City Council - Regular Meeting

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All right. Thank you, Comps Director. We are back from our closed session for our special meeting. City Attorney, what's the reportable action tonight?

On item one of your closed session agenda, the Council voted unanimously to reject the claims of Jerome Keene, Louis Franco, and Lauren Edkins, or Elkins, and directed me to serve them each or their legal representative with notice of that rejection. Thank you, City Attorney. Is that the extent of the reportable action tonight? That is the extent of the reportable action tonight, yes.

What were the results of that vote in closed session to reject all three claims? I'm sorry? What were the results of the vote in closed session to reject all those three claims?

Just to reject all of those claims.

Okay.

Okay.

Are you going to report on an actual vote that the council took or consensus? Yes, I said it was a unanimous. Thank you. Appreciate that clarification. With that, we will adjourn our special meeting and reconvene in five minutes for our regular meeting at 6 p.m. We'll be back in just a few.

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I'm showing six o'clock. All right, everybody. Welcome to tonight's regular city council meeting. It is June 16, 2026 at 6 p.m. in the Selma City Council Chambers at 1710 Tucker Street in Selma, California, 93662. The teleconference phone number is 301-715-8592. The webinar ID is 891-6864-5005. When on the phone, if you wish to address the council during the public comment part of the agenda, press star 9 to raise your hand. and 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 in Feasible. Before we get started tonight, I was hoping we could have a moment of silence for Pete Israelian, a longtime Selma resident who passed a few weeks ago. He was a great citizen of our community and did so much around town. And we remember him this evening. Also, I'd like to ask for prayers for the young person involved in the accident today in Selma that they make a, a swift and total recovery. Could everyone please bow their heads? Thank you for that moment of silence. Much appreciated. Tonight, we have our invocation from Father Efrain Martinez from St. Joseph's Church. Father Martinez, would you please step forward? And we welcome you to our parish in Selma.

For the privilege of serving this city and for the leaders gathered here, Help them to engage in meaningful, respectful discussion and to nurture the bonds of community. As they navigate the issues of our times, grant them a clear understanding of the true needs of our people. May they be guided by a spirit of cooperation, discernment, and commitment to justice. We ask that you bless their decisions so that they may lead with the zealous spirit of service and work for the greater glory of your name. Remind them constantly of their calling to be good stewards. Grant them the courage to defend the innocent. Welcome the stranger and care for those in need among us. give them grounded in peace and charity when there is disagreement, and fill them with the wisdom to enact policies that promote the common good, prosperity, and harmony for all citizens. We ask this through Christ our Lord. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, Father.

It's time for the Pledge of Allegiance. Ready? Salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God.

Roll. Would you call the roll, please?

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'll start with Councilmember Avalos.

Here.

Councilmember Oseguro. Here. Councilmember Trujillo.

Here.

Mayor Panqueira. Here. Mayor Robertson.

Here. Thank you city clerk potential conflicts of interest any council member who has a potential conflict of interest, you know identify the item and recuse themselves from discussing or 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 such changes or deletions?

Yes, Mr. Mayor. Items 2-5 through 2-7 on your consent calendar are the very same government claims that you discussed and voted unanimously to reject and deny. In your closed session, we have reported that action out. It seems we have nothing further to do on those three matters, so I would recommend that you delete them from the agenda. That does require a four-fifths vote, however.

Thank you, City Attorney. Is there consensus to remove items 25, 26, and 27 tonight on the consent calendar?

I'll make a motion. One second. Okay. Would you call the roll, please? Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Thank you. Okay, 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 or 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. Do we have any oral communications at this time?

Thank you good evening mayor and city council and everybody else. Matt Rogers I serve as the board Commissioner for the fresno county fresno economic opportunities Commission and my area includes the city of salma we had a very successful town hall here. Recently, and I want to thank the city manager and city clerk and others who made that happen. I appreciate it very much. One of the items that was mentioned and highly emphasized during our town hall was the dislike of the Fresno EOC meals that were being provided at the senior center. So our new CEO promised to help tackle that, and we have. We had 15 people who took part in a taste test, but it came to my attention that some people were left out. So on the 22nd of June, when the lunches are served at the senior center, there will be a taste test that day for those who were not able to make the trip to do the taste test recently. What we do need is a head count of anybody who wants to take part in the taste test that day who didn't already do it. So if we could get that, As soon as possible, that would be great. And we'll make sure that as many people who want to taste test the new menu are able to that day. And that'll take part when the lunch is served and delivered to the senior center. So I appreciate everybody's patience and appreciate our seniors and the leadership at the senior center. And thank you for your time this evening.

Thank you, board member. Thank you for your responsiveness. This is a huge matter at the senior center. The menu is huge. I'm city manager, community services director. Will you work on that to make sure that the board member gets a head count for the taste test? Yes. Sounds good. Okay. Any other oral communications?

1057 Mill Street, Rose Robertson. I just wanna say thank you very much to Matthew Rogers. He's a great representative here for our city of Selma. Now, when we have these kind of matters for the seniors or other things that he represents that we're learning about, it's actually new for me. And when they're able to go to him, he just jumps on it. So I just wanna give a shout out to Matt Rogers. He's just been outstanding. for our citizens of Selma. And it's nice to hear that some of the seniors that were left out that actually attend every day to the senior center. And in fact, I'm going to be attending that day too. I don't need a taste of food, but I'd like to just observe and learn more about this organization that brings in the food. I like to look at the wrapping. I like to look at what this food looks like. I might be interested in signing up one day for myself, you know, in the future. So with that said, I just want to say thank you again to Matthew Rogers, who's the representative for the city of Selma. Thank you.

I'm going to make a comment for Matt Rogers. And thank you for getting elected on the board. And I know Matt Rogers for a long time. And since he's got on this board, he's opened the communication doors, not just for the city of Selma, but the other areas that he represents. And I thank Matt because it's all about communication and understanding each community's, how would I say, difference of operation. And Matt, you did a great job bringing the CEO president to City of Selma, the chambers here, the public made their comments, the seniors, and that one never would have happened without your communication skills. We thank you for that.

What time will the taste test start? 11 o'clock. 11 o'clock. Thank you. Yes, ma'am.

My name is Judy Reyes. I thank you that this is going through, which I've been fighting for it. And I thank you so, so much, all of you guys, that it's going through. God bless you guys. And thank you so, so much. Thank you for helping us. God bless.

Anybody else with oral communications at this time? Anybody on the phone or online with a comment?

Mayor, currently see no hands raised.

That will move on to the consent calendar. Since we have no special presentations tonight, we have heard that items 25, 26, and 27 were taken off. So is there any council interest in taking items 21, 22, 23, 24, or 28 off tonight of the consent calendar? I have one item that I would like to take off on item 2.2 on the check register. Is there a motion to approve item 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, and 2.8?

I'll make a motion.

Is there a second? Call the roll, please.

Council Member Avalos?

Aye.

Chair, yes, sir.

Yes.

Thank you. Council Member Segarra. Yes. Council Member Trujillo.

Yes.

Member Tim Guerra. Yes. Mayor Robinson. Yes. That motion carries as well. 5-0. Thank you.

Thank you, City Clerk. Okay. Item 2-2. I actually did ask about this. It was for the... Item eight, nine, seven, one, three city manager. Thank you. Public works director on. Thank you for getting back to me so quickly on the vector truck rental, but just wanted to see just because this is a pretty, pretty routine, pretty periodic charge for that. If there might be a vector truck out there that may not be, know brand new but if there's something that we could add to the inventory certainly we're doing approving the budget tonight so it wouldn't be you know fitting this year but can you keep your eyes open for something that we could use because city uses this every year yeah we will definitely inquire used vehicle um with hacker equipment they have access to several used vehicles could even possibly come from their fleet so yeah we will inquire about that i know you have a really good really good working relationship with them they come out to city events and they do a lot with public work so thank you for utilizing and leveraging that relationship to potentially find something Okay, I'll make a motion to approve item two, two. Is there a second? Second. Call the roll, please.

Council Member Avalos. Yes. Council Member Aguilera. Yes. Council Member Trujillo. Yes. Mayor Gara. Yes. Mayor Robertson. Yes. That motion carries five-year again. Mayor, thank you.

Thank you, City Clerk. Moving on to item three, departmental report, city manager. Be nice if I turn that on.

Yes, thank you, Mayor and Council. Some of my reports for the night are we held interviews for our vacant community development director position and extended an offer to an applicant and they accepted. They are currently going through the background process with HR right now. Staff and I worked on some grant applications with Granite Solutions for Schaefer and Lincoln Parks. And then we are also working on an active transportation program, ATP grant with Yamabe and Horn. We also met with Casitas Development. They are currently working on the environmental documents and are about 60% complete on that. County Public Library update. We reached out to Fresno County for an update regarding a timeline for reopening. Unfortunately, they do not have a timeline from their contractor. Per the county librarian, it relies on their contractor and how quickly they can procure the materials needed. And they still need to submit for approval their alarm system and receive that approval before they can order their materials for the installation. I was told though that once they get the materials and install that, then after they complete installation, it would be about three to four weeks after they're done with that, that they potentially be opening, but we do not have that timeline from the county yet. And then finally, Lennar is currently in active construction on 12 model homes as of today. Their timelines for completion of model homes is to be able to begin sales in July with the models opening in September. Thank you. Thank you.

And the library is probably the biggest question I get when that's going to open. So thank you for that update. Hopefully there will be a nice grand reopening when they do open. reopen their doors. A lot of people are waiting for that. All right. Community services director.

Hi, good evening, mayor and members of the council. Okay. I have a couple updates for you. Starting with the art center, the Selma's art center production of Greece concluded this weekend with sold out shows this weekend. And so it was a good ending to their pretty, their Greece production. CKPs, how to train your dragons auditions are currently going on. They'll be going on until Thursday of this week. Their next show sack teens. The prom is currently in rehearsals right now. At the Senior Center on June 12th, that was last Friday, we had 15 seniors visit the EOC facility for sample meals and provide feedback on future menu items. And so that was super positive from all the seniors that came back. June 16th, which is today, the seniors traveled to Pismo Beach. They departed this morning at 7 a.m. and they should be back around 7 p.m., 7.30. So I'll go see them when they get back and loud and lock it for them. Next, Recreation Community Swim finally opened this past weekend. We were open to the community from 12 to 4 on Saturday and Sunday. We'll be open at the Selma High School pool every weekend until August 2nd. The only weekend we'll be closed is July 4th and 5th. We'll be closed for the holiday and for cleaning of the pool from the fireworks show. Our final summer series event will be on Friday, June 26th at Lincoln Park. The event will begin at 730 with free snacks and supplies while they last. And we will be showing Nacho Libre at sunset once the sun drops. And then we want to shout out Academy West Insurance for providing some free candy and snow cones to all the participants while supplies last. Finally, animal services. Our first spay and neuter voucher giveaway was held on Saturday, June 13th. All 50 vouchers were distributed within approximately three hours. Staff collected basic demographic information to help secure funding and grants for future opportunities like this. And then to get ready for 4th of July, the clinic is offering 25 free microchips on Saturday, June 27th at the Selma Animal Shelter. It will be first come, first serve. So get there. And then the animal services does not charge for reclaiming of your pets. And so that's free. So getting microchipped is a huge deal. And then unfortunately, one animal services employee will be leaving us at the end of the month. But recruitment is already underway and the position has been posted via city social medias.

that's all for me i have a comment um i know it's kind of far away but selma live coming back september 4th and the king of the oldies uh pepe marquez is coming back and along with the moreno so we expect to get another 2300 people there so matt get ready and um on the spay and neuter

topic. That's exactly what we wanted. We wanted to see public participation and 50 vouchers give it out like that. That's great, but that's only half the iceberg right there. So there's still more available. Hopefully this will go well, go smoothly, and then we can have another round of rollout. for those span neuter. Because as we've seen when Fresno County, the problem is dire, it's really bad. And we're really, I think, taking a very proactive approach to reducing the problem, not just putting a bandaid over all of the animals that come out, but getting the problem at its source. I also saw where Red got adopted and did Abilene actually get readopted or did she get returned or what happened there?

Last I heard was she got fostered and then returned the next day. And so I'm not sure on the status after that.

Such a great dog. Go see Evelyn, definitely. Thank you for that. All right. It really, she's a sweetheart. Fire Chief Webster.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Just a couple items to report. Just to start off, last Council meeting, I was away from my son's graduation, and I just wanted to take a moment to thank Council for allowing us to prioritize our families for important events. I know that each of you have made comments about making that a priority. And so I just truly appreciate that. And I'm sure the rest of the staff here does as well. The items that I was going to report on across the street are two of our newest fire department fleet vehicles. The one is our newest ambulance, which is a representation of the new platform that we will be using. I'm sure it pulled up while you guys were in closed session. So at the break, if you can peek your head out the door and check it out. It's pretty beautiful, but it's one of the Ford vans with the larger box buildups on the back. And so we received that last week. Our division chief of VMS and battalion chief Fulner drove down to Southern California to pick that up. It's undergoing the remainder of its upfitting, which is the installation of our radios and all of the equipment that goes along with that. And so we have an anticipated go live date of the middle of July for that thing to be out on the street and responding to calls. And then as you recall, as items that will be considered tonight in the budget is the additional purchase of two more of that platform that we expect in six months and a year from now. So staff is very excited about that new platform. Just the safety factors that are associated with that larger box just makes it a lot safer for our staff and our citizens to be inside of in case there's a collision as well as so much more space than the Sprinter platform. And then the other important part I know to this council is our ability to utilize local businesses for the maintenance for those instead of having to send it up the Gareth J. fresno for the Mercedes Benz platform will be able to keep the maintenance here in Selma the other vehicle parked out front is a brand new Chevy silverado, which is the new platform for our battalion chiefs it's a three quarter ton Chevy. That vehicle also is able to be sourced local through the new purchasing policy. And again, for tonight's consideration with council will be an additional one of those vehicles, which will allow all of our battalion chiefs to have four wheel drive pickups will allow better access to incidents. The last item, or I'm sorry, the next item is last council meeting. Council approved an agreement with Dr. Schmidt, who is our new medical director. That agreement is going to allow a significant more engagement with him for quarterly trainings for our staff, medical chart reviews and focus training for everybody to improve upon the competencies of our already excellent staff. So we're very excited to get him on board. He joined our EMS meeting and was introduced to all of our staff on Monday. And at some point in the near future, we'll bring him to council. So you'll get an opportunity to meet him. The last item I have is there's a couple of comments about the weather outside. It's getting warmer. And so we're starting to see an uptick in fire activity up and down the state of California. And so our staff is kind of standing by getting ready to get punched out to wherever they get cold. And I'll be bringing you reports as they get assigned wherever it is they go this summer.

That's all I got. Good. And a huge shout out to a fire. We had someone who works here in Selma who had a medical emergency. Just talked about it yesterday. And literally the fire department saved saved their life. I mean, they they would not have made it if they hadn't gone to the fire department of Front Street and received attention right there. I believe they even used a striker device for compressions. And this person was saved and able to come back and do great work. And even more importantly, to be able to be with their family. So thank you, the fire department, for really taking care of that, taking care of having a heart and acting so professionally. Thank you for that. Police Chief Alcarez.

Mr. Mayor, members of the council. I didn't have anything. However, unfortunately, today's event just kind of brought forward some things that we're working on. Actually, we are currently drafting our e-bike ordinance. We're hoping to get that to our city attorney, Mr. Casanza, by early next week. And we're hoping to get that on the second quarter. agenda of july uh in these these uh ordinances take a little bit of time to craft to ensure they fit within the resources that we have to be able to have the capacity to enforce these ordinances but that being said i would be remiss if i did not um Just anyone listening at home or in here, your kids, your grandkids, I strongly encourage parents, family members to have conversations with our children, even young adults about the importance of wearing proper safety equipment and more importantly, uh adhering to the rules of the road um unfortunately a lot of these um actions if you do those two things you really limit your liability and and the risk of of you know succumbing to you know significant injuries so it's it's it's definitely you know we do our part as law enforcement to communicate that message but that message really uh is is adhered to or at least really um more impactful when it comes from home, from someone that they love. And as a parent, as a father, my child, both my children driving, it scares me to death. And I couldn't imagine my child riding an e-bike or e-scooter, just, you know, there's no protection there. So again, really encourage our family members and citizens to have those conversations with our loved ones. And we work together to keep our kids as safe as possible. And again, I appreciate you recognizing that young person and we will keep in our prayers at the Selma Police Department.

Thanks for being on the spot on that one. And our prayers go out to that person and their family. Communications Director Moreno, and thank you for running the live stream tonight, by the way.

No problem. Mayor, members of the council, I have a couple of events to kind of share. First, I want to share that this Friday, we are concluding our Food Truck Friday series with Dave Aguayo. If you're familiar with that name, he's performed at the July 3rd events, the fireworks show many times. He has a great following in the city of Selma. He'll be performing Friday, June 19th from 5 to 10. We have food vendors. We're going to have a wine and beer garden. I want to let the community know to come out. and celebrate the last Food Truck Friday of the spring season. Well, it feels like summer now, so summer season. That's coming up this Friday. You can find this on our social media. You could also find this on our website. The other item I wanted to share was an important resource for our community. Speaking of Fresno EOC, as Mr. Rogers presented earlier, Fresno EOC is also offering a free summer meal program. That bus goes directly to Floral Gardens. If you're familiar with Floral Gardens, it's across the street from the cemetery. There are dates that they're offering the free meals for kids under 18. As we know, many families rely on the school to provide those lunches and nutrition throughout the week. And when school's not in session, it could be hard times for families. So Fresno EOC offers this service to our community. They park at Floral Gardens from 1.30 to 2.20. Kids could go onto the bus and have a nutritious meal, which may consist of a sandwich, some fruit, vegetables, peanut butter jelly, maybe a juice, some water. It's open to any kid. They don't have to be a Selma Unified student. They don't have to be a resident. There's no documentation needed and there's no registration needed. So just show up on the bus and kids get to eat for free. I definitely wanted to share that with the community, but I also wanted to share with council. So if you know anybody in need, they show up at Floral Gardens and they can use that service. Last thing I wanted to share was the Battle of the Badges. I've been working with the admin assistant for the chief on this to try to get the word out a little bit more. Friday, June 26th, there's going to be a blood drive for the Battle of the Badges through the Central California Blood Center. So come out and support. From 9 to 12, donate blood. From my understanding, it's like a competition between all of the police departments. I see the promotion starting to ramp up, so of course we want to be the best. Right, Chief? I'm hoping it's a per capita formula. Sure. I know we're competing against Fresno and sheriffs, but I see Fowler and other cities ramping up their promotion. So if you have the ability to donate blood, please take this into consideration. Friday, June 26th, you'll see some more content going out around this. And that's all I have right now, Mayor. Thank you, Director.

I think you finished the head count as well, the headshots for the fire department.

Absolutely. We shot about 30 to 40 headshots for the fire departments for their internal use, but also maybe their badges and other things that they need them for. So those should be printed and posted out soon. and we have spoke about maybe doing some potentially for staff so that every staff can have some type of headshot so folks know who they are when we're working with them.

Great, thank you for doing that. I think that's a first.

Mr. Mayor, if I just piggyback on the community, on the blood drive. Yep. These blood drives are crucial, especially for events like today where we have a significant injury. Then that blood is readily available for these victims or those injured in serious accidents. So just I wanted to piggyback on that. There's a little bit more motivation to come out Friday uh and and donate sounds great thank you for that all right public works director hon

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. Just a couple of updates tonight. In the month of May, I brought in a department update that we were purchasing ADA drinking fountains for our Schaefer Park location. Those have since been installed. We're going to continue through this next fiscal year looking at other locations at other parks to also install those ADA accessible drinking fountains so that everyone can get to the water. We also had a end of school year party that Mrs. Torres had for the Boys and Girls Club at Salazar Park, which we were kind of rushed, but we got the splash pad functioning for that event, that party that she had that day. During that event, we realized that there were some of the valves that were leaking that run that splash pad. My staff identified that and has since gone in this week, yesterday, and actually replaced all four of those valves. Splash pad is up and functioning appropriately now, and it's open, I believe, from noon to eight o'clock, Monday through Friday. The last item that I had to update on is that we are finally building the dressing rooms for the arts center and performing arts center. And those rooms, we're hoping to have those dressing rooms done by the end of next week. And that's all I have.

Great. Just in time for the next production, huh? Correct. All right. Sounds good. Thank you for those reports. As we do, we are now going to take a five-minute break. For folks who are here tonight, when you can visit with our department heads and any department heads who don't have any more business with the city, we wish you a good evening. Thank you. And we'll be back in five minutes to conclude our meeting. All right, everybody. We are back in session and going to move on to our first public hearing and only public hearing item of the evening, which is an action item. And it's a public hearing and it's consideration of resolution 2026-56, adopting the 2026-2027 City of Selma fiscal year budget. consideration of a resolution 2026-57 adopting the city's annual appropriations limit for fiscal year 2026-2027 pursuant to article 13b of the california constitution my name is director

Thank you, Mayor Robertson and council members. Tonight, we're going over the proposed 26-27 budget. And we do have copies of the power slides in front of you all. And on the actual budget document starts on page 68. So let's go ahead and start with the first slide. So next slide, please.

And a lot of this will be familiar from the budget workshop that we had.

Yeah, so I'll be doing a quick overview, not going in much in the detail, but going over the budget, just a quick overview of everything. So starting on the first slide here. So for the final budget for 26-27, we made some changes to the actual budget. We did add the letter from the city manager, which incorporates the budget message, as well as a couple of categories for economic conditions, the budget for general fund, Measure S, Measure C, and a summary and conclusion. Then also at the end, we are replacing the CIP that was at the workshop to a new one called the Detailed Capital Improvement Plan. This document added 56 more pages to our budget. It's a very good document that we added that provides projects, funding sources, very detailed with visual maps on there. So it starts on page 252 through 260 of your budget book. Next slide, please. So for the changes that we made from the budget from the May 26 workshop, we were directed by council to change. We made revisions to the city attorney's budget, reducing it by $25,000 for the legal fees from $250,000 to $225,000. as well as adding an additional 2,000 for our funding for our recreation events, such as Selma Life, again, reduced by the city attorney budget reduction and the remaining two city clerk's professional services budget for future election related costs of 23,000. Next slide, please. On this slide here, as previously mentioned, for the proposed 26-27, we are proposing a surplus of $346. And again, the ending fund balance estimated is $14.9 million. Of that, 15% is $3.2 million for the reserves and 5% for $11 million for a total of 20% for reserves. any estimated reserves for the 26-27 estimation. Next slide, please. So the overall budget assumptions, as mentioned on the 26th budget workshop, we had all the departments had returned to a base budget. And also to balance the budget, we used one-time fundings from the internal service funds, pension obligation bond debt allocation, and funding from the PARS 115 trust funds to balance our budget, as well as some future assumptions for 27, 28, Again, mentioning the loss of the Measure C, which is $1.4 million, as well as continued ongoing negotiated salary increases and increases in pension liability and health costs. Next slide, please. So just a quick overview of all fund expenditures. This is on page 87 of your agenda. Again, the total budget for all funds is $65.6 million. Of that, general fund is 33%, followed by special revenue at 31%. Then we have enterprise at 17%, followed by internal service 11%, and the remaining under 4%. Again, this is just the chart for expenditures is on page 87 of your budget book. Next slide, please. This one is for the revenues by type. Again, the revenue chart is on page 88. You do have a detail pages of the revenues on your agenda on page 92. Of this revenues, we have 21.3 million. Of that, three of the highest revenues Revenues coming to the city is our sales tax at 41%, followed by VLF, 13%, and property taxes at 11%, and all remaining others at 11%. So this slide here is general fund expenditure by division. It's broken down by different division, administrative services, finance, police, so forth. Of this, it's on page 89 of your budget book. As you can see, police is the highest at 36%, followed by fire, 22%. And then we have the administrative services, which incorporates a city manager, city attorney, city clerk, and HR. at 10% and then followed by development services, community services at around 7% and all remaining under 6%, which is the finance, public works and internal service. Next slide, please. On this slide here is just for personnel. It indicates that it's on pages 80 through 84, which lists all the employee count in your budget book. And it does indicate that 14.1 million is personnel cost, which includes Salary, overtime, taxes, insurance, CalPERS, and any sick and vacation payouts. Again, it's 14.1 million, 66% of the total budget. And again, listed on your detailed book on page 80. Next slide, please. So just to do a quick overview of our proposed budget for all the departments, starting off with administration. So there was no changes requested for city council and city manager. Again, the only changes we made from the budget workshop on May 26th was for the city attorney, which was reduction of $25,000 in the M&O budget. Next slide please going on to city clerk another change that we did make here as well, this is listed on page 108 of your budget book and as far as city clerk we did add 23,000 to professional services for any future election related expenses. Again, this is offset by the reduction in the city attorney's budget. And the total budget for that is 209 for a city clerk. So going on to administrative services, incorporates four divisions, the HR, insurance risk management, data processing insurance. We had no changes on this slide here. I just wanna also mention that we, again, we're having 200,000 for the city hall remodel out of fees and facilities, but then there was no changes on this slide at all. Next slide, please. Going on to finance, again, as of the presentation on the 26th, there was no changes here. A total $1.1 million for the finance division. That starts on page 110 of your budget book. Next slide, please. So going on to the police department. We have police administration starting on page 113 of your budget book, followed by the field operations and police support on page 118. This has no been no changes since the workshop on the 26th for the police division here. On the next slide, we have code enforcement again on page 121 and dispatch on page 123 with no changes as well. Going on to the special measure S, which is the police division. Total measure S is 2.5 from the special revenue fund. And there was no changes as well on this division. Going on to the fire department. If you look at the departments that incorporates a fire administration and operations support and prevention, the fire ministry starts on page 125 and there was no changes total expenses for the fire department is 4.8 million. On the ambulance division for the fire, it starts on page 219 of your budget book. So the total ambulance is 8.5. And again, I know Chief Webster mentioned the two ambulances of 640,000. Other than that, there was no changes from the workshop on the May 26th. Going on to Equipment Replacement Fund, which starts on page 170. We do show that it's a total of $215,000, and there was no changes from the workshop on the 26th. I do want to highlight the command vehicles of $125,000 and the furnished for $70,000. Other than that, there was no changes from the presented May 26 workshop. And on the next slide is just the Measure S, the fire division, starting on page 203 of the fire of the budget book. Total for the special revenue Measure S is $951,000. Starting on community development, department which starts on page 144 of your budget book. There was no changes there. It starts on economic 141 and pages 145 is the planning and page 149 is building inspections. There was no changes from the workshop there. I do wanna highlight that the community development director has been budgeted and it does incorporate 33% planning, engineering and building as well, all 33%. And then going on to the next slide is engineering, which is on page 152 of your budget. And it does reflect $464,000 for a proposed budget. Total all community is $1.6 million. And then down the bottom, you have the special revenue fund, which is our business improvement district. It starts on page 199. Again, there's no changes. The total budget proposed is $110,000. Going on to Public Works Division, starting on page 137, we have the Parks Division. There's no changes there. It does propose for parks of 1.2 million. And then, again, the Schaefer Park splash pad of 120,000 that be allocated from Parks and Rec's impact fees. And then going down to the streets, again, starts on page 176, which has a total of 1.9 million. Going on to the internal service fund of the building and utility, that starts on page 245 of your budget book. No changes there. A total proposed is 1.2 million. And also transit on page 226 of 918,000. Going on to the community services department, they start on page 155. Starting with recreation, we do have it highlighted in red, the changes we made there. We did add per council's direction from the workshop to add 2,000 for the events, making it 527,000. And no changes to these recreation sports, which is on page 158 of your budget book, a total of 152,000. Going on to the next slide, please. So on page 160 starts the senior citizen as well as senior nutrition. Again, no changes there. 121,000 proposed for the senior citizens as well as 122 for the nutrition. Going on to the next slide is the animal shelter. We're proposing $645,000 for a proposed budget. This is listed on page 167 of your budget book. There is also no changes there as well. For the culture arts, which is in the general fund, no changes there. We are proposing 115 for the proposed budget. And on page 230 is the enterprise fund for the culture arts at $386,000. So there's no changes there as well. Going on to the special revenue funds on the measure S, this just shows that starts on page 200. And it does show that we are proposing an expense of 3.5, showing a 761 deficit that would be going into the reserves. Again, total 3.5. And this is on page 200 of your budget book. And all enterprise funds start on page 216. Next slide, please. As we see the slide, just a quick overview. Ambulance fund, we have a surplus of 419, also in the garbage services, page 225 for 8,900, as well as a positive for the Pioneer Village of 58,000. In the deficit would be the transit center going into reserves, as well as the cultural arts of 158,000. Cultural arts is on your budget book on page 230. And lastly is the document for capital improvement projects. So next slide, please. On this one, this document was replaced with the new capital improvement plan, the five-year projection, as mentioned earlier. That's the only changes that we made so far. And then the next slide is our debt service funds. Again, this starts on page 233. It's just for the city debt obligations. No changes there as well. And finally, that concludes my presentation. Happy to answer any questions you might have. Great.

Thank you, Finance Director.

I do want to commend our staff, worked really well and really hard on this. It's a multi-month long process with a lot of back and forth, a lot of meetings, some tears by me. But no, seriously, the staff is amazing. And I thank them for all of the hard work that they did on this.

And it really started... extremely early. And I think that's the key, you know, because there were some serious road bumps in the, in the road to get here to this final budget tonight. But you know, the staff, city manager, finance director, all the department heads, you really jumped on board and you got out ahead of this. So there really were no time considerations. It's just hard. Every budget's hard because it's trade-off. It's a trade-off of what, you know, we all want as a city to but what we have to live within our means to provide. So I think this represents a good balance between those two. I'm hopeful that we can, with the growth that we're experiencing in the city, we can increase those revenues to offset the really huge increases in prices that I think we, like every other city, has faced this year and has really adversely affected our financial picture But I want to echo the sentiments of the city manager. Thanks, staff. Thank everybody for jumping on board here and just making this happen, a really difficult year. And since this is a public hearing, unless there are any comments from the city council at this time.

I have a question. Go ahead. Finance director, you keep mentioning there was $2,000 allocated for Selma Life, and that was in the budget that Liz had submitted, our director of Fletcher. There was also $3,000 allocated by council at that budget meeting, and I was trying to figure out where it was at. It should have been a total of $5,000 for Selma Life.

So we added additional $2,000. based on our meeting from a workshop.

Correct. She had $3,000 in the budget originally for the Selma Live and then added an additional $2,000.

This is original. If you look back at the original, it was $2,000. Then I requested $3,000 and everybody else agreed. So that's about as to $5,000, but it's not in there anywhere.

What we can do, too, is that we can... Because we threw some of that additional funds over onto the city clerk for the election costs. And when we asked the county how much they're like, oh yeah, 20,000 should work. So we do have some room there and we can remove a thousand from there to put into that. And so when the recommendation would come back, it would be to, if council decides to approve the budget with that change, and then we would just make that change.

I have a question too. You mentioned a splash park at Schaefer Park. Was that correct? That is correct. So that has been budgeted for?

Yes, that's where we remove the young kids playground and that circular raised stem wall area just to the east of the big playground. So that has been budget and we're currently looking for match grants right now, so we can build a really nice splash park.

That would be really nice and I do want to just commend everyone. every single one of you and staff, because it is hard. Sometimes we run into hard times and we don't always feel like we get what we want because sometimes it's happening everywhere. I sit on another board and and I'm looking at what health is gonna do in the next future that's coming. People are very concerned what is gonna happen with our health rates. So I just wanna commend you all for working so hard and diligently getting this budget, but we'll look for the future. I mean, just because this is what pretty much is the way it has to be, does it mean that we can't make some amendments or some changes down the road if need be? So hopefully with that, you guys can feel that if it does come down to an emergency or a staff issue or what have you, I know that Jason's so opened and he will be willing to work with all of you. And I'll tell you, I mean, just moving forward, This year was amazing. And thank you, finance director Maggie, for the information. I mean, it's just something that, you know, we didn't have before and I really appreciate everything you've done. So thank you guys all. Thank you.

You know, one thing, like Sarah said, we'd like to thank the staff and everybody. Everybody's a team, you know, regardless of what department you belong to, you know, but and i like the the budget came out very challenging and you did you didn't uh i commend you when you you did include measure c a loss of 1.4 million that was included so that you know that's that's a little bit of game chamberness not just our city but other cities as well that have measure c um unfortunately that it didn't happen to go to the ballot so just one of those things. And so, but, but once again, I commend the staff again, you know, they work very hard trying to balance his books and everything. And Jason's, you know, he's the captain of the ship. He has to make sure the ship is running smoothly. So I commend you and all departments that brought it, you know, brought the reports in and make some concessions and everything. I thank them very much. And that's every department. I thank you guys very much.

Thank you.

And then additionally, I also want to thank council for, you know, their comments and working with staff as well during our workshops. And also most importantly, our public who have reached out regarding concerns, needs, but showing up to our meetings as well and providing comments as well, because this is what, who we do it for is our public.

Great. This is a public hearing, so we will now open the public hearing to the public. If anyone has any input they would like to give at this time, please come forward, whether for or against this budget that we are looking at approving tonight.

And 57 mill street, Rose Robertson. I just want to say just sitting in the back in all those years when previous to this new council and not having a finance director for all these years. And I'm going to say it again. It was really scary. I mean, we didn't, in my opinion, who knows what would have happened to our city financially. So it's good that, you know, we need our employees to get paid, you know, we need the citizens of Selma to be aware that you always need to have a financial director to help everyone out, the departments, the department heads who know how to keep their finances intact. But I do want to say with everything going up, gas, just everything in the households and everything. You guys got to understand, one thing our citizens here are very grateful because we saw where some of the money went and it was ridiculous where some of the money went previous council. And they're seeing that the money with gas prices and everything sky high, they're getting some events here. And let me tell you, it's very positive, these events here. They can't travel much right now. Um, it's, it's kind of steep. They're just paying their mortgages or paying everything, but you know what? They can walk down to the park. They can walk down here and just enjoy themselves with their families. So they were able to come to the movies that were grateful for that. Just these things that are free. Um, they're very grateful for, and I just want to thank this council that they're giving back to the community, the same people who. that are the taxpayers here, the citizens that live here, they're seeing more done for themselves. It's all they ever wanted. So I want to thank our PIO. We're the ones going to be working at again this Friday. We're the ones not going out of town. We're going to be the ones volunteering. We got extra people here already that said Commissioner Ramirez. I love Ramirez. We got people who are already going to volunteer, get ready to roll. They love these events as well. And I know Scott and I are stuck here, so we're going to be volunteering as well. And this is for our citizens. So again, I just want to thank this team. This is a great team who are watching our finances, and this is great for somebody here. You guys are all working really well together, and most of all for the community. Thank you. Thank you.

Stella Ramirez, I'm a resident. I just want to piggyback off of what Mrs. Robertson said. I totally agree on everything she said about everyone working together here. And I want to thank you all for being transparent. Now, to where before we couldn't come up here, we couldn't ask questions. It was either we'll follow up on it or there was no answers. And now we can come up here. We know where everybody's going. And I'm very thankful for that. And I want to thank each and every one of you for working together as a team and then being on the lookout for our city. So thank you. Thank you so much.

Anybody else with a comment? Anybody online or on the phone with a comment?

I see no hands raised at this time.

Thank you, communications director. With that, we will close the public hearing and refer the budget back to the council. Had just a quick item on the health insurance. If you look at the cost on the health insurance, 23-24, was that the year that the city transitioned to self-insured? Because it's a lot more in premium than any of the other years. Was there a When you self-fund, is there a reserve that you have to build during that year?

Correct. Yes. And so 2024 was the first year we went to self-insurance. And so moving into that, there's always kind of a ramp up into that program and more deposits, et cetera, that have to be on file.

And then as the policy, as it moves into the future, that amount should be theoretically decline every year?

The program is starting to mature. And so we've done a good job with our reinsurance carriers, et cetera, and our pharmacy. And so we're starting to see good rebates and some reinsurance refunds coming in.

In terms of predictions for the coming year, finance director, what do you see as the cost drivers potentially for the next 12 months?

As far as expenses, of course, health insurance and also PERS might increase a little bit as well, CalPERS.

They might be increasing the percentage that they get?

Safety, yes.

Got it. Okay. And then in terms of the $23,000 that was left over, I know the finance director said that that has to be allocated, and it was allocated to a special election. That election would be for to replace Measure C potentially, right?

So the funds were actually allocated for the upcoming November election and potentially if we need to go into a special election. So for replacement of Measure C or something, if that does not pass on the November election.

I know the council had discussed the potential for getting an ice skating rink in December. I know that staff's working on that right now. Is there the potential to take from some of that 23,000 if necessary? Could it float towards that? Or would there be, is there a little excess in the parks and community services to take account of that cost? Or have we gotten that far yet because we don't really have the costs?

We don't really have the cost. We have a couple of Rough costs that we've received, I think one of them was $50,000 for a four-hour rental.

Yeah, it was $40,000 for a four-hour rental for one day.

$40,000 for a four-hour rental for one day.

$10,000 an hour. And then what would the revenue projection be for that from selling tickets? We didn't have one.

We didn't do that analysis yet. We were trying to find other agencies or other vendors that have provided that service.

You found the top end. We reached out to four different companies located in California. And so far, the only one that's come back with the quote has given us that $40,000 for the four-hour rental.

And I know that there are some other agencies that have had a skating rink. And I doubt they all started by buying their own skating rink. Maybe they started renting. Maybe it might be worth some reaching out.

Yeah, we're going to reach out to those agencies. And we've started that process. So that way we can bring that item back and then we can work within the budget at that point.

Any other questions about the budget? I know we have parks. We have Pioneer Village. We've been talking about the restroom. And we're hopeful that we'll get the T-Mobile grant that will be announced in June 26th. But given that, even if that doesn't materialize, do we have some amount built into the budget?

We put some funding in there. Sorry.

I'm sorry. There was a $274,000 that they allocated that could be used for that, right?

Yeah, we put funding in there for that capital improvement, using development impact fee funds.

And that's all for next year?

Correct.

July 1.

City Manager, does that include the demo for that one building that appears to be falling?

Unger Theater. Yeah. I apologize, I do not recall, but I can look into that and get back to you regarding that. I want to say no at this time.

Michael, do you remember that? I know there was an estimate. I believe you're speaking of the Chinese section buildings that are at Pioneer Village.

The one that's falling down when you go right in.

Okay, so that one, we have not even looked at getting a quote to tear that building down we did have quotes for the chinese section buildings but there's stuff that staff needs to work through because evidently there was a grant back in the day that was given to the city to move those from their original location to pioneer village and we're trying to work through the specifics of that grant because we've we have a feeling that if we tear those down at this point that the grant has to be repaid. So we're working through that currently. We can absolutely start inquiring to demolish the dance hall, which is that first building to the left as you come in, but that is not budgeted currently.

What about monies that were budgeted for Pioneer Village? I know we get a monthly rental fee from So, I mean, where are we at with that? I know there's money in there.

Right. And we do have some funds that are allocated towards regular maintenance and operations for Pioneer Village based upon the funding that we do receive over there. And then, as I said, for some of the improvements that we are doing, we can hit development impact fees. We can't use development impact fees for maintenance type purposes. But we're looking at all revenue sources to be able to do those improvements that we need to do.

Yeah, the only thing with that building, it's going to fall on somebody pretty soon. Nothing is ready to go. I mean, I don't know if we need to put a fence around it. I don't know what we need to do, but... Yeah. Last time we were there. You remember me report him. It's a, it's in pretty bad shape. All it takes to go there and, you know, jump on it and somebody is going to get hurt and it's going to cost more than it's going to take to demolish.

We can definitely look into putting 10 fence around that to secure it from anybody being able to get into that area.

Yep. Thank you for that streets and roads. There's a area over at Mitchell and park street. So you and I went out there, city manager, it's in a councilman, no cigarettes district. He, he went out there too, with the resident. Um, it's really one particular area that didn't get the ramp at the corner. They got the ramp south of that in front of the old cemetery, but farther up north, that didn't happen. And I don't know why that didn't happen. can the city do like a ramp job in isolation on just a, is there something in streets and roads for a job like that?

Yeah, there's a fund for Measure C ADA improvements.

And that's what it would be, the ADA.

So there's a line item in the budget that's for citywide ADA improvements.

How much is that, do you recall? $25,000, I believe. So what you need as an agenda item, bringing this topic up and directing... that job to happen is 24. So you can look at it and quote it. Is that what you need from us to look, to look at that?

Or can you just look at it within the budget and within budgetary allowance that I have? It's something that we can look at and

You remember when we were out there? Right. That seemed to be a big concern there. Okay. Thank you for looking into that. Is there a motion to approve the item 4-1? I'll make a motion. Is there a second?

I'll second.

Call the roll, please.

Before we roll, with the proposal changed by the committee, it says

Oh, yes. Did you want to make that change of reducing the city clerk professional services by 1,000 to throw onto Selma Life as requested by Council Member Osegaro earlier?

So you want three instead of two for Selma Life? So you want to take that out of the city clerk budget?

It was just to be 5,000 altogether.

Okay. I'm fine with that change. Is everybody okay with that?

It's only $1,000 more.

I remember a loss. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, that motion cash by 0 with the change as articulated by the city manager, thank you.

Thank you, City Clerk. Moving on to our items of regular business tonight. Item 5.1 is an action item adopting Resolution 2026-58, approving the retention of AG Global Solutions for Strategic Legislative Funding Support Services related to the Marketplace at Selma project. City Manager.

Yes, thank you, Mayor and Council. This item relates to the Marketplace at Selma project, a long gestating project that location over behind the Walmart area and potential state funding opportunity that is currently being pursued through the state budget process. Aggie Global Solutions has already been actively involved in developing and advancing the current funding strategy. with the developer previously retaining the firm and contributing towards those efforts. As a result, this request is before council is to continue that work through potentially September as the city's funding request advances through the state budget process. Staff believes continuity at this stage is important given the relationships, project knowledge and momentum that have already been established. Right now we're looking for about $10 million of funding for infrastructure that would go in this area, not only benefiting this project, but other projects in that area. And so we do have a... state senator right now, Caballero, that has put it within her budget request. So we are currently working through that process and trying to make sure that it stays within the budget as they move through their process. Okay.

Council have any discussion at this time for this item?

Little housekeeping. Did we do a formal RFQ?

We did not do an RFQ on this. It was below the limits for the RFQ. And then at the same time, because services had already been acquired through the developer on this in order to keep continuity, we did sole source.

The only reason why I just ask is just are we still being consistent with soliciting any kind of purchase orders? And that's one of my main goals. I just want to make sure. Other than that, it's a good job. Thank you.

Thank you. questions any input from the public on this agenda item anyone online or on the phone with a comment i see no hand raise at this time thank you and um city manager when will we know if uh aggie aggie has been is successful in procuring that earmark from the state government hopefully by the end of this month I'm sure you will be reporting back on this. Yes.

Okay.

Is there anything we can do to enhance the possibility of that earmark going through, or is this just sort of a procedural thing at this time?

Right now, I believe it's just procedural from the update that I got from him, just working up there on the budget bill and any trailer bills and all that type of stuff and making sure that it stays within.

And the stop fee on this is $40,000. No more after that? But there might be an additional project in the future after this, if this is successful.

But if, you know, at the end of this month or sometime next month, we get told that it has been pulled out, then, you know, that doesn't continue.

It stops once the decision is finally made on this. Yes. And if the decision is positive... did I see that this firm could stand to get some more revenue from the city on a percentage of that basis?

Correct. Similar to a lot of grant writers operate is that there is typically a success fee, some percentage related to that. We'll be working through any such agreement and success fees with Neil regarding that. And Similar to our current grant writer. I believe she has like a 1% success fee and others have, you know, one five and so on and so forth, but we'll work that out.

But there's nothing there right now that stipulates any kind of success fee?

No, and it wouldn't be from any of our existing funds. It would be factored into any potential budget bill and everything, so that way we would not be paying that fee.

And it wouldn't be too much to actually divert funds from these really important infrastructure additions in that area, is that correct? Probably wouldn't be more than 1%. I'm just trying to establish something.

Yeah, that's what I would recommend, ballpark.

Okay. All right, is there a motion to approve this item?

I'll make a motion. I'll second.

Call the roll, please.

Council Member Avalos?

Yes.

Council Member Oseguera? Yes. Council Member Trujillo? Yes. Council Member Oseguera? Yes. Mayor Robertson?

Yes.

That motion carries 5-0, Mayor. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 5.2, adopt resolution 2026-59, approving the preliminary engineer's report, declaring intention to levy and collect the annual assessment for services rendered in the landscaping and lighting maintenance district number one and providing notice of public hearing on the proposed assessments on July 21st, 2026. Director Hahn.

I'll take that one, Mr. Mayor and members of the council. Good evening. What you have before you is our annual report that the council asked our staff to review and provide an update. This is for the landscaping and lighting maintenance district. This covers a number of subdivisions and homes within the city dating back to 1984. So for this year, there are no proposed changes to any of the landscape areas. There were no changes to the parcels involved at the county level. Those are all included in the report where you can see each parcel, a map of those parcels. And then there are exhibits in the report that show you all of the streetlights that are incorporated and collecting fees from through this assessment and being paid through the city. Areas of landscaping, numbers of trees, all of the things that public works staff maintain throughout the year for these very specific landscaped areas. Our staff reviewed that information. The costs for the assessments are based on an estimate of what we estimate the costs will be this next year, based on those landscape areas, the maintenance costs for public works, the cost for PG&E to charge the city for the streetlights. the cow water charges for the water that's used to irrigate the landscape areas, tools, supplies, any of the costs that are associated with this report. So the finance department provide our staff with a report of the costs that have occurred this year. So we're anticipating in most areas a balance in that fund. So that is taken into account, which then whatever is proposed as an estimated cost for next year, you can see that accounted for and the assessment rate is only being proposed to cover the costs for what is proposed next year. And if there is a balance projected after this current year, the assessment will come down because we don't need to collect more money than what we're proposing. But those costs are an estimate. We look forward to next year and make an estimate based on inflation and the cost due maintenance. The reality is sometimes those change, irrigation pipes break, other things have to be maintained. If the summer is hotter and longer, you're gonna be irrigating a little bit more. So that's why we see at the end of the year, we take an account that we estimated a certain number, but the reality is it might be a little different. So for this report, there are no proposed assessments higher than what they have been in the past, which would have required a, I believe a rule two 18 process to increase those assessments. That is not the case this year, based on our estimates, every assessment for each area is underneath that maximum. Some, some zones, the costs went up some zones, the assessment went down. And I believe it's based on just the reality of different things happening in different area based on maintenance, based on the amount of water that was needed to keep the irrigation working. So the reports before you, it includes the information that's needed for the finance department. Once it goes to public hearing and is adopted, those assessments will be sent to the county. We're proposing a public hearing on July 21st, which is a regular council meeting. That's a part of the process for the streets and highway code that we're required to have a public hearing. And any of the residents can come at that time. So tonight, this item is the preliminary engineer's report with those proposed assessments. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer those, but we're asking for approval so that we can continue this process into July.

I thank you and then, if there's a surplus based on the estimates from this current year can those carry over to next year, does it all go back to zero.

No it'll carry over similar to what's happening this year you'll see a column of the projected balance in that fund and that money is then used for the proposed assessments and it reduces the.

That's why it doesn't balance every year because you're carrying over or you're borrowing from the next year.

You'll see we're about half of what we were last year. So I think if nothing horrible happens or out of the realm of reality, things start to kind of balance out.

Might even be a reduction next year. Some zones are reduced. Sounds good.

I have a question. Just a really quick question has nothing to do with it else who creates the formula to either increase or decrease the lighting districts or the landscaping districts.

So that's an engineer's estimate for each zone that I'm looking at based on costs of what it actually takes to do maintenance. There's engineering estimates for per square foot. So those are all in the report. Every zone has an engineer's estimate.

And that's where you get the determination if it's going to increase or decrease based on our public works, water usage.

Proposed PG&E increases.

Nice. Okay. Thank you. And then Amberwood is its own community facilities district. So it's not a landscape and lighting maintenance district. It goes a little bit beyond that, right? Because the community facilities district has a little more assessment than just water and PG&E. Is that correct? But it also includes the LLMD components.

Yes, it includes fire, police, storm drain, street maintenance, beyond what an LLMD.

A bit more comprehensive. A little more.

I have another question. That's really important. That's, I mean, that's an important situation at the end of the year to factor in. Thank you.

Thank you. Any comments from the public about the LLMD engineer's report? Anybody online or on the phone with a comment on this topic? Mayor, I see no hands raised at this time. Thank you, comms director. Is there a motion to approve this item?

I'll make a motion.

Is there a second?

A second.

Call the roll, please.

Council Member Avalos?

Yes.

Council Member Aguilera? Yes. Council Member Trujillo? Yes. Mayor Perkin-Guerra? Yes. Mayor Robinson? Yes. That motion carries 5-0 again, Mayor. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 5-3, consideration of boundary adjustments for the north annexation.

I'll defer to Interim Director Emerson.

Good evening, Mayor, Council Members, Bonique Emerson, Interim Community Development Director. I do have a presentation on this item that I think might be helpful. So if it's okay, we'll go ahead and pull that up and I'll run through that. Okay, so this item for you is the request to adjust the annexation boundary for the North Selma annexation area. Next slide. So in the resolutions that you have before you, there is a consideration of an alternative annexation boundary. And this consideration has been requested by the applicant's representative who is here tonight to provide further information at the end of my presentation. Next slide. So just a little bit of background, so the annexation area was 181 acres originally it's located west of mccall avenue along I knew the avenue and I have a map on the next slide. Planning Commission recommended approval of the pre zone and annexation area in August of 2025 and City Council approved the pre zoning and annexation in September of 2025 next slide so here is a depiction of the original annexation area. Next slide. And again, this is just the official map. This was what was presented to LAFCO. Next slide. So the city council has acted previously on this, as previously mentioned, there were two resolutions and two ordinances when this moved forward after council consideration back in 2025. And these approvals still remain in effect and are subject to LAFCO action now. Next slide. So... Why is this request before you? So the applicant is requesting this modification of the annexation boundary that was previously approved by council because LAFCO received approximately 12 protest filings from registered voters. And the applicant seeks to remove the properties associated with these protests. And the goal is to accommodate affected residents while allowing the annexation to proceed. Next slide. So what do the protest letters mean? So per LAFCO staff, according to the information provided by the county's election staff, there are 19 registered voters in the reorganization territory, so within the annexation area, and of the protest forms received, 12 are registered voters. So if there are 19 registered voters and 12 valid registered voter protests, then that's 63% of the area is protesting. at least of registered voters. And that's significant because it exceeds the 50% protest threshold for an inhabited annexation, a majority protest. So more than 50% of registered voters generally require results in the termination of the proceeding unless the protests are withdrawn. So that means if these protests stand, there's a potential that the annexation could be terminated. Next slide. So in terms of the status with LAFCO, so on May 20th, LAFCO scheduled the hearing. And prior to the actual hearing, these protest letters were received. So on June 10th, LAFCO conducted the hearing, but they requested at that time to have the item continued. And the hearing was continued for 30 days to request time to look at an alternative boundary. Next slide. And this alternative boundary was submitted by the project applicant. He also provided a map, I think, that was provided to you all. It depicts this same general what I'm showing here on this slide, which shows the original annexation boundary, which is in gray and yellow. The revised annexation boundary now requests to remove the areas in yellow. And it's the areas kind of shaded in red on the handout map that you have. And those are all the property owners who have protested the annexation. So the proposal is just to simply remove those properties from the boundary. Next slide. So a comparison of what's the original boundary versus what's being proposed so as I mentioned before, originally the annexation boundary was about 181 acres. And the alternative boundary excludes the selected properties and the selected properties are approximately 26 acres meaning the new annexation area would be 155 acres in if the alternative boundary was approved by laugh go next slide. So some things for council to consider. So just some potential council considerations. So service delivery implications. There are pending improvement projects within this annexation boundary, and those include the Dinuba sewer trunk and the signal and street widening at McCall and Dinuba. Also, you might want to consider future development potential, several pending projects in the annexation area. There are several pending projects within the annexation area. And then also consider, you may want to consider logical boundaries and the creation of county islands. Next slide. These are some other potential considerations that the alternative boundary does retain a majority of the land, 85% of the land associated with the original boundary. And it does include all of the land where owners have indicated that they are interested in development in accordance with the Selma general plan. those are those pending projects that i mentioned also the alternative boundary retains 100 of the public street right-of-way that was included in the original project boundary and that will provide for these the future um widening projects and other uh projects that i mentioned capital projects that i mentioned um and the alternative boundary does include the properties sorry includes the properties where planned future developments will help pay for needed infrastructure so some of these future developments will pay into some anticipated sewer and water improvements within this general area. Next slide. So included in your staff report are two resolutions, so two options. First one is option A, that's resolution 202660, which recommends approval of the revised annexation boundary. I just want to reiterate that this does not change the original council actions. but it simply shows the LAFCO board that the city council is in support of the revised boundary. And this revised boundary, so if this action is taken, it may or may not be supported by the LAFCO board, but it simply shows that this is the city's direction. Next slide. So the second option is contained in Resolution 2026-61. It recommends denial of the revised... Sorry, that resolution, if adopted, would recommend denial of the revised boundary and retention of the original annexation area. Again, same thing. It does not change the original council actions, but shows the LAFCO board that the city council is not in support of the revised boundary. If the boundary is not revised by the LAFCO of the annexation, unless the protests are withdrawn. So that's if you go with option B and LAFCO does agree to not change the boundary area, then there's a chance that the annexation will be terminated. Next slide. So staff recommends that the alternative boundary map and exhibits contained within the staff report are reviewed by council and that a recommendation on that can be moved on to LAFCO be provided by council. And that concludes my presentation and I'm here to answer any questions. And again, the applicant's representative is also in attendance to provide some further testimony on why he believes the boundary should be amended.

Got it. Thank you. Mr. Roberts, would you like to address the council?

It makes my job a little easier in what I need to explain here this evening. I also want to thank Megan Lawrence. She's not here this evening, but Megan has put an awful lot of work into this project during the hearings that occurred last year, both the planning commission and council, and then since then in our discussions with LAFCO and the county. So I really want to thank her. We're asking for an alternative boundary, and this is not something that occurs very often. It's a very unique request, and it's only because what's happened in the last few weeks that we are making this request. There have been a sufficient number of protests, as Bonique explained, that puts us into the territory where this whole project is at risk unless there is something that changes either people have to withdraw their petitions against the project or the boundary has to be changed we've worked with these folks in the in the in this area and we don't believe that petitions will be withdrawn and that protests will be withdrawn so what we are proposing is this alternative boundary Monique touched on at least four or five reasons why we think this is a good idea to proceed forward. The one thing that didn't get mentioned is there's been testimony in this room about the northwest corner of McCall and Dinuba in past hearings. There is illegal dumping. There is illegal use of food trucks. There are illegal vendors on that property. And that property, as long as it remains in the county, and out of the jurisdiction of the city, it's gonna be difficult to police and maintain. If we are allowed to proceed forward with this alternative design here this evening, that property would come into the city and then the city could control that Northwest corner of this intersection, which is important to do for the sake of the neighborhood. I should stay for the record, we're in favor of resolution number 2026, deck 60, We think this summarizes what we would like to see done. And as staff has stated here, we've still got a job that we have to do at LAFCO. We have to convince LAFCO to create a non-standard boundary, which is something they typically don't like to do. their MOU with the city of Selma, their MOUs with all of the 14 other cities, all discourage the creation of irregular boundaries, islands, peninsulas, and that sort of thing. But in some cases, it's absolutely necessary to ask. I can tell you the city of Fresno, there's at least 17 islands, some very tiny, some as big as Sunnyside or Fig Garden. You've probably heard of those. Um, there are a lot of irregular boundaries in this county. Five of the cities have sewer plants that they own that aren't in the city limits or excuse me, they're not in their spheres of influence. There's two airports city owned. They're not in their spheres. There's even a prison in one city that the city has the property, but it's not in the city sphere of influence. So there's a whole lot of irregular boundaries. We don't like asking you to create one, but in this case, we think it's absolutely necessary. And it will certainly help us make the case of LAFCO when we go back next month and ask for approval of the revised boundary annexation. With that, I'd be happy to answer questions. And I appreciate the staff presentation because it did cut out a lot of what I wanted to say here this evening.

I think both of you made it really palatable and pretty easy to comprehend. For us and for the public, I think this diagram really helps us to see the proposed changes. I guess it boils down to, do you want to get some of the territory annexed or none of the territory annexed? Because it sounds like LAFCO... could have just zapped the whole project. They could have just denied it, but instead they went back and saw value in the project, the annexation itself, but maybe not with the former boundaries. And so directed you to go back and take a look at it and revise those boundaries. Is that correct?

That's correct. Their hands are kind of tied in this situation. And so they postponed it a month. They said, go back and see if you can come up with a boundary that will work for everyone. And we think we've done that. I know we as the applicant and the ones that paid the fees are satisfied with it. I can tell you the area that is proposed to be limited, those are where the protests were filed, and we believe those folks will be happy with being out of the annexation.

If this goes forward with the recommendation, how many protests would actually still be intact with the revised boundaries?

Zero. It takes away all the protests.

Council, do you have any questions before we open the matter to the public?

have one mr roberts with this revised map is this now um it won't create an island is that correct it it does create an island south of dinuba and west of mccall there's about a seven acre area that would actually be an island and it's not very big but it but in in fact is an island

Do you want to speak or do you want to let the public speak? Let me ask this question here real quick. I know you're an expert on some of this field. When you create islands, down the road there's some issues. Am I correct? When you create the islands in certain areas, later on they have to come back and kind of fix them when you have parcels out there. kind of laying stagnant out there. I mean, when economic growth has taken place, you want to grow evenly. Wouldn't that be logical? You know, I know what you want and trying to achieve. And also that you have people that are for it and against it. I get that. And the idea is to try to come to a middle, trying to get to the middle ground. Do you have any solutions for that? Let me ask you that question.

A couple things come to mind. This is a very small area. The island is, I think, less than seven acres. There are very few parcels there. Those properties receive, say, trash service from a private hauler. They could continue to do that. or areas like this sometimes go into what's called an out-of-district service contract that's approved through LAFCO and they actually contract with the cities for service, sewer, water, trash pickup. And I know in Fresno, they're very, very common to have these out-of-district service contracts. Those usually last for a while until something changes, either the economy changes ownership changes on the property. There becomes a new land use trend or opportunities provided by the state of California that causes change. So these, these areas typically become absorbed into the city as, and I think this one would be because it's, it would be surrounded, but essentially it's receiving the benefits of being in the city without being in the city from day one. So. A couple, each one's a little different, but this one's pretty small.

Okay.

Let's let the public speak.

Okay. Thank you, Mr. Roberts. Thank you very much. Come on up.

Good evening, City Council, Mayor, and everyone present here. so uh last week i did attend the lefkoe meeting first of all i want to mention my name myself is mandip singh i'm a resident of 10013 south mccall avenue and my property is being affected by this annexation i attended the lefkoe meeting so one thing first of all i want to clear i respect mr jeff he's a good guy But over there, there was not a hearing. The LAFCO members, they didn't direct it. It was requested to continue the meeting. Second thing, as we know, more than 63% affected residents of the neighboring area. They are protesting against it and there are other reasons. Number one, the cost of living will be affected. There will be an addition of new taxes if this annexation goes on. So that's the reason they protested against that annexation. Second thing, There is a lack of infrastructure. As we talked, we don't have a sewer line. And what is the, you know, like within the absence of sewer line, how we are going to develop those areas. So we really feel like the city must wait. And once the sewer line is there, then the neighborhood may consider they can go with new development. We can consider, but since we don't have infrastructure, where there is a need for annexation, it will be a burden on the residents. Third thing is, our properties were affected and we protested against This annexation Within a week It's going hearing here in the city None of the residents has been informed by the city I have a question Why we are not being informed by the city? Should we be informed by the city or not? It's a lack of transparency We must be informed Then You know, like there is a last thing I want to say. Creating an island, it would be like we are creating another West Bank in Israel. We are a small city, just 6,000 plus voters in Selma City. So I think we should think like avoid creating any, you know, like island. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.

For the comments.

Okay, thank you.

I strongly object to this boundary change. I also attended the LAFCO meeting and I didn't hear anything about them requesting go back and change the boundaries. I heard them say, go back and check to see how much agricultural land is being affected. I mean, there's a big difference. And I noticed that the map that was put up there, one of the major areas that is taken out is now farmed in a wonderful cherry vineyard. I mean, not vineyard, orchard. Why was that taken out? Then we've got two islands. We've got that one they've taken out, plus our little one. And I respectfully submit the fact that my property, although it's small, is just as important as a 20 or 30-acre. I don't see why, according to the county records, there are seven owners of land, excuse me, 14 owners of land. Seven have protested. So seven are in favor of this, but why would their voices be more important just because they own more acres? And I don't understand why the big hurry is to annex this. I mean, you've got this big building going on to the east, Why not finish that before you start another one? I don't see any reason why this can't do what the voters of the area want to do and stop this annexation, stop the boundary change, and let LAFCO do their job. Let them either deny it as it is. Don't change the boundaries. Let them deny it or accept it as it is. And if they elect to send it to a vote, let them do that, or let them deny it or accept it. But I don't think that it should be rushed into. And I think that we all should have a voice, and I think our voices should be heard. And I drove by the Amberwood development the other day, and I think what's inside is going to be absolutely beautiful. However, if I had that kind of a development right across the street from me, I would find it very depressing to look out my window every morning and look at that high block wall, the rooftops of the buildings, the mountain view that I enjoy now is gone forever. I think that's a high consideration. I mean, all of us feel the same way. We enjoy that. life that we've been allowed to live for over 50 years and would like to continue it for the remaining years that we're here. And I just think that I respectfully request that you do not change the boundaries and let LAFCO do their job and don't create an island for us or them. Thank you.

Anybody else with a comment at this time?

Good evening, Mr. Mayor and city council members. My name is Alison Ying Bauer and my family's property is located at 9791 South McCall, APN 358-120-35. This parcel lies within the proposed boundary adjustments for the Selma North annexation. My family has owned this property for 60 years. I grew up on this property. My sister continues to live in the home located there today. My father actually started this annexation inquiry in 1972. So it's not something that has been going on for just a few years. My father, unfortunately, is no longer here, but this started in 72, and here we are in 2026. Last year, I submitted a letter and provided public comment to the Selma City Council outlining several benefits of annexation. Our family values our longstanding connection to the Selma community and welcomes the opportunity to gain improved access to the city's services and their infrastructure. I respectfully urge the Selma City Council to approve resolution number 2026-60, which includes our property within the proposed boundaries as requested. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Anybody online or on the phone with a comment at this time? Mayor, I see no hands raised at this time. That will bring the matter back to councils. Anybody else have a comment? Okay, we're going to bring it back to council. So we got a couple of topics. Okay, did you want to speak? This is your chance.

Jacqueline Harper, 9989 East Dinuba Avenue. We had our house built in 72. Okay. My husband had been in the school system here for 37 years. And Mr. Harper was, some of you might recognize the name. I don't know. But it seems to me that Mr. Harper chose to live in an area that was not as crowded in. We could see the mountains. We could see the rainbows. We could see all of these things in here. How many years later from 72 to now, I'm still in the same home that we had together. And I just, I, it's very disturbing and it's very hard for me to talk to a group of people. So I won't say any more, but you can tell that I disagree.

Thank you for your comments. All right, with that, we'll bring the matter back to council. We have a few items to get through. The biggest one is the annexation. Then we'll get to the scheduling part. We'll talk about that. The first one is the annexation. So looking at this map, the revised boundary, does it include the homes of the folks that are in question tonight that are against it? Has that map been redrawn so those homes are no longer part of the annexation and they will continue to be part of Fresno County? Is that correct?

That is correct.

Okay. So then if this redrawn map goes through, there are no protests. The people, from what Mr. Roberts said, no one has a problem except the three homeowners that we have here tonight no no no we already heard from you thank you thank you sir but that is what we're hearing so i mean you know it sounds like the developers is working with the homeowners, the folks who don't want this annexation as a result of LAFCO saying it won't be approved with those protests. But it sounds like it may be approved, but it's not a slam dunk because taking your homes out of this annexation will create an island, which is not completely, it happens. I mean, it just happens. That's life, that's urban living. but LAFCO could still turn it down. But it has a much better chance, Mr. Roberts, of passing if these changes are made. So if I'm correct, I'm hearing the main protest tonight is not that you're, you know, I mean, it sounds like you're kind of getting one of your goals, which is I don't want to be part of this annexation, but you don't want to have to look out at development to the north of you. That's what I heard from one of the speakers tonight. We also heard originally earlier that there were some issues with zoning as a result of this annexation. That goes away as well. So to me, this seems like a compromise. And it's unfortunate that the view may be changed. But as I said earlier, and I mean, we get the tough, we don't get the easy ones here when it gets to council. We get tough ones. This is a tough call. And I feel for you folks. I do. I get what you're saying. But someone has to grow. I said that earlier and I continue to say that. And it looks like compromises are being reached in order for you folks to keep your way of life and the way you want to live as part of this redrawn map. So, I mean, I don't know what else they could do to leave you alone and to work with you other than to just call the whole thing off. And that's what it sounds like you want. But that's not a compromise. That's what you want. That's 100%. a compromise is where everybody gives a little bit. And it seems like everybody's giving a little bit here. You're still retaining your rights of living in the county, but at the same time, you know, you may have to look at some future development across the street. So that's the way I'm looking at it. That's topic one. Does council have anything they want to mention?

I would like to add, um, just to, just to get some clarification, Mr. Roberts, um, Okay, removing those parcels that you mentioned.

Yes.

Okay, are the folks that are against the project, correct?

There are several parcels there. It includes the people here this evening and then people that are not here this evening. But it includes all the folks that protested the annexation.

Okay, so the folks that are here and that are against it, it's not going to do anything to their properties. They're going to continue to live county... they're going to be under the county, not city, correct?

That's correct.

Okay. So the rest of it, which from what I've heard today is some people are for it. You know, they don't mind. They want this to go through. So I think compromise and it's, this is more of a win-win for everyone because if we were to go back and leave it, and not accept it, what if it does get approved from LAFCO? What if they said, well, some people decided to pull out and not continue the protest. And now these folks that will probably have no choice. I mean, is that a possibility that could happen? And they said, you got the whole thing now.

LAFCO can amend the boundaries on the spot at their meeting. They can include properties or take them out. They can't take in properties that were never proposed, but they could take in all of the area. They could eliminate some, but what we're trying to do obviously is to eliminate those properties that are opposed to being annexed.

So, I mean, it sounds like we're trying to come to happy medium and that's what we're trying to do. So I just wanted to confirm that. And the other concern I have about what Mr. Singh said, why weren't they notified? Does the city not need to notify them? I mean, or were they notified?

They were notified of the original, um, uh, yeah, annexation and pre-zoning that came through city council in 2025. Okay. This process that is happening now is through LAFCO. Okay. And though the city is, you know, sort of a part of it, it's not the city's process. It's completely handled by LAFCO and they have their own processes and procedures and requirements for, for, um, noticing or notifying property owners. Off the top of my head, I don't know what those are. I don't know if they have to send out notices. I don't think they do. But it's a separate process. It's a LAFCO process. The city notified the property owners back in 2025 when this went through city council, the normal process.

I'd like to say a couple of things. Both groups are having a compelling argument on the foreign they catch, right? But at the same time, you've actually just stated, the city did not reach out to me, but in reality, you're acknowledging that you want to stay in the sphere of influence of the city of Selma, meaning no representation for the city of Selma, which you got, because LAFCO represents the county. So that is exactly what you're wanting, and that's exactly what you got when LAFCO represents you. But at the same time, you guys both are selling a compelling argument, but at the end of the day, I agree with the mayor by stating that this is a compelling, everybody's working together, not everyone's going to get 100% because we still also have to represent other people that are spear of influence in Selma to grow. So I think it's a really good, I think it's a good gesture on the city council by listening to both arguments and understanding that they're both got good compelling arguments, but we also need to also move our city ahead. And I apologize, but that's my thought, Reed.

One second. Do you want to let me in deep speak one more time?

Come on up, but this is it so Thank you for giving me a chance to speak and I share a little bit more about that. So as council members are asked that left who had 63 percent of opposition The annexation plan is being opposed by more than 50%, more than 60%, 63%. And once it's opposition, you can show the slide, the one you shared. So we opposed it. And it's the best way, like throw you out. And now I want to go this way. That's not like you are not like honoring our voice. It's like you are crushing our voice. We are protesting against that. And we protested in LAFCO and that's why they knew it's going to fail. And now it's the easy way to drag you out. So we will be still in the sphere of influence. We are right over there. We oppose it. Totally oppose it.

Got it. Thank you for that. So in terms of informing the residents in the future, I get their point. I mean, they are directly affected by this. And I think it would be better if the city did come up with some way to inform them. The city does publicly notice everybody within 72 hours of a meeting. So, you know, there is some, something to be said for your responsibility to keep watching. Like I did, I kept watching the lab go. I'm an alternate on lab. Go. I kept watching that for the item. just like you kept watching it. And then you kept watching the city website too. So that's part of it. But I agree that this is affecting your livelihoods. This is affecting your future. It's really near and dear to these folks to have this item. And they were noticed in 2025, but I would love to see the city come up with some potentials for notifying people who are affected by these potential annexations. Because as you heard, this is of the utmost importance to these good people. Back to the annexation issue. 12 out of 19 protested, correct? Mr. Roberts, 12 out of 19, 62%. With this redrawn map, well, go away. and seven remain, and they're all for the annexation. So when they go back to LAPCO, there's going to be zero against it, and there's going to be seven for it unless things change, which sounds like it's unlikely for folks to change one way or the other. Either if you're against it, you're going to stay against it. If you're for it, you're going to stay for it, this person here. Again, it's compromise. Is it perfect? No way. but it's taking your homes and it's leaving you alone and leaving you in the county. You're in the sphere of the influence before and you're in the sphere of influence again. So really it's kind of status quo for you folks. If you want to approach the city and get a contract for trash collection, then by all means, let's have another meeting. Mr. Singh and I have met with the city manager and we've talked about this topic. This eliminates probably a big problem for you, though, of being put in the city limits and subject to the city and all the costs that go with that. That's the compromise. Again, is it perfect? No. But, I mean, this has happened, and it's still no slam dunk that LAPCO's going to approve this. But it's a lot more likely that they'll approve it with zero protests. And it's 100% unlikely if they go forward, if we don't recommend any changes and they go forward with 12 protests. Something's got to change for this to move forward. Everybody gets a little bit of what they want out of this. That's where I'm looking at it. And Selma continues to grow. So with that, did you have anything before we call for a vote? Councilman Amos?

With this question, the change of this map, you know, it takes these individuals away from the city. They're on their own island. And If it goes back to LAFCO, what is the odds that it'll be approved?

A lot better. A lot better now with the revised boundaries. It's 100% failure. 100%. It's not going to happen. I don't know. It may be likely that it'll happen with no protests.

Myself, I'd like to go ahead and send it back to LAFCO with the revised

let them decide and then you know and then we can you know that way whatever happens they could redraw the boundaries if they wanted but they're not going to redraw it with people who are protesting or we wouldn't be in this situation tonight yeah okay so all right can you make a motion i have a comment go ahead

After listening to everybody, and I'm kind of new to all this stuff, all this annexation and stuff are fairly new to me, but I'm trying to learn as I go. The mayor is right. It's not going to be an easy decision. And just remember, just because we're agreeing, if we agree to the changes, it's not guaranteed that Alaska is going to say, oh, well, you know, we're going to do it. It's a risk, but it's got a better chance than not going forward with it. So... All I can say is God bless us all and hopefully it'll turn out for everybody.

Is there a motion to approve? No, that's it. Is there a motion to approve? Yeah, I'm going to make it. Okay, motion to approve the revised boundaries. Second from Councilman Trujillo. Call the roll, please.

member of the loss. I'm a member of the era. Yes, I'm a member to heal. Yes. And never can care. Yes, Robertson, yes. And it's actually moved forward by your mayor.

Thank you. Okay, we're now we're going to move on to future agenda items council request for future agenda items not subject to public comment items require a consensus. Councilman Avalos, do you have any future agenda items at this time?

Yeah, I was talking to Chief Webster. Next council meeting, I'd like to bring back stats from the ambulance where between the two communities, Kingsburg and Fowler, how many patients or ambulance services that we took place in those communities. Okay. Okay. That way, I want to see a geographical number in their area.

Adjust those two because we serve several communities.

Well, okay, the whole area itself. That way, we won't be... He's probably going to yell at me for giving him one tomorrow. All right. Okay.

And then... You want the service calls... The service calls. In the different cities? In the different cities. Better than the equal aid agreement?

That way, the next council... I know he said he could do it. And also, I was going to ask... our engineer down here, Mr. David, just a closer update in these projects that are almost about ready to finish and where we're at on the newer projects that we can streamline, that we had some issues with tonight, how we can mitigate those issues.

David can... Yeah, I think he's close to his quarterly report on that. Yeah.

Yeah, and then that's about it. Do we have consensus for both of those items? Yes. Good, sounds good. Councilman Trio.

You know, the last meeting we had a discussion for the bid, and I'd like to, if you guys would like, bring it back to the council so we can review what the actual contract and what the process will be, because I think that's something that needs to get started. So moving it ahead would be better.

I agree. But he agreed. Okay. Okay.

And I also had mentioned last council meeting in regards to getting either our spreadsheet on all the new businesses that are coming to Selma or just, you know, all the new businesses that are, that are have pulled permits and so forth. So at least that we have an update. Okay.

Go ahead. You can be less.

You're important.

I would like to see on the agenda. When we can start been doing the bathroom fight in your village. But the budget has been adopted July 1st. To an unknown, but we had an adopted the budget here 274,000 should cover a few of them. I know director had said that he can do a few of them with a 100,000 so you know if we can look into that or we can report on that.

HAB-Jacques Juilland, Be good with that i'm good i'm good with it. HAB-Jacques Juilland, Okay, my if I go and you on you keep pondering i'll do mine. HAB-Jacques Juilland, I like to start the process of revising our general plan. HAB-Jacques Juilland, In in some I think the meetings in the last few weeks have really. reinforce the importance of nailing the general plan down in terms of the zoning that we have and the defining of that zoning. City Attorney, how would we go about doing a general plan amendment?

First, I have to check how many times you've amended it this year. I don't think you have at all, but I'll check. Why is that important? You're allowed to amend it four times during the year.

Okay. Okay.

And sometimes you'll amend your general plan to bring in a subdivision that doesn't quite conform. Right? So I don't know if you've done that at all this year. I don't think you have, but I'll check.

We can update the general plan. That's a difference, right?

It's still an amendment, even if you update it. Like a new general plan. So you're just prohibited from amending your general plan more than four times.

Got it. And this one is up 2035. So I don't think we're ready for a new general plan.

You updated it in 2023 and it goes to 2035. So, you know, every four years you can change it a little bit. four times every year.

Mr. Mayor, could you also add that to go back and review what money's been allocated to update or revise our general plan? I know in the past years, we've been allocating some funds. So maybe if there is or there isn't, that'd be something to look out for.

So if the goal is to preserve... your low density and your moderate low density or medium low density for what they are supposed to be? I think you have to do a couple of things. I think you have to go in and amend your general plan, basically to revise that consistency table. And I think you would also want to adopt an additional R1 zone. And I would suggest an R-114 zone.

You have right now, you have- Since we don't have this agendized though, we can do that as you requested, process to revise general plan.

So that way we don't get into a, let them just finish and then we'll get on to that.

Right now you have R-112, nine, seven, and four. So you have four zones. The number at the end is the lot size. If you want to preserve your low density as truly low density, I think you need to add a larger lot size zone. So I would suggest R114. Then you go in and you change the consistency table to say the zone that is consistent with low density is R114. And that's it. Then I think you go and change the moderate low density designation to say the zone that is consistent with this density is R1-12. And that's it. Got it. Because you've gone and by changing your zoning ordinance, you've changed the density.

A little bit into the weeds, but I appreciate that. I appreciate just giving us a guideline because we haven't done this before. Yeah, definitely. We can move forward on this. Do we have consensus to move forward on an amendment so we don't run into problems like we have the last few meetings where we're just... it's a little, it, it's a lot ambiguous and we want to remove that ambiguity and make sure that we're. Yeah.

And we can have director Emerson and Neil work on it together to make sure that's how long would that take?

Uh, amending your general plan is a process that involves a number of public hearings, a lot of notices. Um, I'll give you a timeline later on. I'm not exactly sure how long it will take. But I do know that you can kind of freeze things insofar as it relates to those two land use designations by adopting a moratorium on development in those areas unless that development is consistent with which you contemplate amending the general plan to do.

Got it. So we have a summary of where we want to go and then we'll figure out how we get there and how much it's going to cost. Okay. Thank you for that.

Uh, just, just the one I attended the, uh, I guess the Friday nights that that was really nice. And, um, some other events that we've been having here in Selma. So that's it.

Might be here for five days. No, I believe it or not. I attended the downtown events we have in city of Selma. They're good guys there, you know, and we, I thank the two ladies down there that were attending the ticket sales. Thank you very much. And without them, you know, everything was smooth. And, you know, these downtown events are, even though it's getting a little warm now, but they've been good. People have been coming out, you know. And like one person said out there before, one of those citizens said, they can come out with hardly no money, have a good time in their life, and feel good about themselves inside. That's what it's all about in our society. Less stress in your soul. And that's what it's about. It's coming about in our community. I also attended my grandson's graduation. It was very extremely hot. Extremely hot. A lizard felt sorry for me. He brought me a canteen of water as he's running by. But it was very graduation was very, a lot of students in the city of Selma. And when I first seen this scene, it was over 400 kids. That's telling me that this town's going to grow. Amberwood projects, other projects, Mr. Gill's projects. What it is, that's telling me the high school will have to start planning for a high school. And I think we better have started having a dialogue with the high schools, you know, the board members of the school, and develop a future plan because it's going to come quick and you can't have crowded kids in one school like sardines too many problems but and also i attended today at the senior center uh first time uh selma health care district uh gave a Thanks to the board. They gave a hot meal for the seniors test pilot and the seniors loved it. It was over 61 meals served and as well deserved for the scene. They're all happy. And that's a, that's a start in our community for the seniors. Cause you know, our seniors, you know, we cannot forget them because they were the pioneers in the past where we're at today without them. We got to show respect. And like there's an old saying, you don't district your mother or your father, you know, and you should embrace them. And seniors should be embraced. That's all I got to say.

I'm going to take 10 days.

I'm under 1,000.

I also attended a couple of graduations, two of my granddaughters, one from high school and one from Fresno State. And I also attended all the Selma Live events or the last event. And thank you Margie and Maggie for taking care of the beer, even though I heard somebody sold five years for $5. I don't know who that was, but. Must've been the other people working. But I just want to thank staff, too, you know, for doing the wonderful work that they're doing. And there was an email that we got from Director Moreno about Lennar groundbreaking. Did we miss it? Because they were asking for a date for us to agree to a date.

Yeah, you didn't show up. We did it already.

Yeah, well, I didn't attend that one.

No, they said they're going to push it back to July. So once it comes back around, we'll...

I was kind of wondering. Yeah, right. That's all I have.

Yeah, I also attended a few of the... events here in the city. And like one of the other citizen mentioned, you know, our citizens are so happy and they really enjoy coming out to these events so that they don't have to travel. You know, they don't have to go to Fresno or go to other cities. They can come here. They're just here. And it really helps. So I just really commend everybody that's coming together to help out. It really means a lot. And i know that the citizens you know they they see it and they're they're happy um just one thing i just kind of want to address is i know when we do the ones downtown on high street is there any way that we can just open the restrooms at the art center because it's kind of easier for the people that are working or volunteering to use that restroom versus having to go where the porta potties are because that's a distance I mean, really for just anybody to use. And they don't have to. I think if just using the restroom area there, opening that, they can close off where the stage is, where nobody can go through there. And that's pretty much all they have to do. If that's, you know, that'd be a great possibility to do that.

I'll talk with Matthew tomorrow.

Sounds good. I volunteered for that last Food Truck Fridays. It was getting there in terms of warm, but this Friday, hopefully we'll get a little break and it will just be in the 90s for Dave Aguayo. Great to end our Food Truck Fridays with that event. Looking forward to it on High Street. I attended a meeting yesterday with Councilman Avalos and at Kaiser, Kaiser Rep and Fire Chief Webster. and Fire Marshal Rebus regarding their backflow preventer issue. Attended a meeting with the PG&E, our PG&E government liaison, and he gave me the good news that electric grates are looking like they're going to be down 11% this year. 11%. So that's really good news and appreciate that. Hopefully they'll keep going in that direction. Appreciate the LLMD staying fast. I mean, with this era of rising costs, we'll take it wherever we can get it. You know, I mean, these costs are just spiraling and it's great to have some affordability. And great to hear the news that it's going in the other direction in some of those areas. And again, thank you, everybody, for coming along tonight. It's been a long meeting. But it really shows, you know, a couple things. One is we don't get the easy ones here. This was hard. This was hard. That annexation topic was hard. And that's why we're here. That topic that we discussed with Crown, that was hard. But city council, that's why we're here to make those decisions. And we had great comments tonight from a couple of folks in the public who say, you know, thank you for trying to make it more transparent. And then we had great comment from our council, one of our council members, thank you for coming out. Because you know why Bell happened? Because no one was out. No one, everybody lost interest and they didn't feel like they made any difference And they stop going to the council meetings. When you stop going to council meetings and you stop paying attention, that's when they'll steal from you. Don't do it. Have participation because we are you. You know, we're council members. We're citizens. I'm an insurance salesman. You know, I'm not a specialist in this. I am just like you. I'm just here as a member of the oversight board. But I care about our city. I care about our future. And that's why we all do what we do, including the members of the public city manager said it well, we depend on you to come out and support our council and to let us know and give us your input. It doesn't have to be snarky. You don't have to be angry about it. We can all be polite with each other, but we really do need your input. And I think that's where Selma really excels because we get great input from the people that we do this all for the residents. With that, we'll move on to our last oral communications. At this time, any member of the public may address the city council regarding any item on the regular meeting agenda over 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. Any parting comments tonight? Anybody on the line or on the phone with oral communications? I see no hands raised at this time. We are adjourned. Everybody, we'll see you at Food Truck Fridays, Friday evening.