City Council - Special Meeting

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All right, everybody, welcome to the Selma City Council meeting on Tuesday, July 21st, 2026. This is the special meeting at 431 in the Selma City Council Chambers at 1710 Tucker Street, Selma, California, 93662. Teleconference phone number is 301-715-8592. The webinar ID is 891-6864. When on the phone, if you wish to address the council during the public comment portion of the agenda, press star nine 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 infeasible. Would you call the roll, please?

Council Member Avalos?

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Council Member Oseguera? Here. Council Member Trujillo? Here. Mayor Pretem Guerra? Here. Mayor Robertson?

I'm here. Potential conflicts of interest. Any council member who has a potential conflict of interest may now identify the item and recuse themselves from discussing and voting on the matter. Agenda changes or deletions to better accommodate members of the public or inconvenience any order of presentation. Items on the agenda may not be presented or acted on in the order listed. Additions to the agenda may be added only pursuant to California Government Code Section 54954.2b. City Attorney, do we have any agenda changes or deletions at this time? Nothing to add or to delete, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, City Attorney. 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. Do we have anybody online or on the phone with an oral communication remark at this time?

Mayor, I see no hands raised at this time.

Thank you, comms director. Now we are going to convene to the closed session. This item has been set aside for the city council to meet in a closed session to discuss matters pursuant to government code section 54956.94. City attorney will provide an oral report regarding the closed session. Item one, conference with labor negotiators pursuant to government code section 54957.6. Agency Designated Representative Margie Fowler, Deputy City Manager. Employee Organizations, International Association of Firefighters, Local 3716, Fire Middle Management Employees, California League of City Employees Association, Middle Management Employees. Item 2, Conference with Real Property Negotiators, Nelson and McCall Property. Item 3, Conference with Real Property Negotiators, McCall Avenue Traffic Signal Right-of-Way Acquisition. And Item 4, Pending Litigation Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9, Venegas v. City of Selma et al., FCSCF, No. 26CU01955. And with that, we will recess into closed session.