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Votes at a glance: Palm Desert council approves Vision Zero, fire-map ordinance, strategic-plan contract and multiple consent items
Summary
At its June 12 meeting the Palm Desert City Council took a slate of actions including adopting the Vision Zero strategy, adopting updated fire hazard maps, authorizing a strategic-plan update, approving park design-contract awards and several consent items; key votes and brief descriptions follow.
The Palm Desert City Council recorded the following formal actions on June 12, 2025. Each entry lists the motion outcome and the relevant vote as stated in the meeting transcript.
1) Adopted the Palm Desert Vision Zero Strategy — outcome: approved. Vote: 5-0. (Resolution to adopt planning deliverables developed through the federal Safe Streets and Roads for All planning grant; authorizes staff to prepare a competitive implementation grant application.)
2) Adopted an ordinance incorporating the Office of the State Fire Marshal’s 2025 fire hazard severity zone map for local responsibility areas — outcome: approved. Vote: 5-0. (Brings the city into compliance with Government Code §51178; staff noted no Palm Desert locations were designated “very high.”)
3) Authorized consultant contract process for the 2025 strategic-plan update and approved optional funding for a statistically valid National Community Survey (NCS) — outcome: approved. Vote: 5-0. (Staff will negotiate contract with Barry Dunn & Associates; council amended the agreement term to extend through June 30, 2027.)
4) Terminated contract C48070A for the San Pablo Phase 2 roundabout sculpture and authorized release of a new RFQ — outcome: approved. Vote: 5-0.
5) Awarded design contracts covering seven park renovation projects (agenda item 13R) — outcome: approved. Vote: 4-0 (Councilmember Perdeto recused). (Design awards include community engagement; construction contracts would return to council.)
6) Consent calendar and related items: motion to approve the remaining consent calendar items excluding pulled items passed 5-0. Items later approved during the meeting included: updated records-retention resolution with staff amendments (13F) to add public-health notifications and to retain library board of trustees records permanently; purchase of an emergency portable generator; and the purchase-and-sale agreement to sell an 8-acre portion of Desert Willow Lot E to Blue Companies LLC for an affordable-housing project (sale price and staff valuation: $4,500,000). Vote recorded for the combined consent motion: 5-0.
7) Adopted the resolution proposing collection of residential solid-waste service charges on the Riverside County tax roll for FY 2025–26 — outcome: approved. Vote: 5-0.
8) Designated 73-411 Willow Street as a historic landmark — outcome: approved. Vote: 5-0.
Several items recorded recusals: Councilmember Perdeto recused from items identified as 13R and 13T due to proximity to property he owns; the clerk noted the recusal on the public record and staff summarized the required FPPC disclosure. Where the transcript included staff presentations before votes, this roundup cites the motion outcomes and vote tallies recorded on the official meeting record.
