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Council approves street vacation, drainage study, police gym donation and a package of contracts and program amendments
Summary
The council approved a consent‑calendar package including Resolution 8603 vacating a short section of Mecca Street, a $128,377 drainage study contract, acceptance of a $250,000 police gym donation, ARPA‑funded grocery gift card expansion, and several infrastructure and utility system upgrade contracts.
On Nov. 19 the Redlands City Council handled several consent and agenda items that passed with routine discussion or modest debate.
Street vacation: Council approved Resolution No. 8603 to summarily vacate an unimproved 30‑ft‑wide segment of Mecca Street (approx. 8,941 sq ft) after staff explained the leg dead‑ends and is a paper street that the owner seeks to vacate for improved property use; staff said ESA of CEQA exemptions applied.
Drainage study: The council approved a professional services agreement with Water Earth, Inc. to perform a drainage study for canyon corridors including San Mateo Canyon, Live Oak Canyon and Alessandro Road for not to exceed $128,377. Staff said the city engineer developed the RFP and will review consultants’ work.
Police gym donation: The council accepted a $250,000 monetary donation from Paul Smith (Toyota of Redlands) to fund gym equipment in the planned new police department; the council approved an appropriation and recorded a brief recusal where applicable.
Social‑services programming: The council approved a third amendment to the contract with Redlands Ranch Market (About Foods) to expand a grocery gift‑card program funded by ARPA ($1.2 million) and approved a property‑management agreement with Step Up on Second Street to continue Homekey operations at the converted motel (not to exceed $425,000), both aimed at immediate resident supports.
Infrastructure and utility items: Council approved a sole‑source master agreement to upgrade the utility billing and customer data management system to the vendor’s new hosted (cloud) version (amount not to exceed $737,261), awarded a public works contract to All Cities Engineering for the 2024 CIP sewer pipeline replacement (approx. $1.37 million), and authorized equipment and engineering contracts for wastewater plant upgrades and other fleet and grove maintenance amendments. Staff emphasized regulatory and lifecycle reasons for sole‑source purchases and equipment replacements.
All motions described here passed on roll call as recorded in the meeting minutes. Staff noted applicable CEQA exemptions for many of the administrative and maintenance actions.
