Visalia City Council
Meeting Agenda - Final
Mayor Brett Taylor
Vice Mayor Liz Wynn
Council Member Steve Nelsen
Council Member Emmanuel Hernandez Soto
Council Member Brian Poochigian
Visalia City Council
707 W. Acequia
Visalia, CA 93291
and
Meeting call-in telephone
number: 669-444-9171
Meeting ID:
885 1675 5867
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88516755867
City Council Chambers7:00 PMMonday, August 17, 2026
ROLL CALL
CALL TO ORDER WORK SESSION - 4:00 PM (Unless otherwise noted)
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Citizens are now invited to comment on issues within the jurisdiction of the Visalia City Council and items listed on the Closed Session agenda. 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.
WORK SESSION AND ACTION ITEMS (as described)
1. Entertainment Ordinance discussion - Receive and review draft entertainment ordinance and the draft entertainment permit application and provide staff with direction on changes to these documents, and direction on initiating potential Municipal Code updates to Visalia Municipal Code Chapter 17 Zoning.
26-0088
2. Inclusive park project - Receive a presentation on the inclusive park project and authorize staff to move forward with the updated concept layout to prepare design and construction drawings. 26-0092
3. Stormwater master plan update - Receive a presentation on the stormwater master plan progress and provide direction regarding releasing for public comments.
26-0078
ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION - 6:00 PM (Or, immediately following Work Session)
CALL TO ORDER REGULAR SESSION - 7:00 PM
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Visalia City Council Meeting Agenda - Final August 17, 2026
MOMENT OF SILENCE - FORMER MAYOR GREG COLLINS
INVOCATION LED BY PASTOR UNRAU, PARKSIDE CHAPEL
SPECIAL PRESENTATION / RECOGNITION
PUBLIC COMMENTS
This is the time for general public comment on issues within the jurisdiction of the Visalia City Council. Each speaker tonight may speak for up to 3 minutes during this general comment period on a matter that is not on this agenda.
The public may also make one comment for up to 3 minutes prior to the consideration of the Consent Calendar, and immediately before any regular agenda item is heard. The Council asks that you keep you 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.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
CONSENT CALENDAR
Consent Calendar items are considered routine and will be enacted in one motion.
This is the time for members of the public to provide public comment on an item on the Consent Calendar. Comments will not be taken individually by the public if an item is pulled by a Council Member. Each speaker is allowed up to 3 minutes, and a timer will notify you when your time is expired. Please begin your comments by stating and spelling you name and providing your city of residence.
1. Authorization to read ordinances by title only. 26-0007
2. Award contract and transfer funds for Lot #44 & Transit Operations parking lot pavement rehabilitation - Authorize the City Manager to award the construction contract to Dave Christian Construction, Inc. for the Lot #44, located at 300 N. Tipton Street & Transit Operations parking lot pavement rehabilitation project, located at 525 N. Cain Street, in the amount of $1,259,372; authorize a change order deduction in the amount of $208,439; and authorize the transfer and appropriation of $485,000 from Transit Funds.
26-0057
3. Reinstate Building Advisory Committee - Authorization for reinstatement of the Building Advisory Committee as a five-person committee, therein re-incorporating a “Board of Appeals” derived from the BAC, and appointing three members to their identified terms.
26-0072
Visalia City Council Meeting Agenda - Final August 17, 2026
4. Notice of completion - Authorize the filing of a notice of completion for the Stonebrook Street culvert in Packwood Creek. 26-0080
5. Award of annual contract for on-call electrical repair services - Authorize the City Manager to award an annual contract for on-call electrical repairs at various city-owned parks and facilities to A-C Electric Company in an annual amount not to exceed $165,000. 26-0083
6. Award Plaza Park project - Authorize the City Manager to award the resurfacing of tennis and pickleball courts at Plaza Park contract, to Anderson Striping & Construction for an amount not to exceed $139,759.68.
26-0086
7. Replacement of two groundwater monitoring wells - Authorize the City Manager to award an agreement to Arsenal Well Drilling, in an amount not to exceed $98,600 for the replacement of two groundwater monitoring wells at the Water Reclamation Facility. 26-0087
8. Award contract for biofilter media replacement & associated equipment inspection at the Water Reclamation Facility - Authorize the City Manager to award a contract to W.M. Lyles Co., in an amount not-to-exceed $267,560 and appropriate $220,000 from the Wastewater Fund.
26-0090
9. Visalia Health and Wellness Clinic administration and operation - Authorize the City Manager to execute an amendment to extend the agreement for clinic administration and operation with Elite Corporate Medical Services not to exceed $330,000, for one year ending June 30, 2027.
26-0091
10. Partial notice of completion - Request authorization to file a partial notice of completion for the Riggin Avenue widening project from Kelsey Street to Shirk Street.
26-0098
11. Award of annual contract for sports park mowing and aeration services - Authorize the City Manager to award the annual contract for sports park mowing and aeration services to Perfect Care Landscape in an annual amount not to exceed $450,000.
26-0099
12. Award of annual contract for passive park mowing and aeration services - Authorize the City Manager to award the annual contract for passive park mowing and aeration services to Clean Cut Landscape Management in an annual amount not to exceed $201,000.
26-0100
13. Record final parcel map - Request authorization to record the final parcel map for Tentative Parcel Map No. 2024-08, located at the northeast corner of North Kelsey Street and West Riggin Avenue intersection.
26-0101
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14. Confirm a grant submittal for the Alcohol Policing Program - Confirm the Visalia Police Department’s grant submission to the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control Office of Traffic Safety Grant Program for the maximum amount of $30,000 funded by the Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which was submitted on August 7, 2026.
26-0106
15. Fiscal year 2025-26 cape seal notice of completion - Authorization to file a notice of completion for the fiscal year 2025-26 cape seal project.
26-0108
16. Request by Council member Brian Poochigian - Consideration of a future agenda item to discuss a moratorium that would prohibit the development and approval of data centers and similar high-intensity uses with significant water net loss and electrical demands.
26-0112
17. Appointment in lieu of election - Consider adopting Resolution No. 2026-61 providing for the appointment in lieu of election to the office of City Councilmember for District 3 pursuant to California Elections Code Section 10229 and cancelling the November 3, 2026 Municipal Election for that office.
26-0113
CLOSED SESSION REPORT
ADJOURNMENT
UPCOMING CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS
1. Upcoming City Council Meetings
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 @ 7:00 p.m. at 707 W. Acequia Monday, September 21, 2026 @ 7:00 p.m. at 707 W. Acequia Note: Meeting dates and times are subject to change, check posted agenda for correct details. In compliance with the American Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in meetings contact 713-4512.
Written materials relating to an item on this agenda submitted to the Council after distribution of the agenda are available for public inspection in the Office of the City Clerk, 220 N. Santa Fe Street, Visalia CA 93292, during normal business hours.
26-0095