• City Council Meeting April 2019

The meeting began with a moment of silence for CHP Sergeant Steve Licon who had been killed on duty by a drunk driver on April 6th.

PRESENTATIONS
David A. Brown Middle School gave a presentation and shared a video put together by their students.

Billy MacKell was honored for achieving the rank of Eagle Scout.

Back row (sitting) City Attorney Thomas Jex, Ben Benoit, Bridgette Moore, Joseph Morabito. Front row Mayor Marsha Swanson, Darrell Connerton of Senator Jeff Stone's office, Billy MacKell, Nancy MacKell, Brenda Dennstedt of Congressman Ken Calvert's office, Cynthia Bennett of Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez's office and Bill MacKell.

April is National Donate Life Month and One Legacy was on hand for the proclamation. There is also a Mayor-athon in Fullerton April 27th.

Erika Heranic shared her story that led to the need of a heart transplant. Mayor Marsha Swanson is holding up a poster that shows the 19 year old donor (Dylan Stump) that helped Erika live.

Next were quarterly reports from the police and fire departments. 

The number of calls dropped by 4% from the year before.
There were no graphics from the fire department.

Here are the key items from the meeting the way I see it.

1) The Bundy Canyon road widening and improvement has been put on hold until the full funding can be procured.
2) The city will be looking to hire an economic development director in the next month or two.
3) Item 3.1 brought a stronger ordinance against the parking of commercial vehicles on public roads. 

This is going to be a great tool for the city to help alleviate the nuisance of commercial vehicles that park on streets, especially in residential areas, but also in other areas

It was asked in two public comments why this doesn't include RVs. I had the same question too. 

The short answer is that this ordinance is specifically addressing commercial vehicles. RVs would be for another ordinance.

“[Regarding RVs parked on the street] currently there is a 72 hour provision, the way that our municipal code reads it's not intended that our public streets are intended to be a storage facility for RVs. So, if it is the will of the council at some time in the future staff would be able to look at that and address that item, but that's not tonight.”

— Assistant City Manager, Dan York

4) Measure AA Oversight Committee applications are still being taken through the end of the month. Use this link if you'd like to apply: LINK
5) Planning Commissioner applications are also being accepted through the end of this month with the intention of appointing a new commissioner at the May city council meeting.
6) The City of Wildomar now officially owns 1405 street lights. The retrofitting to LEDs should be complete in about three months. Maps will be available on the city website detailing which streets are next and which have been completed.

If you have an outage or other concern about your street light, don't call SCE, report it to the city.

Future Agenda Items
Councilmember Ben Benoit asked for a policy on the presentations that are at the start of city council meetings.

I've been talking about this for years. I think that presentations/recognitions are a valuable part of our civic duty, but there are occasions where they take up more time than the actual meeting. I look forward to a new policy that keeps the presentations, while at the same time respecting everyone's time by limiting the time each item is allotted.

Mayor Marsha Swanson suggested freshening up Sedco Bulevard.

Below is the video of the full meeting which picks up as the flag salute ended. The action picks up at about the 3:30 mark.

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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
— Aristotle

Being that Wildomar Rap isn't a young man anymore... no worries here.

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