City Council - Regular Meeting

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

The City Council held a special meeting primarily focused on the recruitment of a new city attorney. Public comment was limited to this specific agenda item, and the council later announced that the closed session discussion on the matter would be continued to a later time that afternoon.

About this meeting

Government Body: City Council
Meeting Type: City Council
Location: Riverside, CA
Meeting Date: April 21, 2026

12 sections (from 16 segments)

0:00•Speaker 1

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0:14•Speaker 2

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4:52 – 5:16•Speaker 3

Good morning. I would like to call our meeting to order. This is a special meeting today. This is mostly a closed session to discuss the recruitment of our city attorney position by city council. But we will start our meeting with a public comment. Let's open public comment.

5:28•Speaker 4

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5:37 – 5:51•Speaker 3

And because this is a special meeting, this public comment is limited to the item on the agenda. So if you wish to speak about anything else, we are not taking public comment on anything else. It's just about city attorney recruitment.

5:52•Speaker 2

Trishan, I'd like to see if we can't do that.

5:55 – 6:26•Speaker 3

Yeah. We can because it is. According I'm not gonna I'm not gonna argue with you, but that's the that is the direction I've received. I am sorry. That's the direction I've received from my city attorney and my city clerk. It is how it is agendized as well. So thank you. But I will now close open session. We'll close public comment and we will adjourn to closed session. Thank you.

6:46 – 6:58•Speaker 2

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6:59 – 7:15•Speaker 5

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7:40 – 8:12•Speaker 3

To our AV folks, are back. We've returned from closed session. I do not have my thing. Can you tell me? No, she did not. So just can somebody let me know if we're live? Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you everybody. City council has now just returned from closed session and I will call on our mayor pro tem to please report out on the closed session discussion.

8:12•Speaker 2

Thank you, mayor. We will be continuing the closed session to this afternoon, three p. M. Closed session.

8:17•Speaker 3

All right. Thank you. We are adjourned. Thanks. See you this afternoon.

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