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Big Bear City CSD adopts fire-prevention tax, corrects purchasing limits and approves salary schedule
Summary
At its June 2 meeting the Big Bear City Community Services District Board unanimously adopted a fire prevention and protection tax levy for FY 2025-26, corrected a purchasing-policy bid-threshold error, approved an unchanged investment policy, and adopted the FY 2025-26 salary schedule.
The Big Bear City Community Services District Board of Directors on June 2 unanimously adopted a package of routine fiscal and administrative actions, including a fire prevention and protection tax levy for fiscal year 2025-26, a correction to the District’s purchasing policy, approval of the annual investment policy, and adoption of the FY 2025-26 salary schedule.
Finance Officer Jeanette Prickett told the Board the fire prevention and protection tax levy will increase by 3.98 percent for FY 2025-26 under the methodology used to calculate the rate. President John Russo opened the noticed public hearing on the proposed Resolution 2025-09 and, after no public comments, the Board adopted Resolution 2025-09 by unanimous vote (AYES: B. Rowe, J. Rowe, Russo, Walsh, Ziegler). The minutes record the action as: “A RESOLUTION OF THE BIG BEAR CITY COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT SETTING THE DISTRICT’S SPECIAL FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION TAX LEVY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025-26.”
Prickett also presented a required annual action to set the District’s appropriations limit for FY 2025-26. The minutes state the limit was set at $10,520.652 (as presented during the meeting; the meeting minutes contain a formatting inconsistency in that figure). The Board adopted Resolution 2025-10 on a unanimous vote.
Separately, Prickett told the Board the District’s Purchasing Policy contained an incorrect bid threshold tied to the California Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting procedures. The policy had been published with a $750,000 threshold instead of the intended $75,000. The Board adopted Resolution 2025-011 to correct the purchasing-policy limits, again by unanimous vote.
The Board unanimously approved Resolution 2025-12, the District’s Annual Statement of Investment Policy, which staff reported unchanged from the prior year and required by California Government Code §53600.3.
Human Resources Manager and Board Secretary Morgan Szabad presented the FY 2025-26 Salary Schedule and said the current Memorandum of Understanding provides a four percent equity adjustment effective July 1, 2025. Szabad said the temporary non-regular hourly rate for FY 2025-26 will be $24.67. The Board approved the salary plan for water, sewer, solid waste and administrative positions on a unanimous vote.
The minutes show the routine package of measures carried without public opposition. The meeting adjourned at 7:05 p.m.
