Riverside — 2025-12-09

1\nTo comment on Closed Sessions and any matters within the jurisdiction of the City\nCouncil, you are invited to participate in person or call at (951) 826-8686 and follow\nthe prompts to access your language of preference. Press *9 to be placed in the\nqueue to speak. Individuals in the queue will be prompted to unmute by pressing *6\nwhen you are ready to speak.\nTo participate via ZOOM, use the following link: https://zoom.us/j/92696991265.\nSelect the "raise hand" function to request to speak. An on-screen message will\nprompt you to "unmute" and speak.\nMAYOR/COUNCILMEMBER COMMUNICATIONS

10\nPursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(2) to confer with and/or receive advice\nfrom legal counsel concerning anticipated litigation - two cases\nReport\nAttachments:

11\nPursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(4) to confer with and/or receive advice\nfrom legal counsel concerning the City Council deciding whether to initiate litigation\n- one case\nReport\nAttachments:

12\nPursuant to Government Code §54957(a), for consultation with Larry Gonzalez,\nRiverside Chief of Police, or his respective deputy, and George Khalil, Chief\nInnovation Officer regarding threat to public services or facilities\nReport\nAttachments:

13\nPursuant to Government Code §54957.6 to review the City Council's position and\ninstruct\ndesignated\nrepresentatives\nregarding\nsalaries,\nsalary\nschedules,\nor\ncompensation paid in the form of fringe benefits of all Executive Management\nemployees except the City Manager, City Attorney, and City Clerk, all Management\nand Confidential employees as defined by PERS, Fire Management Unit, Riverside\nCity Firefighters Association, Riverside Police Officers Association\n(Police and\nPolice\nSupervisory\nUnits),\nService\nEmployees\nInternational\nUnion\n#721,\nInternational\nBrotherhood\nof\nElectrical\nWorkers\n#47,\nand\nRiverside\nPolice\nAdministrators Association\nReport\nAttachments:\n6:15 P.M.\nINVOCATION - Councilmember Robillard\nPLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG\nPUBLIC COMMENT\nAudience participation is encouraged. Public comments are limited to 3 minutes.

15\nMayor Lock Dawson to present a Proclamation to Riverside Museum Associates\nMulticultural Council representative Aicheria Bell designating December 17, 2025,\nas Day of Inclusion (5-minute presentation)

16\nAppoint Nancy Hernandez to Human Relations Commission Ward\n6 seat (All\nWards)\nReport\nAttachments:

17\nEconomic Development Committee recommends City Sponsorship Program support\nof $182,814.20 in form of monetary funding and/or in-kind contributions to include\n$86,851.54 in\nmonetary\ncontributions\nconsisting\nof\n$85,800 and\n$1,051.54 from\nArts & Cultural Affairs Division City Sponsorship and Riverside Public Utilities\nAccounts, respectively, for charitable and community events produced by local\nnon-profit organizations for six-month period of January 1 through June 30, 2026 -\nDepartment Table Sponsorship report for January 1 - June 20, 2025 (All Wards)\nReport\nStaff Funding Recommendations\nApplicant Mission Statements\nAttachments:\nCity Manager

18\nA Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, Authorizing the\nEstablishment of a Community Development Entity and Submission of an\nApplication to the Federal New Markets Tax Credits Program Administered by the\nU.S. Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions\nFund and Authorizing the Execution of all Required Documents by the City Manager\nor Designee - Waive further reading (All Wards)\nReport\nResolution\nAttachments:\nFinance

19\nFiscal Year 2024-25 Annual Local Agency Special Tax and Bond Accountability\nReport to fulfill annual reporting requirements of Senate Bill 165 (All Wards)\nReport\nSpecial Tax and Bond Accountability Report\nAttachments:

2\nBrief reports on conferences, seminars, and regional meetings attended by Mayor\nand City Council, Ward updates, and announcements of upcoming events\nAnnouncement of Committee meetings:\nFinance Committee at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, Art Pick Council\nChamber\nHousing and Homelessness Committee Special Meeting at 9 a.m. on Monday,\nDecember 15, 2025\nSafety, Wellness and Youth Committee at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, December 17,\n2025, Art Pick Council Chamber\nEconomic Development Committee at 3 p.m. on Thursday, December 18, 2025, Art\nPick Council Chamber\nCOMMUNICATIONS

20\nThird Amendment to Agreement with Collection Bureau of America, Ltd., to extend\nterm for two additional years for collection agency services due to various\ndelinquent accounts with exception of utilities accounts (All Wards)\nReport\nThird Amendment to Agreement\nAttachments:\nHuman Resources

21\nRequest\nfor\nProposal\n2386 Agreements\nwith\ninvestigative\ncompanies,\nNevins\nProfessional Investigations, Norman A.Traub and Associates, LLC, Leal Trejo, JL\nGroup, LLC., and Boucher Law, PC, for $200,000 annually, for total combined\namount of $1,000,000 each for retention of investigative services through June 30,\n2028, with two one-year extension options (All Wards)\nReport\nNevins Professional Investigations\nNorman Traub & Associates, Inc.\nLeal Trejo, PAPC\nJLGroup, LLC.\nBoucher Law PC\nAward Recommendation\nAttachments:

22\nAgreement with Legal Access Plans, Inc., for voluntary group legal insurance for\nCity employees through December 31, 2028, with two additional one-year extension\noptions (All Wards)\nReport\nAgreement\nAttachments:

23\nCity of Riverside Youth Service Corps Round 3 grant application for $1,500,471\noffered by State of California/California Volunteers for continued operation of Youth\nService Corps Program - Supplemental appropriation - Five affirmative votes\nrequired (All Wards)\nReport\nAttachments:

24\nA Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, Amending\nResolution\nNo.\n21052 and\nthe\nMaster\nFringe\nBenefits\nand\nSalary\nPlan\nto\nRetroactively\nApprove\nUpdated\nSalary\nSchedules\nfrom\n2019 through\n2025 for\nImpacted Unrepresented Classifications to Comply with CalPERS Salary Reporting\nRequirements per California Code of Regulations Section 570.5; Approve Changes\nto Unrepresented Classifications’ Bargaining Group; and Approve Changes to the\nFire Chief Benefits to Continue Participation in the Fire Union Retirement Medical\nTrust Fund - Waive further reading (All Wards)\nReport\nResolution\nJob Code Table\nFringe Benefits and Salary Plan\n01-11-19 Salary Schedule\n01-10-20 Salary-Schedule\n01-08-21 Salary-Schedule\n02-04-22 Salary-Schedule\n07-08-22 Salary-Schedule\n07-07-23 Salary-Schedule\n08-04-23 Salary-Schedule\n01-05-24 Salary-Schedule\n07-05-24 Salary-Schedule\n01-03-25 Salary-Schedule\n07-04-25 Salary-Schedule\n08-01-25 Salary-Schedule\nAttachments:

25\nA Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, Amending\nResolution No. 21052 and the Master Fringe Benefits and Salary Plan to Reflect the\n2026 State Mandated Increase to the Minimum Wage and Salary Adjustments to\nAdditional Temporary Job Classifications to Maintain Minimum Wage Increase\nDifferentials - Waive further reading (All Wards)\nReport\nResolution\nJob Code Table\nFringe Benefits and Salary Plan\nAttachments:\nParks, Recreation, and Community Services

26\nThird Amendment to Agreement with Danny Fuller doing business as Sports\nInnovators for $33,950 from General Fund, Parks and Recreation, Recreational\nServices Account for youth sports officials and scorekeepers through December\n31, 2026, with final one-year extension option subject to negotiated compensation\n(All Wards)\nReport\nAgreement\nAttachments:

27\nRequest for Proposal 2466 Agreement with Service First Inc., Santa Ana, for\n$504,560 plus $80,000 for additional repairs and maintenance to heaters and pool\nequipment\nand\n10 percent\nchange\norder\nauthority\nfor\ntotal\nof\n$635,016 from\nGeneral\nFund,\nProfessional\nServices\nAccount\nfor\nannual\nswimming\npool\nmaintenance services through December 31, 2027, with one additional three-year\nterm extension option (Wards 1, 2, 3 and 5)\nReport\nAgreement\nRFP Award Recommendation\nPresentation\nAttachments:

28\nAddendum One to Production Agreement with Pyro Spectaculars, Inc., Rialto, for\n$96,200, plus 10 percent change order authority for total of $105,820 from General\nFund, Parks and Recreation Services Account for 2026 Fourth of July Pyrotechnic\nshow at Mount Rubidoux (Ward 1)\nReport\nAgreement\nAttachments:

29\nAddendum Two to Production Agreement with Pyro Spectaculars, Inc., Rialto, for\n$37,500, plus 10 percent change order authority for total of $41,250 from General\nFund, Parks and Recreation Services Account for 2026 Fourth of July Pyrotechnic\nshow at La Sierra Park (Ward 7)\nReport\nAgreement\nAttachments:\nPolice

3\nCity Manager Updates

30\nAccept\nadditional\nfunding\nfrom\nRiverside\nCounty\nProbation\nDepartment\nfor\n$150,416.67, for total of $547,416.67 for reimbursement of personnel, vehicles, and\noperation and maintenance costs related to Public Safety Realignment from July 1,\n2025 through June 30, 2026 - Supplemental appropriation - Five affirmative votes\nrequired (All Wards)\nReport\nBudget Proposal\nAttachments:

31\nAward Bid 8204 to RE Chaffee Construction, Inc., Wrightwood, for $717,999 plus\n20 percent construction contingency of\n$143,600, for total of $861,599 from Measure Z Fund City Buildings\nAnnual Deferred Maintenance Account for\ninstallation of above ground fuel tank at Police Aviation at Riverside Municipal\nAirport - 7020 Central Avenue (Ward 3)\nReport\nBid Award Recommendation\nAttachments:\nPublic Utilities

32\nThird\nAmendment\nto\nAgreement\nNo.\nC06-207 Fiscal\nYear\n2025-2035 Western\nMunicipal Water District Water Conservation Funding Agreement with Western\nMunicipal Water District and Riverside Public Utilities for water conservation funding\nincluding\nresidential,\ncommercial,\nindustrial\nand\ninstitutional\nprograms\nfrom\nMetropolitan Water District of Southern California through June\n30, 2035 (All\nWards)\nReport\nAgreement\nPresentation\nAttachments:

33\nAuthorize application to State Water Resources Control Board for Drinking Water\nState Revolving Fund Loan and Emerging Contaminants Grant\nor Principal\nForgiveness Program funding for Palmyrita Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances\nWater Treatment Plant Project - A Resolution of the City Council of the City of\nRiverside, California, Authorizing the City Manager to file a Financial Assistance\nApplication for a Financial Agreement with the State Water Resources Control\nBoard for the Planning, Design, and Construction of the Palmyrita Per- and\nPolyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Water Treatment Plant Project - A Resolution of\nthe City Council of the City of Riverside, California, Authorizing the Advance of\nFunds for Construction of the Palmyrita Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances\n(PFAS) Water Treatment Plant Project Subject to Later Reimbursement of City\nExpenditures by the State Water Resources Control Board - Waive further readings\n- Authorize City to receive fifty percent of Riverside Public Utilities Department’s\nPalmyrita PFAS Water Treatment Plant project costs up to $25 million from\nEmerging Contaminants Grant or Principal Forgiveness Program for Riverside\nPublic Utilities Department’s Palmyrita PFAS Water Treatment Plant upon the grant\nand/or principal forgiveness award - Recommend staff return to Board of Public\nUtilities for update on State Water Resources Control Board for Drinking Water\nState Revolving Fund Loan application and application and acceptance of Emerging\nContaminants Grant and/or Principal Forgiveness Program funding - Supplemental\nappropriation - Five affirmative votes required (All Wards)\nReport\nResolution - Authorizing\nResolution - Reimbursement\nPresentation\nAttachments:\nPublic Works

34\nRequest for Proposal 2478 Agreement with AG Integrated Pest Management, LLC.,\nRiverside, for $346,923.68 with 25 percent change order authority of $86,730.92 to\ncover unanticipated costs related to vandalism, theft, and special event support for\ntotal\nof\n$433,654.60 from\nPublic\nWorks’\nGeneral\nFund,\nUrban\nForestry\nand\nLandscape,\nProfessional\nServices\nAccount\nfor\nVictoria\nAvenue\nCitrus\nGrove\nmaintenance services through June\n30, 2030,\nwith\nthree\nadditional\none-year\nextension options (Wards 3, 4, and 5)\nReport\nAgreement\nAward Recommendation\nAttachments:

35\nAuthorize\nsubmittal\nof\nup\nto\nthree\ngrant\napplications\nto\nFederal\nRailroad\nAdministration in amount of $2 million for project planning and project development\nphase of Spruce Street Grade Separation at Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad\n(Ward 1)\nReport\nSpruce Street/BNSF Rail Crossing\nAttachments:

36\nA Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, Waiving the\nFormal Bidding Provisions of Section 1109 of the Charter of the City of Riverside\nunder the Utilities Project Exception Therein for the Selection of a Qualified Panel of\nContractors to Supplement Riverside Regional Water Quality Control Plant Work\nForce for the Riverside Regional Water Quality Control Plant, and the Tequesquite\nLandfill Construction Projects up to $500,000 on an As-Needed Basis - Waive\nfurther\nreading\n-\nAward\nRequest\nfor\nQualifications\n2456 and\nseven\nMaster\nAgreements with various contractors for not-to-exceed $5,000,000 per contractor\nfrom various Sewer Fund Capital project budgets for construction, maintenance,\nrepair, and rehabilitation services at Riverside Regional Water Quality Control Plant,\nand Tequesquite Landfill on an as-needed basis through June 30, 2030 - Five\naffirmative votes required (All Wards)\nReport\nAccess General Contracting Inc.\nBlue Collar Contractor, Inc.,\nE.J. Meyer Company, Inc.\nGSE Construction Company, Inc.\nKirtley Construction, Inc.\nMetrocell Construction Inc.\nSCW Contracting Corporation\nRFQ Award Recommendation\nResolution\nAttachments:

37\nAward Bid 8121 to J.R. Filanc Construction, Escondido, for $925,000 from Refuse\nFund, Landfill Blower Project Account for construction of Tequesquite Landfill\nBlowers Rehabilitation Project (Ward 1)\nReport\nAward Recommendation\nAttachments:

38\nFirst Amendment to Agreement with APGN Inc., doing business as APG-Neuros,\nBlainville,\nCanada,\nfor\n$452,655,\nfor\nnot-to-exceed\n$801,905 from\nSewer\nSystems-Plant\nMaintenance-All\nOther\nEquip\nMaint/Repair\nAccount\nfor\nasset\nmanagement and maintenance service plan for six turbo blowers through June 30,\n2030 (All Wards)\nReport\nAgreement\nAttachments:

39\nAmended and Restated Lease and Energy Services Agreement with Riverside\nBioenergy Facility, LLC., a Delaware LLC., for Riverside Bioenergy Facility at\nRegional Water Quality Control Plant for term ending twenty years from Commercial\nOperation\nDate\nwith\ntwo\nadditional\nfive-year\nextension\noptions,\nconcluding\nFeasibility Period (All Wards)\nReport\nAgreement\nPresentation\nAttachments:

4\nDeclaration of conflicts of interest and ex parte communications (City Council)\nPRESENTATIONS - Item # 5-6

40\nAward Bid 8211 to Vortex Services, LLC., Houston, Texas, for $556,200 from\nSpecial Gas Tax, Fairmount Park Storm Drain Accounts for construction of\nFairmount Park Storm Drain - Dexter to Bowling Green Drives, Phase I (Ward 1)\nReport\nLocation Map\nBid Award Recommendation\nAttachments:

41\nFinal Parcel Map 37607 - Proposal by Ashkan Etemadian of ADMG, Inc., to\nsubdivide one parcel into two parcels fronting Van Buren Boulevard and State Route\n91 - A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, accepting\nthe Final Map of Parcel Map No. 37607 - Waive further reading - Northeast corner\nof intersection of Van Buren Boulevard and State Route 91 (Ward 5)\nReport\nResolution\nMap\nApproved Conditions\nAttachments:

42\nFirst Amendment to Request for Proposal 2198 Agreement with Kimley Horn &\nAssociates, Inc., to amend scope of services for Citywide Vehicle Miles Traveled\n(VMT) Mitigation Fees, Bank and Exchanges and extend term through January 23,\n2028 (All Wards)\nReport\nFirst Amendment to Agreement\nExecuted Agreement dated 2-14-25\nAttachments:\nPUBLIC HEARING - Item # 43\nAudience participation is encouraged. Public comments are limited to 3 minutes. Press\n*9 to be placed in the queue to speak when the discussion item is called.

43\nCode of Ethics and Conduct Annual Review - Governmental Processes Committee\nrecommends revisions to Riverside Municipal Code Chapter 2.78 - Code of Ethics\nand Conduct (City Council) (All Wards) (10-minute presentation)\nReport\nRMC Chapter 2.78\nAttachments:\nCOMMUNICATIONS

44\nCity Attorney report on Closed Session discussions

45\nItems for future City Council consideration as requested by Mayor or Members of\nthe City Council - City Manager/City Attorney reports\n* * * * * * * * *\nThe City Council meeting of December 16, 2025, is cancelled.

5\nFire\nDepartment\noverview\nand\nemployee\nrecognition\n(All\nWards)\n(10-minute\npresentation)\nReport\nPresentation\nAttachments:

6\nGeneral\nServices\nDepartment\noverview\nand\nemployee\nrecognition\n(All\nWards)\n(10-minute presentation)\nPresentation\nAttachments:

7\nRiverside Rewards App Pilot Program - Shop-local application powered by Bludot\nTechnologies, Inc., supporting community-based economic activity and authorize\nCity Manager to execute agreement and rewards budget not to exceed $50,000 and\n$5,940 for software licensing fees and support from General Fund, Economic\nDevelopment, Software Purchasing/Licensing account (Community and Economic\nDevelopment) (All Wards) (10-minute presentation)\nReport\nBludot Order Form\nPresentation\nAttachments:

8\nCase PR-2024-001761 - Proposal by Justin Heileman to modify Condition of\nApproval No. 6 related to Vesting Tract Map 22291 to preclude further subdivision of\ncertain lots within the map approved in 1987 - Determine project is exempt from\nCalifornia Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review pursuant to Section 15061(b)\n(3) (General Rule) of the CEQA Guidelines, as it can be seen with certainty project\nwill not have a significant effect on environment - 2954 Everwood Drive, westerly\nterminus of Everwood Drive (Community and Economic Development) (Ward 6)\n(10-minute presentation)\nReport\nPC Staff Report and CoAs\nPC Minutes - September 17, 1987\nResolution 16688\nCovenant and Agreement\nRecommended Conditions of Approval\nPresentation\nAttachments:

9\nPursuant to Government Code §54956.8 to instruct City’s Negotiator, Charles M.\nFutrell, regarding price and terms of payment for the purchase, sale, exchange, or\nlease of property commonly known as\nFairmount\nPark,\nAPNs:\n209-162-015,\n209-163-001; by Boy Scouts of America, Matt Barth, Negotiator\nReport\nAttachments: