Agenda, special meeting — Yreka City Council, August 4, 2026

Colleen Baker, Mayor
James Clair, Mayor Pro Tempore
Corey Middleton, Councilmember
Drake Davis, Councilmember
Paul McCoy, Councilmember
William Ibershof, City Manager
Juliana Lucchesi, Asst. City Manager
Emily Aldrich, Finance Director
Matthew Bray, Public Works Director
John Elsnab, Human Resources Director
Cyndy Prohaska, City Clerk
Patrick Dirksen, Interim Police Chief
Jerry Lemos, Fire Chief
Julia Homaechevarria, City Attorney

YREKA CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA
August 4, 2026
Open Session: 5:30 PM
Yreka City Council Chamber, 701 Fourth Street, Yreka, CA Phone 530-841-2386, Facsimile 530-842-4836, email: [email protected] Regular Meetings of the Yreka City Council are held the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month.

The full agenda packet can be found on the City’s website at www.ci.yreka.ca.us/AgendaCenter. Copies of all staff reports and documents subject to disclosure that relate to any item of business referred to on the agenda are available for public inspection 72 hours before each regularly scheduled meeting, and 24 hours before each special meeting, at the City Clerk’s office at City Hall, located at 701 4th St, Yreka, California during normal business hours. Any writing that is subject to disclosure that relates to an agenda item for open session distributed less than 72 hours prior to the meeting will be available for public inspection at the City Clerk’s office during normal business hours.

Materials distributed to a majority of councilmembers less than 72 hours before a meeting will be available for public inspection on the City’s website at www.ci.yreka.ca.us/AgendaCenter.

Please note the following change to the City’s public comment procedures: Unless a Councilmember is participating in the meeting remotely pursuant to Government Code section 54953(f), remote public comment will not be accepted. Public comment may be provided in-person or via email, as set forth below.

Members of the public desiring to provide comments as a part of the meeting are encouraged to either submit written comments by 3:00 p.m. to the City Clerk prior to the meeting or to attend the meeting in person." Written comments will be distributed to the Councilmembers but will not be read aloud at the meeting.

1. 5:30 PM CALL TO ORDER SPECIAL SESSION:

2. PUBLIC COMMENT:

Public participation is limited to those items listed on the agenda.

If your comments do not concern an item listed on this Agenda, please address the City Council at the next regular meeting.

The City requests that persons addressing the City Council refrain from making personal, slanderous, profane, or disruptive remarks.

Councilmembers, when recognized by the Mayor, may ask questions of presenter but no action may be taken by the City Council during the public comment section of the meeting. Under the Brown Act, the City Council is prohibited from discussing or taking action on any item not listed on the posted agenda.

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• Please speak into the microphone from the podium. The podium electronically adjusts up and down to accommodate speaker.
• Please state your name for the record prior to providing your comments. • Please address the Council as a whole.
• If you have documents to present, please provide a minimum of seven (7) copies. These become a public record.
• Please limit your remarks to five (5) minutes.
• Since Council is unable to take action on issues not on the agenda, your matter may be referred to staff for follow up or be placed on a future agenda.

Public comment period is not intended to be a “Question and Answer” period or conversations with the Council or City staff.

3. CITY BUSINESS:

City Manager
a. Agenda Title : Work Session on the 2026 Work Plan
Recommended City Council Action: (1) Receive and file the 2026 Annual Work Plan and Accompanying Master Project List (2) Confirm the priority framework (Priority 1-4 and 2026 Work Plan Designations) or provide direction on additions, deletions, or resequencing and (3) Direct staff to return with quarterly work plan status reports beginning in the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2026-27.

4. ADJOURNMENT:

In compliance with the requirements of the Brown Act, notice of this meeting has been posted in a publicly accessible place, 24 hours in advance of the meeting.

Public Hearings: If you wish to challenge in court any of the matters on an agenda for which a public hearing is to be conducted, you may be limited to raising only those issues which you (or someone else) raised orally at the public hearing or in written correspondence received by the City at or before the hearing. Any person seeking to challenge a City Council decision made as a result of a proceeding in which by law a hearing is required to be given, evidence is required to be taken, and the discretion in the determination of facts is vested in the City Council, shall be required to commence that action 90 days following the date on which the decision becomes final as provided in Code of Civil Procedure Section 1094.6. Please refer to Code of Civil Procedure 1094.6 to determine how to calculate when a decision becomes “final.”
"CHALLENGING DECISIONS OF CITY ENTITIES The time limit within which to commence any lawsuit or legal challenge to any quasi-adjudicative decision made by the City of Yreka is governed by Section 1094.6 of the Code of Civil Procedure, unless a shorter limitation period is specified by any other provision, including without limitation Government Code section 65009 applicable to many land use and zoning decisions, Government Code section 66499.37 applicable to the Subdivision Map Act, and Public Resources Code section 21167 applicable to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Under Section 1094.6, any lawsuit or legal challenge to any quasi-adjudicative decision made by the City must be filed no later than the 90th day following the date on which such decision becomes final. Any lawsuit or legal challenge, which is not filed within that 90-day period, will be barred. Government Code section 65009 and 66499.37, and Public Resources Code section 21167, impose shorter limitations periods and requirements, including timely service in addition to filing. If a person wishes to challenge the above actions in court, they may be limited to raising only those issues they or someone else raised at the meeting described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City of Yreka, at or prior to the meeting. In addition, judicial challenge may be limited or barred where the interested party has not sought and exhausted all available administrative remedies." Yreka City Council Special Meeting Agenda
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The City of Yreka does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any other legally protected classes in employment or provision of services. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, those requiring accommodations for this meeting should notify the City Clerk 48 hours prior to the meeting at (530) 841-2386 or by notifying the Clerk at [email protected].

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I, Cyndy Prohaska, City Clerk for the City of Yreka, hereby declare under penalty of perjury that a copy of the above Agenda of the Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Yreka, California, was delivered and/or notice by email not less than 24 hours, before the hour of 5:30PM on August 4, 2026, to the members of the governing agency, and caused the agenda to be posted on the City’s website at www.ci.yreka.ca.us and posted at Yreka City Hall, 701 Fourth St., Yreka, California. /s/: Cyndy Prohaska
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CITY OF YREKA

CITY COUNCIL AGENDA MEMORANDUM
YrekaCity Council
Will Ibershof, City Manager
Will Ibershof, City Manager
Work session on the 2026 work plan
Recommended Actions:

1. Receive and file the 2026 Annual Work Plan and accompanying Master Project List;

2. Confirm the priority framework (Priority 1–4 and 2026 Work Plan designations) or provide direction on additions, deletions, or resequencing; and

3. Direct staff to return with quarterly work plan status reports beginning in the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2026–27.

Summary:

The 2026 Annual Work Plan presents a consolidated view of the projects and initiatives City departments will pursue between July 2026 and June 2027. Of the 104 identified projects, the Leadership Team has assigned 58 projects to the 2026 Work Plan. The portfolio includes one Priority 1 project (the New Fire Hall), a thirteen-project Priority 2 infrastructure program led by the Public Works Department, two longer-horizon strategic initiatives at Priorities 3 and 4, and more than forty department initiatives committed for action this year. This report transmits the plan for Council review and direction; no project approvals, awards, or appropriations are before the Council tonight.

Background:

The City of Yreka receives requests, state mandates, and identifies needs for the city in the form of projects. These projects range from small policy changes to large-scale infrastructure and facilities projects. For 2026, every proposed project was screened against three criteria:
(1) current grant obligations carrying binding timelines and deliverables, such as the CalFire Green Waste Reduction Grant; (2) mandates initiated by the State of California, including General Plan 2047, Housing Element implementation, and the Comprehensive Development Code Update; and (3) demonstrated city needs, including aging water, wastewater, and street infrastructure, public safety facilities and staffing, records modernization, and long-range Yreka City Council Special Meeting Agenda
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fiscal sustainability. Projects meeting one or more criteria were assigned a timing designation — Priority 1 through 4 for the City’s most significant capital and strategic efforts, or a minor designation for initiatives committed for action this year.

Project Description:

The 2026 Work Plan is a portfolio rather than a single project. Its principal components are:
the New Fire Hall Project (Priority 1), the City’s single most urgent capital project, now completing final design and a funding package; a thirteen-project Priority 2 infrastructure program led by Public Works, spanning water supply and storage, wastewater pre-treatment policy, pump station and water line improvements, annual and rubberized chip seal paving, flood hazard reduction at East Lennox, and facility improvements; six state-mandated projects led locally by Community Development, Public Works, and Human Resources; and department initiatives including records digitization (City Clerk), code enforcement policy development, the 20-Year Financial Plan and Capital Improvement Plan (Finance), workforce development and personnel policy work (Human Resources), staffing stabilization and a Community Services Officer position (Police), and economic development efforts including Campus Drive Redevelopment and the Façade Improvement Program (City Manager).

Project Timeline:

The Work Plan covers Fiscal Year 2026–27 (July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027). The attached Gantt schedule presents week-by-week activity windows for all 58 projects; durations shown are stage-based planning estimates that department heads will refine as project schedules firm up. Notable milestones include the seasonal chip seal paving window (July through October 2026), the Transient Occupancy Tax ballot measure timed to the November 2026 election, and the Campus Drive Redevelopment start in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2026.

Fiscal Impact:

All projects are funded, or will be proposed for funding, through the adopted FY 2026–27 budget, the proposed Capital Improvement Plan, enterprise funds, and secured grant awards; several items, including the 20-Year Financial Plan, the Capital Improvement Plan update, and the utility billing and Proposition 218 work, are themselves intended to strengthen the City’s long-range fiscal position.

Any project requiring a new appropriation, contract award, or budget amendment will return to Council for separate action with its own fiscal analysis.

Recommendation and Requested Action:

At a future city council meeting, the City Manager will request that the city council adopt the 2026 work plan
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