Preview: 6/2/26 City council meeting
Meeting Summary
Fullerton City Council’s June 2 meeting includes several routine administrative items, but also a few decisions with broader policy implications. Council will consider fee waivers for community events, approve major infrastructure work, adopt a traffic safety plan needed for future federal grant eligibility, and update meeting rules in response to new state Brown Act requirements.
View the full agenda and staff attachments here: Fullerton City Council Agenda
Consent calendar (Items 1-8)
The consent calendar are typically routine items that are passed in bulk by the City Council. Any item can be pulled from the consent calendar by a single City Councilmember for a separate vote and/or discussion
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The minutes of the prior City Council meeting. This documents the events that took place in writing
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The City Council will receive a monthly update on Fullerton’s boards, commissions, and committees, including attendance records from April 2026. This is mostly an informational item meant to track committee activity and whether appointed members are meeting attendance requirements.
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Council will receive the City’s April 2026 payment report, which lists checks, electronic payments, payroll transfers, and other transactions. The total amount reported for April payments is about $15 million. This item does not approve new spending, it just publicly records payments already made.
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The City is considering whether to leave its current risk management and insurance pool, ICRMA, because the pool has been shrinking and costs may rise as fewer cities remain. This action would not force Fullerton to leave, but it would preserve the City’s option to withdraw in 2027 if staff finds a better insurance arrangement.
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The Fullerton Museum is asking the City to waive up to $3,187.50 in City support costs for the 2026 Pride Festival. The event would include activities like a bike parade, live entertainment, vendors, food, and community programming in and around Downtown Plaza. If approved, the City would absorb costs for staffing, cleaning, and police support.
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The Day of Music Committee is requesting up to $10,741.25 in waived City fees and support costs for Fullerton’s annual citywide music festival. The event would include performances at several locations, including Downtown Plaza, Walk on Wilshire, Independence Park, and Hillcrest Park. The largest portion of the request is for police staffing, along with facility fees, street closure support, cleaning, and setup costs.
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The City is proposing to spend $163,259 to convert 42 streetlights in the Derek circuit area to solar-powered lighting. These lights are part of an aging high-voltage streetlight system that has become difficult to maintain, and the area has experienced long outages due to transformer problems. Staff says switching to solar would improve reliability and reduce dependence on outdated equipment.
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The City is considering a $2.63 million contract with R.J. Noble Company to repair about 2.8 miles of deteriorated residential streets in the Sunny Hills, Twilight, and East Las Palmas area. The project would repave streets, repair curbs, gutters, sidewalks, driveway approaches, ADA ramps, sewer manholes, and some sewer lines. Construction is expected to begin in July 2026 and finish around October 2026.
Regular Business (items 9 & 10)
9. Safe Streets and Roads for All Safety Action Plan
The Safe Streets and Roads for All item is approving Fullerton’s traffic safety roadmap so the City can remain eligible for federal implementation grants.
At the basic level, the City received a $200,000 federal SS4A planning grant, plus used $50,000 in Gas Tax funds, to develop a citywide Safety Action Plan. The plan is supposed to identify where Fullerton has the greatest roadway safety problems and what types of improvements could reduce fatal and serious injury crashes. Council has to adopt the plan by June 30, 2026, or the City risks forfeiting the federal planning money and having to cover those costs itself.
Policy-wise, the key thing is that this item is about grant eligibility and strategic positioning. The federal SS4A program has two stages: planning grants and implementation grants. Fullerton already got the planning grant. But to apply for future implementation grants, the City needs an eligible adopted Action Plan. So adopting this plan is basically the gateway step that lets Fullerton compete for future federal money to actually build safety projects.
The agenda report frames the goal as reducing fatal and severe injury collisions through “low-cost, high-impact strategies” across the city, including in disadvantaged communities. The plan is supposed to rely on crash data, claims history, existing transportation plans, public input, and committee review. Staff says it drew from the General Plan, Bicycle Master Plan, Local Roadway Safety Plan, Downtown Fullerton on the GO plan, OCTA plans, citywide collision data, and claims history
10. SB 707 Brown Act Updates
The City Council will consider updates to its meeting rules to comply with new state Brown Act requirements under SB 707. The changes include rules for what happens if remote public access fails during a meeting, continued two-way remote participation for the public, and efforts to encourage participation from groups that do not traditionally attend city meetings. Staff is recommending the same technology disruption policy for Council and City boards, commissions, and committees.
