exemption of environmental review pursuant to section 150361B3 and 15308 and 15378B5 of the California Environmental Inequality Act. But I think I mentioned earlier about the proposed modification to remove the 15% language simply to allow the building height to a maximum allowed in the zone. The modification aims to strike the balance between the business needs of the owner and the city and to specify warehouse heights But those things are already accomplished without the 15%. The building height changes already capped at the zone are changes and to particularly building require a conditional use permit added to the capped height of the zone.

I second that, Mr. Mayor. I think I understood what you were saying.

No, I don't think.

Hold on, can I just jump in here? What I'm understanding is that This language modifications proposed by the mayor may be one aspect of the change to the ordinance, but it seems as if I'm hearing that you all are interested in seeing an additional change, which is if we cap it to the height to the zoning requirement, you'd want to see or quantify what environmental, what positive or some quantifiable standard that would show that allowing these things would improve the environment in some way.

Yes.

So that's like, doing another change to the ordinance that I think, correct me if I'm wrong, city staff, but it seems that that probably needs a little more review, some review with staff and I to see how we can write that into the ordinance with more specificity.

That's fine. I agree, but I don't like to, again, I don't want to be backed in the corner when we're kind of forced to vote on something because of legal matters that we were, and again, the example of that is the The old water park, you know, that's a good-looking warehouse, but it's not being occupied And I like I said, I go back, you know by at least a couple time anytime I have to go west I get on the California street off on ramp and it doesn't seem like there's any action there But again, we were told that legally we did we weren't we we'd be acceptable to a suit because it was already approved And it was warehouses around and was it was there were qualifications that we were forced to Again, it was one of these things I hate to say that I held my nose and voted yes for it, but unfortunately that's what it was. I don't want to be backed in the corner again where we're going to be told something and then all of a sudden they find some loopholes. I just don't want to be put in that situation.

And so I trust that the city attorney and staff can come up with this my question is is can we do this just between? You know in the next meeting or two where you guys put that language there We don't go back and go through this whole Planning Commission and start this all over again I'd like to get this done So is that something that you guys can just do and bring it back to us at the next meeting or if it's not ready? By then the one right after and with that additional language basically in here that says we need to show some type of a positive

Yeah, demonstrated net benefit.

Yeah. We could take the, or if you continue the public hearing, we can take the ordinance back, take a good look as to where those changes, exactly those changes that you're requesting should be placed, and then bring that ordinance back. It doesn't need to go to the Planning Commission again.

And I think your language is probably just, you may have just hit the nail on the head there, demonstrated net benefit. I mean, that's...

And what would my colleagues agree or with the removing of the 15% and allow the maximum height and each of the zones.

Yeah, which is that language.

Given there's a net...

Right, exactly. It has to be coupled in with that. I'm okay with getting rid of the 15% and going to max height, that they can show that the reason they need the max height is because they're going to do something that is... Air conditioning units are...

It demonstrates... Exactly.

That has to be the... They have to go hand in hand.

Yes, I agree.

Okay.

Okay, so how do we do... Do we need to just... Just a motion to continue the public hearing... Do you want date uncertain or do you want to put a date?

No. How much time do you need is what we're asking.

Can we do this by the next meeting? Then we can continue the public hearing to that next meeting or we can republish.

I'd probably republish.

Republish okay, so it's just a motion to continue.

Maybe maybe not this next meeting, but the one following would probably okay We've got a short week, and then I'm some folks are gonna be out of the office That's fine.

Hold on hold on this is a five Tuesday month so October 6th probably would work in if you Tabled it to a date certain October 6th.

You wouldn't have to republish anything motion if you October 6th is you want to continue the date and you just remind me of what the direction to staff is to come back what's

I'll make it. So I will make a motion to table this to our October 6th meeting to give staff time to work on additional language in 18.156.970 subsection C1 to discuss the requirement that there is a defined or demonstrated net benefit if we do increase building height and etc. as a part of that conditional use permit.

Second.

And you're also continuing the public hearing and I like that's correct continue the public hearing to the October 6th meeting Okay

Council member Barrett.

Yes.

Council member Tejeda. Yes. Council member Davis. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Shaw.

Yes.

Mayor Cecilio.

Yes. All right. Moving on to item L1, a consideration of a sole source agreement with Redlands Historical Museum Association, MPQA LLC for Museum of Redlands Store and Event Pavilion Operations and Consideration and coordination services, approval of an additional appropriations and determination that the approval of the agreement is exempt from the environmental review pursuant section 15061B3 of the state CEQA guidelines, Assistant City Manager Garcia.

Thank you, Mayor and members of the Council. As I mentioned previously, the Museum of Redlands is a public-private partnership between the city's A.K. Smiley Public Library and the Redlands Historical Museum Association. The Library Special Collection Division is responsible for daily museum operations and exhibitions, while RHMA supports fundraising and related activities. In order to operate the museum store and event pavilion, the city is entering into a three-party agreement with the RHMA and MPQA LLC. MPQA will oversee store operations and merchandising, as well as pavilion rentals and other associated work. RHMA, under the framework of its license agreement with the city, will provide programmatic direction to MPQA. Through a separate council action that was approved under tonight's consent calendar agenda, RHMA has agreed to provide 100% reimbursement of this cost, so there is no fiscal impact to the city. The motion asks council to approve a sole source procurement of these services based on the firm's historical involvement with the museum and its store and event pavilion, approve an additional appropriation of $95,000, to add this expense to the library's budget and approve the three-party agreement. That concludes my presentation. If there are any questions, staff is available.

Are there any questions from my colleagues to staff?

No? I don't understand. $95,000 is coming out of the general fund to support this. Is that correct? Yes?

The $95,000 value is going to be fully reimbursed by RHMA. So the city will expend funds, its own funds, and that will be reimbursed 100% from the RHMA.

Thank you. Any other questions or comments? I've got three speaker slips. Bruce Laycook.

Council members, city staff. I'm in favor of this. I think it's a great idea. I think we're going to get the Museum of Redlands moving forward, and so I support it. But I do have one question. I read the document, and then I went online, and I looked for mpqallc.org. And I can find no documentation in the Secretary of State's office or otherwise that tells me who MPQA LLC is. And it seems like when you're going to spend $95,000 of the city's money, even though it's going to be reimbursed, it would be good to know who this is. I mean, in the documentation that you publish to the community. That's it.

would like to know if city staff or or somebody else can get back to me on that I would appreciate it thank you before the item was while we were preparing this agenda item we always check Secretary of State information to find out who's who are the principles of the LLC or the corporation so we do have that information unfortunately the Secretary of State's website For the last 2 or 3 weeks has been down and so it is difficult to to retrieve that information, but we don't control secretary state website. So, but we did check before it went down. We did check the, and I think we continue to check secretary states website to see it's back up, but it is there.

Well if when that happens or if somebody can get back to me and just let me know I Know you're not supposed to talk to me about that right now, but I would appreciate it.

Thank you public speaker is Steven Rogers John Malcolm

Hello, City Council. Hello, City Council. For this item, I do find it somewhat strange that the money is not in the agenda item. Usually, most of these agenda items with the sole source agreements with a money-listed amount, like the $95,000 from the general fund, it's usually included in the agenda item. Of course, there are exceptions, like in L4 and L7 of this very document. L4 being something that has multiple different dollar amounts, and L7 being not money from the general fund and already pre-allocated. But this is from the general fund, and it doesn't have the money amount in the agenda items, which seems to be a break from the usual, and I'm confused why that happened. Secondarily, is there any guarantee of when the $95,000 will be reimbursed? We heard in the financial plan that there was the fears of the, not bankruptcy, but having to cut a lot of services. If this $95,000 will only be reimbursed after that has already passed, that seems... not very wise. And if it's in instant reimbursement, I question why we have to use the general fund money in the first place rather than them doing it themselves. And, yeah, that is all. Thank you for your time.

I don't have any more speaker slips. I don't see.

You want to comment on the, I mean, the city lent the organization a million dollars. If I'm not mistaken, if it's not totally paid back, I know three quarters have been paid back to the city. So I think they're good for the money, so I'm not concerned about that. But we also have to make it feasible that they'll be able to sustain what they need to do. And ultimately, if that works, it helps the city. So I'd be in favor of doing anything that would help this organization make sure that we're solvent with this new addition to the city.

Okay. Any other questions or comments?

entertain a motion i move to approve the single sole source procurement services from from an agreement with the redlands historical museum association and mpqa llc for museum of redlands store and event pavilion operations and coordination services in an amount not to exceed ninety five thousand dollars and i move to approve an additional appropriation in the general fund in the amount of ninety five thousand dollars and i move to determine that Approval of the agreement is exempt from environmental review pursuant to section one five zero six one B three of the state's CEQA guidelines second Second madam city clerk councilmember Barrett.

Yes, that's member Tata. Yes, that's member Davis. Yes, they're pro Tim Shaw. Yes, they're so Cito.

Yes we're at the point in the Meeting if you'd like to take a five ten minute break with we I The agenda item L2, consideration of a grant award from the County of San Bernardino Office of Homeless Services in the amount of $611,041 from the Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention five HHAP five grant for the project home key site, emergency shelter, outreach and outreach authorizing the city manager or designee to execute the grant agreement and approve the authorization of an additional appropriation in the grant amount determined that HHAP dash five grant and services exempt from the environmental review pursuant to section 15 0 6 1 B 3 of the state guidelines implementing the California Environmental Quality Act city manager Duggan David Rabindranath our homeless man of the year homeless man of the year is going to present

Thank you, Charlie. Good evening, Mayor, City Council, City leadership. I'm here to present. City staff is asking for your approval tonight on a grant award from the County of San Bernardino Office of Homeless Services in the amount of $611,041 for the Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention HHAP 5 grant. This grant was awarded to us back in June by the Continuum of Care Board. This funding will go a long way to continue our homeless services, fund local nonprofits, as well as city staff. This funding will be broken up into three major categories. One is for prevention and shelter diversion, which will be in the amount of about $125,000. Street outreach in an amount of about $121,000. And 365,000 in a category for services coordination. Uh, this grant, um, was written, uh, by city staff targeting seniors, uh, domestic violence, human trafficking, and all other homeless services. Um, this will add a couple new programs to our, um, existing programs such as a nonprofit to come in and provide, um, Homeless prevention, but instead of financial assistance, financial counseling for homeowners, as well as fair housing, like landlord and tenant, you know, educating them on those, as well as funding the one of our existing shelter partners, Church of Religious Science, to now, we do not currently have like a... weekend outreach or any weekend services. Now, Church of Religious Science is going to partner with us and be on call. So in case the police or emergency responders do come across somebody in like a domestic violence or some type of situation, they'll be able to refer to them and they'll be able to shelter them till city staff comes back Monday to work so we can assess and take over. So is there any questions for me?

No, I think that's great because sometimes these situations don't happen Monday through Friday, 8 to 5. A lot of these incidents happen on the weekend or when people are in crisis when normal business hours don't happen. So I appreciate that that service is offered on the weekend on a 24-hour call. So thank you for that. I don't have any other questions.

Just a comment. It just improves. I think we have the best homeless program in the state of California. Mayor Bass, they brag about theirs and come close to how well ours is working. I'll put ours against anybody. You're doing a fantastic job. And this new grant just improves, expands our services. So thank you very much. I'm fully in favor.

With that, would you like to make the motion?

I would if I can't get my glasses.

I move that- I don't have any public speakers and I don't see anybody on Zoom.

Thank you.

Go ahead.

Okay, now let me get to it. I move the authorization of additional appropriation in the amount of $611,041 and determine that the HHP-5 grants and service are exempt from environmental pursuant to section 15061B3 of the State Guidelines Implementing California Environmental Quality Act, and I move the city approve acceptance of a grant award from the County of San Bernardino, thank you, of homeless services in the amount of $611,041 for the homeless housing assistance and prevention five grant for this project site, emergency shelter and outreach authorize the city manager or his designee to execute the grant agreement related to program documents.

Second.

Motion to 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 L3. This is a consideration of resolution number 8819, establishing the confidential employee unit. Human Resources and Risk Management Director King.

Thank you, Mayor and members of the City Council. The next item before you is Resolution No. 8819, establishing a separate confidential employee unit. Under Government Code Section 3507.5, public agencies have the authority to designate employees as confidential based upon their responsibilities and access to sensitive employer-employee relations information. As the City's organizational structure and operational needs have evolved, Several human resources and finance classifications now routinely participate in, support, or have access to confidential matters involving various components of labor relations. The proposed resolution formally recognizes these responsibilities by establishing a separate confidential employees unit consisting of six classifications within human resources and finance, specifically the assistant director of human resources risk management, human resources manager, human resources analyst, assistant finance director, finance manager, and budget analyst. This will provide an appropriate separation for employees whose regular duties require access to confidential labor relations information, helps us avoid potential conflicts of interest, and better aligns the city's employee relations structure with the responsibilities these employees perform. Therefore, staff recommends that the city council adopt resolution number 8819, Establishing a separate confidential employees unit that concludes my report any questions or comments from staff for staff I'll move to adopt a resolution a I don't have any speaker slips.

Does somebody have some comments or questions? Okay, no, no public comment. Nobody on zoom now. You're ready Oh gosh Yeah, he's got a list of them. I Okay, Mr. Rogers, you are up on L3. He's got a list of them all.

Honorable Mayor Saucedo, Brethren City Council, Steve Rogers, Church Street. I find this very interesting and I think it's a good idea, okay? You probably don't hear me saying that much, do you? I didn't expect that. But there needs to be an adjustment, I think. I think we have a big opportunity here, because this isn't a joke, all right? This isn't a joke. opportunity is to look at what we're doing under the next item and I really think that the city clerk believes the belongs in the confidential unit myself and and I think that is how it should work Anyway, I did have a question about this, and it wouldn't just be that, you know, because you guys in the next thing you're saying put her in similar to the management unit. But along with this unit, we need to eliminate the department heads unit, which shouldn't even be a unit because they all are under contract. So, and then the city clerk is more like a department head. And so that's why, and she's definitely higher up than just regular management, so that's why I think that that's the way it should be done. I agree with everything else. We get rid of the department director's unit because they're all at will and so they don't need MOU and then there's other things that I do want to meet with the new human resources director about that I've spoken a million times to you all about but have gotten no traction let's just say but it has to do with the code of ethics code of conduct coming back into the you know no joke this stuff is really important like the most important stuff thank you

Okay, no other speaker slips.

I'll move to adopt resolution number 8819, establishing the confidential employee unit. Second.

Motion to second, Madam City Clerk.

Council Member Baric.

Yes.

Council Member Tejeda.

Yes.

Council Member Davis. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Shaw.

Yes.

Mayor Sacino.

Yes. Moving on to item L4, discussion of possible action regarding the City Clerk's compensation and consideration of resolution number 8825, Human Resources and Risk Management, Director King.

Thank you, Mayor and members of City Council. The next item before you is resolution number 8825, establishing compensation for the City Clerk. As you may recall, staff previously brought forward a compensation recommendation for the City Clerk in July. At that meeting, the Council provided direction for Human Resources to return with a revised recommendation. In response to that direction, Human Resources reviewed the City's internal classifications organizational responsibilities, and benefit structures. Based on that analysis, staff determined that the management unit provides the most appropriate internal benchmark for the full-time city clerk position. The resolution before you would align the city clerk with the management unit as it pertains to benefits and salary range of 75. Step three, establishing an annual salary of $130,552.00. It would also provide for annual step progression until the maximum step is reached and align future across the board salary adjustments and designated benefits such as those provided to individuals in the management unit. This approach provides internal equity and establishes a more sustainable compensation structure going forward. Therefore, staff recommends that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 8825. That concludes my report.

Any questions or comments to staff? If not, I have one speaker's lip, Mr. Stephen Rogers. That's good.

Honorable Mayor Salcedo, Redland City Council, Steve Rogers, Church Street. Okay, I'll make it short. I agree with all that, but I really do think there's a benefit Yes, her touchstone or the thing that the future ages are measured on is the management group. But when it comes to the work that she does, I really believe that she would be the perfect one in this new, what do we call it, confidential employees group because basically, She's going to keep... She needs to know about everything that's confidential. She's the keeper of the records. She's going to keep them doing their job right. And that's where I see a lot of things happening now. There is no real oversight. And I want... I know Jeannie very well, and I know Jeannie likes to have things done right. They haven't been getting done right here recently, or there wouldn't be like six, seven, eight complaints over at the district attorney's office about land use things that you all have all approved, but they weren't done right by staff. So, I mean, it all starts to me, with me, with human resources. And there's some human resources things that need to happen. Maybe he's over there talking to her about it right now. Thank you.

I'll move to approve resolution number 8825.

Second. 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 item L5, consideration of resolution number 8826, establishing a limited term assignment program to provide temporary staffing support for council departments and authorize the human resources director to administer the program, Director Kings.

Good evening, Mayor and members of the City Council. The next item before you is resolution number 8826, establishing a limited-term assignment program administered by Human Resources. From time to time, departments experience temporary staffing needs resulting from extended employee leaves, special projects, workload demands, grant-funded initiatives, and other short-term operational needs. Historically, departments have often relied on outside temporary staffing agencies to fill these gaps. The proposed program would provide the city with a more flexible and cost effective alternative by authorizing human resources to maintain a centralized pool of up to 10 limited term positions that could be utilized by departments on an as needed basis. I do want to emphasize that the approval of this resolution does not mean the city would immediately hire 10 additional employees. Rather, it provides the authorization and flexibility to make limited term appointments when a legitimate temporary operational need exist. Each assignment would be reviewed and approved by Human Resources, funded by the requesting department, and limited to a maximum appointment of two years. In addition to providing departments with greater staffing flexibility, the program reduces our reliance on outside staffing agencies and creates an opportunity to recruit individuals who can gain work experience and potentially become part of our future workforce. Therefore, staff recommends that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 8826 establishing the limited term assignment program and authorizing HR to administer the program.

Thank you. Any questions or comments from staff? I have one speaker. Oh, yes, you do. Go ahead.

One quick question. So my familiarity with limited term assignments is often also for people that are trying to have some type of upward mobility doing a limited term into an existing position, maybe that they're already a city employee. This isn't designed for that. This is simply to bring in temp help.

Correct.

Okay. Thank you.

Any others? Mr. Stephen Rogers, public comment? Or not public comment, but on this item. Okay. Thank you. What's the wish of the council?

I move that we adopt Resolution 8826, Establish a Limited Term Assignment Program to provide temporary staffing support for city departments and authorize the human resource director to administer this program.

Second.

Motion to second. Madam City Clerk?

Councilmember Baric.

Yes.

Councilmember Tejeda.

Yes.

Councilmember Davis. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Shaw. Yes. Mayor Sesedo.

Yes. Moving on to item L6, consideration of cooperative purchase of a type 1 paramedic squad vehicle from Frazier Limited in the amount of $394,240 to support emergency medical response operations. Fire Chief Sessler.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. The request before you is the approval to purchase a replacement Type 1 Paramedic Squad in the amount of $394,240. The current squad has been in service since 2018 and is approaching the end of its frontline service under our established replacement schedule. The purpose of this being made through the HGAC Buy Cooperative Purchasing Contract, which was competitively solicited and allows the city to obtain competitive pricing, the city is able to piggyback on this already bid and awarded contract. Replacing this unit is part of our plan. Fleet replacement will help ensure we have reliable resources available to meet communities. Emergency needs. Um, this also supports the city strategic plan priority, be public health and safety. Um, this concludes my poor, but happy to answer any questions.

Any questions for the chief really quickly? Uh, what's the timeline for actually having the vehicle? Or the apparatus 14 to 18 months.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right. I don't have any speaker slips. Don't see anybody on zoom. What's the wish of the council?

I move we adopt Resolution 8818. I'm sorry. I'm in the wrong. Sorry, that was the wrong item. I don't have six in front of me.

I move to approve the cooperative purchase of a Type 1 paramedic squad vehicle from Fraser Limited in the amount of $394,240 and authorize the city manager or designee to execute the necessary purchase agreements in accordance with city purchasing guidelines.

Second.

Motion to 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 L7, consideration of resolution number 8818, authorizing the use of state citizens option for public safety COPS program funds for the fiscal year 2026, 2027, and 2728 for the purpose of ensuring public safety. Police Chief Tober.

Thank you and good evening, Mayor, Council, and members of the community. The item before you tonight is a consideration of resolution number 8818, authorizing the use of the state citizen option for public safety, also known as COPS program funds for the fiscal year 26, 27, 27, 28. for the purposes of ensuring public safety. The COPS program is an ongoing state funded program that provides financial assistance to local agencies to support frontline public safety services and has been in effect since the late 1990s. To receive these funds, the city is required to maintain a separate interest bearing supplemental law enforcement services fund for the deposit of COPS revenue with monthly transfers to the operating budget is needed to facilitate appropriations and expenditures. The city has complied with these requirements. State law requires that the funds be used to support frontline municipal police services and that they supplement rather than supplant existing local funding for law enforcement. In addition, the City Council must consider the proposed use of COPS funds separately from the general fund appropriations. Following City Council approval, the funding request must be forwarded to the County Board of Supervisors before the funds are distributed or dispersed. The total funds for fiscal year 26-27 are a little over $502,753, and for 27-28, it's $302,280. And the funds that would be received over the next two fiscal years will fund our part-time camera operators, subscriptions for current and existing LPR systems, and outfitting of police vehicles. So I thank you for your time and consideration of this item, and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Any questions to Chief Tolbert? I don't have any speaker slips.

I'll move to adopt resolution number 8818. Second.

Motion and second. Madam City Clerk.

Council Member Baric.

Yes.

Council Member Tejeda.

Yes.

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

Yes. Moving on to item L8, consideration of a non-competitive professional service agreement with RICON Consultants, Inc. for the implementation of the remedial action plan. at the Alabama Street Septage Ponds for the amount not to exceed $640,000 and determine that this action is exempt from the environmental review pursuant to section 15061 of the state guidelines implementing the California Environmental Quality Act. Municipal Utilities Director Heredia.

Good evening mayor council members staff and the public on June 9, 2026, the Santa Ana regional water quality control board approved the feasibility study and remedial action plan prepared by consultants for the Alabama street septage disposal ponds. Rincon will provide environmental engineering and regulatory compliance services necessary to implement the approved remedy, including regulatory agency coordination, construction and remediation, oversight, field inspections, groundwater monitoring, training for long term monitoring. activities preparation of technical documentation and submittal of required compliance reports and permits to support achievement of regulatory closure of this site The agreement with Raycon is for three years with a total not to exceed six hundred and forty thousand That concludes my presentation any question or comment for staff.

I don't have any speaker slips on this item.

I do have a question you talked about the one that's between the Tennessee and Alabama that for sake of another polio pond or whatever. It's that thing.

Yes, I believe so. Yeah.

I always thought that was Caltrans that owned that property.

No, I... We didn't build a pond.

It's on the west side of Alabama. I understand, yeah. Yeah. So those are our sea beach paths that we... Okay.

Yeah, the one between the two on ramps, right? Is that the property? Right, like I said, between the Tennessee on ramp and the Alabama on ramp, so that would be east of Alabama. Is that correct?

Well, we can't have comments from the audience.

Sorry about that.

Sorry, I...

I want to make sure that we're talking about... I didn't... Again, I've always blamed it on Caltrans why it's so filthy.

I guess... No, I think something occurred... In, I'm not sure, it's in the, I thought it was in the report. Sometime in 2018, something happened there and...

It was a fire. Yeah. A fire that disturbed the property and therefore we're required to do more monitoring. It was originally a five-year monitoring plan, but since it was disturbed, we've got to have additional monitoring now.

Can't we just drain it and leave it like it is?

It's a regulatory requirement for us to do this. Okay, geez. All right.

Ready for a motion?

I move that the City Council determine that approval of the Professional Services Agreement with Rincon Consultants, Inc. is exempt from environmental review pursuant to Section 15061B3 of the state's guidelines implementing the California Environmental Quality Act And I move that the City Council approve a single source professional services agreement with Rincon Consultants, Inc. for the implementation of the remedial action plan at the Alabama Street Steppedage disposal ponds for an amount not to exceed $640,000. Second.

I have a motion and a second. City Clerk? I'm not doing CPR. I'm doing, okay.

Yeah. Council Member Barrett. Yes. Council Member Tata.

Yes.

Council Member Davis. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Shaw.

Yes.

Mayor Cicito.

Yes. Moving on to item L9, consideration of a single source professional service agreement with Parsons Water and Infrastructure Inc. for construction plan consolidation and bid support services for the wastewater treatment plant improvements phase two project for the amount not to exceed $287,326 and the determination that the approval of the agreement is exempt for environmental review pursuant to section 15061B3 of the state guidelines implementing the California Environmental Quality Act, Municipal Utilities and Engineering Director Heredia.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, this agreement is for, uh, is with Parsons water and infrastructure for construction plan consolidation and bid support services for phase 2 of the wastewater treatment plant improvement project. Parsons is currently working and reviewing over 137 design drawings and preparing an updated set of specifications that better align the project scope based on available funding and construction market conditions. We expect to go out to bid by the end of September, early October. And this agreement is for an amount not to exceed $287,326. Any questions for staff? I have one speaker slipped, Mr. Steve Rogers.

Honorable Mayor Salcedo, Redland City Council, Steve Rogers, Church Street. I have some real concerns about this project and you know it just it blows my mind that we're here at this point and we're gonna pay Parsons another close to $300,000 to combine some plans and I'll tell you what the real problem is with this project is we really didn't do righteous environmental analysis. And the reason we didn't do that is because we do not have a righteous wastewater master plan. I mean, when we did the general plan update, when we did the transit villages specific plan, We didn't worry about the infrastructure items. We didn't do those master plans. And that's the only way to do the master plans right, because then when you're doing them, then you're doing a CEQA analysis when you're doing it with the general plan. So anyway, that's why we really didn't do a righteous environmental study for the wastewater treatment plant in the first place. And so now we're stuck where what we really need is about a $100 million plant for our ultimate plant. When we build this next plant, we want it to be the ultimate plant. We don't have to come back and build more. That's about 100 million. I mean, I don't even know if we got the 45 million or that's still being kicked around. But all I know is that the cost of this plant, you can just see by the cost of revising the plans how much that costs. And then I don't know what a resulting, change we're expecting to see in the result of a wastewater treatment plant, but I really think that we're, I don't know if the strategy's gonna work. And that's all because, you know, maybe we did do a fatal flaw when we didn't do, really we should have done an EIR in the first place to determine what we need for Redlands. but then we would have had to do a master plan for our sewer and we still don't even have that. So anyway, I'm sorry that new engineer has to take, she has to take and run with what she's got. So I, I agree with this needing to be approved, but I'm really concerned. Thank you.

Okay. What's the wish of the council?

I'm with the City Council determined that approval of professional services agreement with Parsons Water and Infrastructure Inc. for construction plan consolidation and bid support services for the wastewater treatment plant improvement phase 2 project is exempt from environmental review pursuant to section 15061B3. of the state's guidelines implementing the California Environmental Quality Act, and I move that the City Council approve a single source professional services agreement with Parsons Water and Infrastructure Incorporated for an amount not to exceed $287,326. Second.

Motion to second, Madam City Clerk.

Council Member Barrett.

Yes.

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

Yes.

Mayor Cecilio.

Yes. All right, that concludes that portion. We now move on to item agenda M1, individual council member reports on activities for July and August. Mayor Pro Tem has already submitted his sheet, and we'll start with Mayor. Thank you, Mayor.

Yes, absolutely. Thank you. I attended City of Rialto Inclusionary Playground grand opening at the request of Mayor Joe Baca Sr., I attended the back-to-school jam, the Redlands back-to-school jam, Redlands Ranch Market 30th anniversary community celebration, RPOA and FIRE inaugural annual softball game, which was hosted by the Rotary. The Family Fun event that they had this past weekend was awesome. And that's my report for today.

Okay. Council Member Barich.

I also attended that meeting and I'm hoping that even though we were celebrating the America's 250th event that we can maybe celebrate America's 251 event and keep keep this. This, um, you know, it was a lot of fun. I mean, with the exception of the weather, maybe we might want to choose a different different month, but I thought it brought the community together and was just a lot of fun. So we should continue. I did attend the, um, the, um. The library board and again, it always seems to go back to when we're gonna open the new You know The more forsaken, you know, there's you know, the Museum of Redlands as Mayor pro temp shot at various events for Redlands Bowl And attended city manager McDonald's McConnell's retirement party And so, even though we were dark on Thursday, we still accomplished quite a bit in Redland, so.

Okay. I attended the bowling with the police and the community, Redland Service Club Council. I attended two Eagle Scout Court of Honor Veterans Parade Day meeting. I met with two realty groups due to city presentation on city projects and city business. I attended the Indian... Independence Festival or Indian event, Feeding America tour, Hispanic Heritage planning event for the event, the Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino ribbon cutting for a second phase, and I also attended the Santa Ana River Quality Board meeting here in Loma Linda.

Thank you. In lieu of talking about events, I want to take the time to adjourn the meeting in honor of two members of our Redlands community who passed away in August. Over this last weekend, we learned that Rue Whitmore died at 41 due to complications of colon cancer. She was a beloved presence in Redlands and oftentimes had some of the wittiest and most direct public comments at our council meetings. She was a self-described LGBTQIA affirming therapist, a member of the queer community, an adjunct faculty member at the University of Redlands, and took part in many mutual aid projects to care for fellow Redlanders. She organized food and clothing drives, was a founding member of Redlands Swap and Meet, a local group focused on reducing waste and consumerism and building community in Redlands. She is survived by her partner Val and their child, as well as many other deeply grieving family members and friends. A GoFundMe to support her family is floating around social media, and I'll be sure to repost tonight so you can donate if you'd like to. In a Psychology Today website profile of her therapy work, she said, I communicate clearly, warmly, and directly. I believe we heal in connection to one another. So many of us had the great honor of feeling that connection with Rue, and we'll miss her greatly. Additionally, Justice Marsha G. Slough, who served on California's 4th District Court of Appeal and was a two-decade veteran of the state judiciary, passed away on August 8. She was 68. Throughout her career, she brought not only sharp legal judgment, but also genuine humanity to her work, qualities that earned her the deep respect of colleagues across the judiciary. Justice Slough was appointed to the Fourth District Court of Appeal Division II by Governor Jerry Brown in 2015. She made history as the first openly gay justice on that court. I am so grateful for the chance I had to get to know her and her spouse, Jill, over the years, and was honored to join many people last week in celebrating her life at Congregation Emmanuel. Please join me in honoring the lives of Rue Whitmore and Marcia Slough, extraordinary women who we were fortunate to have in our Redlands community, sending love and light to their families and friends.

Thank you for that. I'd like to call to order the next part of our agenda, call to order the meeting of the Redlands Housing Corporation, Mr. City Manager, Charlie Duggan.

Yes, just briefly, Council. Working with the state after the default of Shangri-La, the city is moving towards acquiring the Goodnight Inn with under advisement of external counsel. We have a number of items here to create the Redlands Housing Corporation. It's a non-profit agency that it's being set up with the City Council is the board of directors and myself, the city clerk and the city treasurer as officers. We hope that by doing this, it will mitigate some liability for the city. It will also allow this corporation to apply for grants. That would be eligible to nonprofits, but not necessarily the city or more likely to be awarded to a nonprofit than the city. So there's a number of items here, but in a nutshell, it's all of the necessary things to create this corporation.

Thank you the 2nd. Bullet on this is appointment of temporary board chair and board secretary general council Garcia.

Board members, later on in your agenda for this meeting tonight, you'll be later on appointing officers to the corporation. But until we can get there, we need a temporary chair to preside over this meeting and a temporary secretary to take the minutes. So the motion is to appoint Mario Saucedo as the temporary chair and the temporary board secretary would be Jeannie Donaldson.

So moved.

Second.

Motion and a second. Madam City Clerk.

Board Member Baric.

Yes.

Board Member Tejeda.

Yes.

Board Member Davis. Yes. And Vice Chair Shaw.

Yes.

And Chair Saucedo.

Yes. Moving on to item 03, which is public comment. I have one speaker slip. Mr. Steve Rogers.

Honorable Mayor Salcedo, Redland City Council, Steve Rogers, Church Street. All I can say about this is, wow, okay? As you all probably know, or some of you know, I used to work for the City of Ontario. And this is why I don't recommend you guys doing this, okay? It ended up that they weren't playing by the rules, which I have already seen the city doing. And when you have a private corporation, when you have a corporation like this, you don't have the same kinds of protections you do under the normal government structure. I would hate to see you all end up in prison, is what I'm saying, because everyone at Ontario essentially lost their job, including the city attorney, the development director. I mean, everybody lost their job. You know, I know there's an issue here where this Shangri-La project and you want to maybe, you want to get into the development business, want to get into the real estate business. It's what it sounds like to me. I mean, what it really is more like is more like redevelopment, you know, and... I mean, this, to me, is not where the city wants to go, and it's not where anybody, where you all belong, let me put it that way. You all are government people, you're not, I mean, maybe Best President Krieger is probably the one that, your special counsel, I'm sure they are the ones that advocated that this is what you need to do. Well, guess what? Bespest and Krieger, how many times is Bespest and Krieger gonna be in the news? Because you're gonna hear about them in the news coming up here shortly when they start talking about Ontario and the raids over there. But don't forget, they were down in Bell. It's Bespest and Krieger. So if Bespest and Krieger's behind this, Scrap this whole thing. I mean, all this stuff here is like you're setting up a whole new organization because you are. And it's, you know, right now you're protected because you're working for the city. You're not working for the Redlands Housing Corporation. And anyway, thank you.

Your speaker slip says that you wanted to speak to 04, which is a business, but there's nothing, there's no material there.

Well, actually, I circle the whole thing, because it's like, like I said, all these things, the only one I really want to talk about is number 10.

Okay.

How about that?

I'll put you down for 10. Moving on to... Okay, speaker slip, Bruce Laycook for 03.

Thank you. Sangre Law was a train wreck. And finding a way through that mess has led us to this point. I kind of agree with Mr. Rogers about whether the city council members are the appropriate people to have on that board in the long term. But right now, we need to get this thing moving forward and get that situation stabilized. So I support this idea, but I'd like you to consider going forward whether just city council members should be the entirety of the Redlands Housing Corporation Board. Thank you.

Thank you.

I don't have any more other speaker slips on any other items. We'll move to item 05. which is consideration of organizational certificate of incorporation appointing directors of the Redlands Housing Corporation, General Counsel Garcia.

Thank you, Chair. The organizational certificate of incorporator is a formal legal statement signed by the corporation board members appointing themselves by name to serve as the first board of directors of the Redlands Housing Corporation. So effective September 1, 2026, the members of the Board of Directors of the Redlands Housing Corporation shall be Mario Saucedo, Mark Shaw, Denise Davis, Eddie Tejeda, and Paul Baric. If there are any questions, I'm happy to answer them. The motion is set forth in the staff report to adopt the organizational certificate of the Redlands Housing Corporation and authorize board members to execute the certificate.

I think you left Council Member Davis' name off the list.

Uh, I'm sorry, uh, yeah, she's okay. I'm sorry.

Yeah, right in there. Um, I, maybe I have a concern. Mr Rogers may be right. What kind of liability are we looking at? The new as a board members.

Later on you're going to adopt a bylaws and the bylaws authorize the corporation to secure board insurance liability insurance coverage for each of you so Yes, that's correct, so When we get there insurance guy, I appreciate that.

Yes. Thank you

All questions and comments?

There's no further discussion. I move to adopt the organizational certificate of an incorporator of the Redlands Housing Corporation and authorize the board members to execute the certificate.

Second. Motion and a second.

Board Member Barrett.

Yes.

Board Member Tejeda.

Yes.

Board Member Davis. Yes. Vice Chair Shaw.

Yes.

And Chair Saucedo.

Yes. Moving on to Item 06, Review and Ratify Articles of Incorporation Document

was filed and certified by the california secretary of state assistant city manager garcia thank you chair members of the board this item formally confirms the city's authorization of the corporation's formation and the filing made with the california secretary of state on august 3rd 2026 the articles themselves establish the purpose for the non-profit specifically to provide an ownership structure for the redlands home key project known as a good night in and staff is available if there are any questions any questions for staff

No, just a statement really quickly, Mr mayor or Mr chair. It's important for us to remind, I guess folks that. It has always been our intention to have this temporarily and to look for an appropriate or. Entity to move this to in the meantime. It's important for us to have this The way we you know, it's important for us to have the resin hot Redlands Housing Corporation Until we can get to that point so I moved to ratify the articles of incorporation for the Redlands Housing Corporation Second motion a second madam city clerk

I'm going to call you directors. It's easier. So Director Barrett. Yes. Director Tejeda. Yes. Director Davis. Yes. Vice Chair Shaw. Yes. And Chair Cicero.

Yes. Moving on to item 07, consideration approval of the Redlands Housing Corporation bylaws, General Counsel Garcia.

Thank you. As part of the Redlands Housing Corporation's required actions under law, the Board of Directors must approve bylaws, which is a foundational document providing organization to the corporate structure and internal operations to the Redlands Housing Corporation. The bylaws address matters including but not limited to establishing a governance structure, setting procedures for meetings and voting, defining board members and their responsibilities as well as the responsibilities of officers and Certain record-keeping and fiscal matters that are required by that are required of the corporation The bylaws are attached to the staff report if there are any questions I'm happy to answer them Otherwise the motion would be to move to adopt the bylaws for the Redlands Housing Corporation Second motion a second madam city clerk Yes

Sorry, director Barrett?

Yes.

Director Tejeda? Yes. Director Davis? Yes. Vice Chair Shaw? Yes. Chair Saucedo?

Yes. Moving on to 08, consider appointment of officers to the Redlands Housing Corporation, General Counsel Garcia.

Thank you. Consistent with the Redlands Housing Corporation's bylaws, which you just adopted in the previous agenda item, The Board of Directors shall appoint its Board Chair, its Board Vice Chair, the Corporation's President, Secretary, and Treasurer, and take other related actions. The motion is set forth. There's a series of motions, one, two, three, and four, under motion in your staff report. Those actions are required to be taken if there are no questions.

Any questions? Questions for me?

There's no discussion. I make the motion to appoint the following officers of the Redlands Housing Corporation, Mario Salcedo, Board Chair, Mark Shaw, Board Vice Chair, Charles M. Duggan, Jr., President, Jeannie Donaldson, Secretary, Philip Doolittle, Treasurer, and I further move that the appointed Board Chair replaces the temporary Board Chair and manages the meeting, and the appointed Secretary replaces the temporary Secretary and records the meeting minutes immediately. And I further move that the officers appointed by the Board of Directors herein be authorized to take all acts necessary and required to fulfill the intent of all resolutions adopted by the Board at this meeting, including but not limited to taking all acts necessary and required to finalize incorporation and exemption filings. And I further move to authorize and direct the Secretary to sign the Certificate of Secretary of the Bylaws.

Second. Madam City Clerk.

Director Parrish.

Yes.

Director Tejeda.

Yes.

Director Davis. Yes. Vice Chair Shaw. Yes. And Chair Saucedo.

Yes. Moving on to item 09, consideration of resolution number 202601RHC, establishing a minute book for the Redlands Housing Corporation, General Counsel Garcia.

Thank you, Chair. Section 9.1 of the Redlands Housing Corporation Bylaws require the Board of Directors to establish and maintain a corporate minute book. which serves as a formal, centralized, and permanent location where the corporation maintains its organizational and founding documents, meeting records, resolutions, and other decisional records of the Board of Directors. The Secretary of the Corporation is designated as a custodian of the minute book. If there are no questions, then the motion would be to adopt Resolution No. 2026-01-RHC establishing a minute book for the Redlands Housing Corporation.

Second. I'm sorry. So moved.

Second.

Motion and second. Madam City Clerk.

Director Baric.

Yes.

Director Tejeda.

Yes.

Director Davis. Yes. Vice Chair Shaw. Yes. And Chair Sacido.

Yes. O10, review and consider adoption of the conflict of interest policy, whistleblower protection policy, and document retention and destruction policy for the Redlands Housing Corporation. Assistant City Manager Garcia. Yes.

Thank you chair and members of the board. Um, this item adopts policies listed and is a required part of the nonprofits formation and staff is available.

If there are any questions, I have one speaker slip for Mr. Steven Rogers, honorable mayor, South Sato, rather than city council, Steve Rogers, church street. So I talked about it before. The city doesn't even have a code of conduct. And so now we're creating a new corporation. And I don't see code of conduct in there, but code, conflict of interest policy, visible protection policy. I mean, I know those are the kinds of things that are required by law. I don't know that they're always adhered to uh... I've been trying to get something corrected for over ten years and I mean I know I'm not a regular employee I'm a member of the general public but I'm still being retaliated against so I'm really concerned like I said you guys don't have your organization together as it is uh... when we're talking about the city and here we go, we're gonna form a whole new organization, and you're gonna be dealing with property, and you know, you like to do whatever you wanna do with property. I mean, I know Mario, he was on the Housing Authority, and he, that project over there at Orange and Lagonia, I mean, what is that big lot sitting out there in the front, Mario? Wasn't that because you were trying to create some lots for your buddies? Which the Fed said no on that one, or HUD said no to that. So you guys already have a huge history. Remember when you used to have a housing authority, right? And that got eliminated. and now you have to go to the county so if you're going to try to do this with real estate and you already have this history and you're not changing the way you do business because you had a city manager here that says that he does nothing wrong there's nothing ever that he's ever done wrong and he's he cries to the d a to the to the supervisors saying oh i'm so harsh on him because i expect more But you guys are going to form this new corporation. You better get the one you have going right. And then you wouldn't have me up here saying, I really do expect you guys to all be in orange jumpsuits if you go through with this, because you have no expertise about dealing with real estate on your staff at all. Thank you.

Which of the council?

Just for the record, my mother's the only one who believes I don't do anything wrong. Thank you. I move to adopt the conflicts of interest policy, whistleblower protection policy, and document retention and destruction policy, and ask the secretary to sign the corresponding certificate of secretary.

Second.

Motion and second. Madam city clerk.

Director Barrett.

Yes.

Director Taita.

Yes.

Director Davis. Yes. Vice Chair Shaw. Yes. And Chair Cicero.

Yes. 011, consideration of Resolution 202602RHC, establishing the date of location of the annual regular meetings of the Redlands Housing Corporation, Assistant City Manager Garcia.

Thank you, board and chair. This item adopts the annual regular meeting date, which is coincidentally the first regular, it follows the first regular city council meeting in September, so that would be today. Staff is available if there are any questions.

Any questions? No speaker slips.

I move to adopt resolution number 2026-02-RHC.

Second. Motion, Madam City Clerk.

Director Baric.

Yes.

Director Tata.

Yes.

Director Davis. Yes. Vice Chair Shaw.

Yes.

And Chair Salcido.

Yes. Thank you. Consideration 012, consideration of Resolution 202603RHC, establishing the banking institution of record and approving certain official officers of bank account authorized signatures, Assistant City Manager Garcia.

Thank you, Chair and Board. This item establishes U.S. Bank as a corporation's bank of record. It also designates President and Treasurer as authorized agents. Staff is available if there are any questions.

Any questions? I move to adopt resolution number 2026-2026-6-03-RHC. Second. Madam Secretary?

Director Baric?

Yes.

Director Tejeda? Yes. Director Davis? Yes. Vice Chair Shaw? Yes. And Chair Sacido?

Yes. We stand adjourned, adjourning the Redlands Housing Corporation, and we stand adjourned.