City Council - Regular Meeting

Closed session will come to order. At this time, the City Council, City of Rialto, the acting successor agency to the redevelopment agency, the Rialto Utilities Authority, the Rialto Housing Authority is now in session. At this time, I have the clerk call the roll call.

Mayor Baca?

Present.

Mayor Potem Scott? Present. Council Member Perez? Present. Council Member Montoya? Present.

Council member carousel is present City attorney Eric Bell City manager Tanya Williams Thank you all members president accounted for it this time I'll call on the city attorney to go over some of the items that will be discussed in closed session Thank you, Mayor.

We have three primary items on the agenda for today. The first is conference with legal counsel with regard to four items of existing litigation. Three of those are all related, and those three items that are the second, third, and fourth items are also related to item two which is a conference with your real property negotiator your third primary item is a conference with legal counsel with regard to one item of anticipated litigation to discuss the results of the mediation that we recently had with newland lewis hillwood and the city of rialto concludes the report thank you thank you is there any comments from the public seeing none any members wish to

Say anything at this point? If not, do I hear a motion to close?

So moved.

Motion's been made to close session. Motion's been made by Carla Perez, seconded by Edward Montoya. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposition? Hearing none from three and two. I didn't hear, but that's okay. I think we all assume it's a closed session. All five.

You're going into a closed session now, right? Right. Oh, okay.

I was just kidding. Meeting to order. The city council, city of Rialto, the acting successor agency to the redevelopment agency, Rialto Utilities Authority, the Rialto Housing Authority will now come to order. Will the clerk please call the roll?

Mayor Bauckham? Present. Mayor Pro Tem Scott? Present. Council Member Carrizales? Present. Council Member Perez? Present. Council Member Montoya?

Present.

city attorney eric bell president city manager tanya williams also mary and mayor pro tem council i want to let the record reflect that the city trade will be absent i think he's at a city treasure conference thank you with that all members uh president accounted for at this time we'll stand up for the pledge of allegiance that will be led by council member edward montoya

Everyone face the flag, hand over your heart.

Begin.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

If you can remain standing, at this time we'll have the invocation that will be led by Pastor Scott Hart from the Calvary Chapel.

Father, we thank you, Lord, for all of your mighty works that you have done for us, Lord. We give you praise and we lift up your name. We thank you that you are a good and gracious God. And today we thank you for the death, burial and resurrection of your son, Jesus, who has delivered us from our sin and who has opened the way to your throne that you would receive our prayers. our petition and our praise father we thank you for our city council lord we thank you for all of our elected officials and father we would pray that you would grant these leaders the ability to act with wisdom and foresight that they would seek your guidance in all their decisions lord and father we pray your blessing upon our community we pray for your peace and prosperity for our citizens we pray for the health and safety of our law enforcement our emergency responders And Father, as our council gathers today, we ask for your spirit of unity to be present. Help us set aside any personal agendas, Lord, or differences, and that we may work together, Lord, in harmony for the welfare of our city. Lord, we thank you. We pray for your guidance now as the council engages in its discussions, as it makes decisions. We pray that you will grant the members wisdom and guidance as they deliberate on the agenda items before them. And we pray that every decision be righteous in your sight for the benefit of the citizenry and to your glory. And it's in Jesus' name we pray, amen. Amen. Thank you, you may be seated.

This time we'll call on the city attorney to give us a report on closed session.

Thank you, Mayor. We had three primary items on your agenda this evening. The first was a conference with legal counsel on four items of existing litigation. You did have a report from the city attorney and gave direction on all of those. There was no other reportable action. there was one item of real property negotiations you heard a report from the city attorney and from the director of community development services you gave direction there was no other reportable action on that and then finally you had one item of anticipated litigation That was an update on the mediation you gave direction to legal counsel. And that concludes our report.

Thank you. Thank you very much. At this time, then, we'll move on to presentations and proclamations. We'll start off with the first one, which is recognizing the Rialto girls softball team AU division. And I will get up there. And then later on, I'll call all the council members to come up front. Thank you very much. We have some recognition. We'd like to recognize the Rialto Girls AU Softball Desperado Team. And I'd like to call Sam Rodriguez up front, please. Sam, we also have certificates for all of the girls that are present right now, and boys. Is it just all girls? All girls. All girls that are here from the county supervisor, Joe Baca, Jr., from the fifth district that we'll give out. But I'll read what it says. It says, in recognition of your outstanding leadership and unwavering dedication to youth, athletes, and building a championship, A championship team, Culture Health leads the team to its first place division in 2026 spring season. The city of Rialto proudly congratulates you on this remarkable achievement. And this certificate is presented by myself, the Mayor Joe Baca, Ed Scott, Mayor Pro Tem, Andy Caraceres, council member. Carla Perez, council member. And Edward Montoya, city council member. So on behalf of all of us, we'd like to present the certificate. And once again, we'd like to congratulate all of the girls that participated. And thank you very much girls for being out there because you're setting an example for other girls that want to be champions like you. You can say, I did it, you can do it. Isn't that right? That's right, they can come back and be champions like you. You dedicated the time and the energy and it paid off because it doesn't just happen overnight. Takes a lot of discipline, takes a lot of hard work and it takes teamwork and you were all a team. that play together and you were able to accomplish this. So on behalf of the city, I'd like to present this certificate and then after you say a few words, I'd like to invite all of the girls and members of the city council member to also be present up front. Sam?

I wasn't expecting this. I'm sorry, guys. Thank you so much for your recognition on the pursuit for these girls to go after the championship. They worked very hard. They've been with me for over two years now. It wasn't just me, though. It took a tribe of people to do this. It was the parents. It was the coaching staff and the great leadership of the moms that helped us out. um i'm very proud of these girls uh this moment for me is as you guys can see it's exciting and i'm sure our girls are loving it too but they're the champions and i'm just happy to be part of it thank you guys i really honor this give me a round of applause

We can have all of the girls come up front and the coaches up front right here and we're gonna take a photo with all of us And the City Council members could please come up front right over here Oh

If you notice, we'll just move a little bit forward, right here a little bit, and then we'll have the council member just get right behind back here.

That way you guys are going to put your... Come on, ladies.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Now we'll move on with the rest of the agenda. We'll move on to oral communications.

Are there any oral communications?

No.

Okay, seeing none, then we'll move into the consent item. All matters under the consent item calendar are considered to be routine by the city council and may be acted at one point. And any member that wishes to pull out any item from the agenda can also do so. Is there any member in the audience that'd like to pull any items from the consent item? Seeing none, do I hear a motion from the council to accept the consent? So moved. Motion's been made by Mayor Pro Tem Ed Scott, seconded by Council Member Carla Perez. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. any opposition hearing none and by the way uh the girls and guys if you guys want to leave you can leave too as well you don't have to stay in if you don't want And thank you very much for representing the city of Rialto and being our champions.

What if they wanted to see what was on the consent calendar?

Tell the coach to take you to Dairy Queen. Put it on Ed's tab. Go to Hamdo's. Go to Hamdo's. You have ice cream, don't you? With that, then... Since we've passed the consent item and voted on, now we'll move on to tab one.

Good evening, mayor, members of city council, Yaz, I'm Ronnie, your public works director. This is a public hearing to adopt a resolution approving the engineer's report for levy assessment for our special districts and will be presented by Michael Rona, deputy director for maintenance and facilities for public works.

Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and members of council. I will be providing you with a presentation highlighting the details of the engineering report. So there we go. So Street Light District 1, the city established SLD 1 throughout the entire city to fund the operation of the city's street light system consisting of over 3,750 street lights and to fund costs for tree trimming and maintenance. Proposition 218 limits the tree trimming and maintenance, excuse me. Proposition 218 limits the special assessments levied in SLD 1 to a historic maximum special assessment prior to November 1996. SLD rates, assessments of parcels depend on their classification as residential or commercial or whether or not they are vacant or developed. For residential, a land benefit factor of 818 per acre applies with a minimum assessment of $2.05 and a development factor of $24.03 applies to each residential parcel. The maximum special assessment for a typical residential parcel is $26.08 and cannot be increased without prior voter approval. Non-residential properties include commercial, professional, office, and industrial uses. The city applies an assessment formula similar to residential properties. The maximum special assessment for a typical commercial parcel is $56.18. The minimum assessment is $4.09. SLD 1, budget summary. In previous years, SLD 1 has faced budgetary challenges, operating at a deficit and relying on the general fund to absorb the excess expenses. Staff projections estimate that the maximum collection for SLD 1 will reach about 872,000 However, the anticipated expenditures for fiscal year 2627 are approximately $1.4 million, resulting in a project budget deficit of 535,771. Historically, this deficit has been addressed by transferring the needed funds from the general fund for a comprehensive overview and a detailed budget is included as attachment one in your report. Moving on to LMD 1. LMD 1, in 1977 we also established LMD 1 to fund the maintenance of exterior parkway and median irrigation and landscape adjacent to and associated with private land development. LMD 1 is comprised of three zones, residential with no trees, residential with trees, and non-residential multi-family. Each zone has an independent maximum special assessment, which is listed in your report. LMD budget summary. As a result of consistent increases in labor and utility costs, the cost to maintain the improvements within LMD 1 in prior years exceeded the maximum special assessment that can be levied within LMD 1. The city estimates the total collection for residential zones 1 and 2 to be $475,292. The city estimates the total collection for non-residential zone three within LMD one to be $460,771. The projected expenditures for the non-residential zone three are balanced, resulting in no deficit and requiring no contribution from the general fund. The engineering report for LMD one provides a full discussion and a detailed budget is included as attachment two for your report. LMD 2, in January 2005, City Council established LMD 2. The city currently maintains over 50 acres of landscaped area and over 180 streetlights within that LMD 2. This slide provides a map of the current and future LMD 2 areas north of Foothill. This slide provides a map of the current and future LLMD 2 areas south of Foothill. The LMD2 budget summary, the total estimated expenses for our LMD2s are approximately $1.1 million for zones one through 18. The maximum allowable assessment that may be levied is approximately 1.5. This results in no deficit requiring no contribution from the general fund. Again, in Zone L, the total estimated expenses are $43,060 for Zone L. Of those expenses, $36,250 are considered a general benefit to the city as a whole and are not covered by the assessment. The maximum allowable assessment that may be levied is $24,153, but only $18,907 in assessments are needed to cover expenses as well as a reserve fund collection. Staff is recommending that City Council defer any increase in special assessments at this time for all zones of benefit within LLMD 2, except for Zone 2. There will be a proposed increase of eight cents per EBU for Zone 2. Zone 2 includes parcels generally considered non-residential properties, commercial, industrial, and office buildings. The engineering report for LLMD 2 provides a full discussion and a detailed budget is included as attachment three and could be found on page 31. Implemented strategies to help drive the maintenance costs down. Use of in-house staff to conduct minor repairs and services reducing maintenance costs. Reassessing of contracts created competitive bid specifications for contracted maintenance services such as landscape tree trimming and street light maintenance. New and existing developments, we've had changes to the specifications for irrigation systems for the new developments. Conditional assessment of irrigation systems, we conducted a detailed inventory and performed irrigation repairs to prevent water waste in the utility usage. A utility consumption audit. We identified high cost annexations, inventory and repair non-metered annexations that were operating on noids for improved management and performed irrigation repairs to reduce water consumption. And then deficiency notices. Holding contractors accountable for services requiring contractors to replace dead plant material and increasing staff inspection intervals, ensuring compliance within contracted services outlined in the work scopes. With the implementations of these improvements, we have successfully maintained the reduction in projected costs and expenses across LMDs for fiscal year 26-27. So the next steps is the city published notices for the public hearing as required by the California streets and highway codes. The next step in the process are to hold a public hearing and adopt associated resolutions, authorizing the levy of the assessments, maintaining the rates for fiscal year 26-27 for each special district. Thank you, this concludes my presentation. I'm available for any questions, as well as a representative from Webb. And I just wanna make a note that the method for calculating the special assessments for these districts have not changed from last year.

Okay, thank you. This is a public hearing. Are there any comments from the public that's here? Have we received any notice from the public that wants to address this?

No, we have not, Mayor.

Thank you seeing none Do I hear a motion to close the public hearing? Motions been made by councilmember Carla Perez. Do I hear a second second it by Edward Montoya Any discussion for the discussion hearing none public hearing is closed So at this time I'll open it up to the members of the council Are there any discussions for members of the council I If not, do I hear a motion? Other than that, I'm glad that we're putting on the lights. I think it's good. And you mentioned at the beginning that was 350 some lights that we're going to be installing?

So we maintain, let me get back to that note real quick, 3,750 street lights.

Okay. Which is good for our city, so it makes it a lot safer in terms of the lights that are gonna be put on. Hearing none.

Motion to adopt resolution number eight five two one Resolution number eight five two two and resolution number eight five two three.

Okay motions been made. Do I hear a second? Second second it by councilmember Edwin Montoya and the original motion was made by councilwoman Carla Perez any other discussion Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Seeing none, motion carries. Thank you, congratulations. Thank you, good night. We'll move on to tab two.

Mayor, before we move on, actually, I'm sorry, but I would like for the motion, which is Councilman Perez, to read the resolutions and what they are, their title, since we are doing assessments and...

resolution motion to adopt resolution number 8521 approving the engineers reports and ordering the levy of assessments for fiscal year 2026-2027 for streetlight maintenance district number one resolution number 8522 approving the engineers reports and ordering the levy of assessments for fiscal year 2026-2027 for landscape maintenance district number one and resolution number 8523, approving the engineer's reports and ordering the levy of assessments for fiscal year 2026-2027 for landscaping and lighting district number two.

Thank you.

Thank you. With that, now we'll move on to tab two.

All right.

Good evening, honorable Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, council members. So the presentation for you tonight, the applicant investment building group is requesting that the council review and consider the project Willow and Valley Warehouse project. so the project site is located on the northeast corner of valley boulevard and willow avenue the site is comprised of three parcels approximately six acres in size currently the zone is freeway commercial within the gateway specific plan So the site today is 50% vacant and the other half is developed with an existing building used for storage and office there, approximately 36 to 37,000 square feet. It's being proposed to be demolished there. So the specifics on the proposal tonight is a request to change the general plan land use designation to business park with a specific plan overlay. To change the specific plan zoning designation to industrial park within the gateway specific plan. They will be consolidating three parcels into two to facilitate the construction of one building that is 46,758 square feet, and then another building that is 73,210 square feet. Both buildings will be able to accommodate various storage and distribution uses. Oops. Let me go to the next slide here. There you go. Oh, I had a little delay there. Back this up here. there we go okay so a little bit of detail on the general plan as you can see the exhibits on the left currently the project site has an existing designation of land use is commercial general commercial with a specific plan overlay and on the right the applicant's proposal to change the project site to business park with the specific plan overlay The next slide has the detail on the specific plan amendment being requested. Again, the project site today has a freeway commercial zoning designation within the general or the gateway. And the proposal is to move that over to a industrial park or IP zones. Both the general plan land use designation and the zoning designation that are being proposed will be similar to many of the surrounding properties in the area. So this next slide goes over the site design. For orientation purposes, the north arrow would be the left side of the slide here. That being said, the proposed buildings are located on the east side of the property with vehicle parking areas proposed to the north, south, and west of the buildings. 111 vehicle parkings to be specific with 15 truck parking or the trailer spaces. The exhibit includes four of these red arrows which just kind of identify the four driveways that will be used to access the site. There will be screen walls proposed as well everywhere necessary to fully screen any truck trailers as well as the dock doors from any public view. The exhibit also incorporates landscape planters throughout the site and water quality improvements as well. So this next slide has the floor plans. Building one includes 6,400 square feet of office area with 66,810 warehouse. This includes 10 dock doors and two grade level. Building two with half of the office area at 3,200 and a warehouse area of 43,558. That includes five dock doors and one grade level. So in terms of the architectural design, the elevations for the building, they do incorporate wall plane articulation, including breaks up to three feet in depth. They also incorporate roof height variations ranging from 32 and a half feet to 35. This is typical the concrete tilt up construction. So those walls will have reveals. We painted in three different colors. Glazing will also be incorporated more abundantly at the office corners. And then there will also be some metal eyebrow accents as well. And so for the landscape, there's 19.6% coverage proposed here. That's coming in the way of a 25 foot landscape along Valley Boulevard up to 38 along Willow and Parkway Landscaping. The site will include drought tolerant plants and 30 or approximately trees at 30 linear feet. Any area of the site after that that's not covered by building or paving will be covered with shrubs and ground cover. So a traffic scoping memo was prepared by Dudek. It was reviewed by the city's traffic engineer consultant. And it was, these are the numbers here shown for you. The finding was that the project did scope out of the VMT per CEQA guidelines and that the trip generation did not generate enough traffic to be significant. and that all segments and intersections in the area will continue to operate at the current level. So overall environmental review, an initial study was prepared. The MND was also prepared. These documents were published and circulated for a 30-day comment period. That was February 11th through March 12th of this year. During that period, two letters were received. The responses to those comments are incorporated in the final MND. And then to summarize, this project is consistent with the proposed IP zone, chapter 18112 of the Rialto Municipal Code that regulates indoor storage facilities, the city's design guidelines, as well as the existing industrial uses located to the northeast, west, and southwest. The environmental studies that were prepared concluded that the impacts for the project would be less than significant when incorporating the mitigations in the MMRP. The project will serve to improve an existing site that's underdeveloped, vacant, with the highest and best use that can be accommodated by the proposed IP zone. This project was introduced to EDC back in November 9th of 2022. Public hearing notices were mailed to all the property owners within 1,000 foot radius and published in the San Bernardino newspaper On that I just kind of wanted to also note that as of 24 hours ago, I guess yesterday afternoon staff did receive an email letter And I believe a copy of that has been provided for a council as well. I And there is one more slide I'm trying to get to. Oh, it's on my screen, but it's not on your guys's. In any case, let me go ahead and read it off. Oh, it's still not there. Yeah, anyway, so without the slide, the last but not least is on April 15th of 2026, the Planning Commission did vote 6-0 with one absence. They recommended the City Council approve the project with the MND. as such staff and the Planning Commission recommend that the City Council adopt the attached resolutions before you tonight thereby approving the proposed project subject to the findings and conditions therein that's all I have for you for tonight thank you this is a public hearing is there anyone from the public interested in speaking on this item

Good evening. My name is Chase Preciado. I'm a paralegal from Lizzo Drury LLP here on behalf of Supporters Alliance for Environmental Responsibility or SAFER. There is substantial evidence of a fair argument the Willow and Valley Warehouses project may result in significant adverse biological impacts. Therefore, SAFER respectfully requests that the City Council deny approval of the MND and instead require the City to prepare an EIR before project approval. Expert wildlife ecologist Dr. Sean Smallwood concluded that the project will significantly impact biological resources. First, he found that the city failed to fully account for the diversity of species that use the project site as habitat, including at least two special status species. The city also omitted any comparative context to interpret its wildlife survey results and relied on a flawed literature review. Thus, the city's description of the project's environmental setting is inadequate. The city must prepare an EIR to properly characterize the wildlife community at the project site. Second, Dr. Smallwood found that the project will severely impact wildlife through habitat loss, interference with wildlife movement and mortality from project generated traffic. Moreover, the city's cumulative impacts analysis is deficient because it falsely assumes that impacts mitigated at the project level will not be cumulatively considerable. An EIR is required to properly address these adverse impacts and analyze the project's incremental impacts in relation to other past, present, or future projects. Third, Dr. Smallwood found that the city's proposed mitigation measures are insufficient to reduce the project's biological impacts. Dr. Smallwood instead suggests multiple other measures to reduce the project's significant impacts more effectively, including compensatory habitat protection, compensatory mitigation for traffic mortality, donations to wildlife rehabilitation facilities, and native plant landscaping. The city must prepare an EIR to incorporate these measures. For the reasons discussed here and in Safer's written comments, Safer again asks that you deny approval of the MND and instead require the city to prepare an EIR. Thank you.

Are there any other individuals or anyone else has requested to speak on this item? Okay Someone in the back This is a public hearing on on on this item Now is a good time to speak

Hello. I'm Brian Barchman. I'm with Investment Building Group. We're the applicant and the proposed developer of the site. We own the site. We've owned it for almost five years now. And we believe we've gone through the process completely above board and with complete transparency and within all the obligations that we're required to do. We're interested in following through with this investment. I do have one of our representatives from DUDEC here. The letter that we received last night, we don't know what that's about, honestly. But we're willing to kind of look into some things, maybe solve it privately, whatever. But I think we ought to give you an idea of how we would respond to this sort of thing. So if you would allow. Sure. OK. Thank you.

Good evening, Council. My name's Chelsea Oneshin. I'm with DUDEC. We prepared the ISMND, and we also did the biological surveys for the project. I don't want to get too into the weeds. We could do that privately, but I can't give an overarching kind of response to the speech that was just given. So as you can see from the project site, the site is highly disturbed. There is no surrounding other habitat around it it's surrounded by i-10 and the rail tracks in terms of the two special status species that were in the letter one of them was double crested cormorant and cdfw only considers nesting qualities to be sensitive and there are no nesting colonies on our site the other species was cooper's hawk which is not listed it's not a cdfw species of special concern We did our standard surveys, like all of our projects, and we did come up with the conclusion that there were no significant unavoidable impacts, and we do include mitigation that is standard with these types of projects in the ISMND. Are there any specific questions I can answer?

It's now for a public hearing at this point, so we're allowing the public, and then later on when the council takes action on it, we may ask you some questions.

Okay, I'm here. Thank you.

Are there any others?

No, I only had one to fill out and they have spoken but if you want to call anyone's from the audience I don't have that in front of me Is there anyone else from the audience

Motion has been made to close public hearing by Carla Perez seconded by Councilmember Edward Montoya all those in favor signify by saying aye aye Okay, any opposition hearing none motion carries at this time then we'll move it on for Discussion by members of the council. Do we have any members of the council that like to address that mayor pro tem?

It's got a couple questions Mr. Rosa The subject location at one time, approximately half the property was a former FedEx facility which had a retail store in the front of it and warehousing in the back of it. Is that not correct?

That's correct.

And you described this project as warehousing, but in actuality, it's probably more likely to be some type of distribution with potentially a point of sale facility?

Yeah, the FedEx.

Because of the size of them, it's not really gonna be a warehouse. yes i mean yeah before the likelihood it could be a point of cell facility yes correct it could be um and i'm i'm curious as to when this document arrived at the city

It was around 3, 3.30 p.m. yesterday. Yesterday? Yes.

And when was it sent out to the city council?

I believe it was forwarded to city clerk. It was later that afternoon, but it was yesterday as well.

Yesterday, okay. We received it today about five o'clock. So do you have any more specific comments about this document? I know. Mr. Vail, have you reviewed the document?

Received today at 5 o'clock. I have scanned it. Since I only saw it right before closed session meeting today. It did seem to me that the primary argument was a pro forma argument about the reason that the ER should be done based on the migration of animals but as staff has already mentioned this is a disturbed site that was previously developed and it's in a business and industrial area i haven't seen any indication that there are actually any listed or other protected species on the site and from what i can tell the person who did the site only did a peripheral site survey

okay and the the uh the rest of the site mr rosa uh i believe there's a cell tower either on it or very near to it yes and was there any other anything else on that site prior uh no just the former fedex so we have no records of anything ever being on the rest of that property no what street improvements you see along willow were prepared when the walmart came in but the rest of the site was vacant Well, where the current Walmart is and fire station, there was a previous steel fabricator on that property, so there's never been anything else on the rest of this property?

That is correct, sir.

Okay. And is the cell tower part of that property?

No, there's two actually, one's to the north in a little triangular portion that's not included in this site. And then there is another, not on this site as well, but it's in the self-storage facility. So neither of those are part of this project.

Okay, and do we know if there's any known species or anything on that vacant property?

No, I mean the wireless facilities themselves are disturbed, at least the one with the self-storage. And then the one to the north is also partially developed, but there's no known there.

So what was the basis of doing a mitigated negative declaration versus requiring any kind of an EIR?

I'm sorry, you heard that?

What is the basis of doing a negative declaration, mitigated negative declaration, versus an EIR?

Yeah, I can provide an answer for you on that. Daniel Casey, Community Development Manager. When the project was first submitted to the Planning Division, one of the very first steps is to determine what the environmental determination of this project will be, whether it meets a criteria for an exemption, And if not, then we go into the initial study. So staff reviewed the proposal. The project as proposed does not meet the criteria for a California Environmental Quality Act exemption. Subsequently, the applicant engaged DUDEC to prepare an initial study. That initial study was reviewed by the planning division. The outcome of that study determined that the project will not have a significant impact on any of the items that are required to be analyzed as a part of that initial study. So as a result of having no boxes checked in that initial study, potentially significant, it does not qualify for an EIR.

Okay. And based on that, the Planning Commission voted 6-0 to approve the project.

That's correct.

Thank you.

Any other questions? If not, I have a couple of questions that I'd like to ask. One along the lines is that Why didn't this group go to the Planning Commission and file their complaint about whether we should do an EIR, which was never done? I'm just curious in terms of that particular date. Are they here? No, they're gone, I think. Is he back there? Why didn't, yes, are you there? Why didn't you go to the Planning Commission and file this complaint that you originally submitted that we just got later on this afternoon but yet was given yesterday in reference to an ERR and then on the endangered species so this way it would have been able to assess and evaluate if there were any endangered species in that property.

I don't have an answer to that right now.

I can get you a response after the meeting in writing with that information Well, yeah because it's difficult we're here trying to make a decision and We're looking at your report and you know, we see a lot of pictures of endangered species But it doesn't say specifically that they're in that place So they could be anywhere, you know as far as the endangered species goes And I'm quite familiar with a lot of endangered species because I sat on a committee in Washington, D.C. as a congressman that looked over a lot of this. And when we looked at it, it had to be specifically in that area. And I just don't see it or it's not been identified that there has been any in that particular area. And so it makes it very difficult for us to make any kind of a decision here that would endanger any of these species if they're there, but we don't know if they're there because they haven't been identified. And it would have been good if you had gone to the planning commission and submitted your report and then specifically identify what kind of endangered species are actually in that property if there's any. And it seems like I don't hear anybody say that there was any based on previously. reports So it makes it very difficult, you know in terms of making sound decisions Although we hear you and we care very much You know in terms of compliance to make sure that we do have a ERR and then we also care a lot You know about the endangered species. They may be in that area and and if there was a Do we need to create a habitat area? But right now, there seems to be none that I can see unless one of the other council members can identify endangered species while you're driven right by there. Did you see an endangered species over there?

Okay, did you?

So we haven't seen an endangered species that have been in that area and they haven't been identified. To the developer then, thank you very much. To the developer, I just have a couple of questions in reference to one of my concerns that I have, and I know, in building this, does it have a labor agreement? Will it be done by labor agreement? I know it's small, but it's still.

sorry no i the square footage of it is is not as large warehouse but oh yeah it isn't but the nature of concrete tilt up warehouses these days is uh a large part of the elements uh become uh union labor is that what you're right yeah and those those agreements uh are made by the general contractor with the labor union, and the ones that we normally use, they're- So in other words, you're saying yes, it will have that labor agreement? Probably, yes, but I don't do them that the general contractor will. They're very familiar with the people, and they're not concerned about it.

Yeah, and I believe one of my council member asked the question in reference to, basically it would be a distribution center with sales being done out of that area, is that correct?

Yeah, very often these are industrial buildings so they can be assembly which brings in more employment that helps the general area if their distribution they tend to have maybe fewer employees, but They do generate some sales tax. I Just before coming here. I was just picking up some dog food at one of our tenants, which is a dog food thing and yeah their whole system is Creating sales tax for that city

And what is the traffic flow that would be in that area, because it's on Willow, and looking at Valley, we have quite a few warehouses that are further on down, and this is in the northern portion of it, on Willow and Valley. Do we know the amount of traffic that would be in there? I noticed that you said, what, 15 trucks or something like that?

Right, yeah. On the largest building, which still isn't very large by today's standards, really, we're kind of a small bay devolver. It just kind of fits our scale of things. We're private. but our tenants are kind of become friendly friends with us and what we know what they want the the one of them has seven doctors on one side and as a primary docs and then three on the other side so that's ten for the largest building the The typical tenant for that type of building, the VMT and the ITE studies kind of require that you scale this up from a more intense use, but we don't have any tenants over the last 35 years that, on the scale of this building, they would turn over maybe 20 trucks per day. I think the report says it's... 50 you know kind of thing uh the uh the other building four dock doors five dock doors one of them is kind of an extra you know where they put the trash enclosure there so they you know kind of dump it out but uh probably is only gonna be four in and outs per day. The nature of these smaller buildings, you can't unload these into these buildings that quick. It's not like an Amazon center where things are just high volume distribution.

How long has this land been vacant?

Part that was originally a build-a-suit for Federal Express was built in 1989. I don't recall exactly when it was vacated, but it was in the early 2000s. It got occupied by a, or owned by a truck, a road transportation company, repair facility for many years we bought it from them uh the about half of it the three acres that is on the north those have always been vacant and uh so it's basically it's a it's a very obsolete building uh it can't be used for almost anything i mean we try to even lease it out short term because this has taken quite a while and it gets expensive carrying this but uh There really is, you know, my broker's here. He tells me there's no interest in this. You need to have docks. You need to have higher clear. You need to have parking and a, you know, a more modern looking building to attract tenants.

Yeah, and I noticed by the architect design that would actually beautify the area that's currently right now doesn't quite look the way your architect design looks on here.

think it's going to look better than that honestly and you know once the landscaping it takes a few years to come in but there's going to be more greenery there than now than wherever type of thing for a migrating bird to come visit if they so choose

I think the business the trucking business moved out of that about three years ago. Maybe is that not correct? Yes.

Yes, they They they stayed a year after we So it's been vacant for three years It's it really is a problem because it gets broken into on a regular basis people dump on it vandalism and You know, we just would like to rehabilitate the whole corner there and that's why you know we have from a traffic point of view we've already donated our uh our curb so that uh you know the development across the way which you can't miss when you look at the aerial the large warehouse they change the traffic pattern for a truck lane turning up Willow. And all of our truck activity ends up on Willow, which kind of collects before it ends up, because there's new signals there already, the signals that would take the trucks out to the freeway, which is really where 100% of them are gonna go.

Okay, thank you.

Edward Montoya?

Yes, Mayor, thank you. My comments and questions are for the individual that came up for public comment, not yourself. Back there. What was your name again? My name is Chase Preciado. Okay, thank you. Where is Dr. Smallwood?

He's not present at this hearing.

He's not present. Well, his report is. So that confuses me because he has a lot to say, but not here to say it. So I'm concerned because there's a whole lot of stuff here that says there's birds and raccoons and all kinds of other stuffs. But if we look at the aerial photos of this location, we can see that this is probably not possible. So that concerns me that Dr. Smallwood wrote a report but did not show up for the meeting today. And I just, I wanted to get that on record.

Okay, thank you. Is there any other discussion? If not, do I hear a motion?

mr mayor i would also point out that the property directly where the north of it where the fire station is and where the new shopping center is was very clearly looked at for many years for endangered species and none were observed or located and that was also vacant a property adjoining this I would move approval.

The motion's been made by Mayor Pro Tem Scott, and he'll read what, second it by Andy Karacetis, and we'll read the resolution.

Resolution 8524, approving a mitigated negative declaration environmental assessment review 2022-0033 slash state clearinghouse number 202 6020456 prepared for the development and operation of 146,758 square foot industrial warehouse building and 173,210 square foot industrial warehouse building on 6.02 gross acres of land. APN numbers 0132182-08-09 and 0132 located at the northeast corner of Valley Boulevard and Willow Avenue in accordance with the northwest corner of Valley Boulevard and Willow Avenue. In accordance with the California Quality Act CEQA, Number two, resolution 8525, approving general plan amendment number 2022-001, a request to change the general plan land use designation of the site from general commercial GC with a specific plan overlay to business park BP with a specific plan overlay. Number three, resolution number 8426, approving specific plan amendment number 2022-002, a request to change the specific plan land use designation of the site from freeway commercial FC within the gateway specific plan to industrial park. within the gateway specific plan. Number four, resolution 84, or excuse me, 8527, approving conditional development permit number 2022-0019, a request to allow the development and operation of one 46,758 square foot industrial warehouse building and one 73,210 square foot industrial warehouse building on the site. And number five, resolution 8528, approving precise plan of design number 2022-0031, a request to allow the development of 146,758 square foot industrial warehouse building and 173,210 square foot industrial warehouse building on the site. Madam City Clerk, I request a roll call.

Move for Tim Scott.

Aye.

Councilmember carousels. Aye. Councilmember Mottoy.

Aye.

Councilmember Perez. Aye. Mayor Baca.

Aye.

Thank you. Thanks for reading the ordinance, Mayor Pro Tem. Okay, we'll move on to tab three.

Hello, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and members of the council. Tab 3 is actually requesting council to approve five items. First of all, it's the budget resolution 8529 amending the 2025-2026 fiscal year budget. Number two is amendment to the development agreement to increase the guaranteed maximum price of what's commonly referred to as GMP in the amount of $7,861,852.43 for phase two construction of the new police headquarters project with Griffin Structures LLC. Number three is to approve construction of the south parking lot expansion associated with the recently acquired parcel at 126 South Willow Avenue, commonly referred to as the mortuary, as part of the proposed GMP increase. The number four is authorize the use of the remaining GMP increase balance as a contingency funding for ongoing phase two construction costs and for unforeseen conditions that are associated with the police headquarters project and also the south parking lot improvements. And lastly, authorize the city manager or designee to execute any and all documents subject to approval as to form by the city attorney. Tonight from Griffin, Structures LLC, I have Mr. Darryl Robinson, who you've all met before, he's a vice president, and then also Tristan Nichols, who's a project administrator, and they're in your front row to your right. So just a quick background, but I think it's important for you all to understand, especially since a couple of council members weren't here when this first initiated in April of 2022. Staff issued RFP number 22062, seeking a qualified development team to design, build, finance, and operate the city's new police station. So unlike traditional design-build or design-build procurement, this developer focused an RFP sought for a partner capable of delivering the project through all phases, including design, planning, environmental review, financing, construction, and in your staff report, I provided you with additional information for you to understand what a P3 process and a model actually is and how that building across the street came to fruition. Griffin Swinderton, as you know, has responded to that RFP and was ultimately selected by the city council. I do want to highlight the relationship with Griffin and Swinnerton. They've been an excellent partner. They've been delivering within timelines, and they have certainly built a superior project within budget and the timeline. The proposed process includes a refinement of the site design and facility programming, development of the final site plan, schematic design and design for the development completion of all required approvals entitlements and establishment of a guaranteed maximum price along with project financing that was for the police headquarters these activities were to be completed in close collaboration with city staff and we work closely with them and develop the great relationship As part of the approximate nearly $83 million project, there was a roughly approximate 5% contingency that was established. That included a $1 million owner contingency. That was the city's contingency. And we shared a $3 million contingency at 50%. So in total, we had about $2.5 million that was available to us for a project that size. So going on, it's not uncommon for large and technically complex essential services public facilities that have several unforeseen site conditions that are discovered during construction. And that usually includes utility conflicts and infrastructure requirements that could not have been fully identified or quantified during the design of the building phases. So these unforeseen conditions affected the GMP. basically us having to actually dip into our contingencies. That included drainage that we were required to complete for street culvert improvements and associated structural modifications, extensive dry utility relocations and offsite infrastructure upgrades involving Southern California Edison, Spectrum, and AT&T. as well as unanticipated culvert construction and water main improvements along Willow Avenue. Additional site and infrastructure demands have also emerged due to unforeseen field conditions, and in your table that I've included in your staff report, there's a list there totaling a little over $3 million that will outline what the field conditions are, what the utility coordination requirements were, what the design modifications and operational necessities required, and that they weren't anticipated during the development of the original construction documents and GMP. But they were required to ensure successful delivery. So while extensive planning and design efforts were completed prior to the construction, the complexity of the project and the existing site conditions revealed several issues that could not have been at least identified during the development phases. So staff is recommending that the city capitalize on the opportunity with utilizing the current construction through Griffin and Swinnerton to carry on with phase two. And it's really important at this point that you understand that there's basically two phases. Phase one is the existing police facility, and then phase two is the demolition, well, it was the acquisition of the property, the demolition of the and then the improvements to that property. So staff one's recommending that we capitalize on that by utilizing this team, incorporating phase two with that parking lot into the current construction effort avoids future mobilization and escalation of costs. It leverages the contractor's current presence that's already on site and will deliver operational benefits that's immediately upon occupancy of our new facility. So phase two is not simply an added parking project, it's an integral part of the expansion of our police headquarters and it provides a larger footprint that improves not only site circulation but operational parking capacity and then fleet support. So it's important that this request is not, that you understand that this isn't a result of creep, scope creep or discretionary enhancements, but rather a prudent response to legitimate project conditions and strategic opportunities. So the requested GMP increase only provides a necessity for the capacity to address those needed items that I've just kind of discussed. So the increase in the GMP for the existing police station will add to the funding for the remaining unforeseen conditions. The memorial-related improvements, utility costs associated with extending the AT&T fiber approximately 2,000 feet. There's probably gonna be some questions about that, so let me just put this out right now, is that that 2,000 feet of fiber is from the police station that will run to Riverside Avenue, Riverside Avenue to the tracks, and then tracks to the building at Merrill, and Riverside is located on the northeast. Conduit, from what I've been told by Public Works, is already in those areas, or I should say in the streets, so it's just mainly pulling the fiber to those three points from our main station. and then the contingency for completion of both the main facility and the phase two parking improvements, and then the long-term functionality of the campus. So here's the breakdown. Phase one, to complete it is $1,516,299. And then the 126 South Willow Mortuary Demolition and Footprint Expansion is $6,345,553. So there's your two pieces. So if you're looking for some concerns on what the cost overruns could have been for the phase one police station, it's because of the unforeseen the unforeseen items that the department had to incur to actually complete the project. And then the addition of the six million, a little over six million is because of the acquisition of the mortuary. So, In your staff report, there is no financial impact to the operating budget. The capital improvement budget impact, staff recommends that council approve resolution 8529 to amend the fiscal year budget and appropriate the $7,861,852 from the general fund reserves to cover the additional cost of the GMP. and then also to complete the phase two construction, and then those funds will be moved into the appropriate account that's in the staff report. There's actually eight different attachments to your report, and if I can answer any questions that you have, and also, like I said, I have representatives here from Griffin Swinnerton that may also add some comments if I can't answer them for you.

Okay, thank you. I think that's the longest report you've ever given. I know.

I had to work for it, sir. You didn't get an easy one on this one. I keep trying to tell my staff, you think it's gonna be easy tonight, it's not, so.

No, but delaying, though, this project actually could cost us a lot more in the long run, is that correct? That is correct. And that's something that I think that we should all consider, you know, looking at what materials could go up a lot higher in terms of the future. And then what we need in terms of the improvement that needs to be done for public safety is also very important. So I think that's something that we should consider in terms of the decision that we make is that any delays in it, whether we do now or later, it's gonna cost us a lot more money in the future. So with that, I'll open it up for Discussion or motions?

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Couple questions. You stated that the conduit for the fiber optics is already in Riverside Avenue. Is that correct?

That is what I've been informed of, yes, sir.

Public Works, is that correct?

I believe so, Mr. Mayor Porton.

I believe so is a scary term. That is correct. Okay, and I just wanna make sure of that, because we just newly paved Riverside Avenue. So I hope if there are areas where that conduit does not exist, that we can do some underground boring or something where we're not digging up Riverside Avenue. Tim, would you like to respond to that?

no it it's the infrastructures there especially around where the mortuary is and whatnot so i'm not worried about the mortuary i'm worried about riverside avenue right

So I was talking to Lieutenant Palmer and he obtained the information and said that there will be areas, short areas that need to be bored, but they are not planning on tearing up Riverside Avenue. And I said, if that's the case, then it has to go in a different direction down Willow over to Merrill. So that's one thing that we will look at to ensure that Riverside Avenue is not tore up.

That makes total sense. Thank you. My second question, or my next comment is, and was there anybody in the community that wanted to speak on this, by the way? No. My next comment, Chief, is I have a concern about the way some of this was done because I very frankly believe some stuff was pushed on you to pay for out of this project that should have been paid for out of both water and public works. And that has to do with the water issues that had to be resolved with some of the residential houses that probably were part of Veolia's work to do anyway. And then the issues with the storm drain, which is a total disaster for the last 40 years. and should not have been piled on top of this project. Not your fault, but that's not how we should have dealt with it. And lastly, the undergrounding of the utilities that are sitting, those ugly utilities that are sitting in front of that brand new, beautiful police station, what is the status of undergrounding those?

So I will defer that to Public Works, but let me lead into that, that that's been an ongoing discussion that I've had with the Public Works team. And when we're looking at the street improvements that ultimately have to be completed with Rialto Avenue and then with First Street, is that there's some discussions on how to design a slowing down of the traffic as it's approaching both the fire station and the police station. So when those road improvements or street improvements are actually completed, my understanding is that is when the underground is gonna be undertaken, and I hope it's simultaneously when the trail goes through behind the police station for the electric trail.

Well, I hope not, because that trail could be four or five years away, so.

That's the best I can give you at this point.

Do we have an answer as to when we're going to start dealing with the undergrounding?

We've requested Proposals from our on-call design consultants to get an estimate for the underground.

What's the time frame it? Will that be faster than the fire station?

repair and your building repair We should be receiving those proposals within the next couple of weeks. I

okay because that needs to happen sooner than later and i'm afraid that that trail is a little further off than you think so i i think it's important that we get that stuff underground and again i want to state the staff i'm very disappointed in the staff of the city that didn't require the undergrounding of those utilities in front of the police station when you've been trying to do it everywhere else in this city Even when it hasn't been necessary and doesn't look nearly as bad as this so Not a good move on our part as a city And if nobody else has anything to say I will move approval of this item Okay motions been made by mayor Pro Tem and Scott to approve it your second from everyone Carla any other discussion would you like a roll call sir yes sir thank you madam city clerk

who's calling for a roll call a chief or are you okay because i guess i was asked the question ma'am so i'm going to go for it i've never done it in my life i can only get a roll call you know the the chief the chief wanted a roll call because that's the longest presentation he's made and he wants to know who's going to vote for me now that i took all this time to make this presentation okay i need some water requests from mayor pro tem for the record okay um

mayor pro tem scott aye councilmember perez aye councilmember carrie sevens aye councilmember montoy aye mayor aye thank you thank you council and griffin swindleton you guys did a great job and you have been doing a good job it's the most impressive project this city has ever come forward with and we're very proud of you and very proud of that project and we're proud of the chief too

Thank you, sir. And I do want to just relate to the council the appreciation from Roger Torrio, who's the principal for the company. So he would have been here tonight, but he sent his number two and also up and coming, but he said hello.

I want to clarify something. Not only are we proud of the chief, but we're proud of the whole department.

Thank you. Yeah, I was gonna get around to that on my next one, sir, just so you know, I appreciate it. And you've been around me long enough to where I think my folks make me, so that's the truth. I actually have the pleasure of, and really the excitement of talking about tab four with you, because I think it's just another step in the council's direction and vision about exactly what it is to keep Rialto safe.

And we'll see if this one can go longer.

I'm gonna try to cut to the chase on this one, but the resolution is pretty long, so actually the asks here is to adopt resolution number 8530, amending the fiscal year for 2526 budget, approve the appropriation of new funds in the amount of $80,000 from a project account. Move for approval.

Motion's been made by Andy Conocitis, seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Ed Scott. Any other discussion? You know, seeing a lot of the accidents and reports we get, the technology is very important for a lot of us as we continue to move forward and taking our city to a new generation of technology that's gonna be there and providing the kind of safety that we need for all of our citizens is good. So with that, any other discussion or comments? Hearing none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any oppositions? Hearing none. Thank you, Councilmember, and thank you, Mayor and Council.

Mayor Pro Tem, thank you.

Okay, that concludes all of the items on the agenda. We'll move on to council report. We'll start with Edward Montoya, council member.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Over the past couple of weeks, I was able to attend the sensory room ribbon cutting at Carl Johnson Center. I think Cynthia and her team did a wonderful job. So for those who don't know what a sensory room is, it was originally designed for individuals with developmental disabilities. used now therapeutically and educationally in healthcare settings, but they provide support to children with autism, sensory processing disorders, and ADHD. But I wanna let everybody know who's listening that this is a space that is available free to our residents and it was a really they cynthia's team did a really amazing job in putting that together as well as public works i also attended the ribbon cutting for alicia kim insurance cup company and i attended the cruise night for Run What You Brung. I was there, Councilmember Carzales, and Mayor Pro Tem Ed Scott was there as well. And there was tons of people, tons of cars, just having a really good time cruising down Foothill. I also attended the Rialto Unified School District high school graduations. Very long Sunday. Myself and a few of us up here, and I'll let everybody else speak on it, but.

You can mention our names, you know, don't be shy.

So Councilmember Perez and Councilmember Carzales and the mayor was also there. It was a very, very long day, but great food and great, it was great to watch all of the students receiving their diplomas and doing flips on stage and having just a great time knowing that their school days are, or their primary school days are over and they're on to either their career, the military, college. And that is all I have, except for I would like to, if you guys pray, I know I pray, but I would like everybody out there to say a prayer for a good friend of mine, a firefighter with San Bernardino County Fire, BJ Myers. He was a great friend of mine. He was part of the San Bernardino County Fire canine care team. He passed away this last week off duty. So if you guys,

could say a prayer for him you know i'm sure his family would greatly appreciate it and that is all thank you guys thank you uh next i'll move on to uh council member andy caraceres thank you mayor attended a few of the items that were mentioned by council member montoya the cruise night on route 66 always a great event good time to get out and and enjoy all the nice cars I also had an opportunity to join on, was it Saturday or Sunday? Saturday. Saturday, yeah. And on Riverside Avenue, which was also great, and had a chance to join in with the Mayor Pro Tem and the Mayor and just check out some really nice cars and just such a good community event. Also attended the Ribbon Cutting for the West Valley Communication Center in San Bernardino County. And the West Valley Communication Center is one of the biggest upgrades and joint efforts for the entire region in terms of communication with Confire, with all of our fire stations. I know Mr. Jensen's probably gonna give us a good update on that, but there was just such a huge investment regionally and I'm glad to see that finally came to fruition. And of course the graduations in Ontario, those are always so memorable and just a good time to- Yes, for Reality Unified School District. And congratulations to Councilwoman Perez's son, and also I had a niece that graduated as well, Ava Lopez, and let's see. And lastly, I want to commend our our graffiti removal team. So now that the kids are on vacation and I've been attending our parks and just kind of checking things out and I was there. I was there one night and there was graffiti in the skate park right where the kids used the skates and the next day I took a picture and I was gonna send it over to the team, to the graffiti team the next day to let them know that there was graffiti on there and it was literally gone in 24 hours. Good job, I really wanna commend our graffiti removal team that we see out there and when they're not color matching, they're using chemicals to remove it. So that really makes our city look good and I'm proud of the team that's out there making sure that this graffiti gets removed quickly. And that's all I have, Mayor. Thank you.

Thank you, next I'd like to call on Mayor Pro Tem, that's Scott. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

I want to congratulate those students who graduated this last weekend congratulations and good luck in your futures I too attended the run up on Foothill Boulevard Friday night run what you bring on Saturday I thought it was a great event both of them I do believe that we as a city need to help Rotary advertise the event more because I think a lot of residents aren't aware of it until they actually see it happening. So maybe we could, I know you don't have a lot of stuff to do, City Clerk McGee, but if we could maybe enlist you on giving some advice on what we need to do to help Rotary promote that event more and get more of our community out to it because it's a really good event and it's it's uh it's a fun event and i think young people especially kids would enjoy seeing older old cars out there and what the history is of vehicles so i i hope we can do some things to help it the other thing that i want to talk to about tonight is station 201 I just don't understand why we can't get the repairs done to that building. And I keep hearing that it's insurance issues. And I don't know who's handling risk management, but we need to take the money from the insurance company, bite the bullet, spend the rest to get the building back where it needs to be or back where it was and get it open. It's ridiculous that we've sat this long without those repairs being done. Chief, I'm coming over to see you in the next few days like I did before to kick some tires with you, because I know you want to get it done too. um but we got to get 201 finished and we need to really stop procrastinating taking care of repairs and things that we need to get done i appreciated seeing public works out on cactus avenue today cleaning up the unsightly landscaping that is along the west side of cactus avenue and they were even fixing some potholes and stuff so that was nice to see today but 201 should be a priority for us should really be a priority for our firefighters and paramedics that use that facility that need that facility we need to get it finished so if you could maybe give the council a report as to why the holdup exists and what your plan is to resolve that

Yeah, so thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. And Yaz can back me up on this, but I do believe we're planning to award that contract at the next council meeting. Is that correct? We've settled our insurance disputes.

We have reached an agreement with the insurance company on the amount. The bids were due on June 15th, which is next week. However, we received, and as you know, we extended the period for 60 days because the first time we did not get anybody that bid on this project back in April. So we have received over 100 and almost 35 questions from various bidders and the questions were due, the final questions were due this past Monday. We did receive a request from a couple of bidders to extend the deadline for submitting the bids and we've extended it by, we just extended it today by one week. to June 22nd, so we are expecting to get hopefully some good bids on June 22nd.

So I think that might be the IT security project.

This is for Fire Station 201. Sorry about that, my apologies.

We can talk about that one too. So you're saying there's 35 RFIs on the security system? 135 questions. Well, those are RFIs. In the construction world, those are RFIs. Yes. That's a lot of RFIs for a project that went out for a bid. But what about the fire station? Where are we at with that?

The fire station 201, we are putting together the staff report. We are for June 23rd. We are just finalizing the...

the contract for construction management and inspection for that so i'm hoping to have that do you recall the date of the accident at station 201 chief i know it was mother's day do you guys remember the date two years ago two years it's probably three four thank you next i'd like to call on uh carla perez Go ahead. I guess I am.

I guess you're done.

I can wait if you have.

No, that's fine.

Thank you, Mayor. Just like to share, I did have an opportunity to attend the sensory room. Unfortunately, I got there a little bit later than the rest of the group, but I did get a private tour and it was very exciting to see everything that they have for our community. They did share with me that the walk-in hours are from three to six, no appointment necessary. And again, as Council Member Montoya mentioned, it is free to the community. and also, as many shared, attended the Rialto Unified graduations on Sunday. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to stay for all of them. I was there half day. I left after my son walked the stage to celebrate with him. So congratulations to all of the students, all of the class of 2026, and of course, especially my youngest, my son, Aaron Gutierrez. Thank you, Mayor, that's all I have.

Thank you. Next, I'd like to also mention that I went to the sensory room and Edward Montoya was present along with Carla that came on later on. But the sensory room, I put it on my Facebook And a lot of people liked it, but the thing is that I didn't put is the address. And I think that we need to, as the Mayor Pro Tem said, is that we need to do a lot more marketing and advertisement of a lot of the good activities that we do have in the city of Rialto, because we do have a lot of activities. And a lot of people don't know where the sensory room is, so we gotta make sure we put that address. that's there. Along with me also, I'd like to mention that our city manager also attended, Tanya, and Yachts also attended from Public Works, attended the sensory room that was done in that area. And yes, it is free to the public. I want to remind the public that it's free. You can come there. And we should advertise the hours that it's open. And what days it's open to as well. So this way that people don't have a misconception that it's open on Sundays, you know, so this This way we know With that also I attended the Bert saw literally closing ceremonies that was just held For the little leagues and now they're all beginning to play in the all-star games so I was in attendance at that and then also attended the Run what you run car show and as it was mentioned before, a lot of us were present at that time. It was excellent turnout by many of the cars and people that participated that came out there. Again, we need to continue to market and advertise our activities that we do have in the area. Also, I attended the the Rialto Unified School District commencement ceremonies. I went to five different high schools, graduated, so I attended all five graduations starting from 7.30 to 8.30. In the morning, I shook many hands during that time that I was there, and some of my colleagues that are present here also attended that, and I want to thank them for going there. And then I want to congratulate the seniors that all graduated and wish them the best endeavors in their future, so they are our future. And I'd also like to congratulate Carlos, and her son graduating from Carter High School, that was one that she was very proud, and she was saying, I don't wanna break in tears, but it looks like I may, you know, and she kept looking at the screen where her son was at. but congratulations to your son on his graduation and I wish him the very best of luck in his future endeavors as well and With that that concludes my report. So at this time we'll move on to reports by members on the dais I'd like to start with our city clerk Barbara McGee

Tomorrow, inviting all of our men to come out for the farmer's market tomorrow. We're holding our annual men's health fair. And so for the first 200 men to come out, we'll have an opportunity to get a voucher to shop at the farmer's market. So please come out. We are concerned about We are concerned and caring about men's health, so we will be testing for prostate, sickle cell, high blood pressure. The fire and the PD will be out. I think fire is going to do demonstrations on CPRs. I think that's what you guys are going to do tomorrow, right, fire department? yes and then pd is going to be out there as well too so i have one two three four men that is on city council so i expect you guys to come out and look Mayor Pro Tem comes to the market, so if you can come out tomorrow, that would be great, too.

How much is the voucher? How much is the voucher? Get out there early.

No, you have to come and find out. I'm not going to.

No, no. And what's PD going to be testing for?

Well, you have to come. You have to come. See, they're going to be doing demonstrations. enough to buy your organic eggs so please so so please rialto residents and surrounding communities please come out tomorrow and now visit the health fair and that would go on from 10 to 2. so for council if you plan to attend i have parking available free for you in the city clerk's parking lot by the city clerk's building also we have a couple of them I have more than two spaces. And we also have parking in front of the city hall for you. So if you can come out, please. And it's from 10 to 2. Thank you. And that's all I have.

Next, I'd like to call on the city manager, Tanya Williams.

New report this evening. Thank you.

Next, I'd like to call on our assistant city manager, Tim Sullivan.

Thank you, Mayor. I will also take this opportunity as the IT director to say we have no, an IT and HR director and ACM to say that there are no presentations tonight. Thank you.

Next, I'd like to call on our city attorney, Eric Vale.

Thank you, Mayor. I have nothing to report tonight.

Next, I'd like to call on our police chief, Mark Lane.

Hello, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Council. Keep it quick. Everybody get out of here. Okay, so I just got your fire truck, guys. So on June the 14th through July the 5th, we are going to staff heavily for fireworks. So I've talked to the ACM today about our app. I talked to the division chief in the back, talked about the app. We are going to staff a sergeant and four officers strictly for fireworks and i want to thank the council for giving me the staff to do that because we've always kind of tried to put this hodgepodge piece together so it's a dedicated team sergeant four officers to do nothing but attack fireworks through the app and our observations I think it's really important that people know in the community that this is already what's happened. This team that we've assembled, and that's our SCAT team, have already made several undercover busts of people on Facebook, on Marketplace, that are selling illegal fireworks here in the state of Rialto. We go ahead and meet with them, and we confiscate all their stuff, take them to jail. So we then take the fireworks to the fire station and put it away for destruction. That's already happened before this team's even assembled. We know what it looks like here, because I come out every 4th of July. We know what's coming. But I just want you to know that we're gonna do our part, working with our partners in the fire department to ensure that we're ready. and we are going to continue doing undercover operations, observational arrests, we're gonna look at the health and safety code violations, and just want the community to know that we hear you, and those of you that break the law, we're coming for you. All right, thank you, that's all I have to say, thanks.

Hey, Chief, is the drums gonna be up?

I don't wanna promise something I can't deliver, sir, but at this point, no.

Probably a good thing.

This year. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mayor. Just one thing to report quickly. This last week, we completed our testing process for our vacant battalion chief position. It was an extremely competitive process between two fire captains, Bryce Boyer and Jake Plone. And after careful consideration, I wanted to let the council know that Fire Captain Jake Plone has been promoted to Battalion Chief. He'll be taking that role on here in the next couple of weeks. So I wanted to relay that to you and congratulate Battalion Chief Jake Plone for his success. And that's all I have. Thank you.

I have a question just in reference to one of the things that I've been bringing up is the training tower. What's the status of our training tower? It seems like a lot of the firefighters are quite anxious to see that training tower come up

yes thank you mayor we are still working through with the water board the impact of the pfos there on that project site and until we get answers directly from them we're we're not able to move forward until we have some some direct answers we have provided them with a preliminary um of what potentially could happen there, which they asked for relating to how they may offer mitigation back to the city. And we're waiting for that answer. That's been provided to them now about a month to two months.

Okay, thank you. Next, I'd like to call on our Public Works Director, Yats Imrami.

Thank you, Mayor. Just a quick report on the great work that our field team is doing out and about. We've done, since the last meeting two weeks ago, We've completed seven hundred and forty two total work orders Speaking of graffiti four hundred and eighteen word graffiti related hundred and twenty almost potholes and various other activities So they are continuing to do an excellent job to keep our city clean.

Okay. Thank you next I'd like to call on our community developments director Christina Taylor Thank You mayor nothing to report this evening Thank you. Next, I'd like to call on our Parks Recreation Director, Cynthia Alvarado-Cropper.

Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and members of the council. Here's what's going on in Rialto. Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 10th, the Men's Health Fair will be happening at our Rialto Certified Farmer's Market from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Come out, the first 200 men will receive some shopping dollars from Ms. Barbara. she did she said you had to go there to find out so you'll find out tomorrow Our senior summer camp starts tomorrow as well, which is June 10th at Grace Vargas Senior Center from 1.30 to 5 p.m. We'll be hosting summer camp for our seniors every Wednesday for the month of June. Movies in the Park will kick off this Friday. We'll be showing Lilo and Stitch at Rialto City Park this Friday, June 12th at Rialto City Park. Fun starts at six. summer camp week two session begins monday june 15th at rialto community center and at hugh banks elementary and then your save the dates are rialto juneteenth jam 2026 will be friday june 19th at ferguson park from 3 to 9 pm Our 4th of July celebration will be Saturday, July 4th at Jerry Eaves Park from 5.30 to 9.30. And then all month long, you'll get to see all of our exciting activities for Parks and Rec Month. We have things programmed from Tuesday through Saturday the entire month of July. And that concludes my announcements.

I have a question for you. What's the status of our all-inclusive playground?

They started working on the playground this Monday. A lot of the playground has already been removed. It's only day two. And we are looking at it being completed either the end of July or the very first week of August. I'm waiting on final dates so I can give to you so we can start working on the grand opening for that project as well. As soon as I have a firm date, I will get that to you. I am pushing for the last week of July just because I want to try to incorporate it with the Parks and Rec Month. I think it'll be really special, but the construction gods, we'll see what they say.

We'll do the construction gods. Yes.

All right, thank you. Next, I'd like to call on our finance director, Scott Woodland.

Thank you, Mayor Newport.

And that concludes our report. Do I have a motion to it? Oh, I'm sorry, I did, I did, I called her, I called her.

Thank you though.

That's okay, Christina, you're popular. Carla wanted you to come out and give another report about all the new things that are coming into our city, you know, our hotels that are coming in, our businesses that are coming in, our development that's coming in. So thank you. With that, that concludes the report. So everybody on the council, do I hear a motion to adjourn?

So moved.

Motion's been made by Carla Perez, seconded by Edward Montoya. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposition? Hearing none, council's adjourned.