MINUTES
CITY OF DELANO
CITY COUNCIL – REGULAR MEETING
December 1, 2025
CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Solorio-Ruiz called the meeting to order at 5:15 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers, 1015 – 11th Avenue.
INVOCATION
Pastor David Vivas offered the invocation.
FLAG SALUTE
Mayor Solorio-Ruiz led the flag salute.
ROLL CALL
Council members present: Liz Morris, Mario Nunez, Joe Alindajao, Salvador Solorio-Ruiz Council members absent: Bryan Osorio
OFFICIALS PRESENT
City Manager Reyna, City Clerk Chavez, City Attorney Hensley, Finance Director Lara Rios, Police Chief Nicholson, Human Resources Director Zamudio, Interim Community Development Director Dowling (via teleconference), Public Works Director Nunez, City Engineer Rodriguez, Fire Chief Crist, Assistant, City Attorney King (via teleconference) and IS Coordinator Reyes
PRESENTATIONS AND AWARDS
No items
ITEMS FROM THE PUBLIC
1. Joan Smith – “Good evening. Joan Smith, 1302 Rounds, Delano, California. First of all, congratulations to Sal. I had the privilege of teaching his two older siblings at Del Vista, so I have a long history with his family and the service that his mom has provided to the school children of Delano. I'm here tonight, again, I haven't been here for six months since about the time that Flood Ministries was leaving our community, but last week I got my invitation to be part of the point in time count the end of January, and I don't know who will lead that count in Delano, I don't know what the city has done about making plans for people who are not housed in our, they've been moved away, but they're still here. We see them every day on our streets and I wonder how they're getting medications, how they're getting showers because like I said last time, I know all of you sitting up there are passionate people, you have strong concerns for our community members and people who aren't housed are part of our community and the problems that they face impact, for example, they'll impact Adventist Health, they'll impact our clinics. I know some of you, a lot of you participated last month in the extra food distributions through Cap K and so I just hope that you have a plan or there's going to be a time where grants are available that it's something that is still on your mind. Thank you.
2. Annette Salim-Wesir – “My name's Annette Salim-Wesir, 410 Main Street in Delano and congratulations to Mayor Salvador Solorio-Ruiz, Sal in short, as a representative of the Delano Junior, the Junior Livestock of Delano, we were having a Christmas winter wonderland this week in December 6th and seventh from three to 8:00 PM out at the Pavilion, which is on the south side of Lexington where we've done the junior livestock show that we had for harvest holidays and we would like to personally invite you, Mr. Mayor, along with your council members to our activities. It's going to be a lot of different things that we've been noticing on Facebook, social media, we've been putting pictures of how the decorations have been going up. It's something new that we want to be able to do and we want to be able to get the community involved, not only doing it just for harvest holidays, but to be able to do it throughout the whole year and to be able to include everybody. And we're going to have Santa there. We're going to be having pictures, we're going to be having popups, which we're going to have our local vendors within the community of Delano to be able to sell their goods out there to the people that are going to be coming along with our Delano Ag four H, who will be selling our hot chocolate out there and pan dulce. So, we'd just like to let everybody know about it and invite everybody that's here to be able to come and enjoy the activities with us. Thank you.”
3. Fernando Bravo – “Congratulations mayor. Thank you. Okay, I just got a couple of items here that I want to bring up here to you guys. This one is about the code enforcement. Is it illegal? Fernando Bravo, 1417 Belmont Street. Okay. About code enforcement, about illegal parking and semi-trucks around 14th Avenue and Ellington, also 14th, I mean Ellington and 17th Avenue.
Okay, and I know this has been brought up a couple of years ago. I was the one that brought it up and also my concern is with the transportation, if they made a progress to change the pickup for the seniors for the lunches, because they usually come about 12 and lunches are served at 11:30, so that gives them half an hour to rush and if they're not ready they leave them. Also, we haven't gotten our monthly schedule for the seniors and we're wondering if the city's going to fund the Christmas party. Alright, that's it. Thank you.”
CONSENT AGENDA
1) Authorization to waive the reading of any ordinance in its entirety and consenting to the reading of such ordinances by title only
2) Warrant Register in the amount of $3,720,284.81
3) Minutes of regular Council meeting of November 17, 2025 4) Minutes of regular Planning Commission meeting of October 8, 2025 5) Minutes of regular Pension Committee meeting of August 12, 2025 6) Resolution Awarding Contract to Lease Servicing Center, Inc. dba NCL Government Capital (NCL) for the Lease Purchase of One (1) New/Unused Elgin RegenX Sweeper Tier 4F Emissions, John Deere 4045 Turbocharged Diesel Engine mounted on a 2026 Freightliner M2- 106 Chassis (Street Sweeper Truck) from Haaker Equipment, authorizing the expenditure of funds in the amount of $439,926.92 over a term of six (6) years, with annual payments of $89,152.83 and authorizing the City Manager, or her designee, to execute all required documents (Resolution No. 2025-86) (Agreement No. 2025-107) (Agreement No. 2025-108) 7) Report on the status of the local emergency regarding the failed water line located under State Route 99 (SR99) at 14th Avenue pursuant to Public Contracts Code § 22050 8) Approval of appointment of Ray Arvizu to the Citizens Review Committee 9) Authorization to purchase public safety radios for support staff using CalVIP Cohort 4 Budget Modification Funds in the amount of $201,695.73 (Agreement No. 2025-109) 10) Approval of a Resolution establishing a Loading and Unloading Zone during the hours of 7:00 AM through 5:00 PM in front of the Delano Association for the Developmentally Disabled located at 600 Jefferson Street, per City Code Section 10.12.080 (Resolution No. 2025-87) 11) Adopt resolution approving the revised class specification for Equipment Operator (Resolution No. 2025-88)
12) Adopt resolution approving the revised class specification for Water Production Supervisor (Resolution No. 2025-89)
13) Adopt resolution approving the revised class specification for Water Production Operator III (Resolution No. 2025-90)
14) Adopt resolution approving the revised class specification for Water Production Operator II (Resolution No. 2025-91)
15) Adopt resolution approving the revised class specification for Water Distribution Supervisor (Resolution No. 2025-92)
16) Adopt resolution approving the revised class specification for Water Distribution Operator III-III (Resolution No. 2025-93) 17) Adopt resolution approving the revised class specification for Utility Services Billing Worker (Resolution No. 2025-94)
18) Adopt resolution approving the revised class specification for Utility Services Worker (Resolution No. 2025-95)
19) Approve side letter to Agreement No. 2025-33 of the Miscellaneous Employee Bargaining Unit Memorandum of Understanding effective December 1, 2025 (Agreement No. 2025-110) 20) Amendment No. 3 to Agreement No. 2013-98 with Aramark Uniform Services (AKA Vestis) rental of uniforms and workplace supplies (Agreement No. 2025-111) 21) Rescind Resolution 2025-82 and Agreement 2025-102, and approve the Final Map and Subdivision Agreement for Tract 7404 Phase 2, with Leora LLC, located adjacent to and south of Mathews Avenue, between Melcher Road and Timmons Avenue, and authorize the City Manager to sign the agreement and the City Clerk to file the Final Map with the County Recorder (Resolution No. 2025-96)
Motion was made by: Morris to approved items 1–21 on consent items; 2nd by: Nunez
Vote: 4-0
Ayes: Solorio-Ruiz/Nunez/Alindajao/ Morris
Nays: None
Absent: Osorio
Abstentions: None
PUBLIC HEARING
22) Adopt resolution confirming costs expended in the abatement of a public nuisance on the property located at 603 Main Street (a.k.a. 605 Main Street, APN No. 038-160-07-3), authorizing the recordation of a nuisance abatement lien against the property to recover costs, and finding the same to be exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act
Mayor Solorio-Ruiz declared the public hearing open.
City Attorney Hensley – “Mayor and counsel, much like on your prior hearings, because I act as the chief prosecutor, city attorney for the city. I will recuse myself from this and David King who is standing by online will advise the counsel if necessary.”
City Attorney Hensley left the council chambers at 5:40pm.
Police Chief Nicholson – “Honorable Mayor and City Council and congratulations sir for being chosen.
Mayor. On or about June 28th, 2023, a fire occurred at the subject property located at 6 0 3 Main Street resulting in extensive damage to the house. In the house was red tagged on June 29th, 2023. Notice of violation was mailed to the owners of record informing them that the property had been deemed a public nuisance, that it must be abated and further detailing various violations of the municipal code. No efforts were undertaken in the ensuing months to abate the nuisance or otherwise correct the violations. And on December 14th, 2023, an administrative citation was issued imposing fines for the persistent municipal code violations. No remedial action was undertaken or commenced by the property owners. In response to the December 14th, 2023 administrative citation and on January 17th, 2024, a second administrative citation was issued. No efforts to abate the violations were undertaken in response to the second administrative citation and on April 24th, 2025, the city manager issued an emergency abatement order directing the city and or its contractors to erect a temporary fence around the perimeter of the subject property and to post appropriate no trespassing signs warning of the danger. On April 25th, 2025, a notice of hearing on abatement of nuisance was sent by certified mail to all owners of record. The notice informed the recipients of the time and date of this hearing and that the fact that the staff intended to recommend that the city Council order and authorized demolition of the damaged residence as the appropriate means of abatement, the notice further informed the recipients that in the event the nuisance is not promptly abated by the owner, the cost of these proceedings, all previous code enforcement efforts concerning this condition of the property and the cleaning, clearing, rehabilitation, repair, or demolition by the city will constitute a special assessment and a nuisance abatement lien on the property upon which the city may foreclose in order to reimburse the city for these costs. In addition, the notice of hearing on abatement of nuisance was posted on the subject property informing the owner and the general public of the time and date of this hearing and inviting the owner to be present and show cause if any, why the structure should not be condemned as a public nuisance and the nuisance abated by raising or removing the structure. The building official fire chief and the police chief agreed that the heavily damaged structure posed a significant threat to public health, public safety, the and welfare to the public, including without limitation, a threat to trespassers posed by the burned out structure, including the risk of collapse or partial collapse and the risk associated with potentially toxic byproducts of the fire. In addition, the partially burned out structure constituted an attractive nuisance that could draw curious children exposing them to a serious threat of harm posed by the state of the structure itself. Staff was in agreement that the structure was not repairable and that the only appropriate means of abating the nuisance was demolition and of the cleaning of the and clearing of the property. Prior to the May 19th, 2025 hearing the property owner or other responsible party demolished the damage structure on the subject property and the associated nuisance abated. Nevertheless, the city incurred significant cost in carrying out the emergency abatement order, including without limitation, personnel costs, contractor cost, and legal expenses. On October 9th, 2025, the city mailed an invoice in the amount of $10,477.65 cents to the owner of record and informed the owner that if the invoice was not paid in full by December 1st, 2025, the city council will hold a hearing at its December 1st, 2025, regular meeting to receive and consider the itemized report of all abatement costs incurred by the city. Further to consider whether to authorize the recording of a nuisance abatement lien against the subject property and or to make the cost of abatement a special assessment against the subject property. The owner has contacted the city and requested a payment plan. In effect, the lien will allow for payment over time while still guaranteeing that if the property is sold, the lien will be paid off in escrow assuming there is sufficient equity. If after the lien is recorded the owner does not pay overtime, the owner may do so. Once the lien is paid off, then the city will remove the lien at the request of the owner. Staff recommends that the council conduct a hearing to receive written and oral public comment on the agenda item. Staff further recommends that the counsel adopt a resolution confirming the cost expended in the abatement of a public nuisance at 603 Main Street, also known as 605 Main Street authorizing the recordation of a nuisance abatement lien against the property to recover costs and determining that this action is exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act, known CEQA and Mr. Mayor, that is the end of my report.” Mayor Solorio-Ruiz opened public comment.
Samantha Ronk – “Hello, my name is Samantha Ronk. address, 2237 Chaparral Drive. I am the owner of the property address 603 Main Street. I'm here today to ask if there's any way I can make a payment plan.
I had reached out to the code enforcement when served the first time prior to the prior meeting that was scheduled, I had reached out also, how can I make payments prior to this meeting and they told me it was the only way to make a payment was to pay in full. I was wanting to ask council if there's any way I can at least make a few months to make the payment. I cannot pay them a lump sum for this amount due to family hardship At this time, at this coming year, I'm willing to make good size chunk little by little, but I cannot pay $10,500 at this time just with the fact that I've been having hardship with my parents both being disabled and having medical cutbacks right now with the government doing shutdowns. They're not paying for medicine and also other expenses. Therefore, I'm paying everything out of my own pocket for quite a few people at this time by myself and that's all I have to say. Say thank you.
Council Member Alindajao – “What is the cost so far that's incurred in the cleanup? Well, let me back up.
Is the property completely now cleaned up or demolished or is it in the process of that happening?” Police Chief Nicholson – “Yes it is, sir. It is completely cleaned.” Council Member Alindajao – “It’s completely done. And what was the cost of the city in total if you have that? ”
Police Chief Nicholson – “Yes sir. The total cost was $10,477 and 65 cents. On the back of the staff report, there is an invoice with a breakdown of all the costs in which the city incurred in this abatement.” Council Member Alindajao – “And that's all that the city is asking requesting from the owner?” Police Chief Nicholson – “Yes sir.”
Mayor Solorio-Ruiz closed public comment.
Mayor Pro Tem Nunez – “What I understand is we are going to be doing a payment plan, however, we're going to continue with what we're doing as far as the lien. In the event that the property owner does not pay, then we already have the lien set in place. Correct.” Police Chief Nicholson – “That is what staff is recommending. However, if I may refer to the city attorney on the legality and the specifics on the legal side.” Assistant Attorney King – “Good evening. Mr. Mayor, members of the city council? That's correct. The chief is correct. The council can move forward with adopting the resolution and having the lien placed on the property and the property owner can still enter into a payment plan. The lien would give the city leverage so that it ensures that the city will be repaid fully for its cost.” Council Member Morris – inaudible statement
Police Chief Nicholson – “I want to say it was roughly at the end of 2023.” Council Member Morris – “Year and up.”
Police Chief Nicholson – “June 28th, 2023 is when the fire occurred.” Council Member Morris – “Oh, okay. When is the first time we started sending out letters and abatement?”
Police Chief Nicholson – “On June 29th, which was the day after the fire. June 29th, 2023.” Council Member Morris – “How often do we send those out?” Police Chief Nicholson – “Well, there's not a set schedule, it's just based on the reaction and the response from a property owner, not in this particular situation, but in general. It could be once if the property owner responds quickly and on time it could be numerous times that we try to get in contact with the owner of record or multiple owners in some cases.”
Council Member Morris – “How long was it before we heard from the property?” Police Chief Nicholson – “I don't have that information Council member. I apologize.” Council Member Morris – “Was it a year we heard anything back sending out notice?” Mayor Pro Tem Nunez – “I believe when we first heard from the property owners, that's when we issued the abatement. The city was had fenced it up when we were getting ready to knock it down or demolish.
It's when we heard back from the property owner to that they would be doing it themselves. I believe that's the first time we had contact.”
Police Chief Nicholson – “That I couldn't answer at this time. I apologize.” Council Member Morris – “Okay, no questions.”
Mayor Solorio-Ruiz – “Yeah, I had similar questions as the councilwoman did, but would you say that of course you don't know the last time that we reached out to the individual but there was consecutive communication I would assume.”
Police Chief Nicholson – “Yes. There was multiple communications with the property owner and I'm not sure if there was actual communication, but between at least the first and third notice there was no efforts to be undertaken by the owner to abate the nuisance or otherwise correct the violation, but after that the owner did comply and clean up the property but by that time the city had already incurred costs.” Mayor Solorio-Ruiz – “Okay, and to just confirm, I already heard it, but there is a payment plan in the works or is there?”
Police Chief Nicholson – “I don't know if there's a specific payment plan in writing, but I think that's what we're asking for to be authorized and then I think we can work on that. Is that correct, David?” Assistant Attorney King – “Yes, that's correct. It can be two different two tracks if that's agreeable to the council.”
Police Chief Nicholson – “Okay, so we're asking for that to be approved and then we can work on the details of the payment plan after.”
Mayor Solorio-Ruiz – “Gotcha. Okay, thank you. And other than that, I just want to thank you for coming and providing your comment. It's unfortunate of course the circumstances but of course we're going to follow with what we can and the best to help everyone in the community. A public nuisance is not something that we enjoy doing, but it's something that we need to prioritize to make sure that there's no danger in the community that our children are being able to walk down the street and not have that temptation of, let me go see what's over here and to make sure that they're safe. But just thank you for coming and speaking. Do I have a motion from the council?” Motion was made by: Alindajao to adopt item 22 in addition of to enter payment plan negotiations; 2nd by: Nunez
Vote: 4-0
Ayes: Solorio-Ruiz /Nunez/Alindajao/Morris
Nays: None
Absent: Osorio
Abstentions: None
23) Adopt resolution confirming costs expended in the abatement of a public nuisance on the property located at 1222 Glenwood Street (APN Nos. 038-110-13-005 and 038-110-144), authorizing the recordation of a nuisance abatement lien against the property to recover costs, and finding the same to be exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act
Mayor Solorio-Ruiz declared the public hearing open.
Police Chief Nicholson – “Yes, chief honor, mayor and council. The property located at 1222 Glenwood Street was improved with a single family residential structure constructed in approximately 1944. The city was informed and believes that the subject property became vacant somewhere in 2024 when the last owner of record died from the time it was abandoned, the subject property was continually trespassed upon and was the subject of multiple complaints of the police department. Over 75 incidents were reported in 2025 and more than 30 incidents were reported in 2024. Observed and documented municipal code violations on the subject property in 2025 included violations regarding security requirements, accumulations maintenance and management of property, weed and rubbish abatement, nuisance, and the health and safety code for inadequate sanitation, lack of running water and faulty weather protection.
The house on the property was red tagged due to inadequate sanitation on January 24th, 2025 and a certified notice of violation was mailed to the owner of record on February 12th, 2025. An administrative citation was mailed on February 26th, 2025 and a second administrative citation was mailed on March 25th, 2025. The red tags were subsequently removed presumably by the vagrants that were utilizing the structure and on March 25th, 2025 the red tags were reposted on the site by city staff. At approximately 1:00 AM on Monday, April 14th, 2025, a fire was reported at the subject property. The fire caused considerable damage to the structure which greatly increased the already significant threat, it posed to public safety and to the safety of those that may come onto the property. On April 17th, 2025, the City Manager issued an emergency abatement order directing staff to secure the subject property by boarding up entrance points to the damage structure, erecting a temporary fence around the perimeter of the property and posting no trespassing signs warning of the danger. On April 24th, 2025, notice to abate nuisance was sent by certified mail to all the owners mortgagees and beneficiaries under a deed of trusts of record. In addition, the notice was mailed to an easement holder of record, which was Verizon and to State Farm Insurance, the company believed to be the current insurer of the subject property. The notice informed the recipients at notice recipients of the time and date of this hearing and that the fact that staff intended to recommend that the city council order and authorize demolition of the damaged residence as the appropriate means of abatement. The notice further informed the recipients that in the event the nuisance is not promptly abated by the owner, the cost of these proceedings, all previous code enforcement efforts concerning this condition of the property and the cleaning, clearing, rehabilitation, repair, or demolition by the city will constitute a special assessment or a nuisance abatement lien on the property upon which the city may foreclose in order to reimburse the city for these costs. In addition, a notice to abate nuisance was posted on the subject property informing the owner and the general public of the time and date of the hearing and inviting the owner to be present and show cause if any, why the structure should not be condemned as a public nuisance and the nuisance abated by raising or removing the structure. Finally, one of the adult children of the deceased owner was contacted, but she indicated that the children had no legal right to control the property. The building official, the fire chief and the chief of police agreed that the heavily damaged structure posed a significant threat to public safety, public welfare and public health. The history of the subject property suggested that vagrants likely to return to the site, exposing them to a host, a potentially serious threat posed by the burned out structure, including the risk of collapse or partial collapse and the risk associated with potentially toxic byproduct of the fire. In addition, the damage structure constituted an attractive nuisance that could pose a significant threat to curious children and other trespassers. On May 19th, 2025, the Delano City Council conducted a duly notice public hearing at which time the council declared the condition of the subject property to be a public nuisance, order the abatement of said nuisance and authorize a City Manager to cause the structure to be demolished and the nuisance abated in the event the property owner failed to do so. No efforts to abate the nuisance were subsequently undertaken by the property owner nor the mortgage holder. Accordingly, the city proceeded to abate the nuisance as authorized and directed by counsel. Significant costs were incurred by the city in the process including without limitation, legal costs associated with obtaining an abatement warrant from the Kern County Superior Court, preparing all necessary documents and advising city staff and the city council also boarding fencing or material otherwise to obtain to secure the subject property and hazardous material inspection, testing and abatement, demolition and disposal of the damage structure including removal and filling of the end ground pool, tree removal, and staff time in connection with the entire nuisance abatement process. On November 21st, 2025, the city mailed an invoice in the amount of $179,223.75 to the owner of record that if the invoice was not paid in full by December 1st, 2025, the city council will hold a hearing at its regular meeting on December 1st, 2025 to consider the itemized report of the abatement cost and further to consider authorizing the recording of a nuisance abatement lien against the subject property and or making the cost of abatement a special assessment against the subject property Because of the owners of record are deceased, the city also posted the notice on the subject property itself on November 21st, 2025.
No payment has been received as of the submission of the staff report, the current mortgage holder, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development has reached out to the city and states that it intends to begin the foreclosure process upon the property to recover the funds that it loaned to. The deceased owners staff recommends that the city council conduct a hearing and receive written and oral public comment on this agenda item staff further recommends that the city council adopt a resolution confirming the cost expended in the abatement of a public nuisance at 1222 Glenwood Street, authorizing the recordation of a nuisance abatement lien against the property to recover cost and determining that this action is exempt from a review under the California Environmental Quality Act, also CEQA. And Mayor, that's the end of my reports.”
Mayor Solorio-Ruiz opened public comment.
No public comments.
Mayor Solorio-Ruiz closed public comment.
Council Member Morris – “If the family members aren't claiming any claim to the property, who owns the property.”
Police Chief Nicholson – “At this time? It's the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. That's the current mortgage holder HUD.”
Council Member Morris – “Okay, so in the abatement for $179,000, is that who we're going to charge the abatement fees to?
Police Chief Nicholson – “From my understanding, and David can correct me if I'm wrong, I think it's going to go against the property itself, not the mortgage holder. Is that correct, David?” Assistant Attorney King – “That's correct. Chief, yeah, mayor and Counsel. Once the property is sold, then the city's lien would be deducted from the proceeds from the sale of the property. So it would be paid by the buyer of the property when the property is sold.” Council Member Morris – “Okay. That's all the question I have. Thank you.” Mayor Pro Tem Nunez – “I know it sounds very expensive, this 179,000, but what I understand that the city had to pay for asbestos removal and cleanup. Correct. That foot really jumped the bill up very high.” Police Chief Nicholson – “Yes. When we began the process of abatement and demolition, there was testing that was conducted. There was further testing to determine how great the asbestos was and how much cleanup was done. And if I remember it went from 25,000 to 50,000, somewhere around that area.
It doubled the amount of cleanup that we had to do.”
Motion was made by: Nunez to approve;
2nd by: Morris
Vote: 4-0
Ayes: Solorio-Ruiz /Nunez/Alindajao/Morris
Nays: None
Absent: Osorio
Abstentions: None
City Attorney Hensley returned to the council chambers at 6:07pm.
REGULAR AGENDA
No items
DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS
No items
COUNCIL STATEMENTS AND REPORTS
Council Member Bryan Osorio – Absent
Council Member Alindajao – “No comments other than to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Be safe. I think take precaution. It gets darker sooner. Everybody's out shopping and buying gifts. Just be aware of your surroundings and stay safe. Merry Christmas.” Council Member Morris – “The only thing I have, there's a lot happening this past week or last week anyway. Not that particularly this week I guess. Well not Thanksgiving week, the week before that, but I know we had a lot of ribbon cuttings, a lot of events going on, but I just want to just advise the public of the things that we do have that have opened up in our community. And one of them was the open house for the United Healthcare Center. What a beautiful center that is. My gosh. It's really been transformed and it's beautiful in there. I know that they have, it's a whole shop in one place. I guess you can go and do your dentistry work there and there's a pharmacy there and there's doctors there. And so we just want to make everybody aware that it's there. On the very same day we had the welcome to Dr. Zamora. I guess he just opened up new clinic up here at the, used to be urgent care before and he's new in town and so you want to make everybody aware that we have a new doctor in town. Following day, we had a groundbreaking for the New Gateway project, which is out on County Line and High Street and the new 76 station that's going in out there. And it was a great event to want to see that beautiful structure coming in. There's a lot of people there. It was impressive to see so many supporters there and not even from Delano but even from Bakersfield. They came down to support that project and the same day we had this ribbon cutting of the skating rink and that was an awesome event. If you haven't had a chance to go out there and see it, it's beautiful and the staff has done a beautiful job at of decorating it and I don’t know, what kind of response have we had to the skating rink? I haven't been out there since. It's been good.
City Manager Reyna – “It's been excellent. Council member. We even sold out on Sunday.
Council Member Morris – “Wonderful. That's great. So you haven't had a chance to check it out, go out there, check it out. They're open from two to eight, is that correct? Monday through Wednesday through Sunday, yes. So check it out. I'm sure. The only other thing I have is we had a lot of great things happening and this is going to be a busy, busy month for all of us. Please come out to the Christmas tree lighting on Friday and that starts at five o'clock. Have some hot chocolate and cookies with the council members and drone show. Right? Right. We have a drone show, our first ever. Yes. You don't see that often, right? So you got to come out and check that out. That's right before the parade. Okay. The parade is going to start at what time? Six. Six o'clock. So all this happens before then. Okay. So coming out and support the city's going to be a great event for everyone. And then of course Junior Livestock is having their thing, their Christmas fair thing on Saturday and Sunday. So there's a lot happening this weekend. So come out and support all those events and I'm sure there's plenty more coming up. Toys for Tots. Toys for Tots, right. Shop With a Cop. All these things are coming up in this next month. So, I hope everyone has a festive December.
And keep in mind always to be of service to others and please help out where you can if you want that really giving spirit in Christmas Spirit. That's what we need to do. We need to give up our time because you can't pay enough for the time that you give to people and how much people appreciate what you do for them. So great opportunities this month to go out and share your spirit on your Christmas right and make your light shine. Thank you.”
Mayor Pro-Tem Nunez – “To also invite everybody out to this Friday, right outside the doors we have that drone show, the Christmas free lighting, free cookies, coffee and Chocolate Santa and Mr. CLA will be here. And then there's also, I believe we got a sponsor this year that came to us. They're going to be donating toys while supplies last for four year olds or through 12 year olds that were happening before.
And some of it after the parade. Another thing, just answer some of the questions of talking about our unhoused in Delano. Some of the issues that we working on, parking city council did direct the police department to start looking at some of the unhoused issues we had on Main Street and some of the parking.
We had issues on Main Street and we are driving that department thin on a lot of stuff that we're asking them to do, including code enforcement. As you can see, two of the properties that code enforcement has been working on for a couple of years, that's not the only ones they're working on. They have several that they're working on, which has been helping us with the other issues within our city. Over the past, I want to say six to eight months, Delano had over 110 unhoused in our city. We currently are running under 30 unhoused in our city. No, we're not just kicking 'em out and throwing 'em out and sending 'em on their way.
We are empathetic and we're all looking for them. Many of 'em have found homes already. Many of them went into treatment and several have gone back with their family. We do have several that are still here and several outside agencies are still coming into town and they're still working with them and code enforcement to try to get them situated and moving on. We're not kissing them away, I we're not telling 'em they can't be here. We are enforcing our city ordinance, what the governor required us to do and we're all helping them. They are getting fed, they are getting found housing, they're getting temporary housing, those who want it. And like I said, these groups are out here every day including code enforcement every day trying to find somewhere to go. So we're not kissing 'em off, we are dealing with them. We're all helping 'em and we're moving forward with that on this Friday. Lifehouse Church has a food giveaway at their church. On Monday, the Guadalupe Church has a food giveaway and then on Tuesday Historical Society or out at the Memorial Park, they have a food giveaway as well. And that's all I have.” Mayor Solorio-Ruiz - “Yeah. Thank you. Thank you Vice Mayor. And the food announcements are absolutely important. I too attended the grand opening of United Health Center. It was a beautiful building.
If you haven't gone in there, it's really beautiful and you could do a lot in there like the councilwoman mentioned. Also, Candy Cane Corner, thank you to city staff, the City Manager and all those who were involved. It's absolutely fantastic in there. And if you haven't had the opportunity, definitely try it out. Thank you to staff. Of course. Can't say that enough for their efforts in that. I also attended the annual Thanksgiving luncheon and so thank you for all the sponsors who made that happen and all the volunteer individuals who volunteered their time on Thanksgiving morning. I also want to give a congratulations to RFK, to Robert F. Kennedy High School for winning 2025 Valley Football titles. I believe they also still have more games, but I wanted to note that and maybe we'll have them come in and make them feel good about that big win representing the city. Also, of course, reminder tree lighting in the parade this Friday.
And of course junior livestock as well. Thank you for uplifting that and doing that in the community. So, thank you.”
CLOSED SESSION
No items.
RETURN TO GENERAL SESSION
ADJOURNMENT
Moved by Nunez seconded by Alindajao and unanimously carried 4-0 to adjourn the closed session meeting at 6:16 pm.
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Ricardo G. Chavez, City Clerk