City Council - Regular Meeting

All right. We are back from closed session. City Attorney, do we have any reportable action today? No reportable action, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, City Attorney. With that, we are going to adjourn our special meeting that we started at 431, and we will come back at 6 p.m. to begin our regular City Council meeting.

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All right, everybody. Welcome to our Selma City Council regular meeting. It is Tuesday, July 21st, 2026. Thanks, everybody, for coming out on a hot evening. Really appreciate it. We are in the Selma City Council Chambers at 1710 Tucker Street in Selma, California, 93662. Teleconference phone number is 301-715-8592. The webinar ID is 891- 6 8 6 4 5 0 0 5. When on the phone, if you wish to address the council during the public comment part of the agenda, press star nine to raise your hand 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, not engaged 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. Tonight, our invocation is going to be from Pastor Joe Alvarez, wearing many hats tonight. Welcome, Pastor.

Thank you, Mayor, City Council. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we just thank you for this opportunity just to put everything in your hands. We just ask you in the name of Jesus Christ that you fill us with your Holy Spirit, fill our board, Heavenly Father, of your Holy Spirit, and guide them, Heavenly Father, as they do your work. In the name of Jesus Christ, we thank you and we love you with all our hearts. Amen. Amen.

Let's please stand for the flag salute. The flag 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, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

All right, would you call the roll, please?

Councilmember Avalos?

Here.

Councilmember Segarra? Here. Councilmember Trujillo?

Here.

Mayor Pretempera? Here. Mayor Robertson?

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. 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 changes or deletions today? Nothing to add or to delete, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. 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 any oral communications at this time? Do we have anybody on the phone or online with a comment? Mayor, I see no hands raised at this time. Thank you. With that, we'll move on to our first item, which is special presentations. And our first item is the Selma Chamber of Commerce Quarterly Citizen Award.

Hi, good evening, Mayor and council members, staff, and community members. My name is Nick Cejota, and I'm proud to be served as the President of SOMA Chamber of Commerce. And tonight, on behalf of our Chamber Board of Directors, it's my honor to be recognized as an individual who has demonstrated outstanding community award. and outstanding community services and unwavering commitments to making a Selma a better place. This recipient was nominated by members of our community for her dedication and volunteer spirit. Lastly, Nelson is someone You can always count on, she is always willing to step up, lend a helping hand and support community events whenever needed. Her positive attitude, generosity and dedication have made a lasting impact in our city. Lastly, thank you for your outstanding community service, your dedicated volunteerism, and your unwavering commitment to enhancing the city of Selma. Through the Selma Beautification Committee, your hard work and passion help make our community a more beautiful and welcoming place, and I truly appreciate everything you do. At this time, I would like to invite Leslie Nelson to come forward to introduce our team.

Thank you so much. This is really exciting because we've been doing this for about how many years? Seven? About seven years now. And so we're very, very excited. And this award is not just for me. It's for this group of people who come and come out on Saturday mornings at 8 o'clock for an hour and just get in and just get down and dirty and pick up what we call litter around town. So I wanted to thank them. They're the ones, they're the heart of all this. And there are a lot that couldn't make it tonight, but they're the heart of this award. And I just want to thank you all so much. And Tanya, Andrea, and Colleen, they've all, everyone, they've just been coming out from the get-go. And when we first started out, it was... you know, some pretty dirty places. And then we were told we had to kind of pick and choose some smaller and something a little bit more doable for us. But we love it. And we welcome anyone that would like to join us. We go out one Saturday a month, most of the times for one hour. And we just have a great time. It's great community fun. And we learn a lot of things about Selma, places we haven't been before. And just thank you all so much. Every single one of you, really appreciate it. And thank you very much.

All right, at this time, Leslie, I want you to come forward and now I'd like to accept the Salma Chamber of Quarterly Citizen Award. I'd also like to invite the mayor, member of councils, the board of directors and city staff to join us for a photo to commemorate the special recognition and congratulations again. Please have the board come forward. You guys ready to take a picture right here? Yes, sir.

All right. Come on in.

Congratulations, Leslie. Way to go. Well-deserved. Come on up.

Okay, it's in the back. There you go.

Okay. But you guys look good. Okay. Here we go. One, two, three. One more. Ready? One, two, three. Here we go. One, two, three. One, two and

Three, two, and one.

Three, two, and one.

And very appropriately, we're going to go on to our parks proclamation that parks make life better. And I think that our citizen volunteers make life better in Selma as well. So I think it's a good segue to our parks proclamation. Director?

Mayor and Council. Thank you, Mayor and Council. What I have here before you is the proclamation of Parks Makes Life Better Month for the month of July.

And so what I'll do is I'll just read it and then I'll take a member up here and we'll just take a picture around with you guys, if that's okay. All right.

This resolution recognizes the importance of equitable access to local parks, recreation, trails, open space, and facilities for the positive development of all Californians and their communities. We therefore declare the month of July as Parks Make Life Better Month. Whereas park and recreation promotes physical, emotional, mental health and wellness through organized and self-directed fairness play and activity, and whereas park and recreation supports the economic vitality Vitality of communities by partnering with local businesses and nonprofits and offering events for the residents engagement. And whereas parks and recreation creates memorable experience through youth sports and enrichment activities teen centers and programs senior activity centers adult fitness and enrichment programs free community events and beyond. And whereas parks and recreation foster social cohesiveness in communities by celebrating diversity, providing spaces to come together peacefully, modeling compassion, promoting social equity, connecting social networks, and ensuring all people have access to its benefits. And whereas parks and recreation support human development and endless learning opportunities that foster social, intellectual, physical, and emotional growth in people of all ages and abilities. Whereas park and recreation strengthens community identity by providing facilities and services that reflect and celebrate community character, heritage, culture, history, aesthetics, and landscape. And whereas parks and recreation facilitates community problems and issue resolution by providing safe spaces to come together peacefully and serving as key points of service, helping our communities heal both physically and emotionally. And whereas parks and recreation sustains and stewards our natural resources by protecting habitats and open space, connecting people to nature, and promoting the ecological function of Parkland. And whereas parks and recreation support safe, vibrant, attractive, progressive communities that make life better through positive alternatives offered in the recreational opportunities. And whereas parks and recreation remains versatile, innovative, and providing vital services to the communities through local, national, and or global emergencies, all while adhering to guidelines set forth by governing agencies. And whereas the California Parks and Recreation Society has released a statewide public awareness campaign, Parks Make Life Better to inform citizens of the benefits of utilizing parks, facilities, programs, and services. Now, therefore, be it resolved in the citizens of California recognize the importance of access to local parks, trails, open space and facilities for the health, wellness, development, inspiration, and safety of all Californians. And be it further resolved that we declare the month of July as Parks Make Life Better Month. And be it further known that the City Council of Selma does hereby proclaim and declare the month of July, 2026 as Parks Make Life Better Month.

Way to go, Director. Thank you. Want to get a picture up here? All right.

You're working the parks.

All right, we're going to move on to our consent calendar next all items listed under the consent calendar category are considered routine. The complete consent calendar will be enacted by one motion by roll call vote. For purposes of discussion, any council member may have an item removed from the consent calendar and made part of the regular agenda. The council can then approve the remainder of the consent calendar. Do we have an item or items that council would like to remove tonight?

Mayor, I'd like to remove 2-2, the check register.

Any other items? Is there a motion to approve items 2.1, 2.3 through 2.10?

I'll make a motion.

Is there a second? Second. Call the roll, please.

Council Member Avalos.

Yes.

Council Member Seguera.

Yes.

Council Member Trujillo.

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Guerra.

Yes.

And Mayor Robertson.

Yes. Item 2.2.

Okay. Page 20 on the check register. Check number, it's 90055. And it says Sound Contracting, Inc., Lighting Upgrade and Repair for $19,971.94. What was that for?

That was for the lighting repairs that was budgeted last fiscal for the Art Center.

Oh, for the Art Center. Okay. Then check number 90051. SHARP AMBULANCE BILLING. THIS IS FIRE DEPARTMENT AMBULANCE BILLING MAY OF 26 FOR $19,028.92. NOW, JUST MY QUESTION, IS THAT, DO WE HAVE OUR OWN BILLING FROM MY UNDERSTANDING?

No, we are contracted with a third party ambulance billing company called sharp billing and they are paid based on a percentage of our monthly revenue or the not yeah monthly revenue.

Okay, and then you get compensated back for the bill.

So the actual dollars that come in for ambulance billing come in through a multitude of different avenues, but ultimately every month they're either sent directly to the city and are processed by our accounts receivable team, and or they are received by our third party biller and then they are sent through um basically priority mail to us to receive and then um the city council not this could upcoming or the following meeting but two meetings from now there'll be a decision item on another company that processes like credit card payments and that kind of thing because of the specifics associated with medical billing there's a difference there so but ultimately all of the dollars come through our city's finance team and get processed monthly with exception of the rate range program, which is a IGT program where we wire money to the DHCS, and then we receive two checks from Calviva and Anthem at the beginning of the year.

Okay. Thank you.

Chief Alcariz, the Glocks and the Springfield rifles, that was paid for out of, to refresh my memory, Measure S, or was there another account it was paid out of?

I apologize, Mr. Mayor. My mind just drew a blank, but I believe it was measure S. It was reallocated within the fund. We did not sign other agreements. So in essence, we had some savings there and we purchased that equipment.

I know it was one of those funds. Yes, sir. Ask for a refresher. Thank you. Appreciate that. Anybody else? Anybody from the public with any items on the check register they have a question about? Anybody online or on the phone? Mayor, I see no hands raised at this time.

Okay.

Is there a motion to approve this item 2-2?

I'll make a motion.

Call the roll, please.

Council Member Avalos.

Yes.

Council Member Oseguera.

Yes.

Council Member Trujillo.

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tempguera. Yes. Mayor Robertson.

Yes. Okay. Departmental Report. City Manager.

We turn it on. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Not much to report right now. I was on vacation last week with the family, which was nice. Um, however, staff and I met with, uh, EDC and worked on applications to, uh, state go biz for the next round of opportunity zones. We submitted three zones for consideration, which, uh, cover most of the city. Um, we'll be having an item on this, uh, for further discussion at our next council meeting. Uh, I also attended the Bethel senior living grand opening, and that was a nice facility. and a good tour. And then finally, at last night's Selma Healthcare District meeting, the city was awarded two grants, 50,000 towards the construction of bathrooms at Pioneer Village and 20,000 for the Selma PD for mental wellness and performance coaching.

Great, thank you for your report. Glad it made it back from a vacation and you're ready to go. Community Services Director.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. I have a couple updates for you guys. SAC Teen at the Selma Art Center's The Prom opens this Friday, July 24th, and will run through August 8th at the Selma Art Center. Tickets are available at selmaartcenter.com slash tickets. CKP's How to Train Your Dragon is currently in rehearsals. That production will run in August 27th through September 6th. And then currently right now, the 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the casting is complete. More than 50 artists from around the valley audition. The production features two casts totaling 17 actors and runs from September through October at the Selma Arts Center. For recreation, EMS will be at the Senior Center this Thursday at 10 a.m. to help educate seniors on staying cool during the summer heat. NFL flag and cheer registrations just opened this week and they will remain open through September. And then currently Animal Services, we just purchased another order of microchips and so we're working internally to organize another microchip giveaway event.

Thanks for your report. I think we'll be getting back to you during an agenda item later on this evening. Fire Chief Webster.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Just a few items tonight. Currently, our Fire Marshal Anthony Rivas and one of our engineer paramedics, Brian Marsh, were assigned to the Biscar Fire, which is up in Susanville. Rivas is assigned as a resource unit leader, and Engineer Marsh is assigned as a fire line medic. They both got punched out yesterday morning, and then we're anticipating Battalion Chief Fulner being requested and sent up there as well. It's not a huge incident, but they anticipate probably a two-week stay up there. Secondly, and this is a super exciting thing, I think for everybody is tomorrow is the scheduled pre-con meeting for the EMS facility. So that's a big deal. And following that meeting, we'll have a construction schedule. So we'll have some dates and timelines on how that's going to go. And then lastly, today, I went down to Visalia and participated in the Cal Water EOC training, which was a really great training and just further strengthens our partnership with that and critical resource to our city. So, end of report.

Thank you, Chief. Appreciate the report. Coms Director Moreno.

Mayor, members of the council, I personally want to thank the members of the Selma Health Care District for their $50,000 investment and collaboration and partnership for the Pioneer Village project. The restrooms, it continues our strength in collaborating with other organizations within the city and really appreciate that. A few other updates. I want to share with you a quick update. I don't want to steal Council Member Osagero's thunder because I know he'll mention it later. But we have the Selma Live event coming up on September 4th. It's in Lincoln Park again. It's coming up with the Morenos and Ruben y la Nueva Onda. So it's a good mixture, a good community event to get folks out again. So I want to show the community. Before we get it on social media, this is your first preview of what the poster is going to look like. I will share that out. And then lastly, I have the... VIP program. Um, it is now live. You can see it on our city of Selma page. You go to city of Selma.com and you will click this link and it's the volunteers and police service program. Um, Sergeant Guzman and his team is leading this. It's live now. They're looking for volunteers. So if there's anybody on the phone or anybody in the audience that's interested in participating, all the information you need is on the website and application is there as well. We need good volunteers, a lot of community activity, a lot of fun stuff happening. Chief would promise to make them not to work too hard. It's going to be a good time. So you can go on the website and check out more information.

That's all I have. Great. Thanks very much. I echo that. Thank you to the healthcare district for their generosity and bestowing both of those grants last night. Great communication and great, great participation from the city to land those grants last night at the, at their meeting. So thank you for all that. Moving on to police chief Alcarez.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. First of all, thank you city manager for mentioning and, and council community director, Jose Alcarez. We're very pleased that the healthcare district was able to grant us that award for the mental wellness program. That's a program that's very near and dear to our heart. You know, the stress and the things that our personnel and the police department deal with on a daily basis, day in, day out, it catches up to them. And we want to make sure that they're healthy so they have a prosperous career, not just at work, but at home. And they don't take that stress home to their families that are already worried about them when they leave the door to go to work. So we're very thankful to the healthcare district. I'm hoping to be at the next meeting so I know in advance so I can thank them in person. But I just really want to thank them because it was a very huge initiative. We tried to get started. We're currently looking at some federal funding to fund the next several years after this year. So we're hoping to be successful with that. But again, just a big shout out and thank you to the healthcare district. On that, in addition, currently we're still working on our e-bike ordinance. Currently the ordinance is over at the RMA. It has gone through City Attorney Costanza's office. We are then sending it over to RMA just to make sure that we're on the same page and we're ready to push that forward. We do have preliminary plans, though, to do some enforcement work. either right when school starts or prior to school starting and pushing out information for parents because again it's crucial that parents are having conversations with their children this equipment is dangerous uh you know you've got to adhere to the rules of the road you have to use safety equipment just like any other motorized vehicle so uh we'll we're working on that and hopefully to get that wrapped up by the end of august and additionally a few more things If you're driving around town on Saturday mornings, you're going to see our young explorers out running around our city and working out. They're preparing for some upcoming explorer competitions. So we've had a humongous outreach and participation. participation of our kids here in town. So we're kind of trying to get ready to hopefully graduate high school and then get into the profession. So we have a great mechanism to hold some of these kids. Once they graduate from high school, we're working with our assistant city manager to make sure that we have that pathway for them and we can kind of keep them under our umbrella as they're navigating young adulthood and going to college. So we're, we're very excited about that. We're excited. It's great to see them out running and working out. Uh, so it's, it's just, uh, it's, it's, it's great to see this program come, come to, come to light and, uh, You know, I wanted to start that right when I got here in 2022, but I know I needed the right personnel that had the passion and the energy to deal with young kids and give them good mentorship and development. And we found those people. So I want to thank them also for their hard work because those programs like that are not successful without the right leadership. So thanks to them. And then lastly, we got to play dodgeball with some kids over at the Boys and Girls Club today. I think I took a ball to the face. So I still look okay, my wife said. That said, I had a great time, and I want to thank Ruby for all her hard work over there. He could have swallowed a ball there. Yeah. Is he still here? Good, yeah. I'm glad you're still here, Andrew. Anyways, my staff that showed up to play Ruby for the phenomenal work she does out there, keeping those kids engaged, keeping them focused, and hopefully get back to school and finish up that education. So, again, thank everybody. It takes a village to raise children. And thank you all for your support.

That's it. Thank you, Chief. Appreciate that. Looks like really good stuff. Um, public works director Han is online tonight, I think, to deliver his report.

Yes, I am. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, a few items update you on tonight. Um, Per direction from the city manager, I will be reaching out to Janelle Del Campo from FCR TA and be looking into the possibilities of a bus stop, a transit stop shelter, uh, near Walmart on floral. So, uh, tomorrow I will be sending the email off CC, the city manager on those emails and set up a meeting to begin the discussion on that item. Uh, the next item that I have for you is, uh, I'm going to work with the city engineer and look at the options of putting in a mid block ADA ramp on east front street, somewhere in the proximity of Rodolfo's restaurant. I know that that's been an item that we've been looking at, but we need to assure proper ADA travel. So I'll be working with the engineering department for moving forward with an option for that area. The next item that I have is I've gotten some quotes for bike racks for Brentlinger Park, Schaefer Park, Ringo Park, and Berry Park. I will be sharing that with the city manager probably tomorrow when I return to work. And I will probably be moving forward with the procurement of those bike racks. It was fairly phenomenal, nominal under $2,500. Staff can install those so I'll work with the city manager on getting that going the next item I have is Public Works staff began pressure washing the the Arts Center today that's a process that we Feel will probably take the majority of the week to get that done. I Have reached out via email to the DOT agent responsible for the grant for the Clean California that we were looking at options for what we can do. I gave her a price range. David Horn was CC'd on those emails. That was something that was a stipulation that she needed to kind of understand to let us know if we needed to write an addendum to the current grant to include painting or if it would fit in because it's the downtown arts district. I'll be working to try to finish that up. And when we're done pressure washing the art center, we will be painting the beams that are on the front. City staff can do that work. We think that that'll clean up that building and make it look a lot more presentable. When we're done with that, we will be moving over and doing the same maintenance to City Hall building, which needs it desperately. So just be prepared for some work going on at the art center and City Hall in the next couple of weeks to get that work done. On a good note, we got an update from Garland yesterday afternoon for the Fire Station 1 roof. It looks like they're on schedule to complete that work tomorrow. In lieu of a punch list that's being done by our staff, our building inspector, Matt Cochran, and also by Sheldon, who works for UMobian Horn as our construction management for that project. So we're looking to wrap that up. There's some punch list items that they're going to have to address before that's completely satisfied as far as the contract's concerned, but that's the latest update on that. They started work last Friday, received the metal roof last Wednesday, and they worked Friday, yesterday, and today, so looking to wrap that up. The last item that I have is in regard to the Pioneer Village restrooms. As the city manager stated, we thank Selma Healthcare District for their participation and their Just collaboration with the city to add some funding for that project to get some restrooms that will actually satisfy the demand that's out there for the events. I have engaged with Mobile Modular per direction. and we will be trying to get together a concept for a standard restroom building that they build commonly so that we're not doing a custom build. I will keep the council updated on how that's going. You did get the concept drawings and some of the layouts at the last council meeting, but I will be bringing this information from Mobile Modular as soon as that's made available to me. And that's the end of my report.

Mobile Modular being the local provider of restroom facilities. Is that right, Director?

That's the local provider, and it's also the contract that the fire chief is currently under for the EMS facility.

Great. Love seeing us going through those local vendors. Thank you. And thanks for your efforts last night to land that $50,000 grant, too. Appreciate that.

Yeah, I appreciate it as well. Thank you.

Take care. With that, we are going to take our usual five-minute break at this point. Anybody who doesn't have any business with the city, wish you a good evening, and we'll be back in five to finish up our meeting.

Okay.

All right, we are back. Moving on to our first item, which is a public hearing item. It's item 4.1, approval, consideration, and necessary action. Resolution 2026-74, approving rates for landscaping, lighting, and maintenance district number one. Approving engineer's report, identifying the assessments and the property against which it is assessed within the LLMD and directing collection thereof by placement. of the assessment on the 2026-2027 Fresno County tax roll. City Engineer.

Good evening, Mayor, members of the council. This item in public hearing is an annual necessity as we look at the LLMD rates. The engineer's report was provided to you June 16th at the regular council meeting. There's been no changes or edits to that report. The public was noticed for this public hearing twice in July on the 8th and the 15th. So the public hearing is available for any of the property owners to ask any questions. As we stated when we provided the preliminary report, The rates may have changed up or down for different zones, but none of them have exceeded the highest level in the past. So there's no need for any further action. The rates go up and down based on our engineers estimate of the costs that we see and estimate for next year. Also taking into account if the funds were not used this previous year, those rates may come down because we're gonna use that balance. They're always trying to not leave anything in those accounts. And our estimates are just based off of what we see in the marketplace for maintenance, the costs for Cal Water, PG&E, for the streetlights, all of those items are in that report. So if there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer those questions, but just asking the council to approve this resolution so we can work with the finance director to get the tax assessments to Fresno County.

Thank you. Does council have any questions for the city engineer before I open this public hearing up?

I just wanted to confirm our reports back in June. When we reviewed them, it indicated that there wasn't an increase. Is that correct? And that's still...

Was not an increase? Right. Some zones increased a little bit and some zones decreased a little bit.

Okay.

So each zone we look at specifically as their own zone and what needs to be maintained and repaired in that zone. So each zone is different.

Okay. So you evaluated each zone depending on if it needs a little more improvement you know, tender love and care. And then those that probably are well maintained didn't. So those possibly could have came down. Is that right?

Yes.

Okay.

Okay. That will open the public hearing. Do any members of the public present tonight have any opinions for or against the This approval and resolution for approving the rates for the LLMD district, approving the engineer's report. Anybody have anything they'd like to say? Anybody online or on the phone with an opinion about the engineer's report?

Mayor, I see no hands raised at this time.

With that, we will close the public hearing and refer this item back to council. Does council have any questions? And if not, is there a motion to approve this, approve these raids? Second?

Second.

Call the roll, please.

Council Member Avalos?

Yes.

Council Member Seguera? Yes. Council Member Trujillo?

Yes.

Mayor Tim Guerra? Yes. Mayor Robertson?

Yes, items approved. Moving on to item 4.2, another approval item, consideration of a resolution 2026-75 confirming report of the environmental control officer on delinquent parcels for the cost of removal of structures, weeds, rubbish, refuse, dirt, et cetera, and sidewalk repair to the 2026-2027 Fresno County Tax Roll. Finance Director.

Yes, Mayor Robertson, council members. The item before you is for city council to conduct a public hearing and also to adopt the resolution 2026-75, approving the environmental code officer on the Lincoln parcels. So per our city SOMA code, the city throughout the year inspects property within the city limits for a nuisance abatement. The process is where the city goes and posts their notices. They also mail the same notices as well to the property owners. And the property owner has two weeks to clean up and maintain their property. If no response, the city does take action. That's what we're doing today. You'll see the list of the property owners that have not paid on Attachment A. And this will be assessed on the 2627 tax rule. And also it was public on the newspaper on notice on July 7th.

Thank you, finance director. Is there anyone on this list or who has an interest in this list with any questions? Counsel, do you have any questions before we open the public hearing? With that, we will open the public hearing. And is there any public input on this item at this time? Anybody online or on the phone with a question or a comment pro or con on this particular item. And raise up this time that will close the public hearing refer the item back to Council and ask for any questions and if no questions asked for a motion to approve this item make a motion to approve their second. A second call roll please.

Council member Avalos.

Yes.

Council member Oseguera. Yes. Council member Trujillo. Yes. Mayor Tamguera. Yes. Mayor Robertson.

Yes. Item 4.3, which is another public hearing item, the last one of the evening, which is consideration of a resolution 2026-76 confirming report from the Code Enforcement Division on delinquent parcels for administrative citations and certification to the 2026-76 dash 27 Fresno County Tax Roll. Finance Director.

Thank you, Mayor Robertson and Council Members. Again, staff recommends that City Council hold a public hearing and adopt Resolution 2026-76, approving the report from the Code Enforcement Division on delinquent parcels for administrative citations and related actions. Again, same as the one prior staff report, Code Enforcement's have violation on certain parcels and have issued administrative citations as shown on exhibit A. Again, these were also noticed on July 7th in the newspaper. And this is just for the city council to approve for it to be on the tax roll for 2026-27 tax roll.

Thank you. Any questions from the council before we open up this public hearing? With that, we will open up the public hearing and ask for public input. on this particular item before we close the public hearing, refer the matter back to council. Is there any public input at this time? We have anybody on the phone or online with input on this item, comms director? Mayor, I see no hands raised at this time. That will close the public hearing, refer the item back to council. Does council have any questions? And if no questions, is there a motion to approve this item? I take a motion to approve. Is there a second?

I'll second.

Call the roll, please.

Council member Avalos.

Yes.

Council member Segarra. Yes. Council member Trujillo.

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Guerra. Yes. Mayor Robertson.

Yes. Item passes as do all three items on the public hearing agenda tonight. And with that, we will move off the public hearing agenda to items of regular business, starting with item five, one, which is a capital improvements project update city engineer.

Thank you again, mayor members of the council. Our department was asked to give an update on some of the current capital improvement projects, and I've given this update before, but tonight we'll keep it short with mainly the projects that are in construction or have been awarded to a contractor, and then also projects that are finishing their design that we expect to go to construction here in the next so many months. So we provided a list of each of these projects in your packets. think there's a PowerPoint to go through that. So some of the projects we wanted to give you updates on the Amberwood sewer trunk main project, we are still working with the contractor and the Union Pacific Railroad. They have the contractor has submitted their right of entry permit. We're trying, we're waiting for the UPR to award that so that we can do the potholing and work on that final Jack and bore under the railroad. So that's still in process. And that's the last piece of that trunk main that needs to be done. We don't expect it to be months and months, but it is a process that we have to go through with the UPR are The rest of the project upstream of that is completed. We have that temporary siphon that SKF and the council agreed upon to allow new homes to go into service, but we are continuing to push to get this last piece finished. Next project is the Clarkson sewer lift station project. I've provided updates on the last so many council meetings that the, the, electrical work, the generator, all of that system is completed. There was one piece of communication that is required to communicate from the lift station to SKF. It's a piece of equipment that they require that had to be sent back to the manufacturer to get recoded. SKF had some issues with a frequency. So beyond that, that has been, I believe, completed. We're just working on getting the lift station finished with the pumps and getting it pulled up. And then there'll be some site work done. So as soon as those little pieces get finished, everything will be finished on that project.

And I have a question. I'm just looking at the amounts and just doing the math. It looks like there's about 421,957. That may be, you know, short. I mean, not short, but... Maybe they're extra. And my question is, since the project is pretty much almost completed or is, can that $400,000 be used for other purposes?

I don't believe so because it's an ARPA-funded project. And with the ARPA funding, we had to specifically allocate it to a very specific project. The additional money, we were trying to stay under budget so that the city wouldn't have to use city funds. The contingency we placed on the project, we wanted to stay under that number so that the city wasn't using local funds. But as far as I know, the finance director may be able to answer, but we can't use that extra money for some new project.

Okay, but can it be used for... Since it was infrastructure, designed for infrastructure, would that difference be, I mean, can they use it for an infrastructure project?

I don't believe so. I think you had to specifically say which project and when it was going to be used by. We had to obligate it by a certain date, and then we have to use it by a certain date. So it's my understanding that it was very specific to that project.

So then what happens to that extra money? It just goes back to ARPA. I mean, who does it go to?

As far as I know, yeah, it just doesn't get sent to the city. So the ARPA has allocated a certain amount. We've used as much as we could. But if you aren't using it, then you don't get reimbursed for that. That's my understanding.

So there's no ARPA money in the account right now. It's a reimbursement account. I thought we got $5 million, and half of it was used for payroll, and then half of it was used for this upgrade.

We have to use the entire funding that we got from ARPA on the projects, on the listed obligated projects that we have. So we have to use the whole thing.

Can we send an app to re-obligate the money?

The requirement for obligation of ARPA funds was, I think, by December 2025. Yeah. And anything that wasn't. So you had to obligate everything up to that point. Afterwards, nothing else is eligible. So it's project specific. Those reports are sent to the state and feds. And the money for ARPA was paid out to the cities. So any unused funds would then have to be paid back to you.

the federal government got it so it has to go back since we're talking about finances um the amberwood sewer trunk line so the okay so the budget amount is 7.24 million it's 5 million 23 000 has been spent so far is there an expectation that the full 7.2 million is is going to be used for that part of the line? And if it's not, will it be, will it go towards the, the North Selma line, the Dinuba line potentially?

So I'd have to check. We also have a contingency in there, the railroad crossing costs. We still, until that's done. And if hopefully it doesn't use as much of the contingency that we need. So I'd have to, the jack and bore is not $2 million of a cost, but it is, it is pretty high per linear foot. but there's also the contingency and construction management. For this, as the bonds go, I'd have to revert back to the finance director.

Yeah, we can do a reconciliation on that to see where we're at and what's left of the bond funding.

Are we paying the interest on the amount that the city actually used for the bond? Are we paying on the budgeted amount, the interest?

The budget amount, because I always budget the actual principal and interest for each one of those.

Thank you.

The next project is what we're calling the Orange Avenue Basin fencing project. This went out to bid, was awarded to a contractor. It's a real short stretch of fencing along Orange Avenue north of the middle school. It's a city basin that was not fenced. public works director worked on asked us to do a project to where this is fenced in. It makes it safe. If there's water in the basin, we want to make sure it's, it's secured. That's out to bid. That contractor has been awarded. It should be no major street impacts or traffic impacts, but there'll be some fencing and behind the sidewalk in that area. The next project that's under construction is that Thompson Floral Alley drainage project. This is a small alley on the southeast side of Floral and Thompson. This is a drainage issue, sewer connection issue that SKF found. This project went out to bid, was awarded by council. So we're working through the pre-construction meeting. The contractor will be fixing that storm drain issue and repaving the alley in this location. So that is expected to be finished mid-September. Moving on, there's a couple of projects that are out to bid right now. The first one is the Floral Avenue median project. This is a small project element impact uh project that the city asked us to work on uh it's underneath the state route 99 on floral avenue there's a small median that we identified as a way to increase some capacity for traffic to hopefully be a small improvement on traffic circulation at that signal The plans went through review with Caltrans. Those were all approved. We obtained our encroachment permit. The project has been sent out for bid. The bid opening is set to be this Thursday. So we'll bring that back to council with the bids that we receive. Next project that's out to bid is for It is an alley project. It's between, it's kind of in the Merced, Stillman, Tulare area. This was a federally funded project. The city received money from the CMAQ program. These are alleys that do not have paving, so they're mostly dirt. So the city received funding. We've completed our design, got the approval through Caltrans because it's federal funding. It's out for advertisement, but this project mainly is just to fix the paving. If there's any storm drain issues, the contractor will fix those at the same time. And just moving on, some of the projects that are completed in the design phase, but we will be moving to bidding and sending those out to the public bid. There's a Rose and Mitchell bike lane project that we received some CRP funding, which is a federal carbon reduction program that's on Mitchell. And then as it goes east on Rose, those plans are done. It's mainly just striping and signage for a bike route to help traffic know if kids are riding their bikes to school, that it'll improve and make that a little bit safer. We're waiting because it is a federally funded portion. We have to wait for the authorization from Caltrans for construction. So once we receive that, we'll put that out to bid. Moving on the next two pages are related. This is the Dinuba Avenue street project. So on either side of McCall completing the paving improvements, those projects or have the design is completed. We've received a construction authorization from Caltrans and these two projects are adjacent to the signal project. And so we're working on a construction schedule to make sure that we can kind of work through the traffic impacts. But we're obligated for our construction funding for the city for this next federal fiscal year.

Will that include a widening?

No widening on these. It's just replacing the pavement that's there and the condition that it's in. So this SDBG funding is not meant to help increase capacity. It's meant to help repair the roads that are existing.

Which is kind of the trend these days. Will this increase the pavement management, pavement condition index? Will it bring it up from 60?

Yeah, for any of the, yeah. For what counts for the city, any of the portions that are in the city limits, it will bring the PCI from the low number in the 20s up to the 80 or 90 mark.

Because those are in the 20s right now.

Yeah, they're pretty low. Oh, wow.

Okay. That's good to know.

Excuse me. Next project is the Selma 2nd Street project, the Clean California project. That's what we call it. Those plans have been approved. Caltrans has issued the encroachment permit. Our staff is completing just the final constructability and preparing the projects. We didn't get that one. Selma SR 99 Gateway to Downtown Revitalization.

Oh, we did get that one. Yep, right there.

Yeah, the title should have said Clean California. You can see in the funding.

Those two ones that he had said, Dinuba Avenue, Reed, and then the Dinuba Avenue, they're both connected together.

Got it. Sorry, I kind of did do it once.

Yeah.

Sorry. Yeah, the Clean California one on 2nd Street, which goes from 99 all the way up to the west front, this is the one that includes the off-ramp bears and statue and the improvement. So all the plans are approved. Caltrans issued their permit. Our staff with our construction management team is reviewing that, getting the bid package ready so that it can go out to bid, reviewing the estimate, making sure that what we bid is within the grant amount or that we bid it in a certain way that the city has a choice if they want to award additional funds.

The engineers estimate been done yet?

Yes.

And is it right around 3 million?

Yeah. For the base bid, And then there were pieces that may be added to it, depending on if that bid is lower, we wanted to include pieces that if bids come in favorable, then potentially you could add some different pieces. And I think there were some, uh, signage that was added or that was designed at like West front street that are kind of those vertical signs. I believe the council saw some options on that. Some of those may be bid as what we call ad alternate. So you'll get a number, a bid number. And if the bid is over the grant amount, then you'll have a choice. We'll be asking you to decide if we want to include those in the projects and fund those from a local fund.

Can this go out to bid even if the maintenance agreement hasn't been finalized yet with Caltrans? That's kind of a side issue.

They've issued the permit with a letter of intent. All right. The next one is The remaining five projects are all local street rehab or reconstruction projects. So I'm providing you each of them individually because they're maybe from different funding sources, but they're all one project. So the design is complete. There will be sent out to bid as one project. We've done that in the last few years. We tend to get better bids because local contractors can use a Dave Kuntz, Economy of scale and they're all very similar in scope, so each of the locations, these are the projects where those PCI values or input from the public or Council. Dave Kuntz, These have been on the tip plan for the last couple years, the design is complete we're just trying to wrap up the bid documents. Dave Kuntz, As far as we're concerned they're ready to be advertised so once our staff gets the bid documents ready we'll get those out to be advertised. And we'll start that action this summer. When that does go out to bid, we'll make sure the council knows about traffic impacts and any impacts to the community. Those are the main projects. If you have any other questions, I'd be happy to answer.

Thank you, City Engineer, for your report. Does council have any additional questions?

Yeah, I have a question, David. On the time frame for the Amberwood project to the railroad crossing there, underneath the railroad? I know you've been working on it for a while, a long time. The question is, would it be done before winter on that issue?

I think it'd be unlikely. For this winter, I think we need to get the UPRR potholing that once we have that data, then we can finalize the redesign and work with SKF on what that looks like. and go through that process. And once that's ready, then we'll be working with the contractor with any changes or any costs. So in my mind, that's gonna take, I think, potentially longer than the winter time. I could be wrong, but I think with the UPRR involved, and having to redesign that portion and work with SKF, which we've already talked to Veronica and MDF about our potential design.

I'm just, you know, I've just wanted to get it done before, you know, because they're building houses out there, and I don't, I know they're on a time frame as well. They want everything to be smooth and running, and I, you know, I don't want no problems. Oh, shoot, we have another year. A developer's doesn't, you know, he's building a house that he can't wait. He's got to keep going.

And we worked with SKF on that temporary siphon that SKF and the council agreed upon. There's a certain number of houses that that site can accommodate. And that, that number was shared and discussed. So if the home there's, there's quite a few homes that could be done. And from our estimation and the community development side, It's going to take a while to get to that point. There's no reason to delay that project. But from a home builder standpoint, there is capacity while we finish this.

And on the second note, on the Clark lift station, did they get back? How soon they get that component up and running to be?

I'll have to check. I've been on vacation for a couple of weeks. Oh, OK. So I need something may have happened the last two weeks that I'm not aware of. All right. I can provide an update.

That's all I got to say. Thank you.

Is there a reason the stoplight project wasn't on there at Dinuba and McCall?

No, other than we just focused on construction projects and projects that would most likely go to construction. We've been working with the right away acquisition consultant. Our staff is also working with Gateway to finish the plans for the project. So we're trying to coordinate the plans and PG&E and all the different pieces while the right away acquisition is being completed.

And once that right away acquisition is completed, It can pretty, it's going to be ready to be advertised. You'll be ready.

We have to, we have to, the consultant has to finish their plans. We have to make sure that the PG&E piece is done. So there are other pieces that we're currently working on and asking them for updates and while the right away is happening. So our, our staff is working at the same time. The right away consultant is working.

So that both pieces can kind of finish up at the same time and then get moving on putting it in. That's the goal. Yeah. And then I brought up a couple of weeks ago, ADA cuts at Park and Mitchell. Is that going to be a huge issue to add that? I mean, you look at all the other curbs and they're, they're ADA compliant. That's like the only one over there. on the West side. It's the one that's north of the cemetery instead of like right in front of the cemetery.

Yeah. I remember you mentioning that. And I believe in the approved budget, there is a project called ADA improvements because there's a measure C fund that's specific for ADA and working with a public works director on, on locating areas around the city that that can be used on. I remember that. The project you mentioned was one that he asked me to look at.

Great. How much is in that budget? Do you remember? But enough to take care of small projects like that.

Okay.

Thank you. Anybody else?

I have a quick question in regards to the stoplight on Dinuba and McCall. I know you mentioned that we have a target date for groundbreaking this October, this coming October. Are we still on target for that date?

It will depend on the right away acquisition.

Okay.

And then the design piece will depend on how well PG&E completes their piece because there are existing utilities that have to be relocated. So those are all pieces that we hope will and plan to kind of fit within that timeline, but we don't control a lot of that. Okay.

But you'll keep us posted.

Yes. Thank you. Any questions from the public on capital improvement projects?

Just quickly, 1057 Mill Street, Rose Robertson. The one hopefully we could really expedite, and I mean quickly. I drove to the west side, the barrio area, and exactly the location on Park Street that you're talking about, they had two people in a wheelchair and they couldn't They had to pass it up and out another elderly person pushing, pushing the other person on the wheelchair. So whatever you could do, you really need to expedite that because it's very unfortunate that they're struggling back there. And it's unfortunately that the city missed that out. And that's something they need to get get on pretty quickly. Thank you.

Anybody online or on the phone with a question? Mayor, I see no hands raised at this time. Thank you. This is an informational item. So we will now move on to our next item tonight, which is item 5.2. And this is also an informational item on the Senior Center Survey.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. This item was brought to you guys back by request because we had a meeting earlier in the year regarding just different information going on with the Senior Center and the participants. And so I'm just bringing the survey results back to you guys. And this is something that we look forward to doing in the future. Probably every six months is kind of what we're looking at right now, just to make sure that we're maintaining the same standards throughout the year. So with our first survey, we took about 34 participants. Most of them were from Selma, as you can see, 24 from Selma, one from Kingsburg, one from Carothers. So mostly servicing Selma people. The 34 participants on a day-to-day basis, we usually average about 20 to 40 participants. So that does get a good majority of our daily goers. And then for our age groups, our majority came from that 65 to 74 age group. Next was 75 to 84. 55 to 64 was right there after it. And then we have two 85 plus responses in there as well. And so the first thing that was brought up was the meal service. That was by far the biggest issue at the center. This was taken before all the EOC changes that have been made. And so we're looking forward to the updated of it. With that, Jose, if you can keep going with it. A lot of the complaints were pretty much the same thing of the taste, the variety, repetitive menu. What happened with that is EOC gave us a survey with what we'd want to see on the menu and gave our seniors a chance to get some input on that. And with that, we've already seen a dramatic increase in the satisfaction of EOC meals. And so just getting that sense of ownership over the menu really gave them a little bit more satisfaction over the repeat.

What are some of the changes, Director?

They released a survey where we got to pick what actual meals and sides we had on there and we sent it back. They did a tasting there at EOC facility to sample some of these new meals coming onto the menu to see if it was something that was going to be well received or not really as much. And with that, they took that feedback and created a new menu. And so we have that menu now and it's honestly a struggle to try to find days that they actually don't like the meal now because they get to actually pick the lunch. And so it's harder to find days to supplement those meals with something else. But yeah, if we can keep going, it's answered your question. 85% of our participants supported catering, local catering businesses. And so we've already kind of seen that starting with the healthcare district bringing in a meal for us. The seniors loved it. We had, I think, 60 people sign up for that. And so it's one of our bigger lunch meals of the year. Go on, Jose. For the desired meal cost, depends on meal quality for most of them. A lot of them are willing to pay that extra $1 to $2. Currently, right now, we ask for a $3 to $4 donation per meal or a $3 donation per meal. And so all of them are, most of them were willing to pay that $1 to $2 extra for a catered meal. A good percent of them were willing to pay $3 or $4, but most of them said it depended on the meal itself. participation in programs. So our center kind of went through a little struggle of whether we should have people who are not senior centers in the program. But majority of them said yes, that they should be involved in it. And the same thing for the outside of Selma, if they're not city of Selma citizens, our center was really accepting of all of these. As far as the timing for our programming, most of them preferred the morning, not a lot of afternoon activities were very much wanted only 19% of the surveys wanted afternoons. The biggest one by far was bingo. That's a staple at our center that always brings the biggest crowd. Movie days, arts and crafts, fitness, different speakers and dancing. And so staff has already taken this and started using it to our future programming to implement more guest speakers, different movie days, working on our craft coordinator, Lori, to get some different craft options in there as well.

So what does the senior center actually do of those programs currently?

So we do bingo. We do a fitness. We do a dancing class. We do tech throughout the year, select times whenever those opportunities come through. And then right now those are and we have card games currently. What we're working on with the card games, though, is they wanted it to be more specific where we kind of lead them in a game rather than have games for them. And so we're looking at doing something like that in the future as well.

What about speakers? What kind of topics would you be bringing in? Yeah.

So this month we have EMS coming out for, um, a heat prevention. Um, next month we're working with EOC to bring out two dietitians to talk about just senior nutrition in general. Um, and so we're still exploring that the one we're exploring for September is a scam, um, scam prevention one online scams. Um, that's a big hit right now. And so, um, if you guys ever have any speakers that you guys know are interested in coming to the center to speak to our seniors, we'd love to have them out. We're looking to entertain more knowledge sessions and get, get the word out to kind of bring awareness to these situations that seniors face.

I know, uh, McCall village, um, there was senior appreciation day out there and the fire department was out there and, uh, they did a great job discussing like, you know, it, issues with, with health and with, you know, disposition at the, at the, at the end of life, which people are thinking a little more about when they get in their senior days. And that was definitely well received, you know, and it doesn't have to be just about that. It can be about other issues like senior scams and things like that. But I think the, the topic should be appropriate and, you know, things that the seniors can actually use. 100%. Yes, I agree.

For trips and outings, most of them were pretty neutral about it or satisfied. For the most part, we do the same kind of trips throughout the year with the exception of our bigger trips. We'll switch those up probably bi-yearly for the most part, though, if you can go to the next part. Our trip attendance barriers, most of the time for those bigger trips to move the bus at Classic Charter, it gets a little expensive. It comes to about $100 to $150 per person, depending on how far we're going and what the actual event or the tickets of that trip cost um as far and then transportation um if that's some during during the hours when um like for example the art center we don't do provide transportation to the art center um and so what that would be is for those trips because it's on a saturday um is they would have to find their own ride for that because it is at the art center and so that's the one that um the transportation kind of comes into um if you can go next Um, 69% of them want more trips. Um, the most desired trips right now are museums, beach trips and casinos, restaurants, and shopping trips. Um, so they want to kind of just spread it out. They want to get a different kind of feel. Um, and so they like to keep things switching up. Some of them like the reoccurring casinos, some of them get a little stale of it. And so that's something that we just balance with our trip coordinator.

Matt, can I ask you, how many bus trips are you guys doing now per year?

How many bus trips? We do one bi-monthly. One bi-monthly? So about six per year.

Six per year.

We'll sprinkle in some more casino trips because those are only $5 a person to go to Table Mountain. And so those ones get sprinkled in a lot more only because it's a cheap cost for them to take that trip.

Do you get quite a bit of participation?

We will fill the bus almost every time within a week for all these trips. So we do get a lot of participation.

Yeah.

For our volunteer opportunities, our center does not run without our volunteers. They are the heart and soul of our senior center. And so what we do right now is we were rotating on a quarterly basis. And so we just wanted to reevaluate how they wanted the rotation. A lot of them wanted a little bit shorter. And so we shortened that down to three months. And that seemed to be the highest option wanted. um, how the opportunities are fairly distributed. Um, most of them think it is. Yes. Sometimes is mainly for the people that don't know. So for our process, um, the way we do it is we have people sign up. So quarterly we'll do a volunteer appreciation where we'll provide a little bit of ice cream or food. And then, um, with that, they have the opportunity to sign up for new roles or step away from a role if it's become too much or they get busy with having to watch the grandkids, whatever it may be. Um, and so sometimes with those people, um, signing up, they'll get their role or they want to stay in their role and not other people sign up or they'll miss the chance to sign up and then they never knew how to get into it. And so what we're trying to look at with that is making a more public sign up, have a big board out there where people can see what jobs are available and things so that way it's more visible and more transparent for them. interest in additional opportunities almost our whole center was behind that they all want to be involved in some capacity and so what we're doing right now currently in staff is creating some new jobs and so what we do with our dances and everything is staff was sole responsible for decorating providing everything and so what we're doing is we're allowing them to kind of step into that process help us decorate creating kind of an event committee and so we're creating more more ways for the seniors to fill a little bit of ownership at the senior center. They're just amazing. They always help us out. And so the more volunteers are welcome. So that's what we're trying to create. The biggest roles of interest were meal service, decorating, front desk, event assistance, and trip assistance. Environment and conduct. 88% of the center says the center accommodates mobility and health needs. We try to do a big job of making it very accessible for everybody to be able to sit no matter the needs or disabilities. And then with that, we recently added in with the council's approval, we recently added in a door with ADA opener. And so that really helped as well with our mobility. And then a great stat that we like to see is 88% feel safe at the center at all times. And so we really strive to make that a place for people to have a sanctuary, a home away from home, somewhere to get out and have a second family. And so it's really nice that 88% of them do feel safe that way. Um, so the biggest improvements that were noted were some more seating, some additional rest areas, a better sound equipment, and some larger print materials and improved parking access. Um, and then some of the biggest issues that were reported were gossip participant, disrespect, disrespect towards staff, bullying, inappropriate language and threats. And so one thing that we're going to do with that is we're going through the code of conduct. We're going to make a larger prints to post it out throughout the building. go through and get everyone's signature again, just to make sure that they're understanding that are what our rules and code of conduct is. And so those are kind of the ways that we're trying to combat those. And then the best part is the environment and conduct. Their overall experience, 36 and 48% said it was excellent or good. Only 12 or three said they have a fair or poor experience at the senior center. And so overall, we're getting a lot of enjoyment and a lot of people enjoy coming to the center and come out every day. What makes the center feel like home to them? 79% of them say it's just the friendships, the community or the socializing. 50% say it's the staff. We really try to make an effort to be a part of their lives as much as they are of ours. And so we have those connections. And so it's really showing up here. 38% said that they're feeling included. 35% said bingo. That's our big hitter. All the seniors love bingo. 35% said they love the volunteers or being a part and being a volunteer. And then 29% said the trips. And then 26% said the meals. When you get a home, like a meal right there, right? It's like you're at home, just eating lunch with all your family. It's a big family over there. And so that was just information and so of all the senior center uh survey that we did and so if you guys have any questions i'd be willing to answer yep so what are the changes you're going to make as a result of the survey yeah so we're already implementing different programming changes and so um we're working with our craft coordinator right now to offer some more different crafts um we're trying to bring in at least one guest speaker every month um just to keep it fresh with a different topic um like you said to keep it around catered around senior information that's relevant to them We're also working with others internally right now to get other outside entities to bring in some different classes, such as folklorico dancing, which we've had before in the past and different opportunities like that. And so staff is working internally right now to figure out programming for the year.

How about the school having them come in? I know a lot of seniors missed the grandkids or in other areas they moved away. They love seeing kids. Is the school, do they do field trips once in a while, say hello to the seniors?

We haven't since I've been here, but that's definitely something that we can explore and look into.

Okay. And then the thing that really started this all, I think a lot of us council members received a lot of feedback on, and it was negative, were the meals. So what specifically is happening with the meals? Is the senior center, are you guys looking to change one day or two days a week to someone actually cooking the meals? Because it looks like from that survey, they don't want it all the time, but they really appreciate when you switch it up and have like a day of Sal's or a day of Rodolfo's.

Yeah, we're looking at about two days a month right now to start, two days a month to get a different meal in. Right now, like I said, it's been hard to identify those days of meals that they don't like now. And so we're trying to regularly identify to work with our EOC menu that we get to make sure that we're not taking away a meal that they love from EOC to replace with something else instead of replace one that they don't favor as much. That way we're not taking away from the good they like about EOC.

And then how often will EOC switch up that menu?

Um, so we just got our August one. I haven't looked at it yet. I would have to, we just got our September one. I'd have to look at it, um, to see what the changes were made from August to September. I haven't looked at the September one yet. Okay.

And then, um, um, in terms of the senior center itself, so we kind of went through that page. The there, one of the concerns that the seniors raised representatives were, um, people who are not 55 using the senior center. There was some talk about potentially unhoused people, gang people, some sort of, you know, some some issues of concern on that, which the 85 percent of 88 percent of feel safe. That kind of puts that one to rest. But I think the identity of the senior center is still there. So will will you continue to admit people who are under 55 to the senior center currently? Yes, we will. Yeah, that is the goal. And they don't have to be from Selma? They do not have to be from Selma, no.

Okay. I have a question, Matt, in regards to the crafts. Now, do you guys, what crafts are you doing with the seniors currently?

So we'll do ceramics all the time, daily ceramics. That one is they will have to pay for a ceramic to make. They'll make the mold there and paint it. But we do random ones throughout the year, especially during the holidays. Our craft coordinator, Lori, she will organize a free craft for them, whether it's turning a toilet plunger into like a scarecrow decoration or turning hangers into Christmas decorations, right? She's very creative with that. And so we do different types of things like that. And then we're looking at right now, other programming to have either a knitting or some type of crochet class right now.

What about adding like plants, you know, like a lot of, you know, people like to do that succulent plant, which is really nice. Also like at the high school, they do floral, the florals, they make really nice floral arrangements that they use real flowers and they're beautiful. I mean, is it something that you guys could utilize a person like that at the school?

Well, you could look into it on the survey. Gardening was an option on there, and I believe it only had like 2% interest in it. And so it just didn't seem like it was a high interest in our seniors. But on our next survey, we can definitely highlight it again and circle back to it and see if that's something that they want now that the new programming is kind of coming in.

Okay. For me. Anybody else with any questions or issues? Anybody from the public with any issues about the Senior Center? Anybody online or on the phone? Mayor, I see no hands raised at this time. Thank you. I think, Director, you did a great job on this. You knocked it out of the park. I appreciate your receptiveness to this. I know the city manager and I attended that first meeting, and it was a little rugged. There were some pretty strong opinions there, and it sounds like once the actual survey went out, it showed what the main issue of interest was, which turned out to be the meals. So it sounds like that's That's good, but just so you know, we get a lot of feedback on this as well. I think another thing is, you know, just keep it fresh. Just keep doing outreach as well. You know, we went to Bethel last week for their grand reopening under new ownership. McCall Village is another senior community. Frontier has a number of seniors. I would encourage a senior center to continuously do outreach too, just to let the community know who we are and where we are and these services that we provide. Thank you. That was an informational item, so now we will move on to our item 5-3, which is the topic of the Holiday Ice Skating Rink.

Good evening, mayors and members of the council.

Long time, no see.

This is an exciting one. This is the Holiday Ice Skating Rink. This is a long time coming. We've been requesting pricing from different companies and it took a while to get some responses, but we finally got them. With that, we have If you can go to the next slide. The way we kind of gathered. This was there's five options gathered from four different companies on one of the companies is also a real ice. As well, but most of these are synthetic ice, which is not going to be a real ice.

It's going to be like gym mats laid with like a lubricant, you'll still use real ice skates, but it's not going to be real ice that's on the ground.

The full burn pricing, so every total includes the vendor package plus add-ons such as delivering, financing, site preparation. That's how the pricing came for us because we don't have the site-specific requirements such as to give the full quote. I don't have a set location, duration, or anything like that to get the full quote, so I did the full burn pricing for what they offer. A synthetic ice vendor is shown across one day, three day, or a two week scenario, just to show the different costs for the different durations of the event. And then what I'm looking for today is some direction. If this is the, you want me to pursue this, bring it, find a company to get a realistic, right quote for where we want it and everything like that, and bring it back. So how these numbers are built, the vendor package. So there's two different pricing on there. The first one's going to be the rink equipment. professional operators, insurance quoted by the vendor. And so all of the totals use the vendor's staffing option because the city, we won't have enough staff to fully staff this event. And so we would have to use the company's staff. The second pricing requires the required add-ons as well as a platform that would be needed if the ground is too uneven or if it's put on grass or gravel. So I wanted to give a full picture of everything that it could encompass as well. Go to the first company. It's going to be All Year Sports Galaxy. So this one's a synthetic ice. We have different sizes choices. It's a 40 by 40 or 40 by 60 are the two smaller sizes they have. Optional safety equipment. There's DJ lights, effects, and snow machine. The skate rental, tent, and shelving. Professional operators. Delivery, setup, and removal.

Secure fencing.

Assorted skate sizes. Table PA system and music. Changing areas with branches. Full insurance coverage. This is what I was talking about before. The city must provide for the ice rink if the site isn't deemed flat enough or the material isn't solid enough. So on the next one, I have an example of an installation for a 40-mile. a very large space that would be with the synthetic next one that would be the full pricing and so for a 40 by 40 what we saw up there was a 40 by 60 so it'd be a little bit smaller than that for one day pricing you're looking at about twelve thousand four hundred sixteen dollars for three days about nineteen thousand four hundred two and then two weeks will be about fifty six thousand then if we did need the sub flooring so if we wanted to add like a park or if the road or parking lot was not deemed um flat enough or uh sturdy enough then we would have to put the platform down as well the platforms range from about ten thousand to twenty thousand dollars um for that ice cream next company is the ice rink rentals this is a longer term package so they don't actually do any short term um pricing they only do two week rentals um and so this one is 2 000 square foot which is up to 48 skaters for 61 000 um and a 3 000 foot square foot up to 75 skaters for 75 000. um with the platform we'd be looking at about 72 to 96 000. that would be like and with it you have the skate shed um ice america um this one is also synthetic um rings they also don't do or they also don't they do a longer um term pricing so most of what i found is most of the skating rinks don't do pricing for under two weeks that's very rare for them um just because of all the setup and then the requirements of it once it's there and so a lot of the pricing is for um longer durations um and so with the ice america The three days is going to be 65. And as you notice the two weeks is only $10,000 more with their package. It's, it's pretty much that's how it's going to be for a lot of these companies. So with that, again, if we need the accent with the deck, it's going to look at 86 to about 96,000 kind of see the picture there. Next company is Emerald Events. They are one of the few that do a one-day rental. And so with that, they're also synthetic. We also got their real ice float back, which was $100,000, which we'll get to that. But they have a synthetic plastic polymer ice screen. They do a trained crew for setup, teardown, and brief training. They do ice hockey skates, sprint tools, stackable chairs for the padded changing area. They do pool liabilities. and a glide enhancer. And so this kind of gives you the kind of the difference between the 40 by 60 and the 40 by 40 on that size difference that we're going to go. So for the pricing for that, for the one day, it's looking at about 11,400 for the 40 by 40, which is going to get 40 people in there. If it requires a platform 21,000. For all estimates, because they just gave us pricing by four hours. um and so these are kind of estimates um get these full like hardened quotes from them i need they ask for a site location a picture of the location they want to come out and see it um and so there's a little bit more that comes into getting the pool that is ready to go so these are all kind of estimates based off what we've uh acquired from them so with the real chilled ice ring um there's just a lot more technicality that comes with it with the melting of the ice and so that price is going to be $126,000 to $157,000 and so required to have 24 hours of surveillance over the equipment set up with the ice requiring refrigeration this power as well and so this one has technicality um the city oversight was included in this the way it was calculated was through finance um it's for one recreation supervisor or maintenance the oversight of the event like i mentioned before uh site requirements so if a grass surface we want it at like a park location um we're going to have to buy the platform And they will filter out forever. So they already said that wherever you put it, if you put the platform there. And then for gravel uneven surfaces, exclude soft mud, dirt, sand, gravel. And then with the insurance of life. Last slide here is a full burden cost comparison across all of these different Appreciate I can tell you're enthusiastic about a director.

Thank you for for your efforts on this. It is new. It's it's unique. It's something that Selma has asked for for a long time. And I think it would make us stand out. Some of these vendors are local. Some of them aren't. Have you checked them out against the cities that they have provided services for to kind of get an idea how they do what they do?

Yes. All of these cities, all of these agencies do cities in California.

I believe Ice America was.

So these are all California local companies as far as locals we can get.

And then in terms of the dates, could we reserve a couple weeks before Christmas if we act now? I mean, what's their availability in terms of dates?

So they had told me when I reached out to them about two or three weeks ago that to book it now. And so with a lot of them, though, they say that these costs don't incur or like the closer you get to the holidays, the more expensive it's going to get because they have a holiday season. price increase i can't remember what they call it exactly but it's some kind of a holiday i would think that's when most people want to do this kids are home from school and either thanksgiving or christmas would probably be a yeah it's a good time for this we're looking at it for this winter break booked as soon as possible to avoid as much fees and overbooking as possible like for from others from these vendors getting booked from other places

And Matt, did you look at the Fresno that it's considered synthetic, correct? There's a synthetic.

I'm not exactly sure what Fresno uses. They didn't tell me what the, that they organized from Fresno, but I just know that that company does the one that does Fresno's.

Okay. Cause there is a big difference between the synthetic and the real ice. If you go to Hanford's Hanford's is the real ice and it's, there's a huge difference and you'll see that the, there the people are more favorable i would say to the real ice um because the synthetic you won't find a whole lot of people that are interested in in that ice or i would say in that type of ring um that that's just what i've seen and i've experienced it myself And you would definitely have to go two weeks. You couldn't just do a couple of days or a day here. That's not going to work. In order to be profitable, because you have to remember, they charge. They charge per person. And I think Hanford is charging $22 for adults. And they charge, I think, $15 per kids under 10.

And it would be the city that charges that. So we pay them. Is that correct? Or did they charge?

So we yeah, we would it would be us that's charging. That's how they kind of reimburse. So what the companies that I've spoken to have kind of said is that with the synthetic, with our area not being a very snow filled area, right, that the synthetic is almost it's a little bit of a slower skate, a less of a slide, more of a glide like a roller blade. And so it might be more attainable for the first year. which was their recommendation. But they also recommended that if we do synthetic, like you're saying, it's not the same as real ice. And so we wouldn't be able to charge probably more than $10 they would recommend for an ice rental or for the skating hour because it's not real ice.

Mayor Pro Tem, to your comment, I believe the one in downtown Fresno in front of Mariposa Plaza is Real Ice. I think Taylor and Boney, that drives through in between sessions, and you can see kind of the melting of the water. So the one in downtown is Real Ice.

Okay. And what company does that one?

That would be Ice America.

Ice America.

And have you scouted preliminary locations director around Lincoln park?

The only location, cause I had to give them a location. So the location that I identified was between cross and mill street on Selma street, right in front of the library on the road. That way it's kind of in junction with the Santa's parade when it happens. And so, but still out of the way enough. And then that road closure wouldn't be invasive enough where we could keep it for that two week duration if needed.

Cross Street and Selma. Okay, so it's a little bit further east of where the park is.

Yeah, like right in front of where the library would be in the road.

Okay, and you would close that little strip of the road there.

Yeah, similar to how it was done for the Raisin Festival, but without Middle Street being closed. Middle Street would still be open.

And then in terms of the city making its money back, so it would... city would charge admissions and then how about vendors um could we get some of the vendors from um you know the bid the food truck fridays i mean would they be candidates to come around there and serve hot chocolate and food and things like that yes there's definitely potential for vendors to be present um at the ice rink for sure about music do they provide the music or we

So different packages that they have will provide music as well as like snow machines and different winter effect essentially to make the whole ice rink a winter.

And then can we get event insurance in case it rains for like a week?

Yes. So they had, I didn't exactly see one of the companies with their quote sent in a weather, like if it gets too hot or if it rains or whatever. I'd have to look back at that.

And what about lighting? Is it including the lighting system?

no ma'am we would have to do lighting so we probably have to get light towers okay because I know like in Hanford they do beautiful lighting out there so it makes it really nice which um the community services department does have um Cafe lights that would be an option to put up as well um to help with that okay so um which option do we want to go with Council and let's get public input

public have any? Anything you'd like to say any suggestions?

Any donations to 1057 Mill Street, Rose Robertson, I think this is really exciting to hear I you know, the park already had an outstanding event with Bepin Marquez over 2500 people I go now we're going to make history again, if this goes through. This is specifically for the kids. And this is going to be something that's going to be made in history for Selma for the kids. It's unfortunate that, you know, previous years before this new council, we had money that was just going to some ridiculous places and things and not getting appraisals for some property. And this is why you do things legit. and you do the right things so we can have money to be able to do these things for the kids. This is gonna be phenomenal. This is gonna be just amazing Christmas time for these kids that never leave Selma. They're gonna be able to come during the time Hopefully it falls during the time when the kids are on vacation, Christmas vacation. They're going to come and it's going to not only blow their mind, it's going to blow the parents' mind with them being together as a family. This would be so positive for Selma. It's time. It's time to start spending the money on the children, the citizens of Selma. and make history for Selma. We have a new council. You guys are looking at all the money, you know, wisely, and it's about the kids now. So hopefully we can make it work. And again, we all live here and we should make this happen. Thank you.

Can you go back to the ice America? That the one you're talking about, Matt, that's all lies, real lies?

No, so what did I got?

Okay, Mr. Ramirez. Mayor Ramirez, good evening. First of all, thank you, Matt, for your hard work, for putting this together for us. Thank you, council, for bringing this to, you know, for us and for the public to see. This is gonna be phenomenal for the citizens of Selma. We've never had this before. This is gonna be truly groundbreaking. A lot of people are gonna be surprised if this goes through and I really hope that it does. But there's definitely a lot of potential here. Definitely a lot. We're going to have a lot of neighboring cities coming to this event, to this ice rink. People won't have to go to Fresno or Fallon, excuse me, Hanford anymore. It'll be close to home. You know, maybe we can have a summer live Christmas edition. There's just a lot of potential here. Like you said, also, Mayor, people may be selling chocolate, carolers. There's just so much that I can see going into this. I know it's a little costly, unfortunately, but like I say, if we're going to do it, do it right. Go big or go home. Because we don't want to do it halfway and then, you know, people, you know, say, well, you know, someone did it and it was, you know, flopping. People You know, we are going to get that criticism, so it's better just to invest a little bit more and do it right. But again, like I said, I'm all for this, and I really hope it goes through.

Thank you. Thank you. You're a Parks and Community Services Director, so thank you for that input.

I agree with the two speakers that just came up. I think it's going to be great for Selma. You know, that's going to be add to what's already going on some alive and, you know, the other event that's put up by the bid, the, what is it? The truck vendors. And it's just adding more and more and more. And like was previously said, we don't have to go to Fresno. We don't have to go to Hanford. Hanford has a ring over there and people go over there. When we can have it here. And I think that that would really be good. And, you know, families would come together and it would be the whole winter wonderland. I can just see it now. It'd be so, so nice. So I hope you really, you know, take this into consideration and just, you know, have it, have it done. And I think it would make a lot of folks, a lot of family, a lot of Selma residents really happy. Thank you.

I think it's also part of what we're doing in, in Selma. We're doing this, the second street improvements program. where, you know, the bid is doing a lot of downtown improvements with the Christmas decorations. That's what their last board meeting. It's kind of a, it rounds that out. It's culmination. It's working, you know, it's not just an ice skating rink by itself. It's part of a larger process of renewal and revitalization for our downtown. And it will bring people in to see our downtown and to see what we've done. Cause a lot of people still think Selma is, Oh man, second street, turn around, get, get back on 99. We're going to show them a new Selma. And I think the ice skating rink would be a way to bring them in. Is it expensive? Well, I mean, in terms of dollars, yes, but you know, in terms of exploring what we could do with that, We had the chamber here tonight. They have healthy financials. I'm hopeful that maybe they could partner with the city and maybe even put a few bucks our way, like we did with the 3rd of July with them, where they hosted the venue at the Selma High School Stadium. Would love to explore that with the chamber in the future to partner with the city on that. financially as well as operationally to provide their great ideas and maybe even some folks to come out and volunteer for that event as well along with the city.

Lorraine Avalos, 1701 Dinuba Avenue. I'm on the healthcare board. On my opinion, I think that healthcare, they could come to the healthcare. We could give money because it's for the kids. Not only that for the kids, it's family oriented. And then you bring prospects to our city and we display our city better. And we look better as a city.

And we've already seen that the healthcare district is really generous. most of your members are towards our city and we really appreciate your generosity so thank you for uh for letting us know that do you know when the next healthcare district meeting is going to be yet okay as soon as i know i will let you know okay thank you we have anybody with their hand raised online yes mayor have one hand raised caller you're free to talk now

All right, thank you. Yeah, so my name is Aaron Gutierrez. I am a resident here in Selma. And I think I second the idea of going with the real ice instead of going with the synthetic. I feel like the synthetic is... you know, might bring a like cheap feeling kind of tacky. Um, I think that we will definitely be pulling a lot of people from the Fresno area. And I, I myself have gone to the Hanford one because of the environment that it provides. And, um, I think if we could kind of get the, like get a good idea off of how Hanford is running theirs and us be able to bring that same winter wonderland feel here into Selma, it would definitely, um, be a reoccurring attraction. And I also think that maybe we could do some brainstorming on how much money could be brought in to offset this expensive cost based off of some prior events that have been held here in Selma. But yeah, I think that would be a great idea. And I definitely am for it. Great comment. Thanks, Mr. Gutierrez.

Okay, bringing the item back to council.

Mayor? Yes, sir. Just wanted to... give a one caveat with the discussion of the real ice, especially with a estimated cost of one 26 to one 57 city purchasing policy does require that anything above 75,000 would have to go out to a formal bid because there are multiple companies that do provide the real ice and I don't think that we could get through with a sole source on that.

I'm only seeing one company that provides real ice. What are the other companies that provide real ice? I think he mentioned... I see all your sports galaxy. What's the other one?

And then he said, Ice America does Fresno's, even though they provided a synthetic ice quote. But I think he said that they did Fresno's, so...

If I can chime in. All of these companies do real ice. All the ones listed. I just didn't approach them for a real ice quote because last time when we had given the larger quote, You had asked us to look for something cheaper, something more affordable. And so that's why I went to the synthetic option.

Well, the last time we talked, you were like 140,000 for one day. So I think you just gave us sticker shock on that one. But now we're seeing that, you know, realize the pricing for one day is the same as 14. And I think I'm hearing consensus that we want 14 days. And we want to make it a unique experience. You know, the realize doesn't set me back like it did the first time I heard this. So in terms of the bid process, what would that bid process consist of?

Mayor, I think you can avoid the bid process because what you're really purchasing is a service. They're bringing... the ice rink to you. We're not actually buying something. You're not buying something. You're not improving any piece of real property. You're paying for a temporary thing to be brought in and placed on the city's ground, and then it's going to go away. It's not improving the value of the real estate. It's not permanent. It's not a work of improvement, certainly. It is far more in the nature of a service that this company is providing by bringing in this ice rink.

I have a question.

I'd like to research that out more carefully, but I'm pretty sure you can avoid the bid requirement if there is one, even if you were to assume it's a work of improvement. Part of what you're looking for is somebody that's got a demonstrated good product that you want to bring to your city, and that's going to go away in 14 days.

Well, Fresno sounds like they have a pretty good program right now with their ice rink. Who does Hanford use, or do they buy their own?

They own there.

Who did they use before they bought it?

I could check with Levi. He's the one who runs it. I have a good connection with him. I can check with him. Thanks.

So the question I have for you is if the city enters into a joint agreement with the health board, the chambers and the city provides under the 75,000 mark and they provide the rest, wouldn't we be under that mark?

You would be, but I really don't think that you need to. You're saying we don't really have to worry about that. There are several exceptions to bidding requirements under the statute. And part of those involve a situation where you've identified a particular company or companies that are able to provide something that is unique and in terms of the service or product that they're providing. And the fact that it's temporary is a big consideration in determining whether or not you gotta go out to bids. I think you'd be, if there are two companies that are like real ICE, You might be able to use that to your advantage by soliciting proposals from each of them. But I don't think that you're in the competitive bid requirement territory with a temporary, even though it is a structure on the ground and all that, it's... It's going to be moved out.

And I'm not trying to put the kibosh on anything. I'm just, you know, wanting to make us aware of stuff. I did bring up the city purchasing policy. And it does say for purchases of non-public works items, including services.

We made the policy so we can waive that policy. Yeah, and I just wanted to make that aware. But thank you for bringing that up.

But I also think that it's lucrative, like they were stating, to help the word chamber, everybody getting together and investing in it. Even the school district, the school district can... the school district can say you know what i want from eight to ten and they got that block but they donated and they provided provided to their kids to the school so there's i mean there's multiple things we can actually certainly certainly the chamber would our the health care district works in kind of in a different way i think i think they they basically dole out money

They're an organization for stowing grants. They have no services that they provide. It would be a perfect entity with which to partner and provide not just money, but oversight and operation.

I think we take the lead on this as a city, and we're actually looking at it seriously, which means I think we want to take it to the next step, which is to get a hard and fast voter. We're all good with Yeah, I mean, we could do that once we get an actual hard quote or quotes. Are we looking for real ice or synthetic ice?

Real ice.

We have a location that was preferred by council. Do we have that location in front of the library?

Yeah, I was just making sure that was okay with you guys. And then we can have, when we're getting these quotes, we'll use that as the location.

Where would the vendors go? Because, you know, we want the hot chocolate, the music. Would it go... In the park. So they would actually go inside the park.

We can either do that or we can close all of Selma.

Close off Mill 2 or all of Selma.

Just the duration of the ice skating rink operation hours.

They need a changing area too, right? Because when you go skating, you got to take your shoes off and put your skates on.

If we need that, one place that we identified was asking the church parking lot across from the senior center if we would be able to use half of their parking lot for that changing area.

Good idea. Maybe the Christian Cafe would let us use some of their parking area.

Yeah, we would only need about half the lot.

Okay. So can you research, if I'm hearing correctly from the council, can you research Real Ice for that location and get us a quote for two weeks? And preferably, what do we want the dates to be? First two weeks in December or the second two weeks in December? Or do we want November? November. Middle two weeks? Middle two weeks of December.

When they're on school break.

So would you want it though during, so my thought process was to have it open during Santa's parade, during that event, but that would be the first weekend of Christmas. So if you want to do the last two weeks, we would miss that Santa's parade. That was my thought process of starting it that same weekend, opening it up for that during that Santa's parade.

People want to be with their family. Yeah, do we want it for that weekend?

We've got to find out when the kids are out of school.

When the kids are out of school. And will the library be open by then? I heard they're opening.

They haven't provided me any update on when they're opening.

Can you reach out to the county and see when the library is going to open? Because right now it looks like a construction site. I'll reach out to them.

Are you putting it on the library's property?

Say that again? Are you putting it on the library property? No, the road.

on the road they need something flat can we avoid doing uh putting a mat down putting that flooring down for if that was the goal of putting it in the road was hopeful that he uh the quote that i had talked to or one of the people i talked to had said that the roads are usually good as long as they're not a cracked up road and then do we want 40 by 60 or 40 by 40 40 by 60 by six staff report. Just so you guys have a little bit more information. Um, the 40 by 40 is only going to hold 160 people for a four hour duration where the 40 by 60 will hold 240 in a four hour duration.

So we decided we want a 40 by 60. What, what's the timeline again? What do we want the timeline to be two weeks, but when, When's preferable?

A lot of times with these real ice companies, they'll do it like three to a month, three weeks to a month is usually like the average package for real ice because it takes about a week for them to get the ice set up and then about another week to tear it down. And so they usually give us that timeframe for real ice. There's just a lot more technicalities that go into real ice.

Got it. Can you just propose some dates for us too? And then get a couple of hard quotes and... see if they're available, who's available to come out. And then when can you bring this back?

You probably should, you probably should market at least three companies because you're going to know that some of them are going to be already booked.

Yeah.

For the same thing.

Yeah. Whoever has the availability. Definitely.

Yeah, we can provide them with a timeline of when to get those quotes in by the time we come to the next council.

And that gives the health care district time to announce when their next meeting is going to be, too. So we can head on back. Cities can head on back there as well. The Chamber, too. And the Chamber. And get in contact with them. Too bad they didn't stay for the meeting, but hopefully they're watching it.

Because... We'll tell them. I think the Chamber will probably donate, Scott, because we help them with their fireworks.

That's true.

And we didn't have to go out for bed.

And then... Just to get a little further direction, are you guys wanting me to just look at all of these companies, these same companies, and just look for the Real Ice option?

Real Ice. Yes. And get some potential dates too. You said a month. So get us a, get us a timeline so we can kind of hone in on that as well. Great. We have consensus on that. Are we all good? Okay. Thanks for the input. Appreciate everybody. Thank you. Now we'll move on to our next item, which is future agenda items. This is council requests for future agenda items, not subject to public comment. Items require a consensus. Do we have any future agenda items we'd like to look at tonight?

I have one or two. I'd like a follow-up on the contractor that will do the prevailing wage for downtown, like if they want to build the building. So we'll see where we are with that. And then also, I just want to do a follow-up on the street signs to see what zone we're in. Are we almost done with that? Because I know some people mentioned that their signs still haven't been replaced.

I'm good with it.

And then what was brought to my attention is that they have doggy bags on District 2 when the people can walk their dog. And people in my district district 3 were also asking why can't we get those doggy bags because we have a lot of people that walk their dogs. District and then. You have yours in your district.

I see a month I knew but but do we have moments anywhere else I see him at the dog part. Can we get some of its.

What was that.

Vote for Mutt Mitz and the dispenser and other areas. At other parks? Yeah, at other parks. Around other parks. Yeah.

I'm good with that. Everybody good? Me too.

And then an item I would like would be, I'd like a review of all the thrift stores where they are in Selma right now. I'd like to see the city ordinance on thrift shops and I'd like to know how many are currently applying for business licenses in Selma. Because this seems like We're getting a lot of thrift stores are coming to Selma. Yeah. Well, I want to see how many we have currently and how many are coming. We have consensus on that. Everybody good. Okay. Anybody else?

Yeah, I have, um, I want to go back to the pioneer village, uh, Not so much the bathrooms, but the drain station on the roof, the fires repair and leak issue.

Council Member, can you speak?

It was an issue that came about on the... Say what now? Thank you. On the Pioneer Village, the train station there, they have a leak on the roof and I don't know where we're at on that issue. and also one of the bathrooms next to the train station that's used for storage that actually could be used for parties and events. It's vacated. We should look at that overall. One of the restrooms, there was issues. It's clogged, but they got it unclogged. But someone said they might have a septic tank on that property. We got to check that out.

used to be outside Tillman.

And then that's all I got.

I have one real quick. I forgot, I apologize. Can we get a list of all the upcoming CDBG projects that will be coming for the following year? And the reason why is because there are streets on my district that actually are leaking water or they're kind of like a hole underneath, you know? So I'd like to know what the engineer has. I know we have a list of important projects dealing with what the impact of the roads are, but I like if you could give us a list, because then we could know where they fall in our districts and what's the importance and what's the higher importance of every street. It'd be nice. I know they did that one time. They gave us a list of all the, I guess, what is it called?

The payment condition.

The payment condition act because we, so we could know where they fall and we can interpret that to our, some of our people where they're falling in line.

Yep.

I would like to see a report on new businesses coming in, you know, what's happening because the one place over there on 2nd Street by the freeway, everybody keeps asking and everybody's guessing. They say, oh, it's a gas station. It's a gas station. Which gas station?

Star 2.

Don't they have a Star 1 right there?

Yeah. Yeah. Star 2. Oh, my God.

When are we going to get Star 3? But, yeah, there's businesses that come in, and we don't even know, but you find out on Facebook that another business is in Selma. You're going to do a report for me, Sundar. Also, like Councilman Trujillo said, the streets. When Councilman Navajos first came in, he read a lot of pictures and turned them in with some of the streets are pretty bad. By my house, yeah, by my house over there. You come to a stop and there's a big old hole right there. Tom Thompson, what's the other street? Tom Thompson.

Tom Thompson.

But through our discussions, we were told that it was through the impact of our streets. And I would like to, but in reality, we're the ones that should, I mean, we can pick, right?

Yeah.

So it would be nice for them to bring back a report telling us where they're looking at is important. So then we can know and interpret that to our community.

There's a way that's done. Like you said, Dinube is a 20.

Overall, Selma's a 60. So if we could get a PCI for all the streets in Selma broken out. I know COG uses a company that does PCIs on a citywide basis. I don't know if they have it broken down by streets. They probably do. If we could see which streets... you know, what their PCIs are per street, that would be a good way to target the repair of those roads.

I even think SKF may have it because that's probably the problem we have right now on Dockery because when you have the hump, that means the sewer line is actually impacted on the bottom and maybe he should have been here, but that's something I think is really important.

SKF wouldn't have it, but we should have a pavement management system that

does list that and and you know has the pci for each of our streets i've just uh and voted a lot of money that the cities pay into to get a payment management system so because i got i got some in my area great okay moving on to um council reports council member trio

I don't have much, but I want to thank the city manager for his prompt response in regards to it. A lot of community members call me in regards to the heat wave we had a couple of, was it a week ago or two? And I had the police chief and the fire chief contact me and all of a sudden there was social media saying where there would be cooling stations. So thank you for that. Thank you for their quick response. And community members were really happy about that. So aside of that, thank you. Nothing else.

Okay. Council Member Avalos.

Okay. I attended the downtown bid that night, and I also attended the ceremony for the Bethel Lutheran Home ribbon-cutting. uh you know uh great uh owners uh taking over and responsibilities and trying to be a part of our community and i and they're very appreciative these people uh taking care of the elderly people god bless them you know and also i attended the christian cafe you know and and you know, once it went to great event, you know, brings people together, stress, trying to, you know, keep the stress down and lie people lives. It's good. And also I attended the boys and girls club, uh, Saturday, uh, me and my wife, uh, they were doing, they were doing a fundraiser for these kids are going back East for the, uh, uh, flag football championship. Right. I'm Selma and, um, and people donated gifts and, and, uh, and, um, so, And I blessed the community that stands up and help these boys and girls club because, you know, they're the future of our society. And we should take care of these, the future. That's it, bottom line. And then also I attended, what was it, a funeral for our past chief, In Brockett. Brockett, Brockett, Brockett, you know. That man was multitask. He did everything. He was city manager, chief of police, chamber, city council in his life. But, you know, I'll be honest with you, people like that in our society back in that time frame, you know, you have to admire them because the great sacrifice from their families, right? He sacrificed a lot of his time away from his families to keep the city of Selma, the town he loved. You know, you know, he loved it very well and he kept it clean and responsible. And and God bless the man, you know. And actually, he's in a time capsule, by the way. He's got a badge in a time capsule. I was notified by that. So not to be open until 2080. If anybody's around in 2080, it'll be open.

All right. Well, thank you for that. That's all I got to say. Council Member Oskara?

I pretty much attended everything that Jim attended. Unfortunately, he was there, but that's okay. I'm just kidding. So the only thing I got is we have September 4th, like Director Moreno embarrassed me with that picture, but that's okay. I love the guy. September 4th, the Morenos and Ruben y la Nueva Onda at Lincoln Park is going to be a good event. There you go. Thank you, sir. It's going to be on all social media, I think, tonight or tomorrow. And we hope you share it and let people invite your friends, neighbors. Even if you don't like them, tell them to come down. So thank you.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.

I also attended the Bethel Senior Living Mixer. And again, it was a beautiful mixer. They had so many people there. And I want to thank the new owners for partnering with the city of Selma. They really want to invest here in Selma and they want to do whatever they can to partner with our city. I also served for the Christian Cafe, the Robertson Guerra Gallardo Cafe. We do that four times a year. And that was something that's very dear and near to my heart because we really, really enjoy doing that. And we love to see the people that come out. And again, it doesn't have to just be less fortunate or homeless people. These are people in our community that like to come out and have a meal and get to talk to people and socialize. I mean, it really brings so much love and warmth to these people, and we love doing it. The other thing I also... attended, let me see, I thought I attended, oh, I attended Chief Brockett's, his services, and again, it was beautiful, beautiful service to hear everything about Chief Brockett. The other thing I want to say is on a personal note, we did celebrate 25 years for the Robertson-Gara Insurance Agency. We've been here 25 years, and I want to thank all our God first, my clients for being so loyal and keeping us in business. The other thing, we were one of the companies that donated for the Boys and Girls Club because again, it's what we do and we love giving back to our community and we hope that they do raise enough money to be able to go back east. And that's pretty much it for me.

Thank you. attended that grand opening at Bethel. It seems like they really want to take it the next step and go from a business looking inward to a business looking outward and being part of the community they've attended food truck Fridays. They went to McCall village. Um, they had this grand opening, they invited city fire. They were, you know, they had a nice, um, a nice grand opening, really hope that, um, that, that they make it, it was kind of eyeopening to walk around. They're really three Bethels. There's, you know, the retirement community, the village, and then there's the, um, uh, the care facility and the rehab facility. And, it's there's a lot going on there. Definitely. It's good to have that in Selma. And I'm, I'm really glad that a company stepped in because the other one was having financial problems. And that is something that, that we need to have in Selma. I think it's really important. Glad they're glad they're here. I attended the, Unfortunately, the funerals of SB Chavez and Jim Brockett, as we heard, it was a real honor to speak at the Jim Brockett funeral and really great to see council members come out and the police chief attend. And it was really heartfelt to see this, you know, this Selma native celebrated, even though they moved out of state, they all came back and he wanted to be buried in Selma. So it was very nice to, that he wanted to come back here for his final resting place. I served dinner at the Christian Cafe with my family members and the Robertson Gara Insurance Agency in honor of our departed brothers, Renee and Steve and Reyes. I attended that same 25th anniversary annual meeting. for our business insurance, our business, which really allows us to do this, to give back because, you know, we don't do it for the money. We don't do it for the 300 bucks a month. We do it because we love our community. But quite frankly, if I didn't have a business, I wouldn't be able to do it. If I couldn't, I wouldn't be able to make ends meet on just doing this. And I wouldn't want to. This is mostly volunteer and it's insurance has enabled Rose and me to, And my partner, Sarah and Mondo, to be able to to do this for 25 years now. So it's very, very, very fortunate. I feel very fortunate to to be in this position to have great clients like we have. Um, attended that Selma healthcare district board meeting last night, which I thought was just going to be a routine meeting, but then it turned into a 4th of July fireworks show. Um, after that to move forward, but glad that the city ultimately got the, uh, 50,000, um, for the restrooms sorely needed a pioneer village and the 20,000 for the police program. And, um, I think, uh, you know, one of the directors that we have here is a true Testament to volunteerism in, in Selma. And really looking forward to partnering with them on the ice skating rink in the future. met with a city manager, the community services director today, met with representatives of the Sikh community who have some issues about their construction of a new building for the Sikh priests at their temple. So that was good to make sure everybody's on the same page there. And I want to thank everybody for coming out tonight. Thank all the employees for all your hard work for the city. You make it run, you make it happen. And people see that. They really see that you make a difference. So thank you. Thank you so much for all your work. And with that, we will move 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 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 any oral communications at this time?

I'm a resident. I just want to give a shout out to the health board, Leticia Gallardo, Lorraine Avalos, and Mateo Rodriguez for voting yes on helping out with the restrooms over at the Pioneer Village. Because of them, you know, It looks like it's actually going to happen because we've waited so long to get this done. So I want to give a shout out to them. It was a four to zero vote. One of them was playing Grinch with the money, but we got it. They were able to vote yes on it. And it looks like it's going to happen. I want to give a shout out to that, to them for that, because we do really need it. You know, we've got the Hanukkah festival coming up again. And like I said yesterday, I spoke about it yesterday that, you know, it's, it's not, you know, ADA equipped it for, disabled people and for children that need to be changed, diapers and stuff, it doesn't have any of that. So I'm glad that it's happening. And also again, thank you to all of you for making Selma a better place. We're in a better place now and things are happening, all the Selma Lives and the bits that are coming together, working on the infrastructure, making I mean, you know, just making it happen for Selma and the ice ring now that's going to add to it. And I think that that's so great. You know, I want to give also a shout out to RPIO did a fabulous job yesterday on the presentation at the health board. And for all the work, Matthew, all of you for all the work that you do. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Anybody online or on the phone with a comment?

Yes, we have one caller with their hand up. Mr. Gutierrez, you can speak now.

Hello, everybody. So, you know, thanks again, City Council, and thank you, Mayor, for all the work you guys are doing. I really am looking forward to the real ice ring coming to Selma. So I did want to address a concern that I have been seeing amongst residents in Selma on public forums in regards to the flock cameras. I visited yesterday a a flock information or know the facts of flock held by the Fresno Police Department, where an overwhelmingly about 90% of the individuals who showed up to address their concern were worried about flock and um kind of what it means to have flock in our city um and you know i second that feeling here in selma and i feel like a lot of people on the public forums facebook things like that have been addressing and mentioning their concern as well especially in relating to in relation to um the misuse of, um, flock cameras, um, the checks and balances of the internal audience, um, you know, regards to the violation of the fourth amendment of these flock cameras. Um, the fact that we don't necessarily own the data from the flock cameras and we're just a second hand or sorry, third party purchasing it from them. So, um, this data could also be sold to, which concerns me, myself. Um, I, I know that we're, um, a heavy Hispanic community. And I know that there's a lot of individuals who have come from Mexico, potentially fleeing from Mexico to live a good life here in the United States and have ended up in this wonderful city of Selma. And I feel some concern as well that this data could potentially be shared with federal agencies and ICE. Also, there were a lot of concerns addressing the security breaches that were happening with these flock cameras since they are Wi-Fi cameras and Wi-Fi is very susceptible to hackers. And it had been proven that they could be hacked in just about under one minute. And in a few other public forums that I visited regarding flock information, one in 10 people that were present were able to They said they've hacked Wi-Fi before. So it is a growing concern myself. And I would like to... I'm not exactly sure how to go about it, but I would like to open up to the city council having a possibility for the public to come out and speak about their concerns. And possibly we could address some of these concerns that are being had. And I've seen, and maybe there's just not enough... people willing to share their voice about it. And yeah, I appreciate your time and your consideration to my opinion.

Thanks very much, Mr. Gutierrez. City Manager, maybe you could talk to the police chief about status of block cameras in Selma.

Will do.

Thank you. All right. Do you want to make a announcement?

I'm coming down here as a citizen. My name is Sarah Garrett. My address is 2505 Rodeo street. I just want to mention that I am running for reelection for district three, and I just want to give a big thank you to my constituents that helped me get my signatures and get me qualified for the ballot. So I just want to thank them. Thank God first, my family and all my constituents that I am qualified and I will be on the ballot. Thank you.

I also wanted to let everyone know in the city, as an individual, Scott Robertson, 1057 Mill Street, that I'm also running again for our city of Selma, mayor at large. I went through the process. Again, it's been a real honor to serve the city and the citizens. of this great city. And as you see tonight, and as you've seen in the past weeks and months, we have really brought Selma alive again. We're doing something special here. And I would just like to run for Selma City Mayor so that I can be part of this process because we're not done yet. We have a lot of good momentum and I wanted to thank the council for your efforts. And as we've all seen today, these elections can get negative if that's what the opponents want to do. We have better things to do in Selma and we're better than that in Selma. Let's keep it positive and let's keep our city moving forward. Thank you. All right. With that, we are going to adjourn the meeting now. Thank you for everyone coming out.