City Council - Special Study Session - November 10, 2026 3PM

Cathedral City City Council special study session, November 10, 2026. The Council received an update on compliance with Assembly Bills 645 and 2041, which require pre-arrival medical instructions for specified emergency calls. Staff described a proposed agreement with the Ontario Fire Department to provide emergency medical dispatch support, with a preliminary estimate of $400,000–$500,000 annually plus about $150,000 in startup costs; expanding the City’s in-house dispatch operation was estimated at about $1.5 million, before facility costs. No contract was approved: staff said negotiations, labor meet-and-confer, cost details, and safeguards for call transfers still need review, and the proposal will return to Council. Staff also noted ProQA as the county’s sole-source preferred software vendor and identified a possible July 1, 2027 start date.

Staff recommended maintaining the current street-sweeping program and outreach, including Code Red notifications, rather than adding parking restrictions or enforcement. The estimated installation cost for nearly 1,000 signs was just under $500,000; estimated first-year program costs exceeded $600,000, with roughly $100,000 in ongoing annual costs. Council discussed missed sweeping caused by parked vehicles and the effectiveness of outreach, but no new enforcement or signage expenditure was approved. The Council received and filed the street-parking update; no procurement award or spending motion was identified.