All right, I will call this regular
scheduled meeting to order. If you will
join and salute to our nation's flag.
>> Ready, begin.
>> I aliance 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.
>> Roll call and declaration of conflicts
of interest, please.
>> Council member Abram, hear none. Council
member Bixel,
>> here are none.
>> Vice Mayor Manz, here none. Council
member Phillips
>> hear none.
>> Mayor Bill
>> hearing none.
>> All right. Approval of agenda is posted
or amended.
>> So move second.
>> Motion in two seconds. We call the role.
>> Council member Abram.
>> Yes. Council member Bixel.
>> Yes.
>> Vice Mayor Monet. Council member
Phillips. Yes.
>> Mayor Bill Black.
>> Yes. Passes on a 5-0. All right. We will
start with the proclamations.
Riley, will you come up please?
So today we are recognizing Riley Ramos
who graduated this year from Pitman High
School. Uh this is a certificate of
recognition presented by the city uh
Turlock City Council on behalf of the
citizens of Turlock for her
distinguished achievements in future
farmers of America livestock exhibition
academics and athletics for exemplifying
leadership and excellence in her
community. On behalf of our wonderful
mayor Amy Blue City Council,
congratulations on the recognition.
[applause]
teacher this week, right?
>> Yeah, kind of.
Thank you guys so much for this. This is
a really good honor. Thank you so much
and have a good night.
[applause]
All right, treasures report. Welcome.
Good evening, mayor, uh members of the
council, city staff, uh and the public.
I'm here to review the city's investment
portfolio.
Uh first, just wanted to remind you on
our investment policy, which is kind of
our guiding document. It establishes our
priorities. uh or objectives of safety,
liquidity and return. It also encourages
us to invest prudently. Um obviously all
investing carries risk but if we can
diversify uh those risks then hopefully
on the the entire portfolio that the
risk is brought down. Um it also
specifies what types of investments we
can make. We can't invest in stocks or
anything like that. We're really uh
limited to short-term highquality bonds.
So let's take a look at what the bond
market has done over the last year.
This is a year ago what the yield curve
looked like. So the yield curve is it
shows you the interest rates for
investing in a treasury bond of various
different maturities from 0 to 5 years.
Um typically a yield curve is upward
sloping. So you get a larger return the
longer you lock up your money. Um here
it's called inverted. We have shorter
term rates that are above longer term
rates. Um that typically signals that
we're in a period of transition where
short-term rates will be coming down.
And that is what happened over the
second half of 2025. Um inflation was
coming down. The Fed cut the short-term
rates threequarters of a percent. Um but
in the first half of 2026, that trend
changed a little bit. We had um the uh
crisis in the Middle East, the conflict
in the Middle East, uh raising, you
know, oil prices and maybe there's
rekindling of inflation. So perhaps the
Fed isn't going to be able to cut
interest rates as much. So interest
rates actually rose for uh longer term
maturities, which uh negatively affects
the the value of the bonds that you own,
but it does mean that um when you're
reinvesting that money, it's going to be
at higher rates. So it's sort of like we
took one step back, but then we're going
to take two steps forward. We'll still
get to where we intended to, just kind
of a different path.
um looking at our portfolio more
specifically. Um again, we want to make
sure we're investing safely. So, how do
we do that? Short-term high-quality
bonds. Bonds are contractual obligations
where the issuer is, you know, required
to return our money and pay us interest.
Uh in particular, twothirds of our
portfolio is in uh US treasuries and
agencies. Those are backed by the full
faith and credit of the US government.
So, they're very safe. Um even these
other types of investments, you know,
even the corporate bonds, those are very large companies that we use every
day, they're very safe investments. So
we feel good about the safety.
Um for liquidity, we have about $80
million that is due due on demand. So
that's uh invested in things like money
market funds or investment pools like
camp or leif where if you put a dollar
in, you should be able to get a dollar
out, you know, in the next day or two.
Um, so if we do have any unexpected um,
surprises, we have money that we could,
you know, use for that. Um, so we have
very good liquidity. If anything, we've
been taking the liquidity down. You see
about 40 million we've kind of
transferred from the do on demand to
longer term maturities to try to lock in
those higher rates over the long run.
And lastly, we want to make sure that
we're getting um a good return on our
investment.
And over the last year, again, despite
the the rise in yields and stuff, we
were still able to manage a 3.13%
return, which is almost 10 billion
dollars of growth. If you compare that
to uh a fund of 1 to threeyear treasury
bonds, uh we actually outperform that by
0.35% or about an extra million dollars.
So, I think it was pretty good pretty
good year on that on that respect. And
then looking forward again, rates are a
little bit higher. We now expect about a
4% return over the next two years, which
also compares favorably to our
benchmarks.
With that, I'll take any questions.
>> Questions for the treasur?
>> Comments for the treasur?
>> Okay, that too.
>> Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I have comments.
Hey, you're being really modest and
humble. Thank you. But you're doing a
great job over your predecessor because
I know you've improved the city's income
and our growth. So, um, you know me. I'm
going to just call it out for what it
is. But thank you. Great job. Keep
going.
>> Thank you. Anybody else?
>> All right. Thank you so much.
>> Okay. At this time, we're going to open
the public comment on the consent
calendar. This is your opportunity to
comment on any item on the consent
calendar or to request from the council
that an item be removed for separate
consideration. If you're requesting that
an item be pulled, please state the item
number and briefly explain your request
to the council. Public comment on the
consent calendar is limited to one
minute per speaker. Uh madam clerk.
>> Yes. So we have no blue cards for um
consent calendar. There is no one
online. So if anyone from the public
would like to comment on an item on the
consent calendar, please come forward.
>> Seeing no hands, mayor.
>> Okay. We will close public comment and
move forward.
>> Move to approve consent calendar as
written. Second.
>> Motion to second. We call the role.
>> Council member Abram.
>> Yes. Council member Vixel.
>> Yes.
>> Vice Mayor Man.
>> Yes.
>> Council member Phillips.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor BL.
>> Yes. Passes on a 5-0. There are no final
readings. Uh public hearing 8A. We have
a presenter. Who's Mr. Morris?
That makes sense. Engineers report. I
get it.
>> Yeah. No, it doesn't say that.
>> Not on mine.
>> Good evening. Good evening,
>> mayor and council members. Yes, tonight
uh approving the engineers report and
confirming diagrams assessments and
ordering the leving of collection of
assessments as originally proposed for
fiscal year 2627 for all landscaping and
lighting assessment districts in all
street maintenance benefit assessment
areas within the city of Turlock
pursuant to resolution number 97128.
If there's any questions, comments,
>> questions.
Okay, with that we'll open it to the
public. Uh, and I will, uh, give that to
the clerk.
>> All right, so we have no blue comment
cards. We have no one online. If anyone
from the public in the audience would
like to speak regarding this item,
please come forward to the lect turn.
>> Seeing no hands, mayor.
>> All right. Well, then we will close
public comment and move to
>> move to approve 80.
>> Both resolutions.
>> Yes. Second both resolutions. Sorry.
Both resolutions. Thank you.
>> Thank you. We have a motion to second.
You call the role, please.
>> Council member Abram,
>> yes.
>> Council member Bixel,
>> yes.
>> Vice Mayor Monz,
>> yes.
>> Council member Phillips, yes.
>> Mayor Back,
>> yes. Passes on a 5-0. Thank you, Mr.
Morris.
>> All right. 9A
Tikkert. I think this is the road
doctor.
>> You
hiding. He comes with good news.
>> I know.
>> Really good news.
But he's saying about course.
» Good evening, mayor and council members.
Yes, I do have good news. Uh the item
before you is for awarding bid and
approving an an agreement between the
city of Turlock and Titer Construction
for rehabilitation of gear road project.
Uh a little background here just to
refresh everybody's memory. Three years
ago, the council approved task order
number two authorizing us to start
preliminary design up to 30% stage of
completion.
Uh
we made the first uh uh public
information meeting with the public
collected uh comments from the public
based on the stage of uh design that we
had at the time and subsequent to that
we made a similar presentation to the
council.
With that we requested and received
authorization to proceed with final
design. Shortly after that, we received
good news from uh Stanco Stannis Law
Council of Governments that we were the
recipients of $4.8 million in surface
transportation block grant funding SDPG,
which meant the project was federalized,
meaning that we had to follow federal
regulations, follow Calrans procedures.
Uh so we held the second public
information meeting, collected
additional information based on stage of
uh design from the public. Uh made
another uh presentation to the council.
Calrans determined that the project is
categorically
excluded from the requirements of
national environmental policy act NEPA
which meant that federal environmental
clearance was achieved. Right after
that, the council made a similar uh
determination based on uh California
Environmental Quality Act SQUA. That
meant that the state regulations were
satisfied as far as environmental
clearance. With those two environmental
clearances at hand, we requested uh
authorization to proceed from CALR and
Federal Highway Administration. FHWA
issued a document that is called E76
obligated the 4.8 8 million and
authorized us to proceed with
advertising the project for
construction. Before that, we had
already come to the council and asked
for authorization to uh advertise the
project once all these documents were in
place.
Uh, as soon as we received the E76, we
had additional good news from Stanco
that we received another $2 million in SDBG funding for safety improvements
along the corridor. So that brought the
total to 6.8 million, which means
shortly we will ask FHWA to amend E76
for the additional 2 million. So that
can be obligated towards the project.
Uh, one item to bring up here is as we
went through the project, we were
looking at different ways to advertise
the project and see how we could speed
up the uh, construction and also
encourage participation by different
contractors.
Looking at three different phases,
staging those, overlapping those, it all
didn't help that much. We put our heads
together with Stanco and Calrans and
based on the climate of bidding at the
time that we were looking at this, we
all reached the conclusion it would be
best to have one bid package for all
three phases.
So this is the entire project from
Golden State Boulevard to Taylor Road.
Up close a little bit, this is the
southern portion phase one from Golden
State to Hawkeye.
Middle portion is phase two Hawkeye to
Monte Vista. North portion is Monte
Vista to Taylor.
Now what do we have in the specs? We
have 400 working days given to the
contractor to construct the project. Uh
10 days after notice to proceed, the
contractor has to start construction
activities. So let's say we issue notice
to proceed at the end of the month 400
calendar days or working days, I'm
sorry, working days. That would put us
uh at an approximate completion date of
midappril of 2028. That's assuming
weather permitting us to continue with
construction. If we have the wet winter
that they are forecasting, there is no
construction. So the dates will be
extended.
What we have asked or we have mandated
uh in the construction in contract
documents is that phase one and three be
constructed simultaneously
before
uh phase two can be started. Those two
phases have to be completed. So the
section between Hawkeye and Monte Vista
would be only constructed
after the southern portion and the
northern portion of the project have
been completed. Work hours are limited
to 7 am to 5:00 pm Monday through
Friday. No work on the weekends or legal
holidays. No night work is permitted and
one lane will remain open in each
direction at all times.
All lanes will be open to traffic
on Saturdays, Sundays, legal holidays
after 400 p. p.m. on Friday and after
400 p p.m. the day before any legal
holiday and any time that the contractor
doesn't have any active construction in
that particular lane.
With all of that in mind, we advertised
the project on June 23 and opened four
bids on July 28.
This is the tabulation of all four bids.
We analyzed the bids, reviewed all the
documents submitted for compliance with
uh
with the bid document requirements. I'm
sorry. Uh
when we determined that the lowest
responsible responsive bidder was Tik
Tok, the full name legal name is a
Tyikert and Sun Inc. doing business as
tighter construction for the bid amount
of 20,280,558
which is just about 5.9 million below
engineers estimate.
So the motion before you and our
recommendation and request is to award
bid and approve an agreement between the
city and hyper construction in the
stated amount plus 10%
uh contingency in the amount of
$2,28,000.
Any questions?
>> Questions?
>> I hope I didn't go too fast. I was
trying to make
>> you good. Okay. So, uh, at this time
we'll open the public comment and ask
the city clerk to facilitate that public
comment, please.
>> Okay, we have no blue comment cards. We
do have someone on remote participation.
So, if you would like to speak regarding
item 9A, please raise your hand or press
star 9 and indicate.
Otherwise, we will now seeing no comment
on there, we'll move back to the council
chambers. Does anyone like to comment
regarding item 9A?
Please come forward.
Good evening. Um, so I guess the first
question is how's Target going to do
this construction for $5,5 million
below cost?
>> Our costs are not guaranteed. These are
>> cost is 25,000.
>> No, 26 million. 26 million. Okay, 26
million. So, how does Tiger get 20
million?
>> That is their bid. That's how the
bidding process works.
>> So, their bid is well below
>> direct comments. Just make your comments
and
>> he's the one that was answering the
question. I don't even know who
>> we in order to maintain a calm decorum
in the room. We don't need to go back
and forth. So please,
>> no, the question I'm not going to ask
the question
at $20 million is well below the $26
million which will cost the city again
an extra cost. That's what they call
that, right? So when they don't complete
a project then and only then will the
city be in carrying more cost. So the
price will be over $26 million. You
understand? Anyway,
nobody
the cost of construction
when you have it below the bed will
inevitably and always goes up over $26
million. It will always happen. It never
fails. They call extra costs.
And so my question again is why and how
is Tiger going to do a project for below
cost.
>> We'll answer the questions that after
all.
>> That's my question.
>> Understood.
» Is there anyone further that would like
to speak regarding the item?
>> Seeing no further comments.
>> So Mr.
Can you speak to all the roads you've
done and what people are bidding in and
how much under and how much over cost
are they are we putting into it?
>> A number of our projects have been
closed well below engineers estimate and
well below the bid that the contractor
brought in. We don't we simply follow
the uh public contract code which
requires us to publicly advertise the
project and award the project to the
lowest responsible responsive bidder. We
do not negotiate a contract with the
contractor. We do not ask the contractor
how can you do it for a certain price
because that is negotiation. We review
all the documents that is submitted and
make a determination based on that. If
they have followed all the requirements
in the bid documents and requirements by
law, which is all the registration that
they're supposed to have, submit the uh
bonds that they need to, the insurance
that they need to, then they are
responsible and responsive. That is the
basis for the recommendation. Why do
they have a lower price? They only know
that. What I can say as far as engineers
estimate, engineer's estimate is for
budgeting purposes and that is based on
the historic bid prices of a number of
projects in the state. So we go to a
database and receive that. It doesn't
reflect the current bidding environment.
It doesn't reflect three projects or
three phases being done at the same
time. It doesn't reflect the size of a
contractor and their capability in
staffing a project and actually doing
the project in more efficient way.
Our uh estimate was based on three
phases consecutive and that's the only
way we can put that together. There is
no way for us to estimate efficiencies
if the phases are done concurrently or
in a different type of arrangement
because that data is not available to
us.
So we basically wait until the bids come
in and go through our process as the law
requires us.
>> Okay.
>> Thank you.
>> Yeah. Close public comment. Did you have
a comment
>> or what is your will?
>> No.
>> Motion to approve 9A.
>> Second.
>> Motion and second. Will you call the
role, please?
>> Council member Abram. Yes.
>> Council member Bixel. Yes.
>> Vice Mayor Monz. Yes.
>> Council member Phillips. Yes. Mayor
>> Back.
>> Yes. That part passes with 5-0. And I
believe you have one more part.
Yes. The next item,
» the next item is related to what we went
over the project and that is uh we are
requesting your approval of amendment
number 22 for task order number 7A
uh with uh NB5 for construction
management inspection services for gear
road uh rehabilitation project.
Uh this is all in your staff report. Uh
but overall the construction management
inspection services are described or
defined in three components. One is
pre-construction which as the name
suggests these are all the activities
that we have to do in the leadup to the
actual construction such as
constructibility review, fire review,
setting up the project, uh estimating
the project cost and scheduling ahead of
receiving the schedule from the
contractor. The next component is
construction management and inspection
which is again this is when construction
is actively ongoing and that is to make
sure that we have enough oversight to
make sure that whatever is constructed
is in accordance and compliance with the
construction documents.
Post construction. As the name suggests,
this is after the construction is
completed to make sure that all checks
and balances are properly documented.
All the records are complete and
finances are all uh looked at and
finalized so we can accept the project
and also make a final payment to the
contractor. Pre-onstruction services
were approved by the council as task
order number seven previously. So task
order sum number 7A is in fact nothing
other than an amendment to task order 7
for the remainder of the activities.
So that is our proposed task order to
you. If you're interested these are all
the breakdown of various subtask
involved in each category and in great
detail. Those are in exhibit W attached
to your staff report if you're
interested to get into that much detail.
So, we have a motion before you for
approving uh task order number 7A with
NB5 for construction management
inspection services in the amount of
3,676
80576
cents.
>> Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Pesh?
Okay. Okay, at this time I'll open the
public comment and ask the city clerk to
facilitate the public comment.
>> Okay, we have no blue cards. Um, if
anyone's joining remotely and would like
to speak, you may raise your virtual
hand now or press star 9 to indicate
that you would like to speak.
>> Seeing no comment online, would anyone
in the public like to speak regarding
this item? Please come forward to
lectern.
Seeing no comment, mayor.
>> Okay, we will close public comment.
Bring it back to council.
>> Did you have a question?
>> I have a quick comment. So, you know,
this is this is like the last piece of
the the Gear Road project. And just for
the public's edification, you know, when
you look at $27 million, how it all adds
up, I asked Director Mareno for, okay,
break it down for all the different
funding sources and 75% or or more if my
calculations were included everything um
is not our own local dollars. You know,
only about 25% is measure A. So, I just
want to commend your staff for, you
know, using our local dollars wisely and
going after all the other things so we
can take on a big project like this and
still have wiggle room to do other
things. So, with that, I'll move to
approve.
>> Second. Have a
>> motion to second. We call the role,
please.
>> Council member Abram, yes.
>> Council member Bixel, yes.
>> Vice Mayor Monet. Yes.
>> Council member Phillips. Yes.
>> Mayor Bill Black.
>> Yes.
>> 50. Thank you, Rod Doctor.
>> Okay. Item C, general plan amendment.
And I believe Oh, Miss Warernner, it's
not a birthday game, is it?
>> No.
>> But thank you for that birthday present.
>> Um, so the item before you tonight is um
the council to consider the adoption of
the 2331
um or six cycle housing element. Um I'm
actually not going to do the
presentation. I'm going to turn it over
to our consultant Andrew Hill um with
Diet and Batia, the urban um and
regional planners. Andrew,
» excuse me. Thanks, Adrian. Um, good
evening, mayor, council members. Um, so
tonight we're pleased to introduce the
uh six cycle housing element and related
general plan and zoning amendments. It's
been a long road to get here, including
multiple rounds of review um with the
California Department of Housing and
Community Development or HCD. But on
July 3rd, the state issued a letter
finding that if the city adopts the
housing element as revised together with
the zoning amendments, um Cherlock can
be found in compliance with um state
housing law. And so the purpose of the
item tonight is to provide a brief
overview of the six cycle housing
element and related zoning amendments to
hear public comments and if appropriate
for the council to adopt um the housing
element and related general plan and
zoning amendments. Um I had a longer
presentation which I'm going to cut back
to 10 minutes or less. Um but I'm happy
to come back and answer any more
questions or provide detail uh if you if
you do have questions. So let me know.
Um, one of the core components of the
housing element is the sites inventory.
It's a list of sites within the city of
Turlock that are available for housing
development during the period. Um, it is
how the city demonstrates that the
zoning map has adequate capacity to meet
Turlock's assessed share of the regional
housing need, which for the this current
8-year period is 5,82
units. Um those 5,82 units are broken
out into different income categories.
The way you demonstrate capacity for
lower income housing is by demonstrating
adequate capacity for higher density um
housing at 20 dwelling units per acre or
more. State law establishes certain
requirements for um housing sites that
are identified to meet lower income um
arena obligations. um they're
essentially meant to uh encourage cities
to put forward the most shovel ready
sites.
Um and so in putting together the
inventory, we first did an assessment of
uh projects that are currently in the
development pipeline. Projects that are
permitted or constructed after June 2023
can be counted towards that requirement
for um 5,82 units. Currently there are
14 projects in the development pipeline
um that have a capacity for um 1137
units. So those were deducted from that
um 5,82.
Additionally, we looked at um under
current zoning, you know, looked at um
vacant land that is zoned for
residential uses. We looked at capacity
in the downtown area. Uh we looked at
capacity in the Morgan Ranch master plan
area and we accounted for ADU
development. And when you add up all of
those things, um there's currently the
zoning map has a capacity for uh 456
units, which is about 78% of the way
there to the to the target. Not quite
there, though. And notably, there was a
deficit of um land that's zoned for
higher densities that are deemed
affordable to lower income units. And
so, the housing element proposes a
reszoning strategy that can bridge that
gap. That strategy involves creation of
a new commercial residential mixeduse
zone. It would apply to 52 properties um
that are vacant or underutilized on
commercial corridors um in Turlock.
Importantly, all the property owners
maintain their current development
rights. If they wish to develop
their properties uh consistent with
current commercial zoning, they have the
right to do that. This new zone gives
them the option to also develop multif
family housing on their properties if
they choose to. And the purpose of this
zone is to demonstrate um to the state
that the that Turlock zoning map has
adequate capacity to meet that
requirement for 5,82 units. Um and also
to provide more opportunities for
workforce housing in Turlock that that
can go for service workers, teachers,
public servants, and other people who
work in Turlock and and make less than
80% of the countywide median income.
Uh the four corridors where uh that
where the reszone sites are located are
North Golden State, Gear Road, West
Main, and Southlander. It's not all the
properties in those corridors. It's uh
select properties that meet the criteria
identified by the state.
Um and then when you add the 4,500 units
that you get under current zoning plus
the additional capacity that you get
with this resoning, um the city would
have uh capacity to to meet um that
requirement for 5,82 units with a buffer
just in case any of the sites don't
develop as envisioned. That buffer is
important um to make sure that you will
always have capacity to to meet the
state requirements.
Uh and this is a map of the uh of the
site citywide. Um the second component
uh key component of the housing element
is the action plan which is a program of
implementing actions. It's organized
around uh six goals very similar to the
fifth cycle element. Um and it those the
action plans contains 56 programs
that'll be implemented um over the
eight-year cycle. Uh it's important to
note me many of these programs uh
reiterate commitments that the city has
already made for example sidewalk
programs. So it's not a commitment of
new new funding requirements for you
know 56 new programs. We've wherever
possible we've uh reiterated commitments
that the city has already made.
Um I just wanted to touch briefly on the
revisions in your packet tonight. You'll
see there's a very colorful version.
It's red lines of all the changes that
were made in response to comments um by
HCD and then there's also a clean
version. Content is the same. Um just if
you wanted to follow along inside
baseball and see what the changes were,
that's why the redline version is there.
HCD really focused on two things in
their in their review. one was um asking
for additional analysis to demonstrate
the viability of uh for of redevelopment
for non- vacant sites that are included
on the housing element. And so in
response to that, we've included a new
appendix F that goes site by sight with
all those 52 sites, provides um
additional analysis and support uh to to
demonstrate to the state that that those
are real viable candidates for
redevelopment within the period. Um
there's also a table of indicators
indicating that all of those sites
checked three boxes have at least three
indicators of redevelopment potential.
Additionally, they asked for analysis of
downtown development trends and the
potential for mixeduse development and
non-residential development. So, we've
added that into that same appendix as
well. And we did an analysis of recent
uh sales prices and rents in comparison
to household income to support our
projections for moderate income housing.
Um and then the second focus of HCD's
review was on the programs in the
housing action plan. Um and here they
really focused on uh identifying uh
amendments to the Turle Municipal Code
to bring to bring it in line with new
state laws. I'm sure you're aware every
year for the past several years there
have been a raft of new laws. Um and so
these programs um address uh those new
requirements and bring the Turle
Municipal Code into compliance with um
state law. And the second uh focus of
their review was on programs addressing
disproportionate needs in census tracks
that have a higher concentration of
lower income residents. Um and this is
what the state calls affirmatively
forwarding uh fair housing. Um and so
there's a number of programs there um
that address those those requirements
and that was another focus of the
state's review. Again, these programs
reiterate commitments for the large part
that the city has already made as
opposed to identifying, you know, new
programs that need in need of new
funding.
Um and so let me touch on quickly the
zoning amendments. Also in your packet
tonight is the the reasonzoning to
create this new commercial residential
mixeduse zone. Again, the purpose of
this is to demonstrate that that the the
zoning map has adequate capacity to meet
um to for at least 5,82 units over the cycle. Um it gives property
owners the option to develop housing,
but does not requirement require that
they do that. in order to ensure that if
a property owner wants to develop
non-resident 100% non-residential uses,
this zone creates four subzones so that
um a property owner who's currently in
the CO district maintains all of those
same standards if they want to develop
100% um nonresidential uses. a property
owner in the CH district would be in the
new uh subzone C and that ensures they
have all of the same development rights
now. They're not losing anything. If
they choose to develop uh with mixed use
or uh residential development, well then
they're subject to the new standards um
that are in the CRMU zone. Uh important
to note, uh sites that are being
reszoned to accommodate a a shortfall of
um of units, as in this case, are are um
subject to certain requirements under
state law. Um and all of the all of the
52 sites that have been identified for
this new CRMU zone meet those meet those
requirements.
Um this is a quick snapshot of the
development standards for the CRMU zone.
Um it uh really mirrors the um RH
district with a few modifications as
required to meet the requirements for
sites reszone to uh to accommodate a
arena shortfall.
Um state law requires that uh the the
general plan land use map and uh zoning
be consistent. And so in order to ensure
that consistency um there's a few
targeted uh updates to the land use and
economic development that are required.
Essentially, we've created an a
corresponding land use classification
which we're calling commercial
residential mixed use. This is a
definition for it. And the general the
general plan land use diagram has been
updated. So those same 52 sites um now
have the new um CRMU land use
classification.
Um and so quick look ahead. Tonight is
the uh the first reading of the zoning
and next week would be the second
reading of the zoning following which we
would resubmit um to HCD to demonstrate
that we've done what they asked the city
to do in the letter of July 3rd and um
that's my quick presentation. I'm happy
to answer any questions or provide more
detail if you'd like
>> questions.
Okay, no questions. Then I would ask uh
I'll open the public comment, ask the
clerk to facilitate it. So, we have no
blue comment speaker cards for this
item. Um, anyone joining remotely, if
you'd like to speak on this item, please
raise your virtual hand or press star
nine to speak. Seeing none, we'll move
back to the council chambers. Would
anyone like to speak regarding item 9 C.
» Good evening, uh, council, staff,
community. Mil Treeweiler. Our plan our
Turlock planning department along with
consultants been working on this tur
turlock housing element for over two
years. The residents of Turlock are very
fortunate to have a professional
planning department with experienced and
well educated staff members here in
Turlock.
On July 18th, 2024 at the planning
commission meeting, there was a Turlock
housing element study session to prepare
the housing element. The housing element
is one of the required seven mandatory
elements combined in contained in the
city general plan. A notice by the city
that the first public review period for
the draft housing element ran from
October 2nd through November 1st, 2024.
Starting that public comment uh may be
submitted in writing. Additionally, the
planning commission will review the
draft housing element at a public
meeting on October 3rd, 2024,
and community members are invited to
attend. The state responded on no April
30th, 2025.
The California Department of Housing and
Community Development completed a review
of the draft housing element and found
that while the draft addresses
uh many of the statutory requirements,
some further revisions are necessary to
substantially comply with the state's
housing element law.
Multiple plans were submitted to the
state review and they were all turned
down by the state. It seems obvious to
me that our planning staff and
consultant were not allowed to make or
present solutions to the issue of not
complying to the state because of
pressure from the city managers. The
city managers are at will employees
controlled by the current city of
Turlock elected officials.
Residents of Turlock remember that
anyone at this dis
almost anything they want but that
doesn't mean that what they say is true.
This update must be passed and submitted
to the state for review tonight. Thank
you.
» Are there anyone else that would like to
speak on item?
>> Seeing no further comment, Mayor.
>> All right. I'll close public comment. Uh
for the record, uh Dr. Murphy, um
tonight, if we approve this, it's the
review's over or don't we have a second
reading or something?
>> We have a second reading two weeks from
now.
>> Okay. Thank you. what does it
>> um I just have a brief comment. Um this
has been a very long process and kind of
bumpy bumpy and ciruitous at times, but
um thank you for the staff for doing all
of this work for this long. And I I just
do want to note something that's buried
in the housing element that a few years
ago, I don't have the exact date, we we
mailed out like 1500 surveys to people
and that is considerable community
engagement beyond what we've done in
previous housing elements. So, um I I
think that's really notable and I hope
that when we do this next time, we can
move away from snail mail and get a
little bit more in the 21st century, but
um I there's a lot of good in here.
There's hundreds of hours of work in
here. So, thank you to everyone
involved. And uh with that, I will move
to approve.
>> Second.
>> Motion in a second. We call the role,
please.
>> Council member Abram. Yes.
>> Council member Bixel. Yes.
>> Vice Mayor MZ. Yes.
>> Council member Phillips. Yes. Mayor
>> Goodl.
>> Yes. And it passes on a 5-0. Thank you
for that.
>> All right. Uh this is the time set aside
for the general public participation.
I'll ask the city clerk to facilitate
this public comment.
>> All right. Well, we'll begin with blue
speaker comment cards. I have three of
them as the first one is Sean Sheridan.
Please come forward.
All right. Mayor and councel, I'm here
to uh publicly thank the new city
manager regarding an abandoned vehicle.
I worked with the Turlock Police
Department for more than a year and was
ultimately stonewalled.
I sent Dr. Murphy a single respectful
email and the matter was solved in 72
hours. So, thank you truly.
I am also here for another reason. In
about 3 weeks, I plan to submit a
comprehensive citizens complaint to the
city manager regarding the handling of
public records and public record
requests.
I will request that the matter undergo
an independent third-party legal review.
I will also request that the city
manager then publicly report to the city
council the findings and actions taken.
The purpose is to solve issues and
identify criminal behavior so that
specific staff can be held formally
accountable.
In two weeks, I plan to return to this
city council and share examples of why
investigations are needed. I will share
one example today. It comes from P
request 25-221
in December.
I'm holding up an unsigned
uninitialed version of the signature
page for an already issued building
permit
released as an official record. The
signature and initials were deliberately
omitted. I was recently informed as to
who supplied this, but that person
cannot be the one held the only one held
accountable. The real culprit is the
genius in the building that thought that
was a good idea.
the genius who forgot to have the
pre-markings of the check boxes removed
so that it would not be obvious that the
building and safety division pre-marked
the workers compensation exempt checkbox
that no employees would be used rather
than letting the signer of the permit
mark it under penalty of perjury.
And instead of letting the signer mark
as authorized agent or licensed
contractor, the city of Turlock
pre-marked the owner checkbox.
The actual signed version, the other
paper I have revealed that the signer
did not mark any of the 11 checkbox
options on the page, none, and yet
received the permit.
Next speaker is Candace Build.
Hi. Yep. I'm Candace. I'm the one that
doesn't like to talk in public and I'm
the one that's irritated because you
guys aren't holding anybody accountable.
So, we've got uh issues here with and
you um u Mr. Murphy said that you were
going to look into this for me and I
don't believe you did anything because
you said that the uh Enrique did
everything fine. Um if you guys have
checked your emails, you'll see that he
did not because if he had checked off
the item, it would not be still flooding
my floor. Is that enough water damage
for you guys to call it actually what it
is? Because And then he didn't even look
at anything else cuz if he would have
This is right next to my front door.
This is a bookshelf.
This is a closeup of the bookshelf. This
right here mold
one section right there in the middle
right there. That's what it is. Okay.
You guys are not you guys aren't holding
him accountable. And then you said that
the records request was done correctly.
No, it wasn't. I asked for four
addresses. I received two. And then
Enrique
with that P that I have. I have uh
paperwork showing that he has been
working with my landlord for for five
years. I have his initials on all of
those um signoffs. And then he was
working with my landlord together.
There's an email trail of them
discussing back and forth what what uh
day works best for you and what's this.
I thought it was supposed to be an
independent the website. Your guys' city website says that if we need
something with our housing, we can ask
for it and it's supposed to be an
independent. I'm sorry, but last time I
checked, the good old boys don't get to
communicate together and have it be
independent. They showed up together.
They they
coordinated their own schedules. And you
know what they did? They scheduled it
for the exact day and time of my very
first cardiac appointment. It took me
four months to make it and I had to push
it out again. So, you guys are allowing
him to actively mess with my health at
this point. I mean, more than they
already have. I mean, I don't know what
else I need to do. Maybe I need to file
a tort or something or getting like one
of my own attorneys involved here
because this is ridiculous the the
amount of like you just are just signing
off on whatever you guys want and I
don't understand. And then you take the
word of this this uh this report that
you got from environmental science
services. Okay, I have an email right
here.
This one right here from him from the
same guy and he says clearly it says we
should we should put you on the schedule
as soon as possible as soon as Monday.
You definitely have a problem.
He didn't show. I called him
email from him. I had your landlord call
me this morning and he's questioning our
experience. I'm sending over references.
I'll call you and we'll get back to you
when when that's when they've okayed it.
So, he's a he had stopped my attempt at
an independent and then you guys were
supposed to be my backup. You guys were
supposed to support me because I am your
resident. And what did you do? You sided
with my landlord.
That's what you did. You sided with my
landlord and you sided with some guy who
doesn't even have any any uh
certifications at all. And he clearly
tells me it's fine. But then when he
comes out with my landlord after
discussing what kind of testers they're
going to get, what kind of this and
that, he comes out with not a tester. He
comes on the surface only. Of course
it's going to say that it's dry. Of
course. What else is it going to say?
>> Lesie Stokes.
» Good evening. So,
first of all, let's talk about the
fireboard that we're supposed to get
that I haven't seen.
Right. We were supposed to get that so
we could study on whether or not Turlock
could get a fire chief and fire marshal
of its own. We haven't gotten that yet.
So I'm wondering where that is.
Secondly,
your words, not mine. Secondly, right, I
want to talk about data centers because
the county is now being courted
by lobbyists of data centers.
Patterson is in it. Modesto is in it.
Modesto even has a site.
So I'm going to ask you again, right?
What's best for Turlock?
Because none of you, not one of you,
this is not a Democratic or
Republican issue.
This is a people issue. And everybody
here knows farmers here. So, I'm going
to need for y'all to just say we ban all
data centers.
This needs to happen. Now,
if Modesto does it,
they still taking our water, aren't
they?
So, we need to do that.
Thirdly, to the new city manager,
welcome.
However, I understand that you have
military background.
I'm going to need for you to stop that.
No militant
pushing around people,
right?
You're going to need to follow the line.
This is the way this is going to go.
Because
trust me, at $1.3 million,
not seeing it.
Not.
So, I'm going to need for you to play by
the rules. That means your no big
contracts.
Put those behind you.
I want all of this stuff to stop. And
y'all are sitting out here with we're
being courted by data center lobbyists.
Do you get that?
And this needs to stop. Patterson is in
it. Modesto's in it. When's it going to
be Turlock? Because we're slotted for
three of them.
We don't want this problem.
You're going to hurt the people who
actually live here,
right? These are your constituents, not
mine. Yours. And it needs to happen. I
don't need to go through all the details
that data centers can do because you've
all seen it,
every one of you.
>> Brad Bates,
» greetings, um, Dr. Murphy and Attorney
Luchi. I hope I have that right. Welcome
to Turlock. Okay, two guesses. Montana
Park. Just curious, how's it coming?
Went by the other day. Uh, not a lot of
activity. It's been on the drawing board
now for over 10 years. We've had two
launch ceremonies, funds committed,
county level, state level, on-site
update, etc. Goals of the city council,
in my opinion, safety, essential
services, quality of life. This that's
part of that component. Recently, there
were a lot of press releases, social
media, and articles about Chick-fil-A
coming. I think that's great. I really
do. It's a feather in our proverbial
cap. But it was quoted that Turlock uh
had been fighting for five years to to
make this happen. Now, I'm not sure who
you were fighting with, but nonetheless,
my point is, isn't a multi-use regional
park for the historically underserved
West Side worth fighting for? Now, I
know there's a lot of activity going on.
These things take time. There's steps to
follow, levels of bureaucracy to
navigate, resecuring the funds that were
promised, etc., etc. Staff has a lot on
their plate, and I'm sure that director
uh Fiser already has quite a substantial
file on this project. Turlock has a
history of doing things well. We have
proven that with the soccer complex,
Kadetti Park, the Columbia Pool. I hope
that that continues. Now, pickle ball is
the fastest growing sport in the world.
Has been for several years. Yes, I am a
part of that group and there's a large
group of folks, ages, ethnicities, all
parts of Turlock who are really
interested and hopeful in seeing that
this project will occur sooner rather
than later. Uh, and I agree a lot of
other cities in our region are doing
some really nice park projects. You're
probably aware of them. Modesto series,
Oakdale, Los Bannis just did a beautiful
project uh that they just opened about
uh two weeks ago. Even Little Riverbank.
I got a minute left. I want to tell you
about Nathan real quick. Nathan is 12
years old. Uh he plays sometimes with
our pickle ball group. Nathan started
out as a junior. He is now ranked 14 in
the nation in his age group. This kid is
phenomenal. I call him Mongoose. That's
my my nickname. He is fearless. He is
ferocious. He's quick. He can beat any
pickle ball player in Turlock. Hands
down. He's 12 years old now. I think I
think Nathan uh I believe he's in
Livingston. I wouldn't try to pick an
ethnicity, but if I did, I'm going to
take a guess. I would say probably
Vietnamese. Doesn't matter. If we had
courts here in Turlock, Nathan would be
playing here in Turlock. And I think
there's a lot of Nathans out there on
the west side or in the entire town and
there's a lot of people that are trying
to encourage and mentor. Uh it's a great
opportunity. So when we talk about the
kids, remember time 10 years, 10 years.
When we talk about our kids and we talk
about time,
I'll [clears throat] just finish my
sentence.
Uh when we talk about kids in time,
remember for 10 years now, there are
some kids that were probably in their
early ages, five, six, seven, eight.
They're now gone. They're off with their
lives. We missed an opportunity. But so
I would like to have you refocus on uh
the park. Thank you.
>> Well, now we move to our remote
participants. If you're joining remotely
and would like to speak on public
participation, please raise your hand.
Um or now press star nine. We do have
our first guest, which is Ramon
Rodriguez.
Raone, go ahead and speak.
>> Uh good evening everyone. Can everyone
hear me?
>> We can hear you. It is adjusting it now.
Go ahead and continue.
>> Good evening, madame mayor, city council
members, members of the public. I just
recently got back from Modesto City
Council meeting online on Zoom as well
regarding AI data centers.
It's happening everywhere. People all
over the country. This is not a
political issue. This is a common sense
issue that having a data center
especially in Turlock
moratoriums we need to put infinite
pause and bands on AI data centers
because honestly
if we have a data center in Turlock
it's going to ruin our town it's going
to cost our utility bills going to go up
way up because
the amount of energy
the amount of water and the amount of
land that the AI data center is going to
use, it's going to ruin the charm of a
small town and there's like a lot of
evidence, a lot of data, everything that
having an AI data center is not going to
be a good fit for Turlock.
So, I implore you all that use that you
use all the selling walls that you have
on the books to tell the AI data centers
that they should not build because
We are living in a time where land is
limited, water is being uh running low.
We are in the middle of a heat crisis.
Climate change is happening all over the
world.
And you're seeing everyone from
Patterson to Modesto and all over
California and the United States that
people are that the people are saying no
to data centers.
Turlock as a town, we should not have an
AI data center. We should focus on
what's the most important part and to
keep our town Turlock
and tell the AI data centers to leave
because we do not need it. We have
farmland. We have everything
and if we build a data center that's
going to ruin uh the bread basket that
was we call the central valley. That's
what we hear from Mr.
uh tree so many times that farmland
supposed to be in farmland. We should
not have a data center because that's
going to take all of our water. And if
we do have a data center, how are we
going to eat? How are we going to
survive? How are we going to have water?
And also, it's going to put uh health
problems to everyone living near a data
center. So, people take this seriously.
We should not have a data center. It's
happening all over the country. And I
implore you all to say no to data
center. Thank you.
There's no additional remote
speakers indicating they want to
comment. Um, anyone from the audience
that would like to speak during public
participation, please come forward to
the lecture
library.
>> Good evening. I'm Karina Medosa and I am
with the Turlock Public Library. Um, as
we're getting ready for school, I want
to say we do have a program called a
thousand books before kindergarten. And
a lot of people get that shock reaction
of how is that even achievable? It is.
It's one of those if you read three
books a night, after a year you've
reached a thousand books. It could be
read by anybody. Neighbors,
grandparents, babysitters, mom, dads, it
could be read the same book. As we all
know, kids love that same book you read
night after night after night. That
counts, too. Every single time. Why is
that important? Because books have words
that we don't use in like normal
everyday language. You're exposing kids
to vocabulary. You're exposing kids to
narrative skills. So, they're able to
learn what's going to happen next, a
start, a beginning, and the middle. They learn all of that from a book. And
most people say, "Well, why is that
important?" They're two. third one.
Anything else? Well, studies have shown
if kids are read to before they even
reach school, they learn how to read
better. They learn how to pay attention.
They learn how to listen. And they
definitely learn how to sit. All key
skills for kindergarten.
And then one thing you think, oh, it's
cute. It's adorable. But here's the
thing. If they're not ready for
kindergarten, they're not ready to
learn. They're not ready to read. They may become behind. And then the
behind keeps following them up once they
reach the third grade. And after third
grade, they're no longer learning to
read. They're reading to learn. And once
they're behind, it follows them through
adulthood. And that's one of the kind of
key indicators of success at their jobs,
high schools, and even criminal
activities. What do they have in common?
Their literacy skills. So to kind of
encourage all of the young littles, cute
ones, to make it a positive, happy
event, we like to celebrate the fact
that we want people to reach out their
kids. So we have 1,000 books before
kindergarten. Um, at the 500 mark, they
get a little bag. At the thousand mark,
they get a little medal that these kids
absolutely love. They will wear that
medal to bed. The grandparents, they
show everybody. It's like straight up
metal that says, "I am a reader." they
get a free book to kind of continue
their journey. But in order to celebrate
that, we are having um the Minnesota
Children's Museum come out to do two
programs on September 4th at 11:00 a.m.
and then at 2:00. It is limited to 30 at
each of these. So, we are requiring
signups, but it's completely free to
register. And also, even if you can't
make it, you can still participate in
the thousand books before kindergarten.
If they're in TK, you know what? They
haven't reached kindergarten yet, so
they can still apply. And that's all
I've got. So, thank you.
>> Thank you. Are there any additional
members that would like to speak during
public participation? Please come forth.
Mil
Treeweiler, is getting rich and becoming
wealthy the most important goal in
human's lifetime? Do we humans have a
responsibility to our children, our
grandchildren, and our descendants?
As adults and parents, the most
important duty and responsibility is to
plan for the future of our children and
descendants. This is because our
children, our grandchildren, and our
descendants are too young or haven't
been your born yet and can't do or plan
for their own future. Just for your
information, I want you to be aware that
there is corruption here in Stannislas
County. Most recently, the corruption in
Stanas County's Stanco that's being
prosecuted now after the top people
there embezzled hundreds of thousands of
dollars. The building industry will tell
you there's plenty of farmland to grow
food on. This is false. Recently, many
farmers in the Central Valley have had
to take their farmland out of production
because of a lack of water. The building
industry has not researched how little
prime farmland is still left on the
earth.
Dave and the Building Industry
Association do not seem to be concerned
about the future of our children,
grandchildren, and descendants. The
worst part of it is some of these people
may do corrupt things to make money.
They may try to bribe you with money,
with services for your home, or provide
you with trips and other pleasures to
get your vote. In some cases, they'll
even try to blackmail you or intimidate
you just to get their way.
My last comment already been covered,
but I'm going to cover it myself.
We must guard against the introduction
of data centers into Stannislos County.
The people promoting these centers are
not concerned what we uh that we live in
an area with the best farmland on earth.
Their concern is not what's best for our
children and our grandchildren
and our descendants, but how much money
they can make. I'm not saying that
there's not a need for more data
centers. I'm saying this is not the
place to build data centers. Not in
Stannis County, not in the city of
Turlock, and we should have a policy
against it in the city of Turlock. We
must aggressively fight against the data
centers here in Stannislas County. Thank
you.
>> Are there any other people that wish to
make public participation? Go ahead.
Um on the subject of the data centers uh
it's not something that I am really well
informed about but I know a little bit
um as I understand there already is
connection with Amazon here in our area
and um I haven't looked into that just
heard that recently but um there seems
to be an awful a lot of concern and a
lot of things that are said uh
that I don't know how we um actually
verify
how valid those things are about water
use about energy. I've heard things
about the water that goes back into the
ground and it's you know now tainted and
it's going to impact us and so these are
very concerning things and uh we already
have issues with our water, our
groundwater and all that. Uh, and I
would just really like to see the
council take that to heart, hear what
the people are saying. There's a lot of
concern, way more than is here tonight,
uh, about that issue. And I would also
like to say I'd like to not see data
centers here. Thank you.
>> Is there anyone else from the public
that would like to make a public
comment?
Seeing none, we have one more online
that would like to make a public
comment. Um L uh if you can please go
ahead and speak.
Oh, can you go ahead and try again?
You are unmuted. You may need to unmute
yourself.
We will wait a couple more. We'll wait
about 10 more seconds.
Okay, we're unable to hear L. Um, seeing
no additional speakers at this time,
Mayor.
>> Then I will close public comment
and move on to city manager reports and
updates. Dr. Murphy.
Uh, first things first, would the
council appreciate an update from uh,
Director Fischer on Montana Park? Sounds
great.
>> I was going to ask him to give that to
Mr. Bates separately.
>> Okay.
>> But if you if you would like to do
>> I think for the public maybe we can
Chris if you'll come up
>> and as he's coming up not to waste any
time. I just I I do want to make uh two
comments. Uh, I think council's aware,
maybe the public's not aware. I was
proud to sit on the interview committee
and I helped select the fire chief and
the new fire marshal, the Turlock fire
chief who's here and uh our new fire
marshal who should be starting very
soon. So I played a role in that and you
know one thing I will promise you I will
never run away from my military
background. I served alongside of some
of America's greatest heroes and
dedicated public servants. A military
leader is not also a militant leader. I
try to be a collaborative leader,
mission focused, and I would ask that
gentleman to listen to Mr. Sheridan's
own comments.
» All right. Thank you. Um I am pleased to
see since the last time we were here, we
talked about getting Montana Park out to
bid, you know, by the end of July. We
are a little bit behind on that and some
of the reason for that is we've had some
public some really good public
suggestions. So, making some of those
changes and working through some of
those things have delayed. And we've
also had some really time-sensitive
projects that we've delivered to the
council. And thank you for making those
decisions that have um once that bubble
of um ARPA funds, you know, gets through
here, we should have a little bit more
bandwidth. And we look to get it out,
you know, to bid in the next few weeks.
And actively, and the good news is is
we've been actively working on um
additional funding opportunities. In
fact, just yesterday, we submitted
another um grant application for
community resilience and heat and heat
projects looking to, you know, cover
some of the state shade structures. So,
yeah, we're really excited about the the
project and we we are continuing to
focus on it.
» Good enough. Thank you.
>> Thanks.
>> All right. And now we have council
member comments, announcements, andor uh
future items. Council member Abram,
>> just a couple comments. Um, National
Night Out was last week and it was
great. So, thank you to everybody who
took part in it. Um, I got to go to a
couple events that were being held for
the first time. So, it's a a community
event that's still growing. Um, in the
consent calendar tonight, one of the
items that was um approved uh were the
portable ballards that I spoke about
some time ago. Um, so I want to thank
staff for looking into that and for my
colleagues for supporting that. I think
that's going to be a great uh value ad
for public safety for pedestrians and I
look forward to seeing them out and
about. Um and then finally, we've had um
several uh members of our fire
department who have been deployed to the
fires in Oregon and the nearby ones in
Calvary County. So, you know, they're
not if they're busy, they're not
watching this, but to everybody else who
um's coming back from that, you know,
Turlock, thanks you for your service
here and being away from your family for
days and days and days to take care of
our region.
I too would like to um shout out to the fire folks that have been deployed.
Um I have some relatives that have been
involved with fires various states. Um
I've heard some citizens be concerned
that we're sending our people away and
leaving our stations uncovered and I can
assure you as I know the chief has has
sent out that that is not the case. It
is um we are still well protected here
in town. So thank you.
Yeah, I'm going to start with data
centers.
So folks, normally we don't comment on
what gets posted on social media, but in
this case, an elected official put a
post out about a week ago and concerning
datas. That elected official was
schoolboard trustee Mary Jackson. She
posted up online that Turlock had a data
center and that Turlock had two
additional pending permits within city
hall for two more data centers. Um,
hence I think Leslie that's your comment
that Turlock's slotted for three. I I
want to the public to know that that is
an absolute false post. Turlock does not
have a data center. Turlock does not
have any permits pending for data
centers. And I and I and I point this
out and I appreciate Dr. Murphy having
the staff reply to the online post with
the city logo because when elected
officials post things, the public
depends on that and relies on that and
expects it to be true. Um, Milt
Treeweiler, you and I agree on very
little, sir, but I can tell you we both
agree that Turlock is a very precious
bread basket with the best farmland in
the world, and I don't want data centers
anywhere near it. Okay. So, if we could
all work to get it out of the county,
that would be great. But I need the
record clear for what Turlock has and
what Turlock doesn't have because
Leslie, you're right. This is not a
Republican or a Democrat issue. This is
a humanity issue. Um, moving on. Fire
department. Thank you for those
comments. Um, I know Chief Serpa, you
weren't with us on our side of things
back when the Cowdor fires were going
on. Um, now we have the Gan Fire going.
There are fire departments statewide
sending resources. I did check in with
Chief Evans. I was informed that you are
being very strategic not only about
making sure Turlock has plenty of
coverage, but also monitoring the
firefighter fatigue issue so that when
resources are being sent out and we have
additional firefighters here at home
that are working overtime to cover those
positions that we don't run into
firefighter fatigue uh like we did with
the Caldor fire a few years back. So, I
was told that you were making very
strategic moves and very much on top of
that and I just wanted to say thank you.
Um, great job. Keep it going. Um, the
last comment I have is about the gear
road corridor that's coming. Um, you
guys, Dr. Pesh, the road doctor, we call
him, he's also like our city treasure, a
very humble guy. Um the five of us all
know that two years ago we were told
that project was going to cost 25
million at at the base level and he
reworked that project and got it down to
20,280,000.
He didn't give himself credit for that
but you all know I'm one to give credit
where it goes regardless of what side
it's on. So thank you.
>> Well you guys pretty much covered most
of the stuff but um national night out I
was able to go to Columbia Park and
there was a lot of people there so great
turnout. Um Chick-fil-A grand opening um
happened. Um great turn uh turnout there
as well. If you guys haven't went by
there, um it's it's actually going
pretty quickly. I had some some
employees go there and they're like,
"Oh, it's going the first day. I think
it was like an hour wait or something,
but now I think um it's it's less than
that." So, um I just love to see Turlock
uh expand and grow um economically. So,
>> thank you. So, the greatest news about
Chick-fil-A is that it is an anchor. And
what that means is that people come here
from other cities. We many of of the
citizens in this town have gone to
Mantika to get their Chick-fil-A on. So,
here comes the best part. This is the
largest ever in the history of
Chick-fil-A. The showing on the first
day, we handled it. Turlock, California
handled it. And I and kudos to all of
our staff who were out there making sure
everything was working. Even uh the
captain on a day off was sitting there
kept moving the pylons to make sure that
there weren't any issues. It it turned
out really well. And people can say,
well, it's just a fast food. Okay. But
it starts the the whole thing for
economic development. We create money
and revenue so that we can provide our
employees and they provide a better
service. There's a whole structure to
how this works. It's not just a
sandwich. So, I am super proud that
Chick-fil-A is here and what our our
group did was phenomenal. And that's how
you do economic development. It's not
just one thing and we call it a day and
the ribbon cutting and move on. The this
is how you bring large things here that
are going to build our economy for us
and not come into the streets down where
we're living in our residential. Um, I
also want to just say that the advisory
board for uh the fire department is not
to decide if we're coming back per se.
It is an advisory board to the chief. So
now that he's in a position, he will do
like our police chief and have a group
of people who will sit on that and as we
progress through the issues of getting
what 48 months till we get our our
ladder truck, all these things. How do
we get there so that we get to the fact
that we're back to Turlock Fire
Department? So, it's not one equals the
other and we needed Chief Serpa to start
this for us. So, he'll be working on
that shortly. And other than that, I
think we have close session.
>> Yes, I will begin by reading the items
for close session and then you'll see me
open up public comment for close
session. So, if you want to speak to
that is your time regarding those close
session items. So 13A is threat with
public services, public facilities,
critical infrastructure controls,
critical infrastructure, information
relating to cyber security, California
government code 54957A1.
And item B is conference with legal
council existing litigation uh pursuant
to government code California 59
549569D1.
Uh two cases Turlock Gospel Mission
versus the city of Turlock and people of
the state of California versus the city
of Turlock. At this time, if you would
like to make any comments, we'll start
with members of the public sitting live.
Seeing none, we'll move to our virtual.
If anyone on the virtual would like to
speak regarding those two close session
items, please unmute yourself or press
star six.
Seeing none, mayor.
>> All right, then we will uh adjourn to
our close session and come out and
report should there be anything. Thank
you.
Nothing to see.
» We're live. All right. There's nothing
to report out and we are adjourned.