Visalia City Council
707 W. Acequia
Visalia, CA 93291
Visalia City Council
City Council
Meeting Agenda - Final
Mayor Brian Poochigian
Vice Mayor Brett Taylor
Council Member Emmanuel Hernandez Soto
Council Member Steve Nelsen
Council Member Liz Wynn
City Council Chambers7:00 PMMonday, November 6, 2023
ROLL CALL
CALL TO ORDER WORK SESSION - 5:00 PM
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Citizens are now invited to comment on issues within the jurisdiction of the Visalia City Council. The Council asks that you keep your comments concise and positive. Creative criticism, presented with appropriate courtesy, is welcome.
Each speaker will be allowed three minutes and a timer will notify you when your time is expired. Please begin your comments by stating and spelling your name and providing your city of residence.
SPECIAL PRESENTATION / RECOGNITION
1. 2023 APWA Central CA Awards Ceremony and Project
Acknowledgement
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WORK SESSION AND ACTION ITEMS (as described)
1. NEW EMPLOYEE INTRODUCTIONS:
Community Development
Collen Moreno, Assistant Planner
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2. Receive an update on the City-wide marketing and rebranding project, including recommended, updated logo and color palette, and provide input for next steps.
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3. Update on direction received from City Council regarding outreach and input received by business owners related to potential consideration on directing staff to prepare a draft ordinance to regulate the use and operation of pedicabs within the City of Visalia.
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ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION - 6:00 PM (Or, immediately following Work Session)
CALL TO ORDER REGULAR SESSION - 7:00 PM
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
INVOCATION
ITEMS OF INTEREST
PUBLIC COMMENTS
This is the time for citizens to comment on subject matters that are not on the agenda and within the jurisdiction of the Visalia City Council. The Council asks that you keep your comments brief and positive. Creative criticism, presented with appropriate courtesy, is welcome.
This is also the time for citizens to request an item from the Consent Calendar be pulled for discussion purposes. Public comments related to all pulled Consent Calendar items and Regular or Public Hearing items listed on the agenda will be heard at the time that item is discussed or when the Public Hearing is opened.
Each speaker will be allowed three minutes, and a timer will notify you when your time is expired. Please begin your comments by stating and spelling your name and providing your city of residence.
CONSENT CALENDAR
Consent Calendar items are considered routine and will be enacted in one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these matters unless a request is made and then the item will be removed from the Consent Calendar to be discussed and voted upon by a separate motion.
1. Authorization to read ordinances by title only. 23-0226
2. Appoint Jerome Melgar to fill an unexpired term on the Historic Preservation Advisory Committee.
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3. Accept the City of Visalia Cash and Investment Report for the first quarter of the fiscal year which consists of months July, August, and September of 2023.
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4. Authorize the City Manager to award a contract for professional architectural and engineering design services for the new Fire Station 51 (FS51) in the amount of $794,787 to RRM Design Group.
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5. Authorize the transfer of $4,500,000 from the General Fund to the Vehicle Replacement Fund, $475,000 from the Police Measure T fund to the Police Measure T Vehicle Replacement Fund, and $1,480,000 from the Fire Measure T Fund to the Fire Measure T Vehicle Replacement Fund to replace future vehicles.
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6. Request authorization to file a Notice of Completion for Riggin Avenue Widening & Improvements (Akers to Demaree). City of Visalia Project Number 2430-72000/CP0397-999.
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7. Authorization to accept and appropriate $72,710 for the 2023 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program through the Bureau Justice Assistance (BAJ) and approve the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Tulare County for the Visalia Police Department 2023 JAG Joint Purchase Program. 23-0396
8. Authorize the City Manager to Award RFB 22-23-10 annual contract for Landscape Maintenance of Landscape and Lighting Districts within Quadrant J to Brightview Landscape Services, Inc., of Fresno, CA, for an annual not to exceed amount of $96,232.00. 23-0397
9. Authorize the City Manager to Award RFB 22-23-13 annual contract for Landscape Maintenance of Landscape and Lighting Districts within Quadrant M to JC’s Land Management, Inc., of Kingsburg, CA, for an annual not to exceed amount of $43,065.00. 23-0398
10. Authorize the City Manager to Award RFB 22-23-04 annual contract for Landscape Maintenance of Landscape and Lighting Districts within Quadrant C to Perfect Care Landscape and Maintenance, of Tulare, CA, for an annual not to exceed amount of $128,851.00.
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11. Authorize an amendment to the 2017 lease agreement between the City of Visalia and Enterprise Rent-a-Car Company of Sacramento to include approximately 800 (eight hundred) additional square feet of office space.
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12. Authorize the City Manager to approve a contract change order to W.M. Lyles Company in the amount of $ 252,196 for the interior coating of Digester #4 at the Water Reclamation Facility (WRF). 23-0410
13. Request authorization to adopt Resolution No. 2023-53 ordering the summary vacation and abandonment of Lot C, Lot D, and the easement to the City of Visalia for Ingress/Egress over Parcel 9 of Parcel Map 4869, recorded in Book 49 of Parcel Maps at page 74, Tulare County Records.
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14. Second reading and adoption of Ordinance No. 2023-10 pertaining to Specific Plan No. 2021-13 and entering into a development agreement: A request to establish a new specific plan (Carleton Acres Specific Plan) consisting of approximately 507 acres, including districts for low, medium, and high density residential, commercial mixed use, neighborhood commercial, parks / open space, and public institutional. Full buildout of the plan will accommodate approximately 3,262 dwelling units, approximately 205,000 square feet of leasable commercial area, 17 acres of parks / trails / recreational facilities, 17 acres for a drainage basin, and a future elementary school site, to be developed across Urban Development Boundary Tiers I, II, and III. A development agreement has been prepared with the specific plan in accordance with General Plan Policy LU-P-22 to address development terms for the project, including development within the Urban Growth Boundary Tier III. The proposed Project is located on
approximately 507 acres, generally bound by West Riggin Avenue to the south, North Akers Street to the east, North Shirk Road to the west and Avenue 320 (West Kibler Avenue) to the north (APN 077-100-108 and 077-100-105).
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15. Authorize the City Manager to award a contract to HdL Companies for an amount not to exceed $35,000, with a total budget of $40,000, and a contract to FM3 Research for an amount not to exceed $39,500, with a total budget of $45,000, to assist in the preparation of a potential local sales tax measure for cannabis sales for the 2024 general election and identify potential cannabis regulations, and appropriate $85,000 from the General Fund. 23-0418
16. Authorize City Manager to award RFQ 22-23-66 and establish a qualified bidders list to perform various maintenance activities in the sanitary and storm sewer systems, including rehabilitation of lift stations, wells & pumps, and repair sanitary and storm sewer mains. Work completed under this contract will be funded through the operating and CIP budgets of the Wastewater and Storm Sewer funds at an amount not to exceed $ 1,500,000 annually.
This is a one ( 1) year contract and is renewable for up to four ( 4) additional one year periods.
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17. Request authorization to file a Notice of Completion for Sequoia Bend Unit 1 subdivision containing 51 single-family residential lots, located on the south side of East Goshen Avenue between North Cain and North Virmargo Streets.
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18. Authorize the City Manager to extend the emergency contract for Engineering Plan Review and Related Services to Interwest Consulting Group, not to exceed $200,000 for one year ending December 31, 2024.
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19. Approve the Citizens Advisory Committee’s recommendation to appoint William Mann and Julie Appelbaum to fill a vacant voting position on the Citizens Advisory Committee vacated by Kelli Pierce and Charles Garza.
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20. Second reading and adoption of Ordinance No. 2023-11 approving Zoning Text Amendment No. 2023-01, a request by the City of Visalia to amend Title 17 (Zoning) Chapter 17.32 Special Provisions to regulate Short-Term Rentals in single and multi-family residential zones Citywide.
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21. Authorize an amendment to the contract dated August 25th of 2021 between The City of Visalia’s Transit division and Kaweah Maintenance to include additional work to the existing scope on a monthly basis not to exceed an additional $13,500 annually for a total of $84,220 annually.
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REGULAR ITEMS AND PUBLIC HEARINGS
Comments related to regular Items and Public Hearing Items are limited to three minutes per speaker, for a maximum of 30 minutes per item. The Mayor may reasonably limit or extend the public comment period to preserve the Council's interest in conducting efficient, orderly meetings.
1. Conduct the first of two public hearings to amend the Measure N Spending Plan to appropriate $190,000 and advance the purchase of one (1) marked patrol vehicle for FY 24/25 and purchase one (1) marked patrol vehicle to replace a Measure N funded Dodge Charger. In addition, staff is requesting to appropriate an additional $30,000 to address the budget shortfall for FY 23/24 vehicle purchases.
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2. Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement and appropriate an additional $425,000 in Successor Agency Housing (SAH) funds for Visalia Homekey LP to convert the Majestic Motel at 4545 W. Noble Avenue into a 42-unit Permanent Affordable Rental Housing complex for qualifying populations.
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3. First reading and public hearing for Ordinance No. 2023-13 for Zoning Text Amendment No. 2023-02, a request by the City of Visalia to add Chapter 5.66, amend Chapter 8.64, add section
17.32.167. and amend Visalia Municipal Code Chapter 17.25, in order to address upcoming state mandated changes as a result of the passage of Senate Bill (SB) 1186, the “Medicinal Cannabis Patients’ Right of Access Act,” and establish objective standards for permitting delivery only medical marijuana retail establishments within the City of Visalia.
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CLOSED SESSION REPORT
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1. For the purposes of reporting out, for the record, transactions that occurred as a result of Closed Session Real Property Negotiations:
Buyer: City of Visalia
Seller: Olive Farms Associates, LLC, a Washington Limited Liability Company
APN: 123-080-032 & 123-080-033
Purpose: Storm Basin & Riparian Set Back
Brief Description: Willow Springs Development
Price: $347,614.10
Closing Date: 10/6/2022
Project Manager: Adrian Rubalcaba
For the purposes of reporting out, for the record, transactions that occurred as a result of Closed Session Real Property Negotiations:
Buyer: City of Visalia
Seller: Kaweah Delta Health Care District
APN: 126-130-030 (portion)
Purpose: Caldwell Widening Project
Price: $23,779.89
Closing Date: 10/24/2023
Closed Session Council Date: 6/5/2023
Project Manager: Eric Bons
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ADJOURNMENT
UPCOMING CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS
1. Upcoming City Council Meetings:
Monday, November 20, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. @ 707 W. Acequia Monday, December 04, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. @ 707 W. Acequia If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to fully participate in the meeting, please contact Michelle Nicholson, on or before Monday, November 6, 2023 to discuss your
accessibility needs: 559-713-4512 or email at
[email protected].
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