CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
7:00 PM
City Council Chamber
200 Old Bernal Avenue
Pleasanton, CA 94566
The meeting will be held in-person, broadcast live on Channel 29 and streamed live for viewing at the following links TV30 https://www.tri-valleytv.org, the City's website in the Meetings portal (a red dot will indicate a live meeting) https://www.cityofpleasantonca.gov/, and the City's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCityofPleasanton.
Public participation: It is requested that members of the public wishing to address the City Council submit a speaker card. When public comment is opened on an agenda item, individuals may speak once per agenda item.
To submit written public comment regarding an open session item on this meeting agenda visit https://forms.cityofpleasantonca.gov/f/writtenpubliccomment. Comments will be accepted by the City Clerk’s Office until 12:00 p.m. on the day of the Council meeting.
In Person at Council Chamber:
• Submit a physical speaker card to the City Clerk at the meeting. When your name is called, please provide comment at the podium.
CALL TO ORDER
• Welcome and Pledge of Allegiance - Cm. Gaidos
• Roll Call
Resolution No. 2025-052
Ordinance No. 2299
REPORT ON CLOSED SESSION
AGENDA AMENDMENTS
CONSENT CALENDAR
Items listed on the consent calendar are considered routine in nature and may be enacted by one motion. If discussion is required, that particular item will be removed from the consent calendar and will be considered separately.
City Manager
1. Approve meeting minutes of August 19, 2025
2. Approve budget amendments to allocate $100,000 in Opioid Settlement Funds towards the construction of a new substance-use disorder facility in unincorporated Alameda County to serve the Tri-Valley Region
3. Authorize the City Manager to enter into a professional services agreement with
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Rojas Public Affairs for on-call communications support in the amount not to exceed $350,000 for three years
Community and Economic Development
4. Adopt Ordinance No. 2297 an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Pleasanton finding amendments to the Zoning Code are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act under Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) and approve amendments to Chapters 18.08, 18.20, 18.40, 18.48, 18.84, 18.88, 18.92, and Table 18.44.080 of the Pleasanton Municipal Code (PMC) to: (1) modify the definition of Light Industrial; (2) establish the definition of an Innovation-Based Business (IBB); (3) modify Table 18.44.080 to permit or conditionally permit IBBs in the C-R(p), O, I-P, I-G, PUD-C (Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone only), PUD-C-O, PUD-I, PUD-I/C-O, and PUD-MU Districts, and the following districts of the Hacienda PUD Area: OGPD, OPD, OMPD, CDP, IPD, MOIPD, MCOIRPD, and MCOIPD; (4) modify the Design Review requirements for: (a) IBBs constructing new and/or significantly modifying existing buildings, (b) IBBs leasing space in a previously reviewed and approved building, and (c) IBBs that are permitted by right; and (5) modify specific and related development standards for IBBs, as filed under Case No. P25-0192
5. Actions of the Zoning Administrator and Planning Commission Finance
6. Accept the monthly disbursement and investment report for July 2025 Library and Recreation
7. Adopt Ordinance No. 2298 an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Pleasanton adding a new Chapter 13.20 to Title 13, Public Art Contribution, to the Municipal Code of the City of Pleasanton
8. Adopt a resolution updating the Master Fee Schedule Section D. Pleasanton Public Library Fine and Fee Schedule to assign Library Meeting Room rental fees
9. Adopt a resolution to revise the Library’s Materials Recovery Policy Public Works
10. Adopt a resolution approving the Urban Forest Master Plan, CIP No. 22773
11. Accept the public improvements performed by O'Grady Paving, Inc. for the Annual Street Resurfacing & Preventative Maintenance Project, CIP No. 24503, and authorize the return of the remaining project funds to the Gas Tax Fund (Fund 160) and Streets CIP General Fund (Fund 211)
12. Reject all bids from the July 16, 2025, bid opening, award and authorize the City
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Manager to enter into an agreement with Wilson General Contracting, Inc. for the OSC Fire Alarm & Notification System Project, CIP No. 23457, the Library Fire Alarm Upgrade Project, CIP No. 26386, and for fire alarm retrofits at the OSC- LPFD and Pleasanton Police Station in an amount not to exceed $745,000
13. Authorize the City Manager to enter into the fourth amendment to the professional services agreement with MaintStar, Inc. for Asset Management Plan Project, CIP No. 24460 for additional funds in the amount of $90,450, for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $630,892
14. Ratify a contract with DPI Construction, Inc. for the emergency sewer pipe replacement at Denker Drive in an amount not-to-exceed $500,000 and approve a budget amendment in the Sewer Replacement CIP Fund
MEETING OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
15. Presentation of a Proclamation recognizing September 17-23, 2025 as Constitution Week
16. Public Comment regarding items not listed on the agenda – Speakers are limited to 3 minutes.
PUBLIC HEARINGS AND OTHER MATTERS
If necessary to ensure completion of the following items, the Mayor may alter time limits.
17. Adopt a resolution accepting and approving the Downtown Pleasanton Business Improvement District 2025 Annual Report and 2026 Budget, and declaring the intention to amend Pleasanton Municipal Code Section 5.28.080 System of Assessments to permit changes to the manner in which the annual assessment is levied, and to levy the assessment for 2026
18. Receive a report and provide direction on a draft recommendation for updates to the Utility Billing Discount Program to include a 30 percent utility bill discount to qualified low-income and income-qualified senior residents with less than 24 hundred cubic feet (ccf) usage per water bill with a maximum cap of $425,000 in General Fund allocation
19. Receive an update on the City's Emergency Preparedness efforts to advance the ONE Pleasanton Strategic Plan priority Safeguarding Our City D.1. to improve the City's emergency preparedness capabilities
MATTERS INITIATED BY COUNCIL
COUNCIL REPORTS
Brief reports on conferences, seminars, and meetings attended by the Council
ADJOURNMENT
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Notice
Under Government Code §54957.5, any writings/documents regarding an open session item on this agenda and items received by the City Clerk’s Office by 12:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting provided to a majority of the City Council after distribution of the agenda packet will be available for public inspection on the City’s website https://www.cityofpleasantonca.gov/ and also at the Pleasanton Library located at 400 Old Bernal Ave., Pleasanton, CA 94566.
There is a 90-day limit for the filing of a challenge in the Superior Court to certain City administrative decisions and orders, which require a hearing by law, the receipt of evidence, and the exercise of discretion. The 90-day limit begins on the date the decision is final (Code of Civil Procedure § 1094.6). Further, if you challenge an action taken by the City Council in court, you may be limited, by California law, including but not limited to Government Code §65009, to raising only those issues you or someone else raised in the public hearing, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Council prior to or at the public hearing. The City Council may be requested to reconsider a decision if the request is made prior to the next City Council meeting, regardless of whether it is a regular or special meeting.
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