Votes at a glance: council approves consent calendar, grants, contracts and personnel actions
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Summary
At the meeting the council approved the consent calendar (items 6–15) and took separate votes to accept a $30,000 ABC grant, award a $5.3 million aquifer construction contract with $1.9 million budget transfers, authorize a wastewater position fill, reestablish a business development classification, authorize a Merriment Village supplemental loan agreement, and adopt the 2026 meeting calendar.
The council handled several formal actions by voice vote during the session.
- Consent calendar: Council approved items 6 through 15 in a single motion.
- ABC APP grant: Council authorized acceptance of a $30,000 Alcoholic Beverage Control / Office of Traffic Safety APP grant for targeted enforcement aimed at reducing sales to minors and related DUIs; staff said no city match was required.
- Aquifer storage and recovery project (Phase 2): Council rejected a nonresponsive low bid, awarded the construction contract to W.M. Lyles Company for $5,304,500, and authorized professional services and supplemental appropriations to address a reported $1.9 million CIP shortfall.
- Wastewater staffing: Council authorized the interim human resources director to fill a permanent wastewater collections maintenance worker I/II vacancy following a long‑term retirement.
- Development services classification: Council approved reestablishing the business development liaison classification and authorized recruitment to fill the budgeted position at either liaison or manager level.
- Merriment Village supplemental loan agreement: Council authorized the mayor to sign the supplemental loan/disbursement agreement with Habitat for Humanity Yuba Sutter to implement a previously recorded covenant for phase 1 of the 79‑unit Merriment Village Homekey project.
- Council calendar: Council adopted the 2026 meeting calendar, keeping the first‑and‑third‑Tuesday schedule and holding January 6 as a scheduled meeting (to be canceled later if unnecessary).
Where the transcript records only voice votes, roll‑call tallies were not made explicit; recorded outcomes were carried by voice vote.