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

from legal counsel concerning Mission Grove Neighborhood Alliance v. City of

Riverside, Riverside Superior Court Case No. CVRI2500122

Attachments:

Pursuant to Government Code §54957 for appointment/employment of Inspector

General by City Council

Attachments:

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

from legal counsel concerning anticipated litigation - one case

Attachments:

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:

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

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

Information Officer regarding threat to public services or facilities

Attachments:

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:

DISCUSSION CALENDAR - Item # 8-9

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.

Adopt an Ordinance of the City of Riverside, California, authorizing an Amendment

to the Contract between the City of Riverside and the Board of Administration of the

California Public Employees’ Retirement System to implement retirement

cost-sharing provision of one-half percent (0.5 percent) of pensionable income for

all Classic, CalPERS Level 1 and 2 Police Safety members hired before June 13,

2012, in the Unrepresented Police Management Group - Waive further reading

(Human Resources) (Intro. on 2-25-25, All Wards)

Attachments:

Ordinance

Amendment to Contract

Award Bid 8144 to BNBuilders, Irvine, for $28,552,072 with 15 percent change

order authority of $4,282,811 for total amount of $32,834,883 funded by bonds

proceeds for Museum of Riverside rehabilitation and expansion - 3580 Mission Inn

Avenue (Museum) (Ward 1) (10-minute presentation)

Attachments:

Bid Award Recommendation

3 P.M.

MAYOR/COUNCILMEMBER COMMUNICATIONS

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

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

Announcement of Committee meeting:

Governmental Processes Committee at 9 a.m., on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, Art

Pick Council Chamber

COMMUNICATIONS

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

Declaration of conflicts of interest on any agenda items (City Council)

PUBLIC HEARINGS - Item # 13-15

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.

Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act - A Resolution of the City Council of the

City of Riverside, California, approving the issuance of Tax-Exempt and/or Taxable

Revenue Bonds pursuant to a plan of finance in a maximum aggregate principal

amount not-to-exceed $100,000,000 by the California Municipal Finance Authority

for the purpose of financing, refinancing and/or reimbursing one or more projects

of California Baptist University, and certain other matters relating thereto for Cal

Baptist University (CBU) Softball and Baseball Clubhouse located on CBU campus -

Waive further reading - 8432 Magnolia Avenue (Finance) (Ward 5) (10-minute

presentation)

Attachments:

Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act - A Resolution of the City Council of the

City of Riverside approving a plan of finance of the California Municipal Finance

Authority to issue and reissue revenue bonds for a qualified residential rental project

for the benefit of Mulberry Gardens Family, L.P., and certain other matters relating

thereto for amount not-to-exceed $65,000,000, for acquisition, construction,

development and equipping of 150-unit qualified residential project - Waive further

reading - 2560 Mulberry Street (Finance) (Ward 1) (10-minute presentation)

Attachments:

Resolutions 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 for the purpose of the Third Street

Grade Separation Project, Federal Project No. STPL-5058 (081) - Waive further

readings - Make findings as described in the staff report including: (a) the public

interest and necessity required proposed public project (b) the proposed public

project is planned and located in a manner to be most compatible with greatest

public good and the least private injury; (c) the real property interests being sought

be acquired as described in the Resolutions are necessary for proposed public

project, and (d) that the offers required by Government Code 7267.2 have been

made to the owners of record - Authorize City Attorney to prepare and file

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

subject real property interests - Five affirmative votes required (Community and

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

Attachments:

Resolution - LR Miller Properties

Resolution - Condor Suntrust

Resolution - Iron Lofts

Resolution - Blue Banner Mazzetti

Resolution - County of Riverside

Resolution - CLPF BH Riverside

Resolution - Realty Income

Resolution - Gilmore Trust

Notice

To participate via ZOOM, use the following link: https://zoom.us/j/92696991265.

6:15 P.M.

INVOCATION - Councilmember Hemenway

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG

PUBLIC COMMENT

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

To comment on Consent Calendar and any matters within the jurisdiction of the City

Council, you are invited to participate in person or call at (951) 826-8686 and follow

the prompts to access your language of preference. Press *9 to be placed in the

queue to speak. Individuals in the queue will be prompted to unmute by pressing *6

when you are ready to speak.

Select the "raise hand" function to request to speak. An on-screen message will

prompt you to "unmute" and speak.

PRESENTATIONS - Item # 17-20

Mayor Lock Dawson to present a Proclamation to Riverside County Director of

Victims’ Services Melissa Donaldson recognizing National Crime Victims' Rights

Week, April 6-10, 2025 (5-minute presentation)

Mayor Lock Dawson to present a Proclamation to City of Riverside Public Works

Solid Waste Division, Keep Riverside Clean and Beautiful, and Repeat Reuse

recognizing March 30, 2025, as Zero Waste Day (5-minute presentation)

Mayor Lock Dawson to present a Proclamation to Arturo Alcaraz of the Latino

Network recognizing March 31, 2025, as Cesar Chavez Day (5-minute

presentation)

RIVERSIDE PROSPERS Success Report - Dapper Dine and Lounge (Ward 1)

(5-minute presentation)

CONSENT CALENDAR - Item # 21-38

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 Attorney

Add law firm of Wanger Jones & Helsley PC to panel of authorized attorneys for

City - Approve Legal Services Agreement with law firm of Wanger Jones & Helsley

PC for specialized legal services for water rights issues for three-year term (All

Wards)

Attachments:

Agreement

City Clerk

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

Records Retention Schedule: Citywide standards for all City Departments and

authorizing the destruction of certain City records and repealing Resolution No.

23548 - Waive further reading (All Wards)

Attachments:

Records Retention Schedules

Appointment of Steven Herrera to Cultural Heritage Board Ward 2 seat, Judy

Teunissen to Planning Commission Ward 4 seat - File resignation of Jamal Myrick

from Human Relations Commission Citywide seat (All Wards)

Attachments:

Minutes of February 25, March 4 and 11, 2025

Attachments:

Minutes 2.25.25

Minutes 3.4.25

Minutes 3.11.25

City Council

Finance Committee recommends annual audit report from external independent

auditor, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP., on City of Riverside 2023-24 financial results, as

required by Riverside City Charter (All Wards)

Attachments:

Electric and Water Financial Reports

Successor Agency to the Redevelopment

Single Audit Report on Federal Awards

Corrective Action Plan

Air Quality Management District Compliance Report

Appropriations Limit (Gann) Calculation Agreed-Upon Procedures

Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Governance Letter

City - Presentation

CliftonLarsonAllen - Presentation

Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR)

Riverside Public Financing Authority Financial Report

City Manager

Human Relations Commission recommends City Council approval to award two

one-thousand-dollar grants to Adrian Dell and Carmen Roberts Foundation and

Laundry of Love Riverside as part of the 2025 Community Support Grant Program

(All Wards)

Attachments:

Fire

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

City of Riverside Local Hazard Mitigation Plan 2023 Annex from the Riverside

County Operational Area Multi-Jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan as

required by the Federal Disaster Mitigation and Cost Reduction Act of 2000 - Waive

further reading (All Wards)

Attachments:

Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Annex

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

City of Riverside Emergency Operations Plan 2025; and repealing Resolution No.

22151 - Waive further reading - Amend Emergency Operations Plan to make

changes which may become necessary in the future to keep plan current, and

functional

Approve new and updated Emergency Support Function (ESF)

Annexes, Hazard Annexes to Emergency Operations Plan, and subsidiary plans as

needed to keep plans current, functional, and in accordance with State and Federal

Guidelines (All Wards)

Attachments:

Emergency Operations Basic Plan

Housing and Human Services

Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA) Program Subrecipient Agreement with

Kingdom Causes, Inc., doing business as City Net, for $1,384,133.83 - Loan

Agreement with Sunrise at Bogart, L.P., for $380,562 for case management

services for at-risk individuals experiencing homelessness and development of 22

affordable housing units and a manager’s unit located at 11049 Bogart Street

respectively - Second Amendment to PLHA Loan Agreement Amendment with The

Aspire, L.P., for increase of $501,887.75 for revised total loan amount of

$1,042,906.75 for development of 32 affordable housing units and a manager’s unit

located at 3861 Third Street - Appropriate $2,456,509, or actual award amount in

Development Fund, PLHA 2022 & PLHA 2023 Grant programs revenue and

expenditure accounts - A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside,

California, authorizing the application for, and receipt, of Permanent Local Housing

Allocation Funds under the Senate Bill 2 Permanent Entitlement Jurisdiction

Component from the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund - Waive further reading -

Supplemental appropriation - Five affirmative votes required (All Wards)

Attachments:

Revised Report

Agreement - Kingdom Causes, Inc.

Agreement - Sunrise at Bogart, L.P.

Agreement - The Aspire, L.P.

PLHA Funds

Subrecipient Agreement for Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program

Round 3 with Riverside Housing Development Corporation for grant funds of

$250,000 for predevelopment costs for acquisition and conversion of 114 motel

rooms into studio units - 1590 University Avenue (Ward 2)

Attachments:

Subrecipient Agreement

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

submission of a joint application to the Department of Housing and Community

Development for $4,400,000 of Homekey+ Plus funding for development of the

Sunrise at Bogart Limited Partnership Affordable Housing Project and authorizing

the execution of all required documents by the City Manager or his Designee and

related participation - Waive further reading - Five affirmative votes required (Ward

Attachments:

Parks, Recreation, and Community Services

Purchase of 12, 16-passenger paratransit vehicles for $2,485,114.41 fully funded

via Federal and State grants through California Association for Coordinated

Transportation/Morongo Basin Transit Authority, Colton, Purchasing Cooperative,

Contract No. 20-01 and fulfilled by A-Z Bus Sales, Inc., Colton (All Wards)

Attachments:

Amendment 6 - Basin Transit

Quote

Contract - MBTA 20-01 AZ (ICE-1)

Participants List RFP 20-01

Rescind Bid Award 8110 to Zeco, Inc., Santa Ana, for $234,850 - Award Bid 8110

to Pacific Tide Construction, Northridge, for $222,867.20 and authorize 10 percent

change order authority of up to $22,286.72 for project changes for total contract

amount not-to-exceed $245,153.92, for total amount of $256,297.28 from Capital

Outlay Fund, Nichols Park Playground Project Accounts and unappropriated

General Fund revenue generated from savings due to ARPA coverage of qualifying

public safety expenditures for Nichols Park Playground, Shade Structure, and

Resilient Surfacing Installation Project - Supplemental appropriation - Interfund

Transfer - Five affirmative votes required (Ward 3)

Attachments:

Bid Award Recommendation

Police

Appropriation not-to-exceed $86,106.93 to Measure Z, Police Field Operations,

Special Department Supplies account for purchase of drones and advanced training

course for small unmanned aircraft systems pilots to enhance illegal fireworks

enforcement - Five affirmative votes required (All Wards)

Attachments:

MZ Spending Plan

Adopt an Ordinance of the City of Riverside, California, amending Chapters 1.17,

5.28, 5.40, 5.52, 5.80, 5.90, 5.95, 6.24, 9.40, 9.42, and 9.60 of the Riverside

Municipal Code to include a more Uniform Appeal Procedure for various types of

businesses and their permits, as well as the extraordinary Police Response Bill

process pursuant to Chapter 9.60 with amendments thereto - Waive further reading

(Intro. on 3-4-25, All Wards)

Attachments:

Ordinance

Public Utilities

Increase residential heat pump rebate program annual budget from $375,000 to

$2,000,000 - Maintain current rebate amount of $750/ton for future years (All

Wards)

Attachments:

Fourth Amendment to Agreement with Wunderlich-Malec Engineering, Inc., Gilbert,

Arizona, for $180,000, for total amount of $630,000 from Springs Professional

Services and RERC Professional Services Accounts for power plant control system

engineering and consulting services at Riverside Energy Resource Center and

Springs Power Plant through June 30, 2028 (All Wards)

Attachments:

Agreement

Public Works

Purchase of mobile barriers, trailers, beam gate system, related equipment, and

certified deployment training from Meridian Rapid Defense Group for $750,000 from

General Fund, Public Works-Traffic Engineering-Machine and Equipment Account

for special event traffic safety measures (All Wards)

Attachments:

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DISCUSSION CALENDAR - 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.

By motion, waive attorney-client privilege regarding the second legal opinion

provided by outside counsel firm Redwood Public Law LLP, regarding the adoption

of a resolution reaffirming the policy excepting certain types of projects from

Section 1109 of the Riverside City Charter as authorized by Resolution No. 24224

(City Attorney) (All Wards) (10-minute presentation)

Attachments:

R-24224

A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, pursuant to

Riverside Municipal Code Section 5.77.120, to further postpone the City’s evaluation

and review of applications for Storefront Retail Commercial Cannabis Business

Permits up to 30 additional days for a total postponement of 120 days - Waive

further reading - Direct staff to draft an Ordinance to amend Section 5.77 to include

amendments to maximum number of Retail Commercial Cannabis Business (CCB)

Permits allowed in City, maximum number of CCB Permits per ward, restricting the

sale and transfer of permits, maintaining a minimum distance of 1,000 feet between

CCB Permits, conformance with Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) licensed

business requirements to ensure compatibility, designating parks as a sensitive use

with corresponding minimum separation distances, and minor clean up items in the

Riverside Municipal Code related to renewal exceptions - Direct staff to draft a

Resolution to amend the Storefront Retail Commercial Cannabis Business Permit

Procedure Guidelines and Application Review Criteria to amend Step 2.2 to clarify

failure to meet Zoning Verification Requirements require full resubmittal and Step

2.3 to clarify an applicant fails the submittal deadline for any of processes detailed

in Step 2.3, applicant shall be deemed to have forfeited the Storefront Retail CCB

application and any right to a Storefront Retail CCB permit - Provide direction on

transfer of sales to equity qualified businesses, prohibit transfers of CCB Permits,

amend the final authority to approve or deny the transfer process to City Council,

amendment to the Zoning Code to prohibit CCB Permits in Placemaking or

Specialty Zone/Areas, and review Residential Zoned Properties as a sensitive use

with corresponding minimum separation distance (Community and Economic

Development) (All Wards) (15-minute presentation)

Attachments:

Health & Safety Effects of Cannabis Report

Top 14 Preferred Site Authorization List

Industrial Zoning Map

Commercial Zoning Map

Existing Zoning and Sensitive Use map

Residential Zoned Properties Map