Agenda
Regular Meeting
Redding City Council
Council Chambers
777 Cypress Avenue
Redding, CA
February 18, 2025
6:00 PM
This meeting will include teleconference participation by Mayor Pro Tempore Erin Resner (Government Code Section 549 53). In addition to the meeting location above, members of the public may participate in the meeting from the following teleconference location:
Tamarack Lodge
311 Village Drive
Donnelly, Idaho 83615
1. CALL TO ORDER - MAYOR JACK MUNNS
A. Pledge of Allegiance
B. Invocation - Pastor Glenn Gibson, Palo Cedro Seventh-day Adventist Church C. Roll Call
3. PUBLIC COMMENT - for non-agendized matters within the city’s jurisdiction.
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 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, plea se 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. 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.
4(a). Approve City Council Minutes: Special Meeting – Closed Session of February 4, 2025; and Regular Meeting of February 4, 2025.
4.1(a). Authorize the City Manager to sign a City of Redding (City) Planning Application for a tentative subdivision map for The Peaks Subdivision proposed on City-owned land, adjacent to Quartz Hill Road.
4.2(b). Authorize and approve the following actions:
(1) Authorize the City Manager, or designee, to submit a grant applicati on for the State of California’s Department of Housing and Community Development CalHome Program for an amount not to exceed $5,000,000; and
(2) Find that applying for grant funding is not considered a project under the California Environmental Quality Act.
4.3(a). Authorize the City Manager, or designee, to approve the acquisition of additional Voice over Internet Protocol licenses, as needed, to ensure appropriate license counts for staff, ensuring prompt and ongoing access to the City’s phone system.
4.8(a). Authorize the City of Redding Fire Department to submit an application to the United States Department of Agriculture for the Community Wildfire Defense Grant in the amount of $4,600,000, to mitigate wildfire dangers and implement recommendations in the Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
4.9(a). Approve and ratify submission of a California Office of Traffic Safety Selective Traffic Enforcement Program grant application in the amount of $ 433,741; and authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execu te the grant agreement and all subsequent documents including administratively appropriating the funds, if the grant is awarded.
4.9(b). Adopt Resolution authorizing the City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary for the acceptance of Homeland Security Grant funds received through Shasta County Health and Human Services.
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4.11(a). Authorize and a pprove increases to the project budget in the amount of $18,356.92 for the completion of Bid Schedule No. 5302 (Job No. 5424 -98), City Cou ncil Chambers Audio Visual Upgrade Project as outlined below for additional improvements:
(1) Increase of $13,666.33 to the construction management budget, bringing the construction management total to $69,666.33; and
(2) Increase of $4,690.59 to the constructio n contingency budget, bringing the construction contingency budget to $56,690.59.
4.11(b). Authorize and approve the following actions relative to Request for Proposals No. 5517, to provide engineering and environmental services for the Butte Street Boogie Network Project:
(1) Award the Consultant and Professional Services Contract to GHD Inc., in an amount not to exceed $1,134,848.61;
(2) Authorize the Mayor to sign the contract with GHD Inc.; and (3) Authorize the City Manager , or designee, to approve contract amendments in an amount not to exceed $70,000 in total.
4.11(c). Authorize and approve the following actions relative to Bid Negotiation No. 5555 (Job No. 2725), Buckeye Water Treatment Plant Filters 5 through 8 Repairs:
(1) Award to RTA Construction, Inc. in the amount of $576,500; (2) Approve an additional $182,000 to cover the cost of administration and inspection fees;
(3) Approve $30,000 for project development costs;
(4) Approve $60,000 to provide construction contingency funding; (5) Authorize the City Manager to approve additional increases in either the construction management or construction contingency amounts up to a total of $50,000; and
(6) Find that the Project is categorically exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality A ct, pursuant to Section 15301 - Existing Facilities.
4.11(d). Authorize and approve the following actions relative to the Summary Vacation of River Mist Lane and Lagoon Drive (A-2025-00888):
(1) Adopt Resolution summarily vacating River Mist Lane and Lagoon Drive within the Riverstone Subdivision (S -2023-00582/AMND-2024- 00503) and reserving Public Service Easements as described in Exhibit A and depicted in Exhibit B;
(2) Adopt Resolution approving Street Renaming Application (STRT -2024- 01600) for the renaming o f River Mist Lane and a portion of Lagoon Drive to River Mist Walk;
(3) Find the action consistent with the General Plan; and (4) Find the Summary Vacation categorically exempt from environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines, p er Section 15035 - Minor Alterations in Land Use Limitations and the Street Renaming exempt per Section 15061(b)(3) – Common Sense Exemption.
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4.11(e). Accept update regarding the emergency work for the South Street Water Main at Railroad Emergency Replac ement Projec t and, in accordance with Public Contract Code Section 22050(c)(1), make a determination by a four -fifths vote that there is a need to continue the emergency work.
4.15(a). Approve Resolution, effective March 2, 2025, updating the City of Re dding Master Employee Salary Schedule classification titles and pay rates/ranges to comply with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System requirement that all information be consolidated in one master document.
RECOMMENDATION: ACCEPT, ACKNOWLEDG E, ADOPT, APPROVE,
AND/OR AUTHORIZE ALL ITEMS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR.
5. APPOINTMENTS
Mayor Jack Munns
5.1. Consider reappointment to the Shasta Public Library Citizens Advisory Committee.
Recommendation:
Accept Mayor’s recommendation to rea ppoint Jennifer Powell to the Shasta Public Library Citizens Advisory Committee to serve a four -year term expiring on November 30, 2028.
9. REGULAR CALENDAR: REPORTS & COMMUNICATIONS OF DEPARTMENTS,
BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES
City Manager
9.1(b). Consider Resolution to confirm and ratify the City of Redding Proclamation declaring a local emergency due to flooding.
Recommendation:
Adopt Resolution by a four-fifths vote to confirm and ratify the Proclamation of the Director of Emergency Services declaring a local emergency and authorizing the City Manager to repair or replace public facilities and procure the necessary equipment, services, and supplies for those purposes without solicitation of competitive bids in accordance with Public Contract Code 20168 and 22050.
9.1(c). Consider actions regarding the AT HOME Shasta Ad Hoc Committee.
Recommendation:
Accept presentation regarding the AT HOME Shasta Ad Hoc Committee (Committee); and, if the City Council wishes to continue partic ipation, consider appointing two City Council Members to serve on the Committee for Calendar Year 2025. Mayor Jack Munns and Council Member Tenessa Audette currently serve on the Committee.
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Personnel
9.15(b).
Consider Resolution of Intention and introduc tion of Uncodified Ordinance amending the City of Redding's contract with California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) to allow Unrepresented Safety and Non -Safety Employees and Elected Officials to share additional costs of the retirement benefit.
Recommendation:
Authorize and approve the following:
(1) Adopt Resolution of Intention giving notice of the City of Redding’s intent to amend the contract with California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) pursuant to Public Employees’ Ret irement Law, Section 20516 – Cost Sharing, for Unrepresented Employees and Elected Officials; and (2) Introduce an uncodified Ordinance by title only, and waive the full reading of the proposed Ordinance, regarding implementation of changes to the City of Redding’s contract with CalPERS as referenced above.
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
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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.
City Council Meetings will be televised live on Shasta Co mmunity Access Channels via Charter/Spectrum Cable channel 181 , and will be rerun on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. during the week in which the meeting is held. Additionally, the meeting can be viewed online at the following: https://www.shastaartscouncil.org/scactv. Video of the City Council meetings can also be viewed on the City’s web site at http://www.cityofredding.gov/. Open the Services tab, and select City Council Videos.
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