City Council - Regular Meeting

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Good evening everyone and welcome. Today is Tuesday, April 7th, 2026, and the time is 6 PM. The regular meeting of the following will come to order. The Victorville City Council on the same council sitting as the Victorville Library Board of Trustees, the Southern California Logistics Airport Authority, Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency, the city as a housing assets assessor, Joint Powers Finance Authority, and the Victorville Water District. Madam Clerk, will you kindly take the role, please? Council member Godan, here. Council member Irving, here. Council member Mora here. Mayor Prom Haramman here. Mayor Basera here. We have quorum.

Thank you. At this time, if you would please stand for our invocation or pledges of allegiance. The invocation will be led by Pastor Michael Chandler with Victor Valley Bible Church and our pledge will be led by Captain Jerry Davenport. Oh God, to you who answer prayer I come. Oh infinite Lord, creator of all things and moral governor of the universe, I come. How is it that we here a small gathering before civil leaders appointed by you should call upon you to hear us when we pray? There are 8 billion people on this planet of life you formed by your word. Who knows how many of these are praying to you even as we are tonight. Yet you hear them and care for them too. How? Because you, the infinitely awesome God, have told us to pray. And because you are intimately aware of us, our needs, our anxieties, our concerns, and our desires for this great community of which we are actively involved citizens. All we can do is echo the word of the psalmist. I declared my ways and you answered me. and again of the beloved apostle who prioritizes prayer for all men and especially those in authority as we do this evening. Thank you Lord for city council members who care. A community of some 137,000 citizens, most of whom in their early 30s possessing high school and even much higher levels of education. hard-working blue collar and white collar people just trying to raise their young families to be productive and proactive

in pursuing worthy goals. Thank you, oh God, for these civil leaders who work hard to support the construction of youth sports complexes and enhance library services and further develop our parks and recreation supporting our Victorville's young families. Thank you, Lord, for councilmen who bring several decades of successful business leadership and wisdom to this body of civil servants. Thank you for bringing to our council leaders with medical service backgrounds and emergency medical service chaplain and Christian minister. Thank you for council members who are eager to support and engender family values and faith and have education experience teaching special education middle school students and for council members who reach out to those with disabilities and to veterans who have faithfully served our nation. Thank you for the proclamation to be made later this evening for child abuse protection and prevention month as indeed every day ought to be given over to the protection and care of those for whom you said belongs the kingdom of God. So father in the name of your son our risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I thank you for these civil leaders who by your appointment serve us their constituents. Grant them wisdom. Keep them ever humble and aware of the one to whom they give account. And through them may our beloved city prosper and enjoy the blessing of God. Our families be healthy. Our schools be safe learning environments to propel the next generation to productive and useful service. And our police and fire departments enjoying the support of a grateful community. And for each one we pray that they would

acknowledge you, the one who gave his son and by whom Jesus was raised again to give eternal life to all who call upon him. Thank you for hearing us even tonight as we pray in the name of our savior. Amen. Amen. Please join me in a pledge of allegiance. Place your right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. 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.

Thank you very much. We're going to move on to our special presentation. The first presentation tonight would be recognizing the winners of Victorville of the city of Victorville's recycling week contests. Tonight we have the pleasure of recognizing the winners of the city's annual Victorville Recycles Week contest for schools. Since 2007, the city of Victorville has partnered with Bertr Waste Industries to coordinate Victorville Recycles Week to educate students about the importance of recycling. This friendly competition between schools is open to K through 12 students throughout Victorville. During the competition, schools earn points by participating in a variety of recycling activities such as school assembies, in-class presentation, a CRV bottling can recycling drive and field trips to the Victorville material recycling facilities, otherwise known as the MURF. Individual students can also participate in a poster contest, a recycled sculpture contest. We estimate more than 115,000 Victorville students have participated in this fun and educational program since 2007. Thank you to Bertech Waste Industries for their longstanding support and sponsorship of this wonderful event. Sandy Pena from Bertech Waste is with us tonight. Where are you Sandy? There we go. Thank you very much. Let us begin by recognizing the winners of the recycling sculpture contest. down there or finish here. Okay, come on guys.

would Joselyn Kurupius and Liliana Lopez please come forward. Josen and Lilianne are students at Mountain View Monastery School, created this year's winning sculpture, a fish made of cardboard, paper, and can taps. We have it here. No. Okay, good. Congratulations. There we go.

No, Joel. Congratulations. Come over here, ma'am. Over here for a picture.

Go ahead and stay. Runner up in the sculpture contests are Delaney Bremen and Ariana Young of Mountain View Monastery and Ricky Perez of Cobalt Institute Mount of Science. Are they here? Hold on. We're going to give you your There we go. Come down this side. Let's spread you guys out.

Delaney and Ariana created an animal sculpture using cardboard plastic and Rick created a flower sculpture using cutup cans. Congratulation to all our student artists. or more. Okay, you guys can go sit. We have more now.

The winner of our recycling poster contest is Casey Santos. Are you here, Casey? Come on. There we go. From Monte from Mojave Vista, Casey Dur poster titled, "Don't forget the three Rs. Reduce, reuse, and recycle." Congratulations. There we go. Grab that. There we go. Thank you very much. Over here in the middle. There we go. Hold your She's staying too, right?

Runner up in the poster contest are Victor Maran Ramirez from Cobalt and Anisha Ba from University Prep. Anca Aneska Aninka. Thank you. She didn't. Okay. Thank you. Sit them down or Okay, you guys can go sit down. Thank you, ma'am. Congratulations.

Next is the winner of the best YouTube video. Congratulation to University Prep's green club. Will the green club participants and adviser please join me? These students have demonstrated a profound knowledge of practices and recycling. Continue to lead the way in environmental stewardship. Congratulations There you go. And now finally, we would like to recognize the school that is the first place winner of the 2025 Victoral Recycles Week contest. Would Mrs. Anne Martins from Mountain View Monastery please come forward? Yes.

Wow. We finally Mountain View participated the most activities this year, including the poster, sculpture contest, and classroom. And I'm being told eight times. Wow.

They also did tours of the Victorville M materials recovery facilities and did a school assembly program and more. Congratulations. As a top points winner, your school will re receiving a check for $1,000 from Bertech waste. You get to keep the Victiva Recycling Week trophy at your school this year. Thank you. Be sure to take a look at the winning entries. They're on display in the foyer tonight. They will continue to be done displayed at the Victorville Materials Recovery Facility for the next year. Thank you.

Thank you. We got more. Don't even move. Thank you. Appreciate it. Yes. And today is I did um we would like to invite the Victor Valley High School principal Victor Garcinia, athletic director CT Campbell, and all of the Jack Rabbit players, also coach Sundelle Moore, and the entire coaching staff to come forward and join us. Grab the sign. Huh?

Grab the sign. Yeah, there's your basketball. like it used to, but okay, you can jack it. Jack,

there you go. There you go. So, this season, the Victor Valley High School basketball team, gentlemen, half you're going to have to go on that side because, you know, it's just off key here. This season's Victor Valley High School basketball team made history by capturing the CIF Southern Section Division 8 Championship for the first time in 73 years. Their road to the championship serves as an inspiration to us all. With just one returning starter, this group rallied together, beat the odds, and showed us when power of a team effort despite his external criticism. Yeah, we've always heard it. That's okay. You guys, the Jack Rabbits have brought great pride to the city of Victorville, and I am pleased to declare April 7th as Victor Valley Jack Rabbit Day here in the city of Victorville. The proclamation reads as we're here on February 28th, 2026. The Victor Valley High School basketball team made history by capturing the CIF Southern Section Division 8 Championship, marking the program's first championship title since 1953. And whereas the Jack Rabbit season began among spec specism with only one returning starter on its roster and doubting whether a winning season was possible, let alone a championship. And whereas throughout their playoff run, the Jack Rabbit demonstrated that every victory was a testament of their collective spirit with no single pair carrying the team, but rather a group of athletes who rallied on one another, supported one another, and rose together. And where as a team, the true meaning of a team effort as players stepped up to selfishly when teammates

face illness, injury, and exhaustion, placing the success of the program above the individual recognition or personal statistics. And whereas the Jack Rabbits did more than win games, they revitalized a proud basketball program through their steadfast commitment to the core values of loyalty, duty, respect, selfishness, service, honor, and personal courage. Now, therefore, I Liz Bera, mayor of the city of Victorville, do hereby proclaim February 26, 2026 as Victor Valley Jack Rabbit Day.

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I don't know where it's going. They have a new gym.

If you could give one more round of applause to them. Thank you very much.

We'll let them clear out a little bit.

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So, we'll move on now. At this time, we're going to move on to a sadder subject, child abuse prevention month. I'll invite Katio Wadu from the Children's Network of Sanino County to come forward and join me. I am proud to join the Victorville City Council in proclaiming April as child abuse prevention month in the city of Victorville. We encourage all citizens to help prevent child abuse and to provide for the physical, emotional, and developmental needs of our children. Thank you to the Children's Network for your efforts to protect all of our community's children. I am pleased to present you with this proclamation from the city council.

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Hi everyone. I am Katia. Thank you so much for declaring April as child abuse prevention month. You know, this is the work we do year round, but this month is especially busy for us, especially as we like to bring awareness to the present issue we have. Um I just this paper was actually just some numbers for you but I have them. Um so last year there were about 30,545 child abuse referrals in Sanino County. That's in the entire county. Um in Victorville itself in 2025 there were 2,754. Um that is a very large number. Um but just to show the progress from the year before that it actually went down by about a 100 referrals. So, it's very slow, but clearly we still have work to do um with the 2000. So, if you see something, say something. We are all the eyes and ears in our own community. Um so, just if you see anything, use the child abuse hotline. Uh it's 8008278724. If you have any questions, feel free to go to our website. And thank you.

Thank you for everything you do. It's a difficult job, but thank you. Thank you. At this time, we'll move on to the city clerk swearing in of battalion chief Marcus Lynch and fire engineer James McGee. Madame clerk, I'll turn it over to you.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Can I please have Marcus Lynch um and his wife Anne Lynch uh come forward and James McGee along with his son Owen McGee please come forward. Gentlemen, if you could please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your name. Do solemnly swear. I, Marcus Lynch, I, James, doly swearly swear that I will support and defend

I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies against all enemies, foreign and domestic. foreign and domestic. that I will bear true faith I will bear true faith and allegiance allegiance to the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California the Constitution of the State of California that I take this obligation freely I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion purpose evasion and that I will I will

well and faithfully discharge the duties. Discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter.

Okay. Miss Lynch, will you please uh proceed with the pinning of Mr. Lynch? Ready for pictures. Okay, Owen, will you proceed in pinning your dad? All right. Congratulations gentlemen.

Congratulations. Congratulations. Madame clerk, will you present the agenda and any revisions there too?

Thank you, Madame Mayor. Are there no revisions to the agenda this evening? Thank you very much. At this time, from my fellow council members, are there any conflict of interest to be declared? Good to go. At this time, we'll move on to public comments. Madame clerk, are there any request to speak? No, Madam Mayor, we will move on to our public hearings. Our first business of order is item one, sewer lining project phase three, approved notice of exemption and award of a construction contract. Mr. Menel, would you kindly introduce this con this contract?

Thank you, Madame Mayor, members of the council. This item involves the award of a construction contract for maintenance related improvements to our sanitary sewer uh collection system. Uh and effectively this furthers um our um larger project of trying to improve the uh conditions of our sewer pipeline at various locations throughout the city. We do have a brief presentation from our city engineer, Mr. Freddy Bonia, uh to share with you a little bit uh in greater detail uh the scope of this project. Thank you, Mr. Metsler. I almost feel embarrassed to come after all those proclamations and talk to you about our sewer collection system, but here we are. Uh good evening, Madame Mayor, members of council. Uh tonight, we're presenting the uh sewer lining phase three project. We will be reviewing the proposed construction contract as well as approving the notice of exemption uh that's required under SQA. This is an effort um this project continues our multi-year effort to rehabilitate our uh aging sewer infrastructure. Uh but before we go into the specifics of the contract, we wanted to just give you a brief overview of our sewer collection system. The city serves approximately 137,000 residents over a 74 square mile. Uh we have two service areas. What you see on the green right there is what goes to our regional uh wastewater authority VBWR. which you see in the blue is what uh flows to our industrial waste uh plant at uh SLA otherwise known as IWWTP. Approximately 60% of our flow goes to VBWR. another 40% and growing uh goes to our plant at the airport as this council is aware. Uh we are currently uh about 90% capacity at IWWTP and we've awarded a 100% design contract to our consultant Woodard and current to complete that

expansion from 2 and a half MGD to six um MGD uh in the next 5 to seven years. As far as our collection system, we got over 411 miles of gravity sewer veins uh 1.2 2 miles of force mains, 10 lift stations, approximately 31,000 plus sewer laterals, and over 8,000 manholes. Um, a lot of our infrastructure is in pretty good shape. Um, especially the newer tracks in development, but there are some parts in the city that, um, do require ongoing maintenance. As you can see here, um, this is what we see in in some of our older sewer mains. Um specifically uh in this project area um once you get to the end of the service life you'll see cracks uh you'll see uh breaks in the sewer mains and this leads to what we call ini infiltration and inflow. Essentially when we have rain events uh groundwater seeps into the sewer collection system and ultimately ends up being treated. As you know, our our city has separate storm su separate storm sewer system that does not need to be treated. But when water enters our collection system ultimately ends up u increasing the amount of water that h or amount of sewage that has to get processed. So it's focusing specifically on the project area. It is uh north of Mojave on both sides of I-15. And um this section of sewer was actually constructed in the late 1950s. So as you can imagine, here we are um almost 70 years later uh doing some much neededed maintenance uh because it has it reached a useful end of its life. So just to go over a little bit about the project scope, um we are going to be installing approximately 16,000 linear feet of cured in place uh liner. Uh

that's over three miles. Uh we're going to be doing 326 uh lateral connections. Those are critical because that's where the sewer lateral meets the sewer main and ultimately leads to a point of infiltration. So we want to make sure that area is properly sealed. This is a lot better than doing the traditional excavation and replacement of pipe. And ultimately once the uh lining is in place and it cures it extends the service life by over 50 years. So with that we put together a set of uh plans and specifications. Um as this council is aware we actually advertised this project last fall and ultimately we did not have the uh sufficient funding. Uh we were able to address that during the midyear process and readvertise the project. We did scale and adjust the contract to be able to add additive alternates if we needed to. Ultimately, after we made the adjustment post midyear, uh we were able to uh get a bid from in institute form technologies in the amount of $2.2 million which is within the available project funding for the project. That concludes our presentation. Mr. Metsler and I are happy to answer any questions that the council may have. Thank you. Madame clerk, would you please read the recommendations?

That the honorable city council open and conduct a public hearing, close the public hearing, approve the notice of exemption, and award a construction contract to Instafform Technologies LLC in the amount of $2,224,346 for the sewer lining project phase 3. At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Council member Mora. Um, I don't have any questions. Thank you. That was very informative. Counciloman God.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I do have a question. Mr. Bonia, the pictures that you provided on the second slide, are those just stock photos of types of damage that can be done to sewers or is this actual sewer pipe in the city of Victorville? This is actual sewer pipe in our city of Victorville from our 2018 report. Okay. So, my second question then would be the lining can fix this type of damage. Yes, it can. So, even a gaping hole. Well, those are uh what we would call spot repairs. So, we would actually trench and fix those before we line it. So, we do have spot repairs uh in identified in this contract. I apologize. I should have discussed that in my presentation. Oh, no, no worries. That's why I asked the question. So, that's amazing. Thank you. Um that's all I have. Madame Mayor,

Councilwoman Irving, I don't have any questions. Thank you. Jim Harman. Yeah. Uh uh Freddy, so the spot repairs you do have to you do have to go in. Yes, we do. And there is a port there is a portion in Oldtown um specifically around 7th and A uh where we will be replacing that sewer lateral and we do have to do direct excavation at that point. But the vast majority of the the scope of work is the lining of of the existing mains. Just to educate me, how do how do they apply that? They don't get in there with tels and and put it on there. Is it some kind of injection?

So, it it's it it's basically like a balloon. So, it goes from manhole to manhole and then they inflate it. They put a resin in it that ultimately hardens it. And once it gets hardened, then they go through and open up the lateral connections. Okay. All right. Thanks. At this time, I'll open up the public hearing. Madam clerk, are there any request to speak? No, Madame Mayor. I will now close the public hearing. And I'll invite a motion for this item. Madame Mayor, a move to adopt items three and four. Second. I have a first by Council Member Irving, second by Mayor Tim Herman. Council member Irving, comments on the pending motion.

Um I think I heard that it's been at least 70 years that this um that this portion of our infrastructure has been addressed. If that's correct, then I am so glad that this project is underway. Thank you. Member Tim Herman comments.

Uh I would just um commend our city engineer for staying on top of that. Uh I have not seen bids that close together. That that is I I actually like that. So uh there's usually a big differential on bids. This one's pretty close together. Only two contractors, I guess, do that type of thing in our region. That's a comment. You don't have to answer that. Counciloman Mora,

uh, I just think it's great that we are investing in the infrastructure. I know five to seven years does sound like a long time, but to be able to invest in that and sure that we have it for the next 50 years, um, I'm sure our community will be very appreciative. So, thank you. Council God, no comments. Thank you. Madame Clerk, will you take the vote, please? Council member Godan, yes. Council member Irving, yes. Council member Mora, yes. Mayor Prom Haramman, yes. Mayor Bera, yes. Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve points three and four of staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item two, a site plan and conditional use permit with a mitigated negative declaration to allow the development of a 99 unit condominium development, a tenative trackm for the condominium purposes, and a zone change from planned unit development to R2 low medium density residential on two parcels totaling 8.5 acres located on the northwest corner of Silica Drive and 1 Avenue. Mr. Menzel, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madame Mayor and members of the council. This item uh involves an item that was uh first heard by your planning commission at the February 11th uh 2026 meeting where it uh approved this item unanimously 5 to zero. Um and altogether this project uh represents a 99 unit complex uh at the northwest corner of Silicon First as you uh stated. Um, and uh, with that, the reason why this item is coming to you as as opposed to just relying on the planning commission's approval is because this item does involve uh, a change to the land use designation uh, until the council uh, approves the item, the the property is zoned with a PUD. And effectively this item if approved by the council would uh allow for the zone uh zoning of the property to change from PUD to uh R2 lowdensity residential and that would be the underlying zoning that could accommodate uh the proposed development on that uh particular piece of property. Uh and so with that, this item has been authored by your city planner, Mr. Alex Hedigi. Uh he's available for any questions or comments you might have.

Thank you, madam clerk. Could you please read the recommendation

that the honorable city council open and conduct a public hearing to receive public testimony, close the public hearing, adopt the attached mitigated negative declaration with a mitigation monitoring and reporting program for the project, introduce ordinance number 2467 for adoption and first reading by title only for the zone change portion of case number PLA and 24-00005. Wave further reading in full of proposed ordinance number 2467. Adopt resolution number 26-016 approving the conditional use permit portion of case number PLA N24-0000005 subject to the attached conditions of approval. Adopt resolution number 26-017 approving the site plan portion of case number PLAN24-0000005 subject to the attached conditions of approval and adopt resolution number 26-018 approving the tenative tracked map portion of case number PLA24-00005 subject to the attached conditions of approval.

At this time we will do technical questions from council members. Council member Irving, no questions. Thank you. Council member Godan, I have none. Thank you. Council member Mora, I have none. Thank you. Mayor Tim Herman. Yeah. Is that uh Alex, is that gated? Is it enclosed project?

Thank you, council members. Council Herman, yes, it is a gated uh community. Has a six foot uh rod iron fence surrounding the facility. um with um seven and a half foot uh decorative masonry pillars throughout that. Those are set back 10 feet from the rideway with landscaping in front of those between the rightway and the fence. Okay. Thanks. I have Thank you. I'll open the public hearing. Madam clerk, are there any requests to speak? No, madame mayor.

I'll now close the public hearing. Madame Clerk, will you please read the title of ordinance number 2467? An ordinance of the city council of the city of Victorville adopting the zone change portion of planning case number PLAN24-00005. Zone change from planned unit development to R2 low medium density residential on two parcels totaling 8.5 acres located at the northwest corner of Silica Drive and 1 Avenue. Thank you. At this time, I'll invite a motion for this item. Move to adopt staff recommendation as to points 3 through eight as presented on the agenda. Second.

Have a first by council member Godan, a second by count mayor Patm Haramman. Council member Godan. Comments on the pending motion? I have none. Thank you, Mayor Tim Harerman. Coun comments on the pending motion. Yeah, I I'm actually excited about this project. We need more projects like this. So, good job, Council Member Irving. No comments. Thank you. Council member Moira, I do love the modern look of this proposal, so I'm excited to see it, too. Thank you. I have done. Madam clerk, will you take the vote? Council member Godan, yes. Council member Irving, yes. Council member Mora, yes. Mayor PM Haramman, yes. Mayor Bera, yes. Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve points three through eight of staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. We'll move on to the consent calendar items 3 through 15. Madam Mayor, go ahead. I move that we uh adopt the consent calendar items 3 through 15. Second. Madame Clerk, will you take the vote, please? Council member Godam, yes. Council member Irving, yes. Council member Mora, yes. Mayor Pratem Haramman, yes. Mayor Bera, yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. We'll now move on to written communications, item 16, measure I, continuation expenditure plan. Mr. Metsler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madame Mayor and members of the council. uh SBCTA uh is the Southern San Bernardino County Transportation Authority and among the number of different things that it's responsible for transportation related it is responsible for uh collecting and administering the measure I tax which is a half cent sales tax approved uh two times already uh over uh two different terms uh where uh the local voters have uh voted to uh assess that on the sales tax. It's a half cent sales tax uh where roughly a half of it goes to regional improvements and half comes back to local jurisdictions. And so with that, SBCTA at an upcoming uh meeting is considering uh putting a measure on the November ballot effectively to renew uh the existing measure I uh tax indefinitely. Um currently it's set to sunset uh in 2040. Uh and so with that, we do have a brief presentation by uh SBCTA legislative analyst, Mr. Louis Vadar. Uh and I start I'm sorry if I uh pronounce that name wrong. uh he'll give a presentation as to um measure I and then ultimately you're being asked uh to approve an expenditure plan which is a a condition of the public utilities code prior to SBCTA actually uh taking action to put the measure on the ballot. Uh so with that I think it'd be appropriate to turn it over to Mr. Vidar.

Thank you. Actually you made my job my job a lot easier. uh you went through the history passed uh measure I initially passed in 1989 was renewed in 2004 uh to support projects from 2010 to 2040. Uh now we're looking towards the future uh and a new uh ordinance and extension of the measure I program um as Mitch Mezer said uh until repealed by voters. Um how we got here we initiated a public outreach program uh in spring of last year uh which is ongoing. Um, in the fall, the SPCTA board of directors uh uh convened an ad hoc committee to develop a new ordinance and expenditure plan. Uh, after doing some polling in late fall, uh, significant um, support was demonstrated by voters throughout the county. Uh, the ad hoc committee recommended to the board of directors to move forward with uh, pursuing an extension. Um, and we are here today. Um the board uh decided to move forward. Um the next step is to get approval, adoption uh of this uh new expenditure plan from a majority of the cities in the county. Uh thus far um every city that's uh taken it up has uh adopted it. Um the new expenditure plan uh to provide a little bit more flexibility. Uh we've kind of uh consolidated a lot of buckets um that were really prescriptive in the current measure. Um providing flexibility on project selection uh factoring in um varying uh updated local priorities plus technology. Um it provides us that flexibility to distribute funds um where needed. Uh this is the Victor Valley Mountain Desert region. Uh as you can see uh 70% comes back for local streets and roads uh 20% for regional projects

and 10% for transit. Uh the ordinance will maintain uh independent taxpayer oversight committee a cap of 1% uh on administrative overhead uh and a return to source model for funds. Uh something new uh is the uh replacing the Coahone passive expenditure plan with an inter regional mobility expenditure plan uh which will allow us more flexibility in helping uh districts that experience uh uh increased tourism and goods movement impacts. Um again uh will be extended until voters repeal it. So after the uh city's adopted, it'll go back to the uh board of directors and then uh to the board of supervisors and then placed on the November ballot and that's it. Any questions?

Thank you, sir. Um, madam clerk, would you please read the recommendation? That the honorable city council adopt resolution number 26-015 approving the expenditure plan developed by the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority for the continuation of measure I. Thank you. At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Mayor Tim Herman, would you like to start?

Sorry. I don't so uh I I'm on the board so I'm aware but uh maybe you could uh enlighten the rest of the council and explain why SBCTA believes the extension should happen. Well, particularly here in Victorville, uh Measure I funding uh 2425 was approximately $6 million. So it supports a lot of local uh projects uh for each city. Um, and then it allows us to work on regional projects, major infrastructure, uh, freeways and interchanges. And, and so this is the question I had at the board meeting is if we're already have measure I in place, why do we now need to have an extension when we still have some years? Yeah. So a lot of times you bond to accelerate those programs and in early to mid uh next uh decade we'll be run we'll run out of money.

Okay. All right. Thank you. Councilman Mora. I do have a question. Oh, I'm sorry.

Okay. So going back going back to the Victor Valley Mountain Desert um expenditure plans and looking at the difference between the current one and the projected one past 20 240. So it does look like it's given more opportunity or you know it's just local mobility, regional mobility and operations. So it doesn't have all of the same identifications as the other graph. Are we still going to prioritize some of the things that are not in this graph? I know it gives us more flexibility, but like looking at this one where it says senior and disabled transit services and then you don't see it on the other one. I just want to make sure that although we're giving more flexibility, we're still considering that we're not going to not have these services that we currently are mandated. Um, you know, we don't want So, I just want to make sure that that's still in the plan.

Yeah. And so, that's why we consolidated those buckets to cover those things. Uh, operations and then senior disabled will be in that that green uh bucket. Um, and you'll see it's increased from this last measure. Um, so we're putting a little bit more priority on that. Um, but the buckets were consolidated to provide more flexibility. Okay. Thank you, Councilwoman God. Thank you, Madam Mayor. So, this is a half cent tax measure, correct? It's it's a straight extension. Nothing will change from what's currently been collected. Okay. And so then the end result if this were to be adopted, it would be indefinite, right? So it would just remain. Yeah, until repealed by voters.

Okay. And can can it be adjusted at all or would that have to go back on the ballot? It would have to go back. Okay. Thank you, Councilwoman Irving. Yes. Good evening. Um during your presentation you piqu my interest when you mentioned the the proposed newly created or new creation of the inter regional mobility expenditure plan. Could you just elaborate on that a little more? Yes,

sounds interesting. Yeah, the cohone pass uh part portion of the current expenditure plan was uh uh confined to the cohass. Um there are uh and it was uh a 3% um from the Victor Valley um sub region and the Sanino Valley sub region. Um so we've expanded that to cover um places like Big Bear, Yucka Valley, 29 Palms, other places here in the high desert um uh impacts of goods movement um to support extra efforts that perhaps the local shared wouldn't cover. Um and it's now expanded to all sub regions. It's not just Victor Valley and uh Sanino Valley um contributing. It's all it's all sub regions. So it's a it's going to be a bigger bucket. So that's greater support for this region in particular.

Correct. Correct. Thank you.

I have a question. Um Mr. Metsler, we a couple of years ago we lost article 3 money that the city had to help use with sidewalk installation when it had to do with transit from this funding. Is there any way we could get back to the table with them? See maybe if we could discuss it and bring it back. Um I I think perhaps as a conversation, however, I think the issue more so has to do with how that funding uh is actually prescribed and I believe there's language that gives priority to mass transit first and I think that's how SBCTA is administering it. But certainly a conversation we can explore

as sitting on the VBTA board. Yeah, if we could sit down and discuss it. Um it it was actually a good program when it came to the high desert of adding curb gutter and bus stop shelters um pads for to move it forward. Yeah, I think I think from the city's perspective certainly what we the pain that we felt was uh certainly believing that transit has an impact on our roadway system and of course Victorville probably sees the highest amount of impact from mass transit through its community that that that funding could be used to help mitigate uh some of the impacts of those heavy uh vehicles driving on our roadways. And so yeah, that money has been shifted over and goes directly to VBTA. Um, again, yeah, we'd have to probably a conversation we can have. I'm not as intimately familiar with how that language works. Maybe Freddy Bonia, our city engineer, can shed light on it, but certainly not knowing the details at this point. You know, it's certainly something we can look into.

Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. That's it. I'll invite a motion for this item. Motion to approve and adopt staff's recommendation. Second. comments. Oh, I have a first by Mayor Biser and a second by Mayor Pam Haramman. I have no comments on the pending motion. Mayor Pam Herman, uh, I have no comments. Council member Irving, no comments. Thank you. Council God, none. Thank you. Council member Moira, none. Thank you. Madam clerk, will you take the vote, please? Council member Godan, yes. Council member Irving, yes. Council member Mora, yes. Mayor PM Haramman, yes. Mayor Bera, yes. Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 17, custom truck beds for water filled service vehicles. Mr. Meler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madame Mayor and members of the council. This item involves uh the purchase or the procurement of two custom truck beds uh that will be fabricated and placed on cabin chassis already owned uh by the city. These are vehicles that would uh be uh placed into operational service within the water district. Uh one of the vehicles would serve as a valve exercising truck and be uh used primarily for that purpose. The second uh unit would be for our water emergency response uh team uh vehicle. And so with that, this item has been authored by your director of public works and water, Mr. Doug Matthews. And he's available for any questions or comments you might have. Madame clerk, would you please read the recommendation

that the honorable board of directors find that Skelezy Enterprises, Inc. is the sole brand manufacturer for the standardization, procurement, manufacturing, and installation of two custom truck beds and a sole source and approved in accordance with VMC 2.28.10B2 1000B2 and authorize the procurement, manufacturing, and installation of two custom truck beds and valve equipment in the amount of $272,729.83 to Skelezy Enterprises, Inc. Thank you, ma'am. At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Councilwoman Goden, I have none. Thank you. Councilwoman Mora, I have none. Thank you.

Councilwoman Irving, no questions. Thank you, Mayor Pam Haramman. Yeah. Uh um how old are the trucks the beds are going to go on? Are they are they new cabin chassis?

Yes, thank you. Um they were procured in 2023 and we just had some issues being able to get some custom beds made. Uh especially because one of the local vendors went out of business. Who was going who was under contract to go ahead and put those beds in, fabricate them, and install them. Was that Value Trucking? Uh it was uh Doug Page Manufacturing.

Okay. The good news is that the uh manufacturer extended the warranty on these two cabin chassis until they're put into service. So they extended the start of the warranty period. So we didn't lose time on the warranty while they've been waiting for this. Okay. Thanks, Doug. Mr. M, if I may. Mr. Matthews, the exercising valve truck. That's the one that looks like it has a crane in the back, goes in the hole and turns the valves quickly. So if we have a water leak or something, it gets them off and on quickly. Correct.

Um, not as much when we have a water leak, but just to exercise them. So we got tens of thousands of valves out there. So every 3 years um we have to turn them and exercise them. If you don't they can get corroded, they can seize. They have buildup. So it's it's in that's why a valve exercising program is important to keep them in operating condition. So that has to be done on a three-year cycle. So exactly what is a valve exercise make? Open them and close them. Okay. Yeah. Generally an emergency you're going to see a guy out there doing it by hand. Yeah. Getting soaked. Thank you very much. I appreciate that sir. Thank you. I'll invite a motion for this item. Motion to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Second.

First by Mayor Pacera, second by Mayor Pam Haramman. I have no comments on the pending motion. Mayor Pam Haramman. Uh I have none. Thank you. Council God. I have none. Thank you. Councilwoman Irving, no comments. Councilwoman Mora, none. Thank you. Madam clerk, will you take the vote, please? Council member God, yes. Council member Irving, yes. Council member Mora, yes. Mayor PM Harman. Yes. Mayor Bisera. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 18, authorization to procure license microwave radio system for SCADA network. Mr. Metzel, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madame Mayor and members of the council. staff is determined it necessary to transition from uh an existing public spectrum radio network uh for communications among um equipment that uh is relied upon to drive uh communications at our water facilities. And with that, this item is particularly facilitating the transition by allowing for the upgrade uh over a radio um microwave radio network uh where we'll actually uh procure our own uh dedicated frequency and connect our over 55 sites uh in the water district uh using 47 radios and about 14 backups. And so with that, the better detail of this uh has been authored by your director of public works and water, Mr. Doug Matthews, and he's available for any questions or comments you might have.

Thank you. Madam clerk, would you please read the recommendation?

That the honorable board of directors determine that this procurement qualifies as a negotiated purchase for a technology product under Victorville Municipal Code section 2.28.110A1. determined that this procurement qualifies as a non-competitive negotiated purchase under VMC section 2.28.110D and authorized the purchase of 61 Aviat WMT4000 licensed microwave radio links from Petroleum Telecom Inc. the sole authorized reseller in an amount not to exceed $618,32055 for the upgrade and replacement of the district's existing public spectrum radio system supporting the Scattera network.

We'll do technical questions from council members at this time. Council member Irving. Yes, thank you. I think um the reasoning or rationale as to why it was necessary to transition to a new system was mentioned during the agenda review, but can you please refresh my memory or expand upon that tab bit more? Mr. Metsler, uh if it's okay, I'd like Mr. Matthews. He understands this much better than I do. Thank you.

Good evening. Yeah. The reason is there's a lot of traffic on the public spectrum and so we're getting a lot of interference and the inability to communicate efficiently effectively from sight to sight. So getting on a spectrum that's licensed now it it limits the it's our own licensed uh frequency that we use for the water district. So we've been contemplating it for a while and yeah there's an expense but we finally decided we needed to at this time. So it's that time. Yeah. There there's a lot of traffic out there as far as devices. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you, Councilwoman Goden.

Thank you, Madame Mayor. Mr. Matthews, just to kind of follow up on what my fellow councilman was saying. Um, so this essentially we're moving to like a closed frequency? Yes, it will be private, which doesn't that kind of boost our security as well? Absolutely. So, we're getting an upgrade, but we're also getting more secure. Correct. Thank you, Counciloman Mora. Um, all my questions have been answered. Thank you. Member Cham Herman. Yeah, me as well. All my questions just got answered. I'll invite a motion for this item. Move to adopt staff recommendation as to points one through three as presented on the agenda. Second. So, first by council Godan and second by council Irving. Comments on the pending motion. Come counciloman. I have none. Thank you.

Councilwoman Irving. No, I I don't have any. Thank you. Counciloman Mora. Yeah, I have none. Thank you, Mayor Perman. I have none. Well, where do you go? Oh, madam clerk, will you take the vote, please? Council member Godan, yes. Council member Irving, yes. Council member Mora, yes. Mayor PM Haramman, yes. Mayor Bera, yes. Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 19, amendment number one to the consultant professional service provider agreement with Ultis. Yes. Inc. DBA Astraa for leak detection analysis. Mr. Mensler, would you kindly introduce this item and help with the proper pronunciation of it?

Uh that as far as the pronunciation, I'm going to uh pass on to Mr. Matthews, but I'll I will tee up the item. Um is this item is is effectively uh authorizing another one year uh on a five-year contract. It's a contract that we originally approved uh last year uh where it involves uh the procurement of services um uh that help uh identify leaks earlier uh in the process of the life of a leak where it could create some significant problems. And it's a satellite-based leak detection software where at least it gives us kind of a head start as to where to look to identify uh issues before they become bigger issues. And then certainly the followup to that is is field investigation. And so with that, uh, this item is authored by, uh, Mr. Matthews, your public works director. Uh, he can help with pronunciation and ask any other technical questions or comments you might have.

Thank you very much. Madam clerk, would you please read the recommendation? That the honorable Victorville Water District Board of Directors approve amendment number one to the consultant professional services provider agreement with Utilis, Inc. DBARA project ESC25-070 and I looked up the pronunciation. Thank you, ma'am. Technical questions from council members. Councilwoman Mora. Um, I don't have any questions. Thank you. Council God.

I do. Mr. Matthews, can we talk water for a second? This is really cool. So my understanding is that they take this satellite picture in a sense and then they detect areas where they feel we need to go check it out and then our field crews go out and check the sites that they identify. Is that right?

So pretty correct. Um they identify the points of interest from this satellite imagery. They provide I think it's 320 hours of what they call boots on the ground. So, it's field crews out there with acoustic detection devices that they can hear frequencies when they connect to hydrants or valves or things of that nature and they can actually hear leaks happening. Um, so what they'll do is they'll they'll go out and investigate those points of interest. If they hear something, we'll try and um pinpoint that location as accurately as we can and then go dig up and find it. If they don't hear anything, we let it go. Um, we did have some that were unverified and those are just tough locations to access or we just ran out of available hours in the contract. So, we're doing it again this year and and we'll take a fresh look and see what we find. But the results were really promising from last year.

Excellent. So, Utilis sends their people out to do all that and then we go in once they've identified the actual leaks and we take care of them. Yes. We actually also put some acoustic leak detection equipment in the budget this year. So, we'll be getting some of our crews trained up as well, but we were just we've been following them around, watching them, seeing how they're doing it. They've been doing this a while. So, you know, we can start to find some leaks as well ourselves and and kind of uh um you know, supplement their efforts. So, if we detect a leak on the resident side of the meter, do we just notify the resident as well?

Yes. Yes, because as you noticed in the staff report, there were some customer side leaks. So, we'll we'll notify the customer. We'll work with them. We'll help them try and identify it. We'll go out there and have them shut everything off, look in the meter box and say, "Look, the the the meter the needle's moving, you know." So, yes, you have water going through here somewhere, and this is where we think it is. So, you know, it'll behoove you to hire a plumber to come out here and help you. Awesome. All right. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. That's all I have. Counciloman Irving.

Yes, I do have a question. Um, I think I kind of remember this contract. I think I do, but anyway, here's what I want to know. Um, so we've been very successful in in detecting leaks. Can you give me some numbers to compare like a baseline where we were and where we are now? So I believe the number they found like what number determines successful oh like what percentage

I think really and I'm not seeing it right here but if you look at the number of gallons it was to serve so many homes for a year um it's quite a big number I'm just not I know I want you to impress me offhand page H1512513 second paragraph. Thank you. Second paragraph 183 million gallons 1,600 1,600. Oh, 1600 households. There it is. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I should.

So, yeah, I mean, honestly, any any water we can save is just so valuable and we have urban water use objectives coming up and we're going to have to meet um guidelines set by the state as far as reducing water use and beingcoming more efficient. So, this is all part and parcel of that. And, you know, a leak is easy to find when it hits above ground. That's no problem, but finding these that we can't see is is the one to target. All right. Thank you very much. I'll impress you next time. I'll come prepared. Okay. And it's 25,000 valves. But I still love you, Mr. Matthews. It's It's the Doug Matthews shows today. So, yeah.

Mayor Tim Herman.

Yeah. Um the uh is the 320 320 hours enough? Have we ever exceeded that? And if we do, what what what does that what does a manh hour cost? Uh I don't have the exact on that but it we felt it's not not every point of interest is going to come up with something. So you just want to pick the ones that you can do most efficiently that you know you can get to that you can hear. So yeah. Is it sufficient? Sure. Um I think supplementing with our crews running some acoustic leak detection equipment will help as well. But it's just a yearly endeavor. We, you know, we want to be cognizant of cost we're spending. So it's it's it's a reasonable amount ours.

So So when they identify something, sometimes our our guys can repair it. They don't make the repairs. We do the repairs if it's on the district side. The customer is responsible for the repairs on their side of the correct. Yeah. Okay. I get that. Okay. This is this is just detection. And I mean, honestly, it's getting trained in some of this as well. So, as we're watching them, we're picking up some things as well. So, we we think we can Other districts have done the same type of, you know, effort to get this done. Do you do you think we'll ever have our own equipment to do it instead? Yeah, we're we budgeted for it this year. Not not the satellite based. I mean, that's proprietary, right,

software, but as far as acoustic leak detection, sure. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yeah. We'll leave it. Thank you, sir. very very very informative and yes we'd like to expand. I'll invite a motion for this item. Move to adopt staff recommendation as presented in the agenda. Second. They have a first by counciloman. First by counciloman godan. A second by mayor Haramman. Councilman goan. Comments on the ping motion. I have none. Thank you. Mayor Tim Harman. Yeah. I just like seeing us on the leading edge of technology. Councilman Irving. I agree with Mayor Pro Tim. I enjoy that too.

Council Mora, I echo the comments of the fellow council members a bit. Thank you. Okay, let's get more equipment for the for the employees out there to get to work. All right, Madam Clerk, will you take the vote? Council member Godam, yes. Council member Irving, yes. Council member Mora, yes. Mayor PM Haramman, yes. Mayor Bera, yes. Motion passes unanimously. We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 20, 2025 rectangular rapid flashing beacon project award of contract construction contract. Mr. Menzer, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madame Mayor and members of the council. Yes, this is an item that awards uh contract for construction uh involving uh traffic safety and uh pedestrian safety improvements at nine different locations throughout the city. Uh some of which are at crosswalks. Uh some are are at what will become uh crosswalks. Uh but to provide better detail and overview of this item, we do have a brief presentation by city engineer Mr. Freddy Bonia.

Thank you, Mr. Mer. Good evening, Madame Mayor, members of council. Again, um this project is the consideration of the award of contract for our 2025 rectangular rapid flashing beacon project. Before we talk about the project specifics, I want to just spend a few minutes and talk about our RFBs and why they are important at the specific locations that we've selected them. They generally improve pedestrian safety by getting the driver's attention. uh essentially uh there different studies that have been done to show that the increased uh yielding of drivers uh can be as high as uh 98% as well as reducing pedestrian crashes uh by up to 47%. So this is our ongoing efforts to increase pedestrian safety citywide as the city already has nine of these installed at different locations throughout the city and we're proposing an additional nine locations. So this slide shows the different locations. As you can see, they've been strategically selected. Um a lot of school sites, a lot of park sites, uh village theme, Hook Junior High School, Eagle Ranch Elementary, just to name a few. Um this these improvements were uh identified in our local road safety plan from 2022. Uh so we're following through on on the construction of the RFPs. So these are the nine locations that we are proposing. Uh as you can see of the nine, six of them are already existing crosswalks and three of them are new crosswalk locations. So at new crosswalk locations specifically midb block the RFPs is the best way that we can get drivers to yield to pedestrians as they are crossing the road. So these are the three new locations. Um you can see uh there is no existing crosswalk right now. Ultimately we do plan on uh installing the RFBs and striping and signage improvements at those three locations.

So the scope of the work of the project when we initially applied for the HSIP grant uh we identified um the installation of the RFPs uh but as we began designing we realized that there were a lot of accessibility concerns at those locations. some of our curb ramps were were not compliant and so inevitably what ends up happening is we get a little bit of what we call scope creep. Um we did work with um CALR to try to get some additional grant funding. Ultimately we were denied because the original safety enhancement is the RRFBs. Um so then uh ultimately we budgeted for it as a local match through our measure I funding. The scope of work under the construction contract is the contractor will come in and install the foundations as well as all the civil work. Um that would be the conduits, the curb ramps, ultimately the installation of the RRFB units. Um as well as the striping and signage included uh improvements will be done by our public works traffic operations and maintenance staff. So it's one of those combination projects where a contractor will do some scope of the work, but the bulk of the actual installation will be done by our in-house staff. So, we put together a bit of bid documents um and we went out to bid. As you can see, we've got two bids uh from two different contractors. Um I'm not exactly sure what our second contractor was looking at because that doubles more than doubles the initial bid as well as our engineers cost estimate. So, um it goes without saying that we reviewed the bid and we find it to be the most responsive and responsible So these are the total project costs as you can see the there's the contract amount as well as the procurement of the RRFB assemblies. Um we did already acquire them and uh they are at our yard. So the minute we can do the improvements we can then uh proceed with uh the installation.

So I wanted to talk a little bit about the grant. So the grant um provides for all what we call participating costs. So, anything in regards to the RRFPS, the footings, the actual RRFP units. Um, and in order to stretch those dollars further, we we actually proceed we put in our uh grant application that we would be performing that inhouse. As I stated earlier, um, in total, we have about $149,310. And when you look at the total cost, it's about 26% of the total construction cost. And anytime I can get 20 cents on the dollar for any muchneeded improvement project, I am a very happy camper. Um, with that, that concludes my presentation. Mr. Metsler and I are happy to answer any questions that this council may have.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Madam Clerk, would you please read the recommendation? That the honorable city council award a construction contract to Gentry General Engineering, Inc. in the amount of $51,912.50 50 cents for the 2025 rectangular rapid flashing beacons project CC25-113. Thank you. At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Member Tim Haramman.

Yeah, this is what I was talking about earlier that the the range between these two bids just I don't know, man. It's getting crazy. Um for a question, um what is the longest run uh out of the nine that we're going to have to or the contractor is going to have to run the uh conduit and the the wiring? Um I don't believe I have that specifically, but looking at they all I guess my question all pretty close to existing.

They are. Um and essentially it's a conduit run from one side of the road to the other. Um, these are going to be uh push button activated. So, they're not going to always be on. They're gonna only be on when someone needs to cross the road. Right. Are they going to go into the asphalt under the asphalt or into the easement? Ultimately, it's going to be in rightway. Um, it's it's going to be means and methods. I would imagine that they're going to do some directional boring from one side of the road to the other. And they'll do the paving. Well, if they do the boring, there won't need to be any paving, but they theoretically could choose to do uh direct excavation, at which point they would be responsible for the paving as well. Okay. All right. Thanks, Counciloman Mora.

Uh I just wanted to clarify. So, I have two questions. Um we you said nine of them are have been identified, but we had the existing six. How long have those existing six been around? So, the 16 six are existing crosswalks. Mhm. Um I couldn't tell you exactly how long they've been in operation. They certainly been in operation in my tenure. Um so I would say they've probably been there at least 10 to 15 years at this point. Okay. So we're just upgrading them to all of the newer required um features. Right. Right. So these are like I said six existing crosswalks that will have now the RFPs that will increase pedestrian safety at those locations.

Okay. Okay. And then my second question is I know the this process has been some time. So looking at it, it says March in 2023 is when city council approved or May actually for the SQA notices of exemptions. So we've been working on this for quite some time, right?

Yeah, we got the grant uh back in fall of 2022. Um ultimately we designed it, but we did have in that HSIP cycle, we did have other projects um the the new signal at a village in Pa do the seventh street traffic signal mods. So, we took on those projects first. Um, this was one of the ones that uh kind of waited and then ultimately when we were done with the design, which is why it's titled the 2025 project, it actually sat in the queue with Calrans for about a year where we got our notice to proceed from them. Um, so here we are a year later. We're getting ready to break ground on it now. Well, thank you for your patience. Those are all my questions. Council God.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Mr. Dr. Bonia, um what is the projected time frame of this project if it gets passed? We are hoping to be able to target the summer break. So, we'll work with the contractor. Um we'll we'll figure out the the best time that we can do that. Um you know, here we are in May. It's going to take me some time to execute the contracts, have a pre-construction meeting, but our goal would be to target the summer break as best we can. Wonderful. So, we could potentially have all of these in operation before school starts. That would that is our goal, ma'am. Oh, that's wonderful. Okay. Thank you. That's all I have. Councilman Irving,

actually my colleague touched on my question, but well, I know I'm not supposed to make comments, but I appreciate your hard work, you and your staff. Thank you, Freddy. I do have a couple questions or Mr. Mer on your paperwork. I'm confused. um project scope the installation of the RFBS electrical connections signing and paints will be done by the public works department and if you go to total project costs it says the contractor is going to be doing it

the contractor is only responsible for the conduit the pathway and the foundations so we would actually do the finished work the wiring and the installation okay so the signing the striping shouldn't be under contractor. Okay. No, no, no, no. Signing the stripages is is by our own staff. Okay. I know I've been out of it a while. Is the paint going to be white or yellow? Cuz all the pictures show white. Did they now change that? I believe it's white, but I'll have to look at the plans to and confirm. Okay. So, just because they're the flashing that no longer means school crossing. That just means somebody crossing. Correct. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I'll invite a motion for this item.

Move to adopt staff recommendation as presented in the agenda. Second. I have a first by council Godan, a second by council Mora. Council God. Comments on the pending motion. Just that I think this uh this is going to be a great project and I'm impressed by the percentages, the 98% motorist yield rate and the 47% reduction in pedestrian crashes. So, I'm excited for this project. Thank you, Council Mora. Same thing. Uh, I'm excited about the safety improvements. Absolutely. And thank you staff for all of the grant applications and the funding to help u mitigate some of the costs on the city. So, thank you, Councilwoman Irving.

I'm very excited about this project as well, and I'm hoping that things come together before um the next school year. Thank you, Mayor Tim Herman. Uh, I have none. Freddy, to you and the public works staff, great job. excited that this is like they said it's going to go in. Um I'm aware of a whole bunch of these sites. So, thank you very much. Madam clerk, will you take the vote, please? Council member Godam, yes. Council member Irby, yes. Council member Mora, yes. Mayor Pratem Herman, yes. Mayor Bera, yes. Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 21, approval and of purchase and installation of playground equipment for Eagle Ranch Pocket Park. Mr. Matro, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madame Mayor, members of the council. This item involves a small pocket park uh in Eagle Ranch, south of uh Eagle Ranch Elementary School. Um and it's a small park that's actually funded through a neighborhood maintenance assessment uh district. And so with that, this item is particularly focused on the replacement of the old aged uh playground equipment at that location. uh we have um received a uh grant from the supplier of the playground equipment in the order of uh 50% of the actual uh cost of the playground equipment. And with that, that'll help bring the overall cost down. But this item particularly um uh does purchase and cause for the installation of new playground equipment at that particular uh location. And so with that, uh, this item has been authored by your, uh, director of public works and water, Mr. Doug Matthews, and he's available for any questions or comments you might have.

Madam clerk, would you please read the recommendation? That the honorable city council approve the purchase and installation of playground equipment from Game Time through Great Western Recreation for the replacement of playground equipment at Eagle Ranch Pocket Park. We will now do technical questions from council members. Council member Mora, I don't have any questions. Thank you, Counciloman God. I have none. Councilwoman Nurvian, no questions. Thank you. M Haramman, I have none. And I have none. I'll invite a motion for this item. Move to adopt staff recommendation as presented in the agenda. Second. You have a first by Councilwoman God, a second by C May Councilman Irving. Councilman Godan. Comments on the pending motion?

I have none. Councilman Irving? Yes. I'm really excited about this this um installation of playground equipment. I mean, recreational opportunities always improves quality of life for any community and so I know the kids in that community are going to be very very happy. Thank you, Council Member Mora. Absolutely. I drove by there to go and see and I think the shading um aspect is going to be very beneficial. So, thank you. Mayor Chim Haramman. Uh, I have none. And I have none. Madam clerk, will you take the vote, please? Council member Godan, yes. Council member Irving, yes. Council member Mora, yes. Mayor Pam Herman, yes. Mayor Bera, yes.

Motion passes unanimously. We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 22, purchase and sale agreement and joint escrow instructions by between the city of Victorville, the city, and Javier Torres Rosas, the seller, for the acquisition and the portion of real property identified as a ceil- said, portion hereafter and defined as property. Mr. Mel, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madame Mayor and members of the council. This is an item that was uh brought to your attention in a close session meeting on December 16th uh 2025 where as a result of that uh discussion um staff was authorized to uh negotiate the acquisition of this property which is approximately 8600 uh square ft. It's actually adjacent to the wellness center um and um is not fenced uh and and and I think because of that uh the property has been used uh for parking where we've seen uh overflow of wellness center parking uh actually parked on this site. Uh and so with that, this um acquisition actually allows us to to legally own that property and be able to continue to park uh on the property. It could also serve as property uh that can facilitate uh future development as we do own adjacent properties to the uh west. And so with that, this item uh has been uh brought for your consideration by deputy city manager, Mr. Tony Kamargo. Uh he's available for any questions or comments you might have.

Thank you, sir. Madame Clerk, would you please read the recommendation? That the honorable city council approve the purchase and sale agreement and joint escrow instructions with authorization for minor non-s substantive revisions as deemed necessary for the city's acquisition of the property from the seller and authorize the city manager to execute all transactional related documents to effectuate the acquisition. We will now do technical questions. So, council members, councilor, I have none. Thank you. Council God, I have none. Thank you. Councilwoman Irving, no questions. Thank you. Man Harbert.

Yeah. $60,000 seems like a lot to me for 8,000 square feet is uh I'm I'm sure staff did their their due diligence, but uh man, that seems like a lot. We did run some uh uh broker values uh on the property to determine if this was a fair fair price, and we do believe it is. Okay. All right. Thank you. I'll invite a motion for this item. Move to adopt staff recommendation as to points one and two on the agenda. Second. Have a first by Councilman Godan, second by Mayor Pam Herman. Councilman Godan, comments on the pending motion.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Yes, I'll be happy to see this parking expanded down there. It's going to be definitely utilized. It's much needed. So glad to see this move forward. Mayor Tim Herman, I have none. Council Mora, um, absolutely. The success of the wellness center, we need more parking. So this is great for the city. Councilwoman Irving, no comments. Thank you. Madam Clerk, will you take the vote, please? Council member Godam, yes. Council member Irving, yes. Council member Mora, yes. Mayor Prom Haramman, yes. Mayor Bisera, yes. Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 20. Item 23, award of consultant professional services provider agreement for the single jurisd single jurisdiction local hazardous mitigation plan update. Mr. Meter, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you. Uh madame mayor, members of the council, uh the local hazard mitigation plan is something that is required of municipalities, um especially if uh the city is going to pursue uh grant programs administered by FEMA um along with uh Callaways and to the extent there are natural disasters requiring FEMA support, this is also a document that's required to be um uh in place and approved by the governing board. And so with that, uh we do have a current uh local hazard mitigation program. However, uh it does set to expire in uh 2027. And so with that, uh this item actually brings on board uh Michael Baker International to help us uh develop an updated uh mitigation plan uh local hazard mitigation plan. And so with that, this item has been co-authored uh by uh Miss Heather Barber, human resources officer, along with uh Sand Drabastic, assistant director of human resources in their roles, uh overseeing uh city's risk management. And so with that, uh they along with I are available for any questions or comments you might have.

Madame Clerk, would you please read the recommendation? that the honorable city council adopt resolution number 26-024 approving a budget amendment for fiscal year 202526 budget to appropriate $164,325 in both revenue and expenditures related to the hazard mitigation grant program and award a consultant professional agreement to Michael Baker International Inc. in the amount of $150,190 for a single jurisdiction local hazard mitigation plan update project MS26-076. At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Member Tam Herman, I have none. Council God, I have none. Thank you.

Council Mora, I have none. Thank you. Counciloman Irving, no questions. I do. Mr. Schmenler, it says here the FEMA hazard mitigation grant. Can you explain to us why the FEMA hazard mitigation plan is important to this city? What does it mean? Why we need this? Well, it's certainly going to be what uh helps us become eligible for uh funding uh from the federal government andor call especially at times of emergency but also for any other uh grant related programs that they're administering. Thank you, sir. So, this is for unforeseen um damage that happens to us and everything. We're now eligible to at least get part of our money back. Correct.

It could be. Yes. Thank you, sir. Um, at this time, I'll invite a motion for this item. I'll to improve uh to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Second. The first by Mayor Bera and a second by Counciloman Goan. I have no comments. Thank you for the work put into this. We'll get money back. Councilman Goan. I have none. Thank you. Councilman Irving? No comments. Council Mora, I have none. Thank you. Mayor PM Harman, I have none. Madame Clerk, will you take the vote, please? Council member Godam, yes. Council member Irving, yes. Council member Mora, yes. Mayor PM Haramman, yes. Mayor Bisera, yes. Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 24, award of an construction agreement with RMS Construction Services for the installation of compressed natural gas skid project JM26-028. Mr. Mensler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madame Mayor and members of the council. As you're generally aware, uh among the services we offer, we do uh offer to the public uh compressed natural gas at two locations uh in the city. one being at the transit center uh property in Oldtown and the other being at the uh McCart yard on McCart Road. Uh and of course among them the the facility that's most heavily used is on McCart uh and that is an uh aging facility. uh we already actually uh own the the replacement uh uh CNG skid. And so this particular item is focused uh specifically on the actual construction services associated with uh that uh CNG skid that we do own. And so with that, this item al also is uh authored by your uh director of public works and water, Mr. Doug Matthews. He's available for any questions or comments you might have. Madam clerk, would you please read the recommendation

that the honorable city council award a construction contract to RMS Construction in the amount of 130,522 for the installation of the compressed natural gas skid at the McCart Road CNG station project JM26-028. Thank you. At this time, we'll do technical questions from Council Member. Councilman God, I have none. Thank you. Councilman Irving, no questions. Council Mora, I have none. Thank you. Mayor Pam Herman. Yeah. Again, I'm just I just I'm flabbergasted on the difference in these bids. It's crazy. I guess that's more of a comment. Okay.

I'll invite a motion for this. Motion to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Second. I have no comment. May. Uh, Councilman Irving, no comments. Now you can have your comments. That's all right. I already said it. Counciloman Mora, I have none. Thank you. Council Godan, I have none. Thank you. Madam clerk, would you please take the vote? Council member Godam, yes. Council member Irving, yes. Council member Mora, yes. Mayor PM Haramman, yes. Mayor Bera, yes. Motion passes unanimously. We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 25, city manager reports. Mr. Metsler, you're up. The Doug Matthew show is over.

Thank you, Madame Mayor. Members of the council do have a few items uh to share with uh you and also be forwarding uh this um outline to you because it also does contain the projects of interest uh list which gives you a good sense of all of the projects going through our development process and where they're at in the process. Uh so kicking things off on the animal services side of the house. Uh we will be at the High Desert Farmers Market at VBC this Thursday, April 9th from 8:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. Uh be an opportunity to stop and meet some of our pets uh looking for their forever home. Uh for more information uh about adopting or fostering, uh we certainly have that for you and the public on our website or you can just contact us directly at the animal services division. uh building uh plans have been submitted and now are uh in first review for the new round one bowling uh and arcade facility uh that'll be located uh at the mall of Victor Valley in the old uh Sears building. So certainly nice to see uh that facility being uh put to reuse. Uh on the community services side of the house uh last weekend uh the city welcomed families and community members to its annual uh spring festival and egg hunt at Hook Park. lively tradition that continues to grow each year. Uh the free event uh drew an impressive crowd of 1,200 attendees with 400 enthusiastic participants registering for the egg hunt. Uh so pretty impressive uh turnout uh an equally impressive amount of work went in to uh put that uh event together. On the economic development side of the house, we are hosting a special Oldtown networking and partnership event this Thursday, April 9th from 2 uh p p.m. to 5:00 pm here at city hall. It'll be an opportunity to join and connect with property and business owners, lenders, developers, and city leaders to explore business opportunities, incentives, and resources for investment in the Oldtown area. Uh

on the environmental program side, our next community cleanup day is coming up uh Saturday, April 18th from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30. Uh the deadline to register for that uh which is a spring themed uh cleanup uh event is uh Friday, April 10th. Uh and so there'll be more information um at our environmental programs division. And so with that, that's all I have. Madame Mayor, thank you sir. Item 26, discussion and possible action regarding upcoming agenda items. Councilman Godan, I have none. Thank you. Counciloman Mora, I have none. Thank you. Councilwoman Irving, I have none. Thank you. Mayor PM Herman,

I have none. I have none. Item 27, reports from council members. Counciloman Mora, I have nothing to report. Thank you. Councilwoman Irving, I have nothing to report. Thank you. Let's back up one reports or comments for staff. I I don't have anything. Thank you, Council More.

I am just always impressed with our staff. It takes a lot of work to have to review guidelines, regulation, which changes every year, grant applications, and so we really see all your hard work, especially I've had the opportunity to tour a lot of our sites for the city, and all of our staff works really hard, extremely hard. So, thank you to all of our blue collared workers and our administrative staff, our public safety. Um, it's truly impressing. So, thank you for all your hard work. Councilwoman Goen.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Uh, yes, I had the opportunity to attend National League of Cities in DC where we were able to meet with some of our legislators and just continue to put issues that are forefront of the city on their tables so that they see us here in Victorville. And uh we als I was also able to attend our public works day where some of our local fourth graders come out and they have the opportunity to rotate through different stations uh of our public works. Um just kudos again to our city staff and all of our public works departments. I was able to sit and watch some of the skits that they were doing for these kids and it was just really fun but also just so encouraging to see these little kids' faces light up. Um they were they were totally into it. Uh, and I think a lot of them were excited to go back and write essays on what their favorite station was. So, good luck to all of our uh, teams that were out there doing these presentations. You all get a A in my book. I learned a lot myself. Um, so just keep up the good work. I'm always continually impressed with Mr. Metsler's leadership and all of our city staff. So, thank you so much.

May Pman.

Yes. Um, I also uh was able to attend the National League of Cities and um uh as uh the fellow councilman said, we were able to talk to legislators and uh I was able to attend a meeting with our city manager and uh our city lobbyists with the EPA uh looking for funding for some projects. Um, I also was able to attend a public safety uh session and then uh I was in Santa Ana at the League of California Cities and I sit on the public safety committee policy committee and attended that. And then yesterday I attended an event at uh Victor Victor Valley High School and there was a student and you know he he actually I recognized him now that later I remember he was one of the actors at the state of the uh district state of the high school district and uh he was awarded a $200,000 scholarship at the school of his choice for uh just, you know, being uh, you know, involved in athlete. He was in the arts. He he just he was a magnificent kid. So, he really earned that and uh that's all I have.

Thank you. Um, I also attended the National League of Cities in DC. Um, I'd like to move on to all the work be the road work being done in the city of Victorville. Um, your phone's been ringing off the hook. I applaud you and the public works staff from fielding also those call Mr. Medsler. The work that's been getting getting done is just been tremendous. I know we're getting mad a little bit of the people, but after when it's said and done, a lot of the roadways, especially around here near city hall, are going to be in great condition. I thank you to you and your staff. Um, keep the phones on. Don't turn them off. Keep the phones on. Thank you, Freddy. Thank you, and your staff and Doug. Um, also, public works day. I attended day one. It's now a two-day event. It's gone from a one-day event to a two-day event. Um, I can't say who is my favorite, so I'll leave that. Um, spring festival was fun. I got to be there with Miss Bosik and I did have a ticket this time. Thank you very much. Um, it was fun for the kids and everything. Uh, attend. It's fun to staff who worked it. Thank you very much. It took time out of your holiday weekend to be there. We thank you. We appreciate everything you do here in the city. We understand. I can't tell each one of you thank you, but I can tell all of staff thank you to let them know I appreciate them for being there. And if nobody has anything else, we are good to go. It is 7:42. This meeting is adjourned. Okay.