For City Council Meeting November 25, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Tanya Williams, City Manager
Title
Request City Council to Consider Approving a Memorandum of Understanding with the County of San Bernardino for the Operation of the West End Navigation Center.
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Body
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council consider approving a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the County of San Bernardino for the operation of the West End Navigation Center.
BACKGROUND
Homelessness presents increasing public health, safety, and fiscal challenges across the Inland Empire's West End region. Encampments in parks, flood channels, freeway underpasses, and other public spaces strain municipal resources and impact quality of life. The City of Rialto continues to grow. With this growth comes more shopping centers and businesses that can be impacted by the homeless population. It has and will continue to be the Rialto Police Department's mission to offer resources and aid to those experiencing homelessness, and at the same time offer a high-quality service and protection to our businesses and residents who live in and traverse our city.
The 2025 San Bernardino County Point-in-Time (PIT) Count documented 3,837 individuals experiencing homelessness countywide, including 2,636 unsheltered individuals living in vehicles, encampments, or other places not meant for habitation. Below is the 2025 PIT number of unsheltered individuals from some cities that will be participating in the West End Navigation Center to help reduce homelessness.
* Fontana: 271 unsheltered individuals
* Ontario: 258 unsheltered individuals
* Rancho Cucamonga: 113 unsheltered individuals
* Rialto: 52 unsheltered individuals
* Montclair: 38 unsheltered individuals
* Chino: 31 unsheltered individuals
* Upland: 33 unsheltered individuals
* Chino Hills: 3 unsheltered individuals
While the City of Rialto does not typically consider itself a West End city, the...
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