PARAMOUNT CITY COUNCIL
MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 3, 2026
City of Paramount, City Hall Council Chamber, 16400 Colorado Avenue, Paramount, CA 90723 CALL TO ORDER: The special meeting of the Paramount City Council was called to order by Mayor Peggy Lemons at 4:00
p.m. in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 16400
Colorado Avenue, Paramount, California.
ROLL CALL OF
COUNCIL:
Present: Councilmember Isabel Aguayo
Councilmember Annette C. Delgadillo
Councilmember Vilma Cuellar Stallings
Vice Mayor Brenda Olmos
Mayor Peggy Lemons
CITY STAFF PRESENT: John Moreno, City Manager
Nicholas R. Ghirelli, City Attorney
Grissel Chavez, Assistant City Manager
Lana Dich, Finance Director
Heidi Luce, City Clerk
PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were none.
NEW BUSINESS
1. ORAL REPORT
Special Parcel Tax –
Response to City
Council Inquiry from
October 2025 Revenue
Enhancement Workshop
– Parcel Tax Tiering and
Sales Tax Contribution
Analysis
CF 47.1
Finance Director Dich gave the report and presented a
PowerPoint presentation providing detailed
information on the parcel tax tiering and sales tax
contribution analysis requested at the October 2025
Revenue Enhancement Workshop.
Following discussion, the City Council concurred with
staff’s assessment that the parcel tax rate could not be fairly based on sales tax contribution levels.
Alternatively, the City Council expressed interest in
exploring implementation strategies that would ease
the immediate financial impact on property owners
should a parcel tax be introduced.
Minutes of a Special Meeting of the
PARAMOUNT CITY COUNCIL
February 3, 2026; Page 2
2. ORAL REPORT
Results of Potential
Sales Tax Measure
Polling
CF 47.1
Adam Sonenshein, Senior Vice President with
Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3)
gave the report and presented a PowerPoint
presentation providing the results of the polling
conducted to gauge voter support for a potential sales
tax measure.
Following discussion, the City Council concurred to not move forward with a sales tax measure at this time and
directed staff to further pursue options for a special
parcel tax measure that would ease the immediate
financial impact on property owners instead.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business to come before the
City Council, Mayor Lemons adjourned the meeting at
5:21 p.m. to a meeting on February 10, 2026 at
6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 16400
Colorado Avenue, Paramount, CA 90723
/s/ Peggy Lemons
Peggy Lemons, Mayor
ATTEST:
/s/ Heidi Luce
Heidi Luce, City Clerk
APPROVED: March 10, 2026
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