City Council - Regular Meeting

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Thank you. Good evening.

Today is Tuesday, June 16, 2026, and the time is 5 p.m.

I will now call to order the meeting of the Victorville City Council and the same council sitting as the Victorville Library Board of Trustees, Southern California Logistics Airport Authority, successor agency to the Redevelopment Agency, the City as a Housing Access Assessor, and the Joint Powers Finance Authority, Victorville Water District. Madam Clerk, will you kindly call the roll?

Councilmember Goddard? Here. Councilmember Irving?

Here.

Councilmember Mora? Here. Mayor Patem Harriman?

Here.

Mayor Becerra? Here. We have quorum.

Thank you very much. At this time, we'll move on to public comments. Madam Clerk, are there any requests to speak?

No, Madam Mayor.

Then we will move on to declaration of closed session by Mr. Daburnowski.

Thank you, Mayor Becerra. We have one item to see. It is public employee performance evaluation pursuant to government code 54957B. And the position title is City Manager. To the extent there's reportable action, we will report it either at the conclusion of the closed session or the commencement of the regular 6 o'clock session.

Thank you very much. We are now recessed to closed session. And open session will resume at 6 PM.

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Good evening. Hello. Hello. My turn. Thank you. Good evening today is Tuesday June 16 2026 and the time is 6pm the regular meeting of the following will come to order the victim of city counts on the same Council sitting as the victim of a library board of trustees. Southern California logistics airport authority successor agency to the redevelopment agency, the city as a housing asset successor joint powers finance authority in the victim of water district man of clerk we kind of call the role.

Council Member Godin? Here. Council Member Irving? Here. Council Member Mora?

Here.

Mayor Partem Harriman?

Here.

Mayor Becerra?

Here.

We have quorum.

Thank you, ma'am. Closed session announcements by our city attorney, Mr. Dibranowski.

Thank you, Mayor Becerra. We had one item this evening. It was public employee performance evaluation pursuant to government code 54957B position titles with city manager. And at this point, there is no reportable action with respect to that item. Thank you, sir.

At this time, if you'd please stand for our invocation, our Pledge of Allegiance. The invocation tonight will be led by Paul Gaston of the High Desert Church, and our pledge will be led by Captain Jerry Davenport.

Thank you, Council, and I appreciate the opportunity every year, and that you bring in pastors to pray over the city of Victorville, as our seal says, and God we trust. So let me pray for us, and we'll continue. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your graciousness to us. We recognize your Lord and King over all. When things go our way, when things don't go our way, you still reign. And I pray for our council. I pray that you would give them wisdom and discernment, that they would administer justice with integrity. They would not serve themselves, but the people of Victorville, that they would serve us, the community. I pray for the safety of this city. I pray for our police officers and first responders and those that are protecting us. I pray that you would continue to keep us safe. And those that would seek to do harm to this city, to our neighborhoods, I ask, Lord, for those people to be protected and removed from here so that we would be safe. And I thank you so much for your graciousness and your kindness. In your name we pray. Amen.

Join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Place your hand over your heart. Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

At this time, we'll move on to proclamations and special presentations. Tonight, our recognition presentation is for the Traffic Signal Cabinet Wrap Project. I'd like to begin by inviting Juan Robinson, our Assistant Director of Public Works, to come forward and join me. Council, let's go down there, please. Tonight I am pleased to recognize a special group of talented young individuals whose creativity, imagination, and community spirit have helped bring an exciting new project to life here in the City of Victorville. Over the past several months, the City of Victorville partnered with the Victor Elementary School District and the Victorville Union High School District to launch our Traffic Signal Cabinet Art Project. Dr. Lee from the High School District and Fortune Burroughs from Elementary School District helped us bring our vision to life. This project was created to give our students an opportunity to showcase their artistic talents, while helping to beautify our community and strengthen the connection between our schools and the city. Students were invited to submit original artwork for consideration. The winning designs will be professionally printed and installed on traffic signal cabinets located near each of the students' schools, transforming everyday public infrastructure into vibrant works of art that will be seen and appreciated by thousands of residents each day. Please join me in congratulating and recognizing our student winners.

Thank you.

So from the Victor Valley Union High School District, we're going to start with Christopher Olaya, senior at Victor Valley High School. Christopher's design will be located at the intersection of 7th and Mojave.

Christopher, where'd you go? No Christopher. No Christopher.

Okay. Do we know which one, Juan? That one's bad. I like that one. Christopher should have been here. Those of you who can tell Christopher, we like his work. Also, Leah Altman, a junior at Victor Valley High School. Leah's design may be located at the intersection of Mojave and La Paz. Leah's also not here, but which one's hers? That one, okay. Oh, Leah, come on, Leah. It said Leah may not attend.

In the middle.

That one's nice. And now we'll move on. We have Hailey Nuri and Blanca Franco, both seniors at Cobalt Institute of Maths and Science, SIMS. Their designs will be located at the intersection of Amethyst and Dos Palmas. That's neat, because they didn't begin it. OK. from the Victor Elementary School District. Allison Arias and Hizam Gani of Challenger School of Sports and Fitness. This design will be located at the intersection of Mojave and Elevado. Which one's yours, man? Grab it. Those are nice. Over there. That one's yours. That one's yours. We'll continue on. We have Olivia Saavedra, a sixth grader from Endover High School, School of Exploration. Olivia's design will be located at the intersection of Ridgecrest and Paiute. Olivia. And last but definitely not least, Annabel Ray Daugherty from Village Team School. Annabel's design will be located at the intersection of Mojave and Armagosa. We're going to space, Annabel, huh? That's nice. Yeah, that one's yours to keep. Congratulations to all the student winners. You can take pride in contributing to the public art project that will now become a permanent part of our streetscape. Thank you.

You're like, give it back.

Mr. Metzler, do you know when installation is going to start on these?

There's Juanito right there.

Next week. Thank you.

if we use that kind of as a test.

There's one. Madam Clerk, will you present the agenda and any revisions there, too?

Thank you, Madam Mayor. We do have a revision to the agenda for agenda item 17. It's a revised recommendation to the staff report to include ratifying expenses across multiple departments, approving a general services provider agreement, and approving an additional amount for future expenses for fiscal year 25-26. Revise the discussion section to include the vendors year to date cumulative expenditures at table summarizing the pending expenses requiring ratification and an updated staff recommendation. Recommendation has been revised to the honorable city council also sitting as the victorville water district board of directors and southern California logistics airport authority board of directors. Approve the following one ratify year to date expenses exceeding the city manager's authority in the amount of twenty four thousand eight hundred eighty one dollars and twenty five cents to approve the general services provider agreement project number CFC twenty six dash one four zero in the amount not to exceed seventeen thousand two hundred ninety four dollars and thirty two cents. And three, approve an additional $7,713.67 for Quincy Company for fiscal year 2025-2026. That concludes the revisions to the agenda this evening, Madam Mayor.

Thank you, ma'am. I'll ask my counsel, are there any conflict of interest to declare? No?

We'll move right along.

Public comments, Madam Clerk. Are there any requests to speak?

Yes, Madam Mayor. Welcome to tonight's meeting of the Victorville City Council. Your City Council is interested in your ideas and opinions and furthermore endeavors to incorporate them into its deliberations. At the same time, the Council must be able to carry out its business in an organized and efficient manner, free from material disruption. Therefore, this meeting will be administered in accordance with the Council's established policies and procedures and government code sections 54957.9 and 54957.95. Individuals may speak on agenda items or on issues not posted on the agenda during the public comment section, provided those issues are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the City Council. Individual speakers may address the Council once per public comment period and once per each public hearing item for up to three minutes. Additional time may be allotted for appeal hearings in accordance with the city's adopted policy and procedures manual. Those who desire to comment on a public hearing item may wish to reserve their remarks until that particular public hearing has been opened. All testimony is to be directed solely to the council. Although open meeting laws do not permit council members to engage in dialogue with any speaker during the public comment periods, please know your comments and questions may be taken into consideration by council members when discussing the particular agenda item. The presiding officer may briefly respond or have staff respond to statements or questions or make requests that the staff report back to the council at a subsequent meeting. Speakers are requested to comment as briefly as the subject permits. Once comments are invited, the speaker will be called on by name, then recognized by the presiding officer. The speaker will state the item number that will be addressed or that the subject is a non-agendized matter. Audience members may not disrupt, disturb, or otherwise impede the orderly conduct of this meeting, and those who do are subject to removal from the meeting pursuant to Penal Code 403. Your understanding and cooperation are appreciated. Our first speaker this evening under general public comment is Daniel Fernandez on a non-agendized item.

Sorry, sorry, sorry. All right.

Good evening, city council members. My name is Daniel Fernandez, and I am here standing before you tonight as a grieving parent, but also as a frustrated citizen demanding answers. I'm going to try and get through this without breaking down. But on March 9th, my world was shattered. was shattered when my daughter lost her life. But the tragedy did not stop that night. It has continued every single day because our local sheriff's department has failed to hold a single person accountable. My daughter is gone, yet three separate parties who played direct roles in her death face zero consequences. First was a 17-year-old driver who got behind the wheel after drinking and was not arrested. The second person was a 22-year-old adult who illegally purchased alcohol for the minors. Third is the adult homeowner who allowed the group of minors to drink under her roof and got off the hook completely. The 17-year-old driver was my daughter's friend who invited her for a sleepover. And her mother, at 11, her mother had her driving everyone home. And that was seven people in a five-seater car that she let go. She let go in the vehicle. The driver nor the passengers did not call 911. The passenger buyer had seen something going on, so she made a U-turn to see if they needed help. They stated that their phones were dead and that they needed to call 911. My daughter was in the street, had somehow exited the vehicle somehow. I don't have the whole story or all the police reports yet. They all stated that another driver, that she was hit by another car when she exited the vehicle. All the people in the vehicle said that she was hit by another car, but yet the deputies say that she wasn't. She wasn't hit by another car. The law is clear on underage drinking, social hosting, and driving under the influence. Yet the sheriffs have treated this catastrophe of loss of life with indifference that is insulting to my daughter's memory. There was no breathalyzer taken. There was nobody taken for under the influence. The City Council contracts with the Sheriff's Department to protect the community and uphold the law. I'm here tonight to ask you...

Your time is up.

Can I move that he...

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Mr. Fernandez, go ahead and finish.

Thank you. I'm here tonight to ask you, is this the standard of law enforcement you're satisfied with? I demand a launch... the City Council, an official inquiry on why the Sheriff's Department has refused to bring any charges in this case. I demand the investigation to be reviewed and that the people who contributed to my daughter's death be held accountable. I'm the only voice for her right now. So you're going to hear from me. You'll be hearing from me and I'm not going to stop. But that's what I want, is why is nobody held accountable for it? And you guys have, I left four copies of all the police reports in the order that I got it. I left you evidence, copies of the evidence, copies of all the reports I have, but I yet to get the supplemental report of the first deputy on scene. And I'm trying to get that, and I'm being shot down in every direction, and I don't understand why. That's a crucial part of this. The first deputy on scene, what's his report? I don't have his report. And I've been trying since March 9 to get all the reports possible. And I've gotten the police report, the incident report. I got the coroner's report, by the way. My daughter was 0.17 blood alcohol content. So she was 1.7, and they didn't notice any alcohol on the other drivers. There's something wrong. Why didn't they get a breathalyzer on them? She's double the limit. What? I don't understand. You guys can read the report yourselves and just look at it. And how do you? I'll just.

Mr. Fernandez. I know our words up here cannot take away what you're going through right now. I pray that God gets you through it. But if you turn around, our police captain is waiting to speak with you in the back, sir. You'll have some of your answers you're looking for.

I hope so. Thank you very much.

May God keep your child with him.

Excuse me?

May God keep your child with him, sir.

Madam Mayor, there are no additional speakers during general public comment.

Thank you very much, ma'am. This time we'll move on to public hearing. Our first business of order is adoption of the 2025 Regional Urban Water Management Plan and the 2025 Water Shortage Contingency Plan. Mr. Mentzler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the Council. Yes, this item is a public hearing item to deal with a matter that were required to bring before you every five years. And in this particular case, it involves a regional urban water management plan, which the Mojave Water Agency took the lead in developing. And of course, our Victorville Water District actually worked with them to provide the components specific or specifically relating to our water district. And effectively, this document serves as a long-term strategy on maintaining water supply under both wet and dry year conditions. In addition to that, we also have a water supply contingency plan as well. And in that particular case, I'm sorry, it's a study that basically studies and develop policies and programs in the event there is a water supply shortage. And so with that, this document was prepared with the support of our water consultant, Ms. Lane Carlson of WSC, and she's available via Zoom. We also have the author of this item, Mr. Doug Matthews, the Director of Public Works and Water, and they're both available for any questions or comments you might have. Thank you very much, sir.

Madam Clerk, would you please read the recommendation?

That the honorable Victorville Water District Board of Directors open and conduct a public hearing, receive testimony and close the public hearing, approve resolution number VWD 26-002, adopting the 2025 Regional Urban Water Management Plan, and approve resolution number VWD 26-008, adopting the 2025 Water Shortage Contingency Plan.

Thank you very much at this time we'll move on to technical questions from Council member Council will go down, I have none, thank you, Madam Mayor. Councilman Maura I have none, thank you.

Councilman Irving no questions, thank you.

I have none. And I have done all this time I'll open the public hearing, Madam Clerk and then request to speak.

No, Madam Mayor.

And then now I'll close the public hearing. I'll invite a motion for this item.

Move to adopt staff recommendation as presented on the agenda as to points three and four. Second.

I'll leave it first by Councilman Goddard and second by Councilman Irving. Councilor Magodian, comments on the pending motion?

Just that I read through this report. I thought it was very informative. I did appreciate the fact that this report demonstrates that our district has adequate, reliable water supplies to meet demands through 2050. And I thought that was very encouraging. So thank you, all who were involved.

Councilwoman Irving?

No comments. Thank you.

Councilwoman Moore? I have no comments. Thank you. Mayor Patel-Majoraman?

I have no comments.

Mr. Matthews, very well written, very well put together. At least we know where we stand now in the water region. I also did note with Mr. Metzler, we still are in a water conservation or a water shortage management. What was it called, Mr. Metzler?

A drought? Yeah, drought conditions.

Yeah, drought conditions. So I did bring it to my attention, at least. Thank you very much for that. Madam Clerk, will you take the vote?

Councilmember Godin? Yes. Councilmember Irving? Yes. Councilmember Mora?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Harriman?

Yes.

Mayor Becerra?

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, annual confirmation of maintenance assessment districts for fiscal year 2026-2027. Mr. Metzler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the council. Yes, this item involves a number of special benefit assessment districts that we have throughout the community and annually we're required to go through a process certifying those benefit assessments. And so at the last meeting on June 2nd, you actually heard an item that really kicked off the process that we have to go through to reaffirm these assessments. And so the item that you considered on June 2nd was basically to initiate this process, ordering the engineer's report, and then approving the notice of intent to levy. And so now that that's been approved in place, this is your public hearing providing the opportunity for members of the public that are within these special benefit assessment areas to comment. And so with that, Particularly, this item involves your LMADS, which are the Landscape Maintenance Assessment Districts. It also involves your DFADS, which are your Drainage Facility Assessment Districts, Maintenance Assessment Districts, along with your SLAD. These are all property tax-based assessments, so they actually collect through the administering of the property tax collection process where the county of San Bernardino actually collects and then distributes these monies to us after collected. This item does involve only one change to the rate with amongst them all the only change in rate is to the street lighting assessment district. And that's, again, citywide, and that's an increase of $4.40 per parcel, per improved parcel on an annual basis. And so with that, this item has been authored by your city engineer, Mr. Freddy Bonilla, and he's available for any questions or comments you might have.

Thank you, sir. Madam Clerk, would you please read the recommendation?

That the Honorable City Council open and conduct a public hearing to receive testimony for the final approval. of the engineer's report for maintenance assessment districts one through three, drainage facility assessment districts one through three, landscaping maintenance assessment districts one through eight, and the citywide street lighting assessment district and proposed resolution numbers 26-055 through 26-058, confirming and ordering the levy and collection of the annual assessments for the respective assessment districts. Close the public hearing. Give final approval of the engineer's reports for each assessment district. Adopt resolution numbers 26-055 through 26-058. And authorize the director of finance slash city treasurer to execute all documents related to implementation of the special assessment district fees. Thank you, ma'am.

At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Councilwoman Irving. No questions. Thank you. Councilman Goddard. I have none. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Councilman Mora. I have an end. Thank you.

I also have known what I have done.

I'll open up the public hearing. Madam Clerk, are there any requests to speak?

Yes, Madam Mayor. Can we please have Nicole Gutierrez?

You ready to spend as my time started. Just go Okay, may I have more time if it goes over.

Good.

Good evening, honorable mayor and members of city council, my name is Nicole Gutierrez and my property is located at 16523 Santiago street victorville California. 92395 i'm here tonight to formally requested the mayor's office and this Council to direct staff members to expedite the evaluation of the upcoming toward claim and settlement demand letter regarding a clear case of potential inverse condemnation. I do believe that I reside in area zone one, and I would like you guys to investigate the property before making final approvals. I would like to request the mayor and the council to grant this request and instruct the city and risk management to bypass the standard of administrative delays. ACKNOWLEDGE THE POTENTIAL INVERSE CONDEMNATION LIABILITY AND EXPEDITE THE RESOLUTION TO AVOID FURTHER LITIGATION. THIS DISPUTE INVOLVES A PUBLIC WATER INFRASTRUCTURE EASEMENT DRAINAGE THAT IS PART OF A STREET IMPROVEMENT AND FAILURE TO RECORD MAPPING TIED DIRECTLY TO AN UNRECORDED EASEMENT THE CITY APPROVED TO DESIGN IN THE LATE 1980s. By routing the public runoff through private land without documentation or just compensation, the city has engaged in taking my property, causing me severe and ongoing monetary losses. This is an ongoing unresolved crisis. Over 83 separate complaints have been submitted to the municipal code violations to me and my husband, the property owners. Because the city's ongoing denial, of acknowledging this easement, it creates a financial and structural burden. I suggest that this request and the leadership fast track my application for leave a present late claim under government section code 911.4. And I am also requesting an emergency ADA accommodation for safe proper access due to my disability and being immunocompromised. And for the past Since 2021, 2026, my residency, I've been to dialysis treatment with end-stage renal failure from 2021 to 24 December. And I was cited another violation. I think I was home maybe two, three weeks in the city and gave me another violation when I'm supposed to be in recovery. And I'm allowed to have recovery like quiet time. and recover properly. And I haven't had any peace of mind. So if you guys could please expedite my request when I prepare it and submit it to the city.

Your time is up.

Thank you.

There are no additional speakers on this item.

I will now close the public hearing and invite a motion for this item. Motion to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Second. Comments on the pending motion? I have no comments. Councilman Goddard? I have none. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Councilwoman Mora? I have none. Thank you. Councilwoman Irving?

No comments. Thank you.

Mayor Pro Tem Harriman?

I have none.

Madam Clerk, will you take the vote?

Councilmember Goddard? Yes. Councilmember Irving? Yes. Councilmember Mora? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Harriman? Yes.

Yes.

Mayor Becerra.

Yes.

Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve points three through five of staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item three. Number one, consideration of ordinance number 2468, adding chapter 3.07 to Title III of the Victorville Municipal Code for the purpose of establishing and imposing a supplemental 1% general transaction and use tax be administered by the california department of tax and fee administration subject to adoption by city voters and item 2 proposed resolution number 26-051 ordering submission to the qualified voters of the city at the general municipal election on november 3rd 2026 a ballot measure to approve ordinance establishing a state supplemental 1% general transaction and use sales tax authorizing related actions. Mr. Metzler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the council. This item has been brought forward resulting from a number of meetings involving the council and some actions actually undertaken by the council to explore all necessary to get to this point. And I think at the very beginning, you probably will recall on many occasions for several years now, you've been hearing concerns not only from our residents, but certainly concerns even from your staff with respect to citywide deficiencies that exists in our physical infrastructure, including your your roadways the condition of your roadways and also concerns over things such as traffic and safety related matters within your rights of way and so. Certainly after having heard enough concerns about the deficiencies in the collective infrastructure, which also includes things like stormwater and facility needs for water quality and even to enhance your public safety. On November 18th, the city council actually directed staff to actually proceed in taking steps necessary to begin The consideration of the placement of a ballot measure on the November 2026 election and in doing that staff did bring on some support in some of that support, including included bringing on a polling firm to actually. evaluate resident voter sentiment. but also involved staff proceeding with an analysis, basically an infrastructure needs analysis that had evaluated all of your public infrastructure systems and the deficiencies that exist largely due to deferred maintenance, the lack of funding to be able to keep up with the maintenance necessary for your infrastructure systems. And so, ultimately, on may 19 of this year staff actually presented the the entire infrastructure needs analysis to you that assessed a number of things, including street repairs the fixing of potholes the improvement of roadway safety. the expansion of law enforcement and the increase in traffic safety, the expansion and the maintenance of fire and paramedic services to improve response times, stormwater drainage, water quality and safe, clean drinking water supply systems, along with increasing the parks and rec and children play space areas. And so, resulting from that study, the study did identify total estimated value of about $865 million in infrastructural need. And beyond the need, the analysis also did evaluate all of the funding sources available to ourselves currently. and certainly identified a substantial shortfall in being able to somehow curtail the trajectory in which your infrastructure systems are deteriorating and depreciating. Saying it differently, they're getting worse due to the lack of money resources available. And so also at that meeting, We did have the results of the polls, polling of a sample of your registered voters, your high propensity registered voters in our city. And not only did that poll test the sample ballot as to how the residents reacted, it also identified what was important. It actually solicited feedback from your registered voters As to what was important to them and certainly we saw some really surprisingly high ranking. items, but certainly high on the list we're maintaining safe and clean drinking water that's a very important or extremely important. concern of your residents maintaining public safety ranked up there, protecting the long term local drinking water supply is certainly very high on people's minds. Repairing streets and potholes certainly rose to the highest of the list by your residents. Retaining local small business and jobs was actually an element that ranked pretty high. Addressing speed and unsafe driving also was among many others that certainly the sampling of your registered voters certainly responded back with. And so, given the demonstrated need for funds, given the demonstrated insufficient amount of revenues, THE ANALYSIS DID IDENTIFY AND RECOMMEND CERTAIN TYPES OF FUNDING SOURCES THAT COULD BE AVAILABLE AND CERTAINLY THE ONE THAT'S RECOMMENDED OR WAS RECOMMENDED WAS THAT THE COUNCIL CONSIDER THE PLACEMENT OF A TRANSACTIONS AND USE TAX OF 1%. IT'S ALSO COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS ANOTHER SALES TAX MEASURE OF 1% THAT CAN ULTIMATELY GENERATE ABOUT $30 MILLION A YEAR, WHICH OVER THE COURSE of a 10-year program is expected to be able to generate enough, including interest, to spend about $550 million towards those unfunded improvements. And so with that, staff got direction unanimously at the May meeting to bring forward what you have in front of you tonight, which is an ordinance that actually, if adopted, Would add language to your municipal code, creating the supplemental 1% transactions and use tax for the voters to consider on the November ballot and also you have before you a resolution authorizing the placement of that measure. ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT. BECAUSE THIS ITEM DOES DEAL WITH A CODE AMENDMENT, IF THE COUNCIL VOTES TO MOVE THAT FORWARD, AND THERE IS A FOUR FIFTHS VOTE REQUIRED IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE IN IMPROVING THE ORDINANCE. AN ORDINANCE DOES REQUIRE A SECOND READING IN WHICH WE WOULD BRING IT BACK PRESUMABLY AT AN ADJOURNED MEETING NEXT TUESDAY. AND SO WITH THAT, FINALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO CLOSE BY IDENTIFYING THAT What's before you today. Certainly, if the council votes to move this forward is not an endorsement by the council. In fact, it has more to do with providing the voters with the opportunity to be a part of the decision making process. And I say that because that's the legal framework that exists here in California where you as a council can't unilaterally levy these taxes on your own. They certainly require residential feedback. And so based upon the residential feedback that we get, especially as it relates to some of those items that have already enumerated concerns over the roadway system and traffic safety and so forth, based upon that, the feedback, the study Certainly, what we're recommending is that this item be brought forward to the voters so that the voters can actually have a say in the process to be able to decide how they want to fund or not fund these particular items. And so with that, this item has been placed on the agenda both by myself and the city attorney. But as you remember from the last meeting, there was a very large team behind the preparation of the entire item. So we've got all hands on deck available to answer any questions or comments you might have. Thank you, sir.

Madam Clerk, could you please read the recommendation? That the honorable city council open and conduct a public hearing on proposed ordinance number 2468, receive testimony, close the public hearing, Find ordinance number 2468 exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA, pursuant to CEQA guidelines section 15378B4. Introduce ordinance number 2468 for adoption and first reading by title only. Waive further reading in full of proposed ordinance number 2468 and consider and adopt resolution number 26-051 approving the proposed ordinance and ballot measure language and ordering same to be submitted to the voters.

Thank you, ma'am. At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Mayor Tim Harriman.

I have none.

Councilman Godin. I have no questions. Councilman Mora.

I have none. Thank you.

Councilman Irving.

No questions. Thank you.

I have none. I will now open the public hearing. Madam Clerk, are there any requests to speak?

Yes, Madam Mayor, our first first speaker is John Zach Rison.

Good evening, Mayor and council members. My name is John Sackerson. I'm the executive director of the Inland Empire Auto Dealers Association. We represent the 161 new vehicle dealers in the Inland Empire and their 14,000 team members. We're here tonight to represent the 10 Victorville franchise new vehicle dealers and their 860 employees to voice our opposition to the proposed sales tax increase and share why. So we've been studying this issue for some time and when cities in southern California began to consider increasing their sales tax rate. We commissioned a study by probolski research to try and identify the impact and vehicle sales. The study found that 69.7% of consumers say they will avoid making a vehicle purchase in a city that charges a higher sales tax rate. The study also shared a related statistic that only 33% of consumers. Understand that the sales tax rate is based on where they live or register the car and that were the city that they purchased the vehicle in. This misconception is understandable because every other taxable purchase they make is based on the retailers location. Since a vehicle's purchase is typically the largest taxable purchase a consumer makes, when a city increases their sales tax rate, it creates a severe negative impact on both the consumers and the dealerships. We've been able to measure the impact of a city's 1% sales tax increase on vehicle sales. The results have been devastating, and resident purchases have decreased anywhere from 28% to 41%. We have completed an economic impact study of the dealerships in Victorville and project annual revenue losses of 20 million to 29 million based on what we've experienced in other cities. Over the next 10 years, that would be a revenue loss of 200 to 300 million, which is a conservative estimate as we've not collected data on cities that have raised their sales tax rates as high as 9.75%. This is certainly more than the 10 Victorville dealerships can absorb, and would devastate them and their 860 employees. I think it's also important to note that these are some of the largest sales tax generators in the city, with almost 70 million in total sales tax collected annually. Currently, for every new vehicle sold, the city of Victorville receives an average of about $1,000 in sales tax revenue, which is more than double what it was in 2020. Just five years ago, Victorville increased its sales tax rate and has received over $100 million in additional revenue. Now is not the time to raise taxes again on Victorville's residents, as we all are struggling with affordability issues. Having the highest sales tax rate in San Bernardino County will negatively impact every resident and business in the city. Finally, over the years, I've heard many council members and mayors state they are merely putting it on the ballot to allow the people to decide. I believe the citizens elect their council members to be good lures, leaders and stewards of the city's finances. And for these reasons, we respectfully request You vote against placing a sales tax increase on the ballot. Thank you. Thank you.

Our next speaker is Todd Stokes.

Speak up. Good evening council members and honorable Mayor Becerra. So I've been a owner operator of the Valley High Group for 19 years and I've seen both sides of this. I was in in ontario at crown toyota for 17 years before i got an opportunity to come up here and i can tell you the majority of the businesses when i was at crown toyota was from this city this desert all because the perception is you can't get a deal in the desert and i have struggled and i think everybody behind us has struggled To change that perception for the last 19 years for me i've talked to countless people in this city buying cars, giving us an opportunity and. The tax rate increase when people are already struggling. I see it every day. I talk to people every day. Food's expensive. Gas is expensive. Everything's expensive. People work in two... I have employees, some of them work in two jobs just to make ends meet and to raise taxes. Really, I've never heard of plan B in this conversation. Actually, being a... One of the largest contributors to tax in the city, this is really kind of the first we're hearing about it in the last seven days and it's a little disappointing to us that we didn't have a conversation. Like hey how does it in how do we think it would impact the city, and you know I mean the city means a lot to me i've spent 19 years in the city. And I love my employees. I've done my own study walking around the dealership asking, how would you feel about a tax rate increase? How would you feel about being the largest contributor to sales tax in the county? And the answer I got was, and I'm not going to say it in here, but it's basically, are you crazy? So I don't know what the plan B is. I only seen plan A. I would just love to be a part of this conversation of how we can raise tax dollars in the city to get the things we need done. I get it. There's wants and needs in life, and I know what the needs are. You know, I listen to Keith talk about some of the needs. I listened to Bob the other day talk about some of the needs the city needs, and I agree there's some things the city needs, but I just wish we could be a partnership and have that conversation about a plan B. What can we do? Let's try to sell more cars. Let's try to generate more tax revenue. If we're getting $1,000 for every car we sell, how do we get the car dealership to sell more cars? There's a thing called PMA, and I don't have too much time, but our primary market share, because most of our customers are commuters. They go up and down the hill every day. They make relationships down the hill. These folks are going to be buying groceries down the hill, getting gas down the hill, all because the tax is lower. It's not going to fix the situation. What happens in three or four years when these roads are not where they need to be? And we have to raise money.

Your time is up.

That's OK.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Jason Wilkins.

Thank you. All right, good evening mayor and city council members, thank you for the opportunity to speak on the proposed sales tax increase my name is Jason wilkins i'm a third generation victorville car dealer. My family has served the city since 1971 first our Chevrolet dealership for nearly 50 years before we sold it, and today is owner victorville Mitsubishi which is right next door. My roots run deep here, and so does my stake in getting this decision right my team of 25 employees and I are investing our future in victorville. Your own finance department identifies automobiles and general consumer goods as the two largest generators of sales tax revenue in our city. The businesses and consumers who generate that revenue deserve to be heard before that burden is increased. Victorville is already tied for the highest sales tax rate in San Bernardino County. This increase would make us the highest. Higher than neighboring cities just minutes away. Customers may not know the exact tax rate, but they know when one city costs more than another. Every time Victorville raises its rate above neighboring cities, we make it harder to compete for shoppers, families, and businesses. The message this sends is simple. Victorville is becoming a more expensive place to spend money. That perception doesn't stop at the dealership. It follows consumers to every other store in our city. But my greatest concern is who ultimately pays the price. A sales tax is one of the most regressive forms of taxation because it takes the largest share of income from those who can least afford it. The people I serve are working high desert families, so are the people you serve. This increase falls hardest on residents who are already struggling with higher costs for housing, food, fuel, and everyday necessities. We would be balancing the city's budget on the backs of people with the least ability to absorb it. I respect the difficult decisions before you, and I appreciate your time tonight, but I believe Victorville grows stronger by attracting more business, more investment, and more customers, not by asking working families to pay more every time they make a purchase. I respectfully ask for you to reject this proposal. Thank you.

Our next speaker is Andrew Hartrig.

Good evening, Mayor, council members, and city staff. My name is Andrew Hartrig. I'm here on behalf of Victorville Chevrolet. A local business has proudly served the community for many years. I appreciate the opportunity to speak on the proposed 1% sales tax rate. While I understand the city's need to fund more important services and infrastructure, I want to share a very real impact that this proposal could have on local automobile dealerships, our employees, and ultimately the city's economy. Automobile purchases are among the largest consumer transaction most families make. Unlike many retail purchases, vehicle buyers often compare prices across multiple cities, jurisdictions before making a decision. A 1% increase in sales tax may sound small, but on a 40,000 vehicle, that's approximately $400 to the customer's cost. On a 60,000, $600. For many customers, that difference matters. When buyers perceive they can save hundreds of dollars by shopping elsewhere, they are more likely to expand their search beyond their local city limits. In today's marketplace, consumers can easily compare pricing online and contact dealerships throughout the region with just a few clicks. Our dealership generates approximately $200 million in annual sales and is the highest volume dealership in the high desert here. We contribute more sales tax than any other single point dealership in the area beyond our local customer base. We also attract buyers by giving very good discounts to pull people from down the hill from other states just to try to generate more sales. In turn is generating the city more money, which approximately is $70 to $100 million in annual sales just from out of area customers. If those customers decide to purchase elsewhere because the sales tax rate is so high, the community stands to lose millions of dollars in sales tax revenue that's currently imported from outside our area. In effect, you're putting tens of millions of dollars in out-of-town sales and tax revenue they generate at risk. Given our dealership role as the highest volume dealership in the area, one of the following contributors of local sales tax revenue, the potential impact of a higher sales tax rate should be carefully considered before any changes are made. The result is that our city becomes less competitive with the neighboring communities. Even a modest shift in vehicle sales can have a significant consequence. Fewer sales mean lower revenues for local dealerships, fewer opportunities to hire and retain employees, reduced investment in facilities, community sponsorships, potentially less overall economic activity generated by our business. Thank you for your time, your service to our community, and thank you for considering these concerns.

Our next speaker is Julian Valeriano.

Good evening, Mayor, member of the City Council. Thank you for letting me speak. My name is Julian Valeriano, I represent Victorville Chevy Cadillac. Since opening June 4th, 2019, our dealership has become a huge contributor to the local economy and the city of Victorville. Today, we employ 150 people and about 90% of our employees live in the community. They purchase homes, support local businesses, pay local taxes, and invest directly to Victorville's future. Our dealership generates approximately 200 million annually sales, and nearly 70 million of that is coming from customers outside the local market. Those outside bring new dollars into Victorville. We are proud to say we're the number one Chevy dealership in California, a big flagship that brings huge success to our city. We are currently pursuing our fourth consecutive dealer of the year award, which reflects the commitment to our excellence and community involvement in representing Victorville in a positive way throughout the state. I am concerned that increasing the local sales tax could make Victorville less competitive compared to neighboring communities and could discourage consumers from making major purchases here. Reduced sales activity would not only impact businesses like ours, could also reduce the revenue generated from the cities over time. When local businesses experience lower sales volume, there can be consequences to employment, investments, and economic growth within the community. I respectfully ask for the council to consider the impact that a tax increase may have on local employers, local workers, and the businesses that help drive economic activity in Victorville. We are proud to be part of the community, to employ local residents and proud to contribute to the city's success. Thank you for your time, consideration, and services to the community. Thank you. Thank you.

Our next speaker is Jacob Little.

Good evening, Mayor, council members, city staff, and fellow residents. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. My name is Jacob Little, and I serve as the general manager of Valley IKEA. I am here representing one of the four dealerships that make up the Browning Automotive Group in the High Desert. Collectively, our stores employ more than 300 local residents and support dozens of local businesses and vendors. We have been following the proposed sales tax increase with great interest and concern. While we understand that the challenges facing our city and the need to fund important public services, we also believe that this proposal may ultimately have unintended consequences that could reduce economic activity and over time decrease the very tax revenue it seeks to generate. Recently, we conducted an informal survey among our employees regarding sales tax and vehicle purchases. The findings were more than 80% Of our dealership employees believe that sales tax paid on an automobile purchase is determined by where the vehicle is purchased. While that perception is not entirely accurate it highlights an important reality perception often influences consumer behavior just as much as facts. Many high desert residents commute down the hill every day for work shopping and entertainment. If residents believe that they can avoid higher taxes by spending money elsewhere, many will choose to do so. That shift in consumer spending would not only affect automobile dealerships, but also restaurants, retails, and small businesses throughout our community. Our organization invests more than half a million dollars each month communicating with local consumers. We spend every day listening to our customers and understanding the issues that matter most to them. The message we consistently hear is clear. Families are already feeling the pressure of inflation, rising utility costs, housing expenses, and higher costs of living. At a time where many residents are struggling to make ends meet, becoming one of the highest tax cities in the largest county in California sends the wrong message to both consumers and businesses. We respectfully ask that you vote no on this proposed tax increase. Instead, we encourage city leaders and local business community to work together to identify alternative solutions that support our shared goals without placing additional financial burdens on the residents and businesses that drive our local economy. Thank you for your time, your service, and your consideration.

Thank you.

Madam Mayor, we have no additional speaker cards for this item.

Thank you. I will now close the public hearing. Madam Clerk, would you please read the title of ordinance number 2468?

An ordinance of the people of the city of victorville California adding chapter 3.07 to title three of the victorville municipal code. For the purpose of establishing and imposing a supplemental 1% general transaction and use tax to be administered by the California department of tax and fee administration subject to adoption by city voters.

elevate a motion for this item. Motion to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Second. My comments on the pending motion, I'm going to go ahead and let Councilman Godown start.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I've said this before, nobody likes to raise taxes. And yet I hear continually you know residents complaining about our roadways and infrastructure, and so I wish that there was a solution that would be a huge benefit to everybody and unfortunately that doesn't usually pan out, but I think that this could be a potential. Something that could springboard our conversations with local businesses. to figure out something that we can do to help encourage people to buy local, but also to educate them. Many of you stated that most of your employees, and I'm sure residents would be the same, that they're unaware that where they purchase doesn't matter, right? It's based on their address, where they're living. So I think education is part of the key to this. I also think partnering. My understanding is back before COVID in 2020, there was a partnership with the dealerships that was very beneficial to both the city and to the local businesses and so it would definitely be something that i'd love to sit down and have conversations about in the future how can we maybe do a campaign or start something that would encourage people to once again buy local and make us competitive with the down the hill market with that being said we have to listen to our residents as well so but i thank you for your time today thank you madam mayor councilwoman mora

I've expressed my concerns with the general tax, I know that the general tax may be the easiest route, you know I feel like a special taxes more. It might be harder to to pass, but I do feel like we do have these issues, I do support the police department in the fire stations and our infrastructure for the roads. but increasing taxes in a time right now where homeowners insurance insurances are increasing, you know, our utility costs are increasing. I mean, it just makes me uncomfortable and I represent not just the registered voters in our district, but every single constituent in our district and right now the voice that I'm hearing. is that times are expensive. I mean, I have faith and I feel like our staff does an excellent job. I feel like there are other ways to generate revenue or just work harder for a special tax. But it's kind of been the same way I've been speaking about this topic. And I know we've already allocated a lot of staff time and finances. But seeing how much it's going to continue to cost us does raise some other flags. It's going to be $260,000 to put it on the ballot. And then that's not even a guarantee. So I mean, I've expressed my uncomfortability with it. And so that's kind of all I have to say. Council Member Durvey?

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Well, I really appreciate the auto dealers for coming out, sharing their concerns. And this is a very important dialogue. But I think for me, I think it's important to allow the community to weigh in on this conversation at the ballot box. Thank you.

Mayor Patel, Herman.

Yeah. Excuse me. I've also given this issue a lot of thought since we voted to prepare an ordinance. I've talked to members of the community and to local business owners about how this would impact them. I've also talked to them about how the revenue from a sales tax increase could help and improve our community. The economic climate in California is extremely challenging right now. Victorville residents might be thinking about how they'd like to improve the roads, but for a lot of people, their first thought is how to afford filling up their tank or paying their mortgage. A lot of people are facing hard times and a sales tax would hurt those people the most. I can't in good conscious support raising the sales tax this year and I'll be a no vote.

As I'll piggyback on Councilman Goddard, We did talk with the car dealers. We are going to start a local campaign as it was back in prior to COVID as I'm hearing. Again, we are going to let our residents vote on this, not just one district, but all five districts. Our roadways, our infrastructure is taking a beating from the amount of people that have moved up here in the last 10 years. If they are so concerned of our lack of infrastructure, our lack of roadways, then their votes will come out to how they're going to vote on this. Madam Clerk, will you take the vote?

Council Member Godin? Yes. Council Member Irving? Yes. Council Member Mora?

No.

Mayor Pro Tem Harriman?

No.

Mayor Becerra?

Yes.

Motion fails.

Motion fails?

Yes. It's a four-fifths vote. You have two no's.

Okay. We've now taken action to deny points four through seven of staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. We're going to move on to the consent calendar, items four through 14. Madam Clerk, will you take, oh, I'll invite a motion for this item.

Move to adopt the consent calendar.

Second.

Madam Clerk, will you take the vote?

Council member go down. Yes, Council member Irving. Yes, Council member Maura. Yes, Mayor Pro Tem Harriman. Yes, Mayor Becerra. Yes, motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action on items 4 through 14 in accordance with the recommendation as set forth on the agenda. Item 15. Platform access services agreement CF 27-006, a professional service agreement for hardware and software costs provided by city to tech.

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the council. This item involves a professional services contract that's intended to purchase services that involve AI cameras that can be used to enhance our code enforcement efforts. And so with that, we do have this item authored by George Duran, who can tee things up. And there's a brief presentation he and Mr. Michael Kaplan OF THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF SALES FOR CITY DETECT. THEY'RE AVAILABLE FOR PRESENTATION.

NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU MR. METZLER. GOOD EVENING. THE CODE COMPLIANCE DEPARTMENT IS PLEASED TO INTRODUCE THE INTEGRATION OF CITY DETECTS AI POWERED INSPECTION SYSTEMS INTO OUR CITY OPERATIONS. BY LEVERAGING CITY DETECTS ADVANCED AI TECHNOLOGY WE CAN SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCE OUR OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY streamline our compliance processes, and expedite our ability to seek voluntary compliance from property owners, resulting in noticeable improved property maintenance standards throughout both private and public areas. The key system benefits. Improved efficiency automating routine inspections allows will allow our field staff to focus on critical inspections and enforcement activities such as homeless outreach. We debatement and addressing severely blighted structures working together with city detect staff, we will establish blight levels. Where upon review by code compliance staff member, we will quickly determine the need to either provide a courtesy notice. To a property owner or move forward with our established compliance protocols. Another system benefit data driven decision making. Ai analytics provide actionable insights enabling proactive code compliance and tailored resource allocation over time we can determine if compliance was achieved through voluntary compliance. Another system benefit enhance productivity. Faster processing of reports and inspections reduces response times, as an example. Our community enhancement program, which we've had for a couple of years, the program required staff to pre-inspect locations for community violations. Then staff would return and issue a notice to property owners. 30 days later or so, a follow-up inspection would be completed. to gauge if the violations were corrected, prompted by the notice. If not, staff would proceed with a compliance action. City Detect will essentially reduce this process by half. Cost savings. Streamlined operations will lower administrative costs and optimize workforce development, allowing code enforcement officers to address other city objectives such as homeless outreach, park patrols, illegal dumping, and again, neglected structures, and various parking violations. Implementing City Detect's AI solutions will position our department to better serve our community while fostering more efficient and responsive governance framework. With that, Mr. Mike Kaplan with City Detect will now provide a brief presentation to highlight the system features and benefits.

Good. Thank you, George. Hi, I'm Mike Kaplan from City Detects. And so City Detect has been around for about five years. We were founded on the idea that we wanted to fight blight and make communities a better place to live. And we've done that. And we've also, in turn, reduced costs for cities and enabled them to perform a lot more of the critical functions of code enforcement and public works rather than having a complaint-driven process. So we turned complaint-driven process into a proactive process. So what we do is we mount cameras to your street sweepers and code enforcement vehicles. We collect imagery from all the parcels and all the roadside conditions in town as those municipal vehicles roll around town. And then we put that into our software, which is used by the code enforcement and public works folks. to then make lists of issues that they want to abate or send crews out to abate, such as illegal dumping and tires on the side of the road, shopping carts, things like that, as well as parcel-based violations, which could be blight conditions or tarps on roofs, cars on lawns, things like that. So as you can see in the photo here, it's a small camera. There's no intervention required by the driver of the vehicle. They just hop in and drive. The camera works automatically. There's two sides to this, parcel side and road side. Parcel side of the detection sets looks at degradation markers for blight on each parcel and marks them for you easily so it can be reviewed by a code officer. And this is a short video. So you can see it happens rather quickly. And if you imagine a code officer receiving a complaint and going out to an individual property and taking a picture and coming back and filing a report and then sending a courtesy notice out, we can actually do that for the entire city every 30 days as the vehicles capture the data. And so that we're not being complaint driven, we're actually being proactive and we're able to solve these problems rapidly to stem the flow of blight. So in the actual software, you'll see a map of the city with different colors on it. Green is good. Red is bad. And if we zoom in, we can see individual parcels. And if you click on a red one, you might see some blight. Here's a truck on a lawn and some overgrowth. It looks like we've detected on the left there, you can see we detected a dead patch and a vehicle on the lawn. So the code officer may be just looking for cars on lawns that day. In their workflow, they would see this picture and say, yep, there's a car on the lawn. We'd like to send them a courtesy notice and say, hey, you can't park on the lawn. The next month when another picture is taken, if the car is still there and the lawn still has a big dead patch on it, you can remind them again or whatever the workflow is until enforcement. In this particular case, this is six months earlier. We do have history for each. As you can see on the bottom, this particular parcel only has two pictures. But as you drive through over the months and years, you'll see the entire history of the property. So this is only six months before. And then six months later, you've got a blighted property. So it can happen rather quickly. And without regular observation, it can spread. Within the web application, this is the view that your code officers will see. And it has a lot of good information for them to make this determination. The AI that we're using is not generative AI. It's not your chat GPT or anything like that. It's actually the oldest form of AI, which is object detection. We're literally just looking at the picture and saying, out of the international property maintenance code, here are the violations that we see from that code. And on a roadside condition, oh, that's a shopping cart. That's an abandoned vehicle. That's graffiti. So we're only looking at object detection. We're not making inferences or pulling things out of generative AI at all. So here's an example of a list that's made. In this case, it looks like we're looking for boarded up windows. And they're all blight level four, which is the highest blight level. Blight levels are not determined by us. Blight levels are determined by the code enforcement agency. We work very closely and ongoing with each city to make sure that we're capturing the things that they want to capture. What is a four? What is a one in your city? And the nice effect of that is that now we're being proactive, but we're also being equal across the city. So we're making the same detections in every neighborhood and having the same criteria for those detections. So voluntary compliance is a great example of how our system is used. In Stockton, we've put together a nice campaign with them where we were doing a series of educational letters to properties they determined were three or four blight levels. And they got up to 80% voluntary compliance on those. Very, very effective. And that freed up the code department, which had limited resources to be able to really just go after the most egregious things rather than having to respond to complaints for things like the stuff that was voluntary compliance available. The other side of this is roadside detection. So we look at litter, debris, illegal dumping, unhoused encampments, graffiti. We've added shopping carts recently and abandoned vehicles, even trash cans if you have that issue where people leave trash cans out. Each of those detections have been partnerships with cities that said, hey, we have this particular issue and we want to address it. So we've been able to work with cities to address their particular issues and spin up these object detection models to do things like abate shopping carts all over town or tires or things like that. It's the same type of thing as the parcel-based. You create the lists. It's just a little bit different workflow because you're sending a different crew out to do this. In Columbia, South Carolina, we partnered with them to do a big litter and debris campaign and it was very successful. I want to show you just a quick video of our models in action. This is not actually how the system works. It's just a visualization of how we capture things. In this case, graffiti. And then later in the video, separately, our trash model. And you'll notice in the graffiti model, we don't, like the art that we saw today, we don't detect art or murals. we only detect graffiti so we won't be flagging the uh the students art that's on the uh on the utility boxes and this one doesn't have sound but you can see that uh we're rolling through i believe this is atlanta georgia um and detecting graffiti but not murals and uh you know that gets put on the map and then you can direct The crew, we actually provide them. Here's the litter model. We provide a route for them to go and abate each issue. One of the things I get asked is, how fast can the car go? And of course, in city streets, we're not going that fast. But as you can see, we're speeding up here, probably going about 40 miles an hour eventually, and still capturing all the litter going by. Actually, our cameras can capture issues at up to 55 miles an hour. And so here is a roadside map with the roadside condition. They can put notes in. You'll notice it says City Works in the lower left. That's this particular integration with their ticketing system. You can have a few different integrations. So if you have a different ticketing system for trash and graffiti from code enforcement, that can be done so things flow nicely into your existing systems. And then we provide that optimized routing for them to go abate these conditions. We also provide executive reporting for you all. With the GIS data that we use, we can separate out the data by city council district and provide ongoing reports about how that area is doing. We also do customized reports. If there's something you'd like to see, you can just ask us, and we can create a report for you. And I just want to reiterate what this is and what this is not. This is proactive property condition detection. It's a tool for staff to support their work. It's public right-of-way image capture, just like Google Street View. It's actually even a little more private than your current system of taking pictures and the code enforcement officers taking pictures, because we do blur license plates and faces in all the pictures, which I don't think you currently do with your current system. Um, what this is not is not staff replacement. We're not trying to replace anybody. Um, you know, you still need code enforcement officers for this for the human review and for the work that they that they do. Um, it's not automated anyway. We're not sending out notices automatically. We're not generating notices automatically. As a matter of fact, the notices we generate, we partner with you to make sure that it's, you know, if you want it to be on your letterhead or however you want it to look. Whatever campaign you want to run, we can make the letters look nice and look the way you want them to. And it's not public safety surveillance. We're not PD. We're not law enforcement. And we do blur faces and license plates for privacy, as you can see in this photo. So there's actually two license plates, one over there in the back and then one in the foreground, and then a person whose face is blurred there. As I mentioned before, all of our customers help us innovate. And every city is unique. Every city has different issues and different priorities. And we don't just drop this equipment off at the curb and tell you goodbye once you buy it. It's an ongoing partnership. And we work with you on a biweekly or a monthly basis, depending on your need, to make sure that the programs are working and that they're efficient and that you're saving time and money using this, because that is our mission.

that's it thank you thank you sir madam clerk would you please read the recommendation that the honorable city council approved platform access and service agreement cf27-006 for professional services provided by city to deck for an initial term of three years and authorize the city manager or city attorney to make non-substantive changes to the agreement

Thank you, ma'am. At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Mayor Patam-Harriman?

Yeah. Does the- Mayor Patam-Harriman, ask Mr. Metzler. Does it have the ability to check tags on driver's license plates, or is it- license plate reader at all?

There's not a license plate reader at all. As a matter of fact, we blur license plates in all of our photos.

Okay, yeah, I heard you say that. So this would not be helping us with cars parked in the street in the way of the street cleaner?

We can identify things like abandoned vehicles by markers, you know, object detection markers. Say it's, you know, the hood is up or it's smashed up beyond recognition or There's cobwebs in the wheel wells, and it's been there for two cycles. We can determine that maybe it's an abandoned car, and then it goes for human review. So you look at the picture, and you go, oh, yeah, that's abandoned. We can also, we were talking earlier about semi-trucks parked in residential areas. So we know what a semi-truck looks like. We know what an RV looks like. So we can identify them. But we're not going to identify them by their license tag. I don't know what the workflow would be for you with that, but we can identify the ones there.

On homeless encampment, George does a very good job keeping that under control in our city, but it does happen. What is the distance, the maximum distance from the camera to an object? Because sometimes they're out a couple hundred yards.

If you can imagine, it's... Relatively close. So a few hundred yards would probably be pushing it. But if it shows up large enough in the photograph, we can see it. In other words, so if it's too small in the photograph and maybe just looks, it might show up as litter. It might show up as illegal dumping. Early on, we were kind of equating shopping carts with homeless encampments just because they tended to go together. But yeah, so if they're hidden or they're, you know, we're not looking from above, we're looking from the street. So what we can see from the street and what we can see reasonably, you know, reasonably sized in the photograph.

And this one's for Mr. Durand. How are we going to distribute the six cameras? Are we going to put them on some of the code enforcement vehicles or a homeless task force or street cleaner? How are we going to do that?

Yeah, so they're going to go on street sweepers. That's our plan. We needed to identify a mechanism, a vehicle, servicers of vehicles that systematically go through the city. Street sweepers do exactly that. We will equip a code enforcement vehicle as well. And we'll start with that to see how this starts. But we definitely needed to identify, again, a mechanism that routinely goes through the areas that we intend to get help with.

Okay.

Thank you. That's all I have.

Council and more.

Okay, so one of the question is, did the cameras ever get damaged and is that like a frequent issue and how was the process to repair them is that included in this contract price.

It is included, yes, actually you're leasing the cameras for the months were responsible for them and for their operation. It's, of course, in both of our best interests to make sure they're working. As a matter of fact, we have the Lancaster. And they have a camera down now. I'm going tomorrow to go help fix it. And yeah, we do it within 36 hours. I think it's 36 hours is the SLA for that.

And then I know that the faces and the license plates are blocked out. Let's say there is a street sweeper around the area that a crime just happened. Is police going to be able to have access to some of the video footages for evidence?

We do not collect video we only click photographs and it is entirely up to the city, how they share the data.

Okay, and then my last question is how long does it take the to establish the blight levels with our code enforcement.

So that happens during our onboarding. So we look at representative photos and photos for the first month or so of capture and say, are you worried about the paint on the trim of the garage more than the boarded up window? And then we kind of group them. So to get to a four, you need to have two or three of those sort of egregious, like a tarp on a roof and a broken window and a car on the lawn. That'll be a four. A three might be just two of those or some other condition. But we can mix and match all of the conditions to create the blight scores that apply to your city.

And I'm sorry, last question was, who's going to have access to these images? Is it our code enforcement? Do they receive a report, or will they have their own access to this portal?

Yeah, code enforcement has access. We do provide as many seats as you'd like. So if Public Works or the graffiti abatement team needs access, things like that, we do single sign-on for access so that you can manage the access through the IT department.

OK, well, thank you.

Councilman go down. Thank you, Madam Mayor, I did have a question you mentioned that the camera identifies degradation markers, so I have two questions related to this number one do we get to customize what those markers will be and, secondly. What are they can they be like because I saw some houses that had like leads, so it can identify like if the weeds are too tall.

So it's literally mapped to the international property maintenance code so it's any issue that is addressed there so it's going to be tall weeds to like I said paint trim anomalies or cracked driveways or anything that's a property maintenance code violation. Okay, and so then we're able to customize that towards issues that would be pertinent to our area correct yeah yeah if there's issues that we detect that you know are popping up and creating noise in the system that you don't care about we can take those out. And then again we partner with cities that there's something that's unique to your city when we came out to the desert, you know we're in desert hot springs were in cathedral city we're in Lancaster. When we first came out, you know we were coming from the southeast. Where it's very lush and green, and so we had to retrain some models to you know, to say this is not a blighted yard, this is, you know, this is desert landscaping.

Okay, thank you.

Councilman every. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I have a lot of questions. I find this fascinating. So first of all, I want to say because Victorville has a proactive approach with regard to code enforcement, I'm certain that a tool like this will be very useful. And I say tool because while I understand that this program captures data and what we do with it is up to us, more or less the way we the way we put in certain markers. I understand that. My question is to Mr. Duran, if that's okay with Mr. Metzler. Capturing this data in no way, form, or fashion will replace or impact our processes. For example, the complaint process, is that correct?

That's correct.

Okay, because I think that the human element Is necessary also when we are going around capturing data, sometimes you know we hear often that their families that have fallen on hard times, because maybe someone's sick or ill that due process. component will still be in place is that correct absolutely correct. Okay, so the other thing that I wanted to know is I understand that this gentleman can generate reports. He can customize reports. This is to Mr. Metzler. Will we have access to those reports upon request?

Yes, yeah.

So if I want to pull data about District 5?

Yeah, we could review that with you. We'd probably, yeah.

Well i'm excited about it, thank you very much, so good job, Mr turn into your department, thank you.

Mr master if I may what turns the cameras off and on what turns the cameras off.

Geo geolocation so when the street sweeper comes in to the yard at the end of the day, we have a geo fence around the area that we don't want to capture. If it's a code enforcement vehicle, and maybe in some cities code enforcement officers drive those home and stay at home with them, we can put a geofence around their neighborhood so that they're not capturing their house every time they leave the house. So when the street sweeper pulls into the yard, we're not capturing data on the way in. And then when the power is turned off on the vehicle, the power goes off on the unit. Data is continuously uploaded. We do have some reserve power in there to upload the rest of the data once it's parked. But once that's done, it's ready for the next day. Does that answer the question?

The only thing I would think about, our sweepers have deadhead miles. So which means they go to an area, we're divided up into, and I don't remember, we were divided up into four or five areas. And they have to come all the way from one end of town to the other. And they don't go at sweeping speed. They can lift up their brooms and they come in. I would probably want to see if they could be connected more to when the brooms go down and hit the ground to start sweeping. Then it turns the cameras on. Because if not, you're going to get Palmdale Road, which is not ours, 10 times because that's where our yard is where we dump.

Got it. Yeah, yeah. And we can geofence those areas if you don't want to detect them.

OK. Now this question, if I may. This is for Mr. Duran. Are we going to start with tickets or warning? Because our citizens can't afford tickets, and they're not going to be able to pay the tickets. So.

This is going to start with as a warning. This is no different, really, than the Victor Bell Now app. It's just basically another mechanism for us to be alerted of. of a violation, and as Mike indicated, once it follows the criteria of writing whether it needs a courtesy notice or it's a for, where we determine it's perhaps a structure that almost needs to be demolished, we'll determine whether it makes an enforcement case, which follows our typical compliance process, a notice of violation, time frame to comply, potentially a notice of pendency, a lien basically on the property, it follows that progressive process. If it's so severe, but if it's, I think what we're going to capture are minor to moderate violations, say a car parked on the lawn, that maybe a courtesy notice will remind most residents and say, you know, you're not really supposed to park there, and that corrects it. And that's kind of what we're aiming for is a voluntary compliance approach to I think most folks would comply and just need a very simple courtesy notice and correct it, which eventually translates into visual compliance in the masses.

All right. Thank you. Madam Mayor, do I have any time left? Yes. Huh?

58 seconds.

OK. So one of the things that bugs me the most is cars parked in the front yard. so but i you know people go to work and then they come in the evening is it able to detect the marks that a vehicle makes so you the vehicle really doesn't have to be there to detect if it's parking there and then the other question are we going to be sending photographs with the warnings

So to answer your first question, if the lawn is being ruined by the car being parked there, yes, we will detect that. It won't be detected as a car on the lawn, but it will be detected as a dead patch in the lawn. And the second question is up to George, but we are able to.

I would say likely yes. I think the most common response we get from owners is, what are you talking about? What is this? So I mean, obviously adding a picture to that just helps them understand what we're trying to convey to them. Thanks.

I'll invite a motion for this item. Move to adopt staff recommendation as to points one and two as presented on the agenda. Second.

Oh, OK.

I have a first by Councilwoman Goddard and a second by Mayor Patel-Harriman. Councilwoman Goddard, comments on the pending motion? I have no comments. Mayor Patel-Harriman?

Yeah, I think this is great. I understand the concept that we're going to warn people, okay? And we all know how angry people get. But the whole concept, I think, is a great idea. And now I know why Keith said we don't need two extra coded force officers. All right? So that's all I have. Councilman Mora?

I think it's a great tool to give our code enforcement teams to just help kind of alleviate some of that scanning. I know our Victorville Now app does work well, but this definitely gives you some actual faster documentation to help support you in your needs. So I definitely appreciate any tools that we could give our staff and our team. So thank you. Council Member Irving?

Yes. My comment is the use of this kind of technology will be a great tool for our department to perform more efficiently and serve the community. Thank you.

I know it's not you, George. It's us. But for someone to put rock in their front yard because it's not landscaped, they've got to feed their kids. They've got to put gas in the car. So dirt, rock, or they get a ticket. Madam Clerk, will you please take the vote?

Council Member Goddion?

Yes.

Council Member Irving? Yes. Council Member Mora?

Yes.

Mayor Partem Harriman?

Yes.

Mayor Becerra? No. Motion passes with Mayor Becerra voting no.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 16, approval of agreements with five consultants for an on-call environmental services. Mr. Metzler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the Council, routinely as a preliminary function to design or even construction of public improvements. It is helpful to us to have access to on-call professional engineering services. And effectively that's what these five consultants perform for us so that we can reach out on an on-call basis to these pre-approved service providers. And effectively this item is seeking approval of the five contracts up to $125,000 each. That's not to mean that we will spend the $125,000. BUT IT CERTAINLY AUTHORIZES UP TO IN EACH OF THOSE CASES TO THE EXTENT THE AMOUNTS ARE GOING TO EXCEED, THEN WE'LL ULTIMATELY BRING THEM BACK TO YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. IT'S NOT UNCOMMON TO HAVE ON CALL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIKE THIS SO THAT WE CAN DO SOME OF THAT PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING RELATED WORK WITHOUT DELAYING THE ACTUAL EFFORT AND HAVING TO COME BACK TO COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL. AND SO WITH THAT, THIS ITEM IS AUTHORED BY YOUR CITY ENGINEER, MR. FREDDIE BONILLA. And he's available for any questions or comments you might have.

Thank you, Mr. Fetzer. Madam Clerk, would you please read the recommendation?

That the honorable city council approve a consultant professional services provider agreement with five consultants. One doc and engineering to a corp consulting Inc three environmental planning development solutions Inc for place works Inc five ultra systems environmental Inc in an amount not to exceed $125,000 each for on call environmental services over the initial term of one year.

Thank you them at this time we'll do technical questions and Council members Councilman more.

have none thank you councilman godin i have none thank you councilman irving no questions thank you mayor tim harriman yeah um uh this question's for freddie down all right hey freddie are when they bill do they build by the hour

Good evening, Madam Mayor, members of Council. Typically what we do on these on-call contracts is we will issue a work order request to all of the five on-call vendors and get proposals from them on a not-to-exceed basis, and it depends on availability and obviously proposal, the total proposal cost on which we base our selection on. So hourly rates is a part of it, but it is not a time and material. Each individual task will have a not-to-exceed fee. Associated with it.

So so they're essentially bidding on doing the work and That pit they're limited at a hundred and twenty five thousand dollars each. Correct. Okay. All right.

Thank you And my question will be for mr. Benster Mr. Metzler with us maybe not having now such a big a big CIP We may not need to spend all this, correct

Well, we just adopted the budget, and so certainly you've got a scope of work that we've got planned for this upcoming fiscal year, so it doesn't change the need for these services.

Thank you. I'll invite a motion for this item.

Move to approve staff recommendation.

Second. First by Mayor Tim Harriman, second by Councilman Godin. Mayor Tim Harriman comments on the pending motion?

I have none.

Councilman Godin? None, thank you. Councilman Mora? I have none, thank you. Councilwoman Irving?

No comments, thank you.

Madam Clerk, will you take the vote, please?

Councilmember Goddard? Yes. Councilmember Irving? Yes. Councilmember Mora?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Harriman? Yes. Mayor Becerra?

Yes.

Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Madam Clerk, we're going to take a five-minute break, please.

How was that for you? out here

Thank you.

Yeah.

I now bring the meeting back to order. We'll move on to item 17, general service provider agreement with Quinn Company DBA Quinn Power Systems for generator screen replacements at Highway 395 booster station and well 140 sites. Mr. Mentzer, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the council. This item involves the purchase of replacement screens at two of our well site locations. These are actual digital screens, which actually help serve as controls for those systems. And so with that, this item is to order those, but also we do have an update to the staff report because we did catch some errors that needed to be corrected. And so in addition to bringing this item to you for the purchase of that equipment, the item is being brought to you because the item does exceed in the aggregate the purchasing authority of the city manager. But through this item, we also identified Because of some recurring operating expenses we had actually already exceeded the purchasing authority on this contract that is shared across multiple departments throughout the city and so in addition to the purchase of the screens this item also does ratify those expenses that had exceeded the city managers purchasing authority of $125,000 And so with that, this item has been authored by your Director of Public Works and Water, and he's available for any questions or comments you might have.

Thank you very much. Madam Clerk, will you please read the recommendation?

The revised recommendation reads that the Honorable City Council, also sitting as the Victorville Water District Board of Directors and Southern California Logistics Airport Authority Board of Directors, approve the following. One, ratify year-to-date expenses exceeding the city manager's authority in the amount of $24,881.25. Two, approve the General Services Provider Agreement, project number CFC26-140, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $17,294.32. AND THREE, APPROVE AN ADDITIONAL $7,713.67 FOR QUINN COMPANY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025-2026.

NEW SPEAKER THIS TIME WE'LL DO TECHNOLOGICAL QUESTIONS FROM COUNCILMEMBERS. COUNCILWOMEN GO DOWN. NEW SPEAKER I HAVE NONE. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. NEW SPEAKER COUNCILWOMAN IRVING.

NEW SPEAKER NO QUESTIONS. THANK YOU.

NEW SPEAKER COUNCILWOMAN MORA. NEW SPEAKER I HAVE NONE. THANK YOU. NEW SPEAKER MAYOR PORTEMP-HERMAN. NEW SPEAKER YES.

Are the screens just burn out from the sun?

No, they have a useful life. So this is more of a preventative measure so that they don't go out when we actually need them. Okay. That's all I have.

I'll invite a motion for this item. Move to adopt staff recommendation as presented in the agenda.

Second. The first by council to go down a second by member Tim Herman comes to go down comments on the pending motion.

No comments. Thank you.

Come member Tim Herman. I have not. Councilman Irving.

No comments.

Thank you.

Uh, Councilman Maura. I haven't done. Thank you. Madam clerk, will you take the vote please?

Council member go down. Yes. Council member Irving. Yes. Council member Maura. Yes. Mayor part time. Harriman. Yes. Mayor Becerra. Yes. Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 18, fiscal year's 2026-2027 contract renewals, annual supply service agreements. Mr. Metzler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the Council. This item is an item that we routinely bring to you immediately after the adoption of the fiscal year budget. And effectively, this item, with the budget being approved, authorizes basically the one-year annual extension to the multi-year contracts, what we have with a number of ANNUAL SUPPLY AND SERVICE PROVIDERS IN MOST CASES, IF NOT ALL CASES, WHERE THEY HAVE VALUES THAT EXCEED THE CITY MANAGERS PURCHASING AUTHORITY. SO YOU'VE GOT A LONG VOLUMINOUS LIST OF THOSE SERVICE PROVIDERS THAT ARE SHARED AND OR USED BY SPECIFIC DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT the city, and this is what we rely on to provide a number of services. And so with that, this item is authorized, I'm sorry, authored by your finance director, Ms. Carmen Coon, and she's available for any questions or comments you might have. Thank you, sir. Madam Clerk, would you please read the recommendation?

that the Honorable City Council Board of Directors award contract renewals for the annual supply and service agreements to various vendors and suppliers for fiscal year 2026-2027 per the adopted budget approved on June 2nd, 2026. Thank you, ma'am.

With this, I will do technical questions from council members.

Mayor Pacham-Harriman. Do we... LOOK AT DO WE TRY TO KEEP BUSINESS HERE AT HOME IN THE HIGH DESERT?

NEW SPEAKER WE DO.

NEW SPEAKER OKAY. THAT'S ALL.

NEW SPEAKER COUNCILWOMAN GODDIN. NEW SPEAKER I HAVE NONE. THANK YOU. NEW SPEAKER COUNCILWOMAN MORA. NEW SPEAKER I HAVE NONE. THANK YOU. NEW SPEAKER COUNCILWOMAN IRVING. NEW SPEAKER NO QUESTIONS. NEW SPEAKER I'LL INVITE A MOTION FOR THIS ITEM. NEW SPEAKER MOVE TO ADOPT STAFF RECOMMENDATION AS PRESENTED IN THE AGENDA.

NEW SPEAKER SECOND.

First by Councilman Godin and second by Mayor Pro Tem Harriman. Councilman Godin, comments on the pending motion? No comments. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Mayor Pro Tem Harriman?

I have none.

Councilman Irving?

No questions. I mean, excuse me, no comments.

Thank you. Councilman Mora? I have none. Thank you. Madam Clerk, will you take the vote?

Councilmember Godin?

Yes.

Councilmember Irving? Yes. Councilmember Mora? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Harriman? Yes. Mayor Becerra? Yes. Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 19, custom truck bed for public works traffic control vehicle. Mr. Mentzel, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the council. This item involves the sole source procurement of a truck bed to be fabricated to basically ultimately sat on a chassis A cabin chassis that's already been authorized for purchase by this Council basically to replace the current truck being used it's a 2000 vintage. truck experiencing mechanical failure and now in need of an engine. So what you can imagine, there's some illustrations in the staff report, but it's effectively an F550 sized vehicle with a custom box and a lift on the back. And this would be the utility that they use, if you will, to GO OUT AND WORK ON THE STREET SIGNS, INCLUDING THE STREET SIGNS ON TOP OF THE OR ATTACH TO THE SIGNAL POLLS. SO WITH THAT, THIS ITEM HAS BEEN AUTHORED BY YOUR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, MR. DOUG MATTHEWS. HE'S AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS YOU MIGHT HAVE. NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU, SIR.

MADAM CLARK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ THE RECOMMENDATION?

That the Honorable City Council find that precision aerial services Inc is the sole source manufacturer for the standardization procurement manufacturing. and installation of one custom truck bed and specialized equipment for a public works traffic maintenance vehicle and approve a sole source procurement in accordance with victorville municipal code. 2.28 point 100 be to and authorize the procurement manufacturing and installation of one custom truck bed. and specialized equipment in the amount of $124,704.85 to Precision Aerial Services, Inc. Thank you, ma'am.

At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Councilwoman Irving?

No questions, thank you.

Councilwoman Goddard?

None, thank you.

Councilwoman Mora? I have none, thank you. Mayor Patel-Merriman?

Yeah, I have one. This is just for the bed? This is for the bed, correct. Okay. I have no questions. No more.

I'll invite a motion for this item. Motion to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Second. I have no comments on the pending motion. Councilwoman Goddard? None. Thank you. Councilwoman Irving?

No comments. Thank you.

Councilwoman Mora? I have none. Thank you. Member Tim Harriman? Comments?

Yeah. That seems expensive to me. I've had At 550s, they never had lifts on them. But that's twice as much as I paid for a truck and a bed that is almost comparable to that, except other than the lift. Did that go out to a competitive? How did we do that? That's a lot.

That's more than comments. That would have been in questions. OK. That was then my comment. Madam Clerk, would you take the vote?

Council Member Godin? Yes. Council Member Irving? Yes. Council Member Mora?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Harriman?

No.

Mayor Becerra? Yes. Motion passes with Mayor Pro Tem Harriman voting no.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 20, Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Fund. Mr. Metzler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the council. This supplemental law enforcement services fund is effectively grant type funds that are received by the city on an annual basis. And typically when we do the budget for the upcoming fiscal year, we really don't have a way of knowing how much to receive. And so accordingly, we don't budget on the revenue and expense side. But when money is sent, we certainly do collect it and don't turn it away. And so effectively what this item is doing is reconciling the accounts and basically cleaning up so that we have A REVENUE AND EXPENSE BUDGET, AND AS YOU HAVE PROBABLY SEEN READING THE STAFF REPORT, THIS IS THE FUND THAT WE'VE BEEN USING BASICALLY TO HELP US EXPAND OUR USE OF TECHNOLOGY FOR THINGS LIKE THE DFR PROGRAM, WHICH IS THE DRONE FIRST RESPONDER, THE SHOT SPOTTER PROGRAM, AND THE ALPR PROGRAM. SO WITH THAT, THE ITEM HAS BEEN AUTHORED BY YOUR DEPUTY CITY MANAGER, MR. TONY CAMARGO.

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 adopt resolution number 26-060 amending the annual budget for fiscal year 2025-2026 approving an increase in revenue and expenditures related to the supplemental law enforcement services fund at this time we'll do take

Council Member Mora. I have none. Thank you. Councilman Goddard.

I have none.

Councilman Irving.

No questions. Thank you.

Mayor Patel-Harriman. I have none. I'll invite a motion for this item.

Move to adopt staff recommendation as presented in the agenda.

Second. I have a first by Councilman Goddard and a second by Councilman Mora. Comments on the pending motion? Where we went through that? Me? Yeah. Sorry.

No comments.

Council Member Mora?

No comments, thank you.

Council Member Minerva?

No comments, thank you.

Mayor Pro Tem Harriman?

I have none.

Madam Clerk, will you take the vote?

Council Member Goddard? Yes. Council Member Irving? Yes. Council Member Mora?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Harriman? Yes. Mayor Becerra?

Yes.

Motion passes unanimously.

We now take an action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 21, National Opioid Settlement Agreements. Mr. Metzler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the Council. Similar to the last item, this item largely is a cleanup or a reconciliation type item where we are the beneficiary of monies from the National Opioid Settlement. And with that, monies are directly distributed to us where we've used them for a number of purposes, including providing additional training for the Wellness Center, the Naloxone, and other FDA-approved drugs to reverse opioid overdoses and a number of other related purposes. And so with that, this item really is creating and appropriations on both the revenue and expense side so that the budget accounts connect. And so with that, this item also also is authored by your deputy city manager, Mr. Tony Camargo. He's available for any questions or comments you might have.

And could you please read the recommendation?

that the honorable city council adopt resolution number 26-059 amending the annual budget for fiscal year 2025-2026 approving an increase in revenue and expenditures related to the national opioid settlement agreements and authorize the city manager to use all opioid settlement fund disbursements including future funds in accordance with the list of opioid remediation uses approved in the opioid settlements

At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Mayor Pacham, Harriman? I have none. Councilman Mora? I have none, thank you. Councilman Gordian?

I have none, thank you.

Councilman Irving?

No questions, thank you. I'll invite a motion for this item. Move to adopt staff recommendation as to points one and two as presented on the agenda.

Second. I have a first by Councilman Godin, a second by Councilman Mora. Councilman Godin, comments on the pending motion? I have no comments, thank you. Councilman Mora?

I have none, thank you.

Councilman Irving?

No comments, thank you.

Mayor Patem-Hareman? I have none. Madam Clerk, will you take the vote, please?

Member Godin? Yes. Councilmember Irving? Yes. Councilmember Mora? Yes. Mayor Patem-Hareman?

Yes.

Mayor Becerra?

Yes.

Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 22, community facilities district CFD 2024-01, municipal services annual CFD report for 2025-2026 in consideration of a special tax levy for fiscal year 2026-2027. Mr. Rentschler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the Council. Back in December of 2024, and with the goal of trying to address some of our long-term fiscal sustainability needs, the City Council approved the formation of a citywide CFD to help serve as a collection mechanism To offset some of the economic impacts caused by new development that aren't otherwise paid paid by the new development just as a course of the traditional taxing structure we we have and so with that as a part of the formation of new development does annex in as a function of being conditioned through the development process. And so with that, we do have just a few. We're in the very early stages, but certainly expect as the city develops out, the annexations to this district will grow. But similar to the earlier items on the agenda, we're annually evaluating the cost of service, IN COMPARING THAT TO THE REVENUES TO BE GENERATED FROM THE RESPECTIVE DISTRICT. WE'VE DONE THAT CERTAINLY FOR THE CFD AND WITH THAT WE'VE EVALUATED THE NEED TO INCREASE TO HELP KEEP UP WITH COSTS AND DEFRAY THE COSTS AND NOT BE SUBJECTED TO THE EFFECTS OF INFLATION. And so with that, we do have a recommendation before you. We also do have our consultants from Web Financial Services that were involved in the original formation. Both Heidi Scheppe and Brent Howard are available via Zoom to answer any questions you might have. Also available certainly is your city engineer, Mr. Freddie Bonilla, who authored this item. He's available for any questions or comments you might have.

Thank you, sir.

Madam clerk, would you please read the recommendation that the honorable City Council adopt resolution number 26 dash 061 accepting the annual community facilities district report for fiscal year 2026 27 and approving the community facilities district 2024 dash 01. Municipal services special taxes levy for fiscal year 2026 27.

At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Councilor McOden?

I have none. Thank you.

Councilwoman Mora? I have none. Thank you. Councilwoman Irving?

No questions. Thank you.

Mayor Tim Harriman?

Yeah. Just for clarification, Mr. Metzler, we have the ability to reapportion that down to the 3.28%.

You have the ability to charge up to a certain amount, and that up to is either CPI or 5%, whichever is greater. Okay. Thank you.

I'll invite a motion for this item.

Move to adopt staff recommendation as presented in the agenda.

Second. I have a first by Councilman Goddard and second by Councilwoman Irving. Councilman Goddard, comments on the pending motion? I have none. Councilman Irving?

No comments, thank you.

Councilman Mora? I have none, thank you. Mayor Patem-Hareman?

I have none.

Madam Clerk, will you take the vote?

Councilmember Goddard? Yes. Councilmember Irving? Yes. Councilmember Mora? Yes. Mayor Patem-Hareman? Yes. Mayor Becerra? Yes. Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 23. consideration of resolution number VWD 26-003 and VWD 26-004 resolutions of the Board of Directors of Victorville Water District making it a determination to fix, levy, and collect standby charges for water improvement districts number one, water improvements for district number two, and for fiscal year 2026-2027. Mr. Metzler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the Council. This item is an item that is routine to you on an annual basis as the water district prior to actually transitioning the water district under city control. you did have two different districts providing water services to your residents, that being the Baldy Mesa Water District and the Victor Valley Water District. And so with those districts, when they conducted business themselves as a part of the transition, we inherited these benefit assessment districts that they had already approved in place. And Uh, with one which we typically refer to as the district that was the former Victor Valley Water District. Uh, they had levied and we carried forward that levy on an annual basis by taking actions such as what you're considering tonight. And in the wid one district, you have properties, undeveloped properties within 660 feet of a water main that are levied a believe it's a $10. Um, per acre annual charge and then in with 2, uh, you have levied against all properties, um, in in the area basically to support, uh, the infrastructure improvements made, uh, to the order of 15 dollars per acre per year. And so with that, we do routinely consider this item on an annual basis as you're required. If you're going to continue with the assessment, you have to continue approving it on an annual basis. Otherwise, you have to restart the Prop 218 process all over again. 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.

Madam Clerk, would you please read the recommendation?

That the Honorable Victorville Water District Board of Directors Approve resolution number VWD 26-003, authorizing the Victorville Water District to initiate proceedings to fix, levy, and collect standby charges for Water Improvement District 1 for fiscal year 2026-2027. Approve resolution number VWD 26-004, authorizing the Victorville Water District to initiate proceedings to fix, levy, and collect standby charges for Water Improvement District 2 for fiscal year 2026-2027 and set July 21st, 2026 as the date for the public hearing for the purposes of hearing arguments for and against determinations to fix, levy, and collect water standby charges as set forth in the aforementioned resolutions.

At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Councilwoman Mora?

I have none. Thank you.

Councilman Goddard? I have none. Thank you. Councilman Irving?

No questions. Thank you.

Mayor Tim Herriman?

I have none.

I'll invite a motion for this item. Move to adopt staff recommendation as to points 1 through 3 as presented on the agenda. Second.

I have a first by Councilman Goddard and a second by Councilman Irving. Councilman Goddard, comments on the pending motion? I have none. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Councilwoman Irving?

No comments. Thank you.

Councilwoman Mora? I have none. Thank you. Mayor Tim Harriman?

I have none.

Madam Clerk, will you take the vote? Councilmember Godin? Yes.

Councilmember Irving? Yes. Councilmember Mora?

Yes.

Mayor Pretem Harriman?

Yes.

Mayor Becerra?

Yes.

Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 24, fiscal year 2025-2026, revenue budget amendment. Mr. Mentzel, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the council. This item, similar to others, is an attempt to just reconcile our books and get the appropriate amounts budgeted and in this particular case this is recognizing revenues coming in at a higher rate particularly on the code and animal control side of the I'm sorry the animal services side of the house where we've seen largely due to our proactive efforts we've actually seen An increase in the revenues resulting from their efforts and so with that this item really is the focus of getting the the proper appropriation increases to the revenue side of the city's budget so with that the item has been authored by your Code enforcement official. Mr. George Duran and he's available for any questions or comments.

You might have Thank You madam clerk. Would you please take the record read the recommendation?

That the Honorable City Council adopt resolution number 26-053, approving a budget amendment for fiscal year 2025-2026, increasing projected revenues within the code compliance department.

At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Councilwoman Mora? I have none. Thank you. Councilman Godin? I have none. Thank you. Councilman Irving? no questions thank you chairman i have none i'll invite a motion for this item move to adopt staff recommendation as presented in the agenda second first by councilman godin a second by councilman mora councilman godin comments on the penny motion i have none councilman mora i have none thank you councilman irving no comments thank you mayor tim harriman i have none madam clerk will you take the vote

Councilmember Godin. Yes. Councilmember Irving. Yes. Councilmember Mora. Yes. Mayor Pretem Harriman. Yes. Mayor Becerra. Yes. Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item 25, fiscal year 2026, 2027 training and travel schedule for city council members. Mr. Metzler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the council. This item is also routine, and we typically bring this item before you after the budget is approved for the upcoming fiscal year. And so within that budget, we did carry forward, similar to what we did last year, a number of educational and training events for the council. and largely because the policy and procedures manual that we have in place requires pre-approval by the council before travel is to be undertaken by respective council members. This item is to serve as that pre-approval, which certainly makes it easier for staff to be able to register in advance, be able to get the discounts that are offered for early registration and so forth. And so with that, this item is authored by your city clerk, Ms. Jennifer Thompson. And she's available for any questions or comments you might have.

Madam Clerk, would you please read the recommendation?

That your Honorable City Council direct staff which business events Council will attend during fiscal year 2026-2027 to allow sufficient time for registration and travel accommodations.

At this time, we'll do technical questions with Council Members. Councilwoman Mora?

I have none. Thank you.

Councilwoman Irving?

I don't have any questions. Thank you.

Council would go down. I have none. Thank you.

I have none.

I'll invite a motion for this item. Motion to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Second. I have no comments.

Part of me could could please clarify is is your recommendation for all council members to be able to attend? or particular ones so just providing that clarity would be helpful Council members or Council events count just Council members so you want to attend all the events and all the Council members that direction would be helpful okay um then I'll redo my motion thank you

motion to approve staff's recommendation for each council member to make up their own mind whether they want to go or not perfect okay second i have no comments on the pending motion councilman gordian comments from the penny motion i have none councilman mora i have none thank you councilman irving no comments mayor tim harriman i have none madam clerk will you take the vote

Councilmember Godin? Yes. Councilmember Irving? Yes. Councilmember Mora? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Harriman? Yes. Mayor Becerra?

Yes.

Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve what was on the agenda for staff's recommendation for the council. Item 26, analysis and feasibility of a 5K run eve. Mayor Pro Tem Harriman, since you requested this item, this is your introduction.

After reading the staff report, I can see we have enough activities, I guess, in the high desert. So I guess we'll pass on this. And like I said, with all the information that staff recommended, I can see there's plenty of activities, I guess, around. And the cost to do this would be a little or a lot more than I thought it would be.

Mr. Metzger, is there anything further you'd like to add?

Nothing further at this time.

Madam Clerk, would you please read the recommendation?

Any action is at the discretion of your honorable city council.

Thank you. At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members.

Councilwoman Mora? I just wanted to clarify. So in there, it says $76,000 to include restroom rental security personnel and $60,000 for professional services for a 5K coordinator. So it's a combined $76,000 plus $60,000 on page 1129?

I believe the 60 is inclusive of the 78. I'm sorry, 76 is how I read it.

OK. All right, thank you.

Councilman Goddard? I have no questions. Councilman Irving.

I do have a question. I need clarification. Didn't Mayor Pro Tem Harriman say he's pulling this?

No.

He didn't?

He's not. Well, I didn't use the word pulling, but yeah. Yes.

We're going to vote. OK. He didn't ask for a motion to pull the item, correct?

That is correct. What he indicated is that he basically noted that what staff had recommended he could support that because we've already got enough events.

So we're gonna vote on this?

I'd still like to do comments on this. Yeah, that's okay.

Not a problem, I don't have any comments, thank you.

Okay, I'll invite a motion for this item. Due to lack of motion, motion fails.

The item dies due to a lack of motion.

Thank you, ma'am. Just one comment.

Yes. I mean, I love the idea of doing the 5K. I don't like the price. But again, I'd like to recommend that we do coordinate with one of our agencies in our city. Our college would like us to coordinate with them too, just to kind of engage everyone and collaborate and not have to incur such a fee to just provide our community a wonderful outdoor event. So I think collaboration would help mitigate this cost to the city. But I still think it's a good idea, but we do do lots of events. So for next year. Thank you.

Is that a comment or a motion?

That's what I was going to just ask. If it's a motion, then let's put it on at 28.

No comments then.

Then we'll move on to item 27, city manager reports, Mr. Metzler.

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the Council. A few items to report on the community event side of things. We do have America's 250th anniversary celebration. That's where we're inviting the community to join us on July 4th for the America's 250 at Silverado High School. This event is going to feature food trucks, live entertainment, patriotic ceremonies, a concert, and a fireworks show. Parking is going to open at 5.30 p.m., gates open at 6, and festivities begin at 7 p.m. Admission is only $2 per person. Concerts in the park is kicking off, and we're pleased to bring back the annual concert series at Hook Park. Residents and visitors are invited to join free live music, family-friendly entertainment, and an evening in the park on July 10th, July 17th, and July 24th from 6.30 to 9 p.m. That's where we do have our Victorville sings competition and I did recently participate in some of the selection of those participants that are going to be At the concerts event and I can tell you firsthand. There's some really, really good talent. So certainly looking forward to a great competition. On the building side of the house, Dutch Brothers Coffee Shop, we're certainly pleased to announce that the new Dutch Brothers Coffee featuring drive-through service window received its temporary certificate of occupancy on June 8th. The business is located on the northeast corner of Palmdale Road and Cantina and represents another exciting addition to the city's growing commercial and retail offerings. On the engineering side of the House, we do have a rectangular rapid flashing beacons project as a part of the city's ongoing commitment to pedestrian safety work will begin on Monday June 22 to install crosswalk safety enhancements at nine locations throughout the city. The project includes replacement of concrete curb ramps and construction of foundations for the rapid flashing beacon units by the city's contractor, with the installation of the beacons being completed by the Public Works Traffic Division. And so work will begin near Hook Middle School at the intersection of Hook Boulevard and Rosemary Drive. That's all I have at this time, Madam Mayor.

Thank you, sir. This time we'll move on to item 28, discuss an impossible action regarding upcoming agenda items. Now, Councilwoman Mora.

For a future 5K, I think a great idea would be possibly collaborating with, let's say, the college. They already have, you know, you could walk around the lake. We won't have to set up barricades and that kind of thing. They have restrooms. But I think there's a lot of good partners in our community where we can kind of mitigate the cost if we were to do it on our own. And I know there's a lot of agencies who would love to partner with our city. So, that's all.

Do we have a second?

Second.

Madam Clerk?

Councilmember Goddard?

Yes.

Councilmember Irving? I want to say yes.

Yes. Yes.

Councilmember Mora?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Harriman?

Yes. Mayor Becerra? No. I have a question though isn't there going to be a do you have a cap on the cost.

I just suggested the partnership part, because we would have to mitigate we wouldn't have to hire the professionals and spend $60,000 on some of these things and it's just an option they have a lot of people want to partner, so I.

To my lovely colleague, maybe we should say this for the strategic.

I think we're having too much of a discussion. Correct. Mr. DiBernowski?

That is correct. We are having too much of a discussion. There should be a motion, a second, and a vote. OK.

so at this point um we we have all council members but then the mayor voting no were you wishing to retract your yes vote to a no council member i'm hesitant because we're not specifying like a cap on how much we want to spend just place it on a future agenda i believe so oh okay then let's let's go for it yes okay motion passes with mayor becerra voting no more anything else

No, thank you, Madam Mayor. Councilman Godin? I have nothing. Councilman Irving?

Nothing. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Mayor Patem-Hareman? I have nothing. And I have none. Item 29, reports from council members. Mayor Patem-Hareman?

Yeah. ATTENDING THE DESERT MOUNTAIN REGION AT SBCTA, WE VOTED ON THE CONTINGENCY FOR THE LOCATION OF THE WATER UTILITIES FOR $107,000, AND THAT WAS APPROVED. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. NEW SPEAKERS.

NEW SPEAKERS. NEW SPEAKERS. NEW SPEAKERS. NEW SPEAKERS. NEW SPEAKERS. NEW SPEAKERS. NEW SPEAKERS.

NEW SPEAKERS. NEW SPEAKERS. NEW SPEAKERS.

NEW SPEAKERS. NEW SPEAKERS.

I don't have anything to report, thank you.

To all the staff and everything out there, thank you for all the hard work you've put in on some of these items, not on some of them, every single one of them. Thank you very much for your work. We'll have some good days ahead of us. Thank you. The time is 826 and this meeting is adjourned.