City Council - Regular Meeting

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member Perez. Present. Council member Montoya.

Present. City attorney Eric Bell. Present. City manager Tanya Wiggin. Present.

Okay. All present and accounted. So at this time, we'll call on the city attorney to discuss the items that will be discussed in closed session.

Thank you, mayor. We have three primary items today. The first item is a conference with legal counsel with regard to pending litigations. We've listed two cases there. They're really one collective case. This has to do with, a further round of opioid settlements, so we'll discuss both of those together at the same time. Item two is a conference with legal counsel with regard to one item of litigation. We have an update on the dispute with Newland for you to discuss. And item three is a conference with legal counsel with one other existing item of litigation. Yes, towing enterprises versus city of Rialto.

Thank you very much. Is there anyone in the audience that that would like to speak to any of these items seeing that there's no one present. So at this time, do I hear a motion to close motion been made by Carla Perez. Are we closed? Seconded by Andy Caraceras who who is now present. Moving to closed session. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposition?

None. To the redevelopment agency, the Rialto Utilities, and the authority, or for the, utilities authority and the Rialto Housing Authority will not come to order. Will the clerk call the roll?

Mayor Fox. Present. Mayor Proton Scott. Present.

Council Member Perez. Present.

Council Member Montoya.

Present.

Council Member Kelly Sellers. Present. Council Member, I'm sorry, city attorney Eric Bell.

Present.

City manager Tanya Williams. Present. And I want to let the record reflect that city treasurer is absent due to a California municipal clerk association meeting. That's why he's attending tonight.

Thank you. All president accounted for. At this this time, we'll move on to the pledge of allegiance that will be led by council member Andy Cossette.

Please join me in the pledge of our flag.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands.

At this time, we'll have pastor, Joel Booker from the Inland Lighthouse Church give the invocation.

If we could bow our heads. And lord, we love you tonight. We thank you for this occasion, for this, time, and we thank you for your presence. We ask that you would bless these next few minutes. Let your wisdom be with us direct. Bless our mayor, city council, city officials as they do your business here in this town. In Jesus name, we pray.

Amen. Amen. Thank you. You may be seated. This time I'll call on the city attorney to give us a report on closed session.

Thank you, mayor. We had three primary matters on the closed session evening or this evening. The first was a conference with legal counsel with regard to two items of pending litigation. Both of these items of pending litigation are really within the same matter. It has to do with the national litigation with regard to the opioid producer settlement.

They heard a briefing from the city council and gave direction to the city attorney on that matter. The second item was a conference with legal counsel with regard to one item of anticipated litigation, Had a briefing from the city attorney on that matter and gave direction. The third item was a conference with legal counsel with regard to one item of existing litigation. That item is listed in the staff or the the agenda this evening. Council had a briefing from the police chief and from the city attorney gave direction with regard to that matter. There was no other reportable action on those items.

Thank you.

Thank you very much. At this time, we have presentations and proclamations. I see that there are none, but I'm just gonna take the time to announce something that our parks and recreation director will probably be giving a report on later on, but I thought it was important for the city of Rialto and our audience to know that we have our international festival that's coming up on May 1. It'll be held at at Rialto City Park. So those of you had a chance to look at it, the community's invited.

It's a good time to enjoy the variety of different foods that that will be provided by a variety of different individuals from within our community. And that that concludes that. With that, then we'll move on to oral communications. Is there anyone, madam clerk?

No. No. Not at this time, madam. I mean, mayor.

K. Seeing none. Then we'll move on to the consent items. All matters listed on the consent calendar are considered to be routine by the city council and will be acted at one point. By motion, is there anyone from the audience that wish to pull any item from the consent item? Seeing none. Do I hear a motion? Motion's been made by Second. Mayor Pro Tem Scott, seconded by Andy Caracitis to approve the consent item. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposition? Motion carries at that point. Now we'll move on to our tab items. We'll start with tab one.

Hello, mayor. Mayor pro tem and council. What staff is requesting is the council conduct a public hearing and adopt urgency urgency ordinance one seven one three. I'll read the title for the record in urgency ordinance of the city of Rialto, California, extend the provisions of urgency ordinance number one seven one two, establishing a temporary moratorium on the establishment, expansion, or intensification of massage parlors within the jurisdictional boundaries of the city of Rialto for an additional ten months and fifteen days. Pending study and adoption of regulatory and zoning standards in determining the ordinance to exempt from CEQA.

Basically, on March 24, you agreed with the police department's recommendation and passed an urgency ordinance number one seven one two, impose imposing a forty five day moratorium on the establishment and intensification of massage parlors. Council under government code section 65,858, there's the forty five day moratorium is going to expire on May 8. However, government code section 65,858 a allows the city to extend the moratorium for additional ten months and fifteen days. So the city needs this additional time to study and adopt a regulatory and zoning standards for massage partners. It's really based on staff's recommendations and what we've been able to look at is our request for the extension because of the need for further examination of the regulations so we can strengthen our ordinance and really coincide with what the state law has recently passed.

I can go into further detail and analysis of council wants, but at this time, I'd ask council to consider opening up a public hearing to take public input, and then I can answer any questions that you

have. Motion

has been made to open the public hearing. Okay. All those in favor signify saying aye. Aye. Any opposition? Hearing none. Okay. Is there anyone from the public that would like to address this? This is a public hearing right now. Hearing none. Is there a motion to close the public hearing?

Motion to close the public hearing.

Motion has been made to close the public hearing by Carla Perez. Seconded by council member Edward Montoya. All those in favor of closing it say signify by saying I.

I.

Okay. Now we'll move on to approving it. Or any discussion?

Mister mayor move approval of or the adoption of urgency ordinance number seventeen thirteen.

Okay. Motion's been made by mayor pro tem Ed Scott, seconded by Carla Perez. I just like to say I think it's it's good that we extend extend it because we need not only to create the zoning standards that need to be developed now and in the future, and then also it's important for our city to to make sure that people that are operating those massage parlors are operating massage parlors and aren't operating anything else within those massage parlors. So, with that, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposition?

I'm hearing a roll call. Mayor Pro Tem Scott. I. Council Member Perez. I. Council Aye. Council Member Carouselis. Aye. Mayor Baca.

Aye.

Thank you.

Thank you, council.

Motion carries. We'll move on to tab two.

Good evening, honorable mayor, mayor pro tem and members of the city council, Chris Jensen, fire chief. Tonight, I'm presenting the annual weed abatement program that you took action on at the last council meeting through resolution eighty four eighty nine for abatement of public nuisances, and fire hazards within the city of Rialto. The California government code authorizes cities to declare weeds, rubbish, and refuse as on private property as a public nuisance or a fire hazard. This program is one of the most important fire prevention tools we have in the city. Within the city of Rialto, we currently have approximately 225 vacant parcels, all of which are inspected twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall.

As part of this program, our fire prevention division sends notices to all vacant property owners as shown in exhibits b and c, attached to the staff report, and properties that remain noncompliant are referred to our weed abatement contractor beginning May 15 for the spring clearance and again on October 1 for the fall cycle. The city pays the upfront cost of abatement, and those costs along with a $149 administrative fee are then applied to the respective property, tax bills for reimbursement. This process ensures the program is fully cost recoverable with funds budgeted annually and revenue returned through the county tax roll system. Environmental considerations are also incorporated within the notice. Parcels identified as potential habitat for the sands flower loving fly, and other habitat and protected plant species are notified with instructions to coordinate with the US Fish and Wildlife Service to ensure proper abatement.

This program directly supports our general plan goal five dash three by reducing fire hazards and strengthening overall community safety. Property owners were notified of the public hearing tonight, five days prior to the hearing pursuant to the Rialto Municipal Code. Staff requested the council to conduct a public hearing to consider ordering the abatement of weeds on various properties within the city limits and to hear any objection to imposing the abatement cost, therefore, as a lien against parcels of property set forth in exhibit a. I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. And this this is a public hearing.

Motion to open the public hearing.

Motion been made by Carla Perez. Do I hear a second? Second seconded by Edward Montoya. Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I I any oppositions hearing none. So we've closed the public hearing. Now we'll move on to the item itself. Is there any discussion by members of the council? Andy Cutter said is. Move approval. Motion's been made by Andy Cutter said is. Do I hear a second?

We we don't move in. You missed one

Motion to close the public hearing.

Motion, okay, been made to close the public hearing. Second. Seconded by Edward Montoya. Motion made by Carla Perez. All those in favor sign five by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Now we'll move into the item itself. Motion's been made by I think it was.

No, have it. Yes. So you want now you want to discuss it.

Any discussions? I'd I'd just like to just a question that I have. I have no objections to it, and I think it's good. Basically because it's provides safety and protection to our residents that that have blight or weeds or whatever near their homes and the possibility of fires in that area. But my concern is that I I saw that there are six residents that actually have addresses in the city of of Rialto when I went through it.

Six of them have residents here, but two of them under redevelopment that belong to the city. Why are we getting it? And why aren't we taking care of it? When I looked at it, you know, I says, that hey, belongs to our property and we're assessing ourselves.

No. If you may recall, last year, the council brought this issue forward as well, and we removed the city parcels and successor agency parcels, and there were a few that were still within the list that was provided, but we did not send them notices. And the city has been diligent under the public works director in getting city properties and successor owned properties abated. So we actually they yes, they're listed, but we did not send them a notice.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Because I saw it on here listed, and I said, then why are they listed on on page 10 of it? I saw it there, and then on page 11, I I saw the other one. I says redevelopment agency city of Rialto. Are we not in compliance? Okay. But thanks for the clarification. Thank you. But maybe we shouldn't have listed on. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye. Well, there was, I think,

a motion and we need a

second. I'll

second that. Andy

Andy Garcetti's second by Carla Perez. And there was discussion. So all those in favor signify by saying Aye. Any opposition hearing none motion carries. We'll move on to tab three.

Thank you, mayor. The presentation this evening will be by Cindy Hernandez from AGI.

Good evening, honorable mayor, city council, staff, and community. My name is Cindy Hernandez with Avant Garde, the city's housing consultant partner. And today, we will be presenting the city's draft annual action plan for fiscal year twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven. The community development block grant program was initiated by an act of congress as part of the housing and community development act of 1974. The CDBG program is funded directly by the federal government's office of housing and urban development, otherwise known as HUD.

HUD is responsible for issuing the city's entitlement fund, and they provide annual grants on a formula basis to cities like Rialto to carry out eligible activities. The city is considered the HUD grant recipient or grantee as they receive the funds directly from HUD. And when the city awards funds to other organizations to carry out programs or activities, they are referred to as subrecipients. These grants provide for a wide range of housing, community, and economic development activities. HUD requires that the city submit an annual action plan.

The annual action plan outlines the city's use of its community development block grant and home investment partnership program funds each year. The one year action plan discusses pandemic. Successful

impact to to

improvement projects. And Fiscal year twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven is the second action plan year of the five year consolidated plan fiscal year 2025 to 2029. CDBG primary objectives are decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and moderate income. A general overview of CDBG eligible activities may include activities such as business assistance, community and public facilities, economic development, infrastructure improvements, and public services. In order to fund activities, the proposed activity must align and address one of the goals from the five year consolidated plan.

It must meet a national objective, and the city must also consider funding caps. Program as administration is subject to 20% of the total allocation, and the city can utilize up to 15% of the allocation to public services. The remaining 65 can go to community facilities and infrastructure improvement projects.

For

fiscal year 06/2027, the city has received a total allocation of $1,075,883. The respective funding caps are seen on the screen. 20% of the allocation for program administration. Up to 15% can be utilized for public services. The city does have a required funding payment of section one zero eight loan, and that's $143,791.10, and the remainder goes to nonpublic services activities.

The one year action plan goes through the ad hoc committee. This year, the ad hoc committee is comprised of the city mayor and city council member Carla Perez, who select activities recommended to city council for funding. City council can then accept or make modifications to the recommendations based on the ad hoc committee's recommendations. This year, the city held a public meeting in front of the ad hoc committee on April 7 and again on April 13. Each agency was given an opportunity to present its proposed program and make a formal request for CDBG funding.

The ad hoc committee deliberated and provided the following recommendations which have been outlined in the following slide and included in the draft annual action plan which was made available for public review recommendations and comment beginning 03/30/2026. As seen on the slide, the recommendations for funding are separated by each funding category and the respective funding caps. There is a total of 13 activities, two for program administration with a funding cap of 20 public services with up to 15% of the allocation, and the remainder go to non public services activities with a total of four activities including that section one zero eight loan repayment. Home program objectives include expanding the supply of decent and affordable housing, particularly for low and very low income, strengthening the abilities to state and local governments to design and implement strategies for affordable housing and achieving adequate supplies, providing financial and technical assistance including development of model programs for affordable low income housing, and extending and strengthening partnerships to produce and operate for affordable housing. This year, the city's home allocation is $343,254.06.

This program also includes respective funding caps. Home program administration is subject to a 10% cap. There is a mandatory set aside for community housing and development organizations, 15%, and the remainder would go to residential rehabilitation grants. Staff recommends that the city council open the public hearing and solicit comments from interested citizens in for the one year action plan, adopt resolution approving the fiscal year twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven annual action plan, authorize the city manager or their designee to submit the annual action plan to HUD, and authorize the city manager manager or their designee to take all actions necessary to implement the programs identified in the action plan. This does conclude my presentation.

Thank you. At this time, we'll. Open it up for public hearing. Do I hear a motion?

So moved.

Motion's been made by Carla Perez. Do I hear a second? Second seconded by Andy Garcetti. This time we'll open it up. Is there any members from the public that would like to address or have any comments in reference to what was presented and what was recommended? Seeing none, do I hear a motion to close the public hearing?

Motion

has been made by Carla Perez seconded by second Edward Montoya. All those in favor signify by saying Aye Aye Aye. Any opposition hearing none at this time?

We'll move it

on to discussion and approval. Do I have? Anyone that would like to discuss it or make a motion to approve?

Communication forms. Okay,

thank you.

So mayor, are they are these organizations coming up to? Discuss their programs or request the funding or how how do we do that?

They actually came to the committee as it was described earlier. We had two separate meetings that myself as the mayor and Carla Perez held the first meeting that we held. We listened to a lot of the recommendations by the organizations, and then we were also notified at the last moment that we actually received less funding. So therefore we asked for another meeting so we can make the adjustments and give the appropriate funding based on the amount of money that was coming in from the federal government. So based on that, they also had an opportunity to come back, but most of them had already made their presentations.

Some of them did come back and make made their presentation, such as the veterans program that came back and we considered them for funding as well along with the others that had already submitted their recommendations. So these are the recommendations. Of the subcommittee based on the amount of dollars that we had from the federal government, and it complies with both the federal and the one year action plan that needs to be taken in order for us to do it. So at this mayor pro tem it's got the other question where

move move adoption of resolution eighty four ninety seven

motion been made by second mayor pro tem it's Scott and seconded by Andy Carter said it's all those in favor Six fly by saying I oppositions hearing on motion carries congratulations to all the organizations that are present here right now. Thank you. Approved. Now we'll move on to tap four.

Yes. Good evening, honorable mayor, mayor and pro tem, city council. Thank you for the opportunity to bring back for the council's discussion and consideration the city's audited financial statements for fiscal year ending 06/30/2025. Our brief agenda this evening is to cover the scope and results of the audit. First we have the scope of the audit.

There's three major phases to this. There's first risk, what we refer to as risk testing. This covers cash, payroll, procedures, internal controls. That's what they look at first before we get started. Then after all of the recording entries and the books are actually closed, we have the fieldwork where the auditor the audit firm collects evidence in order to validate the accuracy of the financial statements.

Finally, in the final phase, they the auditors formulate what we refer to as an audit opinion, and this is based on the evidence and the and they produce the final draft of the audit report, and this is the report that is presented to the council and has been to city administration. There were no significant difficulties or concerns in the process and the auditors had no disagreement with management in terms of accounting or the audit procedures performed. The results of the audit is what we refer to as an unmodified opinion or clean audit. This means that the financial statements fairly are fairly presented in all material respects and most importantly, they accurately represent the financial condition of the city. There are two items for mention, two findings, both under the heading of the report on internal controls and compliance.

And the first one, this is actually a a simple restatement, an accounting classification that was directed by our previous audit firm. And the only reason this is referred to as an error was a change in what we call a GASB, and that is a government accounting standard. So, those can change from year to year. The second, under internal controls, there was a finding, and this was related to a process that the auditor labeled human resources processing deficiency related to inconsistencies in the preparation review and processing of personal action forms. Internally, that's the governing document for making any changes to personnel.

So this was part of the risk testing. This matter has been addressed, and staff are engaged with multiple departments and administration correcting this in terms of standardized procedures as well as use of the city's existing technology in the ERP system. So in conclusion, the city's financial results are presented as a clean audit with financial statements representing fairly presented in material respects, reasonable compliance with accounting practices, there's no fraud or abuse. And finally, they accurately represent the condition of the city. That concludes our report.

And we have the city's audit manager with us as well as deputy director of finance should the council have any detailed questions for further discussion.

Okay. Thank you. Is there any discussion? Because this is to accept review and to file for 2025. Mayor pro tem, it's Scott.

Thank you. I'd like to get a little more into this PAF situation. Can you specifically tell me what we've enacted and what we're doing to resolve this issue? I have a serious concern with the fact that PAFs are not being processed in a timely manner.

In terms of what we have done, so this this involves most importantly the human resource department as well as the finance department as well as the specifically payroll division. So, the the first thing was standardizing the process. This is setting standards in terms of expectations of staff, actual roles, and the overall process. In terms of the use of technology, this is this is a significant one. This is the direction we're going for all of the work that we we are doing related to financial or personnel in the city, and that is I I mentioned the use of the technology we've already paid for.

It's what we refer to as a workflow when something is going through a financial system rather than a paper form that is then scanned, put on the shared drive, and numerous opportunities for something get or lost, delayed, or have inaccuracies. So, the system has a tendency to help safeguard against errors, meaning we're using the data that is already in there with fields that are going to limit user error. That is a process. We can't just roll something out. As the council knows, it can't be done in a rushed fashion, but this has been in the works for months and this is at the direction of the city manager for this to be implemented.

So we we have a couple of steps left, a few things to firm up to to roll that out.

That's good to know. And just a comment, there's nothing more important I think to this council than to make sure that our employees are getting their pay and benefits in a timely and proper manner. And when we hear stories that employees have not gotten benefits, have not gotten pay increases, or even in some cases pay when they should have, that's alarming. So we we need to make sure that this gets corrected not in a timely manner but in an immediate manner. And the other issue is that people in the city who employees in the city who have been overpaid and now are having to pay money back.

That should never occur in this city. And I'm hoping that you put something in place to keep that from happening. My final comment is after we held this over from the last meeting, I appreciate the fact that you and the city manager met with me, went through the audit, we had a good discussion. I hope every other council member here had the opportunity to also meet with you if they so desired. And, that's the way that should happen.

I'm also glad to see the management letter as part of this process. What I would like to see in the future is this pulled out from this binder and sent to us a week or two in advance so that each one of us has the opportunity to really look at it because we have a responsibility to the taxpayers of this city to make sure that the information in here is accurate and that their money, because it's not our money, it's their money, is being protected and spent in a proper manner and way. Thank you very much again for meeting with me.

Thank you.

I have a a couple of go ahead, Liberman.

So I I have a couple of questions as well. You said that we have this new technology and we probably paid a pretty penny for it, But we can't just roll it out. Why can't we? If if it's there, we paid for it. Roll it out. It's there to safeguard. Roll it out.

So if I can answer that. Thank you, council member Antoyega. So I think it's not that we can't roll it out immediately. We are taking immediate steps right now. We've had implementation meetings with our Tyler consultants, with our finance teams, our IT teams, and it is actively in the process right now.

The next stage of the deployment of the the personnel action system within ERP is to meet with the departments to make sure that they're aware and understanding of how their process will change, and in particular public safety departments. When we initially rolled out the ERP system, we had a number of issues with it that related to payroll, unfortunately. And so with this process we want to go very carefully to make sure that what we're implementing not only makes it more efficient, but is also error free. So we're we're going as fast as we can without compromising the integrity of our payroll system.

Okay. Thank you. Last question. Who's responsible for processing PAFs?

The when they they go in stages. So it's initiated at the department. It does go to What department? Any department making a change to an employee. So this could be a simple step increase, something of that nature, higher, anything.

It it's anything related to a change with an employee. It originates with the department, it goes to human resources, and from there, the remaining part of that is done in the finance department. Some of these will change a little bit with the workflow, and that's so this represents a major change in process, as senior manager mentioned. So that's there there's the caution. And when we say caution, we don't mean months and months down the road. We just want to make sure that it is completely error free, especially given the past challenges with payroll. Understood.

And I I think just to echo that, the final signature on all of the PAF forms is human resources, and then it's sent over to payroll for implementation. So at the end of the day, anything that's changing pay and benefits requires the oversight of HR.

Got it. Understood. Thank you. Yeah.

A couple of questions. One one in reference to it would be helpful in in in the future when we we get this report is I I looked down here and it says land held for resale. What do you really mean land held for resale and where is it that we have the land for resale?

Well, it

I know that's on page unfair on figure one and figure two. They're, you know, both of them. When I try to compare the the amount of dollars in each one, and I'm trying to figure out where do we have it.

So, I mean, these these could represent any any vacant lot owned by the city. So do do you know that

that But if we do, it it would be helpful if we knew k. You know, what lands for sale.

Sure. We can certainly get you that report.

Just, you know, in the future. Mean, I'm okay with this here. And then the other question I have, and I know that you mentioned it earlier, but when you mentioned the two findings identified, you know, on page five, it said that, of course, due to a correction error, what action was taken to correct it?

The the the accounting error? Yeah. It was a simple reclassification.

So Just reclassification?

Yes. Just an accounting entry. So there's no there's no material entry whatsoever involving cash or asset or anything else. We mentioned there that the the GASB standard, those do change from year to year, and we're directed to record something in a particular way. And if it has changed year over year, that's that is how it's expected. And it's what it's driving at is standardization of what we refer to as the ACPER, the the audited financial statements. So you can get an apples to apples comparison throughout public agencies.

K. The other area that you identified was it was due to primary staffing challenges within the financial department. Has action been taken to make sure that we have personnel so we don't run into these kind of problems in the future whether it means we advertise, fill those positions that need to be filled because when I looked at it and I don't know if we have filled those positions or not and I think that was part of the question that our mayor pro tem asked is making sure everybody meets payroll when they get paid. But if we don't have the staff that can implement this, that prevents a problem in trying to make sure that we're complying and that we're keeping everybody happy and getting their checks when they should be getting them.

Yes. I I so we have filled numerous positions in the department, especially there there is this

But have you filled them all?

Not all. But we have a one one in particular final recruitment that is pretty critical to the accounting process, and that's a supervisor level over the staff accountants. So we are anticipating that being filled. Have a short list of candidates, and we're anticipating that getting filled very soon. But that's a tangible example of exactly what you're talking about. We have this critical level of it's it's a mid level, but professional level analyst, and so that so that we need these these positions filled, and we need them filled at a competency level to deliver in a timely manner.

Yeah. Well, hopefully, that we can fill these positions so we don't come back and and say, well, we are we're having primary challenges with staffing. And so this way, we don't have some of the same problems that have occurred in the past will not occur in the future by filling the positions that we need to fill and then getting the audit report to us in a timely fashion as well. And with that, do I have a motion? There's no further discussion?

Move that we accept and receive the audit report.

Motion's been made that we accept and review and file the report seconded by, first of all, made by mayor pro tem Ed Scott, seconded by Carla Perez. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposition? Hearing none. Motion carries. Thank you. Is that telling us that we should

is did

We'll

give our technology a minute to catch back up to us here.

Yeah.

I wonder what the cause is. Yeah. It's got us on there.

There we go. Alright.

So tab five this evening, mayor and council will be presented by Kevin Johnston, who is our new IT manager. Thanks, Kevin. Oh,

thank you. Thank you, city manager. Alright. Good evening, honorable mayor, mayor pro tem, and council members. As city manager said, my name is Kevin Johnson.

I'm the IT manager. I'm presenting tab five five requesting council to authorize a purchase order with nth generation in an amount not to exceed 475,000 for four Cisco 9,000 series switches and two Palo Alto thirty four twenty firewalls utilizing a NASSCO cooperative purchasing agreement. The reason we're doing it as not to exceed amount is because due to the volatility of pricing on on technology related to AI and data centers, Cisco is advice advising us that their pricing is only good for fourteen days. So the quotes that we've supplied amount to $457,737.58. I believe the Cisco quote expires Friday.

The city's core network infrastructure has reached end of life and will stop receiving software and security updates within the next year, which has a significant impact on the city's security posture. The switches act as the backbone for connectivity between city hall buildings and remote sites, while the firewalls provide security between city sites and the Internet in general. Conventional wisdom regarding cybersecurity is that an attack is a matter of when, not if. And our goal is to provide security or defense in-depth, meaning multiple overlapping layers so that if one defense fails, others can still stop an attacker. If you can imagine our environment as a medieval castle with our data at the center, the firewalls and switches are our first lines of defense similar to a moat or the high walls of a castle, respectively.

Gavin? No offense, but this is kinda boring, so we'll move approval.

Oh, most have been made by mayor of

Prate and

miss Scott, seconded by Carla Perez.

And it's nice to meet you.

You too. Thank you. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Congratulations on passing the first one.

Thank you very much.

Aye. Okay. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. I have tab number six. Hello,

mayor, mayor pro tem, and council. The item before you is to asking council to purchase at least well, I'm gonna ask for 10. 10 Ford Explorer police interceptor vehicles from Fairview Ford.

For approval.

Thank you.

Motion's been made by Carla Perez. Do I hear a

second? Second.

Seconded by mayor pro tem Ed Scott. Any discussion? The only thing I'd say that I know that we're purchasing, you know, the the Ford Explorers, but this basically sort of, like, tells us that maybe we need a car dealership here in the city of Rialto instead of going to San Bernardino to purchase the vehicles. That's

Yes, sir. No no disagreement there.

All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposition? Hearing none. Motion carries.

Thank you, counsel. That

concludes the items on the tab and consent items. So at this time, we'll move on to reports by members of the the council. So we'll start with my mayor, my council member to the left, Carla Perez.

Thank you, mayor. Nothing to report.

Council member Edward Montoya.

Yeah. Thank you, mayor. This past couple of weeks, I attended the tactical medicine expo at California University of Science and Medicine over there by Arrowhead Hospital. It was a really cool event. Helicopters.

I've seen a lot of our firefighters, our our police officers, and it was it was really nice to see all of these different agencies getting together and and providing support for one another. I also attended the neighborhood health pre grand opening. Councilwoman Perez was also there. I attended the Rialto High School NJROTC military ball as an honored guest, and that was a really cool opportunity to be selected as a honored guest to their to their military ball. I attended the Rialto on Wheels.

Right after the Rialto on Wheels, I headed over to the River Ranch summer nights community gathering and market. This is the first year that they've held this, and it was really nice to see their new community coming together to put on an event. Even though it got rained out, it was nice to see everybody getting together, sharing food with one another, selling little things that they make within their community. And lastly, I attended a Mission Freedom event. This is an organization that is available to veterans, and it assists them with dealing with their PTSD traumas and things of that nature.

So it's really cool organization called Mission Freedom, and veterans can check it out, and they can learn about themselves, learn how to heal, and learn how to be a a better, more productive member of their community. And that's all. Thank you.

Thank you. Next council member Andy Caraceras.

Thank you, mayor. Send it

to the Rialto on wheels like most everyone here on the diocese.

We wanna thank our city clerk for doing such a fantastic job putting it together with Healthy Rialto. Our our police and fire were there, and really big shout out to some of the amazing bikes that were there, a lot of the vintage BMX bikes. One of the winners for first place, there he is, Billy. From all the way from Las Vegas, came down from Las Vegas to take the first place and best in show. So congratulations to them to him, and his brother actually won second place.

So they pretty much swept it. Big shout out to Don's bike for their participation, all the bikes that were donated, and so all the the elected officials that donated bikes along with our county supervisor Joe Baca junior who also donated a lot of bikes. I saw his his face on all of them, a lot of them. It looks like PD, fire, everyone donated bikes. It's a really good community event.

I think everyone that that stayed actually received a a a bike because there was just that many. So that's great to see that that we have such a huge participation from our community, our electeds, and and mostly very well put together by our city clerk that really does a fantastic job putting all these resources together. So thank you very much. One thing I'd like to see in the the future is, and they were, they had a lot of awareness with e bikes, but I'd like to see a component in the future, even a different bike show that incorporates a lot of the the e bikes. E bikes are becoming very popular, so I wanna make sure that our community knows and is aware of the regulations about e bikes.

You know, they're supposed to be on the streets, not on the sidewalk. So just more of an awareness of of how ebikes should be driven in our city and just give information to all of our community. And that's all I have, mayor. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, mayor pro tem at Scott.

Thank you, mister mayor. On April 20, I had the honor and privilege of attending the annual victims memorial that was put on at Sunrise Church by district attorney Jason Anderson. I happened to run into chief Kling and some of his officers at that event. It was a beautiful event, very nice. There were three speakers.

One was a young man who I was gonna say was about 10, 11 years old, chief. Right? That just gave an outstanding speech. His mother had been murdered. He's gone through a program over at Loma Linda, and he was just an amazing young man.

But it was a really good event, And I'm very happy to see that it was brought to Rialto at Sunrise Church. Well worth going to if anybody gets a chance this next year to go to it. I would encourage anybody in Rialto, especially my fellow council members to attend. I also attended Saturday, the ride Ride Rialto. I spent the entire day with the city clerk, and it was a lot fun.

It it just really was a lot of fun. I did go on a ride. Mister mayor, I didn't ride a bike. I I rode a golf cart. The police department was flying around on, and thank god because that ride was about 10 miles, and a lot of it was uphill. But my hats off to everybody that was in that ride. This is really an event that very few other cities do. That is something that our city clerk and and Don Spikes should be very proud of. And I I would like to see it grow and expand. It was just a great event.

And I also wanna commend the residents of this city for having the courtesy even though there were a lot of police officers to make sure they stopped. But they were very respectful to the riders and stopped and yielded and waited for the riders to go by. So thank you community for doing that. It was, just again, a great event. Barbara, you and your staff, all the city staff that helped, our police department, fire department, great job. It was just a really, really good event.

Thank you.

Also, today, I attended the Southern California Edison Forum, kind of a boring thing to attend, almost like going to an IT convention. But it they talked about the upcoming PSPs, the where we're gonna get our electric service shut down because of possible fires. They are predicting that there will be 30 heat wave days this year. Last year, there were 14. So that tells you our electricity is gonna be shut off a lot this summer.

So we should prepare for it as a community. The one thing that I did wanna talk about is they have a program. City of Norwalk is participating with batteries for residents that need them for necessity. I know, chief, you've got some batteries over there. I let Barbara McGee know that you have them.

She may be coming for them. I'd watch out for her. But we should maybe engage with our rep at Edison and get a more active program to assist seniors and individuals who have illnesses and stuff where they have to have certain types of equipment and they need electricity for it during these shutdowns. So I would like to for us, city city manager to reach out to Carina at Southern California Edison and see if we can duplicate the program that they have at Norwalk. But it looks like it's gonna be a hot summer, folks. So let's get prepared for it. Thank you, mister mayor.

Thank you very much. Next, I'd like to give my report. I participated in career day at Antone at elementary school in San Bernardino, and it was nice to pick speak speak to third graders and fifth graders. It's it's a lot difficult to try to communicate with a lot of the third graders in terms of career day, but I think they really enjoyed the fact is that quite a few people from within the community, surrounding communities, went out and spoke at the elementary school. The other thing that we attended, it was council member Edward Montoya, city manager, Tanya Williams.

We attended the city's leadership summit in Sacramento, and it also gave us an opportunity to lobby with a lot of the legislators in reference to some of our concerns that we have, and we're hoping that, we'll be on the radar for additional funding. And I'm glad that you mentioned the heat waves that are coming up because that was one of the areas that we did lobby and trying to get funding for splash pads at our parks. And we mentioned the four parks in in that area. We also lobbied for water, our water well that we need to have plumes in that area. And then the the other area that we lobby to as well was for our senior roofs that we need improvement with the roof.

And then our veterans memorial too that we have that we also talked about. And it seems like all of them were quite interested in putting it on their radar for the possibility of recommendations. And then, of course, you know, I happened to talk to a chief plane prior to going up there, and he says, you know what? You've got a lobby for us in public safety, especially as it pertains to the cameras that are needed in our area. So we actually talked about those with each and every one of the lobbyists.

So they're looking at that too as well. And we explained, why it's so important to have these cameras that are there. And I used myself and my wife that was in attendance too as well as an example, why the why these lights are are important, these cameras, at the intersections because, you know, when there's an accident that happens, a lot of times, people witness it, but they don't stay there. And so what happens is the police officers are trying to figure out, you know, who's at fault, you know. And a lot of times when you don't have those kind of cameras, it's very difficult.

But having those kind of cameras, now you'll be able to identify who that person, who actually ran the red light or crashed into another car. So it's it's very vital and important for our city for safety of our area. So we mentioned that to a lot of them. So they like the idea of the analogy that I use because I personally was involved in in an accident like that where someone else, but I was very fortunate that the witness stood there and testified that it was the other individual that ran a red light and, well, I had the green light. The other area that, well, that was the last area that we had, but I also, attended, like everyone here, on the diocese, Rialto On Wheels, was very well attended, in the area.

There was a lot of bikes that were given out. A lot of members from our communities came out. I think it's an excellent event that we're providing, and thank you, Barbara, for being involved for some time in, Rialto on Wheels in allowing our community to participate, especially a lot of our youth that get an opportunity opportunity to ride their bikes, and they're escorted by our police department. You know? So how often do you get an escort, you know, that the police department is there with them every step of the way?

And none of the individuals, would be able to ride their bikes, but they had to have a helmet. And those who didn't have a helmet, were told to go back and register and get a helmet and get back on it. So I also wanna compliment the fire department too as well because the fire department and the police department were very active in the, Rialto on Wheels and participated, and there was a lot of kids that were going over to the fire department, the police department, and just asking questions about how do I become a fire fighter or how do I become a police officer too as well. So I wanna thank both of you for departments for being involved in it. Last but not least, I I also attended the Rialto Unified School District Rialto Ritz Gala.

It's a talented individuals that perform from variety of different schools throughout the city of Rialto, and they show off their talents during that period of time. So it could be any kid between the ages of five all the way through high school. And, it was a very interesting, event that's held every year, put on by Reality Unified School District. And I encourage, our members here to to go in the future to show that we're working with them as well as them with us in terms of our community. And and I know that some members from here have gone in the past. And this year, sometimes, schedules just doesn't permit. You know? I'd to do that. Yeah. But that concludes my report.

So I'd like to move on to reports by other members of the council. I'd like to, first of all, call on our city clerk, Barbara McGee.

Well, I have nothing to report. You guys have talked about the bike show, so I'm good. Thank you.

How many bikes did you give away?

About 80. And that was well, I guess I will say report from the a lot of them came from the police department. I wanna thank them, and they also sponsored the safe moves that was sponsored by the police department. And then from the fire department, thirty six eighty eight donated about 30 bikes out there. So it was donated and then I wanna thank you council member Perez, bikes, council member Matoi, and mayor pro tem, thank you for the bikes, and the kids was excited.

They wanted to meet you, but they met mayor pro tem, and they was happy. He actually spent the day with me. So he was my date on Saturday. So so, yes, I had a date on Saturday. It was mayor pro tem.

We're sorry you got stuck with him.

I have

to be

glad that he's

old. No. It was good. No. But but seriously, the little kids know all the little kids that came around was was happy and that they was happy to spend a date with the mayor pro tem. So. And I thank all you guys for coming out mayor and and so next year in PD and fire, thank you so much for your bikes. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Next, I'd like to move on to our city manager, Tanya Williams.

Good evening. No report tonight. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, I'd like to move on to our city attorney, Eric Vail.

Thank you, mayor. No report tonight.

I'd like to like like to move on to our police chief, Mark Clean.

Hello, mayor. Mayor pro tem of council. I'll I'll gonna kinda go in a different direction and kind of think our clerk talked about this a little bit earlier, and I I wanna just kinda talk from holistic. I don't think there's an employee in our agency, and I'm gonna probably speak for the fire department also on this one even though the chief, I'm not sure, is capable of really looking truly at what we do here in the community, but more importantly, what we're giving back to the community in the way of whether it's, you know, bicycles or just interaction or having community events. I think it's really important for us to continue building the strong momentum that we've got going on with both of our departments as we look at a public safety entity.

I couldn't be more proud than our with our department. I will tell you that this coming on May 1, our department's gonna kinda push forward a little bit different perspective, and we're gonna challenge Carter High School and their soccer team at 6PM. It's a fundraiser, and it's put on it's for for their team and it's also for Rialto police benefit. There are our unions, the general unit. And I think it's really important not only with that aspect of it, but I couldn't be more proud of our department.

This last weekend, we participated in a basketball tournament for Hector Cuevas junior who was a deputy that was killed on March 17 at twenty five up in High Desert. Our teams competed and played several games that day and Rialto PD prevailed. I had a little bit of chippy going on with the sheriff that day, so I thought it was really nice that we actually beat Central Station. If you know anything about that, that's exactly where the headquarters is. But we did take home the trophy.

That trophy, pretty nice size. First annual is going to be in our brand new lobby, which by the way we're moving in on that day on May 7 is still still what we're doing. The ribbon cutting again, counsel, just put on your calendars. We'll send out more information in July, but or the August. It just depends on how well the the parking lot goes.

I also just wanna tell counsel that, we also sent a team up to, Baker to Vegas, last month. There was 272 teams that were competing, and if you think about there's 20 runners and do the math, Rialto Police Department came out number 21 overall. We improved our time by over an hour, and this is just the heart and soul of this police department now. We came in third in our division, which is a very, very tough division, but our times were faster than agencies that are sometimes three to four times our size. So we're really, really proud.

And then I do also just wanna close by telling the fire department that we're coming for you. The only thing we haven't won that is the baseball tournament, but, hey, we're up next. So I just wanna put that out there for everybody. Yeah, chief. That's a challenge. So that's my report tonight, counsel. Thank you so much.

They have pretty good golfers, the fire department. You know what?

They do. And we're not too good at golf, but we're gonna try to do our best if they would like to challenge us. Thank you, mayor. Appreciate that.

Next, I'd like to call on our fire chief, Chris Jensen.

Thank you, mayor. We too would have attended all of those events, but chief Kling issued us a restraining order so we couldn't compete against him. So

That's what it was. First

of all, I just wanna I attended the Rialto On Wheels event, and I was there for a good part of the day. And just seeing the smile on the kids' faces and them with their parents, it was an amazing event. And I got to speak to several of the kids as well as the parents, and they are super appreciative of that event. So thank you, and well done. The second part of my speech was that there are no reported PSPSs, public safety power shutdowns in our area currently and no local outages.

So something is happening. And, mayor pro tem, I just wanted to thank you for bringing up the thirty days of heat. It's a great reminder that, you know, 38% of our population is vulnerable under heat conditions and ensuring that our cooling centers are operational before the heat actually gets there. So I appreciate you reminding us of that. As we enter into May, I just wanna point out a few things.

May is wildfire awareness month. So you see a lot of activities dealing with wildfires just around the region. May 4 is International Firefighters Day, and May is Arson Aware awareness week, and May is EMS week. So just keep those in mind as we go into May, and I appreciate the council, and thank you.

Thank you. Next, I'll call in the public works director, Yas Yarami.

Thank you Mr. Mayor. Just a quick report since the last report that I provided in terms of the work orders that we've done. Our crews have been very active. We did almost 400 work orders cleaning up graffiti.

We had two seventy one work orders fixing potholes, different different parts of the city and 153 work orders cleaning up trash and debris. And of course we wanted to thank our crews also. They did a great job cleaning the route for Rialto on wheels on this past Saturday. We are going to wait for a little bit warmer temperature to do the our stenciling. We need some warmer weather for that but that is going to resume as long as soon as the weather warms up. Thank you, mister mayor.

And and thank you very much especially on on the potholes because I've heard a lot being out in the community. I'm sure my colleagues here have been out there too as well and we're getting a lot of good compliments from members in our communities that say that our our roads are a lot better. Our potholes are being fixed in the city of Rialto. So that's positive image, that others are now talking about Rialto outside of Rialto about Rialto and what it's doing right now. So, thank you very much. Next, I'd like to call on Christina Taylor, our community development director.

Thank you, mayor. Nothing to report this evening.

Thank you. Next, I'd like to call in our parks recreation director, Cynthia Alvarado, Crawford.

Good evening, mayor, mayor Pro Tem, and members of the council. Here's what's going on in Rialto. Summer camp registration opens online and in person this Friday, May 1 at 7AM for all of June and July weekly sessions. International festival will be this Friday, May 1 at Rialto City Park from 05:30 to 09:30. We have 40 vendors that will be at our event, 23 are food, and we have several different entertainment groups that will be out there performing.

Star Wars Spirit Day will be Monday, May 4, all day at Grace Vargas Senior Center. So if you wanna stop by with your favorite Star Wars t shirt or mask or costume, please stop on by and take some selfies. Wreck and roll will be at Joe Sampson Park every Tuesday and Friday beginning Tuesday, May 5, from 6PM to 8PM. Let siesta till we see the senior social will be Thursday, May 7 at Grace Vargas Senior Center from 2PM to 4PM. Volleyball division one summer season will begin Friday, May 8 at Carl Johnson Center gym.

Games start at 6PM. Basketball summer season begins Saturday, May 9 at Carl Johnson Center gym. Games start at 10AM. Feeding America senior meal distribution will be Wednesday, May 20 at Grace Vargas Senior Center from 9AM to 11AM. And then your save the dates are our memorial day tribute, Monday, May 25 at Rialto Park Cemetery from 10AM to 1PM. And then our fourth of July celebration, which will be Saturday, July 4 at Jerry Eaves from 05:30 to 09:30PM. And that concludes my announcements.

Thank you. Next, I'd like to call on our finance director, Scott Williams.

Thank you, mayor. No report.

Thank you. And that basically concludes our reports for the day. Do I hear a motion to adjourn?

So moved.

Motion's been made by Carla Perez, seconded by Edward Montoya. Those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposition? Hearing none. Council's adjourned.