2026-10-20 - City Council

Summary

Built from the draft summary minutes and the posted agenda. No video is posted, so there is no transcript or timing.

Regular evening meeting at 6:00 PM; all seven members present (Stead, Corless, Hallyburton, Morales, Nash, Willits by remote, and Mayor McLean).
Minutes of the October 13 work session and regular meeting accepted unanimously.
Matthew Bullard (three-year term to October 20, 2029) and Fiona McGrath (one-year term to May 31, 2027) appointed to the Parks and Recreation Commission by unanimous consent.
Consent agenda approved unanimously (moved by Corless, seconded by Hallyburton): checks and ACH of $8,794,180.89, eleven resolutions (RES-576-26 to RES-586-26), two final plat or time-extension items and a travel request.
Property tax rebate ordinance (ORD-42-26) and a Title 4 city code amendment (ORD-43-26) passed on first, second and third reading together, unanimously.
Vista Point Subdivision preliminary plat approved unanimously after a public hearing.
Adjourned by unanimous vote.

Rules requiring three readings were suspended (Stead moved, Corless seconded, unanimous), then ORD-42-26 enacting the program passed unanimously on the same motion pattern. It reaffirms the $900,000 appropriation, sets application instructions and deadlines, the rebate formula and the distribution method.

Preliminary plat for 12 buildable and two common lots on 43.94 acres in an R-3/DA zone (SUB26-00025).
Sanchez presented for Planning and Development Services; applicant McNutt testified; Bergman spoke for the Vista Neighborhood Association; Kohtz testified. No one else asked to speak.
Approved unanimously on a motion by Stead, seconded by Corless.

On the consent agenda as public hearing requests: annexation of about 8.18 acres with R-1C/HS-O zoning (CAR25-00029) and a preliminary plat of 36 buildable and nine common lots (SUB25-00101) for the same site; both approved with the consent agenda.

Sullivan of the Attorney's Office was approved for $2,978 to attend the Employment Law Conference in San Diego, November 4 to 7, 2026 (consent agenda).

Consent resolutions included snow and ice removal services renewal, two airport engineering services awards, a building automation system renewal, the one-year Whitney Fire Protection District joint powers agreement renewal, firefighting equipment purchase, a refugee services agreement, the LA28 torch relay agreement, a Parks sponsorship agreement and two airport license agreements with the highway district.
Final plat for Eastport Industrial #1 Subdivision (four lots, 43.6 acres) and a one-year time extension for Westlock Village Subdivision were approved on consent.

Appointments of Matthew Bullard and Fiona McGrath to Parks and Recreation Commission; checks/ACH of $8.79M; Attorney's Office travel request.