April 7, 2026
TO: City Council
REQUESTED BY: Kimberly Ganimian, Finance Director
APPROVED BY: Robert A. Johnson, City Manager
SUBJECT: Second Reading of Ordinance No. 26-02 - Proposed Ordinance to Update Participation in the TUMF Progr
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council conduct the second reading and adopt Ordinance No. 26-02, amending and updating the City’s TUMF Ordinance:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN JACINTO
AMENDING AND SUPERSEDING ORDINANCE NO. 24-14
TO ESTABLISH CONSTRUCTION COST INDEX
ADJUSTMENTS TO THE WESTERN RIVERSIDE
COUNTY TRANSPORTATION UNIFORM MITIGATION
FEE (TUMF) PROGRAM
SUMMARY:
Ordinance No. 26-02 amends Ordinance No. 24-14 to update the City’s Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee (TUMF) provisions, including minor clarifications to residential unit definitions and the addition of an automatic annual cost index adjustment. The ordinance was presented to the City Council on March 17, 2026, at which time the City Council received staff’s presentation and provided an opportunity for public comment. No public comments were received, and the City Council introduced the ordinance on a 5–0 vote. At that same meeting, the City Council also adopted Resolution No. 4115 establishing the updated TUMF fee schedule. The ordinance is now before the City Council for second reading and adoption.
BACKGROUND:
The City of San Jacinto (“City”) is a Member Jurisdiction of the Western Riverside Council of Governments (“WRCOG”), a joint powers agency comprised of the County of Riverside and eighteen (18) cities located in Western Riverside County. Acting in concert, in 2002-2003, the WRCOG Member Jurisdictions developed a plan whereby the shortfall in funds needed to enlarge the capacity of the Regional System of Highways and Arterials due to new development in Western Riverside County could be made up in part by a Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee (“TUMF”) on future residential, commercial and industrial development.
As a Member Jurisdiction of WRCOG and as a TUMF Participating Jurisdiction, the City participated in the preparation of the “Western Riverside County Transportation Uniform Fee Nexus Study,” (“2002 Nexus Study”) later adopted by the WRCOG Executive Committee.
Based on the 2002 Nexus Study, the City adopted and implemented an ordinance authorizing the City’s participation in a TUMF Program.
Pursuant to the Mitigation Fee Act (Gov. Code §§ 66000 et seq.), WRCOG has prepared a new nexus study (“2024 Nexus Study”) to update the fees. On September 9, 2024, the WRCOG Executive Committee reviewed the 2024 Nexus Study and recommended TUMF Participating Jurisdictions update their fees by amending their applicable TUMF ordinances to reflect changes in the TUMF network and the cost of construction. The TUMF schedule was updated in 2025 to reflect the revised fees.
DISCUSSION:
In accordance with the Mitigation Fee Act, the City Council last year adopted Ordinance No. 24- 14 and the 2024 Nexus Study to:
a) identify the purpose of the revised fees;
b) identify the use to which the revised fees is to be put, including identification of any facilities to be financed;
c) determine how there is a reasonable relationship between the fee’s use and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed;
d) determine how there is a reasonable relationship between the need for the public facilities and the type of development project upon which the fees are imposed; and, e) determine how there is a reasonable relationship between the amount of the fees and the cost of the public facilities or portion or the public facility attributable to the development on which the fees are imposed.
The proposed Ordinance No. 26-02 modifies Ordinance No. 24-14 by making minor clarifications to the definitions of single family and multi-family residential units along with adding a section that allows for an automatic cost index adjustment in future years. Additionally, Ordinance No. 24-14 provides the legal basis for a revised TUMF schedule and the actual TUMF schedule is established by adopting Resolution No. 4115.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no fiscal impact to the City, as these fees are directly collected by WRCOG.
ATTACHMENTS:
Ordinance No. 26-02