CITY COUNCIL / LRA BOARD CITY OF RIVERBANK
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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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MEETING MINUTES
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2026 — 6:00 PM
(THE AGENDA PACKET IS ONLINE AT HTTPS://RIVERBANKCA.PORTAL.CIVICCLERK.COM/) **Para Traduccion en Español, favor de referirse a la ultima pagina de la agenda**
CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Hernandez called the meeting to order at 6:00 P.M.
2. FLAG SALUTE
Vice Mayor Pimentel led the pledge of allegiance.
3. INVOCATION
Reverend Randy Richardson led the invocation.
4. 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
AGENDA CHANGES
No Agenda Changes.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
None Declared.
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7. PRESENTATIONS
Item 7.1. Certificate of Recognition - Older Americans Month - It is recommended that the City Council read and present a Certificate of Recognition to Raymond Espinoza for his service to our community.
Mayor Hernadez read and presented the Certificate of Recognition for Older Americans Month to Raymond Espinoza.
Item 7.2. Proclamation — Mental Health Awareness Month - It is recommended that the City Council read and present the Proclamation for Mental Health Awareness to Refugio de Bienestar.
Mayor Hernadez read presented the proclamation for Mental Health Awareness Month to the group Refugio de Bienestar.
Item 7.3. Proclamation — National Bike Month Honoring Mr. Garry Pearson Mayor Hernandez read and presented the proclamation for National Bike Month to Gary Pearson.
Item 7.4. Proclamation - National Public Works Week - May 17 - May 23, 2026 Honoring the City of Riverbank Public Works Department
Mayor Hernandez read and presented the proclamation for National Public Works Week to the City of Riverbank Public Works Department.
Item 7.5. Proclamation - Building Safety Month May 2026 Honoring the City of Riverbank Building Department
Mayor Hernandez read and presented the proclamation for Building Safety Month to the City of Riverbank Building Department.
8. PUBLIC COMMENTS
Mayor Hernandez opened the Public Comment Period at 6:30 P.M.
Alejandro Flores, Representative with Congressman McClintock to give a legislative update.
Olivia Arambula, Riverbank Chamber of Commerce to extend invite for upcoming events.
Sammi Martinez, LOVE Riverbank to extend invite for upcoming community events.
Mayor Hernandez closed the Public Comment Period at 6:39 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 April 28, 2026.
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ACTION: By motion moved and seconded (Uribe / Fosi 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 Accepting the Annual Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Assistant City Manager Alcantor, gave a comprehensive report and PowerPoint presentation on the Annual Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2024-2025.
ACTION: By motion moved and seconded (Fosi / Uribe 5/0) to approve Resolution 2026-031 accepting the Annual Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2024-2025.
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
Item 11.1. Staff
City Manager Garcia:
• From our planning department, Traffic counts are being collected from May 19th - 21st. The city's traffic consultant will be out collecting updated traffic count data at 12 locations throughout Riverbank. These counts will help the city better understand current traffic volumes and travel patterns. And this information is going to be used for transportation planning, development review, and future infrastructure decisions. The cameras are only temporary.
They're not enforcement cameras, and they are not being used to issue tickets, only to collect traffic counts.
• The fifth draft of our housing element is now available for the 7-day public review period which will end May 14th. This version has been updated to remove the rezone site number three, which was known as the MID parcel, which is consistent with the direction provided by the City Council. The changes are shown in red line track changes so that the public can clearly see what was revised. The public is invited to review the updated draft and provide comments during the review period. After the review period closes on May 14th, staff will resubmit the fifth draft to HCD for review.
• Food court Friday's! Parks and Rec. would like to invite everybody to come check out food court Friday, which will happen this Friday at the Riverbank Sports Complex from 6:00pm- 9:00pm.
• Our city pool will officially open to the public starting June 1st. • From our City Clerk's office, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee will be receiving applications through tomorrow. We will then start our first round review. • Youth Council applications are due this Thursday, May 14th at 5:30pm.
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Item 11.2. Councilmember / Authority Member
Vice Mayor Pimentel:
• On May 2nd, / was at Red Robin with Councilmember Uribe and with the Riverbank Sister Cities. We did the passport game raffle. Thank you to Francis of Red Robin for donating the basket. Congratulations to Diana, the winner of the basket. • I was also at the OSPA Oakdale Shelter Pet Alliance. They held a barbecue and a raffle prizes. They also had adoption fees reduced to $50 that week. Thank you to Hazel for volunteering every Saturday and spending time with these animals and placing them in a good home.
• On the 8th, I had a meeting with Sister Cities. Congratulations to Elizabeth Uribe. She was voted as president and Bianca as secretary.
• On the 9th, Thank you to Councilmember Cindy Fosi. Thank you for inviting Herb Henry to speak at the Riverbank Historical Society event. It was nice to hear about things that have gone on in Riverbank. And he spoke about his father, Luther Henry. He owned Henry's Market on Terminal Ave. As a young boy, we used to go to the store all the time. And Luther Henry was very good to all of us kids. We would hear the adults say, "/ would like to order some pepper jack cheese." So us kids would go, "Can I have five cents worth of hot pepper jack cheese, please?" And he would always take care of us. So it was really nice, Cindy. Thank you for that.
• And this Saturday, I'll be attending the Latino Chambers dinner at the Double Tree. / want to thank Johnny Garcia for this event and all of his hard work and dedication. • As the days get hotter, please remember to bring your pets indoors.
Councilmember Fosi:
• On April 30th, I attended the Stanislaus County Disaster Council meeting. This is all the representatives from the County, and each of them talks about what's going on in their county or in their cities. San Joaquin Golden mussels are getting to be a problem. So they're really looking at that. All the lakes, FEMA is giving them full reimbursement, disbursement for any funding that they had that they were on hold for. They're opening up the brick funding. All the projects that were going to be funded, and then the funding was gone. So that funding will be coming back.
• Patterson is going to start a Paramedic training session starting October 15th, which is kind of exciting. It'll be at the high school there, as far as / can tell. • I just wanted to say thank you to everyone that is involved with the project on Roselle and Rose Brook. I live right near that area, so it was nice to see how nice and clean it all looks and that we have an actual sidewalk. So thank you to everybody for Public Works and everybody getting that project done. And when I drive out of my neighborhood on Roselle towards Claribel, and I see there's a road across Roselle, / get excited because that means they're closer to getting it done, I hope. But it's exciting to see how everything is coming together, and I'm hoping that they're ahead of schedule because the traffic is getting bad, but we're going to make it through it.
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Councilmember Uribe:
• So, today I got to meet with McClintock's rep, Kimberly Pruett. Got to set that up, got to hear all the legislative updates in detail, spoke about the Farm Bill that's in the Senate, spoke about National Police Week, those efforts that they're working on. And then she shared that Calaveras County actually received some funding for their wastewater treatment plant. So that was my opening to be like, you know, a letter of support. Please kind of work with us with BRIC Grant to kind of get that funding. Now that the door has reopened, the grant was removed because of the DOGE's efforts in DC, but they are going to be helping us out with those efforts as well. I also advocated for a full conveyance of the LRA property now that we have got the 40-year lease. You know, I don't want to kind of stall there. We want to keep applying pressure. We want the full conveyance. So, that way, Aemetis can move forward with their project.
• I'll be joining John and others at the Installation dinner. I believe the Latino chamber is actually at Red Robin right now. If you make it there by 7:30pm, I think they're leaving at 7:30 pm.
They're raffling off a car for, I think it's like 60 bucks. So, I'm going to see them at the Installation dinner. I will get my ticket there, but if you can't make it to the dinner on Saturday, head over to Red Robin right now. They're still there till about 7:30pm. • And then I know the Mayor is probably going to talk about the Memorial Day event. I love that event. So in my 9 to 5 job, I do have a new store manager who has a new policy. She's kind of running the show a little bit differently. I will be missing this memorial event because of this new policy. So it'll be the first one I miss in seven years, but I hope everybody attends it. It's a great event, and thank you for doing that just to honor all the fallen.
Councilmember Call:
• On April 30th, we had our first ad hoc committee meeting for the non-district East advisory body. We did a lot of introductions. A lot of us had never met each other. There were representatives from both non-district East and non-district West at the meeting for the timeline as far as the overall demand management review and RFP, it was issued on the 23rd of March. 5/1/26 was the deadline for these RFPs, and on June 3rd it's going to be awarded.
They have a very aggressive timeline on this. September and October, there will be workshops on October 31st the action plan will be presented to the Board of Supervisors following the next day to STRGBA then plan implementation on January 1st. So it is a very aggressive timeline. And as the RFP is awarded, and we start doing our collaboration efforts, we will go from meeting biweekly to weekly meetings for this advisory body. And then the committee did say there are no fees or fines at this time for Non-district West through this collaboration.
Item 11.3. Mayor/ Chair
Mayor Hernandez:
• I want to thank staff and everyone for a successful State of the City. I don't think we ever really track attendance or anything. We are just like everyone show up, but it was well attended and proud that our Council is joined by many residents for that.
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• The Young Electeds are now an official group through the Cal Cities organization, and I'll serve as the chair for its inaugural year before I'm not considered young anymore, but everyone's invited to join. We're going to probably kick off official activities through the annual conference this year.
• Yes as mentioned, the Memorial Day event is going to be on the 25th at 11:30am and as always, it is a really meaningful event for our Community. • And finally, just to add one more comment about the STRGBA and the ad hoc committee and just committees in general that are ongoing. I mean, our position is that the City wants to be involved and be aware and apprized of any activities that are done that could potentially, directly or indirectly impact our taxpayers. And, so thank you for representing us there.
12. CLOSED SESSION
Item 12.1. LIABILITY CLAIMS
(Pursuant to Govt. Code § 54961)
Claimant: Dean Wilcox
Agency Claimed Against: City of Riverbank
Item 12.2. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
(Pursuant to Government Code §54957.6)
Agency representative: City Manager Marisela Garcia
Unrepresented Employee: Assistant City Manager
Item 12.3. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
(Pursuant to Government Code §54957.6)
Agency representative: City Manager Marisela Garcia
Unrepresented Employee: Director of Public Works/Interim RLRA Director There being no public comments, Mayor Hernandez moved to Closed Session at 7:09 P.M.
Reconvened from Closed Session at 7:38 P.M
13. REPORT FROM CLOSED SESSION
Item 13.1. Report from Closed Session Item 12.1
LIABILITY CLAIMS
(Pursuant to Govt. Code § 54961)
Claimant: Dean Wilcox
Agency Claimed Against: City of Riverbank
DIRECTION: Claim was unanimously denied
Item 13.2. Report from Closed Session Item 12.2
CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
(Pursuant to Government Code §54957.6)
Agency representative: City Manager Marisela Garcia
Unrepresented Employee: Assistant City Manager
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DIRECTION: Direction was provided to staff.
Item 13.3. Report from Closed Session Item 12.3
CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
(Pursuant to Government Code §54957.6)
Agency representative: City Manager Marisela Garcia
Unrepresented Employee: Director of Public Works/Interim RRA Director DIRECTION: Direction was provided to staff.
14. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, Mayor/Chair Hernandez adjourned the regular meeting at 7:38 P.M. to the next regular scheduled City Council / LRA Meeting of May 26, 2026.
ATTEST: (Adopted 05/26/2026) APPROVED:
Solelo Hang
Gabriela Hernandez, CMC
City Clerk / LRA Recorder Mayor/Chair
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