ACTION MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL
CITY OF VILLA PARK, CALIFORNIA
May 5, 2025
Special Meeting
SPECIAL SESSION
5:00 p.m. - City Council Chambers
CALL TO ORDER / ROLL CALL - Mayor Jones called the Special Session to order at 5:00 p.m.
COUNCILMEMBERS
PRESENT: Miles, Frackelton, McBride, Wu, and Jones.
ABSENT: None
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG - The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Councilmember Miles.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Mayor Jones opened public comments. There being no speakers Mayor Jones closed the public comments.
NEW BUSINESS
1. 2025-26 Second Budget Workshop Presentation
City Manager Steve Franks opened the session with a brief overview of the FY 2025-26 budget process. The focus of the second workshop will identify all the issues the staff has resolved. He emphasized the City had a solid, sound financial budget. He cautioned that the margin for error in the general fund was small. He then turned the presentation over to Finance Director Lee Siow.
Finance Director Lee Siow presented a PowerPoint presentation on the 2024-25 year- end projections, 2025-26 revenue assumptions, and 2025-26 estimated financing.
City Manager Steve Franks provided a PowerPoint presentation on the 2025-26 expenditure issues.
During the presentation, City Manager Steve Franks and Finance Director Lee Siow responded to various inquiries regarding citation revenue, property tax revenue percentage, and Flock cameras.
May 5, 2025 Villa Park City Council Meeting Minutes
City Manager Steve Franks provided an update on the resolved items that were pending per Councilmember Frackelton's request which included the law enforcement contract, the general plan update, the homeless North SPA issue, Brea IT, trail improvement, fence maintenance, street rehabilitation, network re-wiring, City Hall sewer lateral upgrade, pavement crack maintenance, and the Villa Park Road median island. He then shared that license plate reader costs, the storm drain project, and the channel erosion were still pending unresolved issues.
City Manager Steve Franks explained the next step for the FY 2025-26 budget adoption and that the budget adoption would be at the June 24, 2025, Regular City Council meeting. He then responded to several questions related to the storm drain project by Cerro Villa, worker's compensation, sewer plan, the council travel budget, the USA 250 celebration funding, a proposed State of the City to coincide with the USA 250 celebration, and Villa Park Road design.
Discussion ensued about having a State of the City in 2026 with the USA's 250th celebration. Councilmember Miles asked if the committee, composed of Mayor Jones and Councilmember Frackelton, could start planning the event.
There was no action or further discussion on this matter. As there were no public comments and no further Council comments, Mayor Jones adjourned the meeting.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 6:00 p.m. to the next regular Council meeting to be held in person on Tuesday, May 27, 2025.
City of Villa Park
ATTEST:
Steve Franks, City Clerk
City of Villa Park
Note: The above minutes are a summary of actions. A DVD recording of this meeting additionally serves as an official record and is available upon request from City Hall.