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CITY COUNCIL MEETING
TUESDAY, AUGUST 05, 2025 at 6:00 PM
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER - 128 SOUTH 5TH STREET, FOWLER, CA 93625 AGENDA
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1. MEETING CALLED TO ORDER
2. ROLL CALL
3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
4. INVOCATION BY PASTOR ERIK BUHL FROM FOWLER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
5. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
6. PUBLIC COMMENT
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7. CONSENT CALENDAR
Items on the Consent Calendar are considered routine and include a recommended action from Staff and shall be acted on by one motion of the Council. If a Councilmember requests additional information or would like to pull an item for discussion, that item shall be pulled from the Consent Calendar and acted upon separately. A Councilmember may register an action on an individual item without pulling the item from the Consent Calendar. A motion to approve the Consent Calendar is deemed to include a motion to waive the full reading of any ordinance or resolution on the Consent Calendar. For adoption of ordinances, only those which received a unanimous vote of the Councilmembers present at introduction shall be eligible for placement on the Consent Calendar.
7A RATIFY Pay Warrants for August 5, 2025
7B APPROVE Minutes of the June 23, 2025 Special City Council Meeting 7C APPROVE Minutes of the July 1, 2025 City Council Meeting 7D APPROVE the purchase of a 2023 New Holland C345 Compact Track Loader from Garton in the amount of $86,896.70 and authorize the City Manager to execute the purchase agreement
7E APPROVE the purchase of a New Cimline M1 150 Gallon Crack Sealer from Haaker Equipment in the amount of $82,255.65 and authorize the City Manager to execute the purchase agreement
7E APPROVE a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Fowler and Fowler Unified School District (District) for contributions towards the community's continued 2 use of the District's recreational facilities in an amount not to exceed $91,812 total for Fiscal Years 2025-2028, and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement 7G APPROVE an agreement with the Fowler Unified School District (District) to provide fueling services to the City of Fowler's fleet for the period of August 1, 2025, to June 30, 2028, and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement 7H APPROVE an Agreement between the City of Fowler and the Fowler Unified School District (District) to provide one sworn police officer, assigned as a School Resource Officer (SRO), on school campuses within the City of Fowler, and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement
ZI APPROVE a $800 donation to Fowler High School Cheer using Fiscal Year 2025-26 CalRecycle Funds
APPROVE a $800 donation to Fowler Boy Scouts Troop 390 using Fiscal Year 2025- 26 CalRecycle Funds
7K APPROVE the purchase of a 2025 Ford F150 Lighting Pro EV Truck from Lithia Ford Lincoln of Fresno in the amount of $58,409.01 and authorize the City Manager to execute the purchase agreement
8. CONTESTED CONSENT CALENDAR
Items pulled from the Consent Calendar will be heard individually immediately after action is taken on the Consent Calendar.
9. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
City Manager
A APPROVE Resolution No. 2797 approving an exception to the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) 180-day waiting period to hire Greg G.
Gularte as a Retired Annuitant Chief of Police
Fire
B Quarterly Update by Chief Dustin Hail, Fresno County Fire Protection District Public Works
C Actions pertaining to 4th and 5th Street Improvements Project:
i. ADOPT a Notice of Exemption finding the 4th and 5th Street Improvements Project to be categorically exempt pursuant to CEQA guidelines section 15301(c) ii. AWARD the 4th and 5th Street Improvements Project to MAC General Engineering in the amount of $423,884.84 and authorize City Manager to execute the agreement
3 D INTRODUCTION of Ordinance NO. 2025-05, to Retain the Current Prima Facie Speed Limit for a Section of Roadway Along Adams Avenue.
Planning
E APPROVE License Agreement for a Monument Sign and Landscaping between the City of Fowler and JGSS Food Service, Inc. at the median island between Manning Avenue and Vineyard Place
E AUTHORIZE the City Manager to enter into an agreement with County of Fresno for the implementation of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program for the year 24-25 for the Fowler Panzak Park ADA Improvements Project funds G Actions pertaining to Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map No. 6501:
i. INTRODUCE Ordinance No. 2025-04 to:
a. Find that the Project is exempt from further environmental review pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15183.
b. Prezone APN 343-040-26 to the zoning map designation of R-1- 7/PD-3 (Single Family Residential/Planned Development). c. Prezone the easterly adjacent parcel, City Park site (APN 343-040- 92T) to the zoning map designation of O (Open Space).
d. Prezone the easterly adjacent parcel, Fowler Unified School District property (APN 343-040-89T) to the zoning map designation of PF (Public Facilities).
e. Amend section 9.145.040, subd. (B) of the Fowler Zoning Ordinance to include an additional Planned Development Overlay.
ii. APPROVE Resolution No. 7298 to:
a. Find that the Project is exempt from further environmental review pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15183.
b. Approve a Planned Development (PD).
c. Approve Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map No. 6501.
d. Initiate annexation of APN 343-040-26 (Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map No. 6501), APN 343-040-92T (City Park site), and APN 343-040- 89T (Fowler Unified School District property).
10. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS
11. CEREMONIAL
A. Swearing In of Interim Police Chief Greg G. Gularte
12. COUNCILMEMBER REPORTS AND COMMENTS
13. CLOSED SESSION
Government Code Section 54957
Public Employee Appointment/Employment
Title: City Attorney
14. RECONVENE INTO OPEN SESSION AND REPORT ACTION
15. ADJOURN
Next Ordinance No. 2025-06
Next Resolution No. 2799
CERTIFICATION: I, Angela Vasquez, City Clerk of the City of Fowler, California, hereby certify that the foregoing agenda was posted for public review on Thursday, July 31, 2025.
Angela Vasquez, СРМС
City Clerk