Agenda
Regular Meeting
Redding City Council
Council Chambers
777 Cypress Avenue, Redding, CA
February 20, 2024
6:00 PM
1. CALL TO ORDER - MAYOR TENESSA AUDETTE
A. Pledge of Allegiance
B. Invocation - Reverend Marygrace Sorensen, Unity in Redding C. Roll Call
3. PUBLIC COMMENT - for non-agendized matters within the city’s jurisdiction.
4. CONSENT CALENDAR
The Consent Calendar contain s items considered routine and/or which have been individually scrutinized by City Council Members and are anticipated to require no further deliberation. If a member of the public wishes to address an item on the Consent Calend ar, please fill out a Speak er Request Form and submit it to the City Clerk before the Consent Calendar is considered . It shall be the prerogative of any Council Member, before the Consent Calendar is acted upon, to: (1) comment on an item; (2) respond to any public comment on an item; (3) request the record reflect an abstention or nay vote on an item; or (4) remove an item and place it on the Regular portion of the agenda for delivery of a staff report and/or an extended discussion or deliberation.
PURSUANT TO THE BROWN ACT, CITY COUNCIL CANNOT TAKE ACTION ON PUBLIC
COMMENT ITEMS
The City Council will allocate up to a maximum of three minutes per sp eaker for 30 minutes total, at the beginning of the meeting for Public Comment for non -agendized matters within the City’s jurisdiction.
The Mayor will determine the order of the speakers. If 30 minutes is not adequate to accommodate all of the individuals who have submitted a Speaker Request Form to the City Clerk, the Council will trail this item to the end of the open session agenda. The remaining speakers will address the City Council at that time.
If anyone wishes to address the City Coun cil on any item considered at this meeting before or during Council’s consideration of that item, please fill out a blue Speaker Request Form, located in the lighted alcoves at the back of the Council Chambers, and submit it to the City Clerk. The City Council will allocate up to a maximum of three minutes per speaker for each agenda item. Staff reports are available on-line at the City’s web site at www.cityofredding.gov or in the Public View binder located on the podium at the north side of the Chambers.
PLEASE SILENCE YOUR CELL PHONES. THANK YOU.
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4(b). Accept City of Redding Ac counts Payable Register No. 7; and Payroll Register Nos. 14 and 15.
4.1(a). Approve construction of a joint trench crossing along Venture Pkwy for utility connections to lot 6A (5300 Venture Pkwy, Assessor’s Parcel Number 054 -220- 033-000) in the Stillwat er Business Park in the amount not to exceed $100,000; and authorize the City Manager, or designee, to do whatever is necessary to effectuate the work.
4.2(a). Approve the following actions relative to the State of California’s Housing and Community De velopment’s Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery Workforce Development Program grant application:
(1) Adopt Resolution authorizing the City Manager or designee to submit the grant application and any other necessary documents to apply, acc ept and appropriate the grant in the amount $6,096,458;
(2) Find that applying for grant funds is not considered a project under the California Environmental Quality Act; and
(3) Find that applying for grant funds is categorically excluded, not subject to 58.5 and convert to exempt under the National Environmental Policy Act.
4.2(b). Authorize the City Manager , or designee, to execute all documents necessary to apply, accept, appropriate and implement the United States Economic Development Administratio n’s Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Program in an amount not to exceed $3,000,000 for infrastructure improvements located in the City of Redding Stillwater Business Park.
4.2(c). Authorize and approve the following actions:
(1) Authorize th e Director of Finance, or designee, to establish a General Fund commitment of fund balance for $2,458,000 for the Community Development Block Grant Section 108 Guaranteed Loan security for the South City Park Project;
(2) Direct the Director of Finance, or de signee, to reduce this commitment annually by the Community Development Block Grant or other Community Development Fund principal payments; and
(3) Direct the City Manager, or designee to update the reserve policy to reflect the treatment of committed funds.
4.9(a). Approve and ratify submission of a grant application to the California Office of Traffic Safety Selective Traffic Enforcement Program in the amount of $438,563; and authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execute the grant agreement and all su bsequent documents including administratively appropriating the funds if the grant is awarded.
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4.11(a). Authorize and approve the following for the City of Redding Solid Waste Utility:
(1) Authorize the purchase of one 2024 Kenworth T380 chassis using Sourcewell contract pricing with a net delivered cost of $124,050.59 including all applicable taxes and fees;
(2) Award Bid Schedule 5441 to the apparent low bidder Interstate Assembly Systems for the purchase of one 2023 or newer Heavy Equipment Service Body with Crane (Service Body) with a net delivered cost of $192,889.13 including all applicable taxes and fees; and (3) Authorize the City Manager to approve future pricing adjustments, terms, and policy changes as needed due to inflation and unstable economic conditions up to a total of $30,000.
4.11(b). Authorize the following actions relative to Consulting and Professional Services Contract (C-5900) for the Old Alturas Road Bridge over Churn Creek Project:
(1) Approve the Fifth Amendment to the Consulting an d Professional Services Contract (C-5900) with Morrison Structures, Inc., in the amount of $36,503.12, for a total not to exceed fee of $596,308.07; (2) Authorize the City Manager to execute the Amendment; and (3) Authorize the City Manager to approve a dditional contract amendments not to exceed $40,000.
4.11(c). Authorize and approve the following actions relative to the Summary Vacation of a portion of Twin View Boulevard (A-2022-00426):
(1) Adopt Resolution summarily vacating a portion of Twin View Boulevard adjacent to Parcel Two as shown on the Record of Survey filed in Book 43 of Land Surveys at page 59, Shasta County Records described in Exhibit A and depicted in Exhibit B;
(2) Find the action consistent with the General Plan; and (3) Find the action cate gorically exempt from environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines, pursuant to Section 15035 – Minor Alterations in Land Use Limitations.
4.11(d). Accept Bid Schedule No. 5258 (Job No. 2488), Hollow Lane Storm Drain Project, awarded to Lakmann Builders, Inc., as satisfactorily complete, with a final cost of $883,071.
4.11(e). Accept Bid Schedule No. 5222 (Job No. 7336), Redding Aquatic Center 50 - Meter Pool Improvements , awarded to Western Water Features, Inc., as satisfactorily complete, with a final cost of $1,255,347.
RECOMMENDATION: ACCEPT, ACKNOWLEDGE, ADOPT, APPROVE,
AND/OR AUTHORIZE ALL ITEMS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR.
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9. REGULAR CALENDAR: REPORTS & COMMUNIC ATIONS OF DEPARTMENT S,
BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES
Assistant City Manager
9.2(d). Consider actions related to the Good News Rescue Mission's Property Purchase and development of a Day Resource Center.
Recommendation:
Approve the following actions relative to the Good News Rescue Mission’s acquisition of 3145 Veda Street (Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN) 104-620-052-000) and 3150 South Market Street (APN 104 -620-059-000) for the development of a community-served day resource center:
(1) Accept the use of a broker’s opinion of value to justify the $ 875,000 purchase price for the subject properties;
(2) Authorize the City Manager, or designee, to negotiate and finalize a Development Funding Agreement that includes but is not limited to:
(a) Providing an Encampment Resolution Funding Program grant in an amount not-to-exceed $3,000,000 as a secured, forgivable loan with a term that begins with the issuance of a building permit and ends three years after the opening date of the day resource center operating in accordance to a City Council approved operations agreement; (b) The City Manager establishing escrow specific conditions that include: a 45-day escrow term; disbursement of acquisition funding; Phase I environmental site assessment submittals; a $20,000 contingency fund for applicable escrow extension accommodat ions, American Land Title Association endorsements, or other due diligence costs; and acknowledges a City of Redding approved use permit will be applied for after the close of escrow;
(c) 18-month term schedule of performance;
(d) Scope and budget for the day resource center rehabilitation project; (e) Operations agreement negotiated within 180 days; and (3) Authorize the Mayor to execute the resulting Development Funding Agreement and the associated documents; and
(4) Find that the aforementioned actions are exempt from revi ew under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines, pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) – Common Sense Exemption. A CEQA review will be completed as part of the use permit process once the details of the day resource center rehabilitation are defined.
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Finance
9.10(a).
Consider City of Redding Mid-Year Budget Review and Associated Resolution
Recommendation:
Accept the City of Redding’s Fiscal Year 2023 -24 Mid -Year Budget Report; and adopt Resolution approving and adopting the 3 4th Amendment to City Budget Resolution No. 2023 -060 increasing appropriations by $1,420,600 for Fiscal Year 2023-24 and increasing appropriations by $163,800 for Fiscal Year 2024-25.
11. COUNCIL TRAVEL REPORT(S)
City Council Member attendance at conference/meetings reimbursed at City expense. {Requirement of Assembly Bill 1234}
[A-050-060]
Information Only
12. SUGGESTIONS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS RELATIVE TO POTENTIAL TOPICS
FOR FUTURE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS
13. ADJOURNMENT
Pursuant to the Brown Act, non-confidential materials related to an item on this agenda submitted to the City Council after distribution of the agenda packet are available for inspection during normal business hours at the Office of the City Clerk, 3 rd Floor, City Hall, 777 Cypress Avenue, Redding, California.
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