CITY OF SAN PABLO
DRAFT
CITY-WIDE BEAUTIFICATION PLAN
Presented to:
San Pablo City Council
January 20, 2026
FY 2025-27 City Council Priority Workplan: Amended April 7, 2025 BACKGROUND:
As of April 7, 2025, the FY 2025-27 City Council Priority Workplan adopted via Reso,. No. #2025-044, under Major Policy Area: Build a Healthy Community, the City Council adopted Policy #121 – Explore New City- Wide Beautification Plan, under the following project categories:
• Landscaping Maintenance;
• Street Medians;
• Street Trees;
• Street Banner Program (Tied to Economic Development)
City Council Action: September 3, 2026
Motion made by then Vice-Mayor Pabon-Alvarado, duly seconded, the City Council directed the City Manager (5-0) to provide an update on the development of a new City-wide Beautification Plan (not time specific).
New City-wide Beautification Plan: Process & Development **IMMEDIATE PRIORITY**
NEW FY 2026-27 & FY 2027-28 DRAFT TWO-YEAR GF OPERATING BUDGET:
• Planning initiated on October 1, 2025 – current
• All City Departments pre-occupied with new DRAFT BUDGET preparation and submittal of new Department expense plans by November 2025
Internal Staff Ideation Sessions:
• November 2025: City staff Multi-Departmental Input Meeting #1 • December 2025: City staff Multi-Departmental Input Meeting #2
New City-wide Beautification Plan: Process & Development Conceptual DRAFT – City-wide Beautification Plan:
• An initial 20 conceptual capital projects developed by City staff; revised to a total of 14 proposed capital projects for DRAFT Plan
A total of 14 conceptual capital projects are proposed in the Proposed DRAFT Plan (See Attachment). Additionally, the City Manager recommends that project categories be broadly expanded to include the following three (3) new project funding categories for capital programming purposes and availability of additional sources of project funding, as follows:
• Economic Development – New!
• Landscaping Maintenance;
• Street Medians;
• Street Trees;
• Public Art – New!
• Other Miscellaneous Projects – New!
New City-wide Beautification Plan: Process & Development Conceptual DRAFT – City-wide Beautification Plan: Proposed DRAFT Plan parameters include:
• All capital projects must be under $75,000 each; and
• The annual funding allocation is $250,000 per fiscal year (with project funding not to exceed a 3-fiscal year period totaling $750,000), with recommended one-time funds or (funding source or future grants may also be identified or leveraged); and • All capital projects must be identified as: (1) annual, recurring capital expense: or (2) one-time/procurement expense to be determined and programmed by project consultant/engineer; and
• All capital projects must comply with the City Manager’s Budget Limit Authority, and applicable City Purchasing Policy requirements; and
• All capital projects must comply with the State of CA Public Contract Code requirements, if warranted.
DRAFT City-wide Beautification Plan: Process & Development Conceptual DRAFT – City-wide Beautification Plan:
City’s Adopted Muti-Year CIP Budget Planning
The City maintains an Adopted Multi-Year Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Budget for medium to large projects, each typically exceeding $75,000 each. The adopted Multi-Year CIP Budget outlines project timelines and funding sources and is updated each year to reflect any changes to available project funding, programming or project implementation.
The City Manager will suggest that the proposed DRAFT Plan, once developed, clearly outlines all proposed costs, timelines and future funding appropriation, with the final Plan incorporated into the City’s Multi-Year CIP Budget for FY 2026-27, FY 2027-28, and FY 2028-29 for scheduled adoption by the City Council.
Potential Funding Sources: New or Existing Grant Funding; GFDR Fund Balance (Fund 110)
City Manager/Staff Recommendation:
Conceptual DRAFT – City-wide Beautification Plan:
After reviewing the proposed Plan, the City Manager suggests that the City Council approve any changes to the Proposed DRAFT Plan of initial capital projects and directs the City Manager to move forward with the following procedural next steps:
1) Receive presentation of Proposed DRAFT conceptual City-wide Beautification Plan (Plan); and 2) Receive final input from the City Council on conceptual capital projects for the Plan; and 3) Direct the City Manager to formally solicit a project consultant or engineer to develop a final Plan which includes all cost estimates, project timelines, including one-time funding sources identified for future capital programming into the City’s Multi-Year Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Budget for project implementation for FY 2026-27, FY 2027-28 and FY 2028-29 periods.
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