Mayor and Council - Special Meeting

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I'd like to call the special meeting to order at 4:30. Roll call, please. Mayor Jose, here. Council member Ida and Pedro, present. Council member Jose Mont. Council member Gustavo Duraso. Council member Ray Shelton present. Council member Maria Dilman here. Council member Richard Aosta present. City manager Honor present. City attorney Dennis Fitzgiven present. City treasurer Alejandra Martinez here.

Thank you Miss Clerk. Item number three. Persons persons wishing to address the council in writing or verbally on any item not on the agenda. And we have one, Miss Kimparata.

Good afternoon, mayor and city council. Uh my name is Kim Peralta and I live at 2250 14th Street here in Douglas, Arizona. I also a property owner over at 1961A Avenue with some apartments we're building there. Uh I did send you all an email and I'm not sure if you received it. I know that you can answer. It's uh um so it was just more informative than anything. Uh I know that today over at your uh meeting uh you will be talking about the property seats adjacent to my property. Uh those four lots on 20th Street and A Avenue. Uh just a little history in case you didn't know and I'm I'm pretty sure you all did your your your work there your uh your background. Uh from the A Avenue avenue uh from the sidewalk on A Avenue in about 30 feet or so that property belongs to the city of Douglas. And so there is a blight issue on that property, but part of it is city of Douglas problem. Um, I wanted to speak up to this because whatever position that you guys decide to take tonight would probably be to either donate that part to the actual owner so that they can continue to uh fix the actual uh blight problem that's on the property already. If the city of Douglas decides that they don't want to donate any properties tonight, then you're looking at uh trying to figure out what you're going to do with that property, uh maybe fix it up, maybe create a little park there, something that will be beneficial to the residents in the area. Uh and so, uh why this interests me is because a couple of months back, we asked for the donation of the property directly in front of my property. It's the same issue from the sidewalk forward all the way to my building. 30 ft of that belongs to the city. Um the city manager was uh I'm grateful enough that they were able to provide for us some kind of a lease document so that we could continue to use that for our property, but it

doesn't feel like it's enough for us. We're we're we continuing to ask the city council to donate it so that we can continue to develop the area. I have some pictures uh and ideas that basically we want to do to the to the property, but we can't move forward with without the city council and and mayor's uh decisions tonight. That's basically all I have. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.

Item number four, discussion decision to call for and conduct session. Item A, under the authority of ARS 38-431.0383 0383 to consider its position, instruct its representatives, obtain legal advice, and pro provide direction regarding code enforcement and abatement issue issues at 40 at 4101840, 4101841, 4101842, and 401843. And also uh item B under the authority of ARS 38-431.0383 03 A3 to consider his position, instruct his representatives, and obtain legal advice regarding strategic investment for certain areas within the city. May I have a motion to enter into executive session?

Mayor, Mr. Mine, I'll move that we conduct an exe we move on to an executive session. Do I have a second? Second. At the same time, I'll give it to Mr. Aosta. Uh motion by Mr. Montana, second by Mr. Aosta. Any discussion? Uh Mr. Mayor. Mr. Aosta. Yes, I believe Miss Kim Peralta mentioned she had some drawings. Can we Can we get that, please? You'll get them. Okay.

And Mr. Mayor, Mr. Mayor, I just wanted to correct there will not be any decisions made in executive session. So, I didn't know when I was listening to the presentation, I didn't want anybody thinking council was going to make decisions in the executive session. That's not what the executive session's for. Thank you, Dennis. Any other discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Council member Pedrio, yes. Council member Matano, yes. Council member Daso, yes. Council member Shelton, yes. Council member Dilman, yes. Council member Aosta, yes. Mr. Mayor, yes. Motion passes. We enter into executive session at 4:35 p.m.

Mr. Shelton, you can call the next number. Uh, I almost said she was going to call me. Okay, she'll call you. You can find

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Madame clerk, we adjourn executive session at 5:46.

Oh, that guy. Do I have a motion to adjourn the special meeting? Mayor, Mrs. Dilman, I motion that we adjourn this meeting. Do I have a second? I second. Motion by Mrs. Dman, second by Mrs. Pedro. All in favor say I. I. Any nays? Eyes have it. We We adjourn at 5:46 p.m.

I'd like to call the special meeting to order at 5:47 p.m. Roll call, please. Or public hearing. Sorry. Roll call, please. Mayor Seal here. Council member An. Council member Jose Mont here. Council member Gustavo Duraso here. Council member Maria Dilman here. Council member Richard Aosta present. City manager Honor present. City attorney Dennis Fitzgiven. City Treasurer Alejandro Martinez here. Thank you. Item number three. persons wishing to address the council in writing or verbally on any item not on the agenda. Do we have anyone for this public hearing?

Is this for the public hearing for the regular meeting? This is Diana Lamar. Good afternoon or good evening I should say. Uh council members and mayor. Um, I may be a bit all over the place because there's a lot going on here, but I one thing I did want to inquire about and I do appreciate uh the clerk's office providing public uh record requests that I made um both on uh non-disclosure agreements and uh data centers. I believe it was the March 11th meeting uh among other things. I inquired whether or not the executive sessions that have been taking place uh under the title strategic technologies strategic innovations if that is the name of a company or if that's a broad term being used for a lot of different discussions um I would I would ask that ex executive sessions can be the information about what's being discussed, the general um point or the company is that that information is provided to the public because I have no clue and I'm sure no one else does what that even means. Um, you know, I wonder if it has anything to do with data centers both because uh it's an issue that's going around uh the country. Um, recently the county has

been addressing some changes of ordinance to deal with that and I would encourage the city to do the same. Um, the public record requests provided information that indicated at least as recent as January 2024. Um, there were discussions happening with a company or companies about a data center uh locating by the airport. um this uh you know there's a lot of concern about data centers water usage and so I would I would ask that we can get some greater clarity on both of those issues strategic technologies uh greater transparency about executive sessions um a commitment to non-disclosure agreements and to provide the community with information about um plans that are happening in the community uh clearly that started a couple of years ago regarding data centers. Um there's you know we would ask that there might be a moratorum on data centers that there would be an inclusion a greater inclusion of community uh input um bipartisan expert input um yeah so um that would be really helpful. I think there's a great concern about our water and uh I'll mention the diaper drive since the bell hasn't rung yet. Um there's going to be a diaper drive. Uh people can bring diapers any size for any age uh to the Douglas Indivisible table during Douglas days on Friday

evening or on Saturday from about 10 to 8. And we're also we're giving away diapers, but we'd like to be able to collect more so that we can give more away. So, thank you very much. Thank you. You mentioned NDAs. I I'll speak for myself. I haven't signed any. Um Dennis, is there any um as far as Mrs. Lamar's blame on the the e session?

Yeah, Mr. Mayor, I wasn't there for the whole her whole presentation. I got let in a few minutes late. So, this is a call to the public, I think. And so, I I didn't hear her criticizing anyone, so I don't think council has a right to respond. Okay. And for the record, Mr. Shelton's on the line. Um, yes. Item number four, presentation, discussion on public hearing. The purpose of the public hearing is to allow public participation regarding Douglas drinking water and the wastewater collection west extension project phase one. Mr. Pedrosa.

Thank you, Mr. Mr. Mayor, try to be brief. Um, purpose of this public hearing is to bring awareness to phase one of the West Extension Drinking and Wastewater Collection System. Uh, as you know, this project has been in the planning stages for a while. Uh, our partners at North American Development Bank known as NAD Bank, branch of EPA, has funded this project. And uh part of the process with the grant funds is to pretty pretty uh put it out for public uh u consumption and to inform the public of what uh what we have going on. This slide you see the the water and sewer. Uh the color the shades of color there depict the two phases. Phase one is what we're talking about right now. The the one in red basically extending the the water and sewer from the city limits all the way to Coochis College that eventually will feed the the port of entry as well. But f first and foremost we have to make that connection to the coochis college per our grant funds. We also go down down kings highway to be awareable station and section two as you can see is James Ranch road and what will be future commerce lane. Uh as you know city's responsible to bring the water and sewer to the new commercial port of entry. We're talking 29,000 linear feet of water line 18,700 linear feet of sewer line. The new water campus, as we're calling it, uh will be built out in Coochis College, basically comprised of a new water well to feed that west side of town, 400,000galon

reservoir, booster pumps, and all other uh pertinances associated with with a water well. We're building a utility bridge to cross Whitewater draw and a pressure reducing valve on SR80 in Kings. You may have seen some progress already along SR80. Those are some pictures there. Uh we basically completed the the environmental process. We've uh done the final design of SR80. We are at 90% for the whitewater bridge crossing, 90% for the sewer from SR80 to the border patrol station, and 60% design on the water campus. So we're we're almost there in full design, but obviously construction has started for the extension of water and sewer from Copper Avenue to Coochis College. And and and again, you you've seen that the drilling of Well 20 has also commenced. Not the construction of the entire campus, but just the drilling portion. Uh that started on April 26, and we we expect to finish the drilling by August. to give you an idea of the different phases. They're colorcoded uh because of different uh components in the construction. We've we've parcelled them out into different uh five phases to be able to um uh bid them out at at different stages. So you can kind of see those depicted there. This slide is is basically from the NAD bank. Uh basically this is what uh commissions our project with the NAD bank. It's it's really an estimated cost of 24.6 million for phase one. We're

talking about $50 million for the entire two phases. Beef money which is what we're vying for here with the NAD bank is about $8 million to cover that. Uh we also have other funding partners, the US Army Corps of Engineers, ARPA funds, WIFFA and SRF uh funding. So we um obviously uh a big portion of what we're doing here is eliminating waste water uh from septic. So that's that's big with with NADB. We put up a population of 21,000 benefit because it will eventually benefit the residents of Douglas because we will loop our system in well over at Cochis College will be looped into the new uh system here in Doug into the existing system in Douglas. So we have about uh seven hookups existing hookups there for water 50 hookups for for wastewater 5.68 68 miles of drinking water and wastewater 6.74 miles. And two new sources of water supply are are are constructed. One from well 20 and one for well 19 that is currently under um under use by uh at the construction of the port of entry for construction water. So uh oh and and basically about 0.15 million gallons of discharge will be mitigated as a result of this grant. Mayor with that I happy to take any questions. Thank you. We have um speaker request form. Mr. Daniel

Lamar.

Yeah. You're speaking on this, right? The public hearing.

Uh, yeah. I didn't know this is how it was handled, but Diane Lamar, 1303 F Avenue. Um, I have a couple of questions. One is basic. Um, a public hearing, at least what I'm used to, typically occurs prior to work or decisions being made. And so I'm curious as to uh if I misunderstand the legislation on uh public hearings and if the legislation was uh followed um to the letter. Um I thought that public hearings were to provide um feedback from the public or get feedback from the public so that y'all could um take that into consideration when you're making decisions. So that's just a question that I have. Um uh I I I have a a really fundamental questions. Why is uh the sewer going all the way to the college? Um what was the reasoning behind that? Did it have to do with the amount of water that is needed at the um new port of entry for their sewer system? Um is the college investing in this um effort? Uh what is the what are the plans as um uh which was just being discussed about it connecting into the city? I'm just not following this uh that clearly and I'm not understanding eliminating um uh the discharge. Are you talking about the water that I think we're legally required to send to um Mexico or are you talking about um uh what am I trying to say the uh if you don't how

not on the system you are using septic that's what I was trying to say thank you

mayor if I may I think u Mr. Mr. Pedrosa can fill in much of this, but I I just want to clarify a few things. This is an utility corridor for port of entry projects that has many phases and um many funding components. This funding component from NAD Bank requires a public hearing for their portion of um the overall utility corridor which is 8 million. Uh the beef monies have a process. Um Mr. Pedrosa can identify the timeline when that starts, but it's an ongoing project, but that phase hasn't necessarily um taken off for for that purpose. We we need to keep this funding gap closing so that the momentum of the util utility corridor project does not stop. We need we have a destination to end at u by December of uh 28. The water is not going the waste water is not going to Coochis College. It's diverting and if you have the the the map there again uh water portable water is going to Coochis College and wastewater is cutting over to King's Highway through different phases here on the orange and uh reaching the port of entry through a different route because of elevations. So all of that defines the utility corridor in different phases. Uh the college has become a great partner for us. We are connecting our water distribution all the way to Gojis College and they're making um uh Mr. Bedrosa can go into the specifics, but we're partnering with some of their backup wells. We've purchased property. We're building a new well. So, we are extending our distribution system. The water will not end anymore at Commerce. our distribution system will go all the way

to the corridor and then come back over to uh feed and provide that uh connection to the new port of entry. um forgot the last few portions of your question. Several years ago and then I fell asleep and I don't remember what stage.

Yes. whether or not college since they're ready are they contributing financially to

so the reason we're going all the way up to the college and good good question by the way um is because the grant uh addresses existing issues it does not fund future future uh development so basically we saw where where is the largest mitigation of waste water within this corridor that we can also bring in the port of entry. So, we thought we got the college, we got the border patrol station, and we've got some small uh businesses and homes along SR80. So, uh these funding agencies want to see environmental uh being mitigated or solved. So the college was a was a a big area that we can actually solve the wastewater issue. Um in fact we one one our our phase is not to go really to the wastewater immediately to the college. We will get there but we need to we need to cut in to uh Kings Highway and then we're going to go west and then to the port of entry. Uh but that's how the that's how we wrote the grant. That's so we were able to be successful is to capture existing environmental concerns within the area and and and to answer to further answer the question about uh the public hearing occurring prior to work that that's correct. We we we have not started construction work yet. These funds are mostly to build that bridge and whatever sewer we can afford uh after the the cost of the bridge uh to to to get us over to to the college. So um we have we're very close to finishing the design portion but we have not initiated construction.

May I ask? Okay. Um, thank you Mr. Joseph. Um, so mitigating environmental concerns. Are you saying that there are environmental concerns about the septic wastewater discharge to the ground? Yes, that's what the septic Yeah. Miss Lamar, if if if you may approach the space just for the minute taking purposes. Thank you. The the college's contribution is uh do it.

You can go back. Uh the college's contribution is that they gave land to to the to the city to be able to do that. They pledged support for grants and those who leverage grants with them. And they've also pledged backup water. So if our well goes out, that's why you see that squiggly green line going up into their existing well site. If that well if our new well goes out, we have backup water from the college. They won't charge us

just be able to connect uh directly to them and be able to continue to provide water. Um and it was there any consideration um in ter or necessity to go to the college to receive that flow so that the sewer and the waste water uh that you know and the waste um at the new port of entry. Did it need that water to push through the system? because isn't there a an elevation uh question?

Um so on the wastewater side it's good to have constant flow. You don't want no flow because then or little flow because then solids tend to get stuck and uh it it was always good to have more connections uh in there so that uh we have continued flow for the wastewater. But as far as the water, um it it uh it it it it just kind of made sense that that's the best place to acquire land. We needed to feed uh the college also, uh wanted to be a customer of water. uh it made a lot of sense to uh establish a campus there and be able to come back and and and fit and and feed all of the development, the commercial port, and then loop back into into our system.

And so, will the college be receiving a water bill? Yes, they'll be a water customer. They'll be a water customer. Thank you. Um and are there going to be any additional hearings? I know someone who lives in the area and they have felt pretty in the dark. I mean, many people I've talked to don't have a clue about the work that's going on out there. So, I was curious if there will be additional public hearings. We'll follow the the process for public hearings. Uh but this Friday we're going to be delivering letters to the people uh along the corridor so that they they see the work going on and they're going to know exactly like look

we're building a water line and sewer line. We had already approached them before as well. Uh but it's been some time so we want to make sure that they know of of the work going on. They got to know that we're building it but they're not going to be able to connect right away. There's there's going to be a late process. That's also going to be part of our messaging. And last question then is is there going to be the need for an additional wastewater treatment plant?

Oh, good questions. Uh um so that was part of our analysis. Should we build a new wastewater plant? Can our new wastewater can our existing wastewater treatment plant which was just expanded, can it handle the flows? So we did an an analysis and and we and we our engineers determined that the best thing to do is for our wastewater to take in those flows, but obviously there's limits to it. So we have a plan as to how much growth we can intake until we need to start planning a new wastewater treatment plant. So we have all that analysis as to how much flows we can really really accept. But we projected out about I want to say 40 to 50 years out that we can handle

uh flows. Uh so we but 40 and 50 years you'd be surprised you kind of need to start planning that wastewater treatment plan long before then. Thank you. And no other questions. Uh we item number five adjourn. We do have a motion to adjourn. Mayor, I motion to adjurnn. Have a second. Second. Motion by Mrs. Pedrick, second by Mrs. Dilman. All in favor say I. Any day?

Eyes have it. We adjourn the special meeting at 6:10 p.m. This is fun, isn't it? Because then we have a third meeting, a regular meeting. I'd like to call this regular meeting to order at 6:10 p.m. Let's all please stand for the pledge of allegiance and stay standing for the invocation. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. This is Amen. Amen. Thank you,

Pastor. Tell us where your church is located, your hours of worship. Item number please. Mayor here. Council member Ida N. Pedro present. Council member Jose Mont here.

Council member Gustav Duraso here. Council member Ray Shelton here. Council member Maria Dilman here. Council member Richard Aosta. He stepped up. Here. City manager Honor present. City attorney Dennis Fitz Gibbons present. City Treasurer Alejandro Martinez. Thank you. Item number five, events update.

Hello and welcome to the City of Douglas Recreation Department monthly updates. This month, we are excited to share everything happening in our community as we prepare for one of Douglas's biggest celebrations of the year, the 11th annual Douglas Days, celebrating America 250 and Douglas 125. Join us on May 15th and 16th in downtown Douglas and Raul Castro Park for two exciting days filled with entertainment, culture, history, and family fun. This year's celebration will feature live entertainment, delicious food vendors, local shopping vendors, and activities for all ages. See the schedule for more details. Also, on Saturday, May 16th, will be on off-site Douglas Day's location. The opening reception for the Douglas 125 in America 250 exhibition at the Grand Theater from 12:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. You won't want to miss this incredible showcase of Douglases in the United States history. We are inviting the community to participate in the Douglas Days parade. Parade signups are open. We encourage local businesses, schools, organizations, clubs, and community groups to be part of this exciting tradition celebrating the spirit of Douglas. Vendor registration is also open on Civic Wreck for food and craft vendors,formational booths, and local businesses wanting to showcase their products and services during the festival. During Douglas days, visitors will also have the opportunity to enjoy guided transportation tours to the historic Slaughter Ranch Museum and learn more about the rich history that helped shape our community. Thank you for supporting the City of Douglas Recreation Department. Let's come together to celebrate our community, our traditions, and our future at Douglas Days 2026, where crossroads meet. We look forward to seeing you there. Join us at the City of Douglas Aquatic Center and 8th Street Pool for our summer 2026 aquatics programs. We will be hosting a free open swim this Saturday, May 16th, at the Aquatic

Center from 12 to 4 to celebrate the 11th annual Douglas Days. Celebrating America 250 and Douglas 125. This Sunday, May 17th, will be our last weekend of open swim at the aquatic center from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. We currently have lab swim and therapy pool hours at the aquatic center from Monday through Friday from 5 to 8:00 a.m. and 4 to 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 7 to 10:00 a.m. You can still join our water aerobics program, which ends on May 29th. Classes are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at the Aquatic Center from 6:00 to 6:45 p.m. Different payment plans are available. Kickoff summer 2026 with us at the 8th Street Pool this Memorial Day weekend. We will have open swim from May 23rd to May 25th from 12 to 4 p.m. Swim lesson registration is now open for the summer. Our first session starts on June 1st, 2026. We will have three sessions this summer with lessons available in the morning and in the afternoon from Monday through Thursday. Don't miss out on our amazing swim lesson programs at the aquatic center. Our Douglas Dolphins competitive swim club will start on June 1st at the aquatic center. The program runs Monday through Thursday from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. at a cost of $80 a month. We have different payment plans available. Feel free to give us a call for more information. Our lap swim hours at the aquatic center will be changing on June 1st with an extended afternoon lap swim from 4 to 8:00 p.m. Open swim at our 8th Street pool will start on June 3rd, 2026. We will be open from Wednesday to Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m. Come try out our new diving board. As we approach the end of the school year, the aquatic center will be closed on May 13th, 2026 for afternoon lap swim as we host the DHS 2026 track team banquet. We will also be closed for afternoon lap

swim on May 22nd, 2026 as we celebrate our Douglas High School graduating class of 2026. Feel free to give us a call with any questions or concerns regarding our City of Douglas aquatics programs. Thank you. And for the Douglas Days parade, you can also stop by the Last Supper Museum on G Avenue because Mr. Braverman's here. He'll be open then. Um Mr. Costa re joined the meeting at 6:13 to be on the record. Uh Mrs. Lamar, you have item number five events on this. Do you want to speak about it again since it's a just you could be quick about it?

All right. Douglas Indivisible will have a table at Douglas days Friday and Saturday. Um and we are doing a diaper drive. So, we encourage everyone in the community that can afford to to go to a store and purchase some diapers for any size, any age, and bring them over to the park either Friday evening or throughout the day on Saturday. Also, those diapers are being given away free of charge, just being given away uh to people in the community that need them. Thank you.

Thank you. Item number six, mayor and council and member updates and or reports. We will go in order. Mrs. Pedro, good evening. Can you hear me now? Yes.

Um, let's see. Today I attended the mayor and uh manager lunchon in Benson with Mrs. Ukho and um Jennifer Smith. Was very informative. Very informative. I also um yesterday saw a video with the mayor pertaining to how to account for numbers and leakage in the community. Again, very informative information that um is used. I also had um with Mrs. Ukho and um Mr. Pedrosa drive-thru through my what would be Ward One was very important because I thought of W one a little differently than the way it was designed. But I just want to say it's been a welcoming um joining the team and hopefully it continues. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Montana.

Um yeah, I'll make it quick. Uh I I I met with several constituents uh throughout this past month. um addressed a lot of their concerns. Then uh I attended the fire department awards. Uh I want to congratulate all those that received awards for with the fire department and thank all the employees within the fire department for all that they do for the community. Um I've attended opportunity zones online briefing that was very informative and I'm pretty sure uh a couple other people are going to talk about that uh in depth. Um then I attended last week I think attended the employee appreciation lunchon. So I want to thank thank all the city of Douglas uh employees, all the staff, everything, all the hard work that you guys put in for for the city day in and day out. Um and then uh on a non city of Douglas thing, I just want to congratulate all the 2026 DHS graduates. So good luck in their futures. That's it. Thank the last one. Okay. So, update. Um, I've been having discussions uh with aviators for about the Douglas Municipal Airport. Uh, specifically addressing the operational concerns of the runway lights that sometimes they don't turn on and safety improvements and uh how can we improve the the airport. Uh also, uh I met with uh some community members about the annual local baseball softball tournament that's held in August about concerns of uh wanting to relocate it um back to the A Street Park uh instead of having to separate uh the tournament between H Street Park and also the airport park. Uh so this has been a a very important tradition for the last eight years. It brings visitors and families together and uh they do raise u a good amount of money also. Uh today I spoke to Mr. Berman over at the Lasser

Museum. We talked about uh very passionate discussion about uh the future opportunities to make uh promote tourism and recreation here at Douglas. Mr. Braverman being passionate

Mr. Shelton. Uh yes, we're making a lot of progress now, you know, on u the new port of entry as you know has been discussed tonight and uh Mrs. uh Pedro and I we had a chance to go across the line and to observe uh many things over there and that was very productive and um then I'd like to say that uh we're doing we're doing things that have needed to be done for for many years. So, uh, I'm up here in in, uh, beautiful northern New Mexico and I, uh, be home probably on Friday. So, we'll talk to you all later. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Shelton. Mrs. Dilman,

I've been attending a lot of events around town. I pretty much go to almost everything, um, me and my husband. And I just want to highlight a few of the things that we have attended and um thank them for their um hard work in putting on these events. Um we first did the city charter education sessions. Um they I want to thank Abe Varal and Coochis College for hosting the events. um he went from what is a charter to all the ballot measures and I liked the way it was presented and it has helped me vote better for for what I feel is right in my heart for voting and um I really appreciate that information because I I was a little unsure about what the charter really was and I just want to remind everyone to please vote next week. It's really important. Some of you may think that your vote or your voice does not matter, but it does and it's our right and we need to um use that that right. Also, I wanted to thank uh Diana Pacheco and the sponsors of the Grand Fiesta Deia del Nino that was at the 10th Street park. It had there were a lot of people. There was music. Um the folklorico groups were there. It was a really nice evening and it was nice to see the community come out and enjoy that. And of course, Thunder Mountain wrestling. We can't forget that. Um I like that event because it is general admission is free and it's a great thing for kids to go to. And if if you have kids that just don't know what to do and that comes to town, they really need to go to that because it's it's free and

there every time it comes it seems more and more um community and public involvement and that's what we enjoy and I think that uh they should keep coming. I'm sure they will probably will. Um, also I went to the Boys and Girls Club family night community potluck and it was nice to talk to a lot of the parents. I got a lot of feedback about their concerns and you know we made more stuff for the kids and it was nice to see all the kids having fun playing games. They were outside running around and I was glad to be part of that as well. Um, also the Paul Huber Middle School for Chlorico Dance Recital was really, really a beautiful event. I want to thank Hemma Herman and her staff. They work really hard with the kids and the they it shows in their performances. So, I appreciate them and I enjoy going to all of their events. and also they have added the immaculate conception foc without without them the city doesn't run and they are out there not just from 9 to5 Monday through Friday they're out there on the weekends working on water issues um anything that needs to be done after hours and we don't see that so I thank them for all the work that they do and they they um really make this city run. And the Madiachi festival was well attended. It was great. The performers were wonderful. I want to thank Sergeant Davidson and Coochis uh sheriff's department for all the work that they did for that. It was very very beautiful

and well attended. And I did also attend the opening reception for the moments that made us the American 250 and the Douglas 125 exhibition. And I encourage the community to go to that. It was very well presented. You know, Douglas, as I keep saying, has such a rich history. We have added so much to making America from our railroads to our smelting and to our aviation. We have promoted a lot into this country and we need to be proud of Douglas. We have first, second, third, fourth, fifth generation community members here. We love our town and we we need to be proud of our town and we just have to keep helping it grow and be a community and be, you know, kind to each other and and we need to be out there helping each other. So that's all I got.

Thank you. And she keeps all the flyers, so don't think they go to waves. Yes.

Thank you, mayor. Again, uh you know, with my job, school year is winding down. and uh just busy, very very busy attending all these uh awards ceremonies and uh again my baseball season just finished uh last Monday. But uh to begin uh my reports, I want to first and foremost thank uh Miss Martha Alonso who's here present. She sent me a letter here. Um and I want to talk about HOSA. Good evening mayor and me members of the council. On behalf of Douglas High School Bioscience OSA, I would like to share some of the incredible accomplishments our students achieved this year through leadership, service, and dedication to healthcare education in our community. This year, students demonstrated what is truly what it truly means to lead through service. Through our partnership with the National Merrow Donor Program, students recruited over 120 new potential stem cell donors. Under the leadership of Yaen Bulledo, our chapter director, donors were recruited not only for the NNPD PUSA, but also for a NNPD BD Mexico, which was made possible through events like the Mexican baseball fiesta held here by our city of Douglas. Most importantly, the one of the donors recruited by our students this year was identified as a match and went on to help save a life. A powerful reminder that student leadership can have a direct and lasting impact on others. Also, in partnership with the American Red Cross, our chapter hosted three community blood drives collecting over 100 pints of blood to support patients in need. Our chapter of 67 members remained highly active throughout the year. 50 students qualified and attended the Arizona State Leadership Conference in

Tucson. 21 students have now qualified to represent Douglas and Arizona at the International Leadership Conference this coming summer and I believe it's in Indianapolis. So, we're also proud to announce that Ya Grihalva was selected as the 2026 27 presidentelect for the Arizona HOSA and will serve a two-year term on the state officer team representing students from across Arizona. Beyond competition, students focus heavily on professional growth and health advocacy. 45 members earned Arizona HOSA Pulse Awards recognizing leadership and chapter involvement while 48 students became certified health literacy ambassadors helping combat misinformation and promote reliable health education within our community. In addition, Maria Ben Franco earned a prestigious Arizona Hosa State scholarship of $2,000 in recognition of her hard work, leadership, and academic achievement. Perhaps most impressively, bioscience hoses students accumulated near nearly 3,000 hours of community service this year. These hours reflect countless evenings, weekends, service project, healthcare events, and volunteer opportunities completed by students committed to making a difference. Our students continue to prove the leadership is not only about titles or awards. It is about service, compassion, professionalism, and commitment to improving the lives of of others. We are incredibly proud of the example they continue to set for our school and our community. Thank you for your continued support of career and technical education, bioscience, and hosa in Douglas, Arizona. Thank you very much. Hey, also let's get down.

Thank you. We are very fortunate in Douglas to have great great ambassadors and I mean throughout every year being from the high school working there. I mean it just uh the dedication and you know a lot of them uh do it out of their own heart because they they want to succeed. And why did I bring this up? Only because we want to bring the infrastructure down to Douglas. We want these young men and women that go out there and get their college careers to come back and work in a field that we could have here in Douglas. So aside from that, last night they had the uh awards assembly, awards assembly. Uh congratulations to the valadictorian Cesar Romero who will be attending Emory University in Georgia. Saludiatoran Osarla Madrid Carlton College Minnesota Rodriguez Vanderbilt University in Tennessee students also were offered scholarships by universities. UVA gave uh 17 scholarships. ASU 35, NEU 41, GCU 8, New Mexico State University gave 32, Coochis College 148, totaling 281 scholarships. So they were uh also presented with 117 local scholarships. So total of 398 scholarships were given last night. So totaling uh million plus dollars in scholarships. So that tells you what we have here in Douglas. The future is here. It's always been here. So let's let's uh let's do something that that's going to bring him back and work. So thank you.

So it Martha, if you want do you want to say a few words really quick? I mean you were included in the reports. I'm including your speech into the report. Good evening, Mayor Grihalva Councilman and members of the public. My name is Marta Alonso and I am the bioscience advisor at Douglas High School and I'm incredibly proud of our students this year. We did earn platinum chapter and like I Mr. Aosa mentioned we did have close to 3,000 volunteer hours and so um from our standpoint I have 67 members and it's hard to offer them volunteer um hours. So if anybody needs volunteers please contact me. I always have kids and they're always looking for ways of serving the community. Thank you.

Thank you.

And take a break. You work too much. You're always doing something. I always see your post. And congratulations. We're very proud of you all. As far as my updates go, I I'll make this quick. Um, Thunder Mountain wrestling was really fun. Mrs. Pedrick went this time. I think uh Terry and and Mrs. Pedrick were the most excited uh out of everybody. And they still want me to get beat up in the ring. But uh like they said it it caters to our to kids but Mrs. Pedrick was a witness now. There was close to more than 200 people. The majority weren't from here. So we're using that uh to now leverage hotels to leverage um more amenities down here. Uh like it was mentioned before, we want to thank the employees for their uh for the um all their hard work. Uh we went to the employee lunch. You know, when we go to those things, the one thing I like to do is I like to sit with the employees. We have to humanize our positions. they just can't be. We're up here and we seem important. We have to remember we're replaceable out here. Our employees aren't because um you know the the hard work that they do. So next time I encourage our our our our council and and everybody else from admin go sit with our employees. Let's get to know them. Um we did get a a picture Mrs. Erho and I about a sidewalk that's needed on 9inth uh behind the boys and girls club. Um, it was a a picture of someone in an electric wheelchair that was on the road. So, um, God forbid something happens, that's on us. So, we we need a we can't be waiting for somebody to pay for a sidewalk. Maybe they don't have that money. We have to do it ourselves. That's what tax money is for. Um, we was part of a Seagull public transit summit that was organized by um, madam supervisor over there that's going to say a few words uh, right now. Um, you know, the thing I got out of it was everybody needs to pull their own weight. Um, Bisby needs needs money. Um, I I think um, you know, the the transit service um, we're leaving people in service Vista. They're taking our tax money and taking it over there to spend it. They don't

have any skin to the game. Mrs. Dan Lamar mentioned if Coach's College puts in anything for, you know, for the water, they put in for the transit service. Bisby puts in for the transit service the We need to have everybody pull their weight equally. It's not fair for our residents uh to to be footing the bill for our money to go elsewhere. Uh and also their hospital because I think we we drop them off at the hospital over there. Um chat with the mayor. I had it at Kasparansas. Um the majority of them were seniors there. Uh they want more senior they want a senior center and and activities. I know I posted something and I got a few messages about we already have a senior center. We need a senior center catered to what our seniors are looking to to do. um they don't want to play board games. The one thing they told me and Cynthia was there, correct me if I'm wrong, they want karaoke, they want dancing, they want yoga, they want um you know all these different activities that you know we have to cater to them. We also uh collect their tax money. Um went to the as it was mentioned Arizona Commerce Authority um meeting that in in partnership with the county. They talked about opportunity zones 2.0. You know, I just want to say we got very lucky and Kathleen can come up here later and say how lucky we got. They're using the 2020 census numbers when we were at the bottom of the barrel economically. Right now, and I'll say this proudly, I think we're in a better position than any other city in the county. Um, you know, Sarah Vista suffering a bit, Bisby suffering a bit, Wilcox, we're the ones, you know, if you saw that report online with Coochi, Voice of Coochis, Coochis Voice, we're the only ones that have the retail and the restaurant and bar were up very, very substantially. So, we're in a good position. They're using the 2020 census numbers, so we're going to get a good chunk of opportunity zone. So, like Mr. Aosta said, the time is now uh for Douglas. And you know, I just want to give a piece of advice to for anybody that's representing Douglas that goes to these meetings.

Um, the commerce authority said, you know, we have to we have to play evenly with Maricopa, with Phoenix. You know what? It hasn't been even for how many years? When industry comes, the state pushes to Maricopa. And if it doesn't push to Maricopa, then it pushes to Puma. We have to speak up. And I'm sorry, it just can't be the mayor. It has to be everybody else speaking up for our little city because I'm tired of hearing people say, "I don't know where Douglas is." At this point, we're getting talked about so much and I'll talk about it in the in in a few other updates right here. We're getting talked about internationally. We need to speak up. We just can't be complacent anymore. Um, my updates are all over the place as far as I remember. I want to thank the food bank. They had a a lunchon for their volunteers that's opening up soon. I want to thank Mark Adams or the uh he invited me to a lunch with the Presbyter um the moderator of the Presbyterian church. I got to meet them. Um go please go to their potlucks. That was those were the best enchiladas I've had and it was with the with the Mexican cheese with the peso chihuahua. So it wasn't the usual ones you eat. So when they have a a potluck, be sure to go. Um, speaking internationally, um, the consul came uh, and met with me because I don't know if you all remember a while back there was some messcal entrepreneurs that were interested in setting up a distribution center in Douglas. Now it's the state of Wajaka. They want to not only bring that, but they want to bring their artisan. They want to bring all these different things that they sell over there to come sell here. So, we're getting it talked about way deep down in Mexico. and also had someone come in uh with the connections to um a uh wanting to do a a cultural event for Colombia Col Colombia. So, they want to come and do uh an event down here. Again, they were they were just saying, "G give us the the stuff that we need for the performance. You don't even need to pay us." So, we're getting talked about. When did you ever expect Douglas to be getting talked

about all this time? I want to thank um and uh congratulate Sorry, congratulate Boxing Gym for passing their inspection. um they extended an invite. Uh I asked them to uh extend the invite to their business opening and you know when when you have a new business or even when you have the inspection because you're going to say this is what I'm going to do here. If you want to invite me so I could get excited and you know we could start advertising and marketing all these new businesses, let me know. I'll make time for that. Um but you know it's going to it's going to be neat to not only have boxing events here but then have local boxers and get their names out. Um, I want to again thank uh Jesus Davidson for the mariachi festival. You know, he did everything. He I think mostly on his own for that. You know, he organized it. He got all those donations. I mean, he worked hard for that. And um you know, I've been talking to organizers of uh of festivals and one of them was Mariachi and I and I asked him, "Do you want to keep this? Is this going to be your baby?" So, he wants to keep that the sheriff's department. So, we'll bring other type of festivals. There's always country music. There's always Americana. There's always jazz. There's always something else. Uh and another audience that we have not catered to. Uh also congratulations to Hemma Herman like Mrs. Dilman mentioned with her folklorico, not only um with the uh with the kiddos there, but also with the Immaculate Conception um uh dancers, you know, it when I would just say go to these events because it reminds you of our culture. Sometimes we get lost in the national media and all this news. Sometimes it's just nice to sit down and enjoy a performance with these young people when they do it out of out of love for for for their city and their culture. I did get a concern this morning uh about between on 10th Street between Washington and Van Beern about racing uh that uh there's cars that are uh going really fast racing uh and um it's causing some concern with with uh people crossing especially with

kids. Um, and also, um, putting this out there before we go, um, going to ICSC, uh, in Las Vegas for the National Retail Convention where, um, we have I have a meeting with two two um, businesses. Mrs. Pedro is going to go, Mrs. Oriho is going to go. Reason I'm saying it before we go because I just don't want to say, hey, I went to a convention. I want you all to hold us accountable next month. Say, who did you talk to? Who are you going to bring down here? This is your tax money that's being spent. And I also want to be um transparent just in case the Herald wants to do another article about my traveling. So there's that. Thank you all. Um and I also wanted to mention because I don't have the proclamation here um but we'll post it online for National Police Week um May 10th through the 16th. I want to thank our um law enforcement for everything that they do. They keep us safe. I I know I feel a little bit better when there's always a security around and and especially when they're they're um there to protect us. So, we we thank you. Anything we could do for you, just let us know. We're here to serve you, too. Uh now, presentation of awards. Um item A, Public Entity Protection Program, EPP 2026 small employer of the year award to the city of Douglas. Mrs. Keones.

Yes. Thank you, Mayor. So we uh have been part of a um HEP program through the A through uh the industrial commission of Arizona and the office of the governor uh issues awards every year for safety compliance and uh for um excelling in their program. So about uh I think we've been a a program member of the uh of the of the PEP program. I'm trying to to get back to what the PEP means. Public entity partnership program uh protection program I'm sorry uh for about 10 years. And in that period of time, we've worked very closely with ADOSH, our safety and loss control committee and with their consulting side to ADOSH as well. So they have an enforcement section and a a consulting section. And the way this partnership works is that it basically protects us from um from areas uh that we may be steering in the wrong direction towards. We've done a lot of training. Uh before we were part of the program, we had a couple times many years ago where we had some violations and how to pay fines and how to correct that. And as part of the program, they've kind of taken us by the hand and led us through an entire new safety program. uh we've had uh nothing but uh positive um metrics as a result of that and over time we have uh contributed to about a 50% uh reduction in any of our injuries and and loss control areas. We have a very uh active committee that uh looks at everything that happens within the city on a quarterly basis and makes determinations

on progress and ADOSH visits periodically. I just had uh the ADOSH director or the ICA director rather visit again last week and they continue to um to showcase uh Douglas as a small employer. But this year we were benefit benefited and we were lucky enough to get their um small employer of the year award. So we did go to Phoenix to get that and I just want to recognize uh staff that's here today from our loss control committee if they could come up and and receive that award again. Thank you. Who do we have here? council. So come down a picture. Thank I saw you on the last don't worry. Item number eight, reading of

proclamations. This is emergency medical services week. Whereas emergency medical services is the vital public service and whereas the members of emergency medical services teams are ready to provide life-saving care to those in need 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And whereas access to quality of quality emergency care dramatically improves the survival and recovery rate of those who experience sudden illness or injury. And whereas emergency medical services fills health care gaps by providing important out of hospital care including preventive medicine, follow-up care and access to tele medicine. And whereas the emergency medical systems uh services system consists of first responders, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, emergency medical dispatchers, firefighters, police officers, educators, administrators, prehosp nurses, emergency nurses, emergency physicians, trained members of the public, and others out of hospital medical care providers. And whereas the members of med emergency medical service teams, whether career or volunteer, engage in thousands of hours of specialized training and continuing education to enhance their life-saving skills. And whereas it is appropriate to recognize the value and the accomplishments of med emergency medical services providers by designating the emergency medical services week. Now therefore, let it be resolved that I, Jose Gihalva, mayor on and on behalf of the city of Douglas Council, do hereby proclaim the week of May 17th through the 23rd, 2026 as Emergency Medical Services Week in the city of Douglas and encourage the community to observe this week with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities in honor of the EMS profession, the essential service it provides. Let's thank every one of them. Sometimes I feel like we take them for granted because we only think about them when we need them, but we need to thank them um for everything that they do. So, thank you all. And I think that's why he wore his scrubs today because we're doing the

the emergency medical week. But thank you all. Next one is National Public Works Week. Whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities, and services that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to the public health, high quality of life, and well-being of the people of Douglas, Arizona. And whereas these infrastructure facilities and services could not be provided without the dedicated s e efforts of public works professionals or engineers, managers and employees at all levels of government and the private sector who are responsible for rebuilding, improving and protecting our nation's transportation, water supply, water treatment and solid wastewater systems, public buildings and other structures and facilities essential for our citizens. And whereas it is in the public interest for the citizens, civic leaders, and children in the city of Douglas to gain knowledge of and to maintain an ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of public works and public works programs in their respective communities. And whereas the year 2026 marks the 66th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Associ Association. Now therefore, let it be resolved that I, Jose Grihalva, mayor and on behalf of the city of Douglas Council, do hereby proclaim the week of May 17th through the 23rd as National Public Works Week and all and urge all citizens to join with representatives of the American Public Works Association and government agencies in activities, events, and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, managers, and employees, and to recognize the substantial contributions they make to protecting our our nation's health, safety, and quality of life. Thank you. Next item on the agenda, item number nine, government updates.

Thank you, mayor and council, for this opportunity. I actually have a lot to report. First of all, the mayor is right. We need to have Coochis College and the hospitals in SA Vista contribute more. I think Coochis College was 28,000 a year. And when they came to me and I invited all the cities to participate, they asked was for 1.3 million to get these buses up, you know, throughout the county. And my my biggest problem is why didn't you know this was happening? 1.3 million is a lot to ask. And so then it went down to 683. Now it was 250,000. But we have to get the college and the hospitals in Sierra Vista and um Coochis College to to also contribute because they get a lot from you guys being able to transport all the people up there. Um it's exciting to hear you're going to ICS and it's the international council shopping centers which actually I worked for when I lived in New York City. So it's interesting you know from Douglas to New York City. Um, and I'll be joining next year. So, I'll come with you next year. Yes. To uh show you the

over there because I thought you wouldn't go.

No, sorry. I And when I realized that you were going to see them, I said, "Man, that's my old employer." So, one of the things I want to talk about is the housing summit that's going to take place June the 11th at May 20 26. You know, I'm sorry. In May 2025, the board of supervisors approved for the first time a fully grantf funded contract to develop the Coochis County affordable housing plan. And the goal of the meeting is to encourage community understanding and participation to gather your input, but it's looking at barriers. It's looking how at our unique issues on the workforce on our needs. and it's going to be a complete study and it's done I can't remember because I actually brought the wrong piece of paper what the um name of the consultant is but it's the first fully done study on housing so they want public information I hope that you all can attend and anybody who's listening it's open to the public and um that'll be really key in tying in to what the needs are for when we decide and pick the opportunity zones because having that statistics is means that these investors don't have to do these studies. It's going to be ready for them. So, I'm really happy about that. Please come June 11th, 5:30 in Bisby at the Board of Supervisors uh hearing room. Also, we are finalizing um I believe it's this Monday, the bylaws and articles of incorporation for the commercial port authority board. And we once finalized, we'll provide an update on what is going on and what those those bylaws and articles are. It has definitely a seat for the city of Douglas, a seat for the county. We will be the co-founders, but the key is is to turn it into a private transparent board. Um, the board will represent committees such as agriculture and cattle, mining, manufacturing, medical, transportation, and infrastructure, tourism, and small

business. Each one of these committees will then as what I project it to be nominate somebody to sit on the board. You'll have a board of of about seven with a county and the city being part of that and it will be feebased. So it will be I know I'm going to ask this I think the county is going to put 75,000 into the capital fund. I will probably come to ask the city to put in some amount too so we can have like a seed fund because I'd like to hire a director who would be responsible for that. So a lot of people say you know what does a port of authority uh board do and what it does if it's well run well it acts as a strategic facilitator bridging the gap between federal inspection agencies, local businesses and regional transportation networks to ensure efficient trade and private passenger crossings. So the key responsibilities of an effective border port authority is economic development and promotion, infrastructure development, facilitating efficient trade and cargo movement, strategic advocacy and planning and operational coordination with federal agencies. This is something we have never had in Douglas. And so this is going to be really paramount to make this port of new commercial port a gateway to the United States as the mayor likes to say and not just for Arizona. And I've gotten a lot of feedback from the Arizona border counties from a lot of different agencies that this is something that should have been done and they're very excited that we're going to do it. Again, transparent, everybody can be there. Everybody has a seat. They will be a you know memberbased and the fee will be depending on the number of employees the company has. So you'll have the big ones like Groupo Mexico, you'll have you know uh custom brokers for some of the truckers. So it's all going to be based on a fee based based on how large of a corporation or business you are. So with that and this

is what's so key. This is all happening at a strategic time. We will be finalizing the contract with Nadlesen Dale Group who will be doing the economic development strategic study for Coochis County and of course the new commercial port of entry is the key starting point. There has never been an economic development plan in Coochis County. So I'm really excited. It's um they're going to be completing the study in 10 months once they start which will then be probably sometime in December which is key because part of this study is also going to look at a hospital I'm sorry it is going to look at a feasibility study for a hospital in Douglas which is perfect for an opportunity zone when investors see the statistics and it's going to cover workforce housing you know everything that you need in an economic development plan and that's going to be key to feed into investors who want to see what is going on in Douglas, what the needs are, all the statistics will be there from housing and so forth. So, I'm really excited about this. Um, they will be wanting to come to all different types of stakeholders and so we'll start off here in Douglas. I'd like you all to know that we'll be coming to you to see what you think the needs are. We'll be coming to other stakeholders, private and public. So, that's really exciting. And as the mayor says, if you if we had to be poor and destitute, this is the freaking time to do it because you cannot ask for more going on that's all happening at the same time to feed the statistics to the investors in New York who have money, who want to give back. And this is the perfect time because with this opportunity zones, they'll be able to receive tax breaks. And it's everyone from yeah, the JP Morgans, but it's also chicosa, laasa. They're very into affordable housing and this is going to be perfect. They don't have to do these studies. It's going to be ready for them. Um so opportunity zones. Yeah. Thank you to

all who listened and came to the meeting that we had. Um you know the county will be in charge of deciding four. We get four picks of opportunity zones out of 15 in Coois County. And the criteria for consideration will be available land. you know, if you have an area that's just all houses, that's not going to be the right uh zone to pick because there's just nowhere to build. Um areas that have roads, gas, electricity, and broadband. So, development ready sites, near population, and available workforce. And of course, we will ask for public input. The way it works is each county is allotted so many zones. Coochis County gets four. We have 15 to choose from. Quite frankly, I'm I know I'm getting one and the one I'm choosing right off the bat, which absolutely makes sense, is covering the port all the way up to Purville. It's like a big kind of half circle surrounding Douglas. And it doesn't go as far as BDI, just short of that, but it's a lot of available land includes Coochis College. So from the port a little bit more by PPER all the way up covering the port Herdville and then over into 80. That's the number one that just makes sense because we're going to cover the port. We have available land. There's infrastructure and we're going to have a workforce out there. Um so we will choose that. We will have to make that decision by July 1st. We give um I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get a second one. The mayor and I have been talking and meeting regularly on what the best one is for Douglas. You have five here. Some just don't make sense. There's one by the, you know, the airport, but you got so much BLM land and state land out there you can't do anything with. So, we have to look strategically at where we can bring investors where they go, "This is a

brainer. I want to go in right away." Um, and so the Arizona Commerce Authority once we do that will really help push what we're doing to those investors. Uh, I have a meeting AP Morgan hedge fund in about a couple weeks to start to tell them what we're doing and how we'll have those statistics to help them encourage their investors to invest in our area. Um, also I went to a UVA summit for local leaders and I met with a bof bolab and it's interesting because they are actually creating plants that will take toxins out of the soil and they're perfect for slag and tailings. So I invited them to look at our big slag that we have here from the smelter as one of their first kind of experiments to see if this will happen. So that's encouraging. So, there's a lot going on. Um, at the next meeting of the board of supervisors, I will be putting for enhancement funds for the Mundo basketball for youth, which is the middle and high school, and also for the first veteran claim and resource fair that's going to happen in Douglas. So, I'm going to be contributing 5,000 4,000 to the Mundo and about 5,000 to the veteran claim and resource fair. Um, what was the other thing I want to talk? So lastly, last time I talked to you about a senior citizen uh center and I was told that I was wrong that there was one. Well, I ended up talking I think who just retired from Dark and he said, "Yes, there was one, but no showed up." Well, later in talking to people, they said, "Well, yeah, those programs were like at 7 in the morning, and you know, we're not going to get up at 7 in the morning to go play cards. We need something afterwards." And then a lot of them told me we go to Bisby to the senior citizen senior center there. So I'm going to be talking to Sego who has a department of

aging to see what grants we can get from Sego. I know they really want to put something in here. They want to see senior citizen in here. And it's not just about feeding people cheaply. It's about providing karaoke and yoga and you know just a place for them to meet. So, I encourage, you know, this council and the future councils to take this really seriously because hey, I'm aging. We're a lot of us are aging and we're all going to be using the senior citizen center pretty soon. Um, I'm trying to think what else. I had a but I think that's it for now. Uh, anybody who has any questions about, please call me. Don't take it from another source and a secondhand source and somebody who thinks they know. Come to me directly. is a very complicated issue but I can explain it because I've been going to a lot of um educational courses on this and then I can direct get the answers from you directly from ACA Arizona Commerce Authority they are the ones who are really putting this forward um so again thank you and it's funny because I have my daughter-in-law visiting me and she was saying what happens in Douglas and after she's here with us tonight and I think after hearing everything that's going on maybe her and my son will think of coming here and and and uh starting up their family here in Douglas. So, thank you very much for this opportunity. Thank you.

I actually have a question, Kathleen, about the opportunities. Can we have all four?

No, but maybe we can have three. It really, when I'm looking at the other ones, each one of the board of supervisors, they wanted to have one. So, there's two left over. And when you look at the criteria, we're just very severely distressed. And we're um we also have the what they call the new tax credit market. And that means that people who invest in this area not only get a tax break, they get another tax break. So we're the only ones in Coochis County, like I said, to be as distressed as we are, this is the best time to be it. And I'm hoping that we can get three because when I look at the other opportunity zones, they are just not that appealing to investors. Let me put it that way. So let's hope for three. Everyone here, pray for three. I think we can get two. I'm pretty sure we can get to I'm 99.9%. But definitely let's all pray for one more. Thank you.

Thank you, Kathine. Item number 10, persons wishing to address the council in writing or verbally on any item not on the agenda. I have one. Do we have more? Yes. Is that was that the paper that was being passed around right now? No. No. Or Mr. Pos, I was getting everybody's autograph. First one ahead was Mr. Diana Lamar.

Hello again, Diana Lamar, 1303 F Avenue in Douglas. Um, since your attorney didn't hear me earlier and couldn't respond, I'm just going to go over some things uh briefly. Um, I applaud the mayor uh regarding transparency and um eager to have um accountability and for us to hold um our electeds accountable. So, I appreciate that. Um, regarding NDAs, I I I think it's worth considering uh not agreeing to do NDAs and I'm aware that um a majority if not all council members recently signed an NDA. Um NDAs generally as far as I understand it uh are should be used very infrequently and particularly when there are serious proprietary reasons. Um I don't know that that was the case. My impression is that it was not. Um I think that it's important to have as much transparency as possible and that executive sessions uh should be as specific providing as much information to the public so that the public has some sense of what is uh being discussed. So regarding the strategic technologies or strategic innovations that have been on executive sessions um recently uh I we need to know generally speaking what that is about. Um the public records requests that I made and again I appreciate the efforts that were made to provide me with that information uh seem to indicate the conversations with these

entities that were interested in a data center here uh ended January 2024. So my question would be how did that in-depth discussion just stop suddenly and there's no other relevant information on that subject? I know that there is interest in data centers and there are a lot of concerns around that. So, I am I would love to hear the mayor uh address this or address staff to look into some of these issues or the attorney so that we can um be clear on NDA's executive sessions and transparency regarding the data centers. um experience shows that data centers exhaust water supplies, exasperate power issues, do not bring promised jobs, and destroy local lands. Um there could be a moratorum. I I hope that we can have a more in-depth conversation about this in the future. Regarding flock surveillance, I appreciate the mayor explaining to me that uh the termination of the flock contract was not put on the agenda for tonight uh because it was unnecessary. Um, anybody got a couple more minutes I can give me? Um, nope. All right. What's happening to existing? We need to know what's happening to the existing block cameras and the data that is collected after contracts are ended. Um, and if they're going to be replaced with something even more concerning. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Um, I don't know if council wants to answer it. I haven't talked to any data centers, so I'll make that public. Um, and no, no, no, no. And I will direct Dennis to give an answer at least to Mrs. Lamar through email, through any of her questions, or we can address it at the next update. Um, item number 11. Oh, no, I still have more. Sorry. I was just used to seeing Mrs. Lamar up there so much. I was like, we're done. Um, m Mr. Michael Revol, it's an honor, sir. You've been here. You haven't talked to us. I always enjoy seeing you.

Anyway, I don't know how many of you here in the meeting were going in going back to the mid60s, early 70s when we were kids growing up. Uh the stop lights in town, for some reason, Saturday or Sun, I think it was Sunday, they were blinking red and blinking yellow. they weren't in operation, but it was every Sunday. And I don't know if it was cuz traffic was if it was there wasn't that much going on or whatever, but back in those days, Douglas was really downtown was going strong. And I don't know how many times any of you have come to a light here in town. You get the red light and you're the only one there at every intersection. There's nobody walking in front of you. Nobody, you know, the light turns green. You go, you get the next red light and the same thing. You're the only. So, I was just thinking, why can't we convert those into four-way stop signs instead of doing the sequence of the and instead of removing the stop lights blinking red that way both sides have to stop, you know, to make it simple. I don't know how many times any of you have been to going to Walmart and you get all the red lights going through town and nobody else is there. So, I was just wondering how much trouble it'd be to convert them to four-way red instead of removing them and putting four-way stop signs. You know, maybe I remember back when we were kids, I I remember the city employee, they used to count the cars at every intersection before they removed the stop light on 12th and G and the one on 11th and F because there wasn't enough and they removed them and made them four-way stop signs. I don't know if that you know how many of you have come across that where you catch all the red lights going to town and

Oh, that was my Mr. Mayor. Thank you. You're Don't be a stranger out here. I'd like to direct staff to at least maybe do a study session on that. That'd be an interesting concept in the future. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Giving you an ovation, too, sir. Next is Mr. Herod Blank. I'm gonna introduce you as a local celebrity. Uh oh. Mr. Herod Blank.

All right. Well, um I've got some good news. The official umbrella art walk that I've been talking about proposed here a while ago is going to be finished in time for Douglas Days. So, I kind of threw it out flirtatiously at our last meeting that we should offer free ice cream to get people into the streets. So, I decided, you know what? Let's do it. Let's do free ice cream Friday and Saturday night from uh 7 to 900 p.m. to enjoy the new art walk. And I teamed up with uh the Noeva Mituakana ice cream store and they gave us a deal. So, we're going to do this. So, we're going to give away um a hundred popsicles Friday night and 100 on Saturday night, first come. So, and that's one per person. So, if anybody wants to come see the labor, the results of all this labor and wiring. I've been wiring every day for about two or three weeks now. Umbrellas, fire extinguishers. It's just insanity. But it's going to be done. It's going to be nice. So, come get a popsicle and walk the walk. What we want to try to do is encourage the people that are in Douglas to come see what we have to offer to Douglas and then maybe they can brag to the people in the outside world to come to Douglas to see this museum as well as the Last Supper Museum and as well as all the other things that Douglas has to offer. So, I wanted to announce that first of all, and then um I'll give you a baby update. We'll have the ArcAR World monument, which by the way, this art walk is to the monument to Arcar World.

So, it'll be right across the street right over here. Gigantic. Um we're getting all the little pieces done. So, the eyeball is pretty much done. the lenses and the eyeball are done. You just haven't seen it because I'm inside working all the time. So, now we're going to start coming out to the public with what we've been doing for so long. And uh we're going to be getting HVAC in the museum. I wanted to say that this delegation that's coming in June um to encourage the public to attend and discuss Douglas's future and revitalization of downtown. So, I think everyone in the public is invited to come to this uh meeting in June, late late June. And I think it is important to get everybody's opinion on the table of what Douglas needs in the future. And um I will segue that into I think we need to provide incentives to generational business owners in downtown Douglas. So families of generations of people that can't meet their needs to fix their roof, that can't fit their needs to do anything on their building or their lot or anything. They need subsistence. They need help. They need they need grants and I think the the government delegation that's coming here in June is going to be able to help these people. So I think we need to get those people in here so that they can voice what they need. And a lot of times a person doesn't even know what needs to be done to save their building and it starts with the roof. So, I would suggest that we come up with some sort of a plan to help struggling business owners and homeowners in Douglas

get their roof. Number one, get their roof so that they protect the inside of their building. I know from experience what happens when a roof goes bad in Douglas, everything goes bad very gradually. It starts to get black mold over time. So, it starts with the roof. uh let's get some sort of liaison program between the city of Douglas and the owners of businesses and residencies in Douglas so that there's help because you know I've been struggling to try to get what I'm trying to do done and there's a lot of loopholes permits engineering fees this and that and it is really difficult I'm not kidding we need a liaison to help us get through the process to revitalize our own thing in Douglas which will help the bigger picture of Douglas. So when this delegation comes here in June, they need to see that we at least want to try to help ourselves to help our community to help um generational land owners and newcomers from other parts of the the world. So I I just want to encourage something to help um grant writing. We need a liaison to help write grants between the city and permitting and engineering and just making it happen easier. It's got to be easier. And of course funding. We need financing to to do this stuff. I'd also like to encourage the development and the beautifification of abandoned buildings and downtown lots that are just sitting there. I've been here 20 years. Nothing has changed in a lot of these lots and they have a forale sign. Come on, man. We need to encourage those property owners to do something

something to beautify the area. I don't care if it's a billboard. I'd love to see public art, sculptures, a rose garden, anything to make it a little bit nicer in downtown Douglas so that when the tourists that we are trying to bring into Douglas have something pretty to look at, I'm talking walking stations, shade structures, park benches, something for people who struggle to walk from the Gston to uh down the street, you know, and so they can actually take a break and sit down. Some shade, some uh more trees, bigger trees. We got to think ahead and the future. Look at all this talk about the future. This future is about to rock. It's going to get big. And you know what? There's no housing. There's no place for people to stay. We need more hotels. We need to encourage people to make lodging for all these tourists that are going to be coming here. This is this is not a joke. This is gonna happen within the next 10 years. This place is gonna blow up.

You watch and I'm gonna be spearheading the what I can do. What I can do is this museum and I'm hoping that that reaches brings the people in and then it's going to be up to you all what to do with it. What to do with these people that are coming in. Let's show them a good time. So, you had three minutes. She's looking at me because you went over. I'm I'm going to direct staff to do a few things. Staff, I'd like you to get a hold uh with Mr. Blank to make sure his event for Friday and Saturday is um advertised well enough for all our community to know about free ice cream, our popsicles, right? Yeah.

Um and also I'd like to uh have the city clerk uh have a meeting uh schedule a meeting with you and me and we could discuss all these things and then we'll we'll bring something up to to staff about all your suggestions. Is that okay? Great. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We'll include her because she was the most excited, too. So, we'll include hers because you mentioned downtown. Um, next up is Mr. Steve Helfrick.

Yes. Okay. So, we'll move that there. Uh, Mr. Eric Braverman, you were given a you're seen as a committee. Yeah. So, instead of three, you get five.

All right. That's unjust. So, I was hoping for a half an hour. Uh, first thing like to thank all the city employees. Seriously, the people that do the work in the parks and take care of the trash. We have the best trash people in the world. I'm not sure about the city employees that have titles on their names. That's another whole fun story we can have. I want you guys to ask yourselves a question. You like movies? You like movies? You're in one. I want you to start thinking like you're in a movie. The people watching the movie, do you want to be a good guy or a bad guy? You want to be an overpaid employee that doesn't care or do you want to listen to the constituents? These things that Mr. Blank has just said, I've been saying it for five years. Those exact things. We've presented the solutions. And what's really tipped this over is I'm told that we don't have money to promote the city, which is the number one problem. When you go in and look at a publication, Douglas isn't in it. Here's the Sky Island Alliance magazine. Every town is in it by specific marking. Oh, there's Fisby. There's Benson. There's all the towns. Guess which town isn't in it? Douglas. Pride Guide. We distribute this for the homosexual people in order to be respected. We're the only thing in it. The Last Supper Museum. We know how to do these things. We go through and get magazines. Arizona Office of Tourism magazine. Guess who's not in it? We're not a member of it. I talked to the Arizona Office of Tourism. What tip this over for you folks? And everything is changing tonight. We're going to demand you change it. When we heard you're going to give an irresponsible person $33,000 to pay off 18year-old tax debt for a

useless property out by the golf course. If you would put the effort into the golf course that we into telling people about Douglas, you never promote Douglas. The everything you talk about is all good. I agree with all this tonight, but it's always a message in a bottle. I've traveled everywhere to find tourism things. We're never in anything. No money is put into that. Then the city insanely gives the Coochis County tourism an economic nonsense board in Sierra Vista tens of thousands of dollars since we've been here. They've never been here to any of our things. They don't go to Herod's place. They don't come see us. I cannot find anything they've done. I've called them. Problem was you guys. You guys, this is mismanagement on the highest level. The highest level. We had not one tourist today. We had not one tourist yesterday. Ida, please come in the museum so I could say someone came in this week. All right. PBS was just here for a whole day doing an Arizona Illustrated episode on us. We just had our three-year anniversary. You open up the Herald Review that we have a great relationship with, there's a full page and there's the Dillman's, okay? And they want to work with us and they're doing these things to show they care and they can't get a call back from our manager or our economic director. The only publicity game in town, they don't have time to call them back. I think the mayor might have had a nice meeting with them, but why is the Herald Review coming in to me and asking what the problem is? It ends today. We have the Douglas Day thing that we've been working on for years. We gave this to the city. What did they do? Took our local restaurants descriptions off to make room for Subway, McDonald's, and Pizza Hut. Our city manager said,

"People need to know there's fast food restaurants in Douglas. McDonald's and Pizza Hut told us not to do that. That's blatant mismanagement." We also highlighted our Prietta. What did the city do when they took our thing and mangled it? Don't forget your passport. That's one of our greatest tourism things is to promote because you don't need a passport to go shopping in a town that has more restaurants and shops than our entire county combined. Well, we're going to go give $33,000 to pay off someone's irresponsible debt. That's fraud. It's graft and it's malfeasants. We at this point should be suing the city. Suing the city. We have lost since we've had the last supper museum open. You lost the Philippines. It's impossible. Our only 24-hour restaurant. We lost Tilted Luck. Our friends there. We just lost the Four Seasons. We lost a tattoo shop. How do you lose that? We just lost the Copper Luna store emphasizing interesting things to sell from the area. We're the Brophie Building. People are done. That's the third owner since we've been here saying they're done because of the uh city and there's no economic development or activity of any kind here and what uh Mr. Hera just pointed out that the permit permitting and dealing with the city is a nightmare. It ends today. I'd like you people unless you'd like to resign and some of you city employees if you'd like to resign and retain a shard of dignity that would be fantastic. or stay here all night and tell me where you're going to give me the money for the day in Douglas, which I've given to the economic development person. I've given to the mayor where we promote Douglas from El Paso to Tucson, every town in between, and all the way to Kana in Spanish. Our sp our Mexican friends don't think they're respected by our pria. We should be taking advantage of

them every day. But this is mismanaged. Our city employees with titles are paid more than anyone else in the county. Mr. Braver mean your five minutes are up. Well, I hope I've been perfectly clear and I'm glad there was nothing good on TV tonight, but I don't know what we can show you guys. We know how to promote the town. Enough of the five minute rule.

Let's do this together. You're all saying this is our time and it's going to blow up and we're going to do this. Let's do it tonight. What's with the excuses with no money? Item okay. Item 11, discussion decision on on approval of consent agenda items. Item A, expenditures for the month of April 2026 totaling 3,863,700 and $73910. B, meeting minutes. Missed an N on there. Meeting minutes for April 8th, April 15th and April 22nd, 2026. Item C, Douglas, Airport Authority Board appointment of Jose Montano. Item D, resolution number 26-1733, a resolution of the mayor and council of the city of Douglas, Coochis County, Arizona, authorizing the city of Douglas to accept grant funding and enter into a subgrantee agreement with the state of Arizona department of home homeland security for a reimburseable grant fund allocation in the amount of $289,500 for personnel overtime cost, mileage, and equipment under operation stone garden fiscal year 2025 grant program award allocation. Item E, resolution number 26-1734, a resolution of the mayor and council of the city of Douglas, Coochis County, Arizona, authorizing the execution of an intergovernmental agreement between the city of Douglas and Coochis County Health and Social Services Department regarding the dispersement of o opioid settlement funds. Item F, employee health insurance contracts. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda items?

Mayor, Mr. Mr. Montano. I move that the mayor and council approve consent agenda items A through F. Do I have a second? Second. Uh motion by Mr. Montano, second by Mr. Duraso. Any discussion? I do have Mrs. Lamar. You want to speak on 11D. Dennis, do I have to pull it for her to discuss it or can she discuss it? Um like this? No, Mr. Mayor, I would pull it. Let's approve the rest of the consent agenda item and then pull 11D. Okay. So, if we can remove that from consent, do everything but D and then she can speak on it. Okay. So, we'll be pulling that. Um, any

Wait, let's stop for a sec. Mh. Council member Montano, can you amend your motion to remove 11D? Yes. Okay. Who seconded it? Mr. Durasa. I did. Okay. Mr. Draza, you accept the amendment? Yes. Okay. We're good to go. All right. Thank you. Any discussion on the items besides D hearing? And roll call, please. Council member Prego, yes. Council member Montano, yes. Council member Duraso, yes. Council member Shelton, no. Council member Dilman, yes. Council member Aosta, yes. Mr. Mayor,

yes. Motion passes. Now we'll discuss um do I I need a motion to bring item D on the floor now. Right. No, it's part of the consent agenda. Mr. Mayor, you can just call it back up. So, item D, Mrs. Dana Lamar, would you like to speak on that?

Thank you. I I just didn't understand what the equipment was and considering the flock camera grant, if I remember correctly, was also part of the stone operation stone garden grant program. So just with some elevated concerns about surveillance um I wanted to understand and I like to know what the equipment what is being purchased with the equipment. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh who would like to take this or what the money is going to be used? I believe it's for the equipment used on duty, right? Let me just get to that. Mayor, me, members of the council, the stone garden uh program is something we use for uh overtime, but the equipment I I don't have Lieutenant Lummen here. I'm not sure if Sergeant can speak to some of the equipment, but let me just get to that.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, members of the public. Uh the equipment that we're receiving on this uh Stone Garden fund, it's uh about $1,500 that's going to just the restriping of a patrol car that was provided over through the Stone Garden grant. So, it's it's just for the striping uh to put the police labels on the side of the vehicle. Um that that's all we're receiving in equipment. The flaw camera system is not part of the stone guard and granite. Thank you. Thank you, Sergeant. Are you good, Mr. Dark? Okay. Okay. Thank you. Any discussion from council? No. Hearing none. Roll call, please. Council member Pedro.

Yes. Council member Montano. Yes. Yes. Council member Duraso. Yes. Council member Shelton. Yes. Council member Dilman. Yes. Council member Aosta. Yes. Mr. Mayor.

Yes. Motion passes. Item 12, discussion decision on approvals. Item A, second reading of ordinance number 26-1230, an ordinance of the mayor and council of the city of Douglas Coochis County, Arizona, authorizing the acceptance of donated vacant unimproved real property from Ray Miham consisting of a 6.35 acre parcel with assessor's parcel number 410-12-035 in the city of Douglas, Coochis County, Arizona, establishing severability of components of ordinance and establishing an effective date thereof. Mr. Federosa.

Good evening. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of council. Mr. Mayor Rehan Ray Mihan approached the city about donating the parcel adjacent to the city's golf course in SR80. The unimproved parcel has property taxes owed in the amount of $33,542 acred since 2008. Mr. Mihan is no longer interested in developing the property, wants to donate it. Uh the city talked with Mr. Mian about the donation with the agreement that the property taxes owed are absorbed by the city. The parcel is 6.35 acres with an assessed valuation of 36,378. The parcel is not improved, but utilities are nearby. Uh you you would see a a map attached in your packet. The site is zon residential but has potential to be reszoned to offer commercial activities with its location by the state highway. Location of the parcel next to the golf court present opportunities for commercial, residential, and golf course development. The acquisition of the properties would allow the city to market to developers uh prime real estate for development and advancement of the city's goals to increase population, tax revenue, and attract new business. want to answer some of the or try to u kind of address some of the points from last meeting because this was tabled in last meeting. I think there was a question about accessibility driveways. So, uh we looked up those rules that AOT has off of a a highway. Uh we we understand that it is a 55 mileph zone there. So basically the separation between different driveways would be at 450 ft. Um so uh we are well within that uh to be able to install a driveway within that property. Um, we also understand that

there's other neighboring properties that are trying to develop it and certainly that could be a combination of or a collaboration of installing a driveway that can service multiple properties to uh save on cost. And um the other access points can be achieved through Laereia. Of course, that is a private roadway. uh however uh certain agreements can be can be made with that. There's different ways to to develop the the access way from the north or from the west. Uh so th those are definitely options uh to to look at the zoning. I think the zoning was another point. Yeah, it's true. We do need to amend the general plan. It would require a a minor amendment that can be done uh as as the general plan dictates to do so uh and can be reszoned uh to potentially a commercial if if that's the wish or if can remain residential which is sf8 can be used for for additional housing. Uh again the value of the property uh according to the assessed value that's according to what the taxable uh what what is used for tax purposes and it's not market value. Uh it's certainly and also the the question about the the donation. It is the donation of land. Of course the m the owner is trying to or has asked that that we cover the property taxes. He mentioned that he paid $200,000 for that property in the early 2000s.

Um, so that's that's the value that's included in the donation agreement. And I I Any other questions? I'm here to answer them, Mr. Mayor. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Possa. May I have a motion to approve the second reading of ordinance number 26-1230? Mayor, Mr. I move that the mayor and council approve the second reading for ordinance number 26-1230 by number and title. Do I have a second? Second. Second. Uh motion by Mr. Dasa, second by Minister Monzano. Any discussion? I have a I have a comment. So

yes, I've got a question.

I'll go after him. He'll go after me. I just really quick um after the meeting um I did ask staff I said what's the whole point of this and so he could write it off on his taxes and you know people make decisions to buy things I think they have to be held accountable for what the outcome is if they bought land and they could not afford it or they didn't want to build on it should taxpayer money be basically used to get a bailout and um the way I mean just because he wants a tax write off. I don't I don't think it's right when when public funds are used. If he wants to sell it, he could overpric it, pay off the taxes, and then he'd have to pay taxes on the sale, and that's what he doesn't want to do. That's why the donation comes in. So, that's just my quick two cents after the meeting after I talked to staff. Uh Mr. Shelton wanted to say something.

Yes. Uh Luis, what would you estimate the cost of that land once we get if we get it? We know what the taxes are, but what do you think we could sell it for?

Mr. Shelton, I we I I think that would require an appraisal to to do that. Uh again, we're we're trying to um we're we're dealing with values that that are on hand, which again, the assessed value, which is not market value, it it is typically a lot higher the market value than what the assessed valuation is. I I can just tell you that it's above $36,000 and around $200,000, which is what Mr. Mian uh has uh commented that he paid during that during that time. for that for that area.

Can I hear that? For that area he said 35 area. Yes. For for that part. Oh, okay. That's what I needed to know. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Shelton. And you said Mr. Bos said we didn't need to get an assessor. Who would have to pay for the assessor? uh the the appraisal. Uh again, that's something that talk to the property owner and say it

appraise it. Mayor, we're whatever direction you want us to go. Thank you. Um any discussion before I ask Mr. Hwick to come up? That's your cue, Mr. I I I think I think if we can maybe get a sort of an estimate or appraisal would be um the maybe the way to go there or see if we can talk him into giving us a better deal. That's my idea. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Shelton.

You're up, Mr. Hal. Stephen Hellfrick, uh, 1303 F Avenue. Um, I'm representing, uh, my company, Studio Architecture. And just on the record, for the record, I want to make sure that everybody knows I'm a licensed architect. I've been by the state of Arizona. I've been a licensed architect for over 30 years and have my have had my own small architecture for over 35. Um, this parcel I think there's there's a I think a problem with the contract that you know we're either buying the property for $33,000 or he's giving it to us for nothing. I think the contract is it needs to be rewritten or the agreement needs to be re renegotiated. Um the other the other issue is that about 1.2 acres of the parcel I think is the part that comes down to the west is not developable. So really you don't have a 6.5 acre parcel. You really have about a 4 acre parcel. Um, I do think I know there the um with ADOT will allow access, but I do not think you're going to get a lefthand turn onto the the the highway there. I think you're going to get a right in, right out only. Um the other access problems, you you have to go through another parcel to get to to the north to get to access to the parcel or you kind of quick come into the Korea entrance way and make a quick right and and that retention pond uh will have to be reworked. So it's an expensive

infrastructure issue. Um, and I think that it in the end I think the 33,000 is better spent maybe for the sidewalk for the accessible person who's out on the street or something like that. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Halford.

I do have a question. Where um these 33,000 what uh line item what are they coming from on the budget? Mayor, this would come from uh strategic investments uh or the special counsel projects. Any questions from council comments? Uh Mr. Mayor, Mr. Costa,

you know, I I know that um somebody had mentioned about the you know, they take a risk of investing money and I believe honestly believe why is he just put on the market? Why do we have to pay the taxes? You know, that's uh haven't put on the market. That's his risk that he would have to take. I live out there in Naras and I know there's other there's other land out there that we're waiting on investors. We're waiting our city to grow our housing. Uh Miss uh supervisor talked about, you know, the housing. We do need housing out here, but in the meantime, you know, we we have other investments that the city owns that we need to focus on. And I think uh personally I honestly think that my constituents would rather uh just uh step back on this and uh let the the owner sell it from their end. That's my point.

Thank you, Mr. Patrick. I keep thinking that this gentleman bought it thinking it was a good investment and somewhere along the line somewhere along the line it wasn't a good investment and now he's trying to send it to well donate it to the city because I was informed it's two different things. One is the land and the taxes are different. But no matter where you look at it, it's still money coming out from the city. So either we get an appraisal where we know that this um the land is worth the money we're paying because we are paying one way or another. But I agree either in appraisal or and I agree with you sometimes. I think this money could be used in other areas that are much more needed. Thank

you. Anyone else? Hearing no other conversation. Roll call, please. Council member Pedra, no. Council member Montano, no. Council member Duraso, yes. Council member Shelton, yes. Council member Dilman, no. Council member Aquazan, no. Mr. Mayor,

no. Motion fails. Glad you have the energy. You know, we've been here for a good while. Um, item B, second reading of ordinance number 26-1231, an ordinance of the mayor and council of the city of Douglas, Koshitis County, Arizona, amending chapter 2.02 of the Douglas Municipal Code, specifically as section 2.02.020, rules of conduct for council meetings establishing severability of components of ordinance and declaring an emergency. Miss Andrade.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. Uh, what you have in front of you is the second reading of the amendment to title 2.02.020 and um the only amendment made to this section is um under subsection I under governmental updates. This revision would allow various governmental agencies to present and provide any updates um to the city and obviously it would be um the recommendation of staff the suggestion uh for approval and I can entertain any questions if you have any. Thank you Miss Andrade. May I have a motion to approve the second reading of ordinance number 26-1231?

Mayor, Mrs. Dilman. I move that the mayor and council approve the second reading of ordinance number 26-1231 by number and title only and declaring an emergency. Have a second. I second.

Motion by Mrs. Dman, second by Mrs. Pedrick. Any discussion? Um just want to say the reason for an emergency is basically to not last another month because we want to keep you know doing it right with with how the the agenda's been. So this would take away the 30 days for the next meeting instead of you know to be compli uh compliant. So, it's basically just to allow very generalized officials to speak. If somebody from the state wanted to come and speak, if somebody from the county, we have the county here every meeting, um or even, you know, uh some type of dignitary, they can come and they can speak at at a council meeting instead of doing a call to the public, which is three minutes usually. We had a lot of good com or a lot of good statements that we went over, but that gives them the flexibility of not also taking a little bit more time, but also having a back and forth discussion. So call the public if you notice you can't go back and forth in a discussion unless it's on the agenda. This would help us, you know, ask questions to our representatives and and you know, see what things are happening, why they're happening, and so forth. So that that's the reason to for the change and that's the reason for the emergency. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call, please.

Council member Pedro. Yes. Council member Montano. Yes. Council member Duraso. Yes. Council member Shelton, yes. Council member Dilman, yes. Council member Aosta, yes. Mr. Mayor, yes. Motion passes. Item C, first reading of ordinance number 26-1229. An ordinance of the mayor and council of the city of Douglas, Coochis County, Arizona. adopting the document filed with the city clerk and entitled 2026 amendments the title two by reference to amend the Douglas municipal code title two relating to the Douglas airport authority establishing severability of components of ordinance and establishing an effective date there Mr. Pedro

uh thank you Mr. Mayor, under the Douglas Municipal Code, the Douglas Airport Authority has given certain powers over the Douglas airports. For many years, the DAA has operated on as an advisory role to council regarding matters at the airport, causing some misalignment with the way the DMC is written. DAA was established in 1980 via ordinance by mayor and council. By the ordinance, the DAA has the power to acquire land to sell, lease, or dispose of any land or equipment within with city concurrence. Its powers include the operation of Douglas airports, managing revenue and expenses under the city treasurer oversight, setting rules and regulations at the airports, and entering into contracts subject to city council approval. The listed under section 2.44 44 prescribes additional provisions relating to appointments, terms of office, vacancies, removal, organization, including adopting bylaws and reporting. The DAA has not operated in a managerial capacity nor established an or an or structure that would allow it to operate in the manner prescribed by the DMC. Instead, the DA has functioned in an advisory capacity to the mayor and council, hearing items regarding airport operations and reviewing quarterly financial reports. Additionally, there are no records indicating the DAA incorporated or became a separate legal entity that would allow it to own property or enter into contracts. at DAA meeting uh on January 26 and on May 4th. Staff informed DA of between the DMC and the DAA's actual operations. DA made a recommendation to mayor and council on May 4th meeting accepting the changes as proposed and adding the following sentence to section 2.44.080.

I quote recommendations by the airport advisory committee shall be delivered to the mayor and council within 3 days of a meeting. Uh the prop so therefore the prop proposed changes before you entail revisions structure of the DAA to reflect its establishment as an advisory committee thereby removing powers relating to owning or disposing of property and the management of funds and airport operation. The membership structure of the DAA will remain the same with language updated to reflect the DAA's advisory role to council. And as you know, the airport requires general fund subsidy for its operation and relies on grants to fund capital improvements. The city is currently in the process of selling some of the land, as you are aware, around the airport, and various improvements are underway that will bring increased use and revenue to the airport. The DA would play a role in advising the council on airport operational manners to support more informed decision making and the new the the part of the change is to be an advisory committee. So it would be the Douglas airport advisory committee u instead of basically an authority. With that mayor I thank you. Any questions? May I have a motion to approve the placement of ordinance number 26-1229? Mayor,

Mr. Montaniel, I move that the mayor and council approve the placement of ordinance number 26-129 on his first reading by number and title. Do I have a second? Second. Motion by Mr. Montana, second by Mr. A Costa. Any discussion? I just want to thank staff before we uh call up. This is Diana Lamar. Um I I did uh direct them to meet with the chairs just to let them know what was happening, why it was happening, so it didn't catch them off guard, you know, without too much discussion during the meeting that they met in private. So I want to thank you all for that. Um no discussion before I call Diana Lamar.

Yes, thank you. Um, I'm I guess my question is who serves on the Douglas Airport Authority currently and are they going to be the same people that will be serving on the advisory committee? Um, and if you could just provide a little bit more clarity as to um the purpose. Uh, I understand there they would be advisory and uh there's no buying and selling in that capacity any longer, but I'm I'm not completely understanding the reason for that change. Thank you. I believe the same members are going to be on there. We haven't discussed it and I'm gonna I'm going to let them do the technical terms, but I think the layman's ter terms are they were supposed to be like an IDA, but now they're going to be like a finance committee

and they never were. Yeah, that that was the purpose. But uh for that authority, they never were like the IDA. Not a bad thing. Is there any other from its inception? It never acted in the intent of that original ordinance. So since 1980, it's always acted as advisory. So we're just housekeeping that and making the ordinance match what it's been operating as for for that many years.

Okay. Um is there an advantage to the city with that change? I I mean presuming you know for a moment like if it had been functioning or had had those the ability to buy sell whatever um I don't know the history of why it was set up set up all I can tell you is that uh the Tucson airport authority manage Tucson manages Tucson International Airport where you know we never operated in any capacity close to that and We have an advisory board that uh is it's a positive uh contribution to um to what we do at the airport and it keeps the citizens engaged and the members currently are uh Carlos Fernandez, Tanya Duarte is chair and co-chair. Um Mr. Went is on there. Uh now Jose Montano is on there.

Mr. Lindamman, Mitch Lindamman. Mhm. Mhm. And is there does there continue to be conversation about the property at the airport for a data center? I don't know that that's relevant. Yeah, this is not relevant to the committee, but I I'd like that concern. I mean, you I can talk to you about that. So, thank you. Thank you. Any other discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Council member Shelton. Yes. He said yes. Council member Dilman. Yes. Council member Aosta. Yes.

Mr. Mayor. Yes. Motion passes. and of the mayor and council of the city of Douglas, Coochis County, Arizona, adopting the the document filed with the city clerk and entitled 2026 amendment to title two by reference to amend the Douglas municipal code title two relating to the Douglas airport authority establishing severability of components of ordinance and establishing an effective date thereof. Thank you. May I have a motion to approve the first reading or first reading of ordinance number 26-1229. Mr. Mayor, Mr. Costa. I move that the mayor and council approve the first reading of ordinance number 26-1229 and place it on second reading by number and title only. Have a second.

Second motion by Mr. Costa, second by Mr. Montano. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Council member Pedro. Yes. Council member Montano. Yes. Council member Daso. Yes. Council member Shelton. Yes. Council member Dilman. Yes. Council member Aosta. Yes, Mr. Mayor. Yes. Motion passes. An ordinance of the mayor and council of the city of Douglas Coochis County, Arizona, adopting the document filed with the city clerk and entitled 2026 amendment to title two by reference to amend the Douglas municipal code title two relating to the Douglas airport authority establishing several of components of ordinance and establishing an effective date thereof.

Thank you. Um can Mrs. Dilman's cold. I don't know if anybody else is cold. Yeah, if somebody could turn it down. Um, item D, first reading of ordinance number 26-1232, an orance of the mayor and council of the city of Douglas, Coochis County, Arizona, authorizing the acceptance of donated real property from M and M. Morris Properties LLC consisting of assessor's parcel number 410-06-00005A and 410-06-00005B in the city of Douglas establishing cerability of components of ordinance and establishing an effective date thereof. Miss Gonzalez,

good evening mayor, members of the council. So, these two parcels owned by Eminem Morris Properties LLC. Um, there was illegal dumping happening on them. And so, the city uh was sending violation notices with no answer, no response from the owner. The city made the decision to go in and abate the property, which we did in starting in February of 2025. Uh, by the time we were done assessing all the costs associated with that, we filed a notice of claim and lean and recorded it at the Coochis County Recorders Office on June 4th, 2025. Um, the city has placed a lean on both parcels. Uh, we have been in contact with the heir to these parcels who is now in charge. His name is Daryl Morris. He's the son of the now deceased donors and he has stated to us that he and his siblings siblings I'm sorry have no interest in these parcels and wish to donate them to the city. Um the parcels are located on East Golf Course Road and Washington Avenue and upon completion of the donation acceptance the city will assume the responsibility for unpaid taxes of the parcels. Parcel A has outstanding taxes in the amount of $24,928. Parcel B has outstanding taxes in the amount of $144.3. 39331 is a total for both parcels. The assessed value of the parcels for parcel A it's 14,450. Parcel B is 8,348 for a total of 22,798. Staff recommends approval to receive via

donation these two parcels. And I will take any questions. Thank you. May I have a motion to approve the placement of ordinance number 26-1232? Mayor, Mr. Daniel, I move that the mayor and council approve the placement of ordinance number 26-1232 and to place it on first reading by member and title one. Do I have a second? I second. Second,

Mont. Second by Mrs. Pedrick. Go. Any discussion? Um, I'm just going to make a a comment. I made this little speech about a few items ago about the same thing that's kind of happening here. And I get it's $300, but you know, I think for me it has to be consistent. So, they made that decision, the father made that decision, they took it. I mean, put it on the market. Um, uh,

let me see if Mr. Montana. Yeah, I I agree on the first one, but I'm not not on the second one. I think the benefit to the city and the land, the value of the land and the amount owed is almost a no-brainer. I mean, if I if I could do this, I go pay 500 bucks easy. So, it's I think it should be on the benefit for the city, especially with new developments trying to come in. the the area there is developable developable. It's right off of GF Coast Road and and North Washington. So, I I disagree with you. I think we should do this.

Any other discussion? Yes, Mr. Shelton.

Um I'll I'll have to agree with what he just said. I've been very familiar with these two lots because I've had um people complain and then I've had to call down to city hall and and have them take trash away and do this and that. If we get that, uh, that would be a prime spot for a very either two houses or a very nice large house. And, uh, I am 100%, you know, in favor of getting that. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Shelton. Anyone else? Did we run out of papers?

Oh, I asked him to sign. Oh, no. I I just asked something. Um, there's no discussion on Mr. Halick wants to say a few words, but I I asked them to sign a P. You can talk first and then you can sign it.

Um, uh, I just looked at it really quickly and you can start to see that there's an alignment problem. I think it's Washington that goes through and then there's the future development at Golf Course Road. So, somehow there's going to need to be rightway figured out so that the roads can align. So, I think that at least that West parcel is a good parcel for you because I think you're going to take half of it for however you deal with that situation. Thank you. Any other discussion? I think it's a good deal. Don't thank you. Yep.

Mr. Augusta, Mr. Let's go for it. I think everybody had their say. So, roll call, please. Council member Pedrego, yes. Council member Montano, yes. Council member Duraso, yes. Council member Shelton, yes. Council member Dilman, yes. Council member Aosta, yes. Mr. Mayor,

no. Motion passes. In honor of the mayor and council of the city of Douglas Coochis County, Arizona, authorizing the acceptance of donated real property from M&M Morris Properties LLC, consisting of assessor's parcel number 410-06-00005A and 410-06-005B in the city of Douglas establishing several aid of components of ordinance and establishing an effective date thereof. Thank you. May I have a motion to approve the first reading of ordinance number 26-1232? the mayor. Mr. Costa, I move that the mayor and council approve the first reading ordinance number 26-1232 and place it on second reading by number and title only. I have a second.

Second motion by Mr. Aosa, second motion by Mr. Second by Mr. D. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Council member Pedreo, yes. Council member Montano, yes. Council member Duraso, yes. Council member Shelton, yes. Council member Dilman. Yes. Council member Austa. Yes. Mr. Mayor, no. Motion passes.

An ordinance of the mayor and council of the city of Douglas County, Arizona, authorizing the acceptance of donated real property from MNM. Morris Properties LLC consisting of assessor's parcel number 410-06-00005A and 410-06-00005B in the city of Douglas establishing several of components of ordinance and establishing an effective date thereof.

Thank you. Item E, first reading of ordinance number 26-1233, an ordinance of the mayor and council of the city of Douglas Coois County, Arizona, authorizing the agreement for the purchase of interest and sections of real property with assess parcel numbers 408-31-002e and 408-31-002H granting an excl of the granting of an exclusive and permanent easement and approving the agreement for the purchase of interest in real property with the United States of America. America with authorizing the city manager to ex execute all necessary documents establishing severability of components of ordinance and establishing an an effective date thereof with the United States of America. Mr. Pedrosa

that's right Mr. Mayor. Thank you. The General Services Administration acting through the United States of of America government is expanding the rule Castro port of entry as you all know. Part of the expansion includes the diversion of drainage and construction of a new drainage channel that would take water directly west and eventually drain into where it uh it's draining currently to Mexico. Um GSA is requesting an easement over city- owned parcels to construct a new drainage channel. This purchase agreement is for an exclusive easement of city-owned property located directly south of Chino Road. By the way, we we provided maps to mayor and council should be there. Uh it's directly south of Chino Road and a very thin a part of that thin parcel that you see diagonally there uh that that they need to take to build that new drainage channel. Um and basically they're going to be also taking some Freeport Mecharan uh property along the way. The current drainage that comes from East Douglas collects at the international drainage channel goes underneath the Ru Castro port of entry then goes north on Paname. So the change is going to basically do away with going north on Paname. It's just going to continue to go west along international and make its its natural way into uh into Mexico. What what it currently does is it goes north on Pan-American, then goes um west along the jungle and then it it curves around and goes into Mexico. So this uh drainage system will actually help our overall drainage uh in Douglas because it would uh alleviate that pinch point

at the jungle location where kind of different flows converge from uh O'Reilly's you have also from the north and from the south pretty much three different flows converging there. you're taking away about 60% of that flow and it's going west kind of alleviating that that pinch point. Um, basically the agreement will purchase the Eastman over parts of these two city- owned parcels for a price of $388,472. GSA will build a drainage channel at its own cost, but the maintenance will uh of the channel will be the cities. we will be bringing a separate agreement for that uh maintenance. Um the this land is currently unutilized. It's it's basically uh a lot of it is used for access to the to the wastewater treatment plant or for the patrol the border patrol. Um we will still uh they will have to do another area where they'll we'll be able to cross over the the channel so that we retain access to the wastewater treatment plant. Um so we us and border patrol asked for that to happen as part of this agreement. Uh we also understand there's going to be some developments uh recently. There's a a secondary wall that is being proposed to be built along that that corridor that could that is creating sort of a pinch point for access of the maintenance channel. So, that's another point that we're going to address with them on that to make sure that we have enough access to to uh basically have a vehicle come through that a work truck um come through there in in that area without any problem. So, we're making sure that that's going to take place. But for now, mayor, that's that's what

we have before you take a second. May I have a motion to approve the placement of ordinance number 26-1233? I'll make the motion uh but I don't have the mayor. I can make it. I move that the mayor and council approve the placement of ordinance number 26-1233 and place it on first reading by number and title. Do you have a second? Second. Motion by Mr. Montan, second by Mr. Dilman. Any discussion? So we're they're giving us an easement. So, we're going they're purchasing the easement, right? So, we're going to get money. We're giving them the easement through purchase. Through purchase. Yes.

Should I ask how much? It's $388,472. Many sidewalks, Mr. Halrick. Many sidewalks. Um, any other discussion? And like you said, Mr. We have to work with them because if not they'll just say we'll take the we'll take the land. So we want to be very cooperative with the United States of America because we're going to be the gateway to the United States of America. Hearing no other discussion. Roll call, please. Council member Pedrego. Yes. Council member Montano. Yes. Council member Durasso? Yes. Council member Shelton? Yes. Council member Dilman. Yes. Council member Aosta. Yes. Mr. Mayor,

yes. Motion passes. In orders of the mayor and council of the city of Douglas, Coois County, Arizona, authorizing the agreement for the purchase of interest in sections of real property with assessor's parcel numbers 408-31002e and 408-31-002H granting of an exclusive and permanent easement and approving the agreement for the purchase of interest in real property with the United States of America and authorizing the city manager to execute all necessary documents establishing several legal components of ordinance and establishing an effective date thereof. Thank you. May I have a motion to approve the first reading of ordinance number 26-1233. Mayor,

Mrs. Dman, I move that the mayor and council approve the first reading of ordinance number 26-1233 and to place it on its second reading by number and title only. Have a second. I second. Motion by Mr. Dman, second by Mrs. Pedro, any discussion? I'm going to apologize to Mrs. Diana Lamar. You want You're good. I I saw the paper here and I was like, "Oh, there's still another one." I'm sorry, but I didn't mean to do that. Um, any discussion from council like you said, they'll take it if we don't work with them. So, might as well get something. Yep. Exactly. Hearing no discussion. Roll call on this.

Council member Pedo. Yes. Council member Montano, yes. Council member Duraso, yes. Council member Shelton, yes. Council member Dilman, yes. Council member Aosta, yes. Mr. Mayor, yes. Motion passes.

An orders of the mayor and council of the city of Douglas Coois County, Arizona, authorizing the agreement for the purchase of interest in sections of real property with assessors parcel numbers 408-31-002E and 408-31- 002h granting of an exclusive and permanent easement and approving the agreement for the purchase of interest in real property with the United States of America authorizing the city manager to execute all necessary documents establishing several components of ordinance and establishing an effective date thereof. Thank you. Item 13, city manager reports. Mrs. Kehel.

Thank you, mayor, members of the council and community members. On infrastructure, we have our asphalt plant uh that will uh begin um being set up, all of the components lifted by use of a crane um next week on the 19th. Electrical and gas are in process of getting connected as well and we expect late summer commissioning of that plant. also well 18 uh our project at Kazzy Park where water tanks uh on those water tanks continues to move forward. Uh there is a conx box I've been asked about that recently on site asking why is that there and u basically that's for the contractor that is overseeing the well project for this area and there's also heavy equipment in the corral area. The project timeline for this uh well 18 project is fall of this year. Also at Kazzy Park in the water tanks I was asked about um people being on top of the tanks and climbing the tanks. So that is part of a telecommunication projects where the setup of a new SCADA system is underway. A skater system is intended to moni monitor and automate our water wells in our water distribution system among other things as well. This project has required contractors to climb the water tanks to set up on 10 antennas and other other telecommunications equipment. The project timeline is late summer for this project. Also, the Chino Road extension u begins this month. Chino Road is expected to be open as they work on the realignment, but will close for about 3 weeks after Labor Day. Traffic and southbound Q lines will be redirected. We had a visit from WIFA as part of the SCADA project last week and all went

well with that um inspection and walkthrough. Uh Joe Kazzy Park also lots of things happening in Joe Kazy Park. We have a a restroom renovation for the bathroom that's between the Montre baseball field and the girls softball field. The project timeline is expected to be about eight weeks upon all of the permit approvals. Under economic development, uh the city is in the process of a focused housing study for Douglas as part of Coois County's affordable housing study. As we heard from um Supervisor Gomez that that's underway. we were uh allowed to uh contribute answers and go through inquiry and interviews on that. So we were able to submit um before some of the public sessions. So the timeline for the completed report based on our contribution is expected to be ready in July. Our economic development team also is working with local first to bring a series of educational virtual workshops for local food entrepreneurs. Workshops will be in English and Spanish with topics including cottage industry guidelines and licensing, food safety and marketing. This is a strategic part of the process in working toward commercial kitchen and kitchen incubator programs. Also, we are working with SBDC on bringing the dream builder in-person workshop to Douglas. This is a fiveweek boot camp as an opportunity to have hands-on assistance in learning to start up business including uh walking away with a formal business plan, creating and walking away with a formal business plan. Uh once dates are finalized, we will release the information to the public. Also very happy to report that our uh hotel feasibility study uh number two because the last one was done in 2019 has been completed and released and is available

to hotel chains. Hotel chains may register to receive the study through a link on our economic development web page or reach out directly to the city of Douglas on special events and tourism during the inaugural borderland gravel bike race. The event director coordinated the production of a documentary highlighting the race and the Arizona Sonora Borderlands experience. As the event enters its third year, our tourism office was notified that the documentary has been officially accepted into the Ngales Film Festival with a screening scheduled for May 16th. the doc documentary gravel riding in the Arizona Sonora borderlands while providing a behindthescenes look at the borderlands gravel event hosted in Douglas. This recognition continues to generate positive regional exposure for Douglas and highlights the growing impact of the event. Also, if you have not visited the Grand Theater, as it was mentioned earlier, uh we do have the moments that made us exhibition that explores the ideals at the heart of the Declaration of Independence through moments from our nation's 250 years that have defined us, including our very own Douglas 125. Want to send a special thanks to Border Art Corridor uh for their collaboration on this project, as well as the Douglas Historical Society. The gallery will be open Wednesday through Friday from 3 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and also by appointment until May, end of May. Also, the city clerk's office extends sincere appreciation to Mr. Aal for his assistance on the charter ed educational sessions. as was stated earlier by uh Miss Pedrego one was held um at the Douglas Fire Department which uh was better attended I think than the one at

Coochis College but he was very very thorough in his explanation of all of uh the ballot initiatives or um the propositions. So uh thank you out to Mr. Aariel, dean of Kochis College. Also, uh, city clerk's office, uh, appreciate support to the Douglas Historical Society for the Connect with the City Clerk's Office event that they allowed to be held at their facility this past Saturday. And they were um, especially thankful for the dedication of uh, the volunteers. A special thank you goes to Cindy Hayostic and Leia Dodge for their assistance in reserving the house for the event. Reminder also for the charter election May 19th starting uh from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The last day to vote in person is Tuesday, May 19th at the government center. City Hall will o be open at 6 a.m. for any questions and you can find a publicity pamphlet at the library or on our website under elections uh under the city clerk's tab. We also have a big shredathon day coming May 21st. That's next Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Douglas Fire Department. We have a planning and zoning commission that will meet on May 21st uh for a public hearing and discussion on a special use permit for additional freestanding sign um and two wall signs on a building elevation that does not face the street frontage which the code does not allow by right. So, that is all uh will be available on our website as well for more information. And I'd like to um announce that Douglas Rides in our transit division has received a delivery of a new brand new 32 passenger bus this

week. The bus will replace one of the older high mileage buses which are currently being used on our daily fixed routes. So very happy takes so long to get new buses uh made, wrapped, delivered and actually years in the process. Uh we will take a look at racing. Just picked up some notes from all of the comments made. Um we are finalizing uh airport capital needs as part of our state uh strategic planning. So we'll circle back on some of those recommendations. I know we need papy lights and all of the things we've discussed. We do have a prioritized list with contributions from the airport authority board as well and we'll look into switching the softball. I do have staff looking at that already to 8th Street um as it used to be in the past and um we'll be looking at some of the the other things mentioned and circle back uh to Miss Lamar through the attorney's office. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 14 future agenda item requests from mayor and council. Do we have any This is like a report by the code officer how it works and also I don't know if we can ask for an update on the citizens or the constituents Douglas about streetscape.

I can get both of those. So code enforcement officer. Is that what you mean? Code enforcement. The code enforcement process. I guess you mean the process, right? You you said the process of the company. Well, his report and the process, how he does or or she he or she how they do what they do. And then because the citizens of Douglas have wondered what's happened with the with the streetscape. We haven't said and they ask me quite a bit. Thank you. Any other ones hearing? None. Um, item 15. Want to thank everybody for toughening it out. Yes.

No. So, most importantly, our PD because they're there to protect us, but they've been standing this whole time. So, thank you for everything. Item 15, adjournment. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? I motion to adjurnn. Do I have a second? Second. Motion by Mr. Pedrick, second by Mrs. Dilman. All in favor say I. I. Any nays? We adjourn at 8:23. All right, have a good night. By Mr. Shelton, is it still that way?