Wednesday, September 3, 2025
3:30 PM
City of Oceanside
300 North Coast Highway, Oceanside, California 92054
Council Chambers
300 North Coast Highway
Oceanside, CA 92054
City Council
Clerk's Action Minutes
Joint Meetings of the Oceanside City Council, Oceanside Small Craft Harbor District Board of Directors (HDB), Oceanside Community Development Commission (CDC), and Oceanside Public Financing Authority (OPFA) City Council Clerk's Action Minutes September 3, 2025
3:30 P.M. – ROLL CALL
Council Member Peter Weiss, Council Member Esther Sanchez, Council Member Eric Joyce, Council Member Rick Robinson, and Council Member Jimmy Figueroa
Present:
CITY COUNCIL, HDB, CDC, OPFA CLOSED SESSION ITEMS
1. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR ON STATUS OF NEGOTIATIONS PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED IN OPEN SESSION (SECTION 54957.6) CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR - Negotiator: City Manager; employee organizations: Oceanside Police Officers’ Association (OPOA) , Oceanside Police Officers’ Association - Non-Sworn (OPOA-NS), Oceanside Firefighters’ Association (OFA), Oceanside Police Management Association (OPMA), Management Employees of the City of Oceanside (MECO), Oceanside City Employees’ Association (OCEA), Oceanside Fire Management Association (OFMA), Oceanside Marine Safety Employees’ Association (OMSEA), Western Council of Engineers (WCE), and Unrepresented
2. LITIGATION OR OTHER ADVERSARY PROCEEDING (E .G., ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING, ARBITRATION) (SECTION 54956.9(d))
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - EXISTING LITIGATION (Section 54956.9(d)(1))
1. In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation - Secondary Manufacturers (Alvogen, Amneal, Apotex, Hikma, Indivior, Mylan, Sun, and Zydus)
MDL No. 2804
3. LITIGATION OR OTHER ADVERSARY PROCEEDING (E .G., ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING, ARBITRATION) (SECTION 54956.9(d))
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL - ANTICIPATED LITIGATION
(SECTION 54956.9(d)(2))
One case involving significant exposure to litigation pursuant to Section 54956.9(e)(3). The facts and circumstances are set forth in an August 27, 2025 notice letter from Joe Hill.
5:00 P.M. – ROLL CALL
Council Member Peter Weiss, Council Member Esther Sanchez, Council Member Eric Joyce, Council Member Rick Robinson, and Council Member Jimmy Figueroa
Present:
INVOCATION
Pastor Sheldon Brown, Cause of Christ
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PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
PROCLAMATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Proclamation in Honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month 2025 Proclamation in Honor of National Service Dog Month 2025, with Canine Companions
Proclamation in Honor of National Constitution Week, September 17-23, 2025, with DAR, Santa Margarita Chapter
CLOSED SESSION REPORT
CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS
MOTION TO APPROVE ITEMS 4-8, 10-12, 14-15: WEISS
SECOND: ROBINSON
APPROVED: 5-0
All items listed on the Consent Calendar are considered to be routine matters or formal documents covering previous City Council/HDB/CDC/OPFA instructions.
The items listed on the Consent Calendar may be enacted by a single vote.
There will be no separate discussion of any Consent Calendar items unless requested by members of the City Council/HDB/CDC/OPFA or the public through submittal of Request to Speak form prior to the commencement of this agenda item.
4. Staff recommends that the City Council/Harbor Board/CDC/OPFA approve the waiving of reading of the text of all ordinances and the text and title of all resolutions included in this agenda. Unanimous approval of the City Council/Harbor Board/CDC/OPFA is required.
City Council/ HDB/CDC/ OPFA:
5. Accept City Clerk’s Action Minutes of the Small Craft Harbor District Board of Directors, Community Development Commission, City Council, and Oceanside Public Financing Authority of the August 20, 2025 Regular Meeting City Council/ HDB/CDC/ OPFA:
6. Staff recommends that the City Council authorize the City Engineer to approve Construction Change Order No. 2 with Fordyce Construction, Inc. (“Fordyce”), in the amount of $1,145,520, for a total contract amount not to exceed $5,025,043, for additional construction services for the Crown Heights Community Resource Center Building (“Crown Heights Resource Center”); authorize the City Engineer to approve change orders required to extend the rental agreement with Pacific Mobile Structures, Inc. (“Pacific Mobile”) as needed per the construction schedule, in an amount not-to-exceed $50,000; and appropriate additional funds from the General
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Fund Assigned Infrastructure Reserves, in the amount of $1,003,478, to cover the funding gap for necessary construction repairs, including extension of the temporary facilities.
City Council:
Enactment No: 25-D0522-1
7. Staff recommends that the City Council approve an amendment to the Agreement with the Oceanside Community Service Television Corporation (KOCT) designating KOCT as an access management organization responsible for public, educational and governmental (PEG) cable television activities for the City; approve a one-time payment of $175,000; appropriate $175,000 from General Fund Unassigned Fund Balance; and authorize the City Manager to execute the amendment.
City Council:
Enactment No: 25-D0523-1
8. Staff recommends that the City Council approve Amendment 3, in the amount of $561,795, to the Professional Services Agreement (PSA) with Moffat & Nichol, Inc. for a revised contract amount of $4,400,912 for additional design services for the Pier View Way Bridge and Lifeguard Headquarters Project; and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement upon receipt of all supporting documents.
City Council:
Enactment No: 25-D0524-1
9. Staff recommends that the City Council approve a Professional Services Agreement (PSA) with DUDEK Inc., in the amount of $28,912, for environmental and ecological consulting services to create the El Corazon Habitat Restoration Plan (HRP); and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement.
City Council:
ITEM PULLED FOR DISCUSSION BY COUNCILMEMBER JOYCE
MOTION: JOYCE
SECOND: WEISS
APPROVED: 5-0
Enactment No: 25-D0525-1
10. Staff recommends that the City Council approve a Property Use Agreement with Vista Community Clinic for the use of a portion of office space at the John Landes Community Center building located at 2855 Cedar Road, for a four-year term, for the purpose of operating Project REACH to provide after school programming, youth development activities, and other youth related services; and authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement upon receipt of all supporting documents.
City Council:
Enactment No: 25-D0526-1
11. Staff recommends that the City Council award a contract to Vicon Enterprise, in the amount of $290,215, for the Mission Basin Groundwater Purification Facility Sodium Hypochlorite Tank and Piping Replacement and Secondary Containment Retrofit Project; authorize the City Engineer to execute change orders up to a total of 10
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percent of the contract amount for any unforeseen conditions for a total contract amount not to exceed $319,237; and authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execute the agreement upon receipt of all supporting documents.
City Council:
Enactment No: 25-D0527-1
12. Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a resolution authorizing the filing of an application for a State of California, Department of Transportation (“CALTRANS”) Airport Improvement Program (“AIP”) grant and acceptance of the allocation of CALTRANS AIP Matching Grant funds, if awarded, in an amount not to exceed $ 12,175; authorize execution of an AIP Matching Grant Agreement for the Design of the East Apron Reconstruction and Drainage Improvements Project (“Project”) and associated Project FAA Grant in the amount of $ 243,511, for the Bob Maxwell Memorial Airfield; approve a purchase order to C&S Engineers, Inc. in the amount of $ 247,328; and authorize the City Manager to execute the grant agreement, and any other documents required to finalize the CALTRANS grant, upon review and approval by the City Attorney;
2. Appropriate the matching share to the airport maintenance and operation fund, upon receipt of all supporting documents.
City Council:
Enactment No: RES 25-R0528-1
13. Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution authorizing the City to accept and appropriate a CALTRANS Sustainable Transportation Planning grant, in the amount of $595,000, to prepare the Oceanside Active Transportation Plan; authorize the appropriation of $82,000 from the Committed General Plan Assigned account for the required City-match; and authorize the City Manager to execute all necessary grant documents.
City Council:
ITEM PULLED FOR DISCUSSION BY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC
MOTION: JOYCE
SECOND: WEISS
APPROVED: 5-0
Enactment No: RES 25-R0529-1
14. Staff recommends that the City Council approve and adopt the revised City of Oceanside Salary Schedule and Executive and Senior Management Salary Schedule with the effective dates contained herein.
City Council:
15. Staff recommends that the City Council determine there remains a need to continue emergency work on the 18-inch Mesa Loma Water Main.
City Council:
RESULT: APPROVED
MOVER: Peter Weiss
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SECONDER: Rick Robinson
Council Member Weiss, Council Member Sanchez, Council
Member Joyce, Council Member Robinson, and Council Member Figueroa
Aye:
GENERAL ITEMS
General Items are normally heard after any 6:00 p.m. Public Hearing Items.
However, if time permits, some General Items may be heard prior to any 6:00 p.m. Public Hearing Items, following the Consent Calendar. Ordinances may be introduced at this time. The City Council/HDB/CDC/OPFA has adopted a policy that it is sufficient to read the title of ordinances at the time of introduction and adoption, and that full reading of ordinances may be waived. After the City Attorney has read the titles, the City Council/HDB/CDC/OPFA may introduce the ordinances in a single vote.
None
6:00 P.M.
PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS
Public hearing items are “time-certain” and are heard beginning at 6:00 p.m.
Due to the time-certain requirement, other items may be taken out of order on the agenda to accommodate the 6:00 p.m. public hearing schedule.
16. Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Introduce and place an ordinance on first reading to add Chapter 14D to the Oceanside City Code entitled “Residential Tenant Protections .” (First Reading); and
2. Accept a report on other local measures to address tenant protections, including rent stabilization and eviction protection programs, and provide further staff direction as necessary.
City Council:
MOTION to introduce and place an ordinance on first reading to add Chapter 14D to the Oceanside City Code entitled “Residential Tenant Protections” (First Reading) with the following changes: adding an exemption for housing issued a certificate of occupancy within the last 10 years, and changing the relocation assistance amount from one month of the small area fair market rent to one month of the rent in effect at the time of termination of tenancy:
JOYCE
SECOND: FIGUEROA
APPROVED: 3-2 (SANCHEZ, WEISS - NO)
MOTION TO MOVE FORWARD THE LOCAL RENT STABILIZATION
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ORDINANCE: FIGUEROA
SECOND: JOYCE
MOTION FAILED: 2-3 (SANCHEZ, ROBINSON, WEISS - NO)
MOTION TO FUND $100,000 FOR A ONE-YEAR PILOT LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: JOYCE
SECOND: FIGUEROA
MOTION FAILED: 2-3 (SANCHEZ, ROBINSON, WEISS - NO)
Direction to staff to increase funding to CSA for tenant rights education by an additional $20,000 - unopposed
A) Mayor opens public hearing
B) Mayor requests disclosure of Councilmember and
constituent contacts and correspondence
C) Clerk presents correspondence and/or petitions
D) Testimony beginning with Leilani Hines, Housing &
Neighborhood Services Director
E) Recommendation - introduce ordinance and accept
report
PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS ON OFF-AGENDA ITEMS
No action will be taken by the City Council/HDB/CDC/OPFA on matters in this category unless it is determined that an emergency exists or that there is a need to take action that became known subsequent to the posting of the agenda. The presiding officer may hear non-agenda items at any time after the 5:00 p.m. meeting is called to order.
17. Communications from the public regarding items not on this agenda 12 SPEAKERS
MAYOR AND/OR COUNCILMEMBER ITEMS
GENERAL COUNCILMEMBER COMMENTS
ADOPTION OF ORDINANCES
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The following items are ordinances for adoption by the City Council/HDB/CDC/OPFA. Ordinances are laws of the City of Oceanside and require introduction and adoption at two separate City Council meetings (urgency ordinances are an exception, and may be introduced and adopted at one meeting as an emergency measure). The City Council/HDB/CDC/OPFA has adopted a policy that it is sufficient to read the title of ordinances at the time of introduction and adoption, and that full reading of ordinances may be waived.
After the City Attorney has read the titles, the City Council/HDB/CDC/OPFA may adopt the ordinances below in a single vote. There will be no discussion of the items unless requested by members of the City Council/HDB/CDC/OPFA or the public through submittal of a Request to Speak form prior to the commencement of this agenda item.
ADJOURNMENT
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 9:17 PM