CITY COUNCIL / LRA BOARD CITY OF RIVERBANK
Mayor/Chair Regular City Council and Local
Rachel Hernandez Redevelopment Authority Board
Council/Authority Members Meetings
District 1 - Luis Uribe
District 2 - Cindy Fosi Council Chambers
Vice Mayor, District 3 — John Pimentel 6707 Third Street, Suite B District 4 - Stacy Call Riverbank, CA 95367
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AMENDED AGENDA
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2026 — 6:00 PM
(THE AGENDA PACKET IS ONLINE AT HTTP://WWW.RIVERBANK.ORG/AGENDACENTER)
1. CALL TO ORDER
Mayor / Chair Hernandez called the meeting to order at 6:00pm.
FLAG SALUTE
Vice Mayor Pimentel led the pledge of allegiance.
3. INVOCATION
Reverend Randy Richardson provided the Invocation.
ROLL CALL
City Clerk Hernandez conducted Roll Call.
Members of the City Council / Local Redevelopment Authority Board present:
Council Member / Authority Member District 1 Luis Uribe Council Member/ Authority Member District 2 Cindy Fosi
Council Member / Authority Member District 4 Stacy Call Vice Mayor / Vice Chair District 3 John Pimentel
Mayor / Chair Rachel Hernandez
5. AGENDA CHANGES
No Agenda Changes.
6. CONFLICT OF INTEREST
None Declared.
7. PRESENTATIONS
Item 7.1. Presentation to Review the Cheese and Wine Festival 2025 and Plans for the 2026 Cheese and Wine Festival
Director of Parks & Recreation, Patton, gave a PowerPoint Presentation on the 2025 Cheese & Wine Festival and the upcoming Plans for the 2026 Cheese and Wine Festival.
8. PUBLIC COMMENTS
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Mayor Hernandez opened the Public Comment Period at 6:12 P.M.
Olivia Arambula, Riverbank Chamber of Commerce to extend an invitation for upcoming chamber events.
Mayor Hernandez Closed the Public Comment Period at 6:16 P.M.
9. CONSENT CALENDAR
Item 9.1. Waiver of Readings
Item 9.2. Approval of the City Council and Local Redevelopment Authority Board Meeting Minutes for January 27, 2026.
Item 9.3. Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Contract with Willdan Financial Services to assist the Community Development Department with Updating the Citywide System Development Fee (SDF) Program Resolution 2026-011
There being no public comments, Mayor Hernandez brought the item back to City Council.
ACTION: By motion moved and seconded (Uribe / Call 5/0) to approve Consent Calendar as presented.
Motion carried by unanimous City Council and LRA Board roll call vote:
AYES: Uribe, Fosi, Call, Pimentel, and Mayor Hernandez
NAYS: None / ABSENT: None / ABSTAINED: None
10. NEW BUSINESS
Item 10.1. Resolution Approving a Commercial Lease Agreement for 3313 Santa Fe Street (APN 132-009-056) and Authorizing the City Manager to Execute Said Agreement City Manager Garcia gave a comprehensive staff report and PowerPoint presentation on a Commercial Lease Agreement for 3313 Santa Fe Street (APN 132-009-056) and Authorizing the City Manager to Execute Said Agreement.
City Council discussed item with staff.
There being no further public comment Mayor Hernandez brought the item back to city council.
ACTION: By motion moved and seconded (Fosi / Uribe 5/0) approve Resolution 2026-012 approving the Commercial Lease Agreement for 3313 Santa Fe Street (APN 132-009-056).
Motion carried by unanimous City Council and LRA Board roll call vote:
AYES: Uribe, Fosi, Call, Pimentel, and Mayor Hernandez
NAYS: None / ABSENT: None / ABSTAINED: None
11. COMMENTS/REPORTS
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Item 11.1. Staff
City Manager Garcia:
• A reminder to all residents, our City Hall offices will be closed this Friday due to our 9/80 work schedule and then next Monday for the President's Day holiday. • The City will be kicking off its flag design contest starting Monday the 16th. Please be sure to visit us online for the design guidelines and all submissions will be due by April 16th. • Residents may have noticed a different look on our agenda for tonight. That's because our new Agenda Management Meeting software is now live. The agendas, minutes, and video can all still be viewed on our website under the meetings tab. For any questions or concerns regarding the agendas, please feel free to contact our City Clerk.
Item 11.2. Council/Authority Member
Vice Mayor Pimentel:
• The Sierra House is taking men's clothing donations. If you have a donation, it's 209-225- 1410.
• We also have several book exchange boxes throughout Riverbank. You can take a book and leave a book. If you would like to donate, please reach out to me. • February 11th through the 17th, Grand Asia will be celebrating the Chinese Lunar where some of the items and appetizers will be 50% off. Stop in and celebrate with them. • The 13th / will be at the Boot Barn ribbon cutting ceremony.
Councilmember Fosi:
• The Women's Group will be meeting on the 17th at 6 o'clock at Morris Nursery. • I would like to encourage my fellow Councilmembers to ask the City to look into the possibility of expanding or annexing additional property from Coffee and Clarentina over to the river. If you've seen the City of Modesto General Plan, you know what / am talking about.
Councilmember Uribe:
• Speaking of Modesto's General Plan, for those that have not taken a look at it, all the plans, they put out three alternative plans as to the growth that they are proposing. And either way that they go, their public comment period is going to be closing this Friday. They are going to be deciding by 2027. And whatever direction they go with, will impact the City of Riverbank.
I've been reaching out to the Modesto City Council just to kind of make sure there's a collaboration there. I met with Eric yesterday. I will be meeting with Chris Ricci on Monday.
The goal is for both cities to kind of continue to grow and plan for future development since it is going to impact both. I would like to kind of advocate on behalf of the City of Riverbank to hold a joint planning meeting or planning sessions to kind of coordinate land use infrastructure and all the long-term growth. That's all the strategies that they are discussing currently. And just kind of working together, and so that's what I'll be kind of advocating at the next meeting with Councilmember Chris Ricci. I know Mayor Hernandez is going to be meeting with Mayor Sue Zwahlen here shortly. We will keep you guys posted on those meetings.
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• I would like to announce that Councilmember Pimentel has been working hard at this as well. Riverbank Sister Cities did launch a student support fund. We had a successful September fundraiser. We were able to raise $2,500. And so, we are going to be helping five local seniors, you know, jump start their futures. We do have the flyers and all the requirements. Please reach out. The deadline for that is Tuesday, March 31st at 4:00p.m.
Councilmember Call:
• Last week I attended Project Resolve, and it was a little bit of a change of pace from what we're used to. So, there were partner community organizations in attendance, lots of youth organizations in empowering our youth. And I'm actually going to be reaching out to Michael Patton because / think there's some potential opportunity with those programs. And the overall consensus with some of these programs is a lot of overlap in the services that these organizations provide, but there's not a lot of awareness about the programs. And so we strategically came up with ideas on how we can get the word out more on some of these organizations. I'm really excited to see the work that Kate comes up with at Project Resolve.
She's phenomenal and makes sure that our community is aware of these organizations and that's where / think / come in and partnering with Parks and Rec and passing on information on to the City Manager. So, I'm looking forward to bringing some of those community organizations to present here at our Council meetings because / think that there's a lot of opportunity within our community for these books.
Item 11.3. Mayor/Chair
Mayor Hernandez:
• I attended the US Conference for Mayors and the sessions ranged from data centers to early childhood education and child care to public safety and housing. I mean having discussions with mayors from across the country. We are all a city tackling very similar issues. And so it was great to be able to be in those discussions and there are many ideas / want to bring forward, but just some of the overall themes were a lot of support from City to City. They mentioned and here I am quoting a few things because I thought it was best to do that. There are tensions and issues from federal to state governments and some of the overall sentiment was that city governments need to protect each other and support one another and so, there's a lot of support that way. Um time and time again, we're seeing that investing in people is the best contributor to reducing violence to increasing public safety, and including early child education and child care. Someone mentioned there that was a Mayor a dollar for dollar is the best economic driver and investment for cities. Generally there were many many discussions.
I mean, no matter what, the session was always devolved to safety and some of the immigration enforcement that has been happening, particularly on the East Coast. Lots of unknowns, I mean, but mainly a call to be proactive, to inform one another as a community and as elected officials. So, it was great and very cold there. The highest was 20 degrees there that week. So, I had my iced coffee and flats and was definitely not prepared for that. • StanCOG is moving forward. On Thursday we are doing final interviews in a closed session for a few hours to interview the executive director or, hopefully, what the executive director will be of the organization.
• Tomorrow I am excited. I've been asking this for a couple of years. We're going to do a bus tour of the different routes with StaRTA, and council member Call's going to join me. So, it'll be a few hours tomorrow. Well, we'll be able to take the bus ourselves along the routes and
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both of us, actually in our younger days, were bus riders when the Max bus was on the route that was called. So, it's going to be full circle.
12. CLOSED SESSION
Item 12.1. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
(Pursuant to Government Code §54957.6)
Agency representative: City Manager Marisela H. Garcia
Employee Organizations: Riverbank Mid-Management Employee Item 12.2. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
(Pursuant to Government Code §54957.6)
Agency representative: City Manager Marisela H. Garcia
Employee Organizations: Riverbank Miscellaneous Employees Item 12.3. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
(Pursuant to Government Code §54957.6)
Agency representative: City Manager Marisela H. Garcia
Employee Organizations: Unrepresented Contract Employees Item 12.4. CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATORS
(Pursuant to Govt. Code § 54956.8)
Property: 3300 Atchison Rd. (APN: 132-009-069)
Agency Negotiator: Marisela H. Garcia, City Manager
Property Negotiator: Del Rio City Center, LLC.
Under Negotiation: Price, terms of payment, or both
Item 12.5. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL- ANTICIPATED LITIGATION Significant Exposure to Litigation (Pursuant to Gov. Code § 54956.9(d)) Number of Potential Cases:1
There being no public comments, Mayor Hernandez moved to Closed Session at 6:33p.m.
Reconvened from Closed Session at 8:24 p.m.
13. REPORT FROM CLOSED SESSION
Item 13.1. Report from Item 12.1
CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
(Pursuant to Government Code §54957.6)
Agency representative: City Manager Marisela H. Garcia
Employee Organizations: Riverbank Mid-Management Employee Association DIRECTION: Direction was provided to staff.
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Item 13.2. Report from Item 12.2
CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
(Pursuant to Government Code §54957.6)
Agency representative: City Manager Marisela H. Garcia
Employee Organizations: Riverbank Miscellaneous Employees DIRECTION: Direction was provided to staff.
Item 13.3. Report from Item 12.3
CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
(Pursuant to Government Code §54957.6)
Agency representative: City Manager Marisela H. Garcia
Employee Organizations: Unrepresented Contract Employees DIRECTION: Direction was provided to staff.
Item 13.4. Report from Item 12.4
CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATORS
(Pursuant to Govt. Code § 54956.8)
Property: 3300 Atchison Rd. (APN: 132-009-069)
Agency Negotiator: Marisela H. Garcia, City Manager
Property Negotiator: Del Rio City Center, LLC.
Under Negotiation: Price, terms of payment, or both
DIRECTION: Direction was provided to staff.
Item 13.5. Report from Item 12.5
CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL- ANTICIPATED LITIGATION
Significant Exposure to Litigation (Pursuant to Gov. Code § 54956.9(d)) Number of Potential Cases: 1
DIRECTION: Direction was provided to staff.
14. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, Mayor / Chair Hernandez adjourned the regular meeting at 8:25 P.M. to the next regular scheduled City Council / LRA Meeting of February 24, 2026.
ATTEST: (Adopted 02/24/2026) APPROVED:
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Gabriela Hernandez, CMC • Rachel Hernandez
City Clerk / LRA Recorder Mayor/ Chair
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