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Votes at a glance: Victorville City Council approves budget, assessments, benefits update and other measures
Summary
The Victorville City Council on June 3, 2025, adopted the FY 2025–26 budgets for the city and related entities, confirmed annual assessments and standby charges, approved benefits and salary changes (including a corrected fringe-benefits figure), authorized two SCLA invoice payments and approved other administrative items.
The Victorville City Council on June 3, 2025, approved a package of financial and administrative actions: the citywide fiscal year 2025–26 budget and related entity budgets; the annual confirmation of maintenance-assessment districts; standby charges for Victorville Water District improvement districts 1 and 2; a benefits and employee-salary resolution (with a corrected fringe-benefits figure); payment of two U.S. Customs and Border Protection invoices for Southern California Logistics Airport (SCLA) services; cancellation of the Aug. 5 council meeting; and authorization for the mayor pro tem to travel to Washington, D.C., to meet legislators regarding member-directed discretionary federal funds. All recorded motions passed with Council members Godan, Jones, Mayor Pro Tem Herriman and Mayor Becerra voting yes; Council member Irving was absent on each recorded vote.
Budget and major figures: City manager Sam Metzler summarized the budget package presented at the May 22 workshop. The citywide expenditure budget reported was $387,669,612 against projected revenues of $376,296,015, with $45,022,575 included for capital improvements. The staff report listed enterprise fund expenditure budgets including the Victorville Water District ($67,728 reported in the binder excerpt), Bemis ($25,517,997), Sewer ($28,774,818), Solid Waste ($30,000,010,680 — as read in the transcript binder excerpt), Southern California Logistics Airport ($35,783,224) and others; staff said detailed line-item breakdowns are available in the budget binder and on the city’s website.
Maintenance-assessment districts and water standby charges: The council opened and closed public hearings and confirmed the engineer’s reports for multiple maintenance-assessment districts (landscape, drainage and the citywide street-lighting assessment district). It also adopted Resolution Nos. 25-043 through 25-046 to confirm and order levy and collection of the annual assessments for those districts. Acting as the Victorville Water District board, the council adopted Resolution Nos. VWD25-006 and VWD25-007 to fix, levy and collect standby charges for water-improvement districts 1 and 2 for FY 2025–26; staff noted the assessments historically provide benefit-assessment revenue tied to undeveloped properties within defined distances of existing mains.
Benefits resolution and salary schedule correction: The council adopted Benefits Resolution No. 25-039, which updates the city’s salary schedule and fringe benefits effective July 1, 2025. During public comment a resident flagged a discrepancy in the backup documents about retiree fringe benefits — a line in the backup showed $9.50 while the staff report and corrected materials showed a $1,000 fringe benefit for regular retirees (65 and older) and full-time employees; staff acknowledged the error and confirmed the correct figure at the meeting. The resolution also updates the authorized employee count from 553 to 570.
SCLA invoice payments: The Southern California Logistics Airport Authority board approved payment of two U.S. Customs and Border Protection invoices totaling $49,501.73 (invoice 530017367 for $44,260.48 and invoice 580076578 for $5,241.25). Airport staff explained the charges pay for Customs officers assigned to SCLA to clear international aircraft and related services; the invoices exceeded the city manager’s purchasing authority and were advanced for board approval.
Other actions: The council adopted a set of entity budgets and resolutions required for FY 2025–26 (Res. Nos. 25-040; LBT25-002; SCLAA25-010; RSA25-002; BWD25-008; CHAS25-002), affirmed the general-fund reserve policy (Res. No. 25-042) and established an appropriations limit of $1,560,753,381 (Res. No. 25-041). The council also approved the consent calendar items 5–12 as presented, canceled the Aug. 5, 2025 regular meeting, and approved mayor pro tem travel to Washington, D.C., to meet legislators on the city’s discretionary-funding submissions.
What changed or needs follow-up: staff said detailed budget documents and the May 22 budget workshop recording are available on the city website; city staff will submit assessment and standby-charge materials to the county assessor’s office to effect levies; the benefits-resolution backup was corrected in the record to reflect the $1,000 fringe benefit where the binder previously listed $9.50.
