City Council - 06 May 2026

City Council - 06 May 2026. Location: Council Chamber. Time: 05:00 PM. Agenda: City Council - 06 May 2026 - Agenda - Html AGENDA Indio City Council Wednesday, May 6, 2026 Study Session: 3:00 p.m. Closed Session: 4:00 p.m. Regular Session: 5:00 p.m. Council Chamber, 3rd Floor 100 Civic Center Drive, Indio, CA 92201 WE PROVIDE OUTSTANDING PUBLIC SERVICES TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR RESIDENTS, VISITORS, AND BUSINESSES IN OUR COMMUNITY The City Council serves as the Board for the Indio Water Authority, Indio Electric Finance Authority, Public Finance Authority, Housing Authority To view the meeting: City's website Livestream , Facebook Live , or YouTube Council Chamber: Those members of the public wishing to observe and participate in the City Council meeting are encouraged to attend in-person at the address and time noted above Public Comments: Members of the public who wish to comment on matters before the City Council may do so in the following ways: • In-person when the City Council hears public comments as scheduled on the Agenda. Comment cards are located at the entrance of the Council chamber. • By e-mail to the following address: cityclerk@indio.org. E-mailed comments must be received on or before 2:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting to be added to the record. Public comments received will not be read during the meeting. • For Public Hearing Items: in-person public comments will be accepted during the public hearing until the hearing is closed. AB 2449 Teleconference Procedures: Under AB 2449, a City Councilmember may appear by Microsoft Teams teleconference under certain specified circumstances. In the event that a City Councilmember appears remotely under AB 2449, a Microsoft Teams teleconference will be open for use by the City Councilmember as well as any member of the public that desires to participate. If all members of the City Council are physically present, then the Microsoft Teams teleconference will be unavailable. CEQA Statement: Unless stated otherwise on the agenda, every item on the agenda is exempt from CEQA under Guideline Sections 15060(c), 15061(b)(3), 15273, 15378, 15301, 15323 and/or Public Resources Code Section 21065. Interpretacion en Español: Para acceder a la traducción durante la reunión, por favor haga clic AQUI . Americans with Disabilities Act: If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable modification or accommodation pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) please contact the office of the City Clerk at 760-391-4007 prior to the meeting for assistance. DISCLOSURE OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (Levine Act - Government Code Section 84308) Pursuant to Government Code section 84308, members of the Indio City Council are disqualified and not able to participate in any agenda item involving contracts (other than competitively bid contracts, labor contracts, or personal employment contracts with City of Indio employees), franchises, discretionary land use permits and other entitlements if the Councilmember received more than $500 in campaign contributions from the applicant or contractor, an agent of the applicant or contractor, or any financially interested participant who actively supports or opposes the City’s decision on the agenda item in the previous 12 months. Members of the Indio City Council who have received, and applicants, contractors or their agents who have made, campaign contributions totaling more than $500 to a Councilmember in the previous 12 months are required to disclose that fact for the official record of the subject agenda item and shall not make, participate in making, or in any way attempt to use their official position to influence the subject agenda item. Disclosures must include the amount of the campaign contribution and identify the recipient Board member and may be made either in writing to the City Clerk prior to the subject hearing or by verbal disclosure at the time of the hearing. STUDY SESSION - 3 PM 1. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL Mayor Elaine Holmes Mayor Pro Tem Waymond Fermon Councilmember Oscar Ortiz Councilmember Benjamin Guitron IV Councilmember Glenn Miller 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3. PUBLIC COMMENT This is the time set aside for public comment for items not on the agenda. Public comments may be provided in the manner prescribed at the top of this agenda. 4. DISCUSSION ITEMS 4.1 Strategic Plan Presentation 4.2 Fiscal Year 2026-27 Budget Recap and Discussion to include Indio Water Authority and the City's Capital Improvement Plan CLOSED SESSION - 4 PM 1. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL Mayor Elaine Holmes Mayor Pro Tem Waymond Fermon Councilmember Oscar Ortiz Councilmember Benjamin Guitron IV Councilmember Glenn Miller 2. PUBLIC COMMENT This is the time set aside for public comment for items not on the agenda. Public comments may be provided in the manner prescribed at the top of this agenda. 3. ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION TO CONSIDER: 3.1 CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS (Government Code Section 54957.6) Agency Designated Representatives: Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem Unrepresented Employee: City Manager REGULAR SESSION - 5 PM 1. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL Mayor Elaine Holmes Mayor Pro Tem Waymond Fermon Councilmember Oscar Ortiz Councilmember Benjamin Guitron IV Councilmember Glenn Miller 2. INVOCATION The City Council does not endorse the content of the invocation and does not endorse the invocational speaker’s particular faith, belief and/or religious denomination. The City Council does not engage in any prior inquiry, review of, or involvement in, the content of the invocation, except to request the speaker to refrain from using the invocation as an opportunity to attempt to convert others to a particular faith or to disparage any faith or belief and for the speaker to face the City Council. The City Council has an established neutral policy for selecting and scheduling invocational speakers. The City Clerk will make the Council’s policy on invocations available upon request for public inspection and copying. 3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Itzel Martinez, Dr. Carreon Academy 4. CITY ATTORNEY REPORT ON CLOSED SESSION 5. YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL (YAC) Juliana Barcenas-Hernandez, Enrique Cazares Loredo Jr., Julissa Marie Cornejo, Isabella Duarte, Gillian Garcia, Leila Gonzales, Yaretzi Magaña, Angel Javier Martinez. Jimenna Murillo-Garcia, Ari Orantes, Danica Rodriguez, Joaquin Ruiz, Viviana Terriquez, Mia Thompson 6. CITY MANAGER REPORTS AND INFORMATION 7. CITY COUNCIL CONFLICT OF INTEREST DISCLOSURE 8. CITY COUNCIL REPORT ON MEETINGS ATTENDED PER GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 53232.3(D) 9. CONSENT CALENDAR Consent calendar items are considered to be routine in nature and will be approved by one motion. Reading of text of Ordinances is waived and Ordinances are adopted as second reading, by title only. Public requests to discuss consent calendar items must be filed with the City Clerk before the consent calendar is called. This is the time for any member of the public wishing to speak on a consent calendar item to do so. Any member of the public wishing to speak shall have a total of three minutes to address any and all items on which he/she wishes to speak. Unless a consent calendar item is pulled for discussion by a council member, there will be no further opportunity to discuss the matter. If a consent calendar item is pulled for Council discussion and a member of the public then wishes to speak, he/she shall limit comments to matters raised during the Council discussion. 9.1 Waive Reading of Title and Text of All Ordinances included in the agenda (Sabdi Sanchez, Dir. of City Clerk Services) Recommendation: Approve Staff Report - Waiving of Full Reading of Ordinances - Pdf 6 9.2 Minutes for the City Council regular meeting of April 15, 2026 (Sabdi Sanchez, Dir. of City Clerk Services) Recommendation: Approve Staff Report - Minutes for April 15, 2026 - Pdf 7 - 12 9.3 City of Indio Warrants from 04-04-2026 to 04-17-2026 (Ruby D. Walla, Dir. of Finance) Recommendation: Receive & File Staff Report - City of Indio Warrants from 04-04-2026 to 04-17-2026 - Pdf 13 - 33 9.4 IWA Warrants from 04-04-2026 to 04-17-2026 (Ruby D. Walla, Dir. of Finance) Recommendation: Receive & File Staff Report - IWA Warrants from 04-04-2026 to 04-17-2026 - Pdf 34 - 41 9.5 Report of investments for the quarter ending March 31, 2026 (Ruby D. Walla, Dir. of Finance) Recommendation: Receive & File Staff Report - Investment report for the quarter ending March 31, 2026 - Pdf 42 - 115 9.6 Receive and File the Measure X and Measure S Annual Reports for Fiscal Year 2025 as Recommended by the Citizens' Advisory Finance Commission on April 30, 2026 (Ruby D. Walla, Dir. of Finance) Recommendation: Receive & File Staff Report - CFAC Recommendation - Receive and File Annual Reports - Pdf 116 - 142 9.7 Implementation of terms of a Tentative Agreement Side Letter with the Indio Police Officers' Association (IPOA) bargaining unit and authorization for the City Manager to implement CalPERS-compliant language changes to the existing MOU (Andrew Ansoorian, Dir. of Human Resources & Risk Management) Recommendation: Approve Staff Report - Tentative Agreement between the City of Indio and IPOA - Pdf 143 - 151 10. ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS 10.1 Information Technology Master Plan Findings and Recommendations (Ian Cozens, Dir. of Information Technology) Recommendation: Receive & File Staff Report - IT Master Plan - Receive and File - Pdf 152 - 275 10.2 Review proposals from three (3) artists recommended by the Public Arts Commission and approved the three (3) murals for three (3) restroom buildings, with a total project budget of $30,000, allocating $10,000 for each mural (Miguel Ramirez-Cornejo, Dir. of Economic Development) Recommendation: Approve Staff Report - Artist Selection for Park Restroom Mural Project - Pdf 276 - 340 10.3 Orally Report on a Summary of Compensation and Approval of an Employment Agreement Appointing Jonathan Nicks as City Manager and Setting Compensation and Other Terms of Employment (Steven G. Pacifico, City Attorney) Recommendation: Approve Staff Report - City Manager Employment Agreement - Pdf 341 11. PUBLIC HEARINGS 11.1 Second reading of Ordinance No. 1832 (“City of Indio Electrical Infrastructure Adequacy and Development Standards Ordinance”) as Chapter 164 of the Indio Municipal Code (Bryan H. Montgomery, City Manager) Recommendation: Approve Staff Report - Ordinance No. 1832 - City of Indio Electrical Infrastructure Adequacy and Development Standards - Pdf 342 - 360 12. PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA This is the time set aside for public comment for items not on the agenda. Public comments may be provided in the manner prescribed on the first page of this agenda. 13. ADJOURN NEXT COUNCIL MEETING: MAY 20, 2026 Agenda packets are available on the city’s website at www.indio.org. Materials related to an item on this Agenda submitted to the City Council after distribution of the agenda packet are available in City Clerk's Office at 100 Civic Center Drive, Indio, during normal City business hours and during the meeting. PUBLIC NOTICE It is the intention of the City of Indio to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in all respects. If, as an attendee or a participant at this meeting, you will need special assistance beyond what is normally provided, the City of Indio will attempt to accommodate you in every reasonable manner. Please contact the City Clerk's Office at (760) 391-4007 or via email at cityclerk@indio.org . For individuals with hearing impairments, please contact the City Clerk’s Office. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting. (28 CFR 35. 102, and 35. 104 ADA Title II) RULES OF DECORUM To help conduct the business of the City Council in an orderly fashion, the City Council has adopted rules pertaining to decorum and order, as provided for in Ordinance No. 1205. The City Council will strictly enforce these rules in order to allow full expression of ideas and opinions by councilmembers, staff and the public. Generally, the City's rules of decorum prohibit comments or actions which willfully disrupt the meeting. All remarks and questions shall be addressed to the Council as a whole and not to any particular member. No individual Councilmember or member of the City staff shall be questioned without first obtaining permission from the Presiding Officer. The City Council asks that all persons - including councilmembers, staff and the public - act and speak respectfully. COMMUNICATION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES To minimize distractions, please be sure all personal communication and electronic devices are turned off or on silent mode. DECLARATION OF POSTING I, Paulina Mendoza, City Clerk Specialist of the City of Indio, California, do hereby declare that the foregoing agenda was posted on April 30, 2026, at least seventy-two (72) hours prior to the meeting per Government Code 54954.2, at the following locations: City of Indio Council Chamber, 100 Civic Center Drive, Indio, CA 92201 City of Indio website www.indio.org Paulina Mendoza PAULINA MENDOZA CITY CLERK SPECIALIST