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City Council does not meet this week. Generating ideas for official flags needed to complete the City's new commemorative flag policy and an ethics complaint against an RPU Board member are on commission agendas this week.
Mayor and Councilmember salaries, Title 20 updates allowing properties to be designated of historic significance without owner consent, and an appeal for a failed ethics complaint against Councilmember Cervantes are all on the agenda this week.
Reviewing plans to build a 338-unit apartment complex and grocery store on the site of the old Sear Building is the highlight of this week's agendas.
The City is exploring costs to directly provide all city-wide trash collection services instead of using external contractors for commercial and 1/3 of residential collection and offering optional smaller trash cans.
An annual review of the City's efforts to reduce homelessness, the possible expansion of RPU's low-income assistance to cover trash pickup, and consideration towards the potential sale or donation of two decommissioned RPD helicopters are all on City Hall agendas this week.
Short-term rental regulations, reducing City Council monthly meetings, and an appeal for a failed ethics complaint against Councilmember Cervantes are all on the agenda this week.
City Council doesn't meet this week, but the Transporation Board and Planning Commission will consider parking rules near Arlington High School and traffic flow at the end of Mission Inn Ave.
City Council will place a measure on the March 5 ballot to create a 10% tax on the sale of retail cannabis in the city.
Potential new regulations for keeping chickens in residential neighborhoods, renaming a park for Fire Captain Tim Strack, and approving designs for a replacement building for Magnolia Presbyterian Church are all up for discussion this week in City Hall.
Council will hear the latest updates for the Mission Inn Festival of Lights and receive legal counsel for a lawsuit filed against the city by the Historic Mission Inn Corporation.
With only three meetings scheduled, one would expect a quiet week at City Hall, but a proposal to reduce the number of monthly City Council meetings and an ethics complaint against Councilmember Cervantes are likely to generate some noise.
Councilmembers Conder and Hemenway are preparing to recommend the Riverside Transmission Reliability Project Working Group be allowed more time to secure federal funding to underground the project.
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