City Council - Special Meeting

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Everybody ready? Are we good? Two minutes, fine. Okay. All right. We will... Call to order our Selma City Council meeting on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. This is the 5 p.m. special meeting in the Selma City Council Chambers at 1710 Tucker Street, Selma, California, 93662. Teleconference phone number is 301-715-8592. Webinar ID... It's 891-6864-5005. When on the phone, if you wish to address the council during the public comment part of the agenda, press star nine to raise your hand. We will select you from the meeting queue. Press star six to unmute and mute yourself. Notice to meeting attendees, members of the audience shall not engage in disorderly or boisterous conduct, including the utterance of threatening or abusive language or other acts which disturb, disrupt, or impede or otherwise render the orderly conduct of a city council meeting infeasible. Would you call the roll, please?

Good afternoon, Mayor, members of the City Council. Council Member Avalos.

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Council Member Oseguera.

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Council Member Trujillo.

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Mayor Tim Guerra. Here. Mayor Robertson.

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For the record, Mayor, all present. Thank you.

Thank you. Potential conflicts of interest. Any council member who has a potential conflict of interest, now identify the item and recuse themselves from discussing and voting on the matter. Agenda changes or deletions to better accommodate members of the public or inconvenience in the order of presentation. Items on the agenda may not be presented or acted on in the order listed. Additions to the agenda may be added only pursuant to California Government Code Section 54954.2b. City Attorney, do we have any agenda changes or deletions for this special meeting? Nothing to add or delete from this agenda. Thank you. Moving on to oral communications. At this time, any member of the public may address the city council regarding any item on the regular meeting agenda for which the council has jurisdiction. No action or discussion will be taken on any item not on the agenda. Issues raised will be referred to the city manager for review. Members of the public are asked to limit their remarks to three minutes. Public information officer, do we have anybody online or on the phone with a comment at this time? Mayor, I currently see no hands raised. Thank you, sir. And now we will convene to close session. This item has been set aside for the City Council to meet in a closed session to discuss matters pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9D4. The City Attorney will provide an oral report. regarding the closed session. The first item is liability claims. A, Jerome Keene, government claim presented June 1, 2026. Item B, Louis Franco, government claim presented June 1, 2026. Item C, Laura Atkins, government claim presented June 1, 2026. Item 2, pending litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9, Rodriguez A. v. City of Selma, FCSC number FR102297. Item 3, conference with labor negotiators pursuant to government code section 54957.6. agency designated representative, Mark E. Fowler, deputy city manager, employee organizations, International Association of Firefighters, Local 3716 Fire, middle management employees, California League of Cities Employees Association, middle management employees. Item four, potential litigation pursuant to government code, section 54956.9. One case, significant exposure to liability. And with that, we will recess into closed session.