Steve ridden from Cross Point
Church for the invocation and
follow by pastor. It
s going to
be the flag salute by MR. Jake
and MR. Reed Watson, so if we
can all please stand.
Thank you for the privilege of
being here with all of you
today. Just a couple of quick
comments. I
m not going to
preach a sermon or take an
offering, I promise, but we
ve
had the chance to work with the
city on several occasions, and
the stories you hear from
people as though the city is
this, and you have trouble.
Every time I
ve worked with
your staff here, uh, Christine
Demko, Tanis. Carlos and plant
checking Gus and code
enforcement. Elsa and fire.
Margot and community
development have been a dream.
Have been awesome to work with.
So whatever you
re paying them,
you have to give them a raise.
They
re fantastic. Let
s pray.
Jesus, today, uh, we recognize
at the foundation of all this,
all of all this, that, uh, our
resources, our positions, our
power, our authority, all of
it. Ultimately is derived from
you and comes from you. We
re
grateful for what you
ve given
us. GOD, I pray for these men
and women, for the the
business, the work they are
doing today, the decisions
they
re making today. They
would do all this in a way that
helps people best and honors
you. The greatest. Amen.
Amen. Pastor Steve, thank you.
All right. And next we are
going to call up, uh, MR. Jake
and MR. Reed Watson. The Watson
boys. Hi, guys. All right. And
they
re going to be doing the
flag solution for us.
Okay. You.
Put your right hand over your
heart. Ready? Begin. I pledge
allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America. And
to republic for which it
stands. One nation under GOD,
indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
Great job. Gentlemen, come on
up. Great job. Come on up. Come
on up.
I appreciate you guys.
Awesome job, guys. Really,
really good. So just let
everybody know each each city
council meeting. We are calling
up a really, like, young kids
high school and under to come
up and do the flag salute. So I
always put it out there. If you
have anybody or know anybody
who you know is in high school
or below and can do the flag
salute, please let us know.
Alrighty. That being said,
we
re going to move into our
roll call if we can please
start that and get a roll call,
ma
am. Yes, mayor Alexander,
I
m here. Councilmember calf is
here. Council Member Ryan here.
Council member Schwenk here.
And council member Stewart.
Outstanding. Okay. So we
re all
here. Let
s start out. Uh,
we
re going to we have four
presentations today. Our first
one is going to be, uh,
regarding the 250th anniversary
for the United States of
America. So we always have a
quote this year from our
founding fathers. But I think,
Stu, you have two quotes that
you
re going to add, which I
was really appreciative of. So
I
m going to roll it to you.
All right. So I believe we have
a, uh, slide. There we go. The
purpose of money is to purchase
the freedom to pursue that
which was useful and
interesting. And this is a
whole different quote. When you
run in debt, you give another
person, you give another power
over your liberty. And so this
is kind of apropos for the city
of Temecula, because we use
that money for really, really
good purposes. Um, and one of
those purposes is to get out of
debt. So we
re literally a debt
free city in about 4 or 5 more
weeks, we will be completely
pension obligation free. We
ve
been, uh, facilities debt free
for about a year now. And so,
um, just using the money in the
most effective way is, is how
you control, uh. People from
controlling you. And so, so by
staying out of debt, by using
the money for good purposes,
such as parks and, uh, we
ve
we
ve done so much with it
while paying down the debt. So
really, we with the pickleball
and the, uh, the, uh, skate
park and the roller rink, all
this was done while we were
still paying down our debt. So?
So it
s amazing once you once
you get control of your
finances, what a difference
that can make in government and
in your own personal life. So
thank you.
All right. Great job. Thank you
very much. Sue. All right. The
next presentation is going to
be read by myself. And it
s a
presentation of certificate of
a recognition to Dorothy
Skidmore. We
re also known as
Dottie, recognizing her for her
102nd birthday. So she was
supposed to be here with us
today. And to my understanding,
she
s watching online. So if
everybody can say happy
birthday, happy birthday, I was
going to sing to her. But I
think that would take some
time. Um, but I just I
m
putting a little shout out as
well, because I
m planning on
actually going to our house to
present this certificate, so I
don
t know if she knows that.
So here within the next couple
of weeks or today possibly as
well. So with that, I
d like to
just read off the certificate
of congratulations to, uh, MISS
Dottie, the City of Temecula
wishes you the warmest
congratulations on celebrating
your 102nd birthday this year.
In addition to reaching a
milestone age, we would like to
proudly recognize the time,
talent, and dedication you
contributed to our community.
We are grateful for your
service on the p-38 Aircraft
Association or Association at
MARCH Air Force Base and Marine
Corps League Detachment 1057,
in southwest Riverside County
and in the Marietta City
Veterans Memorial Committee.
The City of Temecula
congratulates you and wishes
you many more enjoyable years
with your family and your
friends. Dottie, we just can
t
thank you enough for being 102
and allowing us to be able to
congratulate you on such a
wonderful day. We wish you a
happy birthday and many more.
So I
ll be seeing you here
shortly. Alright, so that being
said, uh, the next one is going
to be a presentation by MR.
Scott. I want to say this
right. Rainer Ranger I see.
Okay, there we go. Of the Rose
Haven Heritage Garden if you
would like to come up. And I
think you have a couple of
people that you want to bring
up with you just to point out
what we
re doing today. So once
a month we have a local
nonprofit coming out to be able
to highlight what they do
within the community, uh, how
they, how they, they serve
others, what that looks like.
And serving others look so
different. And so I wanted to
be able to bring up different
nonprofits, similar to the Rose
Haven Heritage Garden, to just
kind of show off what they do
and what they
re needing, and
how our community can get
involved as community service
community here in our city. So
I want to just say one thing
before you start. Sure. I had
individuals call after our
state of the city and say,
literally tell me that they
went to the Rose Haven after
state of the city because they
didn
t even know what existed.
So we
re super excited you
re
here. We
re thankful, and I
m
going to have you take it away
from now.
Well, thank you so much, mayor,
and I do appreciate the support
you
ve given us to help us
increase our visibility. So on
behalf of the Temecula Valley
Rose society and the Rose Haven
Heritage Garden, thank you for
the opportunity to share with
you our new video, Extending
the Legacy of Rose Haven,
produced by the Media Lab,
which is a film and media
school in Temecula providing
vocational skills training to
adults with disabilities.
Established in 2020, Media Lab
has grown from six students to
a current roster of 85, all of
whom are given the opportunity
to learn how to write scripts,
run cameras, perform, edit and
distribute their work on media.
The Media Lab has also produced,
uh, video collaborations with
the city of Temecula. Zach, you
MAY know that from your state
of the city address that he did
a video for you, so you have
some knowledge. Having produced
our video pro bono, we felt
they deserved some well-earned
community recognition. So let
me introduce Patrick Merrill
with the Media Lab. Patrick,
we
re so appreciative of your
video, which will support us as
we celebrate our 35th
anniversary in OCTOBER of 26.
The Media Lab website. If you
want to learn more, the Media
labs, the Media Lab. With that,
please run the video.
Thank you.
Welcome to our garden. I
ve
been with the society since we
started in 1990.
In the newspaper one day there
was a little notice about a
beginning road society, and so
I went to the meeting. Rebecca
was there and we started the
Rosa. About a year later, bill
Johnson does this corner lot.
He said we could plant a rose
garden here. And we started
with about 400 rose bushes.
Here we are today, 35 years
later with a beautiful spot.
So I joined the newly formed
Rose society and decided that I
would become a consulting rose
in creating a garden like this
require not only money, we
don
t have government support.
We do ask for donations of
people who visit the garden.
Also the volunteers to make it
happen.
I
m a volunteer here at Rose
Haven Heritage Garden. I
m also
on the board for the Temecula
Valley Rose society, and it
means I get to be hands on in
the garden as much as I like.
So by being part of the Rose
Haven Committee, we understand
each of the areas of the garden
and what needs work and who can
come and volunteer. And it
s
just a learning process too.
It
s a lot of fun to learn. You
know, to see the joy that
people have when they come here
overflowing with emotion and
how beautiful it is. They thank
us for all the work that we do.
So it
s just we see how much
people enjoy it. Such a zen
full experience. You just sit
there and see all the little
critters that are out here. We
can hear the fountain. If
you
re working in certain
parts, you
re just out in
nature. Everything that
s in
your head just goes away and
you
re just focused on what
s
in front of you.
This is truly a garden that is
here for our area and serves a
great purpose to not only our
whole garden, but all the
gardens around us. The
pollinator garden was developed
in 2024 with the global message
of climate change and caring
for the Earth. As an overall,
you know, having all native
Southern California plants
planted in this garden, that is
what attracts the native
Southern California
pollinators. Our bees that are
native to Southern California
are mason bees. They
re great
pollinators. The type of
habitat that we have created
for them with tubes allow them
to reproduce and pollinate our
plants.
But it wasn
t until I had a
health issue that took me to
the hospital nearby. I would
stop here at the garden on the
way home from the hospital,
just to catch my breath,
meditate, reflect. Just
enjoying the peacefulness of
this garden. I would meet the
people who were volunteering
here and decided to get
involved. So I encourage other
people if they have time or
inclination to volunteer. We
certainly could use your help
here in the garden.
People take pictures of
flowers, but it
s better to be
with the flowers. They have the
flower right in front of you.
That
s more exciting. You know,
that
s what an artist does, is
engage with nature. And he was
like, when you really stare up
and just study the contours of
a plant or whatever subject is,
you
re touching it in a way.
The American Rose society,
which our local society is a
part of, is a member of the
World Federation Rose society
at their conference every three
years, there are inducted
into the Hall of Fame. The
reason they
re inducted is that
the roses perform around the
world. If you see a rose here
in our Hall of Fame, you will
know that it is a rose that you
can put it in your own garden
and it will perform well. And
we
re not just roses. We have
so many different environments
within the entire rose garden.
So if you want to see what
plants that grow well in this
community, Rose Haven is worth
your time to come and visit.
It provides.
A place for people.
To come and sit and listen to
the water fall. And reflect.
In an urban environment, it
s
hard.
To.
Find a place like this.
It was started by.
A group of. Rose enthusiasts
and they were gifted the
opportunity to plant roses
here, and they
ve turned it
into what you
ve been able to
see as the. Most gorgeous and.
Only true public.
Garden in Temecula. The
Rosamond Heritage. Garden is
totally supported by
volunteers.
Everything you.
See is.
Done by volunteers, whether
it
s.
Pruning, it
s fertilizing, it
s
mulching, it
s raking, it
s
taking care of the weeds. We
also need donors. Every single
thing that you donate goes to.
Maintain this garden. We want
you to be involved. Go to our
Instagram, our Facebook page,
your time is the most
important. Element of keeping
this garden alive and well.
Scott, do you want to come back
up? Do you have anything else
left to say? Said it all,
didn
t it?
Thank you very much for all
your support. And we
re looking
forward to the many things
we
re going to be doing with
the city and the year ahead,
including our summer camps for
youth. Uh, first time that the
program of Temecula is offering
youth garden camps. So put in a
plug for that as well.
Thank you, thank you. If I can
ask one last question, if
there
s one, 2 or 3 things that
your organization needs, what
does that look like?
Well, um, donors. Okay.
Volunteers, memrs.
Love that.
Those are our three buckets of,
you know, of interest. But
being totally, um, volunteer
run and donation funded and
going into our 35th
anniversary, that
s what we
need. We need, um, corporate
and individual sponsorship and
donation support and volunteers
to help us both in the garden
and organizationally. Because
as you can imagine, and as you
can see in the legacy video,
um, those who I call the OGs,
the original gardeners, we
re
getting a little older. We need
a new wave of talent coming in
from a volunteer standpoint.
So I love that. Thank you.
Well, I just want to thank you
and your team for all that you
guys do. And thank you again
for doing the wonderful video
with your team as well. So
thank you very much.
Thank you guys for making.
Okay.
All right okay. So that will
conclude our presentations.
MADAM Mayor we
re.
Going to go ahead and go back.
Oh yes. We still have one more
don
t we.
The mayor
s trophy. Um, yes.
I want to save the best for
last two.
It
s wonderful.
This was great. All right, so
I
m going to call down my
entire team up here if we can.
All the council members, and I
believe you are going to read
off the names.
I
m happy to do that.
Thank you very much. All right,
let
s do it.
And as the council is
approaching the podium, we will
note that the California
mayor
s Cyber Cup event focuses
on the regional importance of
cybersecurity education and
community engagement by
providing a platform that
allows all students to engage
and grow their skills. Students
work together in teams to
compete and solve various
challenges related to
cybersecurity and information
technology. The city of
Temecula congratulates the team
again for placing first in the
high school division, and
wishes you continued success in
future endeavors. And today, we
have with us Coach Chris Meglio
and six individual students
Geek Williams, Terrence Cota,
Ophelia, Rudra, Goa, Kevin Cao,
Albert Alberto Cota, Polo, and
Cheyenne Ahmed. Welcome guys
and gals.
All right, we got everybody up
here that
s here today. Okay,
well, first off, I just want to
just say congratulations to you
guys. A lot of hard work being
put in. And again, you know,
you
re always bringing this
trophy back. So I very
appreciative. And I
d like to
be able to take a picture and
then see if any of our council
members has anything else to
say and go from there. And then
we
re going to end up also
handing out medals to all of
you as well. So I think we
re
going to have the mayor pro tem
do that part, and we
ll hand
out the certificates as well.
And um, yeah, let
s do let
s do
a photo first and we
ll go from
there.
Yeah, yeah. All right. Ready
one. Perfect. One more, one
more. Yep. Two, three.
Outstanding. All right, well,
let
s do this. If I can have a
mayor pro tem. And, Steve, if
you guys want to come down here
on this end and we will have
each one of you guys come down
and we
ll put the medals on you
guys, as well as shake your
hands and congratulate you
guys. So let
s first do I
m
going to really push these
names. Um, I
m going to just
say the first name. So let
s do
coach first. Coach come on
down. Thank you for all you.
Did.
Oh he. Just he just says this
is last day for in retirement
as far as for doing this.
So congratulations on you..
All right MR. Rio. Who
s Rio.
Hi, Rio.
Congratulations.
Thank you very much. Great job.
And then here you go. All
right. Uh, the next one is is
it Terence? I say that right.
All right, there you go.
Congratulations. All right.
Thank you very much for your
hard work and dedication. All
right. Shot shy. Cheyenne. I
see that right. There we go.
There you go, sir. Great job.
Congratulations. Okay, MR.
Williams, I
m going to do I
m
gonna do your last name first.
There you go. How do you say
your first name? Gokey. All
right, well, great job. Thank
you.
All right.
Kakao.
Whoops.
Whoops. I
m dropping your
certificate, MR. Kevin. And how
do you say your last name? How
nice to meet you. And
congratulations. All right,
sir, thank you very much.
Great job.
Alberto, how do you say your
last name? Yeah. That. Okay.
There you go.
Congratulations.
Thank you very much. All right.
I
m going to pass this down to
see if any of my colleagues
have.
Any.
There are a lot smarter than I
am. That
s all I can say. I I
m
always amazed every time I see
this group of kids and what
they actually do is pretty
crazy.
So.
Congratulations.
Yeah, I love the Stem programs.
Love what you guys do. I
m
sorry to hear it
s it
s you.
Did I hear it
s your last year?
This is my last day. So
they
ve.
Won.
Three of the last four. Wow.
And they
re set up to do really
well next year with our new
coach.
Wonderful. Well, thank you for
all your hard work and guys.
Congratulations.
Yeah. Thank you very much.
For all.
Your hard work. And then to.
The team we
re just really
proud of you. You can bring
this cup back. So just way to
represent Temecula so well.
Thank you.
Great job.
I, I also hello.
Hello.
All right I
m so sorry. It
s my
first time with this mic.
All right. Hello. Excuse me.
I
ll just pop left. Um, I just
want to say thank you to the
city of Temecula. I want to say
thank you to Great Oaks High
School. I want to say thank you
to MR. Fish and Michio for all
his medication and for the
city
s dedication to
cybersecurity and education and
career education. And I also
have a medal for MISS, uh,
Mayor Alexandra, uh, to
congratulate her for her
leadership. Um, and, uh, you
know, um, thank you. Thank you
for to my.
You see all sorts of things
online.
Oh.
Thank you.
Yes.
Oh, yeah. Even if someone was
older. Yeah.
Thank.
Luke.
Just.
It
s on.
It
s cool.
Alrighty, gentlemen, to the
team again. Congratulations.
And thank you for your hard
work and dedication. All right,
now, we
ve gone through all of
our presentations. Is that
correct, ma
am? Thank you for
keeping me in check here. Uh,
the next one is boarding
commissions, which we have no
reports on. Next one is our
amazing public safety report
done by the County of Riverside
Sheriff
s Department Chief Mark
Ghaly.
Amazing indeed, ma
am. Thank
you. Uh, mayor Alexandria
council, city staff members of
the public. Good afternoon.
It
s a pleasure to be with you.
Next slide please. I
ve just
some stats for you and then
some information I
m going to
share with you about our core
team. Um, here we have a slide
for first slide. Total calls
for service for MAY 2026. Uh,
came in 5857 calls graph
beneath that MAY calls for
service priorities one through
four. Uh, priority one calls
that came in at 73. Priority to
that just over 2000 priority
threes 2480. And priority four
is at 1240. Next slide please.
Again a breakdown um of our
priority calls one through four
and the pie chart. And in the
upper right corner you see that
the average response times
priority one calls list a
little over six minutes. Uh,
response time to our priority
one calls, 11 minutes to
priority two, 16 and 21 to our
threes and fours. Nothing
surprising there. It
s about
what we average. Next slide
please. So I have some stats up
there for you about our core
team. And I have a little, um,
information that I
m going to
share with you about that. Um,
and see the stats for JANUARY
through MAY of 2026. Area
checks, camp checks. And so
down the left side there. So
our core team, which operates
from the Old Town Sheriff
s
substation, focuses on
improving quality of life
throughout the city by
combining outreach, enforcement
and problem solving, working
closely with seized swag,
behavioral health professionals
and other community partners.
Core deputies address ongoing
community concerns while
helping connect individuals and
families with available
resources and services. The
statistics displayed on the
screen provide a snapshot of
the team
s activity each month
since the beginning of the
year. While a number of
themselves are important, they
only tell part of the story.
Each outreach attempt a camp
check, a pedestrian contact
represents an opportunity to
engage with individuals in
need, address community
concerns, and connect people
with services that can help
improve their circumstances.
One recent success story
highlights the impact of this
collaborative approach, and
demonstrates how consistent
outreach, enforcement, and
partnership between core Swag
and other service providers can
produce meaningful results. For
years, core deputies and Swag
personnel worked with an
individual who had become well
known throughout the community
due to chronic homelessness,
substance abuse, and repeated
contacts with law enforcement.
Despite numerous outreach
efforts and offers of
assistance, he was often
unwilling or unable to accept
help. Following a recent arrest
and period of incarceration, he
experienced what he described
as, quote, a moment of clarity
and reached out seeking
treatment with the assistance
of swag and community partners.
He was successfully connected
to a sobering center and later
transferred into a treatment
program. Perhaps most
importantly, he shared that the
consistent encouragement and
support he received from core
deputies from Swag and city
staff over the years left a
lasting impression on him, even
during times when he was not
receptive to help. He
specifically credited those
efforts as one of the reasons
he ultimately chose to begin
his recovery journey. While
every situation is unique, the
story demonstrates the value of
Temecula collaborative approach
to addressing homelessness and
quality of life concerns by
combining outreach,
accountability, and access to
services. Core Swag and other
community partners continue
creating opportunities for
positive change while enhancing
the quality of life throughout
our community. And so, uh, I
would just add that I
m
extremely proud of my core
deputies and the work that all
the city staff does and swag.
Uh, it is not an easy space to
operate in. It
s often
thankless. It
s, um, something
that not everybody can do or
has the ability or patience or
willingness to do. But I think,
again, this example, um,
demonstrates the importance
that we continue this
collaborative effort to address
this issue in our community.
And, um, it certainly is, um,
wonderful to see the success,
the success stories that can
come about when people finally
reach the point where they
re
ready to make a change for
themselves. And so, again, uh,
just a good example of that.
And it
s something that I will
continue to encourage the core
deputies and the city staff to,
to continue to push forward in
that space. So unless there
s
any questions for me, uh, that
will conclude my public safety
report.
Any questions for my colleagues?
No. Okay. You guys are all
doing a great job. Thank you,
thank you. Keep up the great
work. All right. Next we
re
going to move into public
comment, uh, for non-agenda
items, do we have any public
comments?
Yes, MADAM Mayor, we have four
public comments on non-agenda
items. There are no other
public comments on any portion
of the agenda item. Each
speaker will be limited to
three minutes pursuant to the
rules listed on the agenda. The
first speaker is Susan Witten,
to be followed by Laura Lamont.
Spring rose.
Hi, MISS Susan, good to see
you.
Um.
I just.
Want to say thank you. And to
echo what Scott has talked
about today, after you
ve seen
the beautiful, um, video, but
also the one that you all
produced for the state of the
city. I have shared that with
all of my friends and family.
They
re sick of it. It
s like,
why? Because it
s beautiful.
Um, so we want to just say
thank you for all the things
that you
ve helped us with this
year as a non-profit
organization. We started the
year with a grant for tools
that enable us to to provide
the right kinds of tools for
the right kinds of activities
throughout the garden, for the
folks who come for our
educational classes. And this
summer, with the science camp,
all of the kids will have their
own tools to work with. So it
is a wonderful project that
we
re thankful that we got the
funding. Um, we also got the
buckets for the composting,
which I was here a couple of
times to get more of them, and
we had 40 moms and daughters
who actually donated compost
throughout the year. So that
was 930 hours of community
service that they earned by
bringing compost to our rose
garden. And we use that in the
garden, but we also give it out
to the community as well. And
then, uh, the last thing was
the end of the year
collaboration with the
Community Services department,
um, to put on the science camp,
which we
re extremely excited
about. So we have future garden
scientists within our midst.
And for all those kids who
maybe don
t have a garden, this
is a wonderful opportunity. So
we just wanted to say thank you
and come and smell the roses.
All right. Thank you Susan.
Always great to see you, ma
am.
Next up is Laura Lamont, to be
followed by Steven Gerrard.
How are you, Laurel.
Hi.
All right. I
m going to try
something a little different.
Instead of talking about
warehouse at Creekside, let
s
talk about your local workforce.
Where in Temecula can a full
time grocery worker afford to
live? Without it being
combative, I just challenge
every single one of you to go
back home tonight and really
give that some thought. Have
that conversation when they
re
bagging your groceries because
it
s not transitional work.
It
s full time employment and
the local workforce is here to
be accessible to the
homeowners. But without a
diversity of housing stock, we
don
t have room or the space
for the workforce. We
ve got to
create a solution to this. My
son turned 21st JUNE first and
I apologize. I couldn
t be here
at that last meeting. That
massive power line meeting. I
was at a therapy appointment
with my son because a single
mom raising a boy without a
grandparent or a father figure,
just myself. Somebody who chose
to produce a child and bring a
child into the world. I didn
t
choose abortion. I have been
housing insecure for his entire
life, but I have been fully
employed my entire life. My
last two paychecks, 1514
hundred, my rent in an
affordable apartment in
Temecula, $2,250. That
s not
affordable. That
s not doable.
That
s more expensive than some
homeowners mortgages in this
city. I am asking you, as my
representatives, as this
community
s representatives, to
have this dialogue. Stu, I
m. I
keep looking at you because I,
I, I just know that you have
this really good heart, and you
always kind of
self-deprecating, but you are a
numbers guy. You are a data
guy. Brendon. You already know
I like you and I value you and
I respect you and Matt Ron as
well. The other two, I don
t
know. But just look at this.
Let
s have this dialogue. It
s
not an impractical dialogue to
have. Thank you.
Thank you so much for your
comments.
The next speaker is Steven
Gerrard. Sadowski to be
followed by our last speaker,
Isabelle.
Hello, Steven.
Looking good.
Good afternoon, beloved mayor.
Council citizens of Temecula. I
am lay brother Steven Gerrard,
said I
m delighted to be back
in your wonderful city of
Temecula and I love roses. I
love gardening, uh, a lot, lot,
lot that
s going on here. Very
professional city council. Uh,
for those of you who don
t know
it, I traveled the country, uh,
amplifying a new pro-life
possibility. That pro-life
possibility is called usa pre
born personhood cities. I
ve
left a wonderful Bible bookmark
with your staff for all of you.
Uh, the mayor and council. Uh,
step one of the. Let
s retract
a little bit. I was able to
make it to your California
MARCH for life. Uh, in
Sacramento in mid MARCH. And I
can attest that about 4000
citizens showed up and were
very exuberant about the
sanctity of life. And there
s
some pictures right there which
justify that. And I
m delighted
to let you know that they
support new usa pre born
personhood cities. My goal is
to get you to move in the new
direction. I think you
ll be
interested in it. We can do it
because of the us Supreme
Court. Dobbs decision. Step one
is to pass a pre born
personhood resolution. That
s
step one. And I
m providing you
a copy of one of those
resolutions. Step two the
citizens now have the ability
to actually vote in pre born
personhood language into a
charter. Now you
re a new city.
I think you started in 1989. As
your symbol indicates. So you
would go ahead and form a
charter commission in the
future and you would establish
your city charter, and then you
would bring me in. I have the
preamble covenant language for
the charter. I can tell you
that that language has already
been published in newspapers.
There
s an example of one of my
efforts in the United States.
By doing so, you will become on
the East Coast. We call it safe
cities. But actually right here
I prefer that you just call it
a safe, pre born personhood
city. This is a new direction
for pro-life in America. My
goal is to transform the
culture of death into the
sanctity of life. We can do
that because of the us Supreme
Court. Dobbs decision. I
d like
to end with a song on the
Bible. Bookmark by Ann Delaney,
Menlo Park cancer survivor who
let the bleeding.
Hearts, who let the beating
heart show you there is life in
the womb.
GOD bless you. Email me and
text me. I
ll be happy to give
you all the education. Thank
you for all your love of the
city.
Thank you sir for coming.
In. And the last speaker is
Isabel.
Afternoon, Isabel.
Hello, my name is Isabel. I
didn
t prepare a speech today
for the Rose Haven Garden. I
just want you to know if you
re
still here. Um, the orange and
black koi fish has a hook in
its mouth. I told one of the
volunteers, but it
s still
there. When I went back the
next day. You
re welcome. Um,
I
ve been homeless 18 months,
going on 19. I have actually
asked for help. And as someone
who has experienced
homelessness firsthand, I have
witnessed all the brokenness in
the system. And I think it
s
important not to just focus on
the positive, because in doing
so, you ignore the suffering
that people actually have to
endure. And it does not bring
effective solutions to people
who have to try to navigate a
system they don
t know much
about. I overheard a woman who
was leaving a dv domestic
violence situation saying that
the shelter didn
t open until
Monday, and it was a Friday.
There
s been a lot of different
encounters, stories that I
ve
heard, and I understand people
can turn their lives around,
but when the odds are stacked
against them and they have
asked for help repeatedly and
their personal autonomy is
something that is in my
particular circumstances,
seemingly wanting to be taken
away from me. I don
t think
that
s acceptable. We do have a
us Constitution where I know we
have rights. We have civil
rights as well as freedom of
religion. I have peacefully
protested outside of the city
hall and law enforcement
officers had told me that the
city told me that they wanted
me off their property, even
though it was public property,
and I have a right to
peacefully protest. And it just
seems that it
s okay that if a
human being suffers in silence,
so long as it
s not in your
face where people are aware of
it. And I don
t think that
s
okay. And I don
t think that
s
excusable. And I
m not here to
a place blame. But just to
point out how inhumane it is
and how there
s different ways
of handling things. I overheard
the officer, Mark, expressing
how he helps individuals who go
through homelessness and
oftentimes doesn
t get thanked
for it. When an individual has
been very, very, very
traumatized, they
re not in a
state or a place to be
thankful. If someone goes out
and saves an individual who is
drowning, or is a lifeguard
going to get angry at that
person for hitting them in the
head while they
re wailing
their hands, just trying to
stay afloat? There
s a lot of
brokenness in the system, and
I
ve spoken many times, and I
think it
s just a shame. I
think it
s a shame and it
s
heartbreaking because real day
suffering has happened in many
people
s lives, and sometimes
they need help. But when trust
is broken, it
s broken. And
oftentimes it can
t always be
repaired. I have spent so many
nights in my life where I have
had sheer panic, terror and
fear, trusting nobody. And
that
s not an exaggeration.
And that
s your time.
I
m well aware. Thank you
Jessica.
Thank you ma
am. All right,
let
s move on to the next is
going to be our city Council
reports. Would any of my
colleagues like to go first on
that one? All right, MR. Stew.
I believe I have a slide. All
right. Summer concert series
starts Thursday, two days. Um,
first one is Pulp Vixen, which
is always entertaining. Um,
this is this is, to me, one of
the one of my other favorite
times of the year is summertime
concerts. And this year we
re
having eight concerts instead
of the normal five. And, um,
what
s really cool about these
events is the fact that you see
neighbors sitting with
neighbors, and it
s just it
really brings the community
together and there
s no
politics in concerts or in
music. It
s just it
s just
beautiful music and it
s just a
lot of fun. So if you get a
chance, come out this Thursday,
get here before seven, because
it usually fills up pretty
good. So if you get here around
six and there
s going to be
food vendors on the outside of
the quad, they
re so, uh, come
down, have a little snack
before the concert series. But
it
s always, always a lot of
fun. So that
s that.
All right. Thank you. Stu.
Matt. Anything? All right. Move
to my left. Go ahead.
Back. Yeah. Thank you very
much, MADAM Mayor. I have a
couple of slides and a quick
reel. I wanted to put together
a team to support habitat for
humanity Inland Valley. So
they
re doing this playhouse
blitz at Storm Stadium on JUNE
26th from 9 to 1. Um, if anyone
would like to join me in
building this playhouse, I
d be
more than happy to let you join
the team. So it
s whether it
s
my colleagues or someone on
city staff or just anyone out
in the community. Uh, join me
while we do some good for
habitat for humanity. And I
m
pretty sure you get to enjoy a
baseball game as well, so that
should be a fun day. Um, if we
could go to the. Okay, we can
do this one. Uh, so, you know,
through, you know, city
council, I
ve met some really
great people. And one of those,
uh, persons is, uh, Bridget
Morris is a COUNCILWOMAN In
Wilda Moore. And through her, I
met some really cool willed
Martians. And they do this, um,
taco bike ride in Willmar, and
they
re doing one. They
re
actually coming down to
Temecula. So if anyone would
want to, uh, to join us on that
ride, it
ll be next Tuesday.
We
ll meet at the Stampede
parking lot at 620, and we
re
gonna ride to Los Tacos over by
Chaparral High School, and then
we
ll ride back. So just kind
of a fun, fun evening. Uh,
supporting local businesses.
And 250 tacos, $2.50 tacos. So
you can
t really beat that. And
then the last one will be this
slide. So we
re always working
on ways to improve our parks.
And one of those is restrooms.
And so we continually get
requests for restrooms in our
parks. And over the last few
years, we
ve updated quite a
few of our parks. And this year
we have we
ll be unveiling
actually, they
re open now, but
two new restrooms, one at Long
Canyon Creek Park and the other
at Vail Ranch Park. So if we
could roll that reel.
Hey everyone, it
s Mike Wooten
again, and we have an important
update on the Long Canyon Creek
and Vail Ranch parks. And yes,
it
s about bathrooms. It
s not
every day we leave with the
bathroom story, but when nature
calls, local government
answers. You probably heard us
talking about these restroom
projects for a while now, and
we
re excited to say they
re no
longer just coming soon. The
restrooms are open, fully
operational, and helping make
everyone
s life a little bit
easier at the parks. So next
time you
re out enjoying one of
these parks, you can rest easy
knowing that these facilities
are up and running. I know it
s
not the flashiest project we
ve
covered, but it might be one of
the most appreciated.
And that is the progress report
for our bathrooms. And
definitely like the restrooms
are certainly like one of the
most appreciated items in our
parks, whether you
re with your
littles or if you
re out on a
run or a ride or something and
need water and a restroom. But
these on your map in there are
now two new restrooms in our
parks, and we
ll be looking to
add more in the future. All
right. Thank you.
Great information. We all need
bathrooms. Uh, Cal us. You
don
t have anything. Okay. All
right. I
m just going to kick
it off real quick here. We
ll
start out with the last meeting
that I had just last week with
the mayor
s roundtable. So I
had an opportunity for our JUNE
roundtable to bring in
businesses of all types, uh,
and talking really about
economic development and what
that looks like in our city. We
brought in our staff to be able
to have those conversations as
well and see what is going
really, really well and where
we need to continue to do
better here as a city with our
businesses. We end up having
the chamber come in. We had,
uh, manufacturers come in
coffee shop, uh, you know, let
me see. We we brought in a
coffee shop. We we invited
them. We had invited medical
old town, uh, retailer, small
businesses. The mall,
restaurant, entertainment,
private schools and large
retailers as well. So we really
wanted to look at a variety of
different businesses and see
how we can collaborate and work
together and see where really
we can continue to improve as a
city and looking at what not
only that they need, but also
our community needs. So I just
want to give a shout out to
each one of those who came, uh,
brought great information and
we were able to take some of
that back and be able to
utilize it, whether it
s
economic development or even
other areas. So I just want to
say thank you to them and also
to the team for putting that
together. Uh, the next slide
please. Next one, I want to
invite everybody to come out.
This has been something that
we
ve been talking about for
the last few months and has
quickly unfolded. I just want
to say thank you to our us
representative, Darrell Issa,
our Congressman. We have a
gentleman here who is a Chief
Warrant Officer, Eric Howe with
the United States Marine Corps.
And we are going to, uh,
basically be over in are we
doing it in front or. Betsy,
we
re doing it right here.
That
s right. Uh, for his
heroic actions during, uh,
during the time of the us
embassy in Panama invasion in
1989. So he is going to be
finally receiving his award of
Foreign Service Award for
heroism. So we are very excited
and thankful that, uh,
Congressman Darrell Issa is
going to come and represent and
present that to him. But I also
want to just put that out to
the public for anybody. And
Temecula and beyond, to be able
to come out and just be able to
be there and be a part of that.
So that was that one. Uh, next
slide please, for 4th of JULY.
And finishing on this, we have
the 4th of JULY parade coming
up. Everybody should know by
now is our 250th birthday. And
we really want to make this
something special. And our team
is really doing a great job
being able to reach out to
people. We still have more
entries left, and it
s going to
be closing down, I believe in
about a week if I
m correct as
a team shaking their head. And
so i
m very excited for that.
But I we want to make sure we
can fill up all those entries,
but we
d also like to see the
entire community come out for
the 4th of JULY parade,
obviously, 4th of JULY on
Saturday, and that is going to
be here on Front Street, along
with our 4th of JULY fun and
fireworks on Saturday, 4th of
JULY, uh, from 2 to 10 at
Ronald Reagan Sports Park. So
come on out. Enjoy. It
s going
to be a great time as always,
and I just want to just just
speak out to the to the lady
that that came last. Um, just
want to speak out to the
community first. Really. You
know, having been on this
council now for six and a half
years, it
s been an honor and a
pleasure working with everybody
from community services to
swag, uh, to the nonprofits.
And I can definitely sit here
and say, 110% that this city
does everything it can to be
able to support individuals who
are dealing with homeless
issues, and there is not one
person that ever comes before
any of us that we ever want to
shun away or say, you
re not
worthy. And so to that woman
that came, please come back,
reach out to myself. I would
love to be able to sit with
you. I think I
ve said that
before, but we have an
incredible community here, and
this community does not look at
homelessness lightly. And we
will continue to work hard in
making sure that everybody who
wants a home has a pathway to
get into a home. And today, I
just had an incredible
opportunity to sit with some
ladies who were leaders in
nonprofits. And what we
re
looking at possibly doing in
the future and how we can
continue to work together. So
for that woman, please come
back, reach out to me via
email, or just come back to
City Hall. So with that, we
re
going to move on to our consent
calendar. And we have 11 items
today. And I
ll read the titles
to them. Number one is the
waive reading of titles and
texts of all ordinances and
resolutions included in the
agenda. Number two, approve
action minutes of MAY 21st,
2026 to MAY 26th, 2026. Number
three approved list of demands.
Number four adopt resolutio
approving the Statement of
Investment Policy and
delegating investment authority
to the City Treasurer. Number
five adopt list of projects to
be funded by Senate Bill sb one
for fiscal year 2026, 2027.
Number six approve city
sponsorship contribution to
Mount sac College tribute
campaign supporting University
Center efforts and student
success initiatives. Number
seven Award construction
contract to the Vance
Corporation for the road for
the road Pavement
Rehabilitation Project 2505
number eight approved First
Amendment with County of River
Riverside. For library services
at the Ronald h. Roberts
Temecula Public Library.
Library number nine. Approve
First Amendment to minor
maintenance agreement with
Computer Alert Systems, Inc.
For fire and security alarm
monitoring services for fiscal
year 2026 2027. Number ten
adopt resolution declaring an
emergency condition for the
repair and replacement of the
storm drain along Inez Road and
declaring the public interest
and necessity requirements work
to be performed without
competitive bidding pursuant to
Public Contract Code Section
1102, 21, 68 and 22050, and our
last one, number 11, accept
improvements and file the
notice of completion for
sidewalks, paver road projects.
1920. Unless I have, my
colleagues would like to pull
an item. Can I get a motion of
approval?
I
ll move consent second.
Okay, let
s vote. All right.
Uh, City clerk, I am going to
yay on everything, and I
m
going to say nay to number six,
please.
That will be the same for me,
MADAM City clerk.
For the record, I just noted
two nays on number six, and you
can go ahead and vote on the
full consent calendar. Now.
Thank you very much. All right.
And that motion passes five
zero. Thank you to my
colleagues. All right. Next, I
think I
m passing this over to
Stu for community service
district. But before that,
we
re going to recess the city
council meeting, uh, to
scheduled meetings of this, uh,
of the Temecula community
services District, the
successor agency to the
Temecula Redevelopment Agency
and the Temecula Housing
Authority and or the Temecula
Public Financing Authority.
Over to you, Stu, for community
services.
All right. I will, uh, begin
the Temecula community service
meeting. Uh, MADAM Secretary,
please note, we
re all still
here. Are there any public
comments? Okay. Seeing none, we
have only one item which is
approved. Action
Minutes of MAY 26th, 2026.
I
ll move the item.
Second.
It
s been moved and seconded.
Please vote. And that passes
five zero. So, do we have a
director
s report?
We do indeed. We have several
items. We
d like to bring
everybody
s attention to. First
and foremost, we have the
summer reading program over at
the library. So this is a
beloved annual tradition where
for six weeks in the summer,
you can go to the library every
single week. There are
different activities. Every
Wednesday is Wacky Wednesday,
and there
s a fun activity for
everyone. There are reading
clubs and challenges for all
ages. There
s face painting.
It
s just an amazing,
absolutely free resource for
families in the community. So I
encourage everyone to take
advantage of this. Uh, that
began yesterday on JUNE 8th and
it will run for the rest of the
summer, so don
t MISS It. Next
slide please. Over at the Mary
Phillips Senior Center, we host
a cool and a warm center. And
basically what that means is
during the summer months when
it
s hot out, if you are
suffering from the heat and you
need a place of respite, you
can go to Mary Phillips Senior
Center, have some water, sit,
enjoy the company, and just be
in a place that is nice and
cool. And in the winter, same
thing. We offer a warm center
so that will be operational as
the cool center from JUNE 1st
through OCTOBER 15th of this
year. Next slide please. And
then we have coming up on
Saturday our Juneteenth Culture
days over at Sam Hicks Monument
Park. That will be from 11 A.M.
To 1 P.M.. Like all of our
culture days, we
re going to
have some great food, music,
crafts and entertainment.
Again, great free event for
families of all ages to come
and enjoy. Next slide please.
And last but not least, I
wanted to mention our summer
fun camps. Starting this week
we have summer fun camps on
just about every topic you can
imagine. You can register for
these classes and the one that
the Rose society was mentioning
earlier about our gardening
science camp, which is going to
be for kids 6 to 13 years old.
You can register for all of
these camps at Temecula, gov.
Classes. We have things for
every interest fitting, every
time slot. I mean, there
s just
a ton of activities this summer
for your kids to take part in.
And that concludes my report.
Right. And General managers
report. Nothing further. All
right. Any directors nones. We
will adjourn until the next
one.
All right. And we are going to
reconvene the Temecula City
Council meeting. All right. I
d
like to call to order a joint
meeting for the city council.
Temecula community Services
district and successor agency
to the Temecula agency to the
Temecula Redevelopment Agency.
So this will be our joint
public meeting or joint hearing.
Uh, number three, we are going
to talk about thepproval for
fiscal years 2027 through 31,
capital improvement, cip to
adopt fiscal year 2026 through
27, cip and annual operating
budgets for the city of
Temecula. The Temecula
Community Services District,
and the successor agency to the
Redevelopment Agency. And I
would ask if Jennifer Hennessey
can please give us our staff
report.
Sure.
Thank you. Yes, ma
am.
Good afternoon.
Mayor, city council members.
Today
s presentation will be an
abbreviated version of the
annual operating budget and
capital improvement program
that was presented in detail
during the council
s budget
workshop held on MAY 21st. Will
provide the highlights of the
General Fund measure s and csd
funds, as well as the city
s
Capital Improvement Program. I
will also summarize updates to
the budget policies and review
the actions taken at the budget
workshop that will be included
in the final budget. If
approved today. The General
Fund serves as the city
s
primary operating fund and
provides the funding required
to deliver public safety,
public works, community
development and administrative
services to the City of
Temecula. General fund revenue
is projected to reach $126
million, with sales tax
contributing 38% of total
revenue. Expenditures are
projected to be 112 million.
Next fiscal year, and transfers
to other funds include $1
million repayment to the fire
Facility Acquisition Fund,
which had advanced $5 million
to the general fund to
accelerate the debt payoff for
the city
s pension, and as part
of the debt liability payout
strategy, 9.3 million in
available general fund balance
will be utilized to completely
pay off the unfunded pension
liability and to ensure that
the city has the resources to
address any future pension
liabilities. A $7.5 million
deposit into the city
s pension
trust is recommended. Total
l fund expenditures are
projected to increase by 8% to
112 million, of which 58% is
dedicated to public safety. The
sheriff
s budget reflects an 8%
increase due to negotiated
compensation adjustments
between the Riverside County
and the Riverside. Riverside
Sheriff
s Association. The fire
budget reflects a 7.7% increase
due to the prior year
s vacant
positions, which are assumed to
be filled in 2627. The
remaining non safety
departments make up 42% of the
general fund budget and are
decreasing slightly from the
prior year by 0.2% due to
pension savings, offsetting all
other increases and the
non-departmental category
includes payments for the
Calpers replacement benefit.
Property tax administration and
the Staffing Continuity Reserve.
The ending fund balance for the
general fund is projected to be
29.7 million. Next fiscal year,
reserves are fully funded at 28
million, and after deducting
for future commitments, the
available fund balance is
projected to be 1.1 million for
one time appropriations, or the
further pay down of debt per
budget policy. Measure s is the
$0.01 transactions and use tax
approved by Temecula voters in
NOVEMBER of 2016. This revenue
source became effective in
APRIL of 2017 and has generated
nearly $275 million in revenue.
For fiscal year 2627, measure s
revenues expected to increase
by 3.5% over the prior year to
40.7 million. Total
appropriations are budgeted at
48 million and are in line with
council
s policy guidelines.
Prioritizing public safety,
asset management, capital
projects and community services.
The Temecula Community Services
District is a separate legal
entity from the city, and has
its own operating budget, and
for next fiscal year, the csd
budget reflects revenue
totaling 19.7 million. Program
revenue, which includes the
income from contract classes,
registration fees, de camp,
aquatics and theater tickets is
projected to be $3 million.
Measure c, which is the $74 and
44 cent parcel tax dedicated to
parks, programs and
maintenance, is expected to be
$2 million, and the measure s
contribution of 14.7 million
provides the remaining revenue
necessary to cover the
operations and maintenance to
facilitate programs, services
and events. Operating
expenditures of 19.7 million
are decreasing by 4.2%,
primarily due to the savings
from five vacant authorized
positions and 15 project
positions, leaving an ending
fund balance of $100,000 for
fiscal year 2627. The Capital
Improvement Program is a
comprehensive five year plan
that addresses the capital
needs of the city. Capital
projects are those that cost
over $30,000, have a long term
life span, and are generally
non-recurring. The fiscal year
27 through 31 cip includes 94
separate projects, with total
cost of over $916 million. The
city has secured funding
sources totaling 634 million,
or 69% of the total cip, and
the remaining 283 million is
unspecified at this time.
However, before construction
begins on any of these
projects, a funding source will
be identified between the
current year and the next
fiscal year. It
s anticipated
the cip spending will exceed
$192 million. After extensive
review, cip projects have been
prioritized to ensure that
funding is available for
several high profile projects
approved at the cip workshop
held last fall. The annual
operating budget contains the
city
s budget and fiscal
policies, which are reviewed
each year, and this year we are
recommending modifications to
two existing policies and the
addition of three new policies.
The first is the capital
Financing and Debt management
policy. This policy has been
expanded to include new goals,
criteria and criteria to be
considered before approving any
new general fund debt and a
section on arbitrage rebate
compliance. Next is a new
policy that codifies the
desired timing of the city
s
cost allocation plan and user
fee study updates to be every 3
to 5 years, with a final
payment of the debt liability
payoff strategy in JULY. We
will now turn to the
sustainability efforts to
remain 100% funded in the
city
s pension. It
s
recommended to utilize the
pension trust as a reserve for
future liabilities that MAY
arise. When Calpers calculates
the city
s funded status each
year. And similar to the
pension funding policy, we
re
recommending a new policy to
address the funding of the
city
s retiree health benefit
program, currently funded at
120%. This new policy will
address the uses of these funds
and how to replenish the trust.
If the funded status drops
below 100%. And finally, we
re
recommending the removal of the
debt liability pay down
strategy policy. As we have
achieved the objectives by
paying down all city
liabilities and are currently
debt free. At its budget
workshop on MAY 21st. The
council had a robust discussion
about several items and made
recommendations to include the
following items in the adopted
budget and cip. The first is a
one time contribution of
$25,000 to the Msj c Endowment
Fund to support the school
s
foundation, and providing
student scholarships, grants
and capital needs. Next is a
capital project allocation of
an additional $500,000 in
funding to update both
playgrounds at the Ronald
Reagan Sports Park, bringing
the total project budget to
1,350,000. To prioritize the
rehabilitation of the
intersection of Margarita and
Winchester roads. Existing
budget within the pavement
management, pavement
rehabilitation cip will be
diverted to complete this
project. $500,000 in Community
Reinvestment Program funding
was allocated to install
wayfinding signs in Old Town.
This project is being converted
from an operating expenditure
to a capital project. And
finally, as mentioned earlier,
modifications to the city
s
debt policy are included in the
new budget and after discussion
at the budget workshop, Council
recommended reducing the debt
service limitation for the
general fund obligations from
10% of general fund revenue,
down to 5%. Additionally,
Council recommended adding
policy language requiring any
future debt obligations. Be
agenda at an accessible public
meeting. That concludes my
presentation and I
m available
for any questions.
Alrighty. Thank you very much,
MRS. Hennessy. All right. Let
s
move into council questions. Do
we have any on my left? We
ll
start this time.
No questions.
Not have any questions.
Okay.
Anybody on my right. Okay.
Seeing as there is none, we are
going to open the public
hearing. Do we have any
comments? We don
t. So we
re
going to close it. Close the
public hearing. All right.
Let
s move into the discussion
for council. Who would like to
kick it off. If anybody or a
motion.
I
ll go ahead and move the item.
Um, and just maybe make a brief
comment.
Yeah. Please go ahead.
Okay. Yeah. So I
ll move the
item. I
m certainly proud of
the council here. I
m proud of
our team. Um, past council
s
past staff. Everyone has done a
fantastic job budgeting our
city. So thank you. And you
know, the residents are, um,
benefiting from that. You know,
fiscal conservatism and saving
and living within our means and
everything. Um, as far as,
like, sort of the action items,
you know, I was, I was hoping
for a less than 5%. But it
s
not a hill I
m willing to die
on. Um, so I think the
consensus at the meeting was
5%. So I
ll certainly support,
you know, support that. And and
then the future meeting as
well. As far as if we just have
a future meeting that would
satisfy the itch I have with
respect to that. Um, but other
than that, I
m very happy with,
with this process and, and look
forward to future success with
you all.
Awesome. All right. Great.
Thank you, mayor Pro tem.
Yeah, just real quick. Uh,
again, remarkable job as
always, MISS Hennessy. Uh, self
and staff and city manager
s
office. Everybody else that
s
been involved. I know each
department has to go through
this process as well. And so
appreciate everybody
s stepping
up this year, especially as
we
re starting to make some
some tougher fiscal decisions.
Um, the lack of, I think
comments and public input just
to for those that are watching
this and don
t know, there was
a whole public hearing just on
this that was like four hours
long or something. So we went
through a very robust version
of this already. So, you know,
we
ve already asked our
questions, had a great debate
and had a good discussion and
very happy with the way this
year
s budget went out. And Stu
mentioned it earlier, is that,
you know, it
s pretty
remarkable that in a few weeks,
we
re going to be one of the
only cities in California that,
uh, that is debt free. Um, and
no pension obligations as well.
And, uh, appreciate the start.
And truly the policy changes
that were made. I appreciate
everybody taking those to
heart. And, and but also really
appreciate the idea of moving
that, uh, $7.5 million into a
long term pension trust fund. I
think that
s a huge stability
step for, for us moving forward
and is going to make a big
difference. So thank you all.
All right.
Stu I
ll second it.
All right okay. Well I just
want to say again same things.
Uh, thank you to staff
Jennifer. Thank you to you and
your team. You guys did a great
job. Thank you to everybody
who
s just really making
Temecula. Temecula, uh, we
re
able to do great things because
we are fiscally sound. So with
that, let
s go to vote. All
right. With that, motion passes
five zero. All right. Let
s
move on to item number 14. All
right. We
re going to move to
our business items. Uh next is
going to be itember 14. Uh
approve revised schedule of
authorized pension, salary,
scheduled employment agreements
with executive officials,
improve a memorandum of
understanding with Teamsters
Local 986 and amend the
restated Management comp
Compensation plan and Council
Compensation plan. And we are
going to get a staff report by
Becky Abdomen. Did I say your
last name?
Right. It
s open.
Open.
Thank you very much. Okay.
MISS Becky, take.
It away. All right. And good
afternoon, mayor.
And members of the City.
Council before you today is a
comprehensive compensation item
that.
Includes adoption.
Of a resolution approving the
revised schedule of authorized
positions and salary schedule,
approval of revised employment
agreements for executive
officials, approval of the
successor memorandum of
understanding with Teamsters
Local 1986, and approval of the
Amended and Restated Management
Compensation Plan and Council
Compensation Plan. The proposed
resolution approves the revised
schedule of authorized
Positions and Salary Schedule
for fiscal year 2020 627, the
schedule of authorized
positions maintains the city
s
authorized staffing level at
202.2 full time equivalent
positions, and includes several
classification and
administrative updates. The
salary schedule has been
updated to reflect the proposed
3% cost of living adjustment,
addition of new classifications,
and salary study adjustments.
The Executive employment
agreements include a 3% cost of
living adjustment, and provide
executives with the benefits
outlined in the Management
Compensation Plan, including
participation in the cafeteria
plan, a $400 monthly automobile
allowance, and the city
s
retention benefit. Executive
employees also participate in
the applicable Calpers
retirement plan based on their
higher date. Pursuant to
Government Code Section 54953
three and Government Code
Section 3511.1. The proposed
compensation for local agency
executive executives must be
publicly reported prior to
council action. Accordingly,
the proposed annual top step
salaries for the city
s
executive employees are
Assistant City Manager Luke
Watson, 334,256. Assistant to
the city manager Betsy Lowery,
226,720. Director of it Support
Services Michael Heslin,
director of community services
Erika Russo and director of
legislative affairs City Clerk
Randy Joel, each with a salary
of $269,505.60. Director of
Community Development Matthew
Peters, Director of public
Works Ron Moreno, and Director
of Finance Jennifer Hennessey,
each with a salary of
$276,265.60. The proposed
Teamsters mou is a three year
agreement effective JULY 1st,
2026 through JUNE 30th, 2029.
The key provisions include a 3%
cost of living adjustment
effective JULY 2026. Future
Cola is based on the lesser of
cpi or growth in recurring city
revenues, but not to exceed 3%.
An increase in the health
contribution from 600 per month
to 1000 per month effective
JULY 1st, 2026, with additional
increases to 1050. In JANUARY
2027 and 1100 in JANUARY 2028.
Enhanced short term and long
term disability benefits,
including increased benefit
caps and a reduced waiting
period. Transition of
disability and basic life
insurance premiums from
employee paid to city paid
expanded bereavement leave and
increase in the annual safety
footwear allowance from 175 to
$200 and increase in the
standby pay from 200 and 230 to
350 per week. Elimination of
the cafeteria plan. Cash out
eligibility for employees hired
on or after JULY 1st, 2026, and
it also includes various legal
Calpers compliance and.
Admitted administrative updates
consistent with past practice.
Those sections shared by the
management, Compensation and
City Council compensation plans
will also be updated to reflect
the terms of the Mou mentioned
previously. The Management
Compensation Plan is applicable
to the City Manager, Assistant
City Manager, assistant to the
City Manager, Department
directors, mid management and
confidential employees. The
estimated fiscal impact of the
proposed actions is
approximately 7.35 million,
representing about 3.7% of the
city
s primary operating
budgets. For fiscal year 2020
627. Staff recommends adoption
of the resolution and approval
of the remaining items, and
that concludes my report, and
I
m available if you have any
questions.
All right. Thank you Becky. All
right. Let
s move into council
questions. Anybody. We
re good.
All right. Seeing none we
re
going to move into public
comments. Do we have any public
comments? No public comments.
All right. We
ll either go into
discussion or motion.
I
ll move approval second.
All right. Let
s vote. All
right. That motion passes five
zero. All right. Thank you very
much. Oh, yes.
Go ahead. I just wanted to make
a brief comment. So, um, just
respect with respect to the
workforce. Uh, they
re the
heart of everything that we do
in the city, and I just, um,
you know, I think this was a
fair contract extension. I
think that this was was, um,
representative of who we are as
a council and, and and meets
the needs of our workforce,
and, um, and sort of that
retention and all the pieces
that go into making the city
function in a very high
professional way. Um, so I
m
glad it passed. Um, that
s all.
Thanks.
All right. Thank you for your
comment. Absolutely. Yes. Our
every worker here is important
and very thankful. All right.
So number 15, let
s move into
that one for the approval to,
uh, revisiting Council protocol
manual policy number six
related to public presentation
at council meeting to include
sb 707 specific requirement.
And I believe, Randy, Julie,
you
re going to be giving us a
staff report on that one,
ma
am.
Yes, MADAM Mayor, um, there is
a need to update Council policy
number six, due to the passage
of Senate bill. Uh, 707,
otherwise known as sb 707,
signed into law in OCTOBER
2025. The legislation changes
how eligible public agency of
which Temecula is one, conduct
open meetings to improve
accessibility, language access
and remote participation under
sb 707, certain rules regarding
language access, captioning and
teleconferencing already took
effect JANUARY 1st, 2026. By
JULY 1st, 2026, additional
requirements for two way
telephonic or audio visual
participation and formal
policies for technology related
disruptions and reasonable
accommodation for the
legislative body to
participate. To participate
remotely at meetings must be
effective. The attached revised
policy and the agenda packet
includes these requirements. Sb
707 policies were noted on
pages seven through 12.
Specifically, these policies,
specifically addressed
disruption of public meetings
and reasonable accommodation
for elected officials to
participate remotely. It is
recommended that the City
Council approved the revised
Council Protocol manual, Policy
Number six, to include these.
Sb 707 specific requirements.
In addition, JULY 14th will be
the first meeting at which the
city of Temecula will be also
having the two way telephonic
and or audio visual
communication as well. That
concludes staff
s report, and
we
re happy to answer any
questions.
Alrighty. Thank you very much.
Any council questions? Seeing
one.
Yep.
I do have one question. Um, so
I love the fact that we
re
making meetings more
accessible, but with the two
way telephonic and public
comment, how will that work? So
if you have 30 minutes for
non-agenda items and you have,
you know, people in the
audience, how does the queue
work? So like walk me through
that process.
Yeah.
So we
re still working out
logistics. But what I can, uh,
share with you, um, based in
consultation with the city
attorney, is we are obligated
to, um, to administer the
process in a fair and neutral
and, um, transparent manner. So
for practical purposes, I won
t
bore you with the back end. Um,
that it, um. And testing is
still happening on what I will
tell you is we anticipate 30
minute public comment on
non-agenda items, and most
likely what will happen is I
will pull a speaker card from
somebody that is in person, and
then I will go ahead and call
up somebody from the queue, and
then I will go ahead and pull
another speaker card, and I
will hit up somebody from the
queue. And the same thing will
happen for business items or
public hearings or any of those
things as well. Um, all of the
speakers will have the
appropriate amount of time, and
we will be very strict on time.
Um, so because we
re going to
have to be, um, we will be
professional, but we will have
to be a little strict. So there
will be no more. Please go
ahead and finish up your
comment or any of those kinds
of things. It will be three
minutes is up. They go out. I
call the next person. You
re
done. The button buzzes, the
next person queues up. So
that
s how we envision it to
work, sir.
Okay, I
m like, I think that
works well for business items.
I think it works well for, um,
for public hearings where I,
where I
m going to sort of, um,
give you my, my unfiltered
thoughts about this. I think
it
s, I think it
s unfair for
people that actually show up to
the meeting and get in line.
Um, they
re here early. And
then for someone to be online
and to be able to get in the
queue and potentially, um, if
we, if we don
t extend the time
for non-agenda items, you
potentially have people that
live here that weren
t able to
speak where someone from across
the country could log in
because they like making public
comments. You know, we
ve all
we
ve all heard these comments.
If you
ve ever listened to the
county Board of Supervisors
meetings, they do this. Um, so
I
m going to just like that
s
my concern that I would like
us, if it
s legally possible to
do is prioritize people that
are sitting here. And if it
s
not, and we can sort of work
through that. But those are
that
s like the hesitation I
have is that you
ll have folks
that will come and they won
t
be able to speak.
Yes. And that is definitely one
of the items that was
considered in the development
of, um, not only the the
legislation, but also in the
development of our policy and
our practice and all of that.
While we would like to give
preferential, um, um, kind of,
uh, outlook to those that have
taken the time to come in. Um,
at this time, it looks like we
are going to have to again
process the, um, administer the
program in a way that is, um,
completely 1 in 1. However, I
m
happy to go back to the city
attorney and just make sure
that we can go through that one
more time. And there
s nothing
that has changed.
Yeah, I would appreciate that.
Yeah. No problem.
Okay. I
m just pondering that
myself right now. That was that
was a good question. Uh, for
sure. Anybody else have any
other questions?
I can
t see Stu over there.
Stu. You good? Okay.
All right. With that, do we
have any public comment for
public comment?
We do not have any public
comment for public comment.
All right. With that, uh, any
discussion or motion.
Moved to approval?
All right, let
s.
Vote.
All right. With that, the
motion passes five zero. Let
s
move on to number 16. Adopt
resolution setting recommended
fees for chapel memories and
approval. Name change at the
request of subcommittee members
Schwenk and Stewart, if we can
please get a staff report from
MISS Erica Russo.
Sorry about that. Yes we can.
So many of you probably are
familiar with the Chapel of
Memories, which is located in
front of Sam Hicks Monument
Park and Temecula Valley
Museum. That chapel has been a
historical site in Temecula for
many, many years. It was also a
very popular wedding venue. Um,
previously, that wedding venue
was administered by a
partnership with the nonprofit
we had here in town a couple of
years ago. We no longer
continue that non-profit
partnership, and we had to do
some renovations to the chapel.
So we
ve completely renovated
the interior. Public works has
been super helpful in terms of
helping us just freshen
everything up so it looks
really beautiful inside. Here
you can see a couple of images,
the exterior on the left, and
then we have the interior there
in the lower right, as well as
a photo of the patio where we
have it set up like it would be
for wedding reception. So we
took it to the parks,
Recreation and Community
Services subcommittee a month
or so ago, and we
re proposing
a fee study or I
m sorry, we
re
proposing a fee schedule that
will enable us to reopen it for
bookings for weddings, memorial
services and small personal
events of that nature. The
inside capacity is only between
50 and 75 people, so this is
really intended for, you know,
a very small private
ceremonies. Next slide please.
Based on some research we did
on other comparable venues,
here are the proposed chapel
fees. We
re looking at. Um,
offering reservations with two
different tiers. We have
Temecula residents and then we
have non-residents. You can see
it
s a flat fee for the
reservation for three hours
max. Then you can rent
additional hours up to an eight
hour max. The patio and kitchen
are an add on fee. The kitchen
has been renovated so that it
functions as a caterers
kitchen. So if you
re bringing
in catered dishes for a wedding
reception or memorial, you
re
able to utilize it for that.
And then, like all of our city
facilities, if they
re rented,
we have a security deposit
which is refundable upon
completion of the rental.
Part of me, I believe we have a
brief announcement to make on
this item from Councilmember
Ron.
Oh yeah. So we
re doing
business in Old Town on the
private sector side. So I
believe I am conflicted out of
this item. So I
m going to
leave the dais.
But. Alrighty. Okay.
So, um, with that, we
re making
a slight departure from most of
our rental. Our fee policies
where we only permit
reservations six months in
advance for this because we
know that people planning a
wedding need a lot more lead
time. We
re allowing
reservations 12 months in
advance. It
s going to be
available to rent Wednesday
through Sunday. On Saturdays.
You won
t be able to rent it
earlier than 2 P.M., because
the farmer
s market is right
there, and we know that it
functionally, it will just be
impossible to navigate parking
at that point on a Saturday. If
any of you have been here for
Saturday morning farmer
s
markets, you know what that
s
like. Um, so that essentially
concludes my report. I
m open
to any questions.
All right. Great. Thank you.
And it looks beautiful. Great
job to the team for putting
that all together. It looks
beautiful at the chapel.
Oh I
m sorry I did have one
other comment on that. We are
proposing a name change from
it
s it
s now called the
Temecula. I
m sorry. The chapel
of Memories. That name is
actually used by another chapel
in Orange County. And
additionally Chapel of Memories
really seems to imply primarily
memorial services. So we
d like
to change that name to. We
re
going with Old Town Temecula
Chapel, which kind of anchors
it a little more clearly in Old
Town and locates it, you know,
in people
s minds as an old
town facility. So with that, if
council supports it, we
re
recommending adoption of this
fee schedule and the name
change.
Okay.
Thank you very much. Thank you
Eric I appreciate that. So with
that, uh, council questions.
Just a comment. Okay.
We
re not there. We
re not
there just yet. Okay.
We
re getting.
There.
Any questions? Okay. Next let
s
go into public comments. Do we
have any okay. Now you MAY.
Go okay. No, this is this is,
uh, this is going to be a
really cool asset for the city
of Temecula. Um, because with
wedding venues being so
expensive everywhere, um, this
allows for a small, intimate
little wedding that people can
afford. And so I really am
supportive of this. And I like
the the name change, too,
because it really does stay
where exactly it
s at. No one
s
going to be confused where old
Town Temecula Chapel is at. So
yeah. No, it
s it
s a really,
really cool facility.
Do we want to add the hallmark
name.
Onto it? No, no. Okay. Just
checking.
Any anything else on my left?
No. Okay. Uh, with that.
Since move approval.
Four of us.
Okay.
Second, second.
All right, let
s go to vote.
And that motion passes 4 to 1
with one abstained with, uh,
Mayor Pro tem. Alrighty. Thank
you very much, gentlemen. Uh,
Erica, thank you very much for
all of that. And thank you to
the team. All right, let me
see. I think we
re about done.
Yes. All right. Departmental
reports and receiving file
only. Uh, so we
re good with
that. Public comments on non
agenda item. Do we have anybody
left? Nope. All right. Thank
you very much, Mayor Pro Tem
for coming back. Uh, do you
have any future items. Okay.
Anybody else have any future
items. Nope. All right. Seeing
as none, uh, city manager
report, MISTER Luke Watson.
Nothing further to nightmare.
Thank you, sir, and to our
city, uh, city attorney Zach,
do we have any.
Uh, MADAM Mayor, the city
council met in closed session
on the agenda items listed with
respect to the second listed
item. The council unanimously,
unanimously authorized the city
attorney to pursue an appeal of
the trial court
s judgment. Uh,
that concludes my report.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
And before we adjourn, we just
want to remind everybody that
we are going to be going dark
on JUNE 23rd. So there will be
absolutely no meeting that day.
So if you want to come, you
re
probably going to be here by
yourself. Uh, our next meeting
is going to be, uh, 3:00 on
JULY 14th. And just as a
reminder, that is going to be
when we are going to be
bringing back the item for
resolution for sdg and e. So,
uh, if there
s any other
comments with that, we
d love
to be able to hear from you.
And with that, that is the end
of our meeting and we are
adjourned. Thank you for