City Council Agenda Report
TO: Mayor Clauzel and Members of the City Council
FROM: Fernando Ulloa, City Manager
BY: Marie Guillory Jones, Director of Human Resources
MEETING DATE: September 2, 2025
ITEM NO: 7.2
SUBJECT: Approve Resolution No. 2025-74 approving the Amended and Restated Central San Joaquin Valley Risk Management Authority (CSJVRMA) Joint Powers Agreement (JPA).
RECOMMENDATION
Motion to Approve Resolution No. 2025-74 approving the Amended and Restated Central San Joaquin Valley Risk Management Authority (CSJVRMA) Joint Powers Agreement (JPA).
BACKGROUND
The City of Patterson is a member of the Central San Joaquin Valley Risk Management Authority (CSJVRMA), a Joint Powers Authority (JPA), along with 53 other member agencies in the Central San Joaquin Valley. The CSJVRMA provides quality, cost-effective risk financing, and loss control services to meet the needs of its members.
The CSJVRMA staff and legal counsel are in the process of reviewing CSJVRMA governing documents to ensure they continue to reflect the CSJVRMA’s current practices, legal requirements, and operational needs. Although the current JPA, which was last amended in 1994, meets the legal requirements as set forth in the government code for Joint Powers Authorities, legal counsel for the CSJVRMA has recommended updates to the document. The CSJVRMA Executive Committee has approved these amendments, and now it requires a written resolution approved and signed by two-thirds (2/3rds) of the City Council of the member cities.
ANALYSIS
The JPA has been updated as follows:
· Definitional terms have been defined more clearly.
· Language has been broadened to give leeway in the event the CSJVRMA wants to consider creating or participating in a captive agency. · An addition was made pursuant to Government Code Section 6509 that was not part of the law in 1994 when CSJVRMA last amended the Agreement. The change requires JPAs to designate a member whose restrictions would apply to the operations of the JPA.
This code section was enacted to prevent a local public entity from exercising powers inconsistent with its own charter, ordinance or resolution simply by becoming a member of a JPA.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact associated with this item.
ATTACHMENTS
· A redline version of the Joint Powers Agreement showing the changes being made · The final version of the Joint Powers Agreement
· Resolution approving amendment to Joint Powers Agreement of the Central San Joaquin Valley Risk Management Authority