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DEVELOPMENT SERVICES <br />Mark Tomich, Director <br />• Continue to work with Redevelopment on their projects as they will still need to go through <br />Development Services <br />• There has been an increase in Planning Commission meetings; now having two meetings per <br />month which puts a strain on staff and commissioners <br />• We are seeing a slight increase in housing; low-end and medium priced housing still moving <br />• Crystal Ridge released three new houses and sold very quickly and now they are coming <br />back with releasing more housing to build <br />• Continue to work on the Habitat Conservation Plan for the Delhi Fly project <br />• As we refine conservation areas it has allowed us to move forward with the General Plan <br />• Two workshops scheduled with Planning Commission <br />• RHNA - Regional Housing Needs Allocation; up until recently has been a five-year process <br />and how much housing with each income category; currently working with SCAG on low- <br />income housing in Colton as regulations policy allows an adjustment based on income <br />• Working through updating the zoning code which hasn't been done for over 30 years <br />• Early stages of the downtown revitalization; working with a consultant on locating grants for <br />that project and other grant opportunities <br />• Business License process is going fairly well; currently working on staggering the renewal <br />timeframe to twice per year. <br />PUBLIC WORKS & UTILITY SERVICES <br />Amer Jakher, Director <br />• Need to add storage and capacity to aging water and sewer infrastructure <br />• Park maintenance - we were able to buy a few thousand plants to put on Washington and <br />Reche Canyon area <br />• Working hard on pothole and crack issues <br />• Currently working on renewable energy resources with the State <br />• Coordinating with SCPPA, one of the only JPA's that has a board of directors consisting of <br />utility and electrical directors, on the impact of upgrading the Agua Mansa power plant; not a <br />good response from the RFP process <br />• Due to turnover in staff, professionally we should have a resource planner and a financial <br />analyst; need to be addressed within the next few months especially with the renewable <br />energy issues <br />City Manager Foster commented on the need to work with SCPPA on the process for upgrading <br />our Agua Mansa power plant. One of the areas that eventually we need to discuss with SCPPA <br />is how we share resources across corporate boundaries. City Treasurer Aurelio De La Torre <br />followed up and stated that we only pay around $1 million per month for that power which is <br />inexpensive compared to the current market. He also stated that Riverside buys a lot of coal and <br />depending on what the government does on how clean we keep the air and if the restrictions keep <br />getting higher, they are going to shut San Juan down. If the City were to invest on improving San <br />Juan, eventually that power would be cheaper so the more you run the more efficient. If we had <br />two or three cities buying power, Agua Mansa could be a "diamond in the rough." We need to <br />be careful when looking at shutting down Agua Mansa; 10 years down the road, if we make good <br />decisions we could be considered heroes in terms of the power. <br />2011 OCT 29 SPC CC/RDA/CUA/CPFA/CHA MTG -4- <br />