City Council - Regular Meeting

The 05/07/2026 special meeting of the Sanger City Council is called to order at 05:37PM under brown brown at government code section five four nine five three c two, the legislative body of a local agency shall publicly report any action taken and the vote or abstention on that action of each member present for the action. Item b, roll call.

Mayor Gonzales? Here. Mayor Pro Tem Martinez? Council member Hurtado? Council member Montelongo? Here. Council member Melendez? Here.

Item c agenda approval. I'll accept the motion.

So moved. Second.

We have a motion to second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries four zero one being absent. Item d, public forum. This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons desiring to address the council on any item which is considered during closed session. Speakers should limit their comments to three minutes. All those people in the audience would like to say something. Please go forward.

Adam E. Closed session.

Thank you, mister Premier. We have one item for closed session that's pursuant to, government code section five four zero nine five five seven point six, a conference of labor negotiators. The agency designated representatives are Charlene Bennett, lead negotiator, manager, HR manager, the employee organizations are Singer General Employees Organization, Singer Middle Management Organization, Singer Police Officers Association, Singer Firefighters Association, Stationary Engineers Local thirty nine nine, slash confidential employees and executive employees. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Let's go to closed session.

Go ahead.

City attorney, do we have any reports from the closed session?

Thank you, mister mayor. There is no reportable action taken in closed session. I would note for the record that vice mayor, Martinez was present at 05:56. Thank you.

Great. Thank you. And there being no further business, this meeting is adjourned at 06:15PM. And the 05/07/2026 regular meeting of the Segur City Council is called to order at at 06:15PM Under government brown under Brown Act government code section five four nine five three c two, the legislative body of a local agency shall publicly report any action taken and the vote or abstention on that action of each member present for the action. Opening ceremonies. The invocation will be done by pastor Gilbert Montalongo from the Tabernacle of Praise. I'll lead the roll call, and then we will have the flagstone. Please stand.

Thank you, mayor Spray. Heavenly father, we thank you this late afternoon. We thank you that everything that has taken place today, National Day of Prayer, that we've all taken time, lord god, to recognize your presence over our nation, over the world, that we would reverence your presence, lord god. We know that our council meets the first and the third of every Thursday of each month, and that we as a people would recognize their efforts, lord god, their sacrifices, that we may come along along them, Lord God, and take time to pray for them. Not just today, Lord God, but take a moment take a moment every day to pray for each other.

That we know that prayer does wonders, Lord, that you have your ear inclined to our prayers When we pray in faith, trusting you, putting our confidence in you, Lord God, that is where our our confidence comes from. And, Lord God, and we pray for our city, we pray for our government officials, first responders. There is so much, lord god, to pray for. So keep us, lord god, in your perfect peace. Unite us in our faith, our different beliefs, knowing that there's one true god, lord, and we lift up your name.

And then, lord, in your name, lord, we can accomplish so much. So we pray for our government officials, lord god, the city workers, the blessing that we had today to serve them. What an honor. We hope they enjoyed their moment, lord god, at lunch. And now, lord, we did just being able to sit with them and talk with them.

We thank you for these opportunities to be of service to one another. And, again, we pray that you would impart divine wisdom to our our government officials, our leaders, our mayor mayor pro tem, council members, city manager, city attorney. And, Lord, as the as one of the spiritual leaders and pastors of this community, the Sanger, Pastors Fellowship, we commit ourselves that we promise, Lord, according to your word, your commandment, that we would pray for our government officials to lift them up, their families, keep them in health, father god, keep them strong, knowing that the responsibility is great to the city and the welfare of the people of the city. We come alongside of them, that we can agree to disagree with respect and with love. But, again, lord, you look upon our hearts, lord god, just to know that we wanna your will to be done here in the community of Sanger.

Bless the city of Sanger. Bless the people of Sanger, lord god. Enrich us, lord god. Increase us. And, lord god, bless us. We pray in the mighty and precious name of our lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen.

Black salute. Ready? Salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America,

and to the republic of which it stands,

one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Need a roll call?

Mayor Gonzalez?

Here.

Mayor Pro Tem Martinez? Here. Council member Hurtado? Here. Council member Montelongo? Here. Council member Melendez?

Here.

Okay. Item, c, agenda approval, addition, and or deletions. I'll accept the motion

to approve.

Make a motion to approve.

Do have a motion?

I'll second, mister mayor.

We have motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries unanimous. Item d, presentations. Pavement management program presentation. The students, Josh, the Joshua.

Evening, mayor, council. Wanted to bring, an update back on the payment management program. I think you guys got various presentations on this, before. One of the main reasons we're bringing a couple main reasons why we're bringing it back, One being that Fresno COG had a regional program undertaken to use some of their, what they call, circuit planning and circuit engineering dollars that the member agencies chip into. And one of the things that funded this year was a regional update to all the Fresno cog agencies to kinda go through and update their payment management plans.

That's one thing to give you some results of that. And the other is as we start talking about measure c renewals and funding for streets and roads, you know, it's good to have the background of of how the city is kinda currently managing its, street network system and how important those dollars are and will continue to be. So, I'll do kind of a I may go quickly through the early slides. You can stop me if you need time, but, a lot of it's things before. But pavement management, obviously, is just the process, of planning and maintenance repair of your roadway network.

It's a very a a very large investment that you have in just streets and roads, and it's big dollars that you're talking about. So how you manage that's important. Historically, in the old days, was very common. You just, you fix the worst roads first. They get the most complaints.

They have the most potholes, and you fix them first, but they are typically the most expensive to fix. And so over time, the shift, as it should be is to asset management. So, best value first is how you you really wanna be managing, roads. Difficult street, has a life cycle of twenty five to thirty years and deteriorates by 40% in the first twelve to fifteen years. So the, I forgot this thing doesn't work on the screen, but that's a kinda curve over time of how the condition degrades from decent shape to very poor shape.

And the cost, to, address the condition escalates drastically the further it gets out in its, in its condition. So, again, focusing more on preventative maintenance and less on full reconstruction can help, stretch dollars. The standard practice of pavement management starts with you first assess your roadway inventory, identify the different classifications of the of the system, like arterials, collectors, locals, what type of pavement, and then the fatigue or failure symptoms. And then you assign what's called the pavement condition index to each segment of the entire network. Zero to a 100, you could see the categories there on the right.

Some examples, just photos actually that come out of the recent network. So the top left is like a PCI of 92, bottom right is nine. And so in the middle, you're somewhere in, you know, thirties and sixties. But you go out, you can you look at every street, and you look at the the way that it's failing, and then you assign that index. Once you do that and you've inventoried catalog the entire street network system, you can basically assign a weighted average payment condition index to your entire roadway network.

And then you can use that. You can actually see how you compare against other agencies or state averages, etcetera, for your entire city. As far as the program and then what we're doing in the city, since 2013, we've used the the Street Saver program. It was a web based program developed out of the Bay Area, and it's pretty fairly commonly used on the West Coast. That is where all of our data is or GIS data.

And when the, when the consultant came in working for the cog, that's the program that they like to use anyway. So our our stuff was already all in there, so I'll get into more of that. Yeah. Program allows you to basically establish treatment plans for your different roads, calculate your funding needs, develop management scenarios. You can based on budget, based on target PCIs, prepare, obviously, reports, graphs, exhibits, etcetera.

So the system, once you get in there, allows you to obviously prepare a lot of data, present a lot of data, and run different option. As far as preventative maintenance projects prior to 2013, like I said, they they were not as common. We developed when we established the current program that we're using, we made a recommendation at to the council at that point based on budget analysis and things to put 20% of each annual, budget that goes to streets and roads towards preventative maintenance projects, and then the rest to be to rehabilitations or improvements. And we've generally been been doing that, since then. We've completed all about 28 miles of of, preventative maintenance projects.

Those projects are usually, on roads that are in they look decent shape, because those are the ones that you can spend less money on. So that's a map since 2012 of the all the different EM projects that we've done, that the city's done. For the non preventative maintenance projects, and we've talked about this kind of and we talked about the capital improvement plan, how we how we establish which roads to address for rehab and reconstruction. We look at federal or state aid eligibility to see if those can be using federal money or state money. We look at, obviously, traffic considerations, traffic counts, coordinating potential del development, bike and ped stuff, how they inter interweave with utility projects, etcetera.

And then that's how we establish the five year CIP, which we talked about it, for nonprovenant maintenance. Like I said, current five year CIP was adopted in 2024. At this point, it's through '28, '29, or as it may be amended. And then like I said, Fresno COG recently spearheaded a regional update where consultants working for the COG got into each of our databases, and they actually did an entire they did their own full, walking, evaluation of all the of all the cities. I came up with their own, condition indexes for all the roads, plug those in as updates.

The program allows you to just continuously put in new information. So it's this date this inspection is 2017. This one's 2020. It just always is keeping most current information. So we got the the final report was delivered to Fresno COG in November 2025.

Rent status on the Sanger system. We've got 85 centerline miles of road, a 183 lane miles. The overall network PCI is 66, which is a fair condition with 70, and up being in good condition. And you can see the different, breakdowns between arterials, collectors, and locals And how that compares to neighboring agencies in this COG, analysis, you Sanger there in blue at a 66, with the same as Fresno County and Kingsburg, and then only earlier at 69, Clovis and Kerman at 71 being higher than Sanger's current, rating for its overall network at the state average is, or statewide average at 65. So pretty pretty good pretty good shape.

Like I said, there's room for improvement, obviously, but generally speaking, I think we've been holding at about 66 for the last four or five years. They did a budget analysis. They, analyzed three scenarios. One, which is they asked, you know, what does what is the general, current budget on streets and roads? And so we gave them pretty conserve pretty conservative number on what we may say the low end because it banks mostly on our local transportation revenues that are kinda generally set it and forget it, except for measure c, which we'll talk about, with a little bit of assumption of outside funding, but not much because it's just not guaranteed.

But they analyze what would happen in a 10 analysis if we kept around $22,200,000. And they, ran an analysis to maintain the current PCI of 66 over ten years, and then they ran a scenario to try to improve the PCI to 70 to get it in that good range, which is then, you you know, technically, you can do more preventative maintenance projects. And so, the scenario one, the cost of deferred so the the PCI network would of the network would drop from 66 to 54 at the end of a ten year period, and the cost of deferred maintenance would go from 66,000,000 to 113 and a half million if we if we're just putting about 2,000,000, 2,300,000 in. The to maintain the current PCI of 66, so scenario two, isn't it? It's between 6 and a half to 7 and a half million dollars a year, other calculations, with deferred maintenance just increasing slightly from 66,000,000 to 67,000,000.

And then in the third scenario, to try to step it up to a 74 point increase, you'd need between 8 and $10,000,000 a year to streets and roads with deferred maintenance going from, 66,000,000 down to 51 and a half. That's a lot of numbers. That's a graph basically of with the annual increase or with the annual outlay and then what your PCI would be projected to be for your whole for your street network over a ten year period. So their report recommends, which consultants would always recommend, do the best if they and find the money, which would increase the PCI to 70 and do and decrease that deferred maintenance cost. But it says, however, that scenario is unrealistic to implement due to to the significant financial commitment.

We recommend the city try to implement scenario two with these caveats. Try to close the gap in funding, with outside money, continue with the well funded preventative mates program, continue to update your street inventory, inspections, and then review annually the costs to improve roads that you plug into your database. When you're projecting out, you can see what your ongoing cost is, all of which would be doing any of these things anyway. That's kind of, all standard, what we're already doing in the engineering and public works department. We do concur with the findings of the report and would recommend we try to find all that money or a, that we'd or b, that we do all those things that we're already doing, seeking outside money, updating our inventory, updating costs, and continuing to do preventive maintenance projects.

Say yes. Do all that. I wanna note that 2 to 2 and a half million to 2.3 or whatever the average was, Like I said, it's mostly assuming the local transportation money. We have been pretty lucky recently at getting outside money, so we've really been spending close to $3.03 and 3 quarters or 4,000,000 a year on streets and roads, but a lot of that has been outside funds coming in. So, all that's good.

It's not always guaranteed. And then bottom line is we're not recommending to change any budget policy right now because we had no idea what's gonna happen with measure c. But the inform background information to have, obviously, it's important that we get one of those measures that we're getting additional money. And then after we've kinda dust settles on that, we can come back, and we could start really kinda saying, we'll bring this back and say, we wanna start figuring out a way to pump more money into streets and roads, or we wanna kinda continue on with what we have. So as we go into that, as we go into the budget year, and then presenting you the findings of COGS report, kinda where we stand relative to the other agencies and kinda what we're doing behind the scenes, just wanna give you that report.

You got any questions? I can I can answer those?

Yeah. You know what? I like the report. Thank you very much. A lot of people always ask me, well, how do you know which roads to fix first? You know? And this is how you do it. Yeah. And, another thing is that five year CIP, is that is that in our on our website that somebody could actually access to see if their road's gonna be on the

what's good? Not sure if it's on the website, but we can Yeah.

Because I you know, a lot of people ask me that too. Well, when's my road gonna get done?

Well, then they won't call you?

Yeah. Well, that's why. I want it on the website. Yeah.

We do. If I thought it I thought it was on Bob Cook's page, but it's not.

No. Gee. I don't care. I always have it on my phone. I took pictures of it just in case somebody does ask me. I have I have that information readily available. But, with measure c being being, so much up in the air, if that does not pass, do we have a a system in place to try to I I know we cannot replicate or get anywhere near close to Fresno County money, but, I mean, it we're we're gonna have to find money somewhere to fix the roads. So, yeah, some way we have to look at in the in the near future of because I I the the measure c tax now, how much is that sales tax?

Like, the the amount that comes into Sanger?

No. No. The the amount of the sales tax.

Oh, it's a half percent. Half a percent? Countywide.

Okay.

So if you did a

So if that goes from the county, I mean, is that something we could just implement for the city?

You could go to the voters and ask for, like, another, a general another tax, but for roads only. Yeah. It would be a sixty six and two thirds threshold unless the citizens Yeah. Would put it forth on their own.

If nothing nothing if neither option goes forward, I don't know. I mean, there's gonna be a lot of local or or citizen driven you're at. I don't I don't know how you I don't know how

you The only the only thing that I'm, like, a little bit worried about because a lot of people that I talk to are, like, totally against it, like, 100 no. And I'm like, I'm trying to change your mind because we we need that money.

Yeah. I mean, if anything else let me talk again just to stay where we're at. It's projecting you need $6,000,000. Yeah. And it's only gonna keep going up because costs are just gonna keep going up. So Right. Again, just to keep it, you know, back of the head. Again, snapshot on on what what happened regionally, and then we're gonna have to do something when nothing passes.

Great. Thanks.

Mayor pro tem, do have any question?

I I think the mayor touched on it, and you mentioned it, Josh. You know, I think we it's imperative that we do revisit this after that measure Mhmm. See dust settles, Either both measures or only one measure could pass. Right. If they both pass, we ever get the most votes. But, either which if it passes or it fails, because, I mean and I don't know you can answer this question, but I think one of those measures has stipulations on what you can spend your money on unless your PCI is 70. Am I not am I correct? Yeah. So we're gonna be handcuffed. I mean, well but go ahead and explain. I from what it was was you can't expand roadways unless your average city PCI is 70 from what I

I think what I remember, and I think what we talked about is doing something separate to get them get a very detailed, like, q and a with everybody that I was hearing their presentation. But what I remember is the way you spend your money is is restricted. I don't think you don't get the money, but I think the flexibility does not increase on what you can spend it on until you have a PCI of 70.

Mhmm. Until you have the PCI of believe so. I think you're right. I I remember that number is the magic number of that.

Mayor and council members, I was gonna say it at the end of the meeting, but being we're talking about MC now is I've got Lena reaching out to both entities once again to do, like, a community forum. Because, in my budget meeting and stuff, I'm getting a lot of questions on measure c. A lot of our a lot of people don't have a clue what either one of those measures are for and the importance of it. So I'm gonna ask both of them to come back and maybe do ten, fifteen minutes on their presentation each and then have a forum where people in the audience or people online can ask questions, and each entity will get the same question to be answered so, we can get gain a better understanding at least locally. So when we it does come time to vote, we have we we know what we're voting for and what we're gonna get out

of it. Yeah. And I'll just conclude with that. And you're right, John. It's tough choices. I mean, you're gonna put a spend money that you used to spend on deferred maintenance. You're gonna use that money to

bring

your road conditions up to get to that 70, and now you've lost this deferred maintenance. And on these roads that were fairly well maintained are gonna go into disrepair Mhmm. Probably affecting the PCI. But it's like, what do you do? Fix the bad roads or deferred maintenance on you know, improve the maintenance on existing roads? Yeah. It's tough

That that's the one thing about that specific measure that is is interesting because and Zanger may not be in that bad bad of shape, but some of these cities in the fifties and forties, like Mhmm. How's that go? That's almost impossible over a short term unless you're just injecting massive amounts of capital into your system.

And you touched on it. Would it be a fair statement to say that had we had the city not been successful in finding those additional funds in those grants, we've been holding for many years kinda at the same index. Would do you think without without those grant dollars, we'd probably be moving through the other direction. Correct?

Yeah. Because, look at the difference in the arterial PCIs versus, like locals. There's way more local road. There's way more local road miles, but the arterials a lot of times are federal aid. So when we get that money, it's going straight to those roads.

So Bethel and Academy and North Avenue and Greenwood Avenue, we pumped a lot of money into those roads because we got money for them. And now those are in that that range that you wanna be in. So now we have to just kinda do preventative maintenance on those, but there's so many more road miles that are not eligible for that. Yeah. And then the those that's where you're scrambling your measure c and your gas tax money around those. So, yeah, we would definitely have have drifted downward if we didn't get, the grants we've gotten.

Councilmember Ricardo?

Yeah. So reading into the measure, it's actually if cities are below the 70, they're required to have a CPI of 70. So the goal is to actually get cities to that, like, good point or good condition. So the measure is actually intended to help communities actually fix roads that are in worse conditions in existing neighborhoods versus, and then I guess if you have a CPI of above 70, then you are the funding is more flexible in what you can use. Yeah.

So yeah. And so far, that measure is the only one that has qualified to be on the ballot. So, things are kinda up in the air, but until we get the final answer, we'll know a little bit more of where we're heading. But I did have some questions on the presentation for the RCPI. Over the years, I know this has been, we've been working on this for a very long time. Has our score always been 66, or have we improved over the years?

It's gone up. I think it was probably I'd have to look back at, like, five or six years ago. Feel like it's been 66, 67 for the last several years that I've been looking, but I didn't I didn't I wasn't prepared to go back five or six, seven years. I can I can pull that up and get you, like, a historical curve?

Yeah.

But I I don't think it's been major change. Like, I don't we were in the fifties, we jumped up. I think we've been hovering, and it kinda just shows you how much money you have to put in just to stay level. But I I can get you that graph.

Yeah. For me, just a comment or feedback that, I have is, you know, I would like to reach that 70, score to make sure that all of our our city our streets are I know. We're gonna work hard on it. No. And, hopefully, that measure passes to help us, you know, get to that point, but that's that's the dream. Thank you.

K. I was remember a month or longer.

You're right. It all boils down to dollars, no matter what. So the more dollars we get, the better we are. I think we have to realize, though, too that many cities are that we're not like anymore. You know?

We're not, a city that has, issues with poverty as much as others, and those sometimes get priority of other funds, state and federal, especially for roads and other programs. And we don't qualify for some of those as well, but the arterial ones, like you said, yeah, there are specific needs. And when you get some of the state of federal money that said this is what the money is, this is where it's gonna go, I think we have to realize that we can't just go off and say, well, but I wanna use it for this small street when it's it's not meant for that. And I think the council has to remember that that when we get these fundings, there's not much flexibility when you're getting state and federal dollars compared to measure c, but measure c is very small amount of money. And so I was looking at the five year plan.

We don't use ministry quite quite often. We use just to that hub or everything, but most of the money that we're getting, which we're very I say, thank god that we're do we're getting this. We're getting a lot of federal dollars, a lot of federal dollars when it comes to our roads. And when you look at our five year plan, that's basically where it's coming from. So Sanger's been sitting well by receiving state and federal money, and that's to me, it's it's due to the fact that our staff is working very hard to give us what we need. And so I do appreciate everything you do. Continue the great work. I would love to be in the seventies, but, yes, more money. And with the state, they don't have no money. With the federal government, same is, but we're still fortunate to get what we're getting.

And so I appreciate that. And everybody's correct. I mean, I agree. Measure c, it's up in limbo. If this this one that they have currently goes in, it's a dream. 30 was a thirty five years, and they said we're gonna get this amount of money until I see it because we've seen what this current one gives us. Let's see what if the other one does pass what it does. And I'm just fearful of the the big city and, you know, the two biggest cities and what they're gonna take compared to the smaller cities. Thank you for the great presentation.

Yep. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Belinda's.

Well, we can't really make a choice until we see what's gonna happen. I But just encourage everybody that's here. Be very, keep all this information in mind and vote vote what's in the best interest of our city because we're gonna need the money. Thank you.

Yeah. And you know what, Josh? As you said that, you you know, we got lucky with some of these with some of these, program or projects that we did that we did receive. I just want everybody to know that it is not luck. It's because we have the Josh Rogers helping us put these projects in there, and that is is really the the main reason why I just wanna say thank you for

Thank you.

Always to say luck, but thank you.

Always putting those those projects that that will win in there for us, and thank you.

Yep. Thanks, Josh. Thank you.

Item e public forum. This portion of the meeting is reserved for members of the public who wish to address the council on any matters not listed on the agenda and within the subject matter jurisdiction of the city council. Each speaker is limited to three minutes. Speakers shall address all comments to the mayor and the council as a body and not to any particular council member or member of the staff. Speakers are asked, but not required, to state their name and address. The council is prohibited by law from taking action on any items not on the agenda. Is there anybody in the public wish to, address the council? Please come to the podium.

Okay. Good evening, people. Just a concerned citizen here. I wanna bring up some some old business from the last meeting. I had come up, and I reported that there was a spark with some like, the rubber foam that was coming up off of one of this park, and and it was starting to peel back. And I was told later on, hey. Just call in somebody else, but don't bring it to you guys. Don't wait for two weeks, which I didn't. Well, I I work the way I do because I know how the city operates. It's slow.

Went back there, I looked at that same location. It's still all tore up. The reason I come and bring those things issues up here is because I put them on record so everybody could hear it. I go straight to somebody else. I don't know if it gets done, but I appreciate the comment that I'm looking out for the best interest of the city of Sagar, and and supposedly, was did it the wrong way. No. I'm gonna keep doing this. I'm gonna put it on record. I'm gonna bring it up every damn time I come to this meeting. What's wrong with that? Why why isn't that repaired yet? It's a safety issue. Anyways And then I wanted to bring up the fact that you guys went to Los Osos on my tax dollar. How dare you? You didn't need to go over there.

We had all the everything you could've done here for that meeting. If you wanna get free to know each other, you know, we have our conference room that you guys pay $480 $4,800 every month for the conference room. You could have been there. You never answered my question. Who paid for this this trip that you went on? You never answered that. It says project r, but I don't know what project r is. What fund did it come out of? And what it listed was 2,000 something dollars, $2,100 that was spent. That was basically for the rooms. I I asked, who paid for the conference room? You supposed to went for a conference. Who paid for the meal? You guys ate. Who paid for that?

Who paid for the golf that you guys had? And you said Olson said that it was over $3,000. Fine. I could believe that, but I never saw it in the bills. So who picked up that bill? There's a thousand something dollars missing out there. Who paid for that? And and the way you guys act sometimes, it makes me wonder. I I again, I I I don't mean to accuse you anything, but is it contractors that are flitting this bill, or you got some kind of interest? Somebody has interest and says, hey. Have a round of golf on me. Just make sure this happens. You have to be more transparent because right now, there's too many questions. You should've never went there and used my tax dollars. I I I that's terrible that that happened.

So be more careful. Be better. You know? I mean, come on, guys. You could've had a golf tournament right here at at at Sanger, Sherwood, and keep that tax money here in Sanger. But for some reason, you guys thought you were special. I just say, hey. Let's just grab this money here, and let's go to the coast. Let's have a nice time over there. Spend over spend the night there on my dollar. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure you want me to cut me off.

Thank you.

Any other public comment? Please come to the podium.

Thank you, mayor, for listening, giving me this opportunity. My name is Sue Gonzales. I live on 285 Post Avenue right down the street from Jenny Park. I am here because we have what I feel a very big mosquito problem in our neighborhood. I'm a retired school teacher from Reedley, and three or four days before open house, they would come and spray the whole ground so mosquitoes weren't an issue.

I've lived in my home for about twenty five years, and there were times that I don't wanna say there's mosquito and abatement, but they would just drive around the block and spray a fog. So I called Fresno County Mosquito and Batement. Were in Parlier. I talked to a very, nice gentleman, And I said, can you come out and fog? Well, I have to meet with you first, ma'am. So they came out. They met with me. A very nice this is on October 13, a very nice lady named Tracy. And she said, this is what we do. These mosquitoes have names, female names.

And so you take these scrunchies, put them in all your drain pipes, have a block party if it's around the July 4, have a party, get appetizers, and get your neighbors in to help you. And truthfully, that was a great idea. I really, really respected that because these are less than a dollar, and we are using these. The drain in our backyard, you can pull it up, and you just tie this to the bottom of the drain because the water can go in, but the mosquito cannot escape and multiply and breed. But the other thing that she really talked to me about was the city of Sanger can parallel and help us.

And I said, well, what do you mean by that? Well, the ponding basin at the end of the park, it needs to be pruned. It needs to be trimmed, maybe plants taken out. And I said, okay. Great. Because the mosquitoes are not your problem or your neighbors behind you. They are the whole area around here. And so I don't know if it was that day, but I did go to, code enforcement, and they were very kind and gracious to me. They pulled it up on the map. I believe that the that crew that goes out there will do that.

Now if they've done it, it's not visible to my eyes. And so my feeling, I just looked at it. My neighbor, Rudy Allen, lives across the street. Huge, huge mosquito problem at their house too. About three years ago, we had traps put in our backyard. We did the whole trap thing, and there was some mosquitoes that carried the West Nile 3. And so, you know, biblically, we're meant to gather. We are meant to meet with people. And we had a pandemic, and, my husband had a stroke. He's doing great.

But the neighbors come over on a Friday night, and they sit outside, and they just have company. Well, it's hard to see when the weather's a 100 degrees. They've got long sleeve shirts on. They've got socks and pants. And this nice lady, Tracy, says, well, plug in a fan. Okay. I can do that, but my PG and E bill's already sky high.

Right.

So what I'm asking here is, can we or can there be a recommendation to see if it makes a difference down at the park? I do believe that it's a huge breeding ground. I walk the neighborhood. I really haven't see I haven't seen them down there.

Thank you very

saying they're not there.

Right. Thank thank you very much. We have our our public works people here, and, that is well taken.

Is that my alarm that I need to stop?

Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

Mayor, just on that one, we have started the cleanup, but we had to pull crews off for workload before the complaint came in. Oh. And then since then, we've been in contact with mosquito abatement to make sure they spray, and we are going back out to finish the grooming of the ground, so it's already being addressed.

There you any other public comment? Please come to the podium.

There's no other public comment. Public comment is closed. We'll go to item f, calendar. Matters listed under the consent calendar are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion and one vote. There will be no separate discussion of these items. If discussion is desired, a member of the audience or a council member may request an item be removed from the from the consent calendar and it'll be considered separately. Count council members, do you guys have anything you wanna pull? Members of the audience, are there any consent calendar items you wish to pull?

Okay.

In regards to the, item f consent calendar with the exception of item f three, do I have a motion to approve?

Motion to approve.

I'll second, mister mayor.

We have a motion to second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed. Hearing none, that motion carries unanimous. Item f three.

Give me one second, May or May. Lost my connection. I'm getting it back up to pull it up. Need to get to the staff.

There it is.

Well, I just wanna pull the x I got it. I finally got it back up. Was that running and loading. So, essentially, what we're doing, counsel with item f three, is we are looking to do some, staffing adjustments to meet the needs of the business, and I'm pulling it up right now. So it basically affects five positions within the city.

The staff report laid out the detail as to why, so I kinda wanted to just talk about the impact of the fiscal impact and what gets affected and where it gets affected. So the first position that we're looking at is for an account clerk, and that would be so currently, HR has two budgeted part time clerks. We wanna take one of those positions and convert it to full time. So we've already budgeted for half of a body there. So the impact on making that one part time position to make it full time would be 63,500 annually, and that is, all in with, all the load included, benefits, medical, stipends with everything they're eligible for.

So that one would be 63. It's about half of a body increase. We do intend on keeping, the staff report, I believe, on page on page 20 or 30 for the position allocation. It says we would not have a part time person. That's an error. We have two part time. We're gonna convert one to full time. We are not gonna ask to get another part timer. So, I wanted to point that out to you. The second one is over in the police department, the the the chief's clerk over there actually does the work of an executive assistant.

And to get more in line with how my, my admin works and how the fire admin works. And she is doing the job, and it allows her to be to do things she currently can't do because of the chief. Due to confidential items and things like that. This helps get her back gets her in the role she needs to be. But the impact of that is $11,500 annually from what we're currently paying for that position already.

The other one is an addition, and this is a new body. That's what the fee is 96,500 for an HR technician. As we're getting you know, we've talked about these Tyler Tech implementations, and this kinda goes hand in hand with the one in finance. We typically lose, in the last two weeks. I've lost Amanda and Brie. They're in the back there to HR to five days of training for both of them. So I think they had three days last week, two days this week scheduled. Same thing in finance. We lose Virginia, Carla, and Laika to these trainings for multiple days, eight hours a day every week, and we just can't keep up with the workload, especially when we have payroll weeks and things like that. So that's why we're asking for that extra help, not only to help cover the meetings.

Virginia Finance is cross training all her staff so they can kinda cover all the bases over there so they're not pigeonholed into one or two things that they can do. So it gives us flexibility and more bodies to to help with that training process without letting things fall behind. And when we're not in meetings with Tyler Tech over the next year and a half, you have to build out all the new modules. So, essentially, HR and finance will be running multiple systems. The system are currently running, and they'll be implementing the new models, running the numbers.

And then when you get making sure that we work out, we debug it, and that everything's coherent. So for the next eighteen months, HR and finance are gonna be really busy. They're more busy than they are, and they need the extra help. So that's that one. The parks and facility supervisor, that's 1355.

That is a new position. My direction when I got hired two years ago was to bring back Parks and Rec. We're finally there. And what this does is it's going to on July 1, if all things go according to plan, we'll be transferring nine bodies over to Parks and Recreation. Six will be there to maintain our parks and keep them clean and ready to go, opening opening, closing them, setting them up, things of that nature.

The other three will be in building facilities. So this position here is to have a working supervisor to go along with them and to help assist in, you know, people complain, say, hey. The parks aren't quite this and that. I I do think our parks look pretty good overall, but I think with you know, once we get bracketed out and then people aren't getting pulled off jobs to go somewhere else to fix streets or collections type type things will have a nicer looking park. So that's what that one is, and that is a new position.

Our other parks and rec supervisor will run all their recreation side, the programming side of the business, and, deal with all the the multitude of seasonal employees and people we have to bring in and scheduling. And then the public works manager, that is a position. He's currently a public works supervisor. It's, Eddie's position. We wanna move him up to get him again aligned with class and comp and more in line with what he is doing in the role, and that would be 16,500 additional to to make that move annually.

And then last but not least, the environmental compliance manager. We currently have an environmental technician that has taken on the role of works with the state, has implemented our policies for pretreatment, and we got that approved through the state. Well, now we have three years to get compliant. And this young lady has really stepped up. She meets the need for the city to keep us compliant to get us over three years.

She's fully loaded on that position because we do intend on July 1 in the new fiscal year to maintain her current position because she needs help. Like, Northern Greenwood, that's a great example of when things can go around, we're getting a lot of diapers and rags down. So, you know, part of that team, that compliance team will go out and try to find out where we're getting things like that down and and get us current and compliant. So these are positions we looked at the whole city. That's all we're we're asking for at this time.

Those are the the impacts to it, but, you know, we've spent a lot of money getting things to where we're at, and now it's we need to just move move it forward. So I have every department head in here. In case anybody has specific questions, they can address it. Thank you.

K. Thank you. Any public comment?

No. I I I agree. You know, if we need the jobs, we need the jobs. This is what's gonna make Zanger better. I don't have an issue with that. I just wanted to see if you could clarify a few things. Because on the account clerk finances, it says there's two bands that they'll be being paid for. So that's two positions. When I was looking at the job job description on the account check finance, it listed two different bands, the amounts. So if you clarify that.

And then on the executive assistant for the police, At all the jobs that you've listed, you list their bands per month, like, whatever you they have on there. And it always says at the end, per month. But it didn't say that with the police department, that that one position there. It just says 5,535 to 6,728. That's it.

I'm hoping that you mean that by month. You guys, when you do contracts over here, it has to be complete. No gray area. It doesn't say it behind there. It sounds like a little ticky tack or a little petty, but it makes a difference when you do business.

Didn't say it, so put it in there. Then if that's the case. And then, when you do hire these people, which is great, the new ones, I hope you guys do your due diligence and pick the people that deserve it. A lot of these jobs are tough jobs, and it sounds like they should be in house people if they've been experienced. I don't wanna hear any more friends or or or if somebody resigns off a certain job and now all of a sudden he's he's got a position here in Sanger, there's a reason why people resign. So just keep it clean. Make sure we get the best people here because it's good money. We need these people. Again, if you got your friendships, you got what's going on, I don't know. That's your business.

That's not my business. That's not Sanger's business. So keep your private business out of this, hopefully, and we get the good people because we do need them. And then there's one job. Oh, man. Poor guy. Whoever gets his job there, it says work performed in extreme heat, cold cold rain, electrical hazards, fumes, orders, raw sewage, and goes on and on with terrible working conditions, but somebody's gotta do it. But what I didn't like was that the the guy's supposed to be available to respond to emergencies after work, weekends, holidays. Where's the quality of life on that job? You know?

So maybe someone should look over that, and and, hopefully, it's not gonna be that way where the the guy never gets off. He's always gonna have to be available in case there's an emergency call. I lived a life like that. I worked on the railroad. That's what we used to do all the time. But at least we had twelve hour work, which that's all we could work was twelve. But, yeah, that job sounds like a tough job and and maybe help the guy out a little bit. That sounds pretty tough for a guy to work that position. Thank you. Or female. Sorry.

The man is probably gonna ask your van question, but, yeah, everything is monthly in the in the the paragraphs. They were it was the step one and step five. So that lower number is if you're hired at step one, and then the upper number is if you're step five is how the city we have a five step program right now. So those were the mins and max of that position currently is what that was, and then she put the impact on the fiscal impact to account for if they were here or not. Of all these movements, two people will be new hires. So they'll we'll send out the recruitment. They go everybody else is, we're just shuffling people around that are already in that role to match their roles to a title they should have with our classic comp.

Yeah. It's not a file.

No. They're monthly. Apologize for that. And then and then another thing we do here at the city is when somebody requests a a position Like, let's say, hypothetically, two years from now, somebody resigns and it comes and they wanna backfill it. We double check to make sure, okay. Is that a position we we really need, or have have we gotten some benefit from some of the things that have been implemented? Is the workload down? So we don't automatically just rehire our position. We look at it at every opportunity, and I would rather keep head counts and things adjusted through people leaving voluntarily than than laying people off. And we usually have enough movement that we can keep our head counts where they need to be. But right now, we need the help.

Thank you.

Good evening, mayor and council. Amanda Champion, HR manager. To clarify on the account clerk, there is two bands because the account clerk classification is flexibly allocated position, which means that, there are two different job classifications, but they are linked. So, once evaluated and with enough years of experience, that person potentially could become an account clerk two. So the band was for an account clerk one versus an account clerk two. We do budget for account clerk ones because we assume we're gonna get someone in with, the range of experience that is within the one range, but, eventually, they could be eligible to move to a two with with years of experience and proper evaluations. And the month was my, my error. I apologize. It was a month. I just forgot to put that on there.

So it is month. Any other

Thank you.

Was there any other public comment?

Public comment is closed. Move back to council. You guys have any, anything to add?

No. Thank you, city manager, for that, discussion. And you're right. You did say something regarding the the council's direction for additional, park employees. Parks and rec, which were always a priority in the last few years, and sometimes we get complaints about park conditions or bathrooms not being available during the evening times, and hopefully this helps with some of those concerns.

I do notice that the position is the new position is an environmental compliance manager, but it sounds like it's not a water compliance manager. It's an environmental compliance manager. So I'm hoping that, you know, that is all encompassing where it's just not primarily water, duties because, there are activities that the city partakes in that are regulated by other environmental agencies, I e, air quality, such as your gas pumps and, your emergency IC engines at your water wells. So while it may not be in the job description, I would think that's the reason why it's called an environmental compliance manager because they'll have additional responsibilities.

Yeah. And it will grow. But right right now, I mean, everything's in focus. But right now, we're we're we're under a microscope for the wastewater plant. So right now, the the the main the main run is on on wastewater. But, yeah, she's definitely available to help out in other compliance areas.

And then my final question is, these new expenditures will be reflected in the budget that will be seen within the next month or next meetings or so. We'll have these expenditures listed in there.

If approved, yes. Okay. If approved, yes, they will be worked into the new the new budget.

See the Yes. Expenditures, revenues, see it's balanced out, etcetera. Okay. Thank you. Any other comment from the council?

Yes, mayor. I just had a real quick question on the parks and facilities supervisor. The 135, is that annually? And because based on my calculations for the month is about 78,000, so I wanted to clear or 7,400.

Yeah. That's that include well, Mandy, they won't have an answer if you like, but that is with all the benefits. So that's assuming that employee is bilingual with 5%. That's assuming, the the medical contribution is over $30 that you gotta add on top of that on behalf of the city. So that goes to total comp. But the benefits, he's $1.35 5 because there's about 60% worth of benefits that are tied to the salary of 70, whatever, 74,000, whatever it is. So that's what you see there. It's almost it's it's benefits are more than half of the salary.

You guys have any other comment? This is

a great idea, especially when it comes to public works to do what we gotta do. This is going back in the old days. We're finally getting the city where it belongs, and I appreciate that.

What was it?

Oh, I just wanna say, I do think this is a positive move to move the city positive. Our employees are out here late at night with us, and they're asking for help, and the right thing is to support them.

Great. Thank you. So in regards to f three, do I have a motion to approve?

Motion.

I have a we have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries unanimous. Item g, department of reports.

Okay.

Presenting this first one will be finance director, Virginia.

Good evening, mayor, council members, Virginia, finance director. Before you, I am presenting the measure c for fiscal year twenty three audit, as prepared by Price Paging Company. The measure c audits, as you know, are tied directly with our financial audits. So now that we have the '23 done, they were able to complete this audit for us, for '23. So I am presenting that in my staff report to you.

I'm happy to present that there were no findings when they did their audit for compliance. I did include the financial statements as one of the attachments. Currently, our balance sheet for year ended 06/30/2023 for total assets, liabilities, and fund balance is 3.3 $3,396,709. For the statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes on fund balance, our ending fund balance is $3,000,369 and, sorry, $69 100, apologies. Apologies.

$3,369,145. I am here before you to present the financial statements for your acceptance that will help document the city's continued compliance with the requirements of measure c and to ensure transfer. You have any questions? I'm happy to answer this.

Great. Thank you. Mayor Pro Tem, you have anything to add real quick? Yes, sir. Councilmember Tado? Councilmember Montelongo? No. Member Lindes.

In regards to item g one, is there any public comment in regards to item g one? Seeing no public comment, I'll accept the motion to accept the reaudit.

So moved, mister Mayor.

I'll second.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries unanimous. Item g two.

Again, hello. You'll be seeing a lot of me because as we catch up, you'll you'll see a lot more presentations. I am here to present the investment report for the quarter ended 03/31/2026. I I know I've done the conflict of interest bill before, but, this presentation is, basically provided by our consultant that does the investments for us, getting these recommendations. I'm gonna start off by reading the report.

The total cash and investment portfolio book value held by the city as of 03/31/2026 was $52,831,018. The cash and investment held by the city includes the following components, managed investment portfolio of $30,551,410, state of California local agency investment fund of $19,244,388, California asset management program, hold investment fund of 34,627, cash time deposits of $2,000,737,942 dollars and accrued interest on investments of 262, $262,651. Earned interest is the interest earned on investments over a a specific time period. Accrued interest in the interest that is an investment has earned but hasn't yet been received, and paid interest is the interest that has already been received as payment. Cash and investment held by the city and the trustees continue to be investment invested in accordance with the government code and the council investment policy.

During the quarter, three certificates of deposit totaling $650,000 matured and one federal agency bond for 250,000 matured. Two year treasuries were yielding 3.47 at the beginning of the quarter ended at 3.79%, which is an increase of 32 basis points for the quarter. As of 03/31/2026, the weighted yield to maturity on the managed investment portfolio was 3.63. At the end of this quarter, the weighted average maturity of the managed investment portfolio was two point four seven years. The federal open market FOMC meets approximately every six weeks and determines the level of the federal funds rate.

At the March 18 meeting, the FOMC voted to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at three and a half to three and three quarter percent. For the adopted investment policy, the finance director is required to report the type of investment, financial institution, date of maturity, and amount of investment, current market value, rate of interest for all securities with the maturity of more than twelve months, and the statement that all Citi investments are in compliance with the city investment policy and all applicable provisions of the California government code. Currently, for the current year fiscal impact, considering the projected timing of cash receipts and disbursements and the structure of the pooled investment portfolio, the city should be able to comfortably meet overall cash flow needs over the next six months. There is no direct fiscal impact by this action. For ongoing fiscal impact, there is no ongoing fiscal impact.

And I'm just asking for the acceptance of this report.

Thank you, Virginia. You have a thing to add, Vincent? Maybe not. That's what I'm going to do.

Regards to item g two, do we have any public comment? Public comment is closed. In regards to item g two, do I have

a motion to accept the, report?

So moved. I'll second, mister mayor.

We have a motion to second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries. Item g three.

So presenting g three is Yeah. Doctor. Josh Goggins, community development director?

Good evening, mayor, council members. Doctor. Goggins, community development director here. Before you tonight is a request for a structured development impact fee deferral for the Autry plumbing project located at 2700, Academy Avenue. As many of you know, this project represents a significant investment in the Academy Avenue corridor.

The applicant in Autry has successfully completed phase one of this two phased commercial development. However, due to unforeseen and significant construction cost increases that was not predicted before this project started. The project is facing a significant financial hardship that threatens its immediate occupancy and the commencement of phase two. Our goal tonight is to consider a creative financial solution that allows this business to open its doors while ensuring the city remains fully protected. This business, just for example, he's announced that he's gonna have 50 employees at this business with whenever phase two commences, an additional 30 to an additional 50 employees on top of the 50.

The proposed resolution before you tonight establishes a two thirds payment structure. Staff recommends that the applicant pay $93,900 of the phase one fees immediately. This payment allows the city to recover the majority of the initial infrastructure costs and permits the the permits the applicant to receive so they can receive their final occupancy of the building for phase one. Essentially, we're gonna allow them to have some financial breathing room, needed that's gonna finish the project for phase one, and it will also ensure that we're able to defer the remaining phase one to phase two completion. To ensure that this is a fair deal for the city, we have, built in three specific safeguards for this.

First, we're providing a five year guarantee to give the developer certainty. Second, an absolute ten year deadline is established for all payments regardless of the project status. That will prevent it from, kicking the can down the road, and I'll I'll build it eventually, eventually, and then eventually never happens. So we're gonna prevent that from happening. And lastly, the city will record a formal deferral agreement as a lien against the property, ensuring that the city is a is a secured creditor and that no final inspections for phase two will occur until the account is settled in full.

In summary, we believe that this is a balanced approach. By approving this deferral, we are preventing a brand new building with a brand new business here in Sanger from sitting vacant, and we're actively working with our businesses our our business community to welcome expansion into the city. We've carefully weighed this against the alternative, requiring 100% payment up front, which we believe would indefinitely stall the project. Because this agreement protects the city infrastructure funds while promoting economic development and, you know, overall, it protects the city's reputation for being a growth oriented city. Staff recommend that council adopt resolution number twenty twenty six thirty four.

I'm available for all questions you may have. Thank you.

Great. Thank you. May Proton.

Thank you, doctor Droggins. You kinda answered my question towards the end there, but I just wanna get clarification. I'm interested in the teeth, the the holding the the business accountable these fees at the end of the ten years. You had mentioned a lien on the property. Does that even go into a do we place the lien on there immediately, or are we waiting five years for that, or what do you what how does that work?

If I may, the way it works is we put a covenant on the property that basically puts us first in time. We put that covenant now? We put the covenant on now. Okay. So if they don't pay in the ten year period in the period ten ten year period, that that becomes a lien that we can foreclose on. So that gives the city some pretty tremendous leverage because we are granting them entitlements so they can build stuff on there. So in ten years' time, generally, the property values will go up so we can recover those lanes. So what this does is not only provide breathing room and protection for the city, but it also allows for a mechanism that encourages them to complete phase two Mhmm. Because they know how the they have

the clock ticking out there. And at five years, the current price goes away, and then it's recalculated based on here. Okay. Because, like, in ten years, you know, $200 isn't what $200, you know, is now. You know what I mean? Probably. Most likely. But anyway. Okay. No. That is my main concern, but I appreciate, the deferral schedules. I I don't wanna say they're common, but I I've seen them done before. So I appreciate it. Thank you.

It's a member. Todd?

Thank you, mayor. City manager, can you clarify, I know it's under item three on the contract. Timing a final payment, is that kind of assumed that, but if they don't pay within the, the ten years, that will automatically proceed to taking potentially ownership? Is that what I'm hearing?

So here's here's the way it can work. We give them the deferral to counsel some client. They can pay us as soon as they start phase two. So if they're gonna be building and it's a year or two from now or three years or whatever, we get paid. In the event that they don't move fast enough, at year five, they lose the locked in rate.

They're gonna be paying the current rates that time, which is another encouragement for them to pay. And then at the let's say they don't do it at the end of ten years, then when we put the lien, not only do we recover the value of the fees, but we get our attorney's fees and costs. So we basically foreclose on the property, and we would get new owners in there as part of that foreclosure sale. So it's a very effective leverage and assuring whoever the current property is that they're gonna pay it. And because it's recorded, any subsequent buyer knows that that's out there. So if they're gonna purchase the property, the way it typically works is they'll require our lien to be paid off before they'll buy that property.

Okay. Is that specifically outlined within the contract? Am I missing it? Is that under conditions of deferral maybe? Because I don't see that in the language here.

Let me pull that really quickly for you, and then I'll get to you. I'll get it back to you.

Because it doesn't, specifically explain the okay. Lean, that's execution of contract. I found it.

Yeah. So what this resolution does is it approves, the entry into, allows the it's been a long day already.

It's been

a long week. You're basically granting your city manager authority put together a lien and a covenant. So you don't really see the covenant here, but you've given the direction of what you wanna see it as a major talking points. So staff is doing their best to predict what they think you're likely to do. You can certainly change that if you want. But once you give them the guidelines, you're basically saying to staff, staff, this is what we want. You go out and put it together. And then they will do that and put it together. So you're designating authority to your city manager, subject to review. It's a legal form by your city attorney. And then that way, you have your checks there and can move forward quickly without having to come back on multiple meetings to get this done.

Yeah. I would like I just like maybe with section timing of final payment to for that to also be included within the ten year, payment, but I I think it just be needs to be a little bit more clear, but that's just me. I don't know. You're more of legal expert there.

So

We would be happy to put that in the agreement so it's crystal

crystal clear. Clear.

But either way, just to provide my comments and feedback, I I love this idea, and I want to thank staff for being proactive and and business friendly too. I think this is a great approach to, you know, show that we're you're we're business friendly. And, I like the the the phased out approach and, you know, the little, clauses that you kinda included in the in the agreement. So I really, wanna thank you guys for for that working hard and and coming up with a solution. And I think, I think, Archie, hopefully, you know, they'll be good partners, and they'll pay on time. And I know that that's, you know, in both of our interests. So, yeah, good work. Thank you.

It's never a month alone. This

is a fantastic tool. I I really agree to that that when a business wants to come in and there might be an issue into why they're not coming in, working with them. Don't agree in the past when they just said, oh, we're gonna eliminate impact fees. No. This is great, you know, to defer. My only question was with the ten year. I felt a little more comfortable going a little bit less than ten years. But in your staff report, you mentioned why and with all the teeth that I read and everything you put in, I'm okay with it because I I think afterwards, it's it's it's a good deal. They're here. They're built.

It's nice. And to work with them with that second phase is incredible. And, hopefully, we could use this opportunity for others that wanna come in and do this. Other cities do it. The big cities do it. You know? And so if they go thirty years, let's keep it to ten. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

Council member Melendez?

No. I just wanted to say good job. Thank you.

Alright. Any regards to item g three, is there any public comment?

Okay. I I apologize, but I've I've completely zoned out. What are we talking about? The property? What's gonna be built there, and where is it at? That's how far back I am. Well, can you break it down for me a little bit more? What is it a business that's coming in here? What are we talking about? Only because, like I say, I just I don't know what happened, but can that be explained to me, the location, what the land or business is gonna be?

Have you been on have you been on Academy lately traveling south out of town? No. No? No. Okay. So it's in the industrial park.

Oh, okay.

It's called Autry Plumbing. The bill it's already up. It's built. It's done. Very nice building. Great great way coming into town. You know, it's just across where is it across from?

Adjacent to the school district buses.

Yeah. It's right by the yeah. It's just west of the school bus yard.

Alright.

And, beautiful facility. I encourage you to go by there and and check it out. Mister Ottrey's usually there. He loves to show the place off.

It's plumbing material?

Yeah. He's a plumbing supplier. He's been doing business in Fresno.

For everybody. Okay.

Yeah. He's been his business is currently in Fresno. Uh-huh. And he's relocating his business and expanding

it Alright.

In Sanger because he

Yeah.

Didn't wanna expand in Fresno.

Okay. That makes sense. I yeah. Give me something to do this weekend. Alright. Thank you.

Thank you. Is there any other public comment?

That public comment is closed. Nathan, how how long has this guy been in business, mister?

He started in Sanger moved here, I wanna say, thirty thirty

years.

Thirty years. We could fight

Yeah. And it the reason I asked is because this is not this is just a safeguard for us. This guy's not going anywhere. No. No. Just to let you guys know, this isn't a fly by night guy coming in trying to get some deferred stuff. This is a well established plumbing outfit, and he's gonna be an excellent partner with the city of Sanger. I've talked to him on several occasions. So so just just to let you guys know. And so when it regards to item g three, do we have any, do I have a motion to approve?

Motion.

We have a motion. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries. Item h.

Public hearing for the preannexation zoning of regional storm drain facility. I believe, doc, you're putting this one up too. Thank you.

Good evening, mayor, members of the council. The item, being brought back tonight is for a repeat of the second reading related to the annexation associated with the regional Ponding Basin. Following the prior hearing process, staff identified a procedural noticing and publication manner associated with the second reading requirements. And, really, it's more at, more of a cautionary, cautionary justification. We'd like to ensure that this is recorded and processed, fully, completely, and that this regional pawning basin is compliant, with all of the different, annexation processes that are gonna be required.

Staff is requesting, counsel to approve the second reading. There are no substantive changes, to this, or any sort of underlying item previously considered. Staff therefore recommend, approval of their regional planning base.

Great. Thank you. It says this public hearing. The public hearing is now open. Counsel, do you have anything to add

in there?

In regards to public comment, is there any public comment in regards to h one? Seeing none, public comment is closed. So in regards to item h one, do I

have a motion to approve? So moved.

I'll second.

Do I

have a motion to second? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed? Hearing none, that motion carries unanimous. Public hearing is now closed. Item I, city manager, is there any, communications from staff?

Good evening again, mayor and council members. Just a few things. Next meeting, finance will be bringing the TDA audit for fiscal year twenty three. Again, everything's starting to catch up and get caught up. And I did see Lan, the auditor, in the office the other day. I know she's working on 24 stuff and some of the other issues we're having, but I believe shake your head. We're still planning on bringing the '24 audit in June. And then twenty five's already started. They'll be right behind it for '25.

So Oh,

I see. A lot of heavy lifting, getting it done. Good job there in finance for sure. Have some openings anybody would like to serve their community. So if you're interested in serving, we have two openings. One is on the citizens oversight committee for the public safety sales tax. We have one seat open there, and then we have is it one seat? Three seats on the planning commission. So if you wanna serve on the planning commission, there's three seats open. There's some flyers in the back outside in the applications, and it's also on the website.

So anybody interested in in that can, feel free to feel free to apply. We need we need the help. What else do we have here? I got two notes from staff. Three successful events for through Public Works.

We in April, the city shred event, Fresno County household hazardous waste, and the Mid Valley biannual cleanup event at the yard, and we gave away do we get our required amount of compost given away, or we still got more? We still have a lot more compost with people. Okay. So, just working through things, and that's we've had our final budget meeting last night. So as far as staff wise, so now finance is compiling all the numbers, and then I'll I'll review with Virginia again, and then we'll see what we have to do from there before we bring it.

But you can expect the budget to come the first meeting in June as the draft. And then for final, the second meeting in June. Pretty happy to say, though, operationally wise, looking at the ask and the request, pretty much status quo or less than we spent this year is is done on the proposed budget from what I've seen so far by dealing with all the departments. And there's gonna be a few projects that still need to be added in a few last minute. I'm sure arm wrestling matches that'll go on between the department heads of finance, but, it's look looking pretty good. I think we're in a good spot. And that's all I have. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Item j, recruits matters initiated

Oh, by

jeez. Mayor, I totally forgot. I was supposed to call. He's gonna do his own report. Sorry. Sorry, Doug. Parks and rec director has an update on parks and rec. My apologies. Dan, I'm gonna take your note. It's been a long day.

Mayor council, city manager, thank you. Pleased to be able to give some updates regards to the parks and recs division. Sorry. That's alright. That's a couple of great successful events with the Spring Fling, which is a great senior event that had twice as many seniors, that attended as opposed to the October events. Was a great seeing those things are growing. We just had our Cinco de Mayo event, which was very well attended, over 300 people. Did have pleasure of the the mayor and couple other city council members were able to attend. Great event. And I'm sorry, but I have to talk about how the those dancers from Sequoia Elementary were just the, cutest thing in the world and did a great job.

And to be able to stand out there in front of them as TK and kindergarteners and to do what they did was was pretty phenomenal. So, hats off to them, and we thank them and their staff for bringing them out, for that. Excited about some things going on. We're starting to kick off our big season in the summer. We just had our pool and splash pad inspection, which all passed, great to hear actually from the county that it was the best one for the city of Sanger as far as the pool is concerned since she has been doing the pool inspection.

So, hats off to Public Works and their staff for the help that they gave us getting that pool ready to go, especially with the inclination of the new, coordinators that were added and getting those balanced out and online, be able to have our pool open and ready to go. With that, we do have our, pool rentals are opening up. They are open and ready to go for the summer as well. We also brought back the elementary school pool rentals for their awards at the end of the years, whether it be for attendance or their sixth graders or whatever. So we have already had our, I think, our sixth elementary school signed up today.

So they'll be bringing the kids out to do their their celebratory events at the pool. We have our swim lessons are opening up tomorrow due to technical difficulties. Right now, they will all be in person. We're hoping to get that fixed with our company Dash that we do our our with, but they will be open. So please come into our new office across the street at 1717 7th Street, and, and, come see our new office as well as sign up for those those swim lessons that are available.

We also brought back summer fun, which we've changed over to a summer sports camp, and that will be, an exposure, for all kids running from 8AM to 05:30PM, exposure to different sports from basics of football, basketball. We're also including grass volleyball. We're implementing water polo for some kids who may not have ever known or experienced a chance to play water polo because we do have some water polo, players that are now on our summer staff, which we have just finished hiring close to 50 summer staff between the pool and the summer fun. So we have that kicking off, and that is opening up or registration for that will be on Monday, the eleventh, for summer fun. And the final one I wanted to bring up is our junior giants program is open, and we just had our one hundred and sixty eighth athletes sign up.

Here's the problem. We only have eight volunteers. Four coaches, one assistant coach, and three just general volunteers. So I've heard the cry for more things for kids in our community. Well, it doesn't come without help.

And so you do not have to have a child in the program in order to help serve your community and serve the children of the community. So, please, if you are wanting to either one, if we still will take reservations and sign ups, but also for the coaches to go to junior giants dot org. Or we do have the flyers out front in the lobby that also have a QR code that can be reached and also go and sign and sign up as a volunteer to help coach with that junior giants program. So, again, anything you might need, I'm more than welcome to answer any quest additional questions. Again, we have all the flyers that are available out front, and, also, anytime you can come by or call the rec office.

What I think you should bring back for exposure is dodgeball.

First, you gotta dodge a

better than that sting of that ball when it hits you.

You gotta be able to dodge a ring.

You gotta dodge a ball.

Alright. Hey. Thank you. That's great. That's all great news, Doug. That is yeah. We've been waiting, for oh, actually, a lot of people have been waiting, and, you know, we've heard the we've heard the the calls for some more things to do in the city of Sanger for the youth. And and you know what? It comes with with hiring somebody that's doing a good job at the top, so thank you very much.

I did. I forgot that. I apologize. I know I believe I sent to councilor Melendez the pictures today of the progress of the splash pad, which is hopefully going to be done tomorrow. So we're looking forward to having an opening for that. So feel free to go out and check it out at JFK Park.

Great. Thanks, Nick. Move on to item j, reports and matters initiated by city council members. This portion of the meeting is reserved for the mayor and council members to make brief reports on boards, committees, and other public agencies and at public events to initiate matters and to request updates and to initiate new agenda items. Under this section, the council may also take action on any items specifically agendized and with and which meets other requirements for action. Mayor Proctan.

I'll be very brief. No. I I did send the city manager some issues with some trailers that were parked in the roadway, and that was followed up on. So I appreciate the time, taken on that. A couple weeks ago, the mayor and myself went to the Cal Cities Week. It's a convent at a conference put on by the League of Cities up in Sacramento. And I'll let the mayor elaborate if he wants to, but we did see some presentations, homelessness, update on the California upcoming budget. There was even a a governor's forum. The people running for governor, had a little forum there where we can kinda see what the candidates are about. Pretty interesting event.

We did meet with our legislators. It's kinda challenging this year because, you know, our assemblymen and our state senator are not gonna be there in six months. You know, they're both, you know, going for different offices. So but, nonetheless, we did always had a open door policy with us, so it was quite easy to get into his office and and chat with him for a few minutes and kinda let him know what Sanger was doing. So it was it was a good time, and it was, really informative.

And, you know, the things about these League of Cities events, these annual conferences, is is the relationships you make with not only our elected officials in Sacramento, but locally. You know, I I consider, you know, a lot of council members from towns such as Mendota and Fireball here on, as friends. You know? Because we see them so often and have a good rapport with them, and and we bounce things off each other. You know?

Obviously, their cities have different challenges in our city, but it's always good to get a different perspective. And and as a result of these conferences that I've been going to, I met, with the former mayor of of Madera, Santos Garcia. I know mayor has met him a few times and and hung out with him as well. And I know as councilmember Ottado is really good friends with him as well, and he passed away suddenly about a week ago. And, he wasn't an elected official as of this as of now, but he was, the former mayor and a council member a couple years ago.

And, he was a really good person and a and a really good man, and then he really fought hard for his community. So, it was a sudden loss for his family. So if everyone could keep, Santos Garcia's family, in your prayers for the next couple of days, he truly was a a good public servant for

the city of Pantera. That's all I have.

Thank you. Councilmember Hurtado.

Yeah. I also want to start off with that. Just my condolences to the Garcia family. Santos was a great friend of our family, and I know he his leadership will truly be missed and has made an impact here in the Central Valley and the city of Madera for many years now. So he has a he's he's left a legacy for us. So I also want to, you know, send my condolences to the family. I just quickly want to provide some updates on two committees that I sit on. So first, the, South Kings GSA, we did, meet this past month. It's been pretty busy. We met to pass our budget.

But, basically, we have we have a prod some capital projects allocated. I believe it's 451,000 roughly to help with with recharge. So it's called the SK SKF project, and, that's currently what we're working on, but, basically, to, be able to have more capacity for our cities to provide recharge in our region. So, that's the update for our GSA. And then the second update, for CenterPoint District, which is the economic development, JPA, essentially, for our region.

We are currently at a standstill. We're, you know, talking about, different ideas of what approach we're gonna take and how we're gonna use our funds to move forward, with those, with the funds that we have available. So I know that we're gonna be including city managers into the conversation along with, members, currently on that board to see what, where we kinda wanna head in the next head next, basically, because we've had a lot of great things, come out of it. And one of them was, you know, the the tour that we did, for our, like, small businesses, our restaurants. So we highlighted, two restaurants here in Sanger, which and why am I missing the the name that's in your district?

Teriyaki. Two teriyaki. Yes. Yeah. So those two we highlighted, a few years back and has been very successful. So we're wanting to see, you know, where we what else we can do. So, I know city manager, he should have been looped in that, coming next. So with that, I did also attend the Cinco de Mayo event, which was a huge success. The seniors love it. They enjoy it so much, and they truly appreciate the the work that goes into it, and they love to be there. So thank you guys for all your efforts. I just really quickly, I wanted to get an update on the coolers. I don't know if Doug or city manager, if you guys have any updates, but that day, they were not working. So I just wanted to see if they have been fixed since then.

Coolers in the senior center?

No. Community center. They were off that day.

The portable?

Not the portables. The actual system that's in there. They were not working that day.

The swamp cooler?

Yes. The swamp coolers.

It was hot.

I think if there's swamp coolers in there still. So I just wanted to get an update so your staff can look into it, see confirm if it's down or they were not just turned on that day. But, to my understanding, they were not working that day. So, you guys can just take a look at that. And then, also wanna mention the set free cleanup at Singer Park was great. I wanna also thank staff for, you know, going out there personally. Doctor Goggins and Doug, I really had a really good great conversation with you guys and definitely look forward to the direction our city is heading. And then, yeah, that's basically it. So thank you for all the updates. That's all I have.

Great. Thank you. What's my remote to Longo?

I also attended the, Cinco de Mayo and the Fling Fest. Is it what

do what'd you call it again?

Spring Fling.

Spring Fling. So, just interesting. Both of them are well done and everything. I don't know. I I I can tell you guys to change the name or something. Tie tongue twister there. But both were very successful. I had a lot of fun with everybody. And cinco de Mayo, it's it's just dear to my heart because a lot of the people that there knew my family, knew my mom, and, boy, it just you know, when people come to me and tell me, you look like your mom, and they start talking about my mom is and and have the conversation. It brings back great memories with my mom, my family, being part of this community and everything, and just seeing all the people there just enjoying life with the programs that we have, especially for our seniors.

I'm excited about what you're talking about when it comes to rec and all the rec programs when you for the kids. This is great. I think this is what all of us wanted more and more. And and, you know, just making sure that we have enough for our for our youth in town during the summertime to be busy. And with us, with the school district, and the churches, and everybody else doing, there there's a lot that's gonna go on that's positive in our community, and I appreciate that we're part of that as well.

The gentleman that came up and talked about, it's it's Doctor Horton Park that I came up with and talked about the condition of, an area that the kids use, which is a slide. And, I was actually there on April 4 because I have pictures of the condition there and the and some of the vandalism that actually took place there and sent over to city manager. So it's my district, and I love my district. And I think people know that I go and drive around. I drive around there.

I was even there last night talking to people about the park. The thing that some people don't understand is it's not the city yet. So what I mean by that is it's still the owners of Doctor Horton. So we have issues. We have to you know, I'm I or let's say someone in the community has an issue, then they let city manager know that from there, it goes to Doctor Horton. So we can't touch it yet. And so there are some different things and small things that they're working on, and staff is really working with D. R. Horton. I appreciate staff doing what they're doing and, talk to the same manager about today.

He knows it's still there, but until we accept and prove the final map, which I believe it is, then it becomes ours. So to answer your question, it is not ours yet. It'd Lauren D. R. Horton, and everything that comes to us, we give to them to make sure that they could address the needs of that community there and so forth. I wanna thank city manager because there's a lot of stuff I brought to him last couple of weeks, and they've been dealt with and and going with. Thank all the staff and everything. Special thanks to the police department. You guys are rocking. We're taking guns like crazy out.

We're arresting people who need to be arrested. Incredible. And just keep doing it. Like I said before, I fully sup always support the police department, and I know it's been a difficult time at one point, but you guys are still doing the job to keep our community safe and to see what is going on, to see that our officers are in arm's way sometimes, you know, as well, and they do what's best. This past story, you know, they made sure that not just the family, but the young kids were out and safe.

You know? And they went back in and were able to, apprehend the suspect as well. Bravo. And just continue do the hard work that you're doing. The last thing is I wanna talk to our city manager when he first came on board.

There's always been the word of transparency and somebody said accountability. And I wanna address that a little bit because I know it's now becoming time to run for office and so on. But the reason I wanna address with the city manager is I have not seen a man a city manager that has been transparent the way this new city manager has been in the past couple of years he's been here. So during the time of transition and being on the councilman twenty one and seeing some difficult things that this council saw and tried to address with a former, executive staff and not getting the true answers. But when a new city manager comes on board and basically tells the council in front of the public, these are the areas of concern and and issues that we have, your water, your sewer, the ability having the finance in a disarray, the ability knowing that, you know, I have to fix your audits.

He was very upfront from the beginning, and he's been upfront from the beginning, and staff has been upfront at the beginning. And they're working tirelessly with us to get everything back in line. And I appreciate what he's doing because sometimes he takes the hits when people are not knowing that he inherited those things. Some of them has been inherited for far, far, far from, I mean, 2011, 02/1314 when we saw the reports regarding the sewer issue. I mean, there were reports that we never saw, but when he came on board, he says, I'm gonna share it with the council, and he started sharing things.

But I remember the day when we sat here, and he made a blunt statement and said, you know, we gotta do this. We gotta fix these things. We got you know, we're gonna have trouble if we don't fix the audits. And you hear what he's saying today that we're just about there? Thank you. Thank you to our staff. There's changes that are being made. You know, staff that's here is doing a fantastic job. I see it. I know the people see it, and I want you to know that your hard work does not go unnoticed for any of you.

And I appreciate what you're doing to getting us in the track that we're getting in, and it's paying off. Houses are being built that we have not built in a long time. Businesses are coming in. We haven't had business in a long time. Revenue is starting to you know, as far as shortfalls is starting to go away. It's exciting times. Our water, pretty much fixed. We just added we just approved the the second water well. We know a third one's in line. We're dealing with the waste run chain plant that's been disarrayed for many, many years prior to a lot of us even being around.

A lot of hard work could be done. From each, from down to the city manager to down to every director to down to every single employee, Thank you for doing the hard work, and thank you, city manager, for being honest with us that when there is an issue, you're not hiding it. You're telling us this is the issue. We need to fix it. Thank you, mister mayor.

Thank you. Council member Melendez.

I wanna say thank you to Doug. I'm really excited about the splash pad. I remember coming into office, and this is the fourth year already, and that splash pad was not working. And I'm very happy right now to where we're at, and I'm thankful for that. I'm also very help I'm happy with the work for the Cinco de Mayo event. I've heard there was long lines to get into the event. Everybody was very happy. My mother father and son. My son's visiting, and he's in the air force. So everybody attended.

Everybody was happy. Every and they liked the little dancers. And I also wanna say, thank you for all the staff, for all the hard work. I know you guys are just like as we are spending time away from our families, you guys are doing the same with us, and we do appreciate that. I also, Doug, you did mention, you needed help with volunteers.

Maybe we can do, like, a video or something with Sanger Live, to ask for volunteers from our community members. If anybody else here from the audience wants to volunteer, you guys should volunteer. But other than that oh, and if we can are we putting some of these announcements on the monthly letter? Maybe that will help as well to get volunteers.

Okay.

And maybe, that sewer issue that we're having about stuff not being dumped, I think I saw you guys made a flyer for that. Right? Maybe add a little bit of that portion on the monthly one as well. Maybe that will help too if you guys just continue it. But you guys are doing an awesome job, and I just wanna say thank you.

Oh, thank you. Yeah. That's a that's a good idea. You know? Because I know Mid Valley disposal does a what what goes where Wednesday. Maybe we could do a that doesn't go in there Thursday. It's like, do do not flush that. I don't know. It's just something about that right now. But, anyway, real quick, I had a cog meeting.

Not much went out of there. Just a lot of procedural stuff, and I know measure c is gonna be coming to a sunset. And I don't know if there's gonna be a mad dash to try to get money for that, but I know Josh is on top of it. The Josh. But, yeah, that's what that's, you know, one of the things that I know that they're reallocating some money and stuff for different projects, but I I you guys should be on top of that.

And then we did go to Sacramento. It's just one of those things that that comes along with the territory as as a council member. You know, these these conferences and committees and retreats and stuff like that all build relationships. And I don't think that you should ever try to stunt that professional growth and, you know, to build that relationship in there because, you know, like like, mayor Pro Tem said, you know, we've been going to these things for quite a long time now. And, you know, when we walk in the room, they know that that's the mayor and that's the mayor Pro Tem.

And they're easily, we're easily could easily access, you know, the legislators. Like, we just walked over to, your sister's office, and it was like, hey. We're here. We're from we're from Sanger, and then she she was like, alright. Come on back.

But, you know, those those two are Arambula and and Caballero both leaving, like like mayor Pro Tem said, in six months. So we went there to try to, to try to get one one last bite at the apple with them to try to get some you know, squeeze a little bit more blood from a turnip, so to see, because, you know, the state's money issues are are pretty bad. But, we did go see them. Very successful meetings, we had there. I know there's there's coming up, ICSC, the International, Conference of Socking Centers.

And, with dog Goggins and and city manager and myself, we're gonna be there. You know? And every everybody there is gonna know where the city of Sanger is, and they're gonna know that we are the nation's Christmas tree city and that we want their business. And, you know, one of one of the things that we just did today that kinda goes to prove that, you know, what we are, business friendly city. And I think that that's a a great thing.

You know? Like, when we brought did bring, city manager Nathan on board, that was one of our main things. It's like, hey. We need to change the culture of city hall, and that has gone far above and beyond what what, what I was kind of expecting, but it is a breath of fresh air. You know that you you said it took four years to to get that splash pad.

Well, we've been waiting, like, almost eight years to try finally, we we finished the Veterans Park. Now we're on the Memorial Plaza, and I am happy to say that we are having a groundbreaking on May 26 at this site at 11AM. And I want I want everybody to come. It's it's gonna be a momentous occasion. When I got elected mayor in 2016, and I would go to all these other towns for meetings, I'd noticed that everybody had a a a memorial plaza to the veterans except the city of Sanger.

So we are gonna change that, and that was one of the promises I made back then. And, you know what, here it is. It's coming true. And I'm so excited to announce that that we are having a groundbreaking, and thank you to all the staff that's making that happen. I can't wait to be there. I'll probably be there at 8AM. I know it starts at eleven, but I want a good spot. So so, yeah, I I can't wait. I'm just excited for that. So, there being no further business, this meeting is adjourned at 08:00PM.