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Budget Amendment - FY2021-22 Fiscal Year

This amendment funds additional staff to answer your calls faster at City Hall, adds inspectors to process building permits quicker, and reallocates funds for needed facility repairs—improving city services without increasing your taxes.

Dec 14, 2021

Mar 18, 2025

city council

The council approved a $419,883 construction contract with Innovative Playgrounds Co., Inc. for the Cesar Chavez Playground Improvement Project (CDBG FY2018 funds) as an action item, passed 5-0 after the city clerk noted a correction to account codes in the fiscal impact section; the same meeting's consent agenda, also passed 5-0, included a $46,639 purchase order for touchless bottle filling stations to HD Supply Facilities Maintenance—formerly The Home Depot Pro—from CDBG-CV funds, a figure that sits $10,361 below the $50,000 council approval threshold. The largest dollar item on the agenda was a proposed citywide illegal dumping cleanup contract structured as two separate line items to the same vendor, Valley Vista Services, Inc.—a $367,270 annual service agreement and a $122,423 purchase order for the remainder of fiscal year 2024-2025, totaling $489,693—but no vote was taken and the item was continued to the following week's meeting. At least four members of the public spoke in favor of prior incumbent vendor Screaming Eagles Services, including the company's owner, and Councilmembers Spicer and Darden expressed support for Screaming Eagles on the record; the city manager stated Valley Vista was the lowest responsive bidder at $367,270 annually versus Screaming Eagles' $450,000 bid, a difference of $82,730. A motion by Councilmember Spicer to award the contract to Screaming Eagles, seconded by Councilmember Bowers, was withdrawn before any vote when Bowers requested that both vendors be placed on the following week's agenda for formal consideration.

Mar 26, 2024

city council

The council's largest single contract approved at this meeting was $57,500 to Matrix Consulting Group for fire department labor cost analysis — funded through the American Rescue Plan Fund, passed 5-0 — after the city controller disclosed that only one vendor responded to the RFP; the structured agenda also lists $4.23M and $4.02M in recurring General Fund expenditures associated with this item, but neither figure was discussed in open session. A $45,000 contract with Future Buildings for a metal storage building at fire station #3 — sitting just below the city's $50,000 approval threshold — was initially voted through 5-0 after brief discussion, but was pulled back before adjournment when the city controller sought to add account code lines clarifying a fund transfer between Measure P and the General Fund; the item will return at a future meeting. A $2,525 purchase order to Johnson Controls, Inc. for City Hall HVAC temperature sensor and flow switch replacement passed 5-0 with no discussion. Thirteen residents addressed the council during public comment, raising concerns that included a stalled AFSCME union contract expired since 2019, ADA noncompliance at city facilities, the absence of Spanish-language translation services, street and infrastructure deterioration, and alleged harassment at a local cemetery.