Council approves multiple first readings: budget amendment, fuel and engineering contracts, CDBG subrecipients
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Summary
On first readings the council advanced a FY2026 budget amendment and several procurement ordinances, including a $60,000 annual CNG fuel agreement, $1,092,220.18 in CDBG funding for Center Street improvements, and a $1,695,397.50 contract for construction management and inspection.
The Pasadena City Council advanced multiple ordinances on first reading that together amend the FY2026 budget and authorize a series of contracts and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) expenditures.
The city read Ordinance 20‑26‑32, an amendment to the FY2026 annual budget. The council also heard first readings of procurement ordinances including an annual compressed natural gas fuel purchase agreement with Freedom Fuel DLG LLC (estimated at $60,000 annually), a repair and maintenance agreement for fire apparatus with All Source Enterprises (doing business as Safe Industries), and a one‑year extension of a fuel purchase contract (Tarleton Oil) for gasoline and diesel supplies.
Multiple CDBG subrecipient agreements were read: $87,000 to Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Inc. for homeless shelter services, $85,355 to Zara's House (listed in the ordinance as a subrecipient) for similar public service, and an appropriation of $1,092,220.18 for Center Street paving and drainage improvements in a low‑to‑moderate income area. The council also was read an ordinance authorizing $180,000 for GIS services with LJA Engineering and a $1,695,397.50 contract with H.R. Green Inc. for construction management and inspection across multiple CIP drainage and paving projects.
Councilmember Emmanuel Guerrero highlighted the nonprofit subrecipients and their outreach, providing contact numbers for residents who need services. Some councilmembers raised procurement concerns: Councilman Heredia said he would abstain on ordinance 20‑26‑039 and urged competitive RFQs to broaden vendor participation; Councilwoman Valerio recorded no votes on certain first readings and the city secretary recorded specific nays and abstentions for items on the consent set.
The council voted to advance the first readings as presented. Where individual votes or abstentions were recorded for specific ordinances, the city secretary read those notations into the record.
