City Council Meeting
Regular MeetingPlacerville, CA · August 26, 2025
Agenda
AGENDA
PLACERVILLE CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2025
CLOSED SESSION: 4:30 PM
OPEN SESSION: 5:00 PM
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS – TOWN HALL
549 MAIN STREET, PLACERVILLE, CA 95667
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION INFORMATION
You are welcomed and encouraged to participate in this meeting. Public comment is
taken (3 minutes maximum) on items listed on the agenda when they are called.
Comments on items not on the agenda will be taken under Item 8. Comments must
not be slanderous, and must relate to business within the jurisdiction of the City
Council.
Advance Correspondence/Written Comments: You may submit your comments by e-mail
to pv.citycouncil@cityofplacerville.org, or you may submit your comments to the
Administration Department, 3101 Center Street, Placerville, CA 95667 by 2:00 p.m. the day
of the meeting.
Advance Correspondence/Written Comments received by 12:00 p.m. the Tuesday preceding
the Council meeting will be included in the agenda packet. Comments received after that
time and by 2:00 p.m. the day of the meeting will be provided to the members of the City
Council and, if relating to a staff report, immediately posted to the City’s website.
Copies of the comments will be placed on the back table for public inspection at the meeting.
These comments will not be read aloud but will be acknowledged. All comments will be
available for inspection in the Administration Department during normal business hours.
The Brown Act: Government Code 54950 (The Brown Act) requires that a brief description
of each item to be transacted or discussed be posted at least 72 hours prior to a regular
meeting. The City posts the Agenda on the City Hall and Town Hall windows, and on the
City’s website: www.cityofplacerville.org.
To ensure that matters are decided based on evidence made available publicly before and
during the meeting, Councilmembers will not review or consider information received
electronically while the meeting is in progress.
Reasonable Accommodations: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if
you are a person with a disability and need a disability-related modification or
accommodation to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (530)
642-5531, (530) 642-5538 (fax), or roconnell@cityofplacerville.org. Requests must be made as
early as possible and at least two full business days before the start of the meeting. Some
requests may be accommodated closer to the meeting.
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CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
JOHN CLERICI, MAYOR
NICOLE GOTBERG, VICE-MAYOR
RYAN CARTER
JACKIE NEAU
DAVID YARBROUGH
M. CLEVE MORRIS MONA EBRAHIMI REGINA O’CONNELL
CITY MANAGER CITY ATTORNEY CITY CLERK
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4:30 P.M. CLOSED SESSION
Item 1: Public Employee Appointment
Pursuant to Government Code § 54957
Position: Director of Finance
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5:00 P.M. OPEN SESSION
1. CALL TO ORDER & PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
2. ROLL CALL: Carter, Clerici, Gotberg, Neau, Yarbrough
3. CEREMONIAL MATTERS
3.1 A Proclamation of the City Council Declaring September, 2025, as
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month (Mayor Clerici)
3.2 Recognition of Pioneer Community Energy for Sponsorship of
Energy Efficient Pool Equipment (Mr. Nishihara)
3.3 Welcome Michael Fritschi, New Chief Plant Operator – Water
Reclamation Facility (Ms. Savage)
4. CLOSED SESSION REPORT – City Attorney Ebrahimi
5. ADOPTION OF AGENDA
6. ANNOUNCEMENTS/PRESENTATIONS TO THE PUBLIC
6.1 Brief Comments by the City Council
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7. CONSENT CALENDAR
NOTE: All matters listed under the Consent Calendar are considered routine and will be
enacted by one motion by roll call vote unless any member of the Council wishes to remove
an item for discussion. The reading of the full text of all Resolutions will be waived unless
a Councilmember requests otherwise.
7.1 Approve the Minutes of the Regularly Scheduled City Council
Meeting of August 12, 2025 (Ms. O’Connell)
7.2 Approve the Accounts Payable Register (Mr. Warren)
7.3 Approve the Payroll Register (Mr. Warren)
7.4 Receive and File Public Records Requests (Ms. O’Connell)
7.5 Second Reading of an Ordinance for Zone Change (ZC) 25-01
“Thompson House” (Ms. Kendrick)
Att. A: Draft Ordinance ZC25-01
Att. B: August 12, 2025, City Council Staff Report without
attachments
Att. C: Proof of Publication
7.6 Consider Approving the General Services Administration Contract
Purchase of 16 Archer 1200 Barriers and 1 Archer T-1000 Drop Deck
Trailer from Meridian Rapid Defense Group Sales, LLC in the
Amount of $162,965.45 and Approving a $10,990 Budget
Appropriation from the PARSAC Flexible Spending Account for the
Said Purchase (Mr. Stone)
Att. A: Resolution
Att. B: Meridian Barrier Quote
Att. C: GSA Pricing
8. PUBLIC COMMENT – NON-AGENDA ITEMS
This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the Council on any
matter not on the Agenda that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the City Council.
State law prohibits the Council from acting on items not listed on the Agenda except by
special action of the City Council under specified circumstances.
The Mayor reserves the right to limit the speaker’s time to three minutes. You are not
allowed to make personal attacks on individuals or make comments which are slanderous
or which may invade an individual’s personal privacy.
8.1 Oral Communication
8.2 Written Communication
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9. ITEMS PULLED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR
10. ORDINANCES
11. PUBLIC HEARINGS
12. DISCUSSION/ACTION ITEMS
12.1 Assessment of Fire Gates in Placerville and Challenges Associated
with their Removal (Ms. Kendrick)
Att. A: Subdivision Survey Reports
Att. B: California Public Resources Code (PRC) 4290.5
12.2 Consider an Amendment to an Agreement With Arts and Culture El
Dorado for Use of 525 Main Street for Offices and Gallery Space
Extending the Term of the Agreement (Mr. Morris)
Att. A: Resolution
Att. B: Original Agreement
Att. C: Draft Amendment
12.3 Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Initiative:
Reviving Downtowns and Main Streets – Request for Discussion and
Direction on Submitting Comments (Ms. Kendrick)
Att. A: LCI email dated July 28, 2025
Att. B: Downtown Revitalization Action Plan March 1996
12.4 Consider Finding the Frontage Improvements Associated with the
Placerville Drive Bridge Replacement Project (CIP #41404)
Necessary, and Authorizing Staff to Place a Demand Upon the
Current Property Owners of Two Parcels Requiring Performance
Pursuant to the Recorded Street Frontage Improvement
Agreements for Said Parcels (Ms. Savage)
Att. A: Resolution
Att. B: Copy of SFIA 100
Att. C: Copy of SFIA 149
12.5 Receive a Presentation Regarding the League of California Cities
City Managers Sales Tax Working Group’s Recommended Sales Tax
Reforms, and Consider Approving a Letter of Support for the E-
Commerce Sales Tax Reforms to the League of California Cities
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Board of Directors, and Authorize the Mayor to Execute the Same
(Mr. Warren)
Att. A: HDL Brick & Mortar vs. Online Sales Tax Graph as of
December 31, 2024
Att. B: HDL (sales) Tax Allocation Guidelines for Local Sales and
Use Tax
Att. C: Sales Tax Reform Presentation
Att. D: Letter of Support
13. COUNCIL REPORTS FROM OTHER AGENCY MEETINGS
• El Dorado County Transit Authority
(Neau, Yarbrough)
• El Dorado County Transportation Commission
(Clerici, Neau, Yarbrough)
• LAFCO (El Dorado Local Agency Formation Commission)
(Carter)
• SACOG (Sacramento Area Council of Governments)
(Clerici)
• Pioneer Community Energy Board of Directors
(Carter)
• Placerville Fire Safe Council
(Gotberg)
• Opportunity Knocks/Continuum of Care
(Carter)
14. REQUESTS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS – (Requests for Future Agenda
Items Requires a Majority Concurrence of the Council)
15. CITY MANAGER AND STAFF REPORTS
15.1 Receive and File June and July 2025 Police Reports - Stats (Chief
Wren)
Att. A: Stats – June 2025
Att. B: Stats – July 2025
15.2 Receive and File July Fire Station 25 Run Report (Chief Cordero)
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Att. A: July Fire District Report
15.3 Development Services Department Monthly Statistics for June (Ms.
Kendrick)
Att. A: DSD July 2025 Monthly Report
16. UPCOMING ITEMS
Items tentatively scheduled for the next City Council meeting include:
Presentation on Placerville Cemeteries, NBS Agreement CAD Formation Services,
Placerville Drive Pedestrian Connectivity - Award Construction Contract,
Dewberry Construction Management Agreement- Budget Appropriations,
Planning Commission Bylaws, Salary and Benefit Provision Resolution for the
Executive Management Unit, and Master Fee Schedule.
17. ADJOURNMENT
The next regularly scheduled City Council meeting will be held on September 9,
2025, 4:30 P.M. Closed Session, 5:00 P.M. Regular Meeting.
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CERTIFICATION OF AGENDA POSTING
I, Regina O’Connell, City Clerk of the City of Placerville, declare that the
foregoing Agenda for the August 26, 2025, Regular Meeting of the Placerville
City Council was posted and available for review on August 21, 2025, at City Hall,
3101 Center Street, Placerville, CA 95667 and at Town Hall, 549 Main Street,
Placerville, CA 95667.
The Agenda, including all staff reports and attachments, is available
on the City website at www.cityofplacerville.org
Attest: ______________________________________
Regina O’Connell, CPMC, City Clerk
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