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Special meeting of the City Council of the City of Redlands held in the Council Chambers, Civic Center, 35 Cajon
Street, on October 18, 2021 at 5 00 P M
Present
Staff
Paul Banch, Mayor
Eddie Tejeda, Mayor Pro Tempore
Paul Foster, Council Member
Denise Davis, Council Member
Jenna Guzman -Lowery, Council Member
Charles M Duggan, Jr , City Manager, Dan McHugh, City Attorney, Jeanne Donaldson, City
Clerk, Chris Catren, Police Chief, Chris Boatman, Facilities and Community Services Director,
Brian Desatmk, Development Services Director, Jim Topoleski, Fire Chief, John Harris,
Municipal Utilities and Engineering Director, Janice McConnell, Assistant City Manager
Mayor Banch called the meeting to order and offered those present the opportunity to provide
public comment on any item on the agenda for the closed session
PUBLIC COMMENT
None forthcoming
CLOSED SESSION
Threat to public services or facilities — Government Code § 54947
Consultation Redlands Police Department — Chief of Police Catren, Corporal Caddel and
members of the Multiple Enforcement Team
RECONVENE CITY COUNCIL MEETING
The meeting reconvened at 5 30 P M
CLOSED SESSION REPORT
City Attorney McHugh announced that no reportable action was taken during the closed session
PUBLIC COMMENT
None forthcoming
CITY COUNCIL PROJECTS REVIEW WORKSHOP
Study Session
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City Manager Duggan explained the purpose of the workshop was to discuss and prioritize
requested projects made by individual Council Members to the City Manager Prioritizing
projects allows the City to focus finite staff time on items the full City Council wishes to
pursue and in which order Assistant City Manager McConnell reviewed current staffing levels
City Manager Duggan pointed out that staff had already begun two large projects with the
purchase of 300 E State Street, the future City Hall, and the motel conversion of the Good Nite
Inn, designed to offer transitional housing for the homeless
Council Members discussed several topics including, methodology for ranking projects, the
need to provide the City Manager with a manageable list to implement, the importance of
establishing an equitable selection process and a timeline for reporting updates to Council It
was agreed that Council Members would each select one project as their top priority Mayor
Barich was not prepared to immediately choose a project, but the following four selections
were made from the list referenced in the staff report
1 Council Member Guzman -Lowery - Create a Mental Health Response Team (# 27)
2 Council Member Davis - Racism is a Public Health Cnsis Resolution Section 4 E Progress
reporting to greater community (# 12)
3 Council Member Foster - Adding on -street parking downtown (# 17)
4 Mayor Pro Tem Tejeda - Local Union Labor required for city projects (# 7)
The project list can be modified and was considered a living, working document Quarterly
Council updates would be beneficial and Council Members expressed their appreciation for the
opportunity to openly review the list
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further action the meeting adjourned at 6 14 P M
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