City Council Regular Meeting — 2025-07-01

Agenda items

1. Item 1: CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
2. Item 2: CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL-ANTICIPATED LITIGATION
3. Item 3: CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL-ANTICIPATED INITIATION OF LITIGATION
4. Item 4: Resolution Affirming the Report of Public Nuisance Abatement Costs and Placing Them on the Tax Roll

   1: Approve Staff recommendation and adopt Resolution No. 2025-

5. Item 5: Lost Cultivation Crop Waiver Appeal Fee
6. Item 6: Formation of a Fire Services Ad Hoc Subcommittee

   Approve recommendation.

7. Item 7: Phase Two Mural Program - Downtown Arts and Cultural District

   Approve Staff recommendation.

8. Item 8: Professional Services Agreement for an Animal Adoption Specialist

   Approve Staff recommendation.

9. Item 9: Ordinance Amending Desert Hot Springs Municipal Code Chapter 3.38 - Lost Cultivation Crop Waiver Appeal Fee

   Approve Staff recommendation.

10. Item 10: Award Construction Agreement for the Reflection Park Phase II Project 4002

    Approve Staff recommendation.

11. Item 11: Award Construction Agreement for the Wardman Park Improvement Project, Project #: 4012

    Approve Staff recommendation.

12. Item 12: Approval of Professional Services Agreement with Take Five Entertainment for 2025-2026 Downtown Outdoor Concert Series.

    Approve Staff recommendation.

13. Item 13: City Council Regular Meeting Minutes: June 17, 2025

    Approved the minutes as presented.

14. Item 14: Second Reading and Adoption of an Ordinance Adopting an Engineering and Traffic Survey, Establishing Maximum Speed Limits

    Approved Staff recommendation to approve Second Reading, read by title only and adopt Ordinance No. 818: "An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Desert Hot Springs Adopting…

15. Item 15: Second Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement with Integrity Investigative & Compliance Services, LLC, for Cannabis Compliance Services

    Approved Staff recommendation to authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a Second Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement with Integrity Investigative & Compliance Services, LLC, for cannabis compliance…

16. Item 16: (Successor Agency) Request for Subordination of Statutory Pass-Through Payments in Connection with Proposed Issuance of Tax Allocation Refunding Bonds from the Successor Agency of the former County of Riverside Redevelopment Agency

    Approved Staff recommendation to approve the Acknowledgement of the request by the Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency for the County of Riverside to subordinate the City of Desert Hot…

17. Item 17: (Housing Authority) Declaration that Nine (9) Vacant Parcels of Real Property are Exempt Surplus Land Pursuant to California Surplus Land Act

    Approved Staff recommendation to adopt Resolution No. HA-2025- 001 of the Desert Hot Springs Housing Authority Board of Directors declaring that nine (9) vacant parcels of real property identified as…

18. Item 18: First Amendment to Professional Services Agreement with Smith Garson, Inc. (formerly Smith Dawson and Andrews, Inc.) for Federal Advocacy Services

    Approved Staff recommendation to authorize the City Manager to execute a First Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement with Smith Garson, Inc. (formerly Smith Dawson and Andrews, Inc.) for Federal…

19. Item 19: School Resource Officer

    Approved Staff recommendation to authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement between the City of Desert Hot Springs and the Palm Springs Unified School District for the Police Department…

20. Item 20: Police Department Patrol Vehicle Purchase

    Approved Staff recommendation to authorize staff to purchase two (2) Ford Police Interceptor vehicles from Palm Springs Motors for a total cost of $109,459.18.

21. Item 21: Approval of Parcel Map 32029 for Skyborne Ventures, LLC

    Approved Staff recommendation to: City Council July 1, 2025 1) Find that the Parcel Map No. 32029 is in substantial conformance with the previously approved tentative map; 2) Approve Parcel…

22. Item 22: Approval of City's Title VI Program

    Approved Staff recommendation to approve the City's Title VI Program.

23. Item 39: Moved by Mayor Pro Tem Gardner

    2: Chad Kingren and Leslie Valencia -12800 Foxdale Drive (Sandpiper Inn): Approve extension to bring property into compliance by August 9, 2025. Fines to go on tax roll if not…