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Votes at a glance: El Centro Council approves consent agenda, housing authorizations, regional delegate and administrative changes
Summary
At its Jan. 21 meeting the El Centro City Council approved consent items, updated PLHA authorizations, designated SCAG delegates, asked IID for additional outreach and set a new closed‑session time. Where applicable the votes were unanimous 5‑0.
The El Centro City Council took a series of administrative and programmatic votes on Jan. 21. Key outcomes:
- Consent agenda (items 1–7): Council approved the consent calendar by a 5‑0 vote. The consent items were not discussed separately at the meeting.
- Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA) resolutions (items 10 and 11; Resolutions 25‑03 and 25‑04): Council approved updated authorization language that replaces an individual city‑manager name with the title “city manager or his or her designee,” to reflect recent personnel changes. Staff reported combined PLHA receipts of roughly $2.7 million for 2019–2023 and detailed three activities in the five‑year plan: a loan to an affordable‑housing developer (about $520,076), a homelessness/workforce program administered with Catholic Charities and an accessibility improvements activity; 5% was set aside for program administration. Council approved each PLHA resolution separately, 5‑0.
- SCAG delegate (item 12): Council designated the mayor as delegate and the mayor pro tem as alternate for the Southern California Association of Governments general assembly; item approved 5‑0.
- IID rate increase outreach and 2‑on‑2 meeting (item 13): Council authorized the mayor to send a letter to Imperial Irrigation District requesting additional public outreach in El Centro, inviting IID to make a presentation and scheduling the previously agreed 2‑on‑2 meeting between city and IID representatives; motion approved 5‑0.
- Closed‑session start time change (item 14; Resolution 25‑05): Council adopted a resolution moving the regular closed‑session start time from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; council approved the change 5‑0 and directed staff to keep closed sessions timely.
Votes were recorded on the public record for each item; where staff provided figures (for example PLHA totals and the loan amount to the affordable‑housing developer), those figures were drawn from the staff presentation during the meeting.
