1 City of Susanville
66 N. Lassen Street • Susanville CA
Mendy Schuster, Mayor
Dawn Miller, Mayor pro tem
Curtis Bortle • Patrick Parrish • Gerry Hibbitts
Susanville City Council
Regular Council Meeting • City Council Chambers
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 – 4:30 PM
Call to Order
Roll Call
1. Approval of Agenda: (Additions and/or Deletions)
2. Public Comment Regarding Closed Session Items (if any): Any person may address the City Council at this time upon any subject for discussion during Closed Session.
A. Conference with Legal Counsel — Anticipated Litigation — pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(e)(1)
1. One case
B. Public Employment - pursuant to Government Code §54957
1. Public Safety Chief
2. City Manager Recruitment
3. Acting City Manager - Evaluation
4. Return to Open Session: (recess if necessary)
• Reconvene in open session at 5:00 PM
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Invocation
• Report any changes to agenda
• Report any action out of Closed Session
• Awards or Presentations by the City Council
5. Business from the Floor: Any person may address the City Council at this time upon any subject on the agenda or not on the agenda within the jurisdiction of the City Council. However, comments on items on the agenda may be reserved until the item is discussed and any matter not on the agenda that requires action will be referred to staff for a report and action at a subsequent meeting.
Presentations are subject to a three-minute limit.
6. Consent Calendar: All matters listed under the Consent Calendar are considered to be routine by the City Council. There will be no separate discussion on these items. Any member of the public or the City Council may request removal of an item from the Consent Calendar to be considered separately.
6.A. Minutes of the City Council July 15, 2026 regular meeting.
6.B. Vendor and Payroll Warrants
2 7. Public Hearings - No business:
8. Council Discussion/Announcements:
9. New Business:
9.A.
Consider Resolution No. 26-6560, Authorizing the mayor to execute a Lease Agreement through Leaf Capital Funding, LLC for three Kyocera multifunction copiers and enter into a Maintenance Agreement with Forest Office Equipment
9.B. Consider Resolution No. 26-6561, Authorizing the Mayor to execute a Lease Agreement through FP Finance for a folding machine
9.C. Consider purchase of Hangar 39 at the Susanville Municipal Airport
9.D. Consider Resolution No. 26-6563, amending Resolution No. 25-6445, authorizing the City Manager (including Interim and Acting City Manager) to approve and execute all documents related to City Insurance policies within the budgeted amounts.
10. Planning Commission :
11. Susanville Community Redevelopment Agency- No business:
12. Susanville Municipal Energy Corporation - No business:
13. Continuing Business:
13.A. Discussion Regarding Emergency Work Associated with the Failure of the Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) at Well 3 on Johnstonville Road
13.B. Memorial Park Grandstand Fire Restoration Update
13.C. Discussion and possible approval of Resolution No. 26-6557, amending the City Council Committee List
14. City Manager's Reports:
15. Future Council Items:
15.A. Future Council Items
16. Adjournment:
• The next regular meeting of the Susanville City Council will be held on August 19, 2026 at 4:30PM.
Reports and documents relating to each agenda item are on file in the Office of the City Clerk and are available for public inspection during normal business hours and at the meeting. These reports and documents are also available at the City’s website www.cityofsusanville.gov, unless there were systems problems posting to the website.
3 Accessibility: An interpreter for the hearing-impaired may be made available upon request to the City Clerk seventytwo hours prior to a meeting. A reader for the vision-impaired for purposes of reviewing the agenda may be made available upon request to the City Clerk. The location of this meeting is wheelchair-accessible.
I, Heidi Whitlock, certify that I caused to be posted notice of the regular meeting scheduled for August 5, 2026 in the areas designated on July 30, 2026.