CITY COUNCIL MEETING
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER – 128 SOUTH 5TH STREET, FOWLER, CA 93625 AGENDA
This meeting is being conducted by teleconference at the following locations: Fowler City Council Chamber, 128 S. 5th Street, Fowler, CA 93625; and Wyndham San Diego Bayside, 1355 N.
Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101. Each teleconference location is open to the public and any member of the public has the opportunity to address the City Council from a teleconference location in the same manner as if that person attended the meeting location. The City Council will control the conduct of the meeting and determine the appropriate order and time limitations on public comments from the teleconference locations.
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Resolutions and Ordinances - With respect to the approval of resolutions and ordinances, the reading of the title thereto shall be deemed a motion to waive a reading of the complete resolution or ordinance and unless there is a request by a Councilmember that the resolution or ordinance be read in full, further reading of the resolution or ordinance shall be deemed waived by unanimous consent of the Council.
1. MEETING CALLED TO ORDER
2. ROLL CALL
3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
4. INVOCATION BY PASTOR JESUS VALENCIA FROM VISION CHURCH
5. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
6. PUBLIC COMMENT
This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons desiring to address the Council on any matter not described on this agenda. Presentations are limited to 3 minutes per person and no more than 15 minutes per topic.
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 October 21, 2025
7B APPROVE Minutes of the September 16, 2025 City Council Meeting 7C ADOPT Ordinance No. 2025-06, which:
i. FINDS that Ordinance No. 2025-06 is exempt from further environmental analysis pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15061, subdivision (b)(3), and; 2 ii. APPROVES a text amendment amending the Fowler Municipal Code to include regulations relating to sidewalk vending within the City. 7D APPROVE Resolution No. 2804 Concerning Local Transportation Purpose Funds Extension (Measure “C” Extension)
7E ACCEPT Credit Card Usage Report and Donation Report for January 1, 2025, through June 30, 2025.
7F ADOPT Resolution No. 2805 Approving the Amended Joint Powers Agreement of the Central San Joaquin Valley Risk Management Authority (CSJVRMA) 7G Actions pertaining to the Conversion of the Public Works Supervisor Position to Public Works & Public Utilities Manager and Addition of One (1) Maintenance Assistant Position.
i. APPROVE Resolution No. 2806, a resolution establishing the number of fulltime positions and certain temporary/ part-time positions authorized in the City for fiscal year 2025/ 2026.
ii. APPROVE Resolution No. 2807, a resolution adopting the salary classification schedule for the Public Works & Public Utilities Manager. 7H APPROVE Resolution 2808 authorizing submittal of a grant application for the Fresno COG Measure C Safe Routes to School Program
7I APPROVE Resolution No. 2809 to ADOPT the Fresno County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan
7J APPROVE Resolution No. 2810 approving the updated Employee Benefits Handbook
8. CONTESTED CONSENT CALENDAR
Items pulled from the Consent Calendar will be heard individually immediately after action is taken on the Consent Calendar.
9. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS
10. COUNCILMEMBER REPORTS AND COMMENTS
11. ADJOURN
Next Ordinance No. 2025-07
Next Resolution No. 2811
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, October 16, 2025.
Angela Vasquez, CPMC
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