Agenda
Regular Meeting
Redding City Council
Council Chambers
777 Cypress Avenue, Redding, CA
December 17, 2024
6:00 PM
1. CALL TO ORDER - MAYOR JACK MUNNS
A. Pledge of Allegiance
B. Invocation - Rev. Patrick A. Blewett, D.Min., Ph.D. Simpson University C. Roll Call
3. PUBLIC COMMENT - for non-agendized matters within the city’s jurisdiction.
4. CONSENT CALENDAR
The Consent Calendar contains 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 Speaker 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 minute s per speaker 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 Council 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 and in the Public View binder located on the podium at the north side of the Chambers.
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4(a). Approve City Council Minutes: Special Meeting of November 19, 2024; Regular Meeting of November 19, 2024; and Regular Meeting of December 3, 2024.
4(c). Adopt Ordinance No. 267 4, an ordinance of the City of Reddi ng amending Redding Municipal Code Title 11 (Vehicles and Traffic), Chapter 11.12 (Speed Limits) by amending Section 11.12.010 (Established on Certain Streets).
4.2(a). Authorize and approve the following:
(1) Approve the City of Redding’s 2024 Shelter Crisis Annual Report; (2) Authorize staff to submit the City of R edding’s 2024 Shelter Crisis Annual R eport to the State of California Senate and Assembly Committees by January 1, 2025; and
(3) Find that approving a Shelter Crisis Annual Report and submitting the report to the State of California is not a project as defined under the California Environmental Quality Act and no further action is required.
4.6(a). Adopt Resolution accepting a grant from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for funding through the Sport Fish Restoration - Boating Access Program in t he amount of $428,167; and authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement.
4.6(b). Adopt Resolution approving and adopting the 66 th Amendment to City Budget Resolution No. 2030 -060 increasing appropriations by $33,000 for Fiscal Year 2024-25 for the reclassification of two positions within the City of Redding Recreation Division.
4.8(a). Authorize the City of Redding Fire Department (RFD) to submit an application to the Federal Emergency Management Agency Assistance to Firefighters Gr ant Program in the amount of $1,000,000, with a 10 percent match requirement, for the replacement of RFD’s Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus.
4.11(a). Accept update regarding the Emergency Repair and Replacement of Substandard Sewer Pipe and Failing Asphalt Concrete Pavement on Placer Street Project and, in accordance with Public Contrac t Code Section 22050(c)(1), make a determination by a four-fifths vote that there is a need to continue the emergency work.
4.11(b). Accept an update regarding the City of Redding’s COVID -19 Economic Stimulus Package projects.
4.11(c). Approve and authorize the following actions relative to the Airport Road Improvement Project Phase 2:
(1) Adopt the Mitigated Negative Declaration, and the Mitigation Monitoring and Environmental Commitment Program; and
(2) Approve the Airport Road Improvement Project Phase 2 as described, thereby satisfying the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines §15074.
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4.11(d). Accept streetlight improvements in Shast ina Ranch Subdivision, Unit 6 (S -7- 03/PD-5-04), as satisfactorily complete.
4.11(e). Accept the improvements in S hastina Ranch Subdivision, Unit 8 (S-7-03/PD-5- 04), as satisfactorily complete; and adopt Resolution accepting the S hastina Ranch Subdivision, Unit 8 (S-7-03/PD-5-04) streets for maintenance and operation.
4.11(f). Approve and authorize the following actions relative to the Victor and Cypress Avenues Active Transportation Project:
(1) Adopt the Mitigated Negative Declaration and the Miti gation Monitoring and Environmental Commitment Program; and
(2) Approve the Victor and Cypress Avenues Active Transportation Project as described, thereby, satisfying the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines §15074.
4.11(g). Authorize and approve the following actions relative to the Summary Vacation of a Public Service Easement (A-2024-01427):
(1) Adopt Resolution summarily vacating a Public Service Easement located on Lot s 17 through 40 of the Salt Creek Heights Unit 2 Subdivision Map as described in Exhibit A and depicted in Exhibit B subject to the recordation of new Public Service Easements as depicted in Exhibit C;
(2) Find the action consistent with the General Plan; and (3) Find the action categorically exempt fro m environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines, pursuant to Section 15035 - Minor Alterations in Land Use Limitations.
4.12(a). Approve the Local Appointments List consisting of Exhibits A and B relative to 2024-25 term expirations and vacancies for City of Redding Boards, Commissions, and Committees to fulfill the requirements of Government Code Section 54972 (Maddy Act).
4.15(a). Adopt Resolution, effective December 22, 2024, to:
(1) Amend the Unrepresented Non -Exempt Em ployee Schedule of Classifications and Hourly Wage Rates; and
(2) Amend the Non -Exempt Employee Schedule of Classifications and Hourly Wage Rates for Redding Independent Employees Association – Clerical, Technical and Professional Unit to increase salaries fo r positions impacted by the 2025 California Minimum Wage increase.
RECOMMENDATION: ACCEPT, ACKNOWLEDGE, ADOPT, APPROVE,
AND/OR AUTHORIZE ALL ITEMS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR.
Redding City Council December 17, 2024
5. APPOINTMENTS
Mayor Munns
5.1. Consider Mayor's appointments and reappoin tments to the City of Redding Community Development Advisory Committee.
Recommendation:
Approve Mayor’s recommendation to make the following appointments and reappointments to the City of Redding Community Development Advisory Committee:
(1) Reappoint Aleta Carpenter to serve a full-term ending November 30, 2027; (2) Appoint Michael Van Tinte ren to fill an unscheduled vacancy with a term ending November 30, 2025;
(3) Appoint Bill Jostock to fill a scheduled vacancy with a full -term ending November 30, 2027; and
(4) Appoint Taff Harvey to fill a scheduled vacancy with a full -term ending November 30, 2027.
5.2. Consider Mayor's reappointments to the City of Redding Community Services Advisory Committee.
Recommendation:
Approve Mayor’s recommendation to reappoint T ony Lewis and Ericka Jones to the City of Redding’s Community Services Advisory Committee to serve full -terms ending December 31, 2028.
5.3. Consider appointment to the Shasta Mosquito Abatement and Vector Control District.
Recommendation:
Approve the Mayor’s recommendation to appoint John Albright to the Shasta Mosquito Abatement and Vector Control District Board to serve a four -year term beginning January 1, 2025, and ending December 31, 2028.
9. REGULAR CALENDAR: REPORTS & COMMUNICATIONS OF DEPARTMENTS,
BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES
City Manager
9.1(a). Consider appointing a replacement Ad Hoc Committee Member.
Recommendation:
Appoint replacement to the Redding Rodeo Ground Lease Ad Hoc Committee to fill the vacancy left by outgoing Council Member Joshua Johnson.
Redding City Council December 17, 2024
City Manager
9.1(b). Consider Air Service Agreement with United Airlines and Minimum Revenue Guarantee.
Recommendation:
Authorize and approve the following:
(1) Authorize the City Manager to negotiate, and the Mayor to sign, an Air Service Agreement with United Airlines, Inc. for the purpose of operating scheduled passenger airline service to Denver from the Redding Regional Airport; and
(2) Authorize the City Manager , or designee, to appropriate up to $450,000 from the General Fund reserves for the purpose of closing the gap in funding for the required $2 million minimum revenue guarantee for the airline.
Personnel
9.15(b).
Consider Resolution affirming employee cost share increases for Classic Tier 1 and Classic Tier 2 Unrepresented Public Safety Police Management Employees.
Recommendation:
Adopt Resolution affirming additional employee pension cost share contributions as established in the Employment and Benefits Policies for Unrepresented Employees for Unrepr esented Public Safety Police Management Employees in the amount of
1.73 percent, for a total cost share employee contribution of 10.23 percent of the employers cost for Classic Tier 1 employees; and in the amount of 1.62 percent, for a total cost share emp loyee contribution of 10.12 percent of the employers cost for Classic Tier 2 employees, effective as soon as administratively feasible, but no earlier than January 5, 2025.
9.15(c).
Consider Resolution affirming employee cost share increases for Classi c Tier 1 Unrepresented Non-Safety Management Employees and Elected Officials.
Recommendation:
Adopt Resolution affirming additional employee pension cost share contributions as established in the Employment and Benefits Policies for Unrepresented Emplo yees for Classic Tier 1 Unrepresented Management employees and Elected Officials in the amount of .876%, for a total cost share employee contribution of 10.01% of the employers cost , effective as soon as administratively feasible, but no earlier than January 5, 2025.
11. COUNCIL TRAVEL REPORT(S)
City Council Member attendance at conference/meetings reimbursed at City expense. {Requirement of Assembly Bill 1234}
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Information Only
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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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