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Votes at a glance: San Bernardino council approves consent items, contracts and landfill work
Summary
At its June 18 meeting the San Bernardino City Council approved multiple consent and action items including an ERP consultant contract, an agreement for additional monitoring at the Waterman Landfill, a crosswalk study list and set reporting for position reclassifications; the council also pulled one consent item for later return.
The San Bernardino City Council approved a series of consent and action items on Wednesday, including a consultant contract for the city's enterprise resource planning (ERP) needs, additional testing at the Waterman Landfill, a citywide crosswalk study schedule and a recurring report on job reclassifications.
Key votes and outcomes
- Consent calendar (items 4'15): approved. The council passed the consent calendar with the exception of item 8, which staff pulled to return at a later meeting. Council members recorded their approvals by roll call.
- Item 9 (ERP consultant and project management): approved 5'0to'0. Staff explained the original RFP award was delayed and a previously awarded firm declined to continue; the city requested approval to contract with a consultant who previously worked on the project and who is a former city employee to complete the needs assessment, prepare the RFP and provide project management through the expected go-live period. The city attorney confirmed council approval satisfies procurement rules. Council approved the contract and directed staff to proceed; vote recorded as five affirmative votes, zero no votes.
- Item 14 (Waterman Landfill monitoring/field investigation): approved unanimously. Staff said the Waterman Landfill (a municipal landfill operated by the city in the 1950s'60s) has shown methane readings above regulatory standards at probes south of the historic footprint. The city will proceed with trenching, boring and additional monitoring to define the landfill footprint and determine the cause of the elevated readings.
- Item 15 (crosswalk review list): approved unanimously. The council approved next steps to review 117 locations citywide for crosswalk and pedestrian-safety improvements; staff confirmed specific schools named by councilmembers are on the review list.
- Item 16 (quarterly job classification report): council directed staff to provide a quarterly employee job classification report and requested HR return with options for additional oversight of reclassifications. The motion to require a quarterly report passed 5'to'1 with Council member Flores recorded as voting nay.
What was pulled: Item 8 was pulled at staff's request to allow more work; staff said it will be brought back at a later meeting once the item is ready.
Why it matters: The approvals move a multi-year ERP implementation forward, require the city to investigate a potential environmental and safety issue at a former landfill site, and prioritize pedestrian safety reviews near schools. The reclassification reporting direction responds to council concern about internal controls over position changes.
Speakers and attributions for these items are listed below, followed by the formal actions and vote tallies recorded in the meeting minutes.
