>> call to order the regular meeting
for february 4th, 2025.
city clerk, roll call,
please.
>> [ roll being called ]
>> we will
go ahead and move on to invocation
and flag salute. Councilmember breitenbucher.
>>
ready. Salute.
>> I pledge allegiance
to the flag of the united states of america
and to the republic for which it stands
one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for
all.
>> let's
bow our heads.
>> we thank you
for this day. Thank you for the rain.
we
pray that it goes to the right
places and fills the reservoirs and helps
the state stay
in its water regulation.
we thank you for the first responders
down south who put their lives
on the line to protect life and property.
we are grateful that they are
coming back and that those fires are
being mitigated.
lord, we just pray now for this council
for
wisdom as we go through the agenda
, and help us to lead this city
. We pray for the people that are here.
thank them for coming out and
being involved . We pray now for
your blessings
for
the city, the staff, the employees,
and our citizens as we continue. We
just
pray that
, thank you for life in the precious
gift you have
given us. In christ's name, amen.
>>
thank you, council member breitenbucher.
now we will go ahead
and continue to agenda review and
supplemental reports.
>> mayor, we
have the following supplemental
reports. Item d1. We have a powerpoint
update by city staff
. As far as agenda review,
all city council meetings shall be
conducted in orderly and efficient
manner without willful disruption
by any person or persons in attendance.
the city has also adopted a decorum
policy that governs
meetings, which states that all city
council
meeting attendees shall refrain from
behavior that
disrupts or threatens to disrupt
city government operations. This includes
but not limited to harassment and/or
intimidation of
city staff, elected officials, or members of
the public. Please be advised should
disruption
occur, a member of the city council
shall issue the person or persons
an initial warning. Should a second
disruption occur by the same person
or persons, a
member of the city council shall ask
the person or persons to leave the
meeting. That is all I have for you
tonight.
>> okay.
let's go ahead and move on to disclosure
of ex parte
communications. Anything?
okay. Seeing none from the council,
we will go ahead and go to presentations.
the council can join me up in the
front.
>> presentations. A1. Present
a proclamation
proclaiming february 4th, 2025. And
tonight we have dr.
singh to accept the proclamation.
>>
whereas, on february 4, 1986, four unarmed and peaceful sikh
students, baldhir singh, jhilman singh,
and harminder singh were killed
by state police in punjab, india, in an
unprovoked firing, while
participating in protest against the desecration of sikh
scripture "sri guru granth
sahib" considered by all sikhs to be the final, supreme and
living guru after the lineage of 10 sikh gurus;
and whereas, the state government
constituted a commission of
judicial inquiry headed by a renowned
jurist on this incident of extra-judicial killings.
>> the justice gurnam singh
commission of inquiry submitted
and not even a single perpetrator
has been brought to justice today.
families
have been fighting for the truth --
[ inaudible ]
accountability and closure for over
39 years. And --
>> whereas, this incident has now
also received international
attention as dr. Cheema, member of
united nations global steering committee of osapg, has raised
it on various international
forums; and
>> now therefore I, gary singh, mayor
of the
city
of manteca on behalf of the city council
stand in solidarity and empathy with
the
families and victims
in their pursuit of justice. I do
hereby proclaim february 4th, 2025
as saka
nakodar day.
>>
sir?
>> I didn't want to get
in his way.
>> thank you, mayor. Thank you, city
council. I'm going to
start with greetings.
we are
extremely grateful to
mayor mayor singh and the city council
to recognize the very fourth
as saka nakodar day
. Why? Why it
is important to remember these atrocities
? It is black awareness
month too.
you know, our pains are the same.
our circumstances might be different.
my brother
, who was a pre-engineering student
who wanted
to be an electrical engineer
--he was 19
.
and they were completely unarmed
doing a peaceful protest
. And there are rules
and regulations to open
the live fire .
you need a judicial permission . You
need to give a verbal warning
. You need to start
with a minimum amount of force. You
need to declare
the assembly unlawful. Nothing
was done. They
opened live fire , and my brother
, who was
in the five up front --he was the
first one who got martyred
that day for doing a
peaceful protest against the sacrilege
. It did not
end there.
the other two
--he was uncle of this
girl who is standing next to me
. And
singh. They were not shot at the same
point . They were shot
more than a kilometer away
. And
the farm where they were taking refuge
. Didn't end there.
a second year student.
he was --
they challenge him by name.
the station
house officer and
--in his mouth and shot him
at point-blank. All four were brought
to
the hospital for autopsies
. They
date of their autopsies in the dark
of the night. And when the doctors
went to do
the autopsies , you will be
shocked to know that
ravinder was still alive. He
was still alive, so the doctors took
him to the hospital , tried to
treat him, but the police took over
, and they took him to another hospital
. If it
happened in tracy, we will take them
to sacramento
to a different hospital.
and when they went to the other hospital,
the doctors
--the
police made sure while they were taking
him to the other hospital that he
is
dead. It didn't end there.
next morning, my father , who was 39
--only one from the
four families was
able to get into the city while the
city was under curfew. He went to
the hospital
, identified his son, asked for his
body for his
permission. He was told to go to the
police station . In the meantime,
police took all four bodies
. Kerosene fuel to burn them all.
my dad
sat in front of the police station,
started a
protest
. A commission
was constituted.
it was a retired high court justice
who gave his report to the state government
on the 31st of october, 1986. And
the rule of law states
once a report is submitted to the state,
and needs to be played
in the state assembly within six months
of submission .
and a report needs to
be issued. 39
years. 39 years till this day
that report
hasn't been acted upon.
that is why it
is important to remember these days
. And then when my father applied underwriting
information for the report, guess
what
they told.
this never happened. We never killed anyone.
this has been brought
into both houses of the parliament
in india
. Upper and lower. The state assembly.
the governor
of the state. The president of india.
we went to the high court. Nothing.
so
that is when we came to the global
communities to raise the global awareness.
our
case --
in 2022. U.s. Congress
declared february as
saka nakodar debuted on june 13th
of last year, california
state assembly recognized saka nakodar
day for the fourth of
february. And I am so , so thankful
to
you all to shed the light
on this atrocity.
declare itself as the biggest democracy.
but they don't follow
the rule of law. Thank you so much
for listening. I
appreciate you.
>> I would like everyone to come here
in
the picture. Whoever is sitting. [
inaudible
]
>> I just want to briefly think everyone, the
citizens of manteca,
for your patience and for your love
for everyone . Just a couple years
ago
city councilmember singh got together
. Sharon washington. She came.
and the key
feeling then was
we can breathe. Talking
with
george floyd and the very sad killing
of him
by the police by sitting on his neck. Although
these incidents are very far apart
, the floyd incident is
no less important, but it is nothing
compared to being shot
in
your mouth and being dragged to a
hospital miles and miles away so you
could
die. I believe today our city spoke
. America spoke.
and as long as we continue to speak
and recognize each other's pain and
love, no one can fail us and we will
never fail.
>> [ applause
]
>>
okay, mayor and council. That will bring
us to item a2.
black history month. Today we have
gwen from the senior center along
with tyler from the recreation services
department
to accept.
she
just lost 30 seconds.
>> whereas, national black history
month in february affords special opportunity to become
more
knowledgeable about black heritage and to honor the many
black leaders who have
contributed to the progress of our nation.
african americans have played a significant role in the history
of our nation and california's economic,
cultural, spiritual, and
political development while
working tirelessly to promote their culture and history; and
>> whereas, black history month is
an occasion to rediscover the
enduring stories of african americans and the gifts of
freedom, purpose and
opportunity they have bestowed on future generations,
black history month is american
history; and
>>
whereas, black history month reminds us to continue to fight
for justice and equality and should be
a uniting call to our nation to continue to work for a more
diverse, supportive, inclusive, and protective
union; and
>> whereas, black history month is
a call to each and every citizen of our great community
to reflect
on the cultural, scientific, political, and economic
contributions of african
americans, which are woven
throughout american society. We remember, learn from, and
build on the past, so that,
together, we can build a better and more
prosperous future for all americans; and
now, therefore, I, gary singh, mayor of the city of manteca,
on behalf of city council, do hereby proclaim february 2025,
as black history month. We call upon public officials,
educators,
librarians, and all the residents to take part in
programs, ceremonies, and
activities to enrich this shared
american history.
>> [ applause ]
>> hello, everyone.
my name is tyler, and I am
a recreation supervisor for the recreation
community services department. I work
at the senior center,
and we have worked with grace on a
variety of programs at our
senior center
, and so she is going to now bring
us black history month celebration.
in
recognition of february's black history month
, she is
going to give you a little more details about
what will be going on. But we
have flyers here. It will be on tuesday,
fibber 25th, at the
senior center, so we welcome you all
to join us.
>> thank you,
tyler.
my name is gwendolyn grace, and this
is the second year we will
be celebrating black history at the
senior center this year. We invite
you all to come
out. We're going to have music, dancing, food,
trivia, giveaways
, and biographies and some videos.
so it
should be a good time. We invite you
all to come out.
thank you.
>> [ applause ]
>> okay. That will bring us our last
presentation item, a3, certificate
of recognition to
robert
desruisseau
.
>> right in front.
right here.
look
at that.
[ inaudible ]
>> top 10 in the country.
this one is for
winning the national [ inaudible ]
>>
[ laughter ]
>> all right. So we want
to
give this certificate of recognition
presented to robert desruissea
. For your outstanding
achievement in bmx racing. Your hard
work and commitment to
excellence have not only brought you
personal success but have also inspired
those around you. We honor
your accomplishments and celebrate
your passion. Thank you.
everybody, round of applause.
>> [
applause
]
champion. Got more
than me.
[ inaudible ] come on. You got
to.
>> tell me how you got there.
>> it is all thanks to my coach,
rick. He has been training me for
the past three years. I would
be like this right now if it wasn't
for him.
>> nice.
how hard was it?
>> [ applause ]
>> it was hard getting to
maines. I had to race about 50 people
.
>>
where was it
?
>> oklahoma. >> wow. All right.
did you have fun?
>> yeah.
>> all right. Well, congratulations,
and thank you for doing this. Do
you want to say a few words? You can
probably tell us a
lot more.
>> you know, robert started off a
little rough this season. He
had a really bad crash at the beginning
of the year, and then he just
kind of picked it up and he did not
lose after that. He
just won, won, and won
and then it came to the northern california
series. You can see he won
it all. And this
is the state trophy for the finals
where he ended up finishing first
overall at the finals.
and then they take the top 10 from
each
state and they take him to, to race
a race
called race of champions, which
he won
the race of champions. And he got
really lucky because
the girl from columbia was right behind
him. Right behind him.
and she was right behind him again
over
in grands.
and that was the race
for four days. The first two days
is roc and the next two days
is grants. He had a very unfortunate
accident when he went for the west
coast finals. He crashed. And he was
overall had to finish
fifth. He would have been
first overall. But because of the
crash, he finished
third overall in the west coast gold
cup finals.
but other than that, he won everything.
just amazing. As a dad, that is,
like, the rockstar win.
>> [ applause
]
>> I
just want to thank you for reaching
out. I'm glad we were able to give
you a little bit today
. We have a champion among us. Congratulations
for all of your efforts and bringing
the trophy home to manteca. Thank
you again.
you have a lot of bling, but I will
give you another one
here. It is one of our official pens.
take over now. Sure.
>> another kid too that is being looked
at.
he is a kid with
autism. And he is
verbal, but he is eight or nine years
old. He basically trains with robert
all
the time, and he finished exactly
as robert
. And his name is alejandra.
and he definitely deserves to
be up here too.
and I know I did not mention him before,
but I just thought of
it right now. This little kid with autism
. It was crazy.
from his first straight race, john
anderson was setting up cones to make
sure
he could follow the straight line
and not crash into people. Two years,
three years later , he is winning
it all.
[ inaudible
]
>> all right.
that was good. Congratulations to everyone.
and we
will go on to
public comments.
>> mayor, at this time, you may call
for public
comment for items not listed on the
agenda via zoom webinar or in person.
public comment is limited to three
minutes per
person.
>> okay.
are there any
comments on items that are not listed
on the agenda tonight?
anybody on zoom?
>> I have no hands raised. >> okay.
and anybody
in public like to speak on any items
that are not on
the agenda?
all right. Here is your
final chance.
see nine, we will go ahead and move
onto the next item. Consent.
councilmember lackey .
>>
c 7.
>> councilmember
breitenbucher.
>> nothing. >> councilmember
morowit.
>>
c 7.
>> okay. And vice mayor.
>> let's do
c
8.
>> I think you just wanted to do it.
>> all right. Okay. If I can
have --I don't have anything. If I
can have a motion for
items not pulled. Okay. I have a motion
from vice mayor halford. All in
favor
. Motion carries. 5-0.
>> adopt a
resolution approving a budget appropriation
for major equipment
purchase fee fund for the purchase
of five
new fully outfitted marked patrol
vehicles
for an amount not to exceed $510,000
and authorizing
city manager or designee to sign all necessary
documents to effectuate the agreement.
we have chief of police stephen
.
>>
do you want to present something or do
you want me to see if
councilmember lackey has a question?
>> we will go
with the question.
>> council
member lackey .
>> so my question
is , we are going to
be purchasing
five new fully outfitted patrol vehicles.
can
you just kind of give us an idea?
I know it says the equipment purchase
fee fund. A little bit about the acquisition
of these vehicles?
>> sure. What they
are using right now is the
vehicle fee fund
, however, without measure q being passed
, we would usually wait until the
beginning of
the budget season, but due to measure
q passing
and projected revenues for that and
the immediate need for the vehicles today
, we are putting it on
the agenda . It takes quite
some time to get a vehicle
. And it goes by purchase order date.
you
cannot get a purchase order date until it
passes. So if you're looking at
getting a vehicle through the regular
budget cycle, once a budget passes
, then we would be able to
put in a purchase order and get those
vehicles. And a lot of
the time there's --everyone is around
the same time trying to get vehicles.
and so that pushes out with who we
get
the vehicles from. And so being able
to do it now kind of puts us in
front of the eight ball instead of
behind it.
thank you.
>> any
other questions? Councilmember
morowit.
>> I don't
have much to add from what council
member lackey has said. I will just
say that
I want to emphasize that this is one
of the things we talked
about with the passing of measure
q for the
additional sales tax even though we
are not collecting it yet. We are
able to
get these vehicles on the ground
and into the police station as the
chief has said.
it takes a long time to get these
ordered and we are usually constrained
by
budget times.
so this was a great win for the city,
and we wanted
to show you that we needed this immediately. I
know there's been some accidents and
some things that happened with vehicles
and we have mishaps and worn out parts.
so
to be able to purchase when we actually
need them
immediately and not wait until a budget
cycle is very important. It
is not uncommon for an officer to arrive
in a
vehicle and that is only because there
is not a vehicle for the second
officer. So this is much better for
the city to get these
vehicles purchased and with the measure
q
funds coming sometime next year or
this year
--later in the year --we are able
to do
this. It's great. Thank you.
>> okay.
anybody else in the council want
to say anything? Councilmember halford?
or vice mayor. Sorry.
>> I will just say it
is good to be able to do this early.
the lead time on units
and equipment --you'll be lucky if
you have them
on the road in six months. The lead
time is incredible.
needless to say, they are not cheap.
they
never were, but they have gotten really expensive
. The last few years. Good move. Good
use of the money.
I would just reiterate what council
said
already.
thank you to chief and the staff to
proactively look into
purchasing these
and kind of getting ahead of the curve.
with
that, I will entertain a motion.
>> second.
>> okay. I have a motion from vice
mayor halford and a second from councilmember
morowit. All in favor. Motion
carries, 5-0. C 8.
>> adopt
a resolution , one, changing the name
of capital
improvement project 2401 from public
safety facility feasibility study
to the
manteca police department headquarters.
two, amending the fiscal year
24-25 budget and capital
improvement program to appropriate
$4,600,000 from government facility
fee fund toward capital improvement project
24071
. Three, award lpa
incorporated the requested proposal
for architecture and engineering services
for the new manteca
police department headquarters for
an amount not to exceed $4,600,000
. Four, update the location from
24 360 west yosemite avenue to a location
to be determined by the police headquarters
ad hoc committee
and authorize the city manager
to sign the agreement and any
associated documents. We have chief
of police stephen.
>> all right. I
will
start with
--
>> he doesn't need to do a report.
>> I just pulled it
to say
it is very gratifying to see we are
making positive, concrete progress
on building a new police department.
we moved into this one here in july
of 1976.
yes, I was there.
>> I wasn't
on earth.
>> we have added to it
three times .
we are overcrowded again.
and so it is not probably the best
design in the world.
honestly, it wasn't when they built it
the first time because they had
waist high windows facing the parking lot.
so,
thank you to the public for passing
measure q, which will help fund this,
as
will the
fees and other revenue sources. I'm
thankful we
are making concrete progress and getting
it done while I'm still on
the city council
hopefully.
>> we're going to go for
it. Anybody else on the council?
>>
I just want to
reiterate what the
vice mayor just said. It is a great accompaniment.
once again, this only can happen because of
measure
q because we are able to get
the funds to be able to start the
work. So once again,
this is your tax dollars at work.
and I appreciate the ad hoc
committee's work . And we will see
what
they come up with as a location. Stay
tuned.
>> yeah. I'm
very excited to get this moving and
hopefully see this place built
. And I know the ad hoc
with me and vice mayor will be busy
for the next few months to
get this going with the chief. Thank
you to get to
this point. I will open it up for
public comment.
sorry I did not do that in the last
one. Anybody wanting to
tell us anything about
--this item.
all right.
okay. With
that, I will go ahead and bring it
back to council. I will entertain
a motion.
>> second.
>> okay. A motion from vice mayor
and a second from
council member
breitenbucher.
all in favor, say aye. Motion passes,
5-0.
d 1.
>> conduct a public hearing and
adopt a
resolution approving the water capacity
fee nexus study setting charges for
the water capacity fee updated
water meter installation fee and interim
residential a new connection fee and
authorize the city manager or does
it
need to take all appropriate actions
necessary to
carry out the purpose and intent of
the resolution
,
wave the first reading by substitution
of the title, and introduce an ordinance
of
the city council of the city of manteca
, state of california repealing and
replacing chapters 13.0 4.010
meter is required and 13.0 4.020 rules
and regulations. We have deputy director
of
engineering for you.
>> good evening
,
mayor, to the council members.
let me just start
off with deputy director of engineering.
let
me just start off to get this off
the
plate. These are not the user rates.
these are developer fees that developers
will be paying. So
the items I'm bringing forth tonight
do not impact
regular users.
so with that cleared, I will go ahead
and
get started.
so as you guys are aware, these are
capacity fees. Any type of
fee structure that we put together require
a lot of data
. It feels like these are all kind of
coming in together around the
same time. But we have been working
on these for a long time.
it all started with the 2023 general plan
. The last time these capacity fees
were
looked at was back in 2008. So we
had to wait for the general plan
to tell us what the future growth
projections were.
the general plan for
2043 was
approved back in july 2023 with the
general
plan approved
within started working on the master
plan. So the master plans for
the water system was approved on march 2024
,
and with that, we then had to make
sure we had the most
recent and up-to-date information.
so we had to wait for a
lot of audit to be
caught up. So those are kind of the
data sources we got all the information
to plug into these rates. It wasn't
like
we were just waiting around
. There were lots of data. Lots of
reports. Lots of
studies that had to be before we could
move forward with these
capacity fee calculations
[ inaudible ] developers.
so there is
typically three different types of approaches
for putting together
a capacity
fee. There is a buy in
approach. There is an incremental
and there is a hybrid approach. For
the water system, because
we do have access
available capacity , the best
approach to
was the buy in approach.
when you're looking at an incremental
approach, that is where your system
is kind of maxed out. There is no
additional access
capacity. Then you would be looking
at an incremental approach. A hybrid
approach
would be you have some excess capacity.
you could be in trouble in the next
five years or so. Looking at our water
system, this was
feedback from our water master plan,
which showed we do have excess capacity,
and therefore the buy in approaches
the most accurate way to do it. I
do have
a little bit of math just to show
that a lot of numbers
went into this.
so just to kind of make it very simple,
it really comes down to what because
we
are using the buy in approach --it
comes down to what the value
of your system is divided by your
actual max
. So just a quick calculation to show
how some of these numbers are
put together. I'm not going to bore
you guys with it, but
the maxed demand is pulled directly
from our master plan.
the peak
factor was also derived from our master plan,
so we couldn't have
actually put these studies together
until we completed our master plan.
this is a typical
revised, updated cost for the capacity
fee for
a single-family home.
I just have a total current fee here
and
the proposed fee. So these fees are
meant to ensure that developers are
paying their
fair share
so that as we are looking at all of
our
user rates , developers are being
required to pay
their fair share. And if
you look at further down
had an eight
inch line, it is quite a significant
increase. But for the most part
single-family residential are going
to be another
three-quarter inch meter. That is
going up roughly $310
, and I do want to
kind of stress that because these
fees were last looked at in 2008
. They have been continually escalated
based on cpi. So being off
by $310 actually is very, very good
for
a great study that was looked at 15
plus
years ago.
we are also adding a discount fee.
this is
a new fee we have been
looking at . And the whole idea
is that we do have some large estate lots.
they are inside the city limits.
but they may be on a well
, and if the well
goes bad , it is
really not fair to have those folks also
pay the same development fees as a
developer who is going to be going
in and purchasing large tracts of
land and
then putting undue stress on our system.
so we would still
recover those costs
when that land develops in the future,
but this would
be mainly for emergency -- emergencies
. There is very few
of these properties
that fall into this category. So we
do have some requirements
. First is that it does have to be
a
single-family residential
built prior to march 2024. That is when
the master plan
was adopted.
you must be within the city limits.
you also must have no
prior water connections. So if you
are a business and you want to put
in a car wash or a laundromat, this
would not apply to you. We would still
charge them the meter installation
fee. And then there
is a $500 administration fee just
for the city to track all of those
types of customers .
with that --
>>
and you go back to that real quick? Can
you tell us what
those fees are currently if somebody
wanted to do that?
>> so those fees right now currently
if you wanted to do that you
would fall under the single-family
residential. And so they
would be paying roughly
--if
the proposed fees are in place, that
would be roughly $6000.
now that is just for capacity fees.
there
are other fees that would also apply
. And so some of those costs
would actually be north of $15,000
.
>> all in it could be
15,000 to connect to the city currently.
>>
currently. Correct.
so that is why you are not --these
properties are
very few and far in between.
and a lot of times folks are not
going to want to connect unless they
have to. So we do want to be
good neighbors if our neighbors are
struggling with their wells and they
have --they
don't have potable drinking water,
we should try to come up with a mechanism
for them to connect to the city system.
so that was kind of the idea
with this new connection fee.
>> awesome.
>> yeah.
do you guys want to make a comment before
I
open it up?
>> I just got a quick
question. On the fee --went
back again. That only applies to the
existing dwelling.
so if it is
in the state lot and they did us lot
split for the
put an adu on, it would
be the regular fee?
>> so the way it is worded right now
is existing
single-family residential built prior to
march 2024. And they
also must be within city limits. If
they annex
--technically if they are outside
and annexed and it was an existing
property, they would
fall under
this. But if it is a new state lot
and they are splitting it
off, that would not fall under this
now.
>> but would it still
apply?
>>
adus are an interesting one. Right now
we do have it written in the current ordinance
that
adus would not be subject to these
fees , and
the thought is, if you put
an adu, you are
being fed off of the same line. You
are not going to run a new
line to tap into the city system.
>> split your existing --[ inaudible
] any other questions from council
before I open it up
? Okay. We will go ahead and open
up the public hearing
at 6:48: 37. City clerk
, anybody on zoom?
>> I do have a
hand raised .
>> okay.
>> okay. Can you
hear us? You will
have three minutes. We will start
the time now.
>> okay. Thank you very much.
thank you very much for
the city residents. I really
appreciate for some good causes.
one question I have
not specific to the fee structure
but regarding
the water impurities, which has been
circulated quite a few times.
the last one year we
received notice 2 to 3 times. Just
wanted to
check if we bring anything on that front
to not get
into that very often. I know it is
one well [ inaudible
] circulation. So just wanted
to check what city is doing in order
to produce those impurities.
>> hello. Sorry.
this does not pertain to
our normal fees for water rates
. This is just for new development
connection fees. So that would be
may be a leader on agenda item on
another day.
>> sounds good.
>> okay?
anybody else on zoom?
>> I have no other hands raised. >>
okay. Anybody in the audience would
like to speak on this item?
>> okay. Zenon, we will go ahead and
close the
public hearing at 6:50:36. We will
bring it back to council for discussion.
councilmember
lackey .
>> I don't have
any comment.
>> okay.
council member morowit.
>> nine. >>
council member
breitenbucher.
>> no comment. >> vice mayor. >> ditto.
>> I would just like
to say , good
call on as far as the city looking
at these rates. You are correct
seeing that there hasn't been significant
changes.
that means
at least this is one of those fees
we have been staying
up on and making sure development
is made for those connections. I did
see some of the fees were going down
. Can you kind of elaborate why?
>> yeah. I think there was
--it did slightly go down if you separate
the actual
connection fees and some of the other
fees we
put together , but when
you total it altogether in terms of
the overall capacity , it does
go up. But if you look at
the individual components , yes,
some of those dated very slightly.
so the original fee that was
encompassed
in the actual capacity fees were the
service water
service fee. Service water capital fee
, and then
you had the meter installation fee.
so it was
just how they priced out the
actual fee structure previously versus
how we are
doing it now.
>> okay.
and I do want to give kudos to staff
on basically creating that new connection
fee for existing residents. I know
there's
a lot of individuals that may
be were in the country or the county
at one time
or in the city and they have been
sitting on wells
or septic and they just don't really
want to come into
the city . And
one of the standouts usually is the
fees and the process to get that
done. Seeing the significance
reduction I
think will help a lot of those individuals
on the cusp to come into the
city and also bring out some of those
individual lots that are sitting in
our city
that should be on the city system.
great job on that also. With that
, I will entertain a motion.
>> so moved. >> second. >> all right.
I have a motion from councilmember breitenbucher
and a second from councilmember lackey to
adopt a
resolution approving the water capacity
fee nexus study setting charges
for water capacity fee updating water
meter installation fee and interim
residential new
connection fee and authorizing the
city manager or designee to take
all appropriate actions necessary
to carry out the proposed
and intent of the resolution, wave
the first reading
a substitution of the title
and introduce an ordinance of the
city council
for the city of manteca state of california
repealing and
replacing chapter 13.04 .01 meters required
and 13.0 4.020 rules
and regulations.
all in favor, say aye.
motion carries, 5-0. And we are
on to d 2.
>> conducted a public hearing
and adopt resolution capacity fee
nexus study
setting charges for the sewer capacity
fee and the interim
residential new connection fee and
authorizing the city manager or designee
to take all
appropriate actions necessary
to carry out the purpose
and intent of the resolution. We have
the first reading by substitution
of the title
and introduce an ordinance of the
city of manteca, state of california
, repealing and replacing chapter
13.12 sewer
connection fees.
>> already.
>> good evening again, mayor
, city council. Thank you
. Deputy director of engineering.
again,
just wanted to stress that
this is the
capacity that is charged to developers.
this is not the user rates.
so none of this information that we
are presenting here affects the current users.
so again
, the last time these
fees were looked at was back in 2008
. I think a lot of utility fees kind
of
go together because there is lots
of
crossover in terms of the documentation
that is needed.
I skipped over some of the other documentation
that is referenced
on the waterside, but there's typically
three different types of approaches
. We did take a different approach
on the
sewer side than we did on the waterside
because right now
we do --we don't have any excess capacity
in our sewer system.
so what we did
was we included all of the costs associated
with providing service to
future customers
. Rolled that all into an incremental
capacity increase.
so anything that is associated with
future development
and future growth
--they are paying their fair share.
nothing more. Nothing less. That is
what these fees are designed to do.
so this table I have here with all
of the
cost down took a lot of time
for consultants to go through and
figure out how
and what treatment process
is designed to address each
component. So whether it be the
flow, nitrogen , you have to
study the improvements
--what the improvements are intended
to do, and attribute those costs to
just those individual components.
so that took quite a bit of time.
and we couldn't do
it without having a plan in place.
once
we got all that information
, the calculation actually ends up
being pretty simple
. Just based on the amount
of contribution for each single family
home, we are able to calculate the
unit cost for each component. So if
you look at
the highlight in red here
, because the bulk of our needs
right now are at the treatment plant,
flow is really your
cheapest component
. We are struggling with nutrient
removal. So as you move to the left,
nitrogen is the most expensive component.
so just to kind of give you an idea
of how the different
needs have
grown. And nitrogen really is a new
requirement for us
that wasn't accounted for in the original
study back in 2008.
so taking all of that
, we are changing
the fee structure for the
sewer side.
so I can't give you a comparable between
existing and proposed.
but one that I can give you
comparable four is the single-family home
. Currently for a single-family home,
the capacity is $5964. That
is going to be going up roughly $1000.
$947 if you are counting it.
we have sat down and reviewed this
with the bia
. They didn't have any comments. They
did
ask some questions about why and how.
we went through the calculations with
them. I don't see them here tonight.
I don't know if they are
online, but it has been more or less
vetted through
the bia .
we are adding
--sorry.
go back. We do have the single-family.
we are also adding a category for
multifamily and
also mobile homes.
this is lining up with exactly how
we have
our user rates structured so that
way we are consistent throughout the
whole capacity
system charging to the
developers and also when those folks
become users , everything is seamless
and as straightforward as can be.
for commercial low strength,
we do have that calculated. It is
based on
their projected loading. So depending on
how much flow they are predicted to
use
to assess nitrogen, these are
the total costs. The
meter size is based on their water meter.
the reason for that is there is
no good way to measure wastewater
at those lower levels, so you use
the meter sizes
as a gauge for how much water they
are going to use, which means
a portion of that is going to be generating
your wastewater.
so that is the cost for promotional
strength. And the cost for medium strength
sewer capacity fees. Then we also have
the commercial high-strength
.
and we also added the discount fee
for our
friends who are inside the
city limits existing single-family homes
constructed prior to
march 2024. No prior
sewer connections . So this would
be folks
put on septic that their septic may
have gone bad and they cannot get
a permit because there is a separation
issue between their septic and
their well. There is
just a straight administration fee
of $500 for a
sewer connection. With that
, I will be happy to
answer any questions.
>>
anybody on the council have any questions
before
I go to the public
? Okay. We will go
ahead and open up the public hearing
at 7:01:18. Anybody on zoom?
>> I have no hands raised
.
>>
okay. Anybody in the public like to
speak on this item?
okay. Seeing
none, we will go ahead and close the
public hearing at 7:01:43.
bring it back for council discussion.
counsel number
morowit.
>> good presentation.
it is just an update to a study that
we have to
do in order to keep up with fees so
we don't get large fees down
the road . Developers and builders
can prepare these fees
prior to building. Thank you.
>>
council member breitenbucher.
>> no
comment.
>>
council member lackey .
>> no comment.
>> vice mayor. >>
just glad to see all of the fees being current.
>> okay. Same here.
good job on this and making sure
it is all good
and great on the interim residential
connection also. With that, I will
entertain a motion.
>> motion to approve.
>>
okay. I have a motion from councilmember
morowit. Second from
vice mayor halford
to adopt a resolution approving the
sewer capacity fee nexus study setting
charges for this work best if he and
interim residential new connection and
authorizing the city
manager designee to take all appropriate
actions necessary to carry out the
proposed intent of
the resolution
, wave the first reading by substitution
of the title, and introduce
an ordinance of the city council of
the city of manteca, state of california,
billing and replacing chapter 13.12
sewer connection charges. All in favor,
say aye.
opposed motion carries, 5-0.
thank you. Appreciate it.
with that
--
we will head to city manager comments.
>> thank you.
I would like to
officially welcome interim fire chief
dave to
the team . It is his first week
, and we're excited for the leadership
and expertise
he brings to the manteca fire department.
welcome.
>> welcome, sir.
>> and also
another announcement
. State of the city is on march 13th.
the 2025 state
of the city will take place on thursday,
march 13th
, at 9:00 a.m.
at great wolf lodge. This year's theme,
honor our roots
reflects our commitment to preserving
manteca's
history while embracing new opportunities.
attendees will hear from the mayor
and business leaders about upcoming
events and initiatives.
tickets are $20 . That includes breakfast.
and they are
available through the manteca chamber
of commerce online and in the office
. For
those who are unable to attend in
person, the event will be broadcast
on
social media and streamed
in council chambers.
>> all right.
I will
be there.
>> the community garden
project --the project has started
near the downtown library. We
have partnered with urban green project
to create a
vibrant community
. A vibrant community driven garden. Stayed
tuned for future updates but if you
have driven
by, you have seen the
groundbreaking is moving out there.
state route 99
corridor project. The
crossing is being removed as part
of the state route 99 120
nectar project. The closure will be
in effect for
approximately 18 months with the detours.
to stay informed, the project updates
and detour information are available
at
state route 99 120
connector.com and on the city social media.
the manteca
senior center that is offering online
registration and digital payment
starting february 2025, seniors can
now enroll in the new civic
wreck system for online registration
by march in office
electronic registration options will
be available for all programs.
a couple community dances. Check out
the manteca
community services facebook page for
upcoming themed dance is taking place
from february to april. Register online
or at the recreation office.
last announcement.
the water and wastewater meetings
.
you're probably asking yourself why
is the city of manteca proposing to
raise water and sewer rates?
we get it. No one wants to pay more
for the truth is
that the city could have and should
have
adjusted rate
. Incrementally years ago,
but because increases were put off
for so long, we are now at a point
where we have to act. Our utility
funds can no longer keep up with
the cost of maintaining our aging system
, keeping
up with services
, demands, and making critical infrastructure upgrades
. It has been nearly
15 years since the last adjustment.
and in that time, costs have gone
up while parts of our system
have aged past
their
lifespan. To make sure we're making
the right decision, we brought an
independent consultant to
assess what is needed to keep things
running safely and efficiently. While
these improvements we
risk breakdowns --without these
improvements we risk breakdowns. We do
reduce service and higher costs
down the road. Because customer rates
are what fund local and sewer projects,
we have
to propose these adjustments to ensure
we can continue providing safe,
reliable service, not just today but
for the years to come.
we have some
upcoming community meetings on rate
increases and handouts are available
at the back table for
more information. Residents are encouraged
to learn more about the proposed rate adjustments
and ask questions at upcoming community meetings
. There is a virtual facebook live
on saturday,
february 22nd, at 2:00 p.m. There
is also
a wednesday february 26
at 2:00 p.m. And then a
wednesday march 5th
at 6:00 p.m. Details on the proposed
rates can be found at
manteca water rates.org , and manteca
wastewater.org . One last
notable item is there is also
a discount program coming in march
. So stay tuned for that. More information
will come out on that.
mayor, that concludes the city manager
report.
>> thank you. Appreciate it.
with that, we will go to council comments.
start with
council member breitenbucher.
>> okay. I wanted to
bring forward an item to look at
putting onto next meeting's agenda
. It is laura's
law. 2021 we sent a letter to the supervisors
asking to implement that
. It is a state law that
helps people
mental health. Enhances public safety
, reduces the
need for inpatient
commitment and incarceration. It is
known as aot
. It is a california law that allows
courts
to order community treatment for people
with severe
mental illness. A law was named after
laura wilcox, who was killed by person
with mental illness in 2001. Today
the
navigation center we had
--I was there when they took a call
from kaiser. They had a patient
that they were going to discharge.
they were asking 555 to take them.
there is an
issue there. And because we
don't have
the ability --
if the person refuses, you cannot
force them. This
puts a tool in the box that allows
the court
to say, yes, this person needs help,
and it gets them help. Otherwise
these people get lost in the weeds.
so did you
have something?
>> yeah, mayor and
council. I wanted to add to that.
assisted outpatient treatment. What
makes it
unique is counties have to opt into
it. Cities cannot.
the county has to do it. So each
--all 58 counties in the state and
each one individually has to
do it. In 2021, the
council did send a letter to the board
of supervisors requesting that they
do
it. They decided not to and instead
stick with what is called their inspire
program, which is
voluntary treatment
. I know at the time they said that
they
would update us. We have not received
an update. I just wanted to give some
more background on what laura's law
is in case you may want to know.
>>
thank you.
>> anything else, council
member?
>> asking for that -->> I'm
asking for that to be.
>> I would just like
to add I think we need to give it
another shot. I think it would
be helpful for our community. I think
we need to prepare some changes on
our supervisors. Hopefully they will
relook at this and understand the
importance and benefits
of this. I will be supportive
of it.
>>
I am seeing five head nods, so I will
prepare a letter to bring forward
to
the next meeting for council approval.
>> anything else?
>> yeah. Welcome, chief. Welcome to
your first meeting. It
was a fun one. And those
employees. We had about three employees
that were
sworn in . Or more.
>>
just yesterday we had three .
>> will come to those. I'm excited
about the
community garden coming downtown.
we
had looked at another location. Excited
about this one.
it gives people another reason to
come downtown . So pretty stoked about this.
that is
it for me. Thank you. Councilmember
morowit.
>>
good evening. I attended the
union booster crab feed saturday.
well attended. Good group of folks.
made some money
for the cause. Sports.
I would just like to reiterate
a couple of things we mentioned tonight
. We mentioned some tonight. We had
purchased a
fire engine last month. Went to direct
result again of
measure q. Being able to purchase something
had a
budget cycle that was an opportunity
of a demo type fire engine in
the bay area where if we did
not move on that engine, we wouldn't
have been able to purchase it. Because
there
were other cities that really liked
it and wanted it, but we were
able to do that and
pd vehicles tonight. We used funds
to outfit the equipment with radios
and sirens and all of that good stuff
that goes with the public safety
equipment. Putting that on hold to
add to this
. Those will be fully outfitted. And
then of course the police
department. I cannot say enough. Years
and years.
if we pass measure
q. We are on track to do that. I appreciate
that. I would also like to
welcome the new interim fire chief,
dave. Thank you, sir.
that is what wisdom and experience brings
. Great to have him. Thank you.
>>
you wanted to add anything?
>>
I was just going to thank you for
the honor and privilege of being able
to serve the community. I'm happy
to be here.
>> welcome, sir. Councilmember
lackey .
>> all right. Just a few
things. Welcome,
chief. Glad to have you aboard. Last week
councilmember
breitenbucher and I went to the water
sewer town hall meeting . It was
really informative
. It was a great meeting. Unfortunately
we only had
about 10 people from the public attend,
so I really encourage everybody
to go and
get informed and see what is going
on. See why these rates are having
to
be increased and how dire the situation
actually is.
there are a lot of different opportunities
to attend, and we have actually been
able to extend that so that there
is the facebook live
. There are evenings. There are weekends.
so there is
a timeframe that should work for just
about everybody
. So please get out there. I'm really
encouraged to know there is
a discount program that is being implemented
. When we first talked about this,
I did ask
if there was going to be something
to help, and so I'm glad to
see that that is being worked on.
also
grateful to see that we are seeing
the
benefits of measure q .
as you know, I was not a fan of the
measure, but
we are putting the money where we
said we would
. So we are seeing the benefits. We
are seeing a new fire truck. We are
seeing police vehicles. So I am encouraged
by that . To say the least.
so I went to
paint and
sip this past week at our new thomas
toy community center. If you have
not
seen the center, please go check it
out. I love community projects. So
this is
one of those that gets teens involved.
we will have the community
garden, which
with the youth leader background I
think this is an amazing opportunity
for people
of all ages, but especially our youth
to be able to come in, work together,
do something good for the community,
and maybe even collaborate with different organizations
. Other than that, I hope everybody
has a wonderful night.
>> all right. Thank you, councilmember
lackey . Vice
mayor.
>> welcome, chief. I'm sure
you'll do a
great job and be here for
a few months. Or longer. Who knows?
>> I was out of
the area for about 2 1/2 weeks. I
don't have a lot to say.
>> all right.
>> he is doing great tonight.
>>
welcome, chief.
I am
hoping --doing pretty good so far
this week. Looks like you brought
the rain. So that is great. Great
for all of the fires out there.
I know this past week we have had
done a lot of the
interviews for boards and commissions,
so one of the things I wanted to do
was ask for council successes for our
city clerk to go
back out . We are recruiting under
the recreation and
park commission in the public oversight committee
because we have not had
enough applicants for all districts.
and
I believe counsel number breitenbucher
you
wanted to also add a portion of that
on measure
q.
>> I would like to see
if you guys are agreeing with that.
we can see the
>> I think we
should probably go out and give it
a month.
>> we can definitely
do about a month recruitment. 3 to
4 weeks . And then we
can have something back to you guys
for appointments
after the 3 to 4 weeks. You guys would
do the
interviews. And then a week after
that in mid-march we can have the
appointments made.
>> last time it
was kind of during the holiday season.
so maybe a lot of people did not
get the information and did not
apply. And also I think it gives an
opportunity. I will say the people
that already applied and that already
interviewed do not
need to reapply. Or they do not need
to be reinterviewed.
we will still retain your information
and just wait
for new applicants. Are we good on
that?
>> I am
supportive of that. We want to reiterate
,
though, that one of the reasons we
are extending it is there were not
enough applicants
for the mayor in particular to appoint
the number
of people that he needed to appoint .
on parks and rec, the numbers just
were not there. Not
enough applied to fill the position.
>> all right.
if I ask for
one, I guess I will ask for another
one. I would also like to see a
council consensus to look into whether
maybe we can do an expedited process
or grandfather in. I have seen a lot
of this stem from the city of
berkeley on affordable housing or
housing options. Looking at
adu
s or converted spaces through an amnesty
program or fee deferral process.
people may already
have those. And they have done it
without permits allowing them to come
up
to code and actually bring it
to light instead of continuing to
being under the
radar there.
if we can start
a program I would like to see the
city attorney and city manager's office
kind of work together on some kind
of program that can work with the
rest of the staff and bring back to
us to kind of help get some of
these unpermitted adus
or whatever they may be in the city
running. And
so I think with that , maybe also
not
something that
I know government already starts dragging
and making it very difficult
with the process. I think it should
be
something that could be efficiently done.
just to get these individuals and
for us also as the safety purposes
and
code enforcement. To make sure everybody is
legal and everything is done appropriately.
I
don't know your thoughts on that.
>>
I'm supportive of taking a look at
it. I think it is
going to be pretty complicated. There's
lots of variations
of what has been done
.
>> correct.
>> a
lot of years. Dating back to the 20s
and 30s. Some of the
downtown areas . There's two or three
.
>> there's a lot of them. >> dwelling
units on a single lot.
so it is not going to happen
in a week.
>> I know.
and I think it could be some kind
of base process on different types.
>> it
is going to be complicated. They probably
don't even know what is out there.
>>
correct. But at least allows residents
to come forward if they want to
actually make everything permitted
and legal. Instead of us --a lot of
times we
may see things and we just ignore
them. So I thought, here is an
opportunity if we were willing to
do it to go forward.
>> I agree. I think
it sounds like it is going to be a
complicated process. And so
I just need a little more time to
wrap my head around
it.
>> I just want to caution everyone
could we are doing
an in consensus to look into. We are
not necessarily
approving anything this evening.
>> yeah. We are just having staff
look at it. We are not creating the
process right now.
>> okay. Okay.
>> no one is being bound by anything
you
say.
>> I am not forcing you.
>> there is no comment to be said.
it is basically
look into it or we don't. I'm supportive
of looking into anything that would
help folks become existing
nonconforming structure. Or something
to
that effect.
thank you.
>> all right. I think you
have got some consensus there. We're
good with that one too. With that, I
also wanted to reiterate the super
bowl is this weekend, which means
also the rotary
omelette pancake breakfast. If you
haven't been there
, please try to make it this sunday.
7:30 a.m. To
11:30 a.m. . And please make
it out to him rps
held by the
manteca rotary club. It is always
a full house. And you will see councilmember
morowit hopefully will be
there. We
were thinking we were going to get
you in the kitchen this year
and maybe cooking.
>> no, no.
>> the fire department. >> I think
that would require council consensus
to get him into the
kitchen.
>> gabbard >> do we have council
consensus to get him in the kitchen?
>> no. >> no, we
don't. As you can see, everybody knows
morowit's cooking skills. But
with that, I know vice mayor
halford is usually on the microphone.
>> there's going to
be 100
plus raffle prizes and five raffles
during the day so everybody has an
opportunity. It
is a good time. Money goes to a
good cause.
fun scholarships. Donations. Other
nonprofits. Projects both here in
manteca and internationally.
so it supports a lot of good stuff.
>> $15. And you can get them from
a rotarian or also buy them.
>>
and you cannot get that kind of breakfast
for $15 anyway.
>> they are usually
more if
--
>> no. They are a lot less. >>
I will adjourn this meeting at 7:24.