District 4 Council Member· 2024-2028
Joe Males
Hemet
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- Meetings spoken in
- 3
- Total speaking time
- 16:07
- Avg per meeting
- 5:22
- Segments
- 247
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Top issues during term (20)
Warehouse and logistics standards ordinance
The ordinance could bring new impact fees and community benefit investments from warehouse developers, and a truck route ordinance is due by January 1, 2028.
Measure Q accountability and citizen oversight
Would add one cent per dollar to sales tax, with the library currently receiving about 3% of the city budget.
Truck routes and road damage
Fixing all roads would cost about $187 million; the funding gap is roughly $8 million a year just to hold the line.
Rancho Diamante development agreement and west Hemet growth
A RivCO fiscal analysis found annexation would put the city into an $18 million-plus deficit.
Naming the community garden for Mayor Krupa
The garden itself is funded by a Community Development Block Grant; the naming itself costs nothing.
Unfreezing frozen police positions with Measure U funds
Measure U funding supported the largest police staffing in 15 years.
Three-minute limit on public comment
Who knows how this council drama will hit your wallet, but it's definitely something to watch.
Library solar project (Building Better Round 2)
$448,000 spent so far, largely grant-funded; phase two covers a generator.
2025 building and fire code adoption
Food truck enforcement and regulations
Restaurant owners report 40-50% sales declines attributed to food truck competition; food trucks also generate little local tax revenue.
Stalled Monteego Bay Apartments and neighbor impacts
Alcohol sales at gas stations — consistency and fairness
Ramona Creek drainage dispute and extension of time
About $4.7 million in flood-control costs are in dispute after a grant fell through; who pays is still unresolved.
Planning Commission appointment and structure
Domestic violence housing — Navarre Group
Business license exemption for places of worship
No fee was being collected from churches anyway, so the city loses little revenue.
Public computer time limits
Library food and drink policy
Children's program capacity at the library
Proposition 45 and CEQA streamlining
If it passes, the city would need to update checklists and schedules and confirm staffing can meet new deadlines.
Decisions during term (60)
Recorded while Males was in office — not necessarily decisions they moved, spoke to, or voted on.
Consent calendar (all items except 16D and 16H)
16D — Acceptance of annual adult literacy grant
16H — Warehouse/logistics ordinance with findings for pending projects
17A — Hemet Youth Council quarterly update and adoption of Youth Council bylaws
17B — Resolution naming the Linda Krupa Community Garden
17C — Appointment of Crystal Doyle Michel to Planning Commission Seat 3
17D — Ordinance No. 2085: business license exemption for places of worship (introduction/first reading)
Continuance of Extension of Time No. 26-003 (Ramona Creek, TTM 36510)
Resolution 2026-015 — Development Agreement for Rancho Diamante TTM 368410
Approval of performance and expenditure reports
Deferral of meeting minutes
Deferral of Brown Act training
Introduction and first reading of Ordinance No. 2084 (warehouse/logistics zoning)
Consent calendar (items excluding 18B, D, E, G, H)
Item 18B — contract approval (pulled for question)
Item 18D — street reconstruction contract (South Carmelita, Wentworth, Menlo)
Item 18E — unfreeze nine positions including six police officers and homeless outreach specialist
Item 18G — Measure Q Citizens' Oversight and Advisory Committee resolution
Item 18H — annual Measure Q oversight process resolution
Resolution 2026-109 — $1.8 million increase, Wells 15/16 treatment plant (CIP 5717)
Voting record (11)
Oldest to newest — hover a bar for the item.
17B — Resolution naming the Linda Krupa Community Garden
17C — Appointment of Crystal Doyle Michel to Planning Commission Seat 3
Add initiation-of-litigation item to closed session agenda
Appointments to Mobile Home Rent Review Commission
TUMF Ordinance Update (introduction and first reading)
He wanted more information about whether Hemet receives TUMF funds before supporting the fee increase.
FY 2026-27 CDBG Annual Action Plan
Resolution amending Council decorum rules (Res. 4545, item 2.3K)
Short-term rental ordinance (introduction and first reading)
Weston Park revitalization concept
COA 69 amendment and flood insurance agreement — Richmond American, Tracts 33825/33825-1
2026 weed abatement resolution
He favored a height-based standard so enforcement isn't tied only to the calendar.