City Council - Regular Meeting

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Okay. Are you guys back east or something? Okay. They said he hasn't gotten that. He does have, I went to a Dodger popular game once and he was in right field and there were some fans that were razzing him and turned around and flipped him off. He kind of put his glove in the way, but other than that, he usually doesn't get it like that.

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School got you going. Good evening. Today is Tuesday, September 1st, 2026, and the time is 5 p.m. The Victorville Library Board of Trustees, the Southern California Logistics Airport Authority, successor agency to the Redevelopment Agency, the City as a Housing Asset Successor, Joint Powers Finance Authority, and the Victorville Water District Madam Clerk, will you kindly call the roll?

Council Member Godown? Here. Council Member Irving? Present. Council Member Mora? Here. Mayor Pro Tem Harriman?

Here.

Mayor Becerra? Here. We have quorum.

Thank you, ma'am. We will now move on to introduction of public comments for closed session items. Madam Clerk, are there any requests to speak?

No, Madam Mayor.

Thank you very much. We will now turn it over to declaration of closed session items by Mr. D. Bernowski. The floor is yours, sir.

Thank you, Mayor Becerra. We have one item this evening. It is anticipated litigation pursuant to Government Code 54956.9 , one possible case. To the extent there's reportable action, we will report it either to the conclusion of the closed session or at the commencement of the regular 6 o'clock session.

Thank you, sir. The time is 5.01. We are now recessed to closed session. Yeah.

Let me find it.

Thank you. Yeah.

Tell me what. Don't be talking about that. No, it's Jenny. It's like that. Welcome, everyone, and good evening. Today is Tuesday, September 1, 2026, and the time is 6 PM. The regular meeting and the following will come to order. The Victorville City Council and the same council sitting as the Victorville Library Board of Trustees, the Southern California Logistics Report Authority, successor agency to the Redevelopment Agency, The city is a housing access assessor, joint powers finance authority in the Victorville Water District. Madam Clerk, will you kindly call the roll?

Council Member Goddard? Here. Council Member Irving? Here. Council Member Mora?

Here.

Mayor Pro Tem Harriman? Here. Mayor Becerra?

Here. We have quorum. Thank you, ma'am. We'll now move on to closed session announcement by our city attorney, Mr. D. Bernowski.

Thank you, Mayor Becerra. We had one item this evening. It was anticipated litigation pursuant to government code 54956.9D4 regarding one potential case. At this time, there is no reportable action with respect to that item.

Thank you, sir. If everyone would please stand for our invocation led by Pastor Carlo Mendoza with Sunrise Church. And our pledge will be led by Captain Jerry Davenport.

Thank you for having me once again. Please join me in a word of prayer. Father, we come to your throne of grace today, and we recognize your goodness toward us. We thank you for the favor that you've shown each and every one of us, even being able to gather here for the different items on the agenda. We invite your Holy Spirit to bring wisdom that is beyond ourselves, and I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to introduce to some and reintroduce to others our God who is never changing, our God who is all loving and wise. And so we just thank you that you're for us. And I ask, Father, that you would bless this meeting, bless all those involved and that There would be a collective unity and just a striving to be better, Lord, to just make the best choice to be selfless. And again, we ask for your blessing upon the city of Victorville and our country as well. In Jesus' name, amen.

Please place your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic. for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

At this time, Madam Clerk, will you present the agenda and any revisions thereto? Thank you, Madam Mayor. We have one revision to the agenda this evening for item two. We revised the subject section to read 11th Street instead of 11th Avenue. as it describes the general boundary of the Old Town specific plan. Additionally, attachment a ordinance number 2470 was revised to update the ordinance description to reflect the change in street name from 11th Avenue to 11th Street. That concludes our revisions to the agenda this evening, Madam Mayor.

Thank you very much. I asked my council. Are there any conflict of interest at this time? No, no, good to go. We'll keep moving on. We'll move on to public comment. 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 section 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 procedure 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 may request 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 is Mr. Fernandez on a non-agendized item.

Hi, council. You guys already know me, probably. Been here a couple times. I'm back here for the same thing. My daughter passed away six months ago. And there still hasn't been one ticket written for no accountability held to nobody. And I don't understand why. What's taking so long? There's proof that there was drinking at the house for social hosting. Why wasn't she cited? The driver was underage. underage driving out after curfew, why wasn't she cited? The 22-year-old that bought the alcohol for my daughter and the people in the car and the people at the house was not cited. Why wasn't he cited? And supposedly the person who ran over my daughter didn't get cited either. I don't understand. All the evidence is there. I see all the evidence. I don't understand. What's going on? It's been six months and nobody's even been taken in for fingerprints or questions, like no ticket, no nothing, but my daughter dies and everybody else goes home? This is ridiculous, man. This is so ridiculous, and I hope this doesn't happen to any of you guys, because it's a really fucked up feeling not to have justice and no accountability for this shit. It's ridiculous, and it's hurtful, and I'll be here every town meeting that there is until there is justice, until I find accountability for this. My daughter don't have a voice no more, but I'm here for her, and I will keep talking, and I will not shut up. And they have to be held accountable. Driving with no license, buying alcohol for minors, and the homeowner for having the minors drink there and letting them leave the house. And I can't believe that nobody's been cited or even given a ticket, but they all went home that day, except for my daughter. That's a bunch of crock. I don't understand. I don't know what's going on. And this isn't the only place that I come to express myself. I've been writing letters. I've been talking to the DA. I've been doing everything. And no one wants to seem to help. And I don't understand why or how. or who these individuals in the car knew. They had to know one of the cops, one of the deputies. And it's Deputy Moran, I bet you it is, that knows him. And he changed up the whole narrative because there's two narratives, three narratives, one from the passengers, one from the cops, and one from the paramedic. And they're all different. So how is that that their stories are all the same and nobody's getting cited? I don't understand. Please make sense of it. Please. Sometime soon. I'd appreciate it.

your time is up thank you madam mayor there are no additional speakers this evening either in person or via zoom thank you very much at this time we'll move on to public hearings our first business of order is item one turnout number five project notice approved notice of exemption award construction contract approval of amendment number four to a consultant professional services provider agreement, approval of a consultant professional service provider agreement with Merrill Johnson Engineering, Inc., and approval of a conveyance and water supply agreement with Mojave Water Agency. Mr. Metzler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the council. This project is one that's been a long time coming. We'd actually began the design back in 2017 so it's something that we've envisioned for for quite a while and ultimately is a public improvement that will provide an additional form of supply to our water system. We do have a brief presentation by Doug Matthews, your director of water, and he'll highlight what this project is specifically, but also touch on what is R cubed and how the whole R cubed system ties into our system and what it'll actually do to actually enhance the service that we provide to our residents. So with that, I'll turn it over to Mr. Matthews.

Thank you, and good evening, Madam Mayor and Council. We do have a brief presentation tonight, and like the city manager said, this is a long time coming, but we're at the finish line almost as we're looking to award a construction contract, which is great news. So a little bit about R-Cube, which is a regional recharge and recovery project. That started as a concept back in the 2000s with Mojave Water Agency of looking at a way to make use of their 89,000 acre feet a year allotment that they have from the state water project system from California coming from Northern California all the way down here to Silverwood. They don't always get 89,000 acre feet, but it could be cut ramp down to 5%, 10%, 50%, just depending on the year and the conditions. they do have water. So in wet years, the idea came up that let's store this water somewhere when we get it so we have it for later use, and hence helping with water supply reliability for the regional agencies here. And it was kind of a crazy idea because it was certainly a long pipeline and an expensive project, but it's something that got off the ground. Basically, it takes water out of, Lake Silverwood, it can be put into the Cedar Springs Dam and into the Mojave River, or it can be come through the Morongo Pipeline to the Deep Creek Rock Springs recharge area where they have basically a hydro facility to also generate electricity. So the water is put into the Mojave River south of Bear Valley Road, pretty far south. It gets into the aquifer for later reuse. There's a series of about six recovery wells that are downstream of that where they pump the water back out and they can convey that water through a pipeline all the way out past 395. So that's coming down there from basically the target area down there that far in Apple Valley all the way to serve various water agencies. It's stored and later recovered, so it really helps our water supply reliability for all the agencies, particularly those agencies further west that have more challenging water supply problems. Some of the numbers up there that are showing on the screen about the capacity, 15,000 acre feet per year and six recovery wells, just to put that into perspective. We pump about 25,000 acre feet a year. So that's about 60% of what we pump. So that's what that project can actually produce for us. It can go up to 40,000 acre feet when they get up to 22 recovery wells. Currently there's two reservoirs. One of them is owned by Mojave Water Agency, a two and a half million gallon or 2.65, I think we'll see later. And actually Victorville Water District didn't donate. They lease a reservoir, a 5 million gallon reservoir up west of 395 to help the project. The project was funded with almost entirely grant money, 35.5 million. They just didn't have enough to cover that last reservoir. We happen to have a reservoir that we built. We like to build these things ahead of time so we have them for us. So we wanted to see this project. This project helped us a lot. So we leased that reservoir for a dollar a year to Mojave Water Agency, but we do get benefit out of it. We will get that back at a time when we need it or well before that time, but it was essential for the project. One thing, too, I want to point out, too, is it needs to be thought of as a supplemental interruptible water supply, so it's not guaranteed. There's times it could be down and not available. So as in our case, we don't necessarily need to have this project, but we certainly take advantage of it. This is just some of the statistics that I kind of hit on already. There's 16 miles of transmission pipeline, like I said, running basically down from Apple Valley up past 395. We talked about the reservoirs, some of the capacity on there. There's a zone two pump station coming out of the 2.65 million gallon reservoir that has a 15,000 gallon minute capacity. Now it can go up to 25,000 gallons per minute. And you'll just see some of the other complexities of the system there as well. There are multiple turnouts. And basically, a turnout is just a connection to the pipeline. And that's what we would term a turnout. So that 12 inch to 48 diameter pipeline transmission line has multiple turnouts. Those turnouts can go to various water agencies. So as you can see on the screen, Victorville did get two turnouts when this was built, turnout three and turnout six. Hesperia has turnout four. They have one. Liberty Utilities actually gets a dedicated well pumping to their system just because of the proximity to the pipeline. So they just dedicated a well to be able to get them water as well. And then just recently, the city of Atalanta went ahead and was able to get a turnout to this system as well that was needed pretty badly. And there's just a few facts on how many feet of pipeline were on there. And they do have a booster pump at the turnout. This is just a map. If you look to the right, you're going to see where this starts. Let's see if I can zoom in here a little bit. That one's not showing on mine. But you can see the various turnouts. You can see the Zone 1 reservoir. You can see Turnout 3, Turnout 4 as you go along. And you can see the recovery wells in there as well. So the recharge would be to the bottom of the screen or south of those recovery wells where it's put into the aquifer for later recovery. You can see our Lepanto Reservoir, Zone 2 Reservoir out there at the very far left, and you see Turnouts 6 and 7 out there that serve Victorville and Adelanto. Adelanto's tank is north of 395. You can see it. I'm sorry, north of Bear Valley Road, but west of 395, and you can see it as you travel out that way, and that's where they take water as well. So our Turnout 5 project, this is a new one for us. It's been in the works a while. One of the things that held it up considerably was the Western Joshua Tree and the legislation and getting a final determination. So it was important that that got out of the way so we could finish design, figuring out how we could get this alignment to work. It will be a 1.25 mile, 24 inch pipeline. Let me get back to the screen I need. It will be it'll connect to the amethyst booster station so this pipeline is going to run from from the RQ pipeline to the amethyst boosted station and the interesting portion of that is that all the turnouts. Mojave Water Agency owns up to the metering station. So this metering station will be located on Victorville's Amethyst site right there. And the point of demarcation for ownership will be the meter coming out of that booster station or metering station. I'm sorry. So the R cube design capacity we talked about is 15,000 acre feet per year, we have to turn in requests every year for for water they're called ordinance nine requests and every retail agency has to put them in so. Currently there's only approximately 7,000 acre feet a year being requested, and basically that's between Atalanto and Victorville Water District. We use roughly 4,200 acre feet. We have 5,200 available, leaving another 1,000 that we can call for. But again, this can produce up to 15,000. So if need be, we could ask for more. We use this mostly for blending so it's a primary source to help control costs to be able to blend down our arsenic. that's in some of our wells that we find naturally occurring arsenic so we blend it below the maximum contaminant level has been determined so it's a big benefit to us. With that said, we obviously have a treatment facility for arsenic. So we don't have to rely on this. So when it is down, it's not a problem. We will run our wells. We will treat. But this is just a cheaper option for now. That shows the alignment. So you can see in the red rectangular, area up there is coming from Mesa Street up to Sycamore Street so the blue line at the bottom is the RQ pipeline and the red area is going to be where our pipeline comes to where it turns to the left up there or to the west and that will where it will terminate at a metering station. You can see we do have four reservoirs there. We have well 129. We have a big booster station there. So this offers us a lot of operational flexibility to be able to move water throughout our system. It's in a zone that can use the water for sure, but it can get to all the upper zones and it can feed also down to the lower zones. This is probably one of the best areas to be getting water from for our purposes. As a staff report indicates, they did put out bids for this, and they came in very competitive, but also under the engineer's estimate, which is good news. High Desert Underground was the winning bidder. Everything was checked out, and so the recommendation is to award that contract to High Desert Underground tonight. We've worked with them quite a bit and very good firm. They do really good work, so we're really happy about that. The construction contract itself for High Desert Underground is in the $5.3 million. We have construction support and monitoring from an engineering firm to help with shop drawings and whatnot and some environmental compliance issues. And then we have some materials testing and some construction inspection, which we put out to bid. And a firm was chosen for that as well. Total project costs, as you can see, there is about $5.7 million still under the engineer's estimate. funding is coming from 414 from our connection fees. This is an additional source of water for us. So that is where it's being funded. We do have a $1.1 million grant from Department of Water Resources. So that's a big benefit too. And one of the worries as we were getting into this Joshua Tree is they kept extending this grant. But at this point, we're up against the deadline. So we have to have this constructed by next June. So we want to be able to take advantage of this $1.1 million. So thankfully, this is here and ready to go. I believe the contractor is actually ordering pipe ahead of time to make this happen because this is reinforced concrete pipe. So it's CMLNC, concrete mortar line encoded. So It's just not something you get off the shelf very easily. So the interesting part about MWA's role is we are the lead agency on the pipeline construction. We did the design and we're doing, you know, a lot of the work to get this, put this out to bid and to do the inspections and whatnot. But, and we did it to MWA standards and specifications because like I stated earlier, They're going to own this. They own up to the metering station just like every other turnout they have. That's the point of demarcation. So we wanted to make sure it was something that, you know, would work in their system, was up to their standards and specifications. They've been very involved all the way along in the design. We've been great partners in getting this going. They'll be involved in the construction process, inspections and submittals as well. So that's what's kind of different tonight as well is we had to draft a water supply connection agreement as well as a conveyance agreement. And the conveyance agreement will turn these facilities over to Mojave Water Agency. But the caveat there is this facility will only serve Victorville Water District. So that is one of the reasons we're funding this is because we have three turnouts now and it's a valuable resource to us. The water supply connection agreement is similar to all the other turnouts where you have to add an agreement just stating how it's going to operate, you know, give them access to the site, certain things like that. So you have to have that as well with each one. And they're just updating that a little bit from the other ones, making it a little more current. And so the ask tonight in the agenda item is for the city manager to be able to execute these two agreements. I believe one of them is attached. I believe one of them, the draft is attached. And the other one is just a standard agreement that we'll be working through and working with our city attorney's office to make sure we're in good shape with it. I guess I didn't take my slides, did I? And I apologize. So the ask tonight approved the notice of exemption. We did do environmental on the pipeline and that was cleared. What we didn't have was for the actual our site where they're going to build the metering station. It's a notice of exemption because it's an already improved site. So that is one of the reasons that's on public hearing tonight. We want to award construction to High Desert Underground for $5.3 million. Approve the amendment to the professional services agreement with Civil Tech Engineering, who was a design engineer, to handle the services during construction for the engineering. Approve a professional services agreement with Merrill Johnson Engineering for the construction inspection and materials testing. And then again, authorize a general manager or city manager one and the same, to execute a conveyance and water supply connection agreement for Turnout 5, to execute both those agreements, the conveyance and the water supply connection agreement, two separate ones, one to dedicate facilities and the other one just for the operation and the agreement for the supply of water. Yeah, and with that, I'm certainly open to questions.

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

that the Honorable Board of Directors open and conduct the public hearing receiving testimony regarding the proposed capital improvement projects, close the public hearing, approve the notice of exemption and authorize staff to file the notice with the Office of Planning and Research and the County Clerk, award a construction contract to High Desert Underground Inc. in the amount of $5,323,535 the turnout number five project approve amendment number four to the consultant professional services provider agreement project number esc21-050 with civil tech engineering inc in an amount of 117 750 approve a consultant professional services provider agreement project number MS26-110 with Merrill Johnson Engineering Inc. for construction inspection and materials testing in an amount of $238,200 and authorized the general manager to execute a conveyance agreement with Mojave Water Agency for turnout five subject to minor edits to be approved by the general manager and board attorney. and authorized the general manager to execute a water supply connection agreement with Mojave Water Agency for Turnout 5, subject to the final review and approval by the general manager and board attorney.

Thank you very much. At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Council Member Godin? I have none. Thank you. Council Member Irving?

Just a brief clarification. You did say that Victorville is able to independently blend water

independently what i missed that last one linda's water without the assistance of this proposed water supply is that correct so what we do is we treat the water we have a treatment facility a coagulation filtration treatment facility that i believe you visited on your tour when we went over there so when we saw that it wasn't me okay so anyway we do have a facility where we we treat for our sick and and we treat it down but the Treatment costs, the chemical costs, the disposal, the brine and everything else is much more expensive than blending it. Blending it is just a matter of pumping the water up here and paying some fees to Mojave.

Okay, thank you. Council Member Mora.

Okay, so you're saying that this is going to be a valuable resource for the city. Going back to that solution is, what did you call it? Solution to pollution is dilution, right? Yes. So this will help maintain our city costs lower. and to provide future water for future growth in the community, right?

Absolutely.

Okay, no questions.

Mayor Tim Herman?

Yeah, hey, thanks, Doug. That was a great presentation. A couple questions. The metering site, that's the tanks on the south end of Amethyst?

Yeah, it's on the southwest corner, kind of. There was a crane a little bit further down. Not quite on the southwest corner. It's right near the bend down there.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. There was a crane there today doing some work. Is that preparing for the work to be done?

That's the well 129 rehab. Okay. So that well is being rehabbed. So I don't know pulling out or putting back in.

Oh, they're bailing it? Okay.

So they've been out a while. Okay. So all the equipment's out of the ground, and they're bailing the well at this point.

Okay. And then the – Did you say the project had to be completed by June or just started by June?

I believe the date would be the end of June. It has to be completed. Completion. There could be some flexibility if we get there. I'm sure we would beg and plead. Our goal is to get it there.

The R3 pipeline there just East of the freeway, is that the one that broke? Is that where the pipeline broke last year?

Yeah, it actually did, where it went down underneath. There were 245 bends, and there wasn't. That's true. Yeah, compaction issues caused that pipe to, it was just the pressure on the pipe just caused those wells to break.

And, well, I'll have some comments, but one last question. We have to go under all that new drainage or all that new reservoir infrastructure that the county did. Did the county do that?

Are you talking the big basin?

Yeah.

We are, no, no, we're, let me get my bearings right, east of it. Okay, okay, that's all I have, thanks.

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

No, Madam Mayor.

will now close the public hearing and i'll invite a motion for this item i'll move to approve staff recommendation as it pertains to points one through eight do i have a second second i have a first by mayor tim harriman a second by council member irving council member uh mayor tim harriman comments on the pending motion yeah high desert underground does excellent work i i and i've done work alongside them that was subbed to me from them but they have the highest uh that's the best underground company in the high desert i'm really glad to see a local contractor land this this work that's all that's what kind of gives us confidence that we can get it done by june 30th councilmember irving yes mr matthews i just want to say thank you to you and your team for the very fine work that you've done here

And based on your presentation, it sounds like this is a huge win for the city of Victorville. Thank you.

Thank you. Council Member Goddard. Mr. Matthews, I also echo my fellow council members. Thank you very much. Great presentation. Council Member Mora.

Thank you, Mr. Matthews, for always delivering. I appreciate it. And I'm really excited for this project, too.

I had all those comments on my paper. They all cheat. Mr. Matthews and Mr. Metzler, the grants just seem like they keep rolling in. So we, I think we're doing something very right, because they keep awarding them to us. So very good. Thank you. Where'd you go? Oh, thank you very much, sir. You're good. Madam Clerk, will you take the vote, please?

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 approved points three through eight of staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. Item two, public hearing an amendment to the old town specific plan with an environmental exemption to allow for various updates and changes, including but not limited to modified land use allowance, update signage, public art standards, and document revisions to correct inconsistencies with grammatical errors on property bounded roughly by the Mojave River, Stutterwells Road to the northeast, 11th Street to the east, and Mojave Drive and Verde Street to the south, and Interstate 15 to the northwest. Now that we're turned around, Mr. Metzler, you want to kindly introduce this item.

Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the council. This item involves your specific plan, which is much more focused regulatory document that really is geared towards trying to promote certain type of development in this case in the Old Town area with its own standards and so with that this item actually was presented to the Planning Commission on August 12th and was approved 5-0 to bring this item before you And so with that, we do have a brief presentation to discuss a little bit in better detail what this item is doing beyond what you see in the staff report. So at this time, I'll turn it over to Mr. Alex had to get your city plan.

Thank you, Mr. Messer, Madam Mayor, council members. Agenda item number two is proposed ordinance number 2470. As noted, it is an amendment to the Old Town specific plan. The Old Town specific plan or the OTSP warrants amendments to the plan when economic, social, or technical issues generate a need for an update and requires findings to be made that show no growth, development, use, or reuse of existing structures has occurred which may be attributed to the Old Town specific plan, that any updates provide clear benefits to the Old Town area, and that updates support improved delivery of services and public facilities to the Old Town community. Additionally, the Old Town specific plan requires proposed amendments to show that updates will have no negative effect on neighboring properties, that amendments align with the city's general plan, and that community conditions have shifted since adoption of the last amendment of the plan. At this time, staff can note that we have determined that the noted conditions are met and an Old Town specific plan amendment is needed at this time. Specifically, this proposed amendment addresses the following topics promotion of pedestrian activity and events such as updated standards for farmers markets. conformance with state law, including a updated at you enjoy at you standards and epic and applicability standards for low barrier navigation centers. clarified standards and regulations, this includes sign regulations, as well as regulations for public art and wall murals expanded land use allowances for transitional uses. And a general cleanup which, as noted, includes hyper graphical errors correction of those and land use inconsistencies throughout the specific plan. As the Council may recall from your last meeting, accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, and junior accessory dwelling units, or JADUs, have been subject to numerous updates to state law since the specific plan was last updated in 2023. This proposal this time makes changes to the land use table to allow ADUs in all residential zone districts as required by state law. As you'll note on the table before you, these are the districts now that are included with ADU allowances. Previously, this was only allowed in single-family home districts within the specific plan or residential medium density zones. Now it's been expanded to include multifamily districts as well as mixed-use zones that allow for residential development as required by state law. Additionally, this amendment will allow for JADUs in single-family zone districts, the specific plan, and provide a JADU definition where one was previously lacking. Additionally, this defaults all of the development standards for ADUs and JADUs to the recently discussed update to the municipal code, ordinance number 2469, which is on the agenda for adoption later this evening. Regarding low barrier navigation centers in the Old Towns Pacific Plan, in 2019, in response to state requirements, Assembly Bill 101 was passed. The City Council subsequently adopted Ordinance Number 2435 in April of 2023, which updated the Old Towns Pacific Plan and added operational requirements, site requirements, a review process, and a definition of low barrier navigation centers. Moving forward in 2024, Senate Bill 1395 was passed, which removed the January 1st, 2027 sunset date for low barrier navigation centers, which was originally included in AB 101. With the adoption of AB 101, the low barrier navigation requirements were supposed to sunset. As noted in 27, a subsequent bill was adopted that removed that sunset date. So this proposal will bring the specific plan into conformance with state law by removing the noted sunset date and making low bear navigation centers allowances permanent. With regards to farmers markets, city staff saw an opportunity to build upon the work already being conducted in Old Town, such as the facade enhancement program, the Old Town streetscape enhancement project along 7th Street that we're actively working on, and saw an opportunity to Update the city, I'm sorry, the Old Town specific plan to provide tools to activate the space. And this led to clarify locations where a city sponsored in private farmers markets may be conducted along with appropriate approval processes. As noted there, you'll see an FUA that refers to a facilities use agreement. As proposed, there's instances where City run event could be held in the city right away would be subject to a city agreement, such as the facilities use agreement or private farmers markets could be conducted on private space subject to a temporary use permit or to up as noted. While farmers markets have always been encouraged within the Old Town specific plan, as noted, this proposal clarifies the review and approval procedures and includes operational standards such as license verification, time limitations, I'm sorry, for events not operated by the city, and it requires an event manager to oversee day-to-day operations, as well as processing of the required permits. Also proposed in this. ordinance or site requirements related to the operation of the farmers markets themselves, this would include required parking facilities when needed way finding signage and emergency access verification. Next, with regards to public murals and public art, the city clarified allowances for these installations and clarified subject matter. Currently, as proposed, the subject matter would have to tie to a historical or cultural significant event site, geographic feature, transportation device, or other thing or object that ties into the historic Route 66. We also memorialized a clear and concise approval process for wall murals and public art, which are intended to streamline future installations. Currently, our specific plan only states that a conditional use permit is required, but it provides no other guidance other than that. So as proposed, there's allowances to do Programs for wall art programs for public art which may be approved by the planning Commission and or the Council, depending on their location. And then can be implemented administratively reducing time to have them installed in any case of like touches the route 66 that we're having upcoming there'd be streamlined opportunities for artists to install in pre approved locations. We took a look at our sign allowances within the old town specific plan. And one of the main things we did was establish a cross-reference table for signage in Old Town to the Victorville Municipal Code. The specific plan always has reference back to the Municipal Code for sign allowances. However, the variation between typical zone districts in Title 16 and the specific plan makes that difficult without a reference table. So this reference table provides a consistent application of sign standards throughout the Old Town specific plan and without the various zone districts that are there. With this amendment, we also introduced customized temporary sign allowances, tailored just specifically for Old Town. This includes permitting non-illuminated A-frame signs for activity, for active businesses, I'm sorry, sandwich boards as they're commonly referred to. These will now be permitted by right if approved without need for a permit. There will be operating standards for those requiring them to be only during business hours and only in front of the business they serve while also maintaining ADA access on the sidewalk that they're installed in. We included relaxed standards for city operated events and other city facilitated signs. You'll see in the photos here, you have light pole signs, you also have banner signs, and as much as those are typically installed by the city, they would not now require any permit, and they would be subject to the department installing those to allow for a length of time as necessary determined by that event. And with regards to wayfinding signs, our specific plan has always provided that wayfinding signs are allowed, but provided no clear review and approval process. So we introduced that along with this whole town specific plan amendment to ensure future installation, location, and sign maintenance needs are addressed as needed. And lastly, we provided a few minor other adjustments to land uses with regards to transitional uses. Transitional uses would be now approved as and permitted as ancillary to existing city facilities. So this could include things like overflow parking at the Wellness Center, allowing that to be in a non permanent design, allowing for phase two to happen in the future should that need to without having to tear out complete site improvements. Another example would be something like community gardens. All of these types of installations would be considered a transitional use and allowed at city facilities throughout the Old Town area. And lastly, we updated some existing text. We had a land use described as personnel services, where it listed laundromat personnel services includes things like barbering, Notaries, so on and so forth, and it had a laundromat listed there, but it was also listed separately in the code and they did not match in terms of where they were allowed. So we removed that from the definition of personal services and we updated the food truck hub requirements just to make the proper reference to temporary use permits as opposed to special event permits that were noted before. And with that, staff remains available for any questions you may have.

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

That the Honorable City Council open and conduct a public hearing to receive public testimony, close the public hearing, find the Old Town specific plan amendment categorically exempt per CEQA guidelines section 15061B3, introduce ordinance number 2470 for adoption and first reading by title only to amend the Old Town specific plan and waive further reading in full of proposed ordinance number 2470.

Thank you very much. At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Mayor Patem Harriman.

I have no questions. I have comments, so I'll wait for the appropriate time.

Okay.

Council Member Mora?

Thank you for that. So I just wanted to confirm that all of these amendments were just to make our permitting process more streamlined and efficient and clear, right? That is correct. Perfect. Thank you.

Council Member Goddard? I do have a quick question. On page 131, there's a site map that it's part of the Old Town specific plan. Is that map accurate to the area that we're talking about now?

I apologize. Let me get to that.

131, did you say? It's 131 of the agenda of the actual Old Town strategic plan. Seven pages into the strategic plan.

Yes, so the changes are applicable to various zone districts within that map area. That is the map area of the Old Town area. Certain aspects of the ADU changes are applicable to some districts. With regards to the farmers market specifically, what you'll see in the pink and the red is really the intent to focus those efforts, which would be our 7th Street and D Street corridor, mostly 7th, I'm sorry, and those streets along there really take advantage of our future hopeful improvements to 7th Street and the redesign that we're doing there.

Okay, but the changes can be implemented in any of these areas, right? That is correct. Okay, thank you.

Well done, Council Member.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. OK, based on the presentation, it appears that a lot of work was put into the proposed amendments. And because I'm a strong proponent in civic engagement and community feedback, I just want to make sure I ask the question, do you did get some community feedback or that help guide you in proposing the amendments or engage with the community's civic engagement? I just need you to affirm that. Is that correct?

Yes, that is correct. We had the public hearing for the Planning Commission item, but prior to that, in public workshops for the Old Town, I'm sorry, 7th Street redesign project, we had additional public workshops where these types of items were discussed.

Okay, thank you.

And my question, Alexander Timber, you sign? I'm sorry, Mr. Hattie, you show the banner. Are we putting up a banner? under the page temporary signs. Yes. Are we going to install one as a city?

Thank you, Madam Mayor. The allowances we're providing within the proposed amendment will allow the city to install those as needed.

Oh, OK. So it'll be a temporary overhead banner.

Correct. For any special events, whether that be a farmers market, whether that be the Route 66 celebration, any event as deemed appropriate by the city manager, effectively, that can be installed without any permit from the city planning department, and hopefully to expedite that and make it go up as quickly as possible and respond to any needs that we have.

Okay. Thank you. At this time, I'll open the public hearing. Madam Clerk, are there any requests to speak?

No, Madam Mayor.

I will now close the public hearing. Madam Clerk, will you please read the title of ordinance number 2470, please.

An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Victorville adopting an amendment to the Old Town specific plan with an environmental exemption to allow for various updates and changes, including but not limited to modifying land use allowances, updated signage and public art standards, and document revisions to correct inconsistencies and grammatical errors on property bounded roughly by the Mojave River and Stoddard Wells Road to the northeast, 11th Street to the east, Mojave Drive and Verde Street to the south and Interstate 15 to the northwest.

Thank you very much. This time I will motion to approve staff's recommendation as presented to us.

Second.

Comments on the pending motion? Mr. Hattigee and Mr. Metzler, again, great job. This is what we've been striving for and now we can move forward. Councillor Goddard.

I echo the same sentiments, thank you. Councillor Mora.

Thank you for all your work on that. It really does, I know that the community will be really helpful to have clear guidelines on how we can do more community events.

Councillor Irving.

Yes, I want to say thank you to staff for your hard work. Thank you, Mr. Metzler. And I am eager to attend events in the old town. Okay, thank you.

Member Tim Harriman. I see light at the end of the tunnel. Good work. I know you've been working on this for a long time, and I do appreciate it. I just hope I'm around when it all comes to fruition in whole. That's all.

Madam Clerk, will you take the vote, please?

Council Member Goddard? Yes. Council Member Irving? Yes. Council Member Mora? Yes. Mayor Patem Harriman?

Yes.

Mayor Becerra?

Yes.

Motion passes unanimously.

We've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation, points 3 through 5 of staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda. We'll now move on to the consent calendar, items 3 through 10. I'll invite a motion for this.

Move to adopt.

Second.

Are we adopting staff's recommendations?

Move to adopt staff recommendation.

Second. I'll second. OK. She changed it.

I'll go ahead and take the vote for you, Madam Mayor. Yes, ma'am. Sorry. 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 on items 3 through 10 in accordance with recommendation as set forth on the agenda. Move on to written communications. Item 11, award of a construction contract, approval of consultant and professional services provider agreement, and approval of the Victorville Municipal Utility Services, VMS, electrical service line extension installation for the 1MG SCLA Reclaimed Water Reserve number two project. Mr. Mentzer, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the council. You may recall that back in about 2009, 2010, we constructed our own wastewater treatment plant, largely to support industrial development out at the airport. And with that, we designed the facility also to be able to create a reclaimed water commodity. And also with the project, we did construct a one million gallon elevated tank for the storage of that reclaimed water, which actually directly feeds our distribution system to the customers that exist, the reclaimed water customers that exist out at SCLA. And so with that, as we've been in that business and we've been actually working towards a master plan that will ultimately expand the use of reclaimed water ideally into the city, expanding our customer base Uh, there's certainly a need for, uh, additional infrastructure storage being 1 of them. And so this item particularly is is addressing, um, a need to expand our current storage, reclaim water storage capability from the 1Million gallons by doubling it through the through this particular item. This item is the award of a construction contract for a 1Million gallon tank. And because of the significance of it, we do have a very brief presentation that's led by your Director of Public Works and Water, Mr. Doug Matthews. And he'll lead the presentation, and then both he and I will be available for any questions or comments you might have.

Thank you, Mr. Metzler, and good evening again. I promised to advance the slides this time. I apologize for that. Here is a site map of the project area. You can see the black polygon is the VWD property that was purchased when the golf course was sold. You can see to the upper right of that polygon is where the old pond that is no longer in use that received water from VVWRA to to water that golf course and to provide reclaimed water from VVWRA. And then you can see the little white dot there on the southern part. That's our elevated tank. So this 1 million gallon concrete tank will go on this site as well. The elevated tank is what provides pressure to our reclaimed water system, so it needs to be elevated. The new tank will basically be a storage tank, so it won't provide pressure, but it will provide storage, fire flow, and whatnot, and can pump into that elevated tank. So it can receive water from VVWRA, or we can pump it from our treatment plant, and it can get into that tank as well. So like I said, this tank will replace a defunct 600,000 gallon in-ground rubber line pond. Had a lot of issues with that with algae and just debris accumulation in there made it just problematic. Also evaporation losses was challenging. And another point of this reservoir is our peak demand last summer was 1.05 million gallons. We exceeded what we had in storage capacity, and that's making what we have basically a bare minimum. So with the proposed growth out there around the airport, with a new wastewater treatment plant expansion, we will be providing reclaimed water for the fire hydrant system, and we'll need storage for that. This tank is certainly needed. Like Mr. Metzler mentioned, it will double our storage capacity to 2 million gallons, so that's a good thing for us as well. So the project scope, obviously a new 1 million gallon pre-stressed concrete reclaimed water reservoir. We don't have any concrete reservoirs in our system right now. They're all welded steel that are painted, coated, and take a lot of maintenance. This will take less maintenance. But additionally, this reservoir is partially buried in the ground, I think about 10 feet or so, because of the hydraulic grade line. So being able to pump up from VVWRA up to this tank, we needed to keep the elevation at a point where it wasn't exceeding the limits of the pipeline and the pumps that are coming up from there. We own the pipeline coming from VVWRA, but they own the pump. So that's why it had to be buried in ground. So structurally, Just the stresses on the tank, whether it's empty or full, there's external and internal stresses on that tank. Concrete tank became the best choice. A little more expensive initially, but less maintenance on the backside. With this new tank, we'll have 350 horsepower pumps to be able to pump water up. So that's a good thing as well with a lot of mechanical, electrical instrumentation and control systems. And then the plan is to extend VMS's electrical service to the project site to be able to run these pumps. So we like VMS and we want to use our own city power where possible. So a good benefit there as well. And part of the scope too is to provide a utility easement and demolish two abandoned structures in conflict with the VMS electrical service extension. So that's part of the scope of work as well. Additionally, site grading, on-site improvements, and underground piping. We'll also have materials testing inspection and engineering and construction design support from one of our engineering consultants. This is a diagram kind of showing the buried tank. So on the right is a profile view. You can see the dashed line. It should be existing ground surface, but Just above that on the left is a new ground surface, so you can see how it comes partway up the tank there. Trying to zoom in and see if I have distances, but I'm not seeing on there. But anyway, that's how far this tank's going to be buried in the ground. And on the left, you can see a little site plan. It's kind of hard to see, but there's a circle on the right side of that. That's the elevated tank, a small circle over there. The big circle is a new tank that's going to be constructed. So this was put out to bid. We were a little surprised at how much prices have gone up over the years, but it is what it is. As you can see, we had very competitive bids, so we believe this to be a fair and reasonable cost of what it takes to build this tank these days. Pacific Hydro Tech being the low bidder is the recommendation tonight for award. Construction contract, $9.9 million. There's our bidding and construction support services we're asking for approval tonight of 82,000. We have materials testing included in the amount that we'll use existing contractors for, and the VMS electrical service line extension. And we also have the possibility, I believe, of a $1.5 million earmark that could come through as well at some point. This one as well is going to be funded quite a bit out of our connection fees. Well as a little bit out of reclaimed water you have to about three million dollars from connection fees about 1.5 million and reclaimed water and We are asking tonight for an additional appropriation. It wasn't anticipated. It would come in quite this high, but the funds are in the accounts and so Not doing it tonight. If we do another five years, it's going to be more expensive. I So the ask is tonight that you adopt resolution to amend the budget for the additional appropriation, award the construction contract to Pacific Hydro Tech to construct the reclaimed water reservoir, approve the services with David Evans for services during construction, and approve the VMS service line extension installation in the amount of about $243,000.

That's all I have. Thank you, sir. Madam Clerk, would you please read the recommendation?

That the honorable Victorville Water District Board of Directors City Council Chambers, adopt resolution number VW D 26 dash 014 to amend the fiscal year 2026 2027 budget to reflect an additional appropriation of 6,071,908 dollars and 53 cents. City Council Chambers, award a construction contract to Pacific hydro tech corporation in the amount of 9,911,740 dollars. for the one million gallon SCLA reclaimed water reservoir two project. Approve consultant professional services provider agreement with David Evans and Associates Inc. in the amount of $82,039. And approve Victorville Municipal Utilities Services electrical service line extension installation in the amount of $242,592.20.

Thank you, ma'am. At this time, we'll do technical questions from council members. Council Member Goddard? I have none. Thank you. Council Member Irving?

No questions. Thank you.

Council Member Mora?

I have a question. You said that the peak demand exceeded 0.05 in 2025. So if we don't approve this significant project right now, how much do you expect us to keep exceeding over the next few years?

So let me explain that a little bit. Our treatment plant can produce about 2 million gallons of reclaimed water a day. So we can meet those demands. But if in a case when that system is not available and we're out of compliance for some reason, we do need storage. So at current we have 1 million gallons in storage. At 1.05 million gallons of demand during A PEAK TIME LAST SUMMER, YEAH, WE DID EXCEED THAT. AND THAT WAS AVERAGE OVER THE 30 DAYS. SO THIS WILL PUT US IN GREAT POSITIONS SO WE WON'T BE ANYWHERE NEAR THAT FOR A WHILE.

AND THEN BEING ABLE TO HAVE THE CONNECTION TO VEMAS WILL HELP REDUCE OPERATING COSTS FOR US TOO, RIGHT?

I WOULD DEFER, BUT I THINK VEMAS IS LOWER RATES. I'M GUESSING WE'RE GETTING A BETTER RATE.

OUR POWER COSTS ARE LESS AND ALSO WE'RE VERY TIMELY IN BEING ABLE TO GET THE SERVICE OUT TO YOU.

Oh, well, yeah. That's what I was just going to ask. It's been a day since I've been in Bemis.

Thank you. Those are my only questions. Thank you, Mayor Tim Herriman.

I just have one, Doug. How the tank is in the ground, how high is exposed? I'm just curious. I was trying to see those. Those are some small numbers on there. Harry, do you have? Well, it's no big deal. I'm just curious. I'll get you an answer, though. It's not a big deal. I was just curious. I've seen underground tanks before down in the valley, and it looked like they still stuck up out of the ground 15, 20 feet.

I just can't make out that. If anybody can see that dimension over there. Of tank height? Yeah, I believe I saw earlier it was about 10 feet buried, so. Okay, all right, thank you.

Yeah. Mr. Matthews, do we have a start date if we approve today?

No, I don't believe we have a start date yet.

Okay, and then Mr. Metzler, is this part of the one that we went to Washington DC to ask for money from the federal government?

Yes. Okay.

So if it's approved, then it'll go back into one of these funds. That's the $1.5 million Mr. Matthews referred to, correct? Correct. Okay. Thank you.

Madam Mayor, can I just ask one question? Sure. Mr. Matthews, in your proposed recommendation, there seems to be an error of urgency. Has this project been put off before?

Um, not really put off. It's just been a long time in the design to be honest with you. The need hasn't necessarily been there. Um, and it's, it's not, so it's not necessarily urgent. So when I say 1.05 million, you know, 1 million gallons a day, we can still pull water from VV Debray as well. So they do have reclaimed water that we could pull out of, out of their system as well. So it's not, it's not dire. but we want to operate independently. And so just for flexibility of operating the system, it's just important evidence.

Well, I believe in self-sufficiency.

Right. We're not falling off the cliff right now by not doing it. Otherwise, this would have come sooner.

I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Okay. And it's been on the strategic plan for a while, for a hot minute. Okay.

At this time, I'll invite a motion for this item. Move to adopt staff recommendation as to points one through four as presented on the agenda. Second.

I have a first by Councilman Godin, a second by Councilmember Irving. Councilmember Godin, comments on the pending motion? I have none. Councilmember Irving?

No comments, thank you.

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

I have none.

Great job again. Like you said, we're getting a lot done now. A lot done. Madam Clerk, will you take the vote, please?

Councilmember 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 12, award of construction agreements to High Desert Underground Inc. and Kirtley Construction Inc. for an on-call sewer lateral and mainline repair services project, MS26-135. Mr. Metzler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the council. This item involves an award of contract To to contractors and to effectively have them on standby and in an aggregate amount of $500,000 for on call sewer lateral and mainline repair services, and this is more so related, of course, to our collection system throughout the city, as you know, we operate and maintain. a fairly large collection system that accepts all of the sewage from commercial and residential uses throughout the community and then ultimately conveys that sewage to an interceptor system where wastewater is treated by one of two treatment facilities in this region. And so with that on occasion, we have the need for emergency services. To supplement those that are provided by our city staff and so this particular item Avails to us to contractors in an emergency type need where we can call and bring them on site And so with that this item is authored by your director of public works and water. Mr. Doug Matthews. He's available for Any questions or comments you might have?

Thank you, sir. Madam clerk. Would you please read the recommendation? I?

That the honorable city council award construction agreements to high desert underground Inc and curtly construction Inc in an aggregate amount not to exceed $500,000 for on call sewer lateral and mainline repair services.

At this time we'll do technical questions from Council members to the Doug Matthews show. Go down, I have none Thank you comes from Irving no questions Thank you come to our moral I have none Thank you remember Tim Harriman.

Yeah, so $500,000, that's not per contractor. That's in whole.

Correct. That's in the aggregate, and we would, you know, it just depends on who's available and who has the specialized equipment. If I could add one more thing, this is for sure we do need this for emergency services, but this is for other repairs, too, where we don't have the equipment or, you know, to be able to get in these areas. So sewer lines generally run deep than everything else, and we may not have an excavator that can reach it. or the equipment to do some of the bigger lines. And they also do some of the service line repairs as well out there. So we don't keep a huge staff for that. So it's to supplement our workforce there as well.

OK, thanks.

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

I have a first by Councilmember Goddard and a second by Mayor Tim Harriman. Councilmember Goddard, comments on the pending motion? I have none, thank you. Member Tim Harriman.

Yeah, I just again would say I'm glad High Desert Underground is going to be the contractor.

Council Member Mora. I have no comments. Thank you. Council Member Irving. No comments. Thank you.

Great job to you and staff again, sir. Thank you. Madam Clerk, will you take the vote, please?

Council Member Goddard.

Yes.

Council Member Irving.

Yes.

Council Member 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 13, purchase of a 2026 John Deere 644P loader. Mr. Metzler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the council. This item is before you in your role as the airport authority board of directors. And this item particularly is purchasing a large piece of equipment, a large John Deere loader, which is intended to replace a 37-year-old loader that's been used by the airport, relied upon by the airport, but is now experiencing a tremendous amount of cost associated with just being able to keep that piece of equipment running. So effectively, this item would help replace that old unit. AND ALLOW US TO HAVE A MUCH MORE RELIABLE FUNCTIONING LOADER FOR A LOT OF THE WORK THAT THE AIRPORT STAFF TAKES ON OUT AT THE AIRPORT. AND SO WITH THAT, THIS ITEM HAS BEEN AUTHORED BY YOUR AIRPORT DIRECTOR, MR. JAMES MOROSKI, AND HE'S AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS YOU MIGHT HAVE.

NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU, SIR. MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ THE RECOMMENDATION?

NEW SPEAKER THAT THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOGISTICS AIRPORT AUTHORITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS approve the purchase of a 2026 John Deere 644p loader in the amount of $402,980.76. Thank you. At this time, we'll do technical questions from Council Member.

Council Member Irving?

I don't have any questions. Thank you.

Council Member Godin? No questions. Thank you. Council Member Mora? I have none. Thank you. Mayor Potemhi-Harriman?

I have none.

I have a question. Mr. Metzler, thank you very much for not referring to it as an antique, considering I drove that. I appreciate it.

Not vintage?

Well, whatever you called it, but thank you. Mr. Morawski, did we get on, how did we do the bidding for this? And you're going to, a co-op, that's what I wanted to ask. Did we do this on a co-op?

Yes, we did. We used the source wealth. Okay. Project services.

That's kind of cheap for a brand-new loader.

Yes, it is.

Yeah, that's why we jumped on it. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. I'll invite a motion for this item.

Move to approve staff recommendation.

Second. I have a first by Mayor Patel-Hareman and a second by Councilmember Irving. Comments on the pending motion? Mayor Patel-Hareman?

I have none.

Councilmember Irving?

No comments, thank you.

Councilmember Goddard?

I have none.

Councilmember Mora? I have none. And great job. Good price. Madam Clerk, will you take the vote, please?

Council Member Godin?

Yes.

Council Member Irving? Yes. Council Member 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 14, determine the city's position on Cal City's 2026 annual conference proposed resolution. Mr. Metzler, would you kindly introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the council. This item involves a resolution that's being brought before the General Assembly of the California League of Cities at its annual conference, which this council has approved to attend starting September 23rd through September 25th. And in fact, this council on July 21st appointed or designated members of this council to serve as primary and alternate delegates to actually carry Victorville's vote as a part of that meeting. And so with that, this item actually brings forward the actual resolution language so that you as a body can review it and determine the city's position effectively given direction to your primary and alternates, whomever participates in that assembly, what is the position of the city so that the member can carry your position forward. And so with that, generally speaking, the resolution that's being considered before the League is a resolution of the General Assembly of the League calling for a working group to consider a state constitutional amendment or other form of initiative to ensure final local authority over housing and land use decisions. This has been brought forward by a number of Inland Empire cities. I believe Murrieta was one of the lead proponents on it, and being that it really fits within our tradition of wanting to encourage and see as much local control as possible. It's certainly something that staff would recommend. And so with that, I'm available for any additional questions or comments you might have.

Thank you very much, sir.

Madam Clerk, would you please read the recommendation? That your Honorable City Council consider the following League of California Cities resolution, a resolution of the General Assembly of the League of California Cities calling for a working group to consider a state constitutional amendment OR OTHER FORM OF INITIATIVE TO ENSURE FINAL LOCAL AUTHORITY OVER HOUSING AND LAND USE DECISIONS, DIRECT THE APPOINTED VOTING DELEGATE TO SUPPORT THE ABOVE RESOLUTION AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING.

NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AT THIS TIME WE'LL DO TECHNICAL QUESTIONS FROM COUNCILMEMBERS. MAYOR BUTTIGIEG-HERMAN, SINCE YOU'RE OUR DELEGATE, I'LL LET YOU GO FIRST.

NEW SPEAKER JUST DIRECT ME. THAT'S ALL I GOT TO SAY.

NEW SPEAKER COUNCILMEMBER GODDAN.

NEW SPEAKER I HAVE NONE.

NEW SPEAKER COUNCILMEMBER MORA. NEW SPEAKER I HAVE NONE. THANK YOU. NEW SPEAKER COUNCILMEMBER IRVING.

I don't have any questions, thank you.

And I have none. I'll invite a motion for this item.

I'll move to approve staff's recommendation. Second.

I have a first by Mayor Tim Herriman, a second by Councilmember Irving. Mayor Tim Herriman, comments on the pending motion?

I just said, direct me, direct me.

Councilmember Irving?

Mayor Pro Tem, you have direction.

Councilmember Mora? I have no comments, thank you. Councilmember Goddard? I have none.

yes let me just comment that that uh i do agree so madam clerk will you take the vote please council member godan yes council member irving yes council member mora yes mayor pertam harriman yes mayor becerra yes motion passes unanimously we've now taken action to approve staff's recommendation as presented on the agenda item 15 city manager reports mr menschler the floor is yours

Thank you madam mayor members of the Council just a few items on the Community services side the city had a successful summer season with more than 400 attendees at each concert in the park event and all 3000 seats filled for the america's 250th celebration so summer closes, we wanted to be able to share that highlight with you just on some of our summer series events. ON THE CODE COMPLIANCE SIDE AS A PART OF THE CITY'S ONGOING EFFORTS TO REVITALIZE OLD TOWN, CODE COMPLIANCE IS COMPLETING FACADE IMPROVEMENTS AT FOUR COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES ALONG 7TH STREET BETWEEN B AND D STREETS. IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDE REPLACING BOARDED OR DAMAGED WINDOWS. with durable polycarbonate panels, exterior painting, and enhanced security lighting to help improve the corridor's appearance ahead of the Route 66 Centennial, which is coming up very soon. This is being funded by CDBG funds. And then today, the Victorville, we did participate in a multi-agency operation addressing nuisance conditions health and safety concerns, trespassing, and illicit activities associated with homelessness along the Bear Valley Road corridor. And I think it's important to note that this event was multi-jurisdictional. It's probably one of the better examples of multi-agency cooperation that you can see. Certainly, we partnered with the City of Hesperia, their code enforcement, both of our sheriff departments collaborated, along with working with the sheriff assigned to the Victorville Transit Authority. And so a pretty impressive show of collaboration. Operationally, we do have some statistics reported back already. Just in that event alone, we removed one and a half tons of debris. We confiscated 10 shopping carts. We made contact with 92 individuals. We did make 29 arrests. There were two vehicles towed. We did provide 63 individuals with resources and services. And we did store property for five cases of property. And so with that, just an example now of how We're actually involving and working with our allied agencies and finding great success. So kudos certainly to the code compliance team. And then finally on the animal services side, on August 22nd, the adoption event resulted in more than 25 dogs being adopted or placed into foster homes. That was the event that we held where we had the local radio station actually doing live remote from our facility. And so with that, I do have the projects of interest, which I'll forward in the email version of this update for you, and you can track where all of the development projects are in our process here at the city. That's all I have at this time, Madam Mayor.

Thank you very much, sir. Item 16, discussion and possible action regarding upcoming agenda items. Council Member Goddard. I have none. Council Member Mora. I have none. Thank you. Council Member Irving.

I have none. Thank you.

May I have time, Chairman? I have none. Then I have none. Item 17, reports from council members. We'll start with Council Member Mora.

I would just like to highlight that I did use the victorville now APP to report some graffiti over the weekend and I did get a response back already, and so I appreciate the staffs quickness to. Go ahead and respond, but I also encourage the Community members if you're not using it, it is easy you don't have to call the city and report things you can take a picture and report it online and they're very fast and efficient, so thank you staff.

Thank you very much comes from a go to I have nothing to report. consumer Irving.

I have nothing to report. Mayor Tim Herman.

Yes. OK. I had the honor of being elected president of the Desert Mountain Region League of California Cities. So I'm ready, locked and loaded, to represent the city of Victorville and the Desert Mountain Region. And it's actually Mountain Desert, but I always say Desert Mountain. That's all I have.

Thank you. Again, as Mr. Metzler said, I'd like to invite everybody to the Route 66 celebration. It's September 12th, right? I had to count. From 10 to 2 or 10 to 1? 10 to 2. It's going to be on 7th Street. I'm going to say starting at Forest all the way down to D Street. We invite everybody to attend. come out and see everything we got. We got car shows, we got dance shows, we have singers, we have a dog show, and then also a car show. So food trucks and everything, come down and see what we got down there for you. Also, my granddaughter loves your new shopping app. You get online with it and wherever you shop in the city, so whoever's idea that was, great job. She's stealing all my receipts, so thank you very much. At this time, if no one has nothing else, the time is 7.20 and this meeting's adjourned.