City Council - Special Meeting

The item for this particular meeting is Council's campus and adoption of the final results of the city's primary election held July 21st, 2026. As certified by the White Party elections department, an adoption of legislation number 3411 trying to back in those results. Hi. So I'm going to go ahead and say, I don't know, I don't know if you know this, I don't know if you don't know me. I think it was, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. The purpose of the polarization is to support free, fair play in the development of states. It's not just about the state of the art, but also about the state of the art as a whole, as part of the development of the state of the art, as part of the state of the art, as part of the development of the state of the art. is to reduce the cost of production and to stop the generation gap between production and production in Europe and Europe, and to reduce the cost of production and to reduce the cost of production and to reduce the cost of production and to reduce the cost of production and to reduce the cost of production and to reduce the cost of production and to reduce the cost of production and to reduce the cost of production and to reduce the cost of production and to reduce the cost of production and to reduce the cost of production and to reduce the cost of production So we're back in November. This is our announcement. Conference of the show is now in session. If you have any questions, just let me know. I will be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Today, I'm going to talk about how we've looked at the selection of the first and the sixth years of our legal abilities, and how we're going to change the way that we're going to be able to do that, and how we're going to change the way that we're going to be able to do that. I'm going to start by telling you a little bit about how we're going to do that. I'm going to start by telling you a little bit about how we're going to do that. And that was the initial schedule for us, and we decided to approve it, because that was where the rules came from at the time. In fact, for the first time in this podcast, I've got a presentation for you today, and I'm not going to show it to you, just to make sure that you've got the season 10 results from this year in July, and of course, the new year in action. And if you have any questions, I'm not going to go into it, but I'm going to take a picture with you, if you do. about the resolution. And also, I understand that it's a kind of a deposition to it, because Russia is not, we don't, we don't have that. So that's, that is not what we're supporting. Do you have any questions? No. I understand the copyright violation. However, to address this violation, I will say this first. on the first day of June 6th, before the election, as certified by the Republican Elections Department. Thank you. All right. Councilmember DeLose? Yes. Councilmember Marks. Councilmember Mosley. Yes. Councilmember Weldon. Yes. Councilmember Coates. Yes. And Marcia. Yes. And I'll motion to raise. Congratulations. Thank you. And we get two, three seconds. Getting it done. But it did happen, because I got a certificate from the council members. And I would read the resolution into the record, but I don't have it available. So I thought that we had decided not to do that. Well, eventually, we will stop doing that. It's kind of going any way. Can you see me? Can you see me now? Can you see me now? 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The council will be attending all the members of the cities and towns, and then the council is going to decide whether or not to give us the schedule for that meeting. It will be heard at the September 1st council meeting. Okay. Is there anyone else? If there's just two of you, I'll give you one more minute. Yes, this call to the public. The public may address the terms of the notice directly relating to city business that are not listed on the agenda during the call to the public by submitting a written request to speak for you to the city clerk, no later than the conclusion of the information reports that did its portion of the agenda. There is a three-minute time limit for each speaker, and all comments shall be addressed to the council as a whole, and not to any member in a room, staff, or audience. The mayor may direct a speaker to stop speaking and leave the podium, or return the meeting if anyone becomes disordered in a civil, mixed personal attack against any person or persons, or if the mayor determines that the speaker's speech is upgraded to be an officer, the speaker will be required to leave. So, at first, I have a curveball, you know, come up to the podium, please, and then, when you get up there, repeat your name for us with a record. Let us know where in the world we have you connected to the We didn't throw up all of them. I couldn't even speak out against the flat cameras. And Luke suggests that we re-examine them, making a deal with the Congress, use them to support other nations. And that's what we all have to say. So thank you very much. Thank you very much. It's very simple, but we better make sure what we're signed up for. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Winston. I am requesting that the council place the automated license plate readers, ALPRs, including the Flock Safety and Oxfam Enterprise ALPRs on the next city council agenda for public discussion. Massive amounts of information on law-abiding citizens and the community deserves an opportunity to understand how it works, what data is collected, who has access to it, how long the data is retained, and more safeguards are in place to prevent misuse. An open discussion ensures that important decisions for all residents of Cottonwood are transparent and have a heart for you. In light of ALPRs already being used in the community, it is important that this topic be placed on the next city council agenda for a full review. Thank you. Thank you. Justin Chambers. evaluation before commitment, excuse, using software, technology, signals, and interpersonal telemetry, with real networks, to scale and organize your devices as you go about it, at each and every point in the process of your trial, giving all your contacts what you're doing and who you're associating with, providing your payments for payments without a line couldn't be considered and then gaslighting them, right, to get them out of their sleep. And from there, they'll look at things and then come up with their own reflexive techniques. such as 4.1 study. That's enough. You're baptized to the spot. You're going to administer quality, free, irrevocable, professional, worldwide license to use customer data to support and transport products and services. You're getting a more professional license to use any single asset that's given to you by the American. Our fingers are slowly being tipped, and we're a little bit out of time. I don't want to turn over surveillance to you, but I'm going to close for now. Thank you very much. So we're going to take the train, so we're not piercing your calories today. Before we go, we're going to bring to you, before we go, we're going to bring you guys a guidebook. All of them are acceptable to you, and from every one of those, and you can use these to renew the slot, too. And we're going to give you tips on what you need. We're going to send them to you, and we're going to renew the contract with the slot. That's all we're going to bring to you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, I think Jessica really covered everything in quite a bit of detail. And I can start to say that some of the huge mistakes that these cameras that have, that the autism use, that we're having to control over the information that they're collecting. We don't know where they're going to use it. And it needs to be brought up in a way that the public can hear us for and hear about it. I think that's really important. Thank you. Show of hands. Good evening, everyone, and class members. I will be on the line. If you see me at that moment, And I'm here to discuss the FLAX literal system and the FLAX learning contract that was agreed to by the Council without any discussion included in the consensus agenda, which is, as you know, for many people, an uncontroversial issue. And I'm here to tell you that an surveillance like FLAX track size or is in fact controversial in a lot of routines. I would like to share an allegory. At the start of an ocean burning on Earth, it would turn dark immediately. Put it in a cold water and slowly raise the temperature, and it stays until it dies. That is exactly what is happening to human freedom. one restriction at a time. Once us, one safety wall at a time. We are not going to be trained into passive acceptance. Our personal freedom is at stake. We, the people, will not allow this to happen. Please place a discussion about this in the next scheduled meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You could do it for one, you could do it for less. You could not be worried about getting in trouble. You could not worry about being in trouble. But if you start thinking about it, how do you start doing it? I don't know exactly what to do. I've been doing it for the last three days. I was trying to figure out how to do it. I was trying to figure out how to do it. I was trying to figure out how to do it. Let's talk about it in the next meeting. Let's try to do something about this. And that's what we're going to do, of course, in an interesting way. Thank you. Hello, and good evening. Thank you for hearing all our voices tonight. My name is Isabel Rongo, and I'm a Clarkdale resident. I'm here because our city is under contract with Fort Tracy to photograph and report vehicles that pass through our streets. The original contract was signed without a council vote, and there was also a required one. That alone should concern this body. But I want to make sure you know what we actually thought. The contract includes Flock Nova, an add-on platform that builds profiles on individuals by combining license plate data with public records and commercially available data without a warrant. The electronic venture foundation called it a dystopian, cannot decode. Our city is paying for it. On its own policy, 428 states explicitly that reasonable suspicion or probable cause is not required before running a search on a resident's vehicle, unless anyone's out to work, to church, to the doctor, or being logged with no legal threshold whatsoever. Sedona, Flagstaff, and Tucson have all ended their block contracts after residents brought this to their councils. Those councils voted that's how this is supposed to work. The first amendment exists because our founders understood what it felt like to be robbed by a government that answered to no one. They wrote protection from unreasonable search and seizure into the Constitution because they knew surveillance without cause is not safety, it's control. A private corporation recording the movements of every resident with no warrant requirement and no public vote is exactly the kind of untapped power they warned us about. I'm asking this council to place this log safety contract on a future agenda for public discussion and a vote. Residents deserve to weigh in on technology that tracks their movements in their own city, that's not a red glass, that's just democracy. And I'm a Clarkdale resident, but as I go to Clarkdale or to Cottonwood almost every day, this isn't just Cottonwood residents. This is every single people that travels through the Cottonwood streets. This is a gross overstep. Please put this on the agenda. Thank you. Come and read. So it's good. What's the list? Next, we'll talk to the public. This is Rick Green. And then we're going to have the VP of service here, administration for the Great Valley Medical Center. So I'll just... Okay. We'll take a call to the conference. Notice the consent agenda. The following items of consensus appear routine and not controversial by the Council and will be approved by one motion. There will be no separate discussion at this item unless the Councilmember or the citizen say requests in which case the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence by the agenda. I'm saying to candidates, if there is no particular discussion of a no-so-public-ascent agenda, it's fine. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Number six is consideration of approval of an insurance line extension agreement and associated charges for construction of the new electrical distribution facilities for the Verde San Jose route number two in an amount not to exceed $28,750 and authorization for the city manager to execute the agreement on behalf of the city. Thank you, Mr. Chancellor. I'm running as Secretary of State, and I'm a resident of this city of Cottonwood. And I have some concerns about the amount of money that's been spent outside of this city's limits. My concern is that as long as there is a lot being incorporated into this city, and I understand that the ways in which the industry is supposed to be taking care of there are a lot of limits. At this point, no one's going to believe anybody that I assisted earlier at the home. I went to Texas to the city of Fort Worth. It's true that the problem is that it looks so funny, but no, no, they're not. They're basically like, I don't even care if there's no food stamps. We had a public discussion, and I apologize if I missed most of the discussion, about exactly how much we're going to spend there. And perhaps opening the discussion about how things are actually being incorporated into the city. a continental property tax. There is no continental property tax, so that would not change your taxes. So, I don't know, I don't know. There's a lot that applies to those two countries, but I wouldn't say in Canada. But the wonders of the community of California currently have one of the opportunities for us at the council is to have a kind of say in what services are receiving, or sort of what the slides are for them, and for the residents, and sort of corroborate it in the past. So, the first one is, then, is how much work are those services? And so, I would look if this doesn't happen today, and again, I would invite where I have been able to actually get an idea to see what has been spent in, say, San Jose, around the area, and any other areas where I may have been spending money. And it's a lot. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. Well, if I could bring this back to you, my understanding is they pray for their water. There was a serious water leak, and it was also decided that because of circumstances, the city doesn't take care of their water supply. That's just happened. or that they don't have a job and they don't deal with need. We do not expect people to request an administration, an administration effort to have approved a request. There are pretty big options, but because of information residents then received, they made the decision themselves not to detain them. But that didn't mean that their water supply wasn't so good, to be honest, by the top line. And so, a major water leak occurred just, well, I think it was a few years ago. There's pretty much no new corruption, but this well was put in as a place of redundancy. And now, in order for the well to be functional, it has to have electricity. to it. It's not, it needs to have a type in order to function. And that's the last step. And in that particular process, and that we're looking at the electricity so that the well can actually work. Residents, I think that we're using the same logic to make that the well was the solution to the water problem, but it actually wasn't. The problem was this huge water loop that took a long time to discover. Once it was discovered, you know, once the water kind of but we got there and it was raining down in the street. It was a fully identified, and we were pulled over by it. It was an amazing, an amazing job that the utilities guys did, that they passed through, that they went immediately. And so, more like an academy, not a discipline, to say, but this well is the provision for redundancy of for the residents of Greenfield and Edison, just like residents of Cottonwood, they paid a continued price of $4 billion. So, you know, what do you guys think now? People are, you know, they're donating that 1% of funding that you've got on your team. There's a lot of money for it. Some of it is in a place, some of it is in a church. And as such, I mean, the circumstances can be very, very different. The expenses in those accounts are going by the rate that you're supposed to be paying. while they are not able to be comfortably available in the city's service area, and so we do give them utilities for them, and they pay a rate that covers these distributed fees for them. It's required to do that coming past the week of June, as you see here. That's the price we're allowing our way forward for the future, and that will be coming to town soon as well, and that will be directed toward the economy in the future, expenses for those utilities, and what that future is going to look like. Okay. Any other questions or questions on deciding to bring your building to the concert again? Do you have something that you're really sure that you're going to do? Okay, I'm going to state that, for example, if I was trying to turn the concert into a project, that's the right thing. So I don't want to say that, but I think it's true. Are you going to say that? I don't know. In the new business, both the following webinars will track the discussion, consideration, and possible useful action. The first one is Consideration and Adoption of Resolution in Three Forms, One Act, Adopting the State of Copyright, Affordable Housing, and Possibility. Good evening, Mr. President. Good evening, Madam Mayor and President, Madam Mayor, Directors, I'd like to talk about Consider Recipes for 2408, our affordable housing plan. Remember that back in January, we approved the agreement with our new product for the study. That was also the group that conducted our urban value housing assessment in 2020, so it makes good sense to carry that work on with them. So here we are five years later. what's changed, what's stayed the same, what's worked, what hasn't worked, and ideas for a path forward. The other thing about this, as it was done in a plan that I wanted to note, some of the value in the years that we were talking to some of the delegates, they really want to know what the current conditions are. And when you have a 2021 study, it's like it's a little bit like desk work. We have a completed update study. We have a much better discussion with the sector, with nonprofits, Good afternoon, sir. I will turn it over to Mr. Richmott, our president of the European Parliament. Good evening, sir. Good evening. Thank you, Ryan. It's a pleasure to be here. It's fun to be here tonight to talk about the carbon study that we conducted. As Ryan said, this is a follow-up to the 2021 study that we did for the whole of Reagan Valley, and Cottonwood was a very big part of that. So to get started, let me just go through some initial slides and tell you where we are. We looked after the study as a kind of a two-stage process. One was we did a housing assessment, looking at what is going on in the community, what is going on in the housing market. And then the second phase that we'll go through today is the housing strategy. There's lots of names around for affordable housing. If you're attainable housing, workforce housing, there's lifting middle. The bottom line is that you don't want to see a household spend more than 30% of their gross income, including utilities, on housing. And that's the bottom line. One of the hazards is typically used to describe hazards for low and moderate income households. Typically, they are invested 60% of the yearly median income, and that is about, if you look at the county, it's a county-wide number, so it's earning less than $51,000 or so. Because of the difficulty in reaching low and moderate income households, it usually comes from state and federal programs, public housing, six-mate vouchers, long-term housing tax credit projects, which we have several now. So that's one part of the affordable housing question. terminology we find is workforce housing. And this used to describe households that earned 60% to 120% of their period of income, which is about $51,000 to $114,000 for family free. So these households earned too much to qualify for federal or state assistance, but in many cases they don't make enough money to affordably rent or run homes in the community. You're often referred to as critical service personnel, teachers, firefighters, construction workers, people that are really important service providers that we need throughout the community. And lastly, there's a lot of talk about missing middle housing. And the missing middle of housing is from starting with a single family up to apartments, sometimes high-rise apartments. So it's the middle that goes missing. Town homes, duplexes. courthomes, products like that that was really missing from a lot of communities. You do pretty well in that regard, and we'll talk about that. But that's more or less 4,000 people helping to get people into the home ownership market, build equity, and build wealth. So just some quick demographics on what we found in the community. Your median age is about 55 years, which is about on target with the county. You have a little bit smaller, heavy council size. You can see across the board how you match up with the town and everything. The big thing we found, which we really had not seen in other communities, we compared the 2019 census data to the 2024 data. And remarkably, the median age has increased rather dramatically from 46 years of age to about 55 years of age. You're a small community, so you get an influx of people, and that can cause the meeting days to rise, and apparently that's what has happened here. And what we're finding is that probably you can consider it as a place to retire from. There's a lot of retirees coming here. We had focus groups. We talked about that. And most of the people in the focus groups agreed with that. You're housing plus, I guess, some on the other side of the mountain, and you're trafficking across the valley. You have nice weather. You have a lot of activities and entertainment here. And it's attracting people. It's attracting retirees, seasonal people with seasonal housing, those types of things. So it's a rather remarkable change, but it's also something to really keep an eye on as we go through this. The other thing we found is that your median incomes overall for homeowners and for renters are quite a bit lower than the county average. Once again, the county average is kind of skewed by things going on in Prescott and Prescott Valley where incomes are much lower, but your incomes are lower. And once again, it's something to keep an eye on. and something that really probably needs to be addressed from a community development standpoint to bring your high-wage jobs here, which I'm sure your economic development people are seriously concerned And the household income trends are similar, like the growth in incomes has not kept up with the county averages once again. Once again, probably a lot of it is that influx of retired people. That's one of the fixed incomes that are moving here. But these haven't grown as fast as other parts of the county or compared to the state as well. If there's any questions around the world, I'd be happy to answer those. By no means am I looking forward to this without any questions. We looked at the forecast for population. At least from the Office of Economic Opportunity, you're not expected to grow a whole lot. We're at about 1,100 new people over the next 15 years or so. I can tell you that that doesn't match the type of permitting activity we've seen in the city over the past 10 years or so. And I would expect this to be a very conservative estimate. We're seeing much more permitting activity for housing than what we're seeing in those numbers. And so here's a little bit of your housing demand. That would probably be a housing demand of 607 units based on your current household size. And that would be 40 units per year. The outside quantity is also showing probably pretty conservative numbers as well. But as I noted at the bottom of this slide, over the last 15 years, that any of your per-mobiling has to have about 92 units, and that's including 54 single-family homes for multi-family and single-family about 92 units, so quite a bit more than what the state right wants to protect in this way. So the housing market since COVID has really turned upside down, and that's a lot of what we're going to talk about tonight. You can see that in terms of your percentage of what we call apartments, which is that band that I see the more here, You have about 21% of the units in the apartment complex, which is a lot higher than what we see across the county. Most of the counties are single-family oriented, and a certain part of their housing that we see across the country is owned. So you do have a very strong multifamily market, and that really bodes well for trying to reach the affordable, the households that need affordable housing. So, once again, your analog latency is about 54%. Once again, well below what you see across the table. a rental market idea as we typically see. And that may be related to somewhat your proximity to Sedona, and the need for people to commute into Sedona to work, and they're looking for places to live. And this is a logical place for people to work in Sedona, to live out of Sedona, and on the continent, and all the other communities in the country. As I mentioned, building permits, you can see it. There's quite a bit of activity in the single family building. The blue bar is interesting there. And a few apartments are being built out. The third apartment that you see there is the inspiration apartments that came in a couple of years ago or four years ago and we'll talk about them in a little bit. You can see the ups and downs but pretty consistent single-family developments throughout the past 10 years or so. We've got an inventory of the apartment inventory. There's not a whole lot of large complexes, a lot of smaller complexes. And once again, there's a couple of big ones. And once again, the Innspace apartments is one of the really largest for me. And I've sold some of them at Grady Village. And we have a new project that'll be coming online, Grady Plaza 2, which I believe the city's participating in at this point. So once again, bringing in another affordable complex. We looked at the average rent, and you can see it's pretty consistently increasing. There are some jumps along the way, but from the information we have, it's increased about 24% since 2019. The average renter value, if you're up at $1,300 for the average renter, the average renter, based on the median income, can only afford about $850 a month. So there's still a big difference between what's available in the market and what people can afford here. We look at, once again, the affordable complexes that are here in the community. more than five affordable, what were originally affordable complexes. We believe that a couple of these complexes have, their contracts, this loan contract program has expired. And so we believe, from what we saw in the data at Portside and at the bridge, that probably the market rate could not afford the new one. So you lost 740 units later. You could be getting some of that back with the deposit. But once again, the new complexes have 30-year requirements to be affordable. The old ones are going to be 15 years. And that's why you're seeing the turnaround there. Thank you. We saw this. draft before, but once again, looking at the vacancy rate, it was only at 4.5%. We consider a federalized housing department market to be about 7%. And that allows for turnover of units, people moving in and out, units being vacant for up to the primary year, things like that, as it relates to rents for the folks, people moving in and out. So it's a little bit of a tight market right now. We think there's the opportunity for more apartment development to continue to be part of that. And we're seeing that the inspiration apartments, which is a very expensive apartment, they're used for somewhere up around $1,700, $1,800 a month. That's a 5% open ceiling. And they're used up really quickly. So from a market perspective, that carbon complex really hit the market. It's upscale. It's not the largest that people come into. breakout rooms, clubhouse, things like that, that people currently really want to see in the community. And it's done very well from what we can see, but the rents are really hard to compare with many of the other commonplexes. Once again, for affordability, it's the average rate of $1,300 a month. With utilities, it's about $1,450, the total housing cost. And the required income to afford that is about $50,000. some with median incomes of about $57,000, and the median renter income is less than $39,000. So once you get a big difference between what people can typically afford in the community, Here's what's happened in the only street market. And you can see the big jump that occurred between 2020 and 2021. That was an $80,000 jump for the average price of a home. And it started, it kept increasing until 2023, and then it started to come down a bit. Same thing happened with kind of those in town, in the community. take this big jump in 2020 to 2022. So there's something that has gone on here and not much difference in the amount of other communities, unfortunately. So we looked at Once again, you can see the sales, how many sales there are. This comes from the out-of-type-10-day assessors who provide all this information, and you can see how many sales there are in each category. The timelines and timelines are still reasonably priced, although they have increased quite a bit. I know there's a limited inventory, but there aren't that many timeline-type developments. and maybe the target for how long we should get people into units and, once again, building equity in those. We looked at, if you note the recently yearly income, the median income in the community of $48,000 or so, what can you afford in today's market? We're talking about six percent interest rate. Those interest rates are up from that point, they're up probably 6.5, 6.5, So this is a little bit conservative, but a person, a household making $48,000 a year can afford $183,000 a year. And in 2025, or in 2017, say, I was $200,000 at some of those level homes. So once again, a big discrepancy. We looked at short-term rentals. As you can see here, it's difficult to get information on those types of units, but we think there's about 288 short-term rentals in the community at this point. It's only 40-some-odd total units in the city. It's not a huge number, and obviously if those units could be put to use as full-time rentals, it may make a difference, but we don't know how many of these units would be affordable. A lot of them are very nice homes that are out there, so they may not all be affordable, but once again, we're going to think this is a huge number that is affecting housing market here like it is in, for instance, Sudan. So we looked at the housing debt once again. How many people are spending more than 30% of their income on housing? And what we found is for the rental market, about 44% of the renters are spending more than 30% of their income on housing. And otherwise, 600 or so are spending more than 50% of their money on public housing. And you can see some of those stats are pretty consistent with what we find across the other part of the country. We did find that where we tell at-risk populations, this isn't in the program, but of the 1,339 households that are 10, we're on 30%. 55% are seniors over the age of 65. So a large portion of this problem is really directed towards seniors. On fixed incomes, you know, inflation's going up, rents are going up. If you're on a fixed income, it's a little more difficult to make rent. So we think some of the strategies you should focus on, we'll talk about later, is to really focus on more senior housing. And the same thing is in the ownership burden, about 30% of your homeowners pay more than 30% of their income on housing. And what we found in that end is that 81% of this issue is attributed to senior residents. And once again, it's a matter of people being on 16 times. Property taxes go up and maintenance of homes go up. Utilities go up in price. And people on 16 times find it more and more difficult to afford their units. And I think that's what we're finding here. We find it in most other communities as well. I put this chart in Just to kind of show you, what we look at is how the draft really operates. And what you typically have is a shortage of units at the bottom end of the market on the left side of the table. And on the right side, you have a shortage of assigned housing. But everybody's trying to find housing in the middle. So the people with higher incomes, they're able to pay less than 30% of their income in housing. The people on the left side that have the lower incomes, they're paying more. Everybody's trying to find housing in the middle part of the village where housing is more developed, where there's a surplus of housing. So it's just kind of a simple way of trying to look at how this whole market works. And we find this across Arizona. This is basically what we find. You're no different than anybody else at this point. So let me talk a little bit about the housing here, or excuse me, the income field by occupation. When we had our focus group meetings, we spoke to the school districts, the hospital, the what it means for retention and hiring people when they come into the community. And by and large, as I've said, we find it difficult because hiring is too expensive here. It's too expensive in Prescott. It's too expensive here. It's difficult to keep people in jobs at the hospital or hiring private nurses to make up the difference in the shortage of nurses that they have. They have their county or the other part of college sometimes housing people, and they come and they find out, well, we can't afford to ask you if there's some money. So there's a lot of issues with that. And you can see down the line what these people can or these households can afford if there's teachers. If you're firefighters, paramedics, and it's only until you get to police officers, registered nurses, that they're able to probably find housing more easily than others. But either as service workers that we need to have in the community to make it function, If we don't have those people, the economy starts to fall apart, and you can see that in Sedona. Sedona has lost population, lost the younger population. When we worked there, we heard how they transformed. They don't have baseball teams anymore. There's no more kids. Schools will close and things like that. So we don't want that to happen here. We need to keep building the housing to get in the people that are needed to make the economy work. That's something very important as we go forward. And if we look at the housing demandings, this is just taking a very static look. If incomes remain the same, not to talk about inflation or anything, you'll get another 473 households earning less than $100,000 a year. And mostly, a lot of those people, 307 you were estimating, with the drama housing, you hopefully get it with the ability to do the ownership market we expect this situation to keep growing, which of course is going to be more than we need to continually do for sport by and large. So one of our initial is that you're aging rapidly. Your growth from 2019 is almost all driven by households over the age of 60. The labor force participation rate fell to 48%. The statewide average is about 62%. And so that's what I'm talking about. You really need a well-balanced economy, a well-balanced population that can provide the services that you want to. Household incomes are below the county state averages, and the poverty rate is above the county state averages. Youth discovery is an attractive place to live. where the housing prices, the home ownership opportunities are somewhat limited, particularly for younger households where they're looking to get into the market and they have the wherewithal to purchase a single family home. So we're looking at, you know, are there other opportunities, more duplexes, more townhouses, that would be less costly? And there is a strong demand for such size housing here. This is kind of a downer type of presentation, where it looks like there's a few problems, but you've taken significant steps to really address affordable housing. And I can tell you, we've worked across the state, and we've probably done 20 or 30 of these housing studies, and you probably have addressed Affordability is for more than any other community we've seen, particularly for your size. So you've partnered with the experience and the process of having solutions available to you, and you've made them available. If you navigate those types of organizations, you establish a dedicated assistance program. You establish employer assistance, dedicated program. You have a reserve fund for $4,000. That basically is a housing trust fund. We see maybe 2,000 or 3,000 trust funds across the state. Phoenix has one. Tempe thought about having one. And a housing trust fund basically takes aside money that you can devote to housing and assists in housing 100 times to your community. So you've really taken a step further than most communities in the United States. You've established a family care program. You're about the affordable housing section you're coming to. You're participating in the Oak Loft project. You're considering participating, I think, tonight with close housing complex. And you're planning to adopt three full housing plans, which I think that is a state requirement. Maybe it needs to get up to speed with that, but I understand that at some point. So what more can you do at this point? And that is a difficult question. What can you really do beyond what you've already done? You can address additional funding at the local level. You've already done well, but can you do more? You should identify resources that may be available at the state or federal level. And maybe it's mobilized a housing policy related code amendment beyond what you already have. So the strategies are expand funding for affordable housing. One of the things we suggested was looking at increasing the energy occupancy tax. We wrote that on a kind of average for, and I know it really hates talking about tax increases, so let me put that out first. But the transient occupancy tax, I think it's 3.5%, is about right on average with the 80 municipalities in the state. If you raise it a little bit, for 4%, you could bring another $90,000 to $100,000 a year, perhaps. That is something that helps to change an occupancy tax. It's supposed to be used for marketing and hospitality and all different types of things. But if you're putting money into those, activities from other products, from the general fund or something like that. Maybe you can switch those up. And if you raise the kinds of output that you've taxed, you can replace funding that is going to elsewhere at this point. So we talked about that with Mr. Bell, saying that something that we really probably need to go a little bit over, but let's take a look at that. the use of the DIPLA, the government property use access tax. And I don't know if you've ever used those. I don't think so. What that is, is a program that has been in the books for years. It's taken a while. It's been watered down over the years to some extent because school districts and other property tax authorities complain that But it is still something that is used across the state. The city of Phoenix uses it. I don't know how many of you have been down there. There's a deaf and hard of hearing guy there. They use it 71 times. And in order to get that, they have to give 20% of your units to the authority. It works really well in Phoenix. It can be a system here. And basically what it is, is the property is sent over to you to work with your jurisdiction and it's paid back. And that gets you a property tax. And instead of paying the property tax, you're going to pay the tax, which is less than the property, and that's less than the property tax. So it's a little bit of a complicated way of doing things, but it's been used successfully in the Phoenix area. Not so much in the lower areas, but it's one tool that is out there for you to use. We talked about in your partnership with non-profit organizations. You've done a great job there. Perhaps there's ways that you can help finance things a little bit better. I talked with Ryan about, should you be lending money to these properties that exist for a little period of time? I think, yes, that's one way of doing that and helping out with your non-profits and doing that. But you're already doing a lot to begin with. further adopting a formal housing policy or ordinance. That would be something like Sedona has done or Flagstaff has done, and a few other communities around the state, but making it more of a formal policy of how you deal with affordable housing, how they interact with the zoning ordinance. Something just to give some consideration, making it more formalized so it's a more legal backing to it, those types of things. Analyze sort of amendments to the code that sort of minimize barriers to affordable housing. We had some people speak up in our focus groups that they thought some of the processes were a little, one thing, difficult to get through. Somebody mentioned certain types of fees they'd like to see waived. I know you're already doing that for certain projects, but maybe there's some other changes you can make to your project. community-oriented trust. This is something hasn't been seen since Northern Ireland. It's quite a bit worse. And we can talk more about that if you'd like. But it's a very, not very new, but it's a very well-worn program that's used across the country. I think there's about 300 of them now. And they're doing everything pretty logically with a few groups around the country. I'll continue explaining about an assistance program. The last thing I will say there is to educate your residents and employees on programs that are available from the state of Arizona for the industrial development story. Work with lenders on promoting those programs. And getting the word out that the programs are available and beyond what the city provides today. And there are very good programs at the state level that can really help people with budget payments and with slightly lower mortgage interest rates. consider reforming the cottonwood industrial development system. IDAs across the state have become more and more involved in funding affordable housing. There are some trips that you have to get around for our local community to do this, but it's becoming more and more of a financing mechanism to help affordable housing and housing projects get off the ground. to be able to utilize the discipline. I know you're considering a designation of opportunity savings and continuing to use City Online for affordable housing. I understand the Irby Plaza project is on City Online, and that's great. Are there other sites that could be used as well? Promote a low-income housing tax credit program. That is all that goes up here. You show them what you have going on, what the issues are you dealing with, more marketing to them. those types of things that could really help you with that. Consider applying for a home science or ornithological plasma rehabilitation. There is a Right here, there was $6 million available. For those types of projects, it's competitive. I think you've seen that pretty well on a competitive basis, or after those funds. We did work with Cochise Community, and they received $700,000 right here for a housing rehab program right there on the internet. And let me know if you want to consider establishing a landfill and summit program. You can do this directly to your hotel near here. which would, once again, the state law allows you to do that, to provide waivers of fees, to provide all kinds of incentives, and coordinating that with maybe capital improvement programs that are going on. But those are some other programs that might potentially last some years too. But in the end, once again, we're doing, thinking even more to what might be out there, maybe providing maybe additional staff to do something like that, to really focus on housing. I know you field some personnel with the city of Sardinia at one point. I think that's over with now from what I understand. But once again, It's just keeping waking on it. It's a problem that probably is not going to go away quickly. But once again, I really commend you for what you've done here, what you've undertaken. And hopefully these things can continue and help you out a little bit more. Thank you. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you very much for your first analysis and reporting. are sobering, the accessibility is an issue. I have one question on the meeting briefing that is contained in the report. One of the things that was in there was referring to what the city community development department has done in terms of development incentives. So clarify those and make those more useful and useful to developers. Can you comment a little bit more in terms of what the city can do in every mode? I think the city has spent a lot of time, and I think our development department has spent a lot of work. I mean, every time you have a new developer come in here, it has spent a lot of, you know, taking up time. and they also make the steps to work much more differently. But I think there's that bit to formalizing the housing policy, which does have this broad overriding and objectives, and then focusing down on specifics that you can show a developer of what may be available. The tool that you have now is very flexible, but it's not very specific. So that's the main thing is You know, you used to go out into Flagstaff in particular. You know, you used to set up a whole hotline for a developer when they come to you. And I guess I'm just talking about getting more specific as to what those incentives might be at this point. And maybe being more firm on the legal question, and maybe do a little on-quist and pre-development when it comes in, those types of things. I think we'll talk about that later when it comes through. So I think that's mainly what I was focusing on, to do a lot of the formalities and things through the center. And I am familiar with top-end municipalities promoting their biotech programs, promoting their, you know, development incentives, how are they doing that? Well, as I said, the 9% program is very competitive. You'd be fortunate to just have one approved or reverted plaza because you got more points because you're in a rural area, because you took money into the project, those sorts of things. So I think it's a matter of... According to some of the main ones, we do a lot of business across the state. So we know what you have here, what you can provide, what support you can provide to the industry, to the community. There's also the 4% program, which is not as competitive. There's a limited amount of funding available for that. And in prior years, all the money hasn't been spent, it was available. And that's becoming less and less of an issue. a lot of money is being committed now. But it's a much bigger program, much competitive. So maybe you want to talk to those types of developers who are more focused on the 4% program, which is more of a mixed income type of project, those types of things. And we deal with that, and we do market studies for them. We can give you stats of their needs to work on. or maybe also something that's actually working. My question is for Ms. Birkbeck then. My question to you is, if you know who's presenting, create this recommended sections that's similarly interesting to me to do more, kind of just sort of what the studies are going to do, and possibly for I think it's more from the group. You have to understand from the back, what's the plan? So that's a really good question. So I think where we are right now is obviously So it's not about a real phone. So, hey, the Miami-Dade plan is this one necessarily. When the reality is that you might not be able to have that opportunity in a few days, but if that's even possible, you can continue to have this conversation with different folks. These different opportunities can still come to us, and we're going to have some opportunity to have a good time. So just to clarify and describe how Mr. Merrick has presented what these things are, essentially feasible. And I ask this because I think in the past, when we've had this discussion with our 2021 plan, there were some things in the plan that the city staff decided wasn't really going to think were feasible. Obviously, most of what this is looking at, we're either aware of or actively pursuing. And we want to make sure that we have happened. And that is something we've had discussions about. But there are certain things they realize that we're kind of, what would it be like to, you know, not frame a great distance, but to do just little places, pockets, areas that we can, can you speak into that a little bit for me? Well, I mean, I think there's that to, um, What you find in making a comparison to a city where, once again, there's no schools, there's no kids, and the data we have that we showed you tonight, you're losing your population and the people under 25 years of age. You don't want to go the way of Sudan. But that is the issue, is that you need the population here to provide all those services, provide the workforce that you need. And if you don't help out, your economy will start to go south. And some people can say, oh, it's happening in Sedona. And fortunately, you're here, and you're helping out Sedona with their workforce basically. If you start to go the same way as the government, will the people that are going to come to work here, will they're going to come from the surrounding community as well? So it really is a matter of having the population, people that live here, are committed to the community, want to work here. They're really, we like to have a different economic development in the community just because of those factors. Any other questions? Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. I was very pleased and delighted to meet all of you tonight. Thank you very much. Please sign me to account for resolution number 3408. Thank you. Could we do one more comment, please? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. The same dates as the consideration of the adoption of Resolution 3409, including the development agreement, adopting solutions in Northern Arizona for the Potomac Closed Workforce Apartments project, and authorizations for decision-making to execute the agreement, subject to approval as performed by the City Council. Madam Mayor, it's also around 11 at your strategic initiative. We've got back-to-back housing items too. Tonight, Ms. Adam, we're going to introduce and discuss the proposed hotel conversion project. This is the copy of the Code of Workforce Requirements. This is a proposal to convert the extended stay into I want to lay this out here so we can do this in kind of in three phases. So tonight, we're going to be doing a group exercise, and we're going to try to press this into 409. That's our development agreement that I'm going to start building. So we'll ask the residential and the community to change them. So if that is the cost, then you move to a free neighborhood meeting for something. to think about what it means. Hello, and thank you so much for allowing me to come talk with you guys today. My name is Savannah, and I have the honor of working for Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona. And then just a brief overview of the project that we're proposing for your information, the community's information, and then to start that process of getting everything we need to run at the moment to make this perfect. So, I'm happy to answer questions along the way, but I'll just dive in, if that's okay. I know that Didna has a lot of incredible plans, so I appreciate here, St. Didna's, because that is great. So, in the future, I can tell Jason to deal with using those bigger plans as well. First, I just want to give you a quick overview of housing solutions. We are a non-profit organization that serves the other side including our counties. We were formed in 1990 and our mission is to build opportunities for sustainable affordable housing in Northern Arizona. Our vision is that all residents have access to safeties and affordable housing with an opportunity for affordable mobility. And of the items that are listed, there are safeties and affordable housing that have a central element for quality of life. The affiliate community shares in a student housing affordability for whether it's economic, development, income. has been creating a community where everybody has a place, where those individuals and individuals from a specific family, we've seen it all over the last 32 years. And I can tell you that healthy marriage is the foundation that helps those rooms and communities grow every once in a while. We believe that program recipients should be active participants in identifying and working in their roles. And we are proud to say that, as a total, a third of our board is representatives of the teams that we serve. We are living and working on Black Lives, volunteer and staff, participants in programs, et cetera. So we try very hard to make sure that a third of us stay and the housing opportunities that we're able to offer and the programs that they participate in. And then we treat everyone with dignity and respect. It doesn't need to be said, but we do understand how that works. There's a couple of things that we do based on our frame, our history and our expertise. As I mentioned, we're a photo, so there's also a designation from the Arizona Department of Housing. They do photo photos every year as a community housing development organization. That means we build housing, whether that's new construction, whether it's adaptive reuse, whether it's ecosystem rehab. We have to be in the business of creating housing units. And we do, and we are, and we should. So we're continuing to work really hard to continue to make affordable housing units available in the communities that we serve. We are currently concluding the construction of 11 apartments in Flagstaff, certificate of occupancy pending, so fingers crossed. And this project I want to give it to you because it actually goes on something that we talked about before, which is the utilization of indoor land and land under the city. So in this project, I'm going to give a report list with land that's owned by the city of Blackstaff that's leased to housing solutions. We have a 99-year-old family, so we're owning improvements on top, the buildings that we are paying to build. And then we get some of these buildings in the city of Blackstaff with a new agreement that was first drawn from the Board of Directors. and affordability for not even a hundred million dollars. So it's a nice partnership. Because we were able to access it, we only were able to do it for some years at an apartment company. And for the first 15 years, that property also has such experience in homelessness for those who are at-risk of homelessness or those who are fleeing domestic violence and sexual assault. So we have more restrictions in the first 15 years due to the money we got to build and then longer from the middle point of the road for the remaining term of that $99,000. We've also successfully converted two hotel properties, one here in Sacramento at Oak Rock and one in Flagstaff. And then we purchased a third hotel in February of last year because once we got it closed, we might as well do it a third time. And we were fortunate enough to assist an owner, developer, Thomas asked for the opportunity to purchase two-seat assets. He did the work of an agency, which was great. And so we got into the assets, workforce housing, hotel conversion projects, service assets, didn't do it in the perspective that any agent can do for us. We also do property management on all of the properties that we own. So when there's 11 units come online, we have 170 rental properties that we own and manage. We have folks on our staff who are managing compliance, eligibility determination, maintenance, and all of the fun things that come with property management. And there's a domain for CDO partners. It's like, so, there are a lot of single individuals over at our class, and at the church, there's a place for them to have, to accept community. Many of those folks are working on states and towns who are elderly or disabled. So, you know, we can see some of them at the church for 30 years, and some of these are the folks who are employed. We're going to do that to the U.S. from 29 to 24. We're going to do that to the U.S. from 29 to 34. We're going to do that to the U.S. from 29 to 34. We're going to do that to the U.S. from 29 to 34. We're going to do that to the U.S. from 29 to 34. And that is, that's what the outside is about. We will, I don't know if it's yours, but I don't know if it's yours, I can't remember. No, no, no, you can watch it when you want to. Okay, I'm ready. Okay, I would conclude Resolution 3479, including the development agreement between the city of California and the legislature of Northern Arizona. I look forward to working with you on that. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to both. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So, yes, for a future agenda item, I would like Council to connect our community and our community to learn more about the stock system, about data retention, and so forth. So, for a future council agenda meeting, I would like and opportunities for the community to learn more about the stock systems, how, when the data is retained, how it goes, and so many other issues that were presented by individuals who have talked to the public this evening. Any other suggestions that we're going to come up with? We're going to move on to claims. I'll move to approve the claims report for November 4th, 2036. I'll second. I'll move to approve. I'll move for agreement. Second. I'll move to approve. Aye.