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, August 5, 2025  
Publication Date: Friday, August 1, 2025  
1:00 PM  
City Hall - Art Pick Council Chamber  
3900 Main Street, Riverside  
Live Webcast at:  
Originally Published: July 24, 2025  
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ensure a safe, inclusive, and livable community.  
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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 Cervantes  
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG  
PUBLIC COMMENT  
Audience participation is encouraged. Public comments are limited to 3 minutes.  
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MAYOR/COUNCILMEMBER COMMUNICATIONS  
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Brief reports on conferences, seminars, and regional meetings attended by Mayor  
and City Council, Ward updates, and announcements of upcoming events  
Announcement of Committee meetings:  
Governmental Processes Committee at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, Art  
Pick Council Chamber  
Inspector General Committee at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, Art Pick  
Council Chamber  
Finance Committee at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, Art Pick Council  
Chamber  
Mobility and Infrastructure Committee at 1 p.m. on Thursday, August 14, 2025, Art  
Pick Council Chamber  
COMMUNICATIONS  
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4
City Manager Updates (City Manager) (5-minute presentation)  
Declaration of conflicts of interest and ex parte communications (City Council)  
PRESENTATION Item # 5  
Human Resources Department overview and employee recognition (10-minute  
5
presentation)  
Attachments:  
CONSENT CALENDAR - Item # 6-24  
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.  
Airport  
6
Request for Proposal 2423 Agreement with Coffman Associates, Inc., a Missouri  
Corporation, for $849,157, plus 15 percent change order authority for total  
not-to-exceed $976,530.55 from General Fund Infrastructure Reserve to Airport  
Fund, Airport Master Plan Project revenue and expenditure accounts for Airport  
Economic Impact Study/Development Plan and Master Plan at Riverside Municipal  
Airport - Supplemental appropriations and Interfund Transfers - Five affirmative  
votes required - 6951 Flight Road (Ward 3)  
Attachments:  
City Attorney  
7
Outside counsel expenditures for January 1, 2025 through March 31, 2025, as  
provided by outside counsel policy approved by City Council on June 16, 2015 (All  
Wards)  
Attachments:  
City Clerk  
8
Appoint Lisa M. Dryan-Zagala to Commission on Disabilities Citywide seat and  
Derrick Eide Nelson to Cultural Heritage Board Ward 3 seat - File resignation of  
Bobby Garcia from Community Police Review Commission Ward 5 seat (All Wards)  
Attachments:  
9
Minutes of July 15, 2025  
Attachments:  
Community and Economic Development  
10  
Purchase and Sale Agreement with Riverside County Transportation Commission,  
for $1,283,000, for two fee simple storm drain facilities, sanitary sewer,  
non-exclusive easements and grant portion of vacated Commerce Street for Third  
Street Grade Separation Project, Federal Aid Number CML 5058(081) - Westside of  
Commerce Street, South of Third Street (Wards 1 and 2)  
Attachments:  
11  
First Amendment to Lease Agreement with Fehr & Peers, for $31,800 estimated  
revenue, for six-month extension at Mission Square Office Building - 3750 University  
Avenue, Suite 225 (Ward 1)  
Attachments:  
12  
Case DP-2024-01558 - Jo Phelan and Bruce Link - Adopt an Ordinance of the City  
of Riverside, California, amending the Zoning Map of the City of Riverside pursuant  
to Chapter 19.090 of the Riverside Municipal Code by applying the Cultural  
Resources Overlay (“CR”) Zone to City Landmark No. 151, the Boyd Residence,  
located at 4649 Ninth Street - Waive further reading (Intro. on 7-15-25, Ward 1)  
Attachments:  
13  
Adopt an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California,  
amending Chapter 5.77 the Riverside Municipal Code regarding Cannabis Business  
Activities - Waive further reading (Intro. on 7-15-25, All Wards)  
Attachments:  
14  
Case PR-2025-001795 - City of Riverside - Adopt 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 - Waive further reading (Intro. on 7-15-25,  
All Wards)  
Attachments:  
Fire  
15  
A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, authorizing the  
submission of application and acceptance of grant award from the U.S. Department  
of Homeland Security through the California Office of Emergency Services for the  
Fiscal Year 2024 State Homeland Security Program Grant (SHSP) for $45,677 and  
authorizing the execution of all required documents by the City Manager, or his  
designee; and amending the Budget for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 accordingly - Waive  
further reading - Supplemental appropriation - Five affirmative votes required (All  
Wards)  
Attachments:  
16  
A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, authorizing the  
submission of application and acceptance of Grant Award from the U.S. Department  
of Homeland Security through the California Governor’s Office of Emergency  
Services for $39,785 for the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Emergency Management  
Performance Grant (EMPG) Program and authorizing the execution of all required  
documents by the City Manager, or his designee; and amending the Budget for  
Fiscal Year 2024-2025 accordingly  
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Waive further reading  
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Supplemental  
appropriation - Five affirmative votes required (All Wards)  
Attachments:  
17  
Fourth Amendment to Agreement with Galls, LLC., Lexington, Kentucky, for  
increased amount of $124,999 for revised total contract amount not-to-exceed  
$511,278 from General Fund, Fire Operations, Clothing/Linen/Safety Supplies  
Account for purchase of Fire Department station uniforms and accessories (All  
Wards)  
Attachments:  
Library  
18  
Accept Library Minor Gift Fund of $533,763 for Library materials, programs, and  
services - Supplemental appropriation - Five affirmative votes required (All Wards)  
Attachments:  
Mayor  
19  
Mayor Lock Dawson requests approval of travel expenses of $422.20 from Mayor's  
General Fund Sister Cities Account for travel to Ensenada, Mexico scheduled for  
August 13-14, 2025 (All Wards)  
Attachments:  
Parks, Recreation, and Community Services  
20  
Second Amendment to Agreement with Janet Goeske Foundation for $780,054 from  
General Fund, Parks and Recreation, Janet Goeske Center Special Programs  
Account for first year and remaining balance will be requested as part of biennial  
Fiscal Years 2026-2028 budget for management and operation of Janet Goeske  
Senior Center through June 30, 2027 (Ward 3)  
Attachments:  
21  
Request for Proposal 2448 Agreement with Merchants Landscape Services, Inc.,  
Santa Ana, for $4,626,000, plus additional $345,000 for irrigation repairs, vandalism  
and graffiti removal costs, and include five percent change order authority, for total  
contract amount of $5,202,300 from General Fund, Parks, Landscape Maintenance  
accounts for Sports Parks, account for Sports Park landscape maintenance  
services for term through June 30, 2028, with one additional two-year extension  
option (Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7)  
Attachments:  
Public Works  
22  
Purchase of automated black refuse carts with interchangeable gray, green, and  
blue lids from Toter, LLC., Statesville, North Carolina, for not-to-exceed $850,000  
from Public Works Refuse and Grant and Restricted Programs Accounts under  
Sourcewell Cooperative Agreement 120324-TOT in accordance with Purchasing  
Resolution 24101, Section 602, through June 30, 2026 (All Wards)  
Attachments:  
23  
A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, adopting a list of  
projects for Fiscal Year 2025/26 funded by Senate Bill 1: The Road Repair and  
Accountability Act of 2017 - Waive further reading (Wards 2, 3, 4, 5 6, and 7)  
Attachments:  
24  
Amendment No. 3 to Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee (TUMF) Program  
Agreement with Western Riverside Council of Governments (WRCOG) to increase  
funding amount by $2.5 million from $11.25 million to not-to-exceed $13.75 million  
from TUMF Fund, Third Street/Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Grade  
Separation revenue and expenditure accounts for Project Approval and  
Environmental Documentation (PA&ED) and Plans, Specifications, and Estimate  
(PS&E) phases, and for Right-of-Way acquisition phase - Third Street Grade  
Separation Project - Supplemental appropriation - Five affirmative votes required  
(Wards 1 and 2)  
Attachments:  
DISCUSSION CALENDAR - Item # 25-27  
Audience participation is encouraged. Public comments are limited to 3 minutes.  
25  
Encampment Delegated Maintenance Agreement with State of California to remove  
unpermitted encampments in State Right of Way, including highway and freeway  
areas situated within State’s jurisdictional limits as authorized under Streets and  
Highways Code Section 114 and 116 - Record revenue increase and appropriate  
expenditures of $400,000 in Grants  
Encampment Clean-Up revenue and expenditure accounts  
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Restricted Programs Fund, Homeless  
Supplemental  
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appropriation - Five affirmative votes required (Public Works and Housing and  
Human Services) (Wards 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7) (15-minute presentation)  
Attachments:  
26  
Pavement Management Program update and proposed Fiscal Year 2025-26 paving  
projects (Public Works) (All Wards) (15-minute presentation)  
Attachments:  
27  
CONTINUED FROM JULY 15, 2025 - Award Bid 8165 to Horizons Construction  
Company, Orange, for $16,128,715, plus 10 percent contingency, for total  
not-to-exceed $17,741,587 from Eastside Library Project Accounts for SPC Jesus  
S. Duran Eastside Library Project including demolition, hazardous material  
abatement,  
Interdepartmental/Interfund Transfers  
University Avenue (Library) (Ward 1) (10-minute presentation)  
and  
new  
construction  
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Supplemental  
appropriations  
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Five affirmative votes required  
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2060  
Attachments:  
CLOSED SESSIONS - Item # 28-38  
Time listed is approximate. The City Council may adjourn to the below listed Closed  
Sessions at their convenience during this City Council meeting.  
28  
Pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(1) to confer with and/or receive advice  
from legal counsel concerning Tony Platt v. City of Riverside, Riverside County  
Superior Court Case No. RIC1822011  
Attachments:  
29  
Pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(1) to confer with and/or receive advice  
from legal counsel concerning City of Riverside, a charter city and municipal  
corporation, the City Council of the City of Riverside, acting by and through its duly  
elected councilmembers, Erin Edwards, Clarissa Cervantes, Ronaldo Fierro,  
Gabriela Plascencia, James Perry, and Steven Hemenway, in their official capacity  
v. Councilmember Charles Conder and former Councilmember Steven R. Adams, in  
their official capacity, and does 1 through 50, inclusive, Riverside Superior Court  
Case No. CVRI2300725  
Attachments:  
30  
Pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(1) to confer with and/or receive from  
legal counsel concerning Lorne Skipper v. City of Riverside, Claim No.:  
ADJ9952109  
Attachments:  
30a  
Pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(1) to confer with and/or receive advice  
from legal counsel concerning National Prescription Opiate Litigation, MDL 2804,  
United States District Court Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division Case No.  
1:17-md-2804  
Attachments:  
30b  
Pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(1) to confer with and/or receive advice  
from legal counsel concerning City of Riverside v. 3M Company, et al., United  
States District Court for the District of South Carolina; MDL No. 2873 Master Docket  
No. 2:18-mn-2873  
Attachments:  
30c  
Pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(1) to confer with and/or receive advice  
from legal counsel concerning City of Riverside v. Antonio Rodriguez and Sergio  
Delacruz, Riverside Superior Court Case No. CVRI2400547  
Attachments:  
31  
Pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(1) to confer with and/or receive advice  
from legal counsel concerning Riverside All of us or None, et al. v. City of Riverside,  
et al., United States District Court Case No. 5:23-cv-01536 SPG (SP); Claim No:  
23-09-15  
Attachments:  
32  
Pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(1) to confer with and/or receive from  
legal counsel concerning Stephen Manley v. City of Riverside, Claim No(s):  
ADJ12878113  
Attachments:  
33  
THIS ITEM HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE AGENDA - Pursuant to Government  
Code §54956.9(d)(1) to confer with and/or receive advice from legal counsel  
concerning Erica Velasco v. City of Riverside, Riverside Superior Court Case No.  
CVRI2405218; Claim Nos: 24-05-26 and 24-09-27  
34  
Pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(1) to confer with and/or receive advice  
from legal counsel concerning Eric H. Saldivar v. Evan Wright, Abel Soria, et al.,  
United States District Court Case No. 2:20-cv-02081-CAS-PD  
Attachments:  
35  
Pursuant to Government Code §54956.9(d)(2) to confer with and/or receive advice  
from legal counsel concerning anticipated litigation - two cases  
Attachments:  
36  
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  
- two cases  
Attachments:  
37  
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:  
38  
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:  
3 P.M.  
PUBLIC HEARINGS - Item # 39-40  
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.  
39  
Riverside New Car Dealers Association Annual Report - A Resolution of the City  
Council of the City of Riverside, California, confirming the annual report of the  
Riverside New Car Dealers Association, acting in its capacity as the Advisory Board  
to the Auto Center Business Improvement District, and levying assessments for the  
Fiscal Year beginning September 1, 2025 - Waive further reading (Finance)  
(Wards 4 and 5) (5-minute presentation)  
Attachments:  
40  
Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, authorizing the  
Issuance of Refunding Sewer Revenue Bonds of the City in an Aggregate Principal  
Amount Not-to-Exceed $165,000,000 and providing the Terms and Conditions of  
Such Bonds - Waive further reading - Approve Financing Team consisting of  
Finance, City Attorney, Public Works, NHA Advisors, as Municipal Advisor, BofA  
Securities, Inc., as Senior Underwriter and Cabrera Capital Markets as  
Co-Managing Underwriter, Stradling, Yocca, Carlson & Rauth LLP., as Bond and  
Disclosure Counsel, US Bank National Association as Escrow Agent & Trustee,  
Standard and Poor’s and Moody’s as Rating Agencies, and Carollo as Sewer Rate  
Consultant - Delegate to City’s Financing Team, at the time of Bond sale, the  
determination of specific maturities to be refunded - Upon closing of 2025A  
Refunding Sewer Revenue Bonds, authorize the Chief Financial Officer, or  
designee, to make necessary budget adjustments and/or appropriations to properly  
record refunding and financing expenses in accordance with governmental  
accounting standards  
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Supplemental appropriations  
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Five affirmative votes  
COMMUNICATIONS  
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42  
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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