Mayor

City of Riverside

Patricia Lock Dawson

Councilmembers:

City Council

Philip Falcone

Clarissa Cervantes

Steven Robillard

Chuck Conder

Sean H. Mill

Agenda - Revised

Jim Perry

Steve Hemenway

Meeting Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Publication Date: Friday, June 27, 2025

1:00 PM

City Hall - Art Pick Council Chamber

3900 Main Street, Riverside

Live Webcast at:

www.RiversideCA.gov/Meeting

Originally Published: June 18, 2025

MISSION STATEMENT

The City of Riverside is committed to providing high quality municipal services to

ensure a safe, inclusive, and livable community.

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Members of the City Council and the public are reminded that they must preserve order

and decorum throughout the Meeting. In that regard, Members of the City Council and

the public are advised that any delay or disruption in the proceedings or a refusal to obey

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the entrance of the Art Pick Council Chamber while the meeting is in session.

PLEASE NOTE

The numerical order of items on this agenda is for convenience of

reference. Items may be taken out of order upon request of the Mayor or Members of

the City Council.

1 P.M.

MAYOR CALLS MEETING TO ORDER

INVOCATION - Councilmember Falcone

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG

PUBLIC COMMENT

Audience participation is encouraged. Public comments are limited to 3 minutes.

To comment on Consent Calendar, Closed Sessions and any matters within the

jurisdiction of the City Council, you are invited to participate in person or call at

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MAYOR/COUNCILMEMBER COMMUNICATIONS

Brief reports on conferences, seminars, and regional meetings attended by Mayor

and City Council, Ward updates, and announcements of upcoming events

COMMUNICATIONS

City Manager Updates (City Manager) (5-minute presentation)

Declaration of conflicts of interest and ex parte communications (City Council)

PRESENTATIONS - Item # 5-6

Mayor Lock Dawson to present a plaque to Councilmember Mill for his dedicated

service as Mayor Pro Tem from January through June 2025 - Appoint

Councilmember Conder as Mayor Pro Tem for July through December 2025 (All

Wards)

Mayor Lock Dawson to present Proclamation to Riverside-Corona Resource

Conservation District, Rivers and Lands Conservancy, and Riverside resident and

gardener Sue Struthers recognizing Mayor’s Monarch Pledge

WORKSHOP

Overview for implementation and community outreach of Illegal Fireworks Program

Enhancements

presentation)

for

Fourth

July

2025 (Police)

(All

Wards)

(15-minute

Attachments:

Report

Presentation

CONSENT CALENDAR - Item # 8-15

All matters listed under the CONSENT CALENDAR are considered routine by the City

Council and may be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. There will be no

separate discussion of these items unless, before the City Council votes on the motion to

adopt, Members of the City Council or staff request specific items be removed from the

Consent Calendar for separate action.

City Clerk

File resignation of Debora Mickelson from Commission on Disabilities Citywide seat

(All Wards)

Attachments:

Report

Minutes of June 17, 2025

Attachments:

Minutes

Community and Economic Development

THIS ITEM HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE AGENDA - Introduce an Ordinance

of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, amending Chapter 5.77 the

Riverside Municipal Code regarding Cannabis Business Activities (All Wards)

Attachments:

Report

Ordinance

Presentation

General Services

Fourth Amendment to Agreement with Universal Protection Service, LP, doing

business as Allied Universal Security Services, Santa Ana, for annual amount of

$100,045.16 from various Department budgets for unarmed security services at

various City facilities - Approve two-year extension of $5,007,146.81 through June

30, 2027 - Authorize 20 percent change order amount of $1,001,429.36 for

unforeseen changes in service to include, but not limited to, requests to increase

service frequency, add facilities, and for special or emergency services

Interdepartmental transfer - Five affirmative votes required (All Wards)

Attachments:

Report

Fourth Amendment to Agreement

Presentation

Police

Reimbursement of $21,740.50 from United States Department of Justice, Drug

Enforcement Administration for High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force

overtime - Supplemental appropriation - Five affirmative votes required (All Wards)

Attachments:

Report

Executed HIDTA State and Local Task Force Agreement 10-1-22

Fiscal Year 2025 Notice of Overtime Limits

Public Works

Accept two grant awards for combined amount of $1,283,142 under the Fiscal Year

2025-26 Transportation Development Act Article 3 (Senate Bill 821) Bicycle and

Pedestrian Facilities Program Grant as administered by Riverside County

Transportation Commission for construction of buffered bike lanes on both sides of

Van Buren Boulevard from Wood Road to Orange Terrace Parkway, a northbound

bike lane on Chicago Avenue from Le Conte Drive to Martin Luther King Boulevard,

and new concrete sidewalks on Bandini, Pennsylvania, and Challen Avenues -

Supplemental appropriation - Five affirmative votes required (Wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and

Attachments:

Report

RCTC Approved Funding Recommendations for Fiscal Year 2025/26 TDA 3 SB

Location Maps

Project Schedule

Indirect Cost Rate Memo

Presentation

Fifth Amendment to Agreement with Enfotech & Consulting, Inc., Brunswick, New

Jersey, for increased compensation amount of $46,746.30 for total amount

not-to-exceed $610,306.30 from Public Works, Sewer, Environmental Compliance,

Software Purchase/Licensing Account for Environmental Compliance Tracking

Database Software for Riverside Water Quality Control Plant through June 30, 2026

(All Wards)

Attachments:

Report

Fifth Amendment to Agreement

Request for Qualifications No. 2401 - Master Professional Consultant Services

Agreements with fourteen consulting firms for an amount not-to-exceed $1,000,000

per consultant for various capital improvement projects at Riverside Regional Water

Quality Control Plant and Tequesquite Landfill through December 31, 2029, and two

one-year extension options per consultant (All Wards)

Attachments:

Report

Exhibit A – Agreement List 2020-2024

RFQ Award Recommendation

Northern Digital, Inc.

T.Y. Lin International

Carollo Engineers

Lee & Ro, Inc.

Geo-Logic Assoicates, Inc.

GeoTek, Inc.

Krieger & Stewart, Inc.

Civil and Environmental Consultants, Inc.

ECOTEC Solutions, Inc.

GeoMat Testing Laboratories

Michael K. Nunkey & Associates

UltraSystems Environmental, Inc.

Aragon Geotechnical, Inc.

Albert A. Webb Associates

DISCUSSION CALENDAR - Item # 16-17

Streamline Riverside Refresh effort and Implementation Plan update (Community

and Economic Development) (All Wards) (10-minute presentation)

Attachments:

Report

Presentation

16a

Waive Sunshine Ordinance to add Item No. 16b pursuant to Section 4.05.050(D)(1)

(a) to add a First Amendment to Agreement with Holt Architects, Inc., doing

business as Holt Architecture, Palm Desert, for $3,331,916 for revised contract

amount of $3,430,916, for Phase II Architectural Design Services of Downtown

Police Headquarters Building, plus contingency of $333,192 for unforeseen project

changes including but not limited to, owner requested changes and design

improvements, for total not-to-exceed contract amount of $3,764,108 from Measure

Z Fund, New Police Headquarters Building and Improvements Account--With full

quorum, five affirmative votes required; with less than full quorum, four affirmative

votes required (Police) (Ward 1) (5-minute presentation)

Attachments:

Report

Presentation

16b

First Amendment to Agreement with Holt Architects, Inc., doing business as Holt

Architecture, Palm Desert, for $3,331,916 for revised contract amount of

$3,430,916, for Phase II Architectural Design Services of Downtown Police

Headquarters Building, plus contingency of $333,192 for unforeseen project

changes including but not limited to, owner requested changes and design

improvements, for total not-to-exceed contract amount of $3,764,108 from Measure

Z Fund, New Police Headquarters Building and Improvements Account (Police)

(Ward 1) (10-minute presentation)

Attachments:

Report

Presentation

THIS ITEM HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE AGENDA - Motion to reconsider

amendments to Chapter 5.77 (Cannabis Business Activities) of Title 5 and Title 19

(Zoning) of the Riverside Municipal Code (RMC) related to the Commercial

Cannabis Business Program (City Council) (All Wards) (10-minute presentation)

Attachments:

Report

CLOSED SESSIONS - Item # 18-22

Time listed is approximate.

The City Council may adjourn to the below listed Closed

Sessions at their convenience during this City Council meeting.

Pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(1) to confer with and/or receive advice

from legal counsel concerning Gall Martinez v. City of Riverside, Riverside County

Superior Court Case No. CVRI2404903

Attachments:

Report

Pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(2) to confer with and/or receive advice

from legal counsel concerning anticipated litigation - one case

Attachments:

Report

Pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(4) to confer with and/or receive advice

from legal counsel concerning the City Council deciding whether to initiate litigation

- one case

Attachments:

Report

Pursuant to Government Code §54957(a), for consultation with Larry Gonzalez,

Riverside Chief of Police, or his respective deputy, and George Khalil, Chief

Innovation Officer regarding threat to public services or facilities

Attachments:

Report

Pursuant to Government Code §54957.6 to review the City Council's position and

instruct designated representatives regarding salaries, salary schedules, or

compensation paid in the form of fringe benefits of all Executive Management

employees except the City Manager, City Attorney, and City Clerk, all Management

and Confidential employees as defined by PERS, Fire Management Unit, Riverside

City Firefighters Association, Riverside Police Officers Association (Police and

Police

Supervisory

Units),

Service

Employees

International

Union

#721,

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers #47, and Riverside Police

Administrators Association

Attachments:

Report

3 P.M.

PUBLIC HEARINGS - Item # 23-24

Audience participation is encouraged.

Public comments are limited to 3 minutes. Press

*9 to be placed in the queue to speak when the discussion item is called.

A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, establishing the

Public Use and Necessity for which certain legally described real property is to be

acquired by Eminent Domain, stating the statutory authority for such acquisition,

and authorizing proceedings in Eminent Domain from Helix Street, LLC., for the

purpose of the Third Street Grade Separation Project, Federal Project No.

STPL-5058(081) - Waive further reading - Authorize City Attorney to prepare and

file the complaint in eminent domain and take all other actions necessary to acquire

the subject real property interests

Except on matters involving policy

determinations to be made by City Council, authorize City Manager, or his

designee, to prepare and execute appropriate documents and take all other actions

as required under City’s eminent domain authority - Five affirmative votes required

(Community and Economic Development) (Ward 1) (10-minute presentation)

Attachments:

Report

Resolution of Necessity and Plat Maps

Presentation

THIS ITEM HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE AGENDA - Case PR-2025-001795 -

City of Riverside - Amend Chapter 5.77 Cannabis Business Activities of Title 5 and

Title 19 Zoning of the Riverside Municipal Code (RMC) related to Commercial

Cannabis Business (CCB) Program - Determine project is exempt from further

California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review pursuant to Section 15601(b)

(3) of CEQA Guidelines as it can be seen with certainty approval of project will not

have an effect on environment - Introduce an Ordinance of the City Council of the

City of Riverside, California, amending Section 5.77.320 of the Riverside Municipal

Code regarding location and design of Cannabis Businesses and Table

19.150.020.A regarding Permitted Uses - Direct staff to provide an exemption for

non-retail commercial cannabis uses from the location requirements in Chapter 5.77

of the Riverside Municipal Code (Community and Economic Development) (All

Wards) (15-minute presentation)

Attachments:

Report

Ordinance

05-08-2025 CPC Report

05-08-2025 CPC Minutes

Downtown Neighborhood

Midtown Area

Comment Letter

Dana Cisneros Law Firm received on 6-17-25 1102 am

Dana Cisneros Law Firm received on 6-17-25

Dana Cisneros Re Case PR-2025-001795 Letter Received 6-17-25

Letter Received 5-16-25 - Miller Starr Regalia Re Case PR-2025-001795

Presentation

Notice

COMMUNICATIONS

City Attorney report on Closed Session discussions

Items for future City Council consideration as requested by Mayor or Members of

the City Council - City Manager/City Attorney reports

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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

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