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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
CALL TO ORDER
Vice Mayor Crist called the special meeting of the Lancaster City Council / Successor Agency/ Financing/Power Authority to order at 12:01 p.m.
ROLL CALL
PRESENT: City Council Members /Agency Directors /Authority Members: Hughes- Leslie, Malhi, Mann; Vice Mayor/ Vice Chair Crist
On a motion by Council Member Mann and seconded by Council Member Malhi , the City Council excused Mayor Parris from the Lancaster City Council / Successor Agency/ Financing/ Power Authority special meeting, by the following vote 4-0-0-1 ; AYES: Hughes-Leslie, Malhi, Mann, Vice Mayor Crist; NOES: None; ABSTAIN: None; ABSENT: Parris STAFF MEMBERS:
City Manager/ Executive Director; Assistant City Manager/Deputy Executive Director; City Attorney/Agency/Authority Counsel; City Clerk/Agency/Authority Secretary; Chief of Police.
INVOCATION
Council Member Hughes-Leslie
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Council Member Ken Mann
CITY COUNCIL/SUCCESSOR AGENCY/FINANCING/
POWER AUTHORITY
SPECIAL MEETING
MINUTES
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No action is required at this time.
LANCASTER HOUSING AUTHORITY
No action is required at this time.
LANCASTER POWER AUTHORITY
No action is required at this time.
LANCASTER SUCCESSOR AGENCY
No action is required at this time.
CITY CLERK/AGENCY/AUTHORITY SECRETARY ANNOUNCEMENT
The City Clerk provided the public with the procedure to address the City Council/Successor Agency/Authority regarding non-agendized items.
PUBLIC BUSINESS FROM THE FLOOR - NON-AGENDIZED ITEMS
No comments at this time.
CLOSED SESSION
The City Attorney announced that the City Council would go into closed session to discuss closed session item numbers one (1) through twenty-two (22).
Vice Mayor Crist adjourned the meeting to Closed Session at approximately 12:02 p.m.
1. Conference with Legal Counsel - Anticipated Litigation: significant exposure to litigation pursuant to Government Code
Section 54956.9(d) (2) - four potential cases.
2. Conference with Legal Counsel - Anticipated Litigation: consideration of initiation of litigation pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(d) (4) – four potential cases.
3. Conference Involving a Joint Powers Agency: Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.96 Discussion will concern: Antelope Valley Air Quality Management Docusign Envelope ID: 5C6C4C7E-DF15-4E57-B5A6-B631382DDBE9 9-23-25 CC-SA-FA-PA Special Meeting Minutes
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Agency, et al. 9 Cir. Case No. 23-1614 Name of local agency representative on joint powers agency board: Marvin Crist, Ken Mann
4. Antelope Valley Groundwater Cases Included Action:
Los Angeles County Waterworks District No. 40 v. Diamond Farming Co.
Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, Case No. BC325201; Los Angeles County Waterworks District No. 40 v. Diamond Farming Co.
Superior Court of California, County of Kern, Case No. S-1500-CV-254-348; Wm. Bolthouse Farms, Inc. v. City of Lancaster, Diamond Farming Co. v.
City of Lancaster, Diamond Farming Co. v. Palmdale Water District Superior Court of California, County of Riverside, consolidated actions; Case Nos. RIC 353 840, RIC 344 436, RIC 344 668
5. Galant v. Lancaster School District, LASC Case No. 25A VCV00196
6. Abaied v. City of Lancaster, LASC Case No. 25STCV14733
7. Montenegro v. Green, LASC Case No. 22A VCV01050
8. Perez v. Lancaster, LASC Case No. 23A VCV00577
9. City of Whittier v. Superior Court, LASC Case No. 23 STCP03579
10. Lindo v. Lancaster, LASC Case No. 23A VCV00950.
11. Nazari v. City of Lancaster, LASC Case No. 25A VCV00192
12. Mahfound v. County of Los Angeles, City of Lancaster, LASC Case No. 25A VCV00586
13. Morgan v. Antelope Valley Transit Authority,
City of Lancaster, LASC Case No. 25A VCV00061
14. Lea v. City of Lancaster, LASC Case No.: 25STCV09046
15. Stockman v. City of Lancaster, LASC Case No. 23 A VCV00838
16. Zimmerman v. City of Lancaster, LASC Case No. 24A VCV00848
17. Snyder v. City of Lancaster, LASC Case No. 21A VCV00770
18. Higgins v. City of Lancaster, LASC Case No. 23A VCV00125
19. Wright v. City of Lancaster, LASC Case No. 23A VCV00864
20. Cordova v. City of Lancaster, Case No. 24A VCV00221 Docusign Envelope ID: 5C6C4C7E-DF15-4E57-B5A6-B631382DDBE9 9-23-25 CC-SA-FA-PA Special Meeting Minutes
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22. Payne v. City of Lancaster 24A VCV00308
RECONVENE
Vice Mayor Crist reconvened the meeting at approximately 1:05 p.m.
Allison Burns, City Attorney announced that the City Council took action on closed session item numbers one (1), six (6), nineteen (19), and twenty-one (21). The City Council gave direction to staff and legal counsel. No reportable action.
ADJOURNMENT
Vice Mayor Crist adjourned the meeting at 1:06 p.m.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 14th day off October 2025, by the following vote:
AYES: Council Members Hughes-Leslie, Malhi, Mann, Vice Mayor Crist NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
ABSENT: Mayor Parris
ATTEST: APPROVED:
_____________________________ __________________________FOR ANDREA ALEXANDER, CMC R. REX PARRIS
CITY CLERK VICE MAYOR/CHAIRMAN
AGENCY AUTHORITY/
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CERTIFICATION OF MINUTES
CITY COUNCIL/SUCCESSOR AGENCY/FINANCING/ POWER AUTHORITY
I, ______________________ , ________________ of the City of Lancaster, CA, do hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of the original City Council/Successor Agency/ Financing/ Power Authority Minutes, for which the original is on file in my office.
WITNESS MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF THE CITY OF LANCASTER, CA on this _____ day of _______,_____.
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