Thursday, February 17, 2022
9:00 AM
City of Fresno
2600 Fresno Street
Fresno, CA 93721
www.fresno.gov
In Person And/Or Electronic
City Council
President - Nelson Esparza
Vice President - Tyler Maxwell
Councilmembers:
Esmeralda Z. Soria, Mike Karbassi, Miguel Angel Arias, Luis Chavez, Garry Bredefeld
City Manager - Georgeanne White
City Attorney - Douglas T. Sloan
City Clerk - Todd Stermer, CMC
Meeting Agenda - Final-revised
Regular Meeting
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PUBLIC ADVISORY:
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When: February 17, 2022 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: February 17, 2022 Regular Meeting
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The City of Fresno thanks you in advance for taking all precautions to prevent spreading COVID19 virus.
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9:00 A.M. ROLL CALL
Invocation
Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag
APPROVE AGENDA
CEREMONIAL PRESENTATIONS
Proclamation for “Summer Gaston Day” in the City of FresnoID 22-300 Sponsors: Councilmember Chavez
Proclamation for “Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month”ID 22-320 Sponsors: Council President Esparza
COUNCILMEMBER REPORTS AND COMMENTS
MAYOR/MANAGER REPORTS AND COMMENTS
UNSCHEDULED COMMUNICATION
PLEASE NOTE: UNSCHEDULED COMMUNICATION IS NOT SCHEDULED FOR A
SPECIFIC TIME AND MAY BE HEARD ANY TIME DURING THE MEETING The attached public comments were submitted for the
February 17, 2022 Regular City Council meeting and were not directly related to any specific item(s) on the published agenda.
ID 22-387
1. CONSENT CALENDAR
Approve a consultant services agreement with Unison
Consulting, Inc., to provide professional services for creating and establishing a Tenant Handbook at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport in an amount not to exceed $50,000. (Council District 4)
ID 22-2301.-A.
Sponsors: Airports Department
***BILL No. 2 (Re-intro’d 2/10/2022) (For Adoption) - ID 22-3161.-B.
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Amending Administrative Abatement, FMC section 10-616, to clarify limits on access to restricted areas where abatements are taking place (Subject to Mayor’s Veto).
Sponsors: City Attorney's Office
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Approve the award of a purchase contract to Stommel Inc., dba Lehr Automotive, a Sacramento California-based
company, for the purchase of 91 sets of patrol vehicle
hardware and safety equipment in the amount of $2,153,261 for the Police Department
ID 22-2741.-C.
Sponsors: Department of Transportation
Award a two-year Requirements Contract with provisions for three one-year extensions to Herwaldt Automotive Group, Inc. of Fresno, California, for a maximum of 75 marked patrol BMW motorcycles over a 5-year term in the total amount of $2,109,211.84, plus annual CPI adjustments, for the Police Department. The FY22 purchase will be 15 motorcycles in the amount of $421,844.37 (Bid File 9626)
ID 22-2721.-D.
Sponsors: Department of Transportation
Award a construction contract to AMG & Associates, Inc. of Santa Clarita, California, in the amount of $11,631,119 for the Department of Transportation Fresno Area Express Facility Improvement project and authorize the Director of
Transportation to execute all related documents (Bid File #3839) (District 3)
ID 22-2751.-E.
Sponsors: Department of Transportation
RESOLUTION - Approval of Annual Update of the Public
Transit Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) as required by the
Federal Transit Administration
ID 22-2761.-F.
Sponsors: Department of Transportation
***RESOLUTION - Adopting the 567th Amendment to the
Master Fee Schedule Resolution No.80-420 to update
reduced transit fare pricing. (Subject to Mayor’s Veto).
ID 22-2871.-G.
Sponsors: Department of Transportation
Approve an increase to the Requirements Contract with Air Liquide U.S. LP, doing business as Alliance Gas Products, for Bulk Liquid Oxygen to an annual amount of $275,000, and extend the contract for an additional two years (Bid File 9452) (Citywide).
ID 22-3141.-H.
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Sponsors: Department of Public Utilities
Actions related to the extension and increase of a
Requirements Contract for Bulk Sodium Hydroxide
with Univar USA Inc. (Bid File 9429) (Citywide):
1. Reject all bids for the Requirements Contract for Bulk Sodium Hydroxide (Bid File 9601)
2. Approve an increase to the Requirements Contract with Univar USA Inc. (Univar) to an annual amount of $1,443,365, and extend the contract for one additional year (Bid File 9429) (Citywide)
ID 22-2861.-I.
Sponsors: Department of Public Utilities
***RESOLUTION - 51st Amendment to the Annual
Appropriations Resolution (AAR) No. 2021-178 appropriating $6,141,400 under the General Fund that will fund salary increases and overtime for Bargaining Units 04 (FPOA
Non-Management) and 09 (FPOA Management), 05 (IAFF
Non-Management) and 10 (IAFF Management) from the
American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) ((Requires 5 Affirmative Votes) (Subject to Mayor’s Veto).
ID 22-2811.-J.
Sponsors: Office of Mayor & City Manager
***RESOLUTION - 52nd Amendment to the Annual
Appropriations Resolution (AAR) No. 2021-178 appropriating $2,000,000 under the General Fund for the 911 Call Center from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) (Requires 5
Affirmative Votes) (Subject to Mayor’s Veto).
ID 22-2821.-K.
Sponsors: Office of Mayor & City Manager
***RESOLUTION - Adopt the Fourteenth Amendment to FY
2022 Salary Resolution No. 2021-176, amending Exhibit
13-1, Unit 13, Exempt Supervisory and Professional (CFPEA) to modify the salary ranges for Professional Engineer,
Supervising Professional Engineer, Chief Surveyor, and
Architect, effective February 14, 2022 (Subject to Mayor’s Veto).
ID 22-2881.-L.
Sponsors: Personnel Services Department
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Actions pertaining to the FY22 Position Authorization
Resolution No. 2021-179:
1: ***RESOLUTION - Adopt the 5th Amendment to Position
Authorization Resolution (PAR) No. 2021-179, adding one hundred seven (107) full-time and two (2) permanent
part-time positions Citywide. (Subject to Mayor’s Veto).
ID 22-3171.-M.
Sponsors: Personnel Services Department
Actions pertaining to Operating Engineers, Local Union No. 3 (Airport Public Safety Officers) for Unit 11 (FAPSO/OE3):
1. ***Adopt a successor Memorandum of Understanding
between the City of Fresno and Operating Engineers, Local Union No. 3 (Airport Public Safety Officers) for Unit 11 (FAPSO/OE3) (Subject to Mayor’s veto)
2. ***RESOLUTION: Adopt the Fifteenth Amendment to FY
2022 Salary Resolution No. 2021-176 amending salaries in Exhibit 11, Unit 11 - Airport Public Safety Officers (FAPSO), as required by the Memorandum of Understanding between
the City of Fresno and Operating Engineers, Local Union No. 3 (OE3) for Unit 11 (FAPSO/OE3) (Subject to Mayor’s veto) ID 22-3091.-N.
Sponsors: Personnel Services Department
Actions pertaining to the CaliforniansForAll Youth Workforce Development Grant program:
1. Approve the 2021 CaliforniansForAll Youth Workforce
Development Grant
2. ***RESOLUTION - Adopting the 53rd amendment to the
Annual Appropriation Resolution (AAR) No. 2021-178
appropriating $232,500 for the One Fresno Youth Workforce Development Grant (Requires 5 Affirmative Votes) (Subject to Mayor’s Veto)
3. ***RESOLUTION - 6th Amendment to the Position
Authorization Resolution (PAR) No. 2021-179 adding three (3) positions to the Personnel Services Department (Subject to Mayor’s Veto)
ID 22-2891.-O.
Sponsors: Personnel Services Department and Office of Mayor & City Manager
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Actions pertaining to the 2020 Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grant:
1. Approve a Sub-Grantee award to Saint Rest Baptist
Church of up to $191,000 for the remediating of an existing building on the Saint Rest Campus from the City of Fresno’s Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund.
ID 22-3011.-P.
Sponsors: Planning and Development Department
***RESOLUTION - Supporting the Housing Authority of the City of Fresno’s submission of a Low-Income Housing Tax Credit application for the construction of affordable housing at 1240 N. Crystal and expressing the City’s intent to
contribute to the Project in an amount not to exceed
$3,500,000 upon full award of tax credit funding for the Project. (Subject to Mayor’s Veto)
ID 22-2991.-Q.
Sponsors: Planning and Development Department
***RESOLUTION - Supporting the Housing Authority of the City of Fresno’s submission of a Low-Income Housing Tax Credit application for the construction of affordable housing at 7521 N. Chestnut and expressing the City’s intent to contribute to the Project in an amount not to exceed
$3,000,000 upon full award of tax credit funding for the Project. (Subject to Mayor’s Veto)
ID 22-3021.-R.
Sponsors: Planning and Development Department
Approve a Preliminary Engineering Services Agreement with BNSF Railway Company to perform engineered design plan
review and diagnostic evaluation, in the amount of
$199,561.20, for the Blackstone Avenue and McKinley
Avenue BNSF Grade Separation Project (Council Districts 1 and 7)
ID 22-3041.-S.
Sponsors: Public Works Department
Approve an agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric
Company in the amount of $57,683.82 for the installation of a new service connection to power the proposed Herndon
Avenue and Veterans Boulevard intersection as part of the ID 22-2691.-T.
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Veterans Boulevard North Extension Project (Council District 2)
Sponsors: Public Works Department
Approve Contract Change Order No. 05 in the deductive
amount of $(21,083.89) to Emmett’s Excavation, Inc. for the Inyo Street Overlay Between Van Ness and P, Project ID
PW0788 (Council District 3)
ID 22-2621.-U.
Sponsors: Public Works Department
Actions pertaining to the Veterans Boulevard Grade
Separation Project (Council District 2):
1. ***RESOLUTION - 49th Amendment to the Annual
Appropriation Resolution (AAR) No. 2021-178 appropriating $1,949,800 for the Veterans Boulevard Grade Separation
Project (Requires 5 affirmative votes) (Subject to Mayor’s veto)
2. Approve Contract Change Order No. 15 in the amount of $1,354,408 and an increase in contract time of one hundred sixteen (116) working days to Granite Construction Company, for the Veterans Boulevard Grade Separation, Project ID PW00683
ID 22-2661.-V.
Sponsors: Public Works Department
Actions pertaining to the widening of Fowler Avenue, from Clinton Avenue to the Weldon Avenue alignment, a condition of approval for Vesting Tentative Map No. 6214 (Council District 7)
1. ***RESOLUTION - 33rd Amendment to the Annual
Appropriation Resolution (AAR) No. 2021-178 appropriating $112,500 for right-of-way (permanent easement) acquisition for Tract Map 6214 (Requires 5 affirmative votes) (Subject to Mayor’s Veto)
2. Approve the Agreement for Purchase and Sale of a 21,328 square foot permanent easement from portions of APN: 496- 220-16S and APN: 496-220-17S, owned by E. & J. Gallo
Winery, a California Corporation for $99,400 in compensation ID 22-2681.-W.
Sponsors: Public Works Department
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RESOLUTION - Authorizing the Submission of a Grant
Application to the Fresno Council of Governments for the 2022 Measure C Transit Oriented Infrastructure for In-Fill Development Grant Program in the amount of $450,000 for the Blackstone Avenue Smart Mobility Project; and
Authorizing the Execution of Grant Application and Grant Agreement Documents by the Public Works Director or
Designee (Council Districts 1, 3 and 7)
ID 22-2641.-X.
Sponsors: Public Works Department
RESOLUTION - Of Intention to Annex Final Tract Map No.
6187 as Annexation No. 131 to the CITY OF FRESNO
COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT NO. 11 and to
Authorize the Levy of Special Taxes; and setting the public hearing for Thursday, March 10, 2022, at 10:00 am (City Council Chambers, 2600 Fresno Street, Fresno, California, 93721) (Council District 3)
ID 22-2671.-Y.
Sponsors: Public Works Department
RESOLUTION - Initiating a Text Amendment to Chapter 15, Article 27, Section 15-2761 of the Fresno Municipal Code relating to the sale of Tobacco.
ID 22-3081.-Z.
Sponsors: Councilmember Arias
***RESOLUTION - Directing the administration to present the processes to change Kings Canyon/Ventura Blvd to “Cesar Chavez Boulevard” and directing the formation of an resident, business owner and stakeholder committee to engage the
public and receive input, recommendations (Subject to
Mayor’s Veto).
ID 22-3071.
-AA.
Sponsors: Councilmember Chavez
***RESOLUTION - Directing staff to perform the necessary meet and confer with labor unions related to declaring Cesar Chavez Day a holiday in the City of Fresno (Subject to
Mayor’s Veto).
ID 22-3151.
-BB.
Sponsors: Council President Esparza
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***RESOLUTION - To Pursue the Formation of a Veterans
Memorial District in the City of Fresno (Subject to Mayor’s Veto).
ID 22-3131.
-CC.
Sponsors: Councilmember Chavez, Council President Esparza and Councilmember Arias
CONTESTED CONSENT CALENDAR
2. SCHEDULED COUNCIL HEARINGS AND MATTERS
3. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
WORKSHOP - Pavement Management PresentationID 22-2193.-A.
Sponsors: Public Works Department
Actions related to Senate Bill 1383 - California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy:
1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15308/Class 8 of the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines
2. ***BILL - (For introduction) Amending Chapter 6, Article 2 of the Fresno Municipal Code, relating to waste collection and disposal (Subject to Mayor’s Veto)
3. ***RESOLUTION - Authorizing submission to CalRecycle a Notification of Intent to Comply with the mandates of Senate Bill 1383 to achieve the organic waste reduction goals established in Section 39730.6 of the California Health and Safety Code (Subject to Mayor’s Veto)
4. ***RESOLUTION - Authorizing the submission of a grant application to CalRecycle through its SB 1383 Local
Assistance Grant Program for one-time funding in the amount of $718,149 to assist with the implementation of regulation requirements associated with Senate Bill 1383, and
authorizing the Director of Public Utilities or designee to execute all application and grant agreement documents on behalf of the City of Fresno (Subject to Mayor’s Veto)
ID 22-2633.-B.
Sponsors: Department of Public Utilities
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4. CITY COUNCIL
5. CLOSED SESSION
CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR -
Government Code Section 54956.8
Property: 1343 E. Barstow;
Negotiating Parties: City Manager, Wesley United Methodist Church;
Under Negotiation: Price and terms of sale or lease.
ID 22-3195.-A.
Sponsors: Vice President Maxwell
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - DECIDING
WHETHER TO INITIATE LITIGATION Government Code
Section 54956.9, subdivision (d)(4)
Case Name: City of Fresno v. Siegfried Engineering, Inc.
ID 22-3055.-B.
Sponsors: City Attorney's Office
CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS -
Government Code Section 54957.6
City Negotiators: TJ Miller
Employee Organizations: 1. International Union of Operating Engineers, Stationary Engineers, Local 39 (Local 39); 2.
Fresno City Employees Association (FCEA); 3. Fresno Police Officers Association (FPOA Basic); 4. International
Association of Firefighters, Local 753, Unit 5 (Fire Basic); 5.
Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1027 (ATU); 6.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 100 (IBEW); 7. Fresno Police Officers Association (FPOA
Management); 8. International Association of Firefighters, Local 753, Unit 10 (Fire Management); 9. City of Fresno Professional Employees Association (CFPEA); 10. City of Fresno Management Employees Association (CFMEA); 11.
Operating Engineers, Local Union No. 3, Fresno Airport
Public Safety Supervisors (FAPSS); 12. Operating
Engineers, Local Union No. 3, Fresno Airport Public Safety Officers (FAPSO)
ID 22-3125.-C.
Sponsors: Personnel Services Department
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ADJOURNMENT
UPCOMING SCHEDULED COUNCIL HEARINGS AND MATTERS
March 10, 2022
10:00 A.M. - HEARING to adopt resolutions and ordinance to annex territory and levy a special tax regarding CITY OF FRESNO COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT NO. 11, Annexation No. 131 (Final Tract Map No. 6187) (northeast corner of East Annadale Avenue and South Ivy Avenue) (Council District 3).
March 10, 2022
10:05 A.M. #1 - Proposed vacation of the most northerly corner cut-off at M Street and Inyo Street.
March 10, 2022
10:05 A.M. #2 - Proposed vacation of a portion of East Kaviland Avenue at South Rose Avenue.
UPCOMING EMPLOYEE CEREMONIES
April, 20, 2022 (Wednesday) - Employee of the Spring Quarter July 20, 2022 (Wednesday) - Employee of the Summer Quarter October 19, 2022 (Wednesday) - Employee of the Fall Quarter April 27, 2022 - Employee Service Awards
November 16, 2022 -Employee Service Awards
2022 CITY COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE
FEBRUARY 24, 2022 - NO MEETING
MARCH 3, 2022 - NO MEETING
MARCH 10, 2022 - 9:00 A.M.
MARCH 17, 2022 - NO MEETING
MARCH 24, 2022 - 9:00 A.M.
MARCH 31, 2022 - NO MEETING
APRIL 7, 2022 - NO MEETING
APRIL 14, 2022 - NO MEETING
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APRIL 21, 2022 - 9:00 A.M.
APRIL 28, 2022 - 9:00 A.M.
MAY 5, 2022 - NO MEETING
MAY 12, 2022 - 9:00 A.M.
MAY 19, 2022 - NO MEETING
MAY 26, 2022 - 9:00 A.M.
JUNE 2, 2022 - NO MEETING
JUNE 9, 2022 - 9:00 A.M.
JUNE 16, 2022 - 9:00 A.M.
JUNE 23, 2022 - 9:00 A.M.
JUNE 30, 2022 - 9:00 A.M.
(Budget Hearings: June 13, 14, 15, 16)