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Votes at a glance: key actions taken by Los Banos City Council on Feb. 9, 2025
Summary
The council approved consent items, accepted state and private grants, authorized contracts and adopted multiple personnel and ordinance items. This roundup lists each formal vote, the outcome, and key details for readers and stakeholders.
The Los Banos City Council took several formal votes during its Feb. 9, 2025 meeting. Below is a concise list of the major formal actions, outcomes and what they mean.
Votes at a glance
- Consent agenda (Warrant numbers 249727–249956 for $994,028.81; Resolutions 6875, 6876, 6877, 6878, 6879 accepting public-works projects and grants): Approved by single motion as submitted. The consent items included notices of completion for city projects and acceptance of a $3,500 Elks Lodge gratitude grant for the bridal shelter.
- Resolution 6880 (special election to fill District 1 vacancy): Council selected the earlier all-mail special election date (August 26, 2025) to fill the District 1 seat and approved related action to proceed; motion carried.
- Resolution 6881 (accept Central California Alliance for Health grant, $2,500,000; budget amendment): Approved. Grant funds are restricted to capital expenditures for 1 Tree Village (no operating costs).
- Resolution 6882 (approve Disposition, Development and Loan Agreement and regulatory agreement with Anabasis LLC for 1 Tree Village): Approved by council vote. Agreement obligates the developer and records 55-year affordability and services covenants.
- Resolution 6883 (declare four acres surplus/exempt land to allow property disposition for 1 Tree Village): Approved; staff will record disposition documents to enable the project.
- Resolution 6884 (accept $1,000,000 legislatively specified grant for Colorado Ballpark ADA renovation): Approved; staff will pursue the grant application and subsequent steps.
- Resolution 6885 and Ordinance 1207 (annexation and pre-zoning of ~170 acres for stormwater/surface water capture basin; general plan amendment to civic institutional): Council adopted the environmental determination (Mitigated Negative Declaration previously adopted by Planning Commission), approved the annexation resolution and introduced the ordinance for pre-zoning. (Ordinance introduction and first-reading waived per council action.)
- Resolution 6887 (MOU/tentative agreement: Las Banos Police Middle Managers Association): Approved; compensation and benefits adjustments included in MOU.
- Resolutions 6889/6890 (MOU/tentative agreement and associated salary schedule amendments for Los Banos Police Officers Association): Approved; multi-year pay/benefit increases and ratification incentives included.
- Resolution 6891 (salary schedule amendments for unrepresented miscellaneous employees including department heads/assistant directors): Approved after council review and government-code disclosure for executive compensation.
- Ordinance 1206 (amendment to city-manager removal rule): Adopted (second reading waived and roll call adoption). The ordinance returns the city-manager removal language to prior council removal threshold (affirmative vote of three or more councilmembers as adopted).
- Resolution 6892 (appointment: Los Banos Downtown PBID Board representative): Mayor Pro Tem Deborah Lewis appointed.
- Multiple commission appointments: Parks & Recreation and Planning Commission appointees were selected by council vote during the meeting.
What to watch next
- 1 Tree Village: Alliance grant acceptance and the DDLA obligate capital funds and conditions; staff will bring tenant-selection documents and further deliverables back to council for compliance with IRF and Alliance deadlines.
- Colorado Ballpark: staff will return with public input and grant application steps after additional community outreach.
- Stormwater basin annexation: staff will pursue LAFCO and permitting steps and finalize the MOU with Grassland Water District for water-sharing and design costs.
Ending: The meeting recorded a series of fiscal, land-use and personnel approvals that move major capital projects forward while generating neighborhood questions that staff and council said they will continue to address.
