Mayor

City of Riverside

City Council

Patricia Lock Dawson

Councilmembers:

Philip Falcone

Clarissa Cervantes

Steven Robillard

Chuck Conder

Sean H. Mill

Agenda en Espanol

Agenda

Jim Perry

Steve Hemenway

Meeting Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2025

1:00 PM

City Hall - Art Pick Council Chamber

3900 Main Street, Riverside

Live Webcast at:

Publication Date: Thursday, February 13, 2025

www.RiversideCA.gov/Meeting

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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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

PUBLIC COMMENT

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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 (All Wards) (5-minute presentation)

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

PRESENTATION

Riverside

Community

Services

Foundation

2025 Gala

presentation

(Parks,

Recreation and Community Services) (All Wards) (5-minute presentation)

DISCUSSION CALENDAR

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

Purchase of building with Assessor Parcel Number 234-112-003, for $1,895,000

and $300,000 from General Fund Infrastructure reserves to General Fund, Police

Department, Land and Building & Improvements accounts for purchase of the

building and associated costs for establishment of a substation for Riverside Police

Department in Arlington Village - Supplemental appropriation - Five affirmative votes

required - 9518 Magnolia Avenue (Community and Economic Development) (Ward

5) (10-minute presentation)

CLOSED SESSIONS - Item #7-15

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 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

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

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

from legal counsel concerning Miguel Lopez. v. City of Riverside, Riverside

Superior Court Case No. CVRI2407283/ Claim No. 24-05-24

Pursuant to Government Code §54956.8 to instruct City's Negotiator, Charles M.

Futrell, regarding price and terms of payment for the purchase, sale, exchange or

lease of 3700 Placentia Lane, generally described as AB Sports Complex, APN:

246-060-001, Bryant Grisby; Andrew Walcker, Negotiators

Pursuant to Government Code §54956.8 to instruct City's Negotiator, Charles M.

Futrell, regarding price and terms of payment for the purchase, sale, exchange or

lease of 1101-1199 Orange Street, generally described as the former Riverside Golf

Club, APN: 206-070-003, 206-070-002, 246-060-011, by Adrenaline Sports

Resorts; Overland Development; Greens Group; LCD California; Bryant Grigsby;

Andrew Walcker; Atman Kadakia, Negotiators

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

from legal counsel concerning anticipated litigation - one case

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

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

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

3 P.M.

PUBLIC HEARING - Item #16-19

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 approving the issuance by the California Statewide Communities

Development Authority of exempt Facility Bonds for a Qualified Residential Rental

Project in an aggregate principal amount not-to-exceed $40,000,000 for the benefit

of Brandon Place, LP, and certain other matters relating thereto for 197-unit

multi-family housing residential rental project - Waive further reading - 3941 Polk

Street (Finance) (Ward 6) (10-minute presentation)

Case PR-2024-001705 - Proposal by Riverside Unified School District for Street

Vacation and Traffic Pattern Modification Measures to convert a portion of Park

Avenue, Fourteenth Street, and an Alley, convert Thirteenth Street into one-lane,

one-way traffic, and construct a traffic circle at intersection of Victoria Avenue and

Thirteenth Street to facilitate future construction of Eastside Elementary School -

Determine proposal is exempt from California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)

pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense) of CEQA Guidelines, as it can

be seen with certainty that there is no possibility project will have a significant effect

on environment - A Resolution of the City Council of Riverside, California, making

its findings and determinations in the matter of Resolution of Intention No. 24211;

and making its order vacating portions of Park Avenue, Alleyway, and Fourteenth

Street and approving Traffic Pattern Modification Measures - Waive further reading

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

Case SD-2024-0017 - Proposal by Public Works Department - Street Vacation to

vacate approximately 62,709 square feet of Commerce Street and Third Street,

between Mission Inn Avenue and portion of unimproved right-of-way to north of

Third Street to facilitate construction of future Third Street Grade Separation project

- Determine proposal is exempt from California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)

pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense) of CEQA Guidelines, as it can

be seen with certainty that there is no possibility project will have a significant effect

on environment - A Resolution of the City Council of Riverside, California, making

its findings and determinations in the matter of Resolution of Intention No. 24212;

and making its order vacating portions of Commerce Street and Third Street,

situated between Mission Inn Avenue and Third Street to a portion north of Third

Street - Waive further reading (Community and Economic Development) (Ward 1)

(10-minute presentation)

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 hereinafter described: (a) the public interest and

necessity require proposed public project as described staff report; (b) proposed

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

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

sought to be acquired as described in Resolutions are necessary for proposed

public project; and (d) offers required by Government Code 7267.2 have been

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

in eminent domain and take actions necessary to acquire subject real property

interests - Except on matters involving policy determinations made by City Council,

authorize City Manager, or his designee, to prepare and execute appropriate

documents and take all other actions as required under the City’s eminent domain

authority - Five affirmative votes required (Community and Economic Development)

(Wards 1 and 2) (10-minute presentation)

6:15 P.M.

INVOCATION - Councilmember Conder

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG

PUBLIC COMMENT

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PRESENTATION

RIVERSIDE PROSPERS Success Report

Mamma Mia Restaurant (Mayor)

(5-minute presentation)

CONSENT CALENDAR - Item # 22-45

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

Access Agreement with California Baptist University for estimated revenue of

$90,139.80 for hangar space for five-year term through September 30, 2029 -

Riverside Municipal Airport - 6951 Flight Road (Ward 3)

Award Bid 8098 to Maxwell Asphalt, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, for $775,559.50 and

authorize 10 percent change order authority for total not-to-exceed amount of

$853,115.45 funded by combination of Federal, State and Airport Taxiway A-Rehab

Project Account for Taxiway ‘A’ Rehabilitation Project - Riverside Municipal Airport -

6951 Flight Road (Ward 3)

City Attorney

Introduce an Ordinance of the City of Riverside, California, amending Title 7 of the

Riverside Municipal Code by amending Section 7.15.010 regarding Fines and

Penalties and Section 7.35.010 regarding General Noise regulations to include

“plainly audible” standard for enforcement and allow for increased fine amounts to

account for inflation (All Wards)

Approve legal budget for amount not-to-exceed $100,000 from General Fund, City

Attorney’s Office Community Livability Advocacy Legal Fees Account for

investigative services, witness and asset location services, and personal subpoena

services to assist City Attorney’s Office in defense and prosecution of matters not

captured by the Liability Insurance Trust Fund - Supplemental appropriation - Five

affirmative votes required (All Wards)

Purchase order with Totalplan Business Interiors, Inc., Riverside, under OMNIA

cooperative Purchasing Agreement No. R191801 for $308,989.26 from Capital

Outlay Fund, City Attorney Renovations Project Account for purchase and

installation of furniture and related services in connection with City Attorney’s Office

modernization project (All Wards)

City Clerk

Appoint Jamal Myrick to Human Relations Commission Citywide seat, Steven

Delpino to Airport Commission Ward 3 seat, Jessica Rojas to Board of Library

Trustees Ward 3 seat, Natasha S. Ferguson to Community Police Review

Commission Ward 6 seat, Donald Flores to Airport Commission Ward 7 seat,

Antonius B. Van Vegten to Human Resources Board Ward 7 seat, Mikael Becker to

Board of Public Utilities Ward 7 seat - File resignations of Bedan Kamau from

Human Resources Board Ward 3 seat, Melinda Moore-Reins from Commission of

Deaf Ward 7 seat, and Alycia Benson from Board of Ethics Ward 4 seat (All

Wards)

Minutes of January 28, February 4 and 11, 2025

City Council

Land Use Committee recommends introduction of an Ordinance of the City of

Riverside, California, adding Section 16.04.461 to the Riverside Municipal Code

regarding continued use of unpermitted and/or noncomplying conditions - Establish

Safety First Amnesty Program and grant Building Official authority to execute the

program in accordance with Senate Bill 1226, California Building Code, and the

California Existing Building Code (All Wards)

City Manager

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Integrated Heat Health

Information Systems (NIHHIS) grant award of $20,000 to support extreme heat

planning for Heat Tabletop Exercise Challenge - Supplemental appropriation - Five

affirmative votes required (All Wards)

Community and Economic Development

A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, declaring as

exempt surplus a City-Owned Parcel with approximately 8,948 square feet, bearing

Assessor’s Parcel Number 251-040-035, formerly known as the Sugarloaf Booster

Station, pursuant to Assembly Bill 1486 - Waive further reading - Authorize the

marketing and sale of Property at fair market value pursuant to Assembly Bill 1486

and in accordance with City’s Administrative Manual 08.003.00 for disposition and

sale of City-owned Real Property (Ward 2)

Case PR-2024-001747 - Proposal by Rob Ingram of ADU Design Group for

Summary Street Vacation of 1,438 square-foot portion of dedicated road easement

on east side of Victoria Avenue to use for future construction of an Accessory

Dwelling Unit (ADU) - Determine proposal is exempt from California Environmental

Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense) of CEQA

Guidelines, as it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility project will

have a significant effect on environment - A Resolution of the City Council of the

City of Riverside, California, providing for the Summary Vacation (Case No.

PR-2024-001747) of an approximately 1,438-square-foot excess right-of-way

located at 5276 Victoria Avenue situated on the West Side of Victoria Avenue, North

of Central Avenue, Riverside, California - Waive further reading - 5276 Victoria

Avenue (Ward 2)

Case PR-2024-001746 - Zoning Code Text Amendments to Titles 18 (Subdivision)

and 19 (Zoning) of the Riverside Municipal Code (RMC), including but not limited to

Title 18 Article IV (Requirements for Filing and Approval Process) and Title 19

Articles III (Nonconforming Provisions), V (Base Zones and Related Use and

Development Provisions), VI (Overlay Zones), VII (Specific Land Use Provisions),

VIII (Site Planning and General Development Provisions), IX (Land Use

Development and Permit Requirements/Procedures), and X (Definitions), and other

minor, non-substantive changes and technical corrections as required to provide

clarity, correct errors, or remove redundancy - Adopt an Ordinance of the City of

Riverside, California, amending Section 18.150.050 and numerous sections of Title

19 of the Riverside Municipal Code regarding Zoning - Waive further reading (Intro.

on 1-28-25, All Wards)

Finance

Agreement with Partners for Public Good, Los Angeles, for $330,000 from General

Fund, Finance-Purchasing, Professional Services Account for consulting services

and procurement initiatives through March 1, 2026 (All Wards)

Annual Financial Review of City's Self-Insurance Trust Funds for Fiscal Year

2023-24 (All Wards)

Fire

Introduce an Ordinance of the City of Riverside, California, amending Chapter 1.18

of the Riverside Municipal Code regarding Administrative penalties for violations of

the City’s Fireworks Laws (All Wards)

General Services

Amendment to Agreement with GHI Energy, LLC., for retail sale and purchase of

natural gas and the transaction confirmation to make non-substantive changes per

Environmental Protection Agency’s Biogas Regulatory Reform Rule (All Wards)

Human Resources

Resolution of Intention to approve an Amendment to Contract between the Board of

Administration California Public Employees' Retirement System and the City Council

City of Riverside to implement a 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 effective as soon as administratively possible - Waive further

reading - Introduce 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

a 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 (All Wards)

Memorandum of Understanding with Riverside Police Administrators' Association

through December 31, 2027 - A Resolution of the City Council of the City of

Riverside, California, amending Resolution No. 21052 to amend Parts I and II of the

Fringe Benefits and Salary Plan, to reflect various updates and changes in

connection with the Memorandum of Understanding effective January 1, 2025,

through December 31, 2027, with the Riverside Police Administrators’ Association

(RPAA) - Waive further reading - Supplemental appropriation - Five affirmative

votes required (All Wards)

Library

Donation and Naming Rights Agreements at Main Library with Best Best & Krieger

LLP for naming rights of the Children’s Stack of $5,000, Alan L. Crafts for naming

rights of Study Room B of $50,000, Riverside East Rotary for naming rights of

Children’s Stack of $5,000, and S. Sue Johnson for Adult Stack of $10,000 (All

Wards)

Museum

Award Bid 8140 to Harris Steel Fence Company, Inc., Los Angeles, for $120,429

plus 15 percent change order authority for total amount of $138,493 from Capital

Outlay Fund, Heritage House Major Maintenance Project Account for new wrought

iron fencing at Heritage House - 8193 Magnolia Avenue (Ward 5)

Police

Increase in annual compensation with County of Riverside for $50,400, for total

annual amount of $121,200 for Fiscal Year 2024-25 from General Fund,

Police-Central Investigations, Professional Services Account for adult/adolescent

forensic services (All Wards)

Public Utilities

Resource Adequacy Purchase and Financial Energy Settlement Agreement with

Baldy Mesa C, LLC., for estimated initial annual net capacity cost of $4,800,000

from Electric Fund, Public Utilities Power Purchasing, Capacity Charge Account for

50 megawatts of battery energy storage capacity from Baldy Mesa C facility for

fifteen year term (All Wards)

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

policy for the construction, replacement, development, extension, and/or relocation

of Electric and Water Utility Infrastructure and excepting certain types of utility

projects from Section 1109 of the Riverside City Charter, and repealing Resolution

No. 15507 - Waive further reading - Five affirmative votes required (All Wards)

Public Works

Consent to Assignment Agreement with Wastech Corp., for Master Software

Services Agreement by and between Rubicon Global LLC pursuant to Sourcewell

Contract #020221-RUB executed on February 29, 2024 (All Wards)

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

Resolution 20295 to revise Table 1 to remove chloride, sodium, sulfate and their

corresponding limits; reduce the maximum silver concentration limit of the silver

limits to 0.8 mg/L and to remove the 5.0 mg/L and remove Footnote 1, as listed on

the 12/12/02 local limit pollutant discharge limitations effective September 2024 -

Waive further reading (All Wards)

Introduce an Ordinance of the City of Riverside, California, amending Chapter

16.68 of the Riverside Municipal Code regarding Transportation Uniform Mitigation

Fee in its entirety - A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside,

California, amending the applicable Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee (TUMF)

applicable to all development in the City of Riverside - Waive further reading - Direct

staff to amend the City of Riverside Schedule of Fees and Charges prior to the

requested April 1, 2025 effective date (All Wards)

Award Bid 8045 to Onyx Paving Company, Inc., Anaheim, for $2,882,000 from

Measure Z and Public Works Budget for Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Arterial and Minor

Streets Maintenance, Phase 2 (Wards 1, 3, 4, and 5)

DISCUSSION CALENDAR

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.

Exclusive Negotiating Agreement with Adrenaline Sports Collaborative for acquisition

and development of 126 acres of City-owned property, Assessor Parcel Numbers

246-060-011,

206-070-002 and

206-070-003 for

development

Riverside

Adventure Center and Mixed-Use Town Center Development within Northside

Specific Plan (Community and Economic Development) (Ward 1) (10-minute

presentation)

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

The next regular City Council meeting is scheduled for

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

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