City Council - Regular Meeting

Call meeting to order. Shelley, can you do roll call, please? Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. District one, Councilman Rios, here. District two, Councilman Pastor here. District three, Councilman Letham, present. District four, Vice Mayor Stapleton here. District five, Councilman Gonzalez here. District six, Councilman Chipley here. Mayor Garos here. We have a quorum, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Shel. Can you lead us an invocation?

Our Father in heaven, we're grateful unto thee for those blessings that we enjoy. We're grateful for this community. We're grateful for those who serve within it, who dedicate time and energy to making it better. We would ask thy blessings on this body this evening as they deliberate that they'll do so in a manner that will be a benefit to our community and will be of that that discourse will be able to be in alignment with thy will and these things we pray for in Jesus name. Amen. Freddy, can you please stand the pledge?

Yes, Mr. Mayor. I aliance 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. We'll start with summary of current events and Mariana, we'll start with you down there. Um, actually I don't have anything to report, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Fernando. Uh, nothing to report, ma'am. Ready? Uh, mayor. Nothing as well. Thank you, Mike. Uh, Mr. Mayor, no, I don't have anything today. I'm sorry, Jesse. Nothing to report, man. Thank you, Mike. Wow. Wow.

Should I go with them? Yeah, I guess so. On a roll.

First of all, I'd just like to uh welcome everybody back from the holidays. I hope everybody had a great Christmas and a nice time off. I know we had an extended time off, so it was nice. and just welcome back and happy new year. And then secondly, I'd like to congratulate the Kisnet closet uh business. The grand opening was today. And uh if you don't know what that is, you can rent a closet and sell your items there at uh consignment, I believe. And uh part of the uh sale goes back to Kismmet and then you get the rest. So, I'm pretty sure you guys filled up pretty quick. I'm sorry I missed I was supposed to go to the grand opening today. I missed it. I apologize. So, but congratulations and welcome. That's all I have.

Thank you, Mike. I have a couple of things. Uh attended the state of the city this week uh with Governor Hobbes. uh it was an invite uh uh invitation only and uh she uh the the thing that she mentioned in her speech was Gold Miami. She incorporated and the uh the damage and the flooding that occurred in our community, the commitment that she has to continue to push for the appeal to see if they can overturn uh what they denied uh I I believe is premature. uh they sent it out on the 23rd and our final report wasn't due to the 28th and the amount was much higher than the original. So uh it was good to see hear that she said Globe Miami and the damage and and that was in her speech. It was a full house in the house there, House of Representatives. So we'll see what happens with the appeal. Uh RCAC uh had their board meeting here. We were able to do a presentation to them yesterday. Uh there was about 20 or 25 of them here uh from all over. The furthest was from Washington DC. These are board members. Again, RCAC uh was the original funders of our economic development plan with the BRE the building rural economies and they 10 years later they're still with us and now they brought more there's some information coming out RCA will also be putting more loans out uh for our area for globe uh at a low interest rate and some could be forgivable. So, keep your ear open to that. That should be released here. I think it was released today on the 20th, Tuesday, uh, legislative day, uh, at the capital. Uh, we'll be down there. That's the day we go down there and, uh, try and meet with the legislators and see what the agenda is for the bills that are being proposed in in this next session. Uh, some that we're really we'll keep a keep track of and uh, but we'll be down there all day.

A lot couple of us will be going down from council. Uh it's an annual thing before they start the session. And then the 21st is again coffee with the mayor 1:00 Copper City's coffee. If anybody wants to come by and have a conversation, ask anything and we'll if we can get you answers, we'll do it then. So it's on the 21st next Tuesday at 1:00. And that's all I have.

So Mr. Mayor, members of council, so the uh again the wonderful holiday season uh like say we uh staff was off or or regular city operations closed between Christmas and New Year's. Um and that's a just a nice breather for for everyone. Although we did have upwards of a half dozen or more um staff working on we had two we had two uh flood related deadlines a DEMA deadline on the 28th of uh December and a FEMA NRCS deadline on the 4th of January. And so a lot of staff stayed over and and and worked on that. But still it it was a a good holiday had by all I think and and everybody's happy to to stay and get this stuff done for the flood. Um other reminder just uh January 19th we celebrate Martin Luther King Day and so uh normal operations it's a holiday and normal operations city would be closed. City hall will be closed. That's all I have for you.

Thank you. We have our first community call the public. Uh this is time anybody wishing to speak to the council uh with any concerns can do at this time. Uh you fill out a speaker card at the back and you have your time limit is 3 minutes and at that time as a council we can't respond to you but we can direct staff. I don't have any call cards. Do we have anybody online or phone text Mr. May and give me one second to see if I can see anybody? Um no I see nothing. Uh, nothing in email. Oh, we do. Oh, then come on up.

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I'll just announce unbalance anybody. I'm just going to the Bible. Okay, I'm going to read this. Okay, and then read that and then close the meeting consideration to accept that amended agenda bylaws. Okay. So, I'm going to open the meeting and then read this and then No, I'm going to read this first. Okay. And then read that. Okay.

Then now you you get to come down and speak at the podium. Thank you. Sorry. That's that's okay. That's okay. First, we have Anita Ray. Yes.

Hello. I'm Anita Ray. I have uh I need a haircut downtown and um I just recently came in to renew my business license for the the building. Um and there was it was uh I don't know how to explain it, but sounded like I was doing the wrong thing. and I've been for the last 10 years that this has been a code in place that any booth renter in my salon is supposed to have their own separate business license and EIN number and registered through the state of Arizona. And I was also told that um it was also a state board requirement and that is why they were enforcing it this year. I've been at my building for it'll be three years in uh May. Never been told this. First I'm hearing of it. Um I have two stylist in my salon that's been doing hair for over 40 years. They've never heard of this. Um so I did get a little heated and asked, you know, what's going on? She couldn't explain it to where I understood what she was trying to ask for. And so I went and did a little investigating myself. Found that you can get a EIN EIN number without registering a business. So she was wrong there. And um I went in the next day and I talked to I believe Tony maybe. And he explained it and broke it down. And the way he explained it is that it was a code um and what it would help do how it would protect me as a salon owner. Um and that they only needed to bring in their cosmetology license through the state of Arizona and fill out the application. Complete opposite of what Miss Helen had told me.

So therefore then I'm like this is something's not right. Something's not right. Then I was informed that this is not in the code. And so this is where we stand is what is really the truth. What do we need to do? And why wasn't this enforced uh 10 years ago when they said it came about? She had told me Helen Mary Helen had told me um she could go back 10 years if she wants to. And I said, 'I don't think you could because it hasn't been enforced. Excuse me. And um she said, 'Oh, yes, I could, but I I we don't want to do that. We don't want to do that. We just want to get everybody on board. So, I agreed. Okay. Um one of my girls already went and got her business license. I told everybody else to hold off until I got an answer from somebody that actually knows. and us as hairdressers and salon owners understand. That's all I have to say.

Okay. Thank you. Thank Mr. Mayor members council the I will I will touch bases with with her um soon here when I get an opening and um what was the other thing and then we can talk more about it at future agenda items because this is heading for an agenda item. So I can I can I can't really respond here now, but I can at future agenda items. Yeah, it'd be nice to get a followup and understand it totally what the process is. That that's in the works because it's changed again. Okay.

So that's all we have. So next we have the municipal municipal property corporation and uh Mike is the chairman of the corporation and uh he'll open the meeting and discuss uh what we have for this agenda. Okay.

So I hereby open the meeting for the municipal property corporation. Uh, I want to take a moment to explain what the city's municipal property corporation is and why it's being discussed at this time. The corporation is a legal tool uh to the city established in 2007 to support and finance city projects. uh while it has existed for many years, has not been actively used to advance any projects. As a city faces increasing infrastructure needs and financial complexity, we are taking a fresh look at tools that already exist to help us plan responsibly. Importantly, this is not about creating something new or moving forward uh without oversight. Before any use of the corporation, we are updating uh outdated bylaws, clarifying roles and authority, and ensuring full transparency and alignment with council direction and public accountability. Our intent is to thoughtfully position this tool so it can be used if and when appropriate to support the city's priorities in a clear, responsible, and transparent manner. Um, so at this moment I uh make a consideration to accept the amended bylaws of the city of Globes Municipal Municipal Property Corporation and make a recommendation to the Globe City Council for final approval. Is there any discussion?

Any discussion or questions? Um to summarize what you just modified a couple of things, right? One was that instead of whoever sits on it, um has to live within the city limits, they have to have own property within the city limits. Is that correct? Right, Fernando? That's true. And then I know I was here when we set this up and so uh at that time we didn't really we just knew it was a tool that we wanted to have but we didn't really know how to use it. So we just appointed all the council as members. But we're also going to move away cuz that's not a good idea. We were told. Exactly. So, we're going to change that also, right? Yes, sir. Okay.

Yep. Anything else? No. Okay. At this time, I'm going to close this meeting and go back to the city council meeting. Thank you. So we go to special presentation and item A is employee recognition of five years of service January 9th, 2026 for Emanuel Garcia and it be Chief Robinson.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'd like to invite Emanuel up to join me. It's always a a great opportunity and to to recognize uh employees who have shown a great deal of dedication to to this city. Uh firefighter EMT Emanuel Garcia has has been with us now for 5 years. Um he came to us with a with a few years of experience with with Tri City Fire District as well as numerous years of experience from the from the mining industry. Um during the during his time with us uh he's been extremely instrumental in in our uh technical rescue program uh in both our both our rope rescue and and the swiftwater aspect of that. um he's he brings with him a lot of a lot of experience uh with that. He's been a he's been one of the the two lead individuals that that have really stepped up in that program and and spend a lot of time with personnel. Uh currently he's assigned as an interimm engineer uh driver operator on sea shift um with Captain Gatewood and has been uh has been an important uh important senior person for for Sea Shift as we've we've had several new hires that have come in that that we've had the opportunity to mentor and and bring through and and work with to to make sure they're up to speed and and what we you know what we're looking for in in a in a firefighter. Um, with that, you know, our our hope is that uh we get to continue to have him. We get to see him advance in in through the system into

leadership roles and continue to play a play an important part in in our department, within the community and within the community as a whole. Um, we, you know, we're extremely, we're extremely blessed to have, you know, people, especially people locally that were raised, born, raised here, you know, that are dedicated to this community. Uh, we're extremely lucky to have those people on board and and Manny represents that and and he's done an excellent job for us and, you know, I I anticipate that he's going to continue to do so. Thank you. phenomenal mustache. Thank you guys.

Just want to say thank you. I appreciate all the opportunities and thank you chief. That was very nice. Item 4B is a Kismet Foundation will present its donation form for eight dog waist stations to be installed by Sun Construction throughout the city of Globe for council approval. We have Sarah Alexander.

Good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Sarah Alexander and I am a board member with the Kismmet Foundation. Tonight, I'll be sharing a few updates on our foundation and presenting the final plans for the Kismmet way stations for your approval, which Juliana presented earlier last fall. Questions?

Okay. So now let's take a look back at we what we accomplished together in 2025. And it was truly a big year. We donated $1,000 to the food bank and completed a full year of the CrossFit Globe Color Valley scholarship which will continue in 2026. We painted, repaired, and rejuvenated the Hila House, supported teacher appreciation week at Globe High School, and funded over 20 teachers Amazon wish list totaling over $3,000. We hosted the Furry Friends Festival where three dogs found their forever homes and ran the Kismmetic Kids at Hollis Cinema where kids were able to see four free movies raising $1,500 from sponsors. We donated 30 suitcases and backpacks to the tribal social services group home in San Carlos, helped fund fire safety education, and began working on installing eight pet waste stations in downtown Globe, which is why we're here tonight. in partnership with Sun Construction. One of our largest efforts and the one we're most proud of was providing $2,000 to 14 local businesses to support in flood recovery totaling $24,000.

Thank you.

We officially opened Kismmit Closet this morning and we're very excited about this new chapter. Kismmet Causes is an upscale resale shop where community members can rent individual closets to sell their items. We charge a monthly fee and take a percentage of sales. We currently have 15 closets along with Kismmet Corner where donation items are sold. This project allows us to provide a part-time paid position and creates ongoing revenue for the foundation. All January closets are already rented and February is beginning to fill up. Looking ahead into 2026, we'll continue focusing on our four main funding areas, each tied to a specific event. And this one isn't listed on the list you guys see, but I wanted to add that we will be starting the dream builder program the end of January. Um Erica Flores and I will be teaching it. And if you don't know what it is, a women's focused business program in partnership with Freeport. So it runs 10 weeks and um I formally taught at EAC with SBDC and we ran three cohorts and it's a great program. So we're we're hoping that to we already have at least 10 women interested. So we're so excited for that. We'll do that in partnership with Kismmet. Um so under community rejuvenation, we'll be focusing on installing those dogway stations and under in our underserved population area, we're going to um start the sunrise run again and we're going to change the name and I'll show you that in just a second. It's scheduled for April 11th. Um in our education funding area, we'll continue with Kismmetic Kids which will return to Hall of Cinemas this summer allowing kids to see six movies for free. We're going to extend it to six. And finally, under our animals funding area, we're going to um join up with the Humane Societ Society and help them with Dogtoberfest. Uh proceeds will help fund veterinary vouchers to support families facing end of life care for their pets.

So, the reason we're here tonight is for our Kismmet uh pet way stations. So, it was previously presented uh shared with the council in early fall. This is a brief summary and request for final approval. So, we're partnering with Sun Construction. They'll provide all labor materials and tools. Installation will be eight pista stations installed downtown coordinated with the city of course. And then oversight will be Kismmet Foundation will manage logistics and sponsor communication because we're going to eventually have sponsors at each station. And then for maintenance, we'll provide weekly bag restocking, monthly inspections, liners, and minor repairs. And all supply costs will be covered by the Kismmet Foundation. And on the board are the locations that we plan just uh pending approval of those local businesses. And then we just wanted to share with you guys our logo for the what was the sunrise challenge. We're renaming it the Kismmet Crawl. and we'll submit our permit for use of Round Mountain. But that's kind of something exciting coming up. Okay. So, we the request for the city is final approval to install the stations on city property. So, again, this plan was presented to the council in the early fall. So, tonight I'm providing a quick summary and respectfully requesting final approval. We've completed the donation submitt forms and are ready to move forward.

Any questions? Amanda, I just want to share that um I'm part of the hospital foundation as well. It used Miami Rotary. We uh went together and bought a timing system for for races. So, yes, they've met with Cammy and Yes, we're going to use that. Okay, good. Cuz we have that. So, and it's got the electronic devices so when you start the race, you don't have to worry about trying to keep a time. Yes, Cammy's been awesome with that. Yes. Thank you. Any other question or comment? Looks amazing. I noticed I know several of the members on the committee. They've been working really hard for this community for the last couple of years.

And I'm still trying to figure out what kismmet is. Daisy, you come up to the mic so they can hear. We got people online. I'll talk.

Say your name, social security number, date. Well, you know, we've always we've always kind of wanted to start a foundation, you know, for Daisy and, you know, myself to to help the community. You know, she loves this community. She's born and raised here. And we're lucky to have Erica Flores, born and raised here. Sarah Alexander, born formerly uh Medlin, born and raised here, and they were perfect board members. And Craig Jones heads up a committee. And we've we have a kismmet action team. If you figure out here's the board and this is the action team and they're the ones that really try to get the ball over the one yard line, right? But kismmet means fate and destiny. That's what it means. So you got kismmet in your life.

You want positive karma and kismmet in your life. Okay. Okay. Thanks for having us. Yeah. I just want to make a comment. Um it's been a few months back since the when you first brought this to us, but um I've had uh people come up to me uh multiple times, many times um that enjoy walking downtown

and one of the biggest complaints that came to my ears was there was dog landmines there that they had to walk over and things like that. So, you know, what you're doing here uh with the with the um the stations, the way stations, I hope that these dog owners and that that also walk their dogs on their will take care of that. Um because this is just making it that much easier for them to take care of after their pets and so that everybody can join the downtown. So, thank you so much for doing that. I appreciate that. You're welcome.

You bet. Thank you. Also on behalf of all of us, you know, thank you again for for the donation. and I met with Trent uh several months ago about the about what it was all about and it's amazing to go out and help people and put back into the community. So, we really appreciate everything you're doing. We appreciate these donations also for downtown. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for So, do we need a vote on that? Yep. Mr. Mayor, we do need council approval. So if we can have a motion for approval of the I'd like to make that motion Mr. Mayor. Second. We have a motion and a second for approval of the donation. Is there any further discussion?

All those in favor say I. I post nay. Motion pass. That also does that also approve the locations that's done. Well, those locations will come approval by the owners, I guess. Yes. Yeah. Thank you again. Did you have anything, John? Oh, they already approved it.

Council just to add on the normal questions on the operational side have been actually answered in the application. And my biggest one would be for the business owners to be aware and have that approval uh process and then they'll uh they'll get with us as far as the blue staking and the placement and once we're setting that up that way we can secure the sites when they're doing their construction with sun construction. Good deal. Thank you. Thank you, John. So item C, City of Globe staff will present council with an update on the possible demolition of the Rogue building. John, you might as well come back down here. Do we have Connie or? She's not here. No, John's gonna John and I are going to tag team on this one.

Um John, I I because I just wanted to I have a question for you. This was brought up by by Councilman Pastor. Um Oh, no.

Yeah, I know. You know, but um the this this building hasn't been on the list to to um demo as soon as we can and can find a way. Um there there was some flood damage, but um it was, you know, and it's it's on our our flood list, but we we don't have high hopes uh that that that would be included as part of the DEMA. Um it's got it's prior damage and uh the water came in because the door wasn't, you know, just kind of like pushed in. Um but it but it did receive some. Um if we don't have the the money, if we don't get uh for sure reimbursement, if it's not if it's bumped off our DEMA list, we will continue to look for funds to um demolition this. I think it's about 90,000 is what for the the actual demolition. We we have all the background stuff done. I think it's been remediated to make sure it's safe and and it's ready to go. But John, I wanted to ask you, you had mentioned when we talked about this, when the building comes down, the wall kind of rests on the building.

Yes. Um, one of the things we looked at prior when they did the remediation of the the issues that the building was getting, and we had hoped at that point to do the demo, uh, there's a shared wall actually, it's not a shared wall, but correction there. There's a wall where the from the mortuary above it, uh, off of the main road, Hill Street, actually drains down there. So that's actually what's created a problem. So one of the things I brought up and hopefully making sure when we do the demolition for that site. There's three aspects. There's the wall that's actually adjoining the property that there's a historic home next to it. That's actually the fence line. So we'd have to make sure that we secure that site. But most importantly, the water drainage that comes off of that mortuary site on the back side of the property. That's probably what's created most of the problem there. So, we want to make sure that something's stable and actually secure before any demo for that.

And go ahead, Jess. If I can just clarify for those that don't know where the rogue building is, it is right next to the library. Right. Right next to the parking lot. It's and it's it's been we we've used it. It was purchased by the city a while ago. It's in horrible shape. Um and we and it needs to come down to make room for the parking lot. We bought it for the parking area. The other thing and and it's going to the the property owner who has land that is going to if a high property owner land falls on a lower property owner's land, it is the legal responsibility of the higher property owner to retain that. But but we want to make sure we don't just go pull that down and go oopsie. Right.

So So that's why it's a little bit more complicated. And I know there's uh you know Rail's here and and this has been something she's been hoping for for a long time and um but but I I I we have a couple like I say the the funding the funding has always been an issue and and and more so now um just uh so we're going to keep searching and looking for grants and looking for opportunities. Um we we will find I mean some of this stuff is is getting fixed slowly but um I I can't council pastor I can't give you a date or funding source. I just thought it was important to have a little bit of a discussion about it.

Uh because you know there is a drainage pipe there. I don't know is that drainage pipe that they have there. Is that a legal drainage?

Um it's it's historic I would say. Um so they they've done some upgrades to the parking lot up above. But basically they didn't change any aspect because they get they at that point when they did that the lot above they got with their engineering department. Uh Mr. Barnes was here at that time. So there was some issues on the back side of it which we drained out towards the TP which was done correctly and actually inspected by our engineer at that point. Um but there is some parking lot with the wall that the dimensions of the wall it's actually almost two different levels. Um so and just another point I wanted to bring up just for the public and for mayor and council if you don't remember the those of you that weren't fluent with the project at one point the city actually looked to redo the building for use. Uh but where we're at right now, there there were some AC units or electrical upgrades that were going to possibly happen. Um but where we're at now, it's more towards the demo. It's it's beyond the the point of uh restoring.

I just thought it would be nice to discuss it for a little bit. Yes. City council meeting just Rael and the committee that she has that supports the library has been interested in that and we got that information. That's good. Becker

and and before we wrap this up, Mr. Mayor, members council, uh this is something that we can have additional conversation at the the upcoming SAP along with some of the other properties that we have that we we have um you know various levels of of of plans for and and how move forward on that. Um so, but but again to satisfy your request and and you know, this is where we're at. It's not not the best news in the world, but appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, John. Thank you, John.

Item D is Globe City staff will present council with an update on the United Fund Salvation Army residential flood relief program. We have Susan Guerrero, who's a community outreach manager for United Fund and Marin.

Okay, good evening. Um Susan Guerrero from United Fund or Mayor, members of council, and everyone. I'm joined by um the executive director Marin Belling and Santana Lera from the Salvation Army Service Center. So um I'm on the agenda in two weeks to provide more updates and outcomes of the residential as well as business flood relief program. Tonight I'm just sharing an update as far as the residential program. So, when the program got started, the $4,500 limit for households was for um was kind of arbitrary because we were trying to um figure out what the fundraising was going to look like and how many homes were involved. So, now that that's kind of done, we're um working with Salvation Army. The new limits are up to $30,000 per household of assistance and support. The the programs that are going to continue are um payments to contractor invoices related to flood repairs, first choice lumber vouchers have been um assistance, cow ranch vouchers, rental mortgage assist, rental/mortgage assistance up to 45,00 has been uh a program um utility assistance and laundry vouchers because a lot of um residents have had their washers and dryers damaged. So, a couple of new items is so it's expanded. So, more money for contractor invoices, first choice lumbers, um kino floors and interiors is also a voucher option for people that need to replace um

furniture and essentials. And another new item is closing costs and or down payment um assistance for people. There's a few that want to get a new home, so we need to support them. So, it's just for direct flood impacted people like it has been the whole time and it's going to continue to be at this point. Um we raised funds for flood impacted residents and businesses. So, we're focusing on flood impacted like from flood water um homes right now. Okay, Fernando,

I have a question. So, my and this is all hearsay, so it's not admissible in court. Okay. But, um I have heard that there are a few people that were especially along Jess Hayes Road that really are just going to have to walk away from their properties. Yeah.

Okay. So, the problem is is that for those people who do rebuild and stay, now we have boarded up unsafe properties that may be stuck there because the city doesn't have money to tear them down. Um, so I'm wondering what is that something that those homeowners might be able to apply for to at least get the structure off the property before they go do something else?

That's a good question. I mean that's why Okay. So we don't want to leave a bunch of uninhabitable structures behind for sure. So um closing cost and down payment assistant is kind of limited. It's 5,500. So you know some's going to probably have to come out of pocket for those people that want to do that. And then the rest of that money would go toward repairing, rebuilding whatever needs are for the the house that was flood impacted. Well, not the rest. If they want to get furniture, you know what I mean? For as far as rebuilding and contract, they're not going to be able to rebuild, you know what I mean? Put that money toward their new home. So,

Mr. Mayor, so in in the next meeting, we'll have more detail on activity. Yeah. Numbers, outcomes. Yeah. Pledges. Who's who's pledging into? Yeah. Yeah. I'm really excited to share that because it's so uplifting and like it to see all those donations, small, large, that people came up with and same with the um outcomes with businesses. Um yeah, and the amounts.

I I have two comments. As you know, I've been in the emergency management profession for a long time. Each region eventually comes to terms with what they're faced with and they band together in a set of one or more committees and they do the the resource gathering and try to divvy up the resources to go out to the public. In my career, it happens every time. Each one is different. This is another case. What I haven't seen, and this is the first time I've seen such a large amount of funding locally generated and pulled together and then turned around and disseminated, especially to the public. It's a large number

and I congratulate you for doing that because none of us are experts in what's called mass care and

it's none of us. So, it's all new to us. And so, I have heard comments to the good and the bad of this particular response. And my response and answer to them is no one else is helping us. It's up to us to start and we're going to make mistakes. It's not that we don't know what we're doing. We've never faced this before. And so, using local funding, local efforts, we're learning as we go. give these people some credit.

That's what I defend all the time. I'm glad to do that. You don't know how many stabs in the back I've had and I don't care. I'll keep doing that because we have at this point in time, Mr. Mayor, we have no one else helping us. Not the feds, although two agencies, three agencies have stepped up. We're taking care of our own. And thank goodness for the internet and GoFundMe and pledges from the large entities within this region. We're doing it. It may not be pretty, but again, none of us have been in this profession before. I've seen committees before with teenytiny amounts and begging, borrowing, and stealing to to help their own in each region that I've seen across the state. So, I need you to understand you're all doing good. Don't stop and let's go forward together. That's all I have, Mr. Mayor. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to thank the United Fund for stepping up in this way. Um it's amazing to see that it went from 4500 to 30,000. That's that's astronomical and your should be commended for everything that you've done to step up in this huge way. So, I thank you again. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, I would say that staff at Salvation Army has really like worked so hard. They they're pretty certain that they they feel that they've identified all of the homes in need. So, that's awesome. Um Yeah. Yeah, unfortunately um everybody thought, you know, with a declaration that the state DEMA was going to come in with this money bag and and help the residents out

or the business people and it's not going to happen. The federal is not going to do it even if we get a FEMA declaration. What the FEMA declaration may do is open access to buyback programs for these residents that they deal directly with the federal government. So, but that's why it's important for the for that designation declaration. Uh but yeah, it's it's if if the United Fund and Salvation Army, Local First and all the people that all the corporations, people that donated, there wouldn't be any money for these people to help them recover, start the recovery process. So, we really appreciate it. I know it's been challenging to try and work through it. Uh but we really appreciate that getting that back to these individuals. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Thank you. We'll see you next next meeting. Yeah. See you next time.

Item E is city of globe staff will update council on the water service disconnection agreement with Arizona water. And we have Travis presenting. Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, members of the council. I just give you a quick um update on our on this agreement. Uh just in case you forgot what it's about. Um it's an agreement between a water and and the city of globe to uh share some consumption data, water data so that it helps us um for one get better accurate readings for our sewer billing but more importantly allows us to um go after those who are 90 days or more delinquent on their sewer bills. So um that that is the the goal of this agreement. So, we have a way to uh collect on those sewer uh sewer bills. And what that would do is we would make that request for a water to turn off the water um if no uh payment uh program was put in place with that individual account. So, in the summer of 2024, we did bring this to the infrastructure committee to see if we should pursue this. Uh the infrastructure committee said yes, let's pursue it. Um it was with their uh the city's attorney and the a water attorney for a good amount of time. They're working out some language. Um but this past August of 2025 uh you guys the council um uh did pass that agreement and so it did go to the Arizona Corporate Commission on December 3rd. It did pass there. So currently uh the next steps right now AZ Water is uh looking into the data to see which shared customers we have. Um, in the meantime, uh, AZ Water in their next two billing cycles in January the 16th and the 27th, they'll be putting out a notice stating that this agreement will

be in place effective as of February 1st. So, uh, the way that building is going to work, just I just want to note this that, uh, there the the two districts that are affected of a water company's districts, uh, they will get the letter, every single one of them, but only about 250 plus or minus of those customers within those two districts actually are shared customers. So, I just want to point that out to uh, point out that some customers will get this letter, but it does not apply to them. It only applies to those who have a water connection and city sewer connection. So that's where we're at and uh we're hoping to get this squared away and started um as soon as possible effective February 1st.

Travis, will that letter come from Arizona Water or will it come from the city of Globe also? It is coming from the air Arizona water company with nothing from the city of Globe. Nothing from the city. And this only affects these residents that are west of west of city. Uh yes, because that's where Arizona water zone somewhere in that area to the west is what it is. Correct. A portion of the west portion of the city.

Mr. Mayor, members of council, the the majority of our customers are water and sewer. And if there's a problem with the billing, we we shut we shut the water off which shuts off the sho sewer at that. These are those shared customers, which is only about 250, I think, as we we talked about. And and so the majority of our customers will not be impacted by this. that small number will will get this. But but this will allow the city to hold accountable these people um who are who are not 90 days out not paying their bill and uh not setting up plans. Uh the if somebody has can set up with the the document talks about if somebody's on a plan and making arrangements to pay that off then we're good. These are people who just for 90 days uh we have gotten no response and it's been a a goal of council for a long time to get this in place and with the help of Arizona water we have

and I think oh I'm sorry and and I think the original number was pretty high. Yeah and and I don't know if there's been any any uh yeah or have has it gone down the number of uh delinquent customers? Um I mean it's it's in our district Fernando's district and and I live in that area too. That's that's who it's going to affect. It's going to be those individuals. I don't know if that's come down. So, I'm glad you asked it. I do have the numbers here. So, there are 19 um accounts that are delinquent that have 90 days or more for a total of uh $43,435.25.

We had some people gaming the system knowing that there was we would not be able to turn off their water. So, they just and didn't pay effective February 1st weekend. So, um, do that once we get the shared customers identified, you know, and I can see sometimes people get in a hard spot and and I know that we work with them to try to figure out a payment system, but for someone that's been gaming the system for a long time just because they there was a loophole and they knew they could, I'm don't have a hard time feeling real sorry for them. I'm wondering um is this something that we ever garnish or or um file what do they call that when you put a lean do we ever lean the properties Jody we haven't gone that far.

No we because we have some people haven't paid in right years $46,000. Yeah. But if council wants us to start doing that we're good. System work. That's crazy. Okay. Well, at least we're fixing it going forward. So, yeah. And and I think Fernando mentioned that we'll work with them. You know, obviously there's some people that fall into a category that Sure. You know, there's a there's a an excuse for not doing it, but there is some that have taken advantage of the of the So, when we do that though, then obviously there's a shut off fee, there's a hookup fee once they start again, and there's loss of revenue to Arizona to Arizona waters. So, are they still charged all this? Does that add on to their bill too?

Yes, correct. So we would be responsible for paying that but which we will just and again obviously bill uh the customer on the sewer side how that works on the accounting um I think it still has to be figured out but uh that would be correct. We'll be collecting that and be paying the invoice that Arizona water company um sends us. So they'll still continue we'll still continue to pay their water bill but it'll be build back to them. We would we would pay it after the revenue has been figured out at the point of time that they turn the water back on. Okay. After the fees are paid. Okay. Yeah. There's a that window at that opportunity to do that.

Any other questions, comments? Thank you, Travis. Thank you, sir. Just 19 people. Item F is City of Globe will present council with City of Globe flood update mitigation efforts. And we got a list of staff members that are going to speak, I guess. Yeah. So, we're we're going to we're starting with with Connie and we have and then we're putting up a um a couple slides. It's it's not um a PowerPoint presentation, but we have some graphics to go with this.

So, right now, we'll just start with the the header and leave at it there. But, um, Conniey's going to start with a little update on FEMA. And so, mayor, we're time wise, we're looking at two to five minutes. Um, I think Connie can do it in 2.3, one and a half.

Okay. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um, so, um, my task tonight is to talk about, uh, what DEIMA is and what dee uh, FEMA is and what FEMA isn't. Um, it's really easy as you saw right now. I could get it so confused. Um, so the FEMA declaration, the federal declaration is a federal declaration, not a presidential declaration, even though it's signed by the f by the president. Okay. So, what do we lose with not having this federal declaration? We lose an extra 15% with the 75 percent with state DEMA funds. Okay. And then 25% match for the city. If we would have had the federal declaration, then we would have had that added 15%. So then our match would have gone down to 10%. Okay? So that's that's where we lose funding for our our infrastructure. Um and then what else do we lose? We lose the buyout program for the residents, which is very unfortunate. um and also some more help with our businesses, which again is very unfortunate. But we do have some um residential and some business help through the state level. Okay. So that's where SBA came in at the state level. So they can do so much. They have a dollar amount at that level with the residents. They have a dollar amount at that level because we are technically just at the state level at the moment. 75%

25% city match. Um can I would I would uh take questions on that right now. Any question? Any questions? And so so I have one Connie. the the fact that we did not get the FEMA, that has zero impact on our ability to get the DEMA, which we know is we we we have qualified for. Yes. Zero impact on the DEMA. Yeah.

Okay. So then I'm just going to take this one step further to the appeals process. Okay. So the appeals process um and and let me just back up one second. So the governor's office and Arizona DEMA made the declaration for us on our behalf through the county and they made this uh this uh federal declaration with Hila County and Mojave County together in one declaration. Okay. So they have to do when they appeal they have to appeal for both. Okay. So, we were asked this last week, we were tasked with providing um uh information. So, we provided them um a letter of support that the that the mayor signed on council and mayor's behalf. So, they he signed that. We also provided them with narrative of our event because they didn't have that. Um and we also provided them with all of the US census track seven through Hila County that tells uh would tell uh the FEMA committee about us. So that would give them all the information about our population. What does our population look like? What's our income? What is our most vulnerable population? We have an aged population. and it gives a percentage on that. It also gives them a map, shows them that we're landlocked and that we don't have traditional growth. Um because we're landlocked, we have to go up to grow instead of out. Um it also shows them uh that we have been uh by decades federally disinvested for

federal funding. So, so now they have the big picture. So, what happens from here? So right now it's all the information we sent including the mayor's letter is being reviewed by Arizona State DEMA and the governor's office and then they will put that together and then they'll advise us when they send it to the appeals and it'll be a regional appeal. So, it'll be the western states appeal first

and just on on the letter that the mayor put together in support of the uh request to to appeal it. Um that is on consent agenda. Uh the mayor sent that out on behalf of the council and on consent is to ratify that letter. Um, and it is also available on our our new uh flood control or flood response website that we just put up today linked off the homepage of uh the city website. Questions? I have one. Okay.

Just a simple explanation because you hear on this federal de declaration that is it the president making the decision or is FEMA its own independent group that's doing it? Does he have influence over them or I I don't know how that worked. Did you hear both? Yes, you do. And and the media right now is having a tendency to sensationalize this very um question that you have, but it is a FEMA committee at the federal level making these determinations. So, so um I hope that answers your question, sir.

Okay. And so, Mr. Mayor, mayor, member of council, we hope the additional information will will turn the tide. It's it's not normal or not common that they they overturn this, but we're we still have a chance. Fingers crossed. We have a pretty good chance. Yeah. So, so all this information is going on the governor's request for re-examination of the Yes. Okay. When's that due? Um, so they have technically they have 30 days from the day they were notified and they they notified us on the 23rd of December. Okay. So, we're getting close. Yeah, we're getting close.

And and hopefully all council got a a copy of that letter. uh staff did an amazing job on bringing or putting together that letter every the narrative and it's a very well-ritten way letter we can make copies and pass them out. Yeah. Good. Okay. All right. So, I think Gary's up next.

That's one minute. Mayor and council, as the city manager mentioned, uh over the holiday break, we faced uh two different deadlines um related back to to flooding stuff. Um the first of those deadlines was was the 60-day damage assessment report um that was due on December 28th. This is a report back to Dimma. Um, in essence, what occurs is once we apply for public assistance, we then have 60 days to document uh what we feel uh was damaged within our community to include locations, values, um and and brief, you know, a brief description of what repairs might be with that. Um, it's important it's important to note with that that once we hit that deadline, the goal of this is to document everything um that we feel was damaged within our community to to the extent possible in terms of public infrastructure. If tax dollars touch it, that's what we're talking about. Um, with that, you know, staff spent uh an enormous amount of time over that holiday break. Uh, several members of of staff in particular spent a significant amount of time going through and documenting those projects. We documented basically you document we we documented by geographic area and we documented some 16 something different projects and I believe we have a slide that we can move to on the next slide. Uh if you break that down and and look uh on your screen, you'll see the different categories that we ended up

documenting to a total of 96 million is what we uh what we estimated in value to the projects that we documented. Um, obviously we do not have and do not intend to spend $96 million. As we've made clear through all of uh through this entire process and and gaining an understanding of it is everything in terms of DEMA is a reimburseable expense. Meaning we have to expend the dollars before we can even seek to reimburse a portion of that. You know, currently with DEIMA, that portion is 75% with a state declaration. Um, so the the next goal is to then go through and identify what can be done, what do we have dollars to do, what have we done already, and work to to to seek the reimbursement for those things that are done. Work to seek the reimbursement for or seek funding sources for items that we may have on that list that we feel are are uh that we may be able to accomplish with that. Um this I this information we we will have available on our website uh for the for the city as it's as it's there. Um that list you know that list is what then carries forward. We then have a we then have about a year from the event to to work on any projects that we feel we can accomplish with that uh with those with dollars that we have available to us um that we can then seek reimbursement for. Um are there any questions related to this 60-day

Fernando? I I just have a question regarding um so let's just say for example we have a project that's 5 million. Could we break it up into five phases? So we can pay a million, get reimbursed, pay a million, get reimbursed. Is that or how does that work? Go ahead. No, go ahead.

So So with with this, you know, one of the challenges we have on the on the DEMA side of things is your reimbursement process is slow. It's not a it's not a rapid reimbursement process on your on your DEMA projects. So in essence, you know, we're gonna we would be required to expend the dollars, then chances are we wouldn't see those we wouldn't see those dollars back for a significant amount of time up to including years. We have we have limited time, Mr. Mayor Council, limited time to do um the construction on this even to qualify for the for the reimbursement. And I think it's a year. It's a year. Yeah. So

if we had a federal declaration, it could be out to 18 months. But but so so that's you know the reimbursement process is is very document heavy. Uh the they they disqualify a lot and then the timelines are really short. Um and it it takes for DEMA it's 100% money upfront and then we get reimbursed threequarters of that. Now, now when we get to the the Gary, the protective measures is the sediment removal. Protective measures are are items most of the items on under protective measures are items that we've done already. Okay.

Those are items that we've we've completed or or have a significant um significant percentage of the completion done. some of it with just documentation remaining to complete in order to be able to to try and submit back and see if we can you know see if we can achieve some reimbursement from them. But the so the the but the sediment removal is under which one of these categories? That would be under that that would be under um emergency protective measures for it. Okay. And and that is the one. Now, for that, we're using a different program that has a what you're asking. Do a little work, get reimbured, do a little work, and Danny's going to cover that when we get to that part.

And that is that is the next item on on my list to just to to do a quick introduction to, and that's the National National Resource Conservation Service Program, the Emergency Watershed Protection Program. That was the other deadline that we had to submit for. Um that was January 8th. Uh again, there was a significant amount of time invested over that time in doing that. Um that program does have a more rapid reimbursement program. It's focused on our waterways and it's focused on emergency measures. Um like the city manager was mentioning, you know, for instance, sediment removal. sediment removal as an emergency measure to complete, you know, to to try and stabilize that waterway to help prevent future, you know, any future stuff with the NRCS program. Um, one of the challenges we have with that is our our window is 220 days. So as we as we work with from that from a time that a a project is approved. So for instance if we submitted for you know which is you know which we're leaning towards is is if we submitted towards sediment removal we have 220 days to complete that project. The advantage we have is is we can take and we can reimburse that money much faster. So, we can take a dollar amount, invest it into it, submit for reimbursement when a portion of that project is complete, and re reinvest those dollars back into the next phase of that. So, as as we go along, and that's where that's where Danny's going to going to come in and cover some of of what uh what that looks like.

Yeah, I'll I'll turn it over to her. I appreciate it. Danny, just a comment on on the question that Fernando had also. I was present at the county's uh presentation when DEMA representatives were there and and the amount of money they're going to have to spend and they asked them what's it the reimbursement process is it one year two three years three years there was an answer given it could be three years from now we we see any money longer be

so so mayor and council Danny's going to talk about the DEMA reimbursement process because we are actually starting the process of of making the the penel creek safer tonight We have contracts that that are going to initiate to so we can stay within that 220 um uh day deadline and and Travis will be up next to talk about the actual con contract. But these are expensive contracts and so I wanted to talk about the money first so you kind of know where we're going on this. Danny, go ahead and start and we'll we'll get to the

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um, well, Gary kind of took some of my thunder because I was going to be the the wonderful person to tell you we've got positive news. It's not all bad. But, um, the timeline for the NRCS was, it shows January the 4th. That was our deadline. January the 8th is when the application actually had to be submitted to the state. We submitted ours to um NRCS to get him to to allow him to review it to let us know what do we have what do we still need to put on here is does this look good to present. So and several members worked on it to over the holidays to get that deadline met. Um there is the we've started with the review process as far as getting with an engineer things of that nature. Like Gary said there's only 220 days that we have to complete these projects. However, that starts that timeline doesn't start until it's approved. It's been approved through state. We are it has been passed up to the regional. So, we haven't got final approval yet, but it's in the process. We're hoping. Um, there is a 25% match. Um, it consists, the NRCS program consists of three pro three contracts. Um, and like Paul said, we will be talking about that with um with Travis Hilly explaining those, but the approximate cost for the NRCS program is a total of 22 million. Um, however, currently we our 25% match is only on the 1.2 million. So, we are in the process because it's going to go in phases. Um, the biggest majority of this will be in

next budget year. So, we're we've got to put money in to start to get things started and to get the engineers in and to get the surveying and and things of that nature that need to be done to allow us to give this information to them showing that we are showing good faith that we're doing this pro this project. Um, at that point, at that point, we have the 150 about 150,000 that we wanted to try to, you know, put into this bucket to start with. get everything started. It is a 30-day turnover as far as reimbursement goes. So, when we do something, they're going to give us the money. When we get when they give us the money, we're going to put it back in as as the part of our match because we have to have that 25% match. So, the reimbursement, we're going to spend the money, but we're going to immediately turn it over and put it back in, reinvest basically. Um, which is going to help in the long run as far as not having to have so much upfront. So um and that's that's the plan

at the at the end of at at the end of the evening uh in the action items we we are going to have action um items to move some money around to make sure that we're ready. So at least we have 150,000 at in the bucket for expenditures that we know are coming. Uh the when we when we had expenditures we had to pay uh we had already incurred the services we we didn't have anything in there. This is an optional. I mean, we don't have to do this. I mean, it it be I mean, technically, we don't have to do this, but we need it. Since we This is optional. I did want to start putting some money in there when we ask council to approve these contracts that we put some seed money in there to start this process. So, when we start paying the bills, then then we can get the reimbursement and and just build that bucket. We probably won't be the last time we come to you put to put money in it. But for tonight, because we're starting with these contracts tonight, we wanted to put some seed money in there.

Um, so I have kind of a budget related question. So I know that when I talk to constituents and we talk about how big our budgets are, and that's not actually what we end up spending. This is the reason that we build those budgets, so that when something like this happens, we're able to expend the dollars that we need to in order to move forward. Is that is this exempt from that? Or am I missing something? and and the fact that we had we had baked in uh put into our budget a $15 million grant capacity. So, we'd always like, well, where where will we ever get a grant for 15 million? Well, we you know, we're getting we're getting a bunch of money. The 75% has to come in as a grant. So, we're good. We have that capacity. That is something that we did that we've always done and has paid off to this year. But Danny, you want to add anything? Um just I mean and we've also got the project reserve that we've set aside because you never know when you're going to have a rainy day. So and that's part of what we're talking about this evening as far as moving to get the bills paid that we've already had to pay our 25% match on that. So

a very rainy day. Yes. Yes. Yes. Danny question on u the NRCS. So it's 7525, but if we were to get a declaration, does that affect that to 9010 also? No, it does. Oh, okay. So it would go to 9010 in the NRCS program, which would be huge for us. Yes. Yeah. Very significant amount of money because you're it's a lot of money.

Yeah. So total total between the combination of of DEMA and FEMA money we would only be responsible for 10% across the board uh you know million dollar project we would be owe 100 100,000

so it would like I say we got our fingers crossed and we'll keep hope for the best but uh and and again that FEMA money and is just for public infrastructure projects it is the there is an aspect as Connie talked about for programs that would bring in here and the buyout. But the but the money that we are not getting from FEMA is money we're not spending on public projects. The DEMA money and the NRCS money is again for public infrastructure projects. Um they're so it's it's not for we're so happy to have the thei uh local first and uh United Fund to take care of the private sector because the federal the governments can't do that much for them. And Paul, you mentioned it that uh it's something that we need to do. We have to as a council figure out or or the staff, you know, where we're going to get the money. I mean, we our city has changed

and if we go back to doing the same thing again and not preparing for the next one, then then that's what we're we're just going back to were before. So, there are projects we need to complete. Yeah.

And I know they're going to be costly, but we got to do them. Well, and and we're we're going to we're going to cover both our our goal here is to we can we can handle this flood event. We can do this recovery without losing speed on our growth projects. We were we were on a good trajectory. We're getting a lot to get done and we're going to keep getting those things done and and we're going to we're going to make it work. We'll scale it to what we need to do. But this is the this is the first project we're doing where we're where like I say, we're going out and doing this. There's a lot it's it's so important because this is the the biggest fear that I think everyone has that um the creek is higher than it was in in August. It needs to come back down or we're going to see a repeat of this. So, this is number one priority. um on the screen are the my my portion of this presentation is where do we get the match? Okay. One thing that we're very hopeful and so the the piece that that we haven't told well Danny talked about the fact that overall this $23 million project we have a a $1.2 million contract. We will be that is for the engineering. we will be coming back to you for a construction contract that's going to be in the 21 million range. Okay? Which puts us at a $5 million match. Okay? Um I will tell you that we will we will do as much work as we can get done within that um 220 days unless we just don't have the match. We have this this slide shows a lot of those hopeful matches, but we will stop the work if we can't if we can't pay for it. Uh we're not going to do the work and we we have to have a balanced budget. We have to operate in the black. Um and so we will we will do what it takes and and follow the pro process. We

hope it doesn't cost 22 million. We hope these estimates are always high and a lot of times there's there's um value engineering and cost savings and and things that we learn. But I will tell you to at at some point very quickly we are going to come back and say we have this construction contract and it's a biggie. So what we're working on right now is on the screen additional funding options. The the best the the most hopeful and what we want is we have applied for a waiver of the match with the NRCS and that would wave it from 25 to 10. Okay. that has been approved at the state level and has been sent off to higherups. I'm not they said headquarters. I don't know where headquarters is, but it's but it's in the works. And so we're until we get something in writing that we're at a 10% match, we're going to run this like we're at a 25% match. Okay, that is our most hopeful. Second thing that's out there, um Hila County Flood Flood Funds, SB270. Did I Oh, I I have I missed a zero in there. and and our thanks to the county. Was county manager here?

He was.

He was. Yeah. No. Um Mr. Menlo went to uh Representative Blackman and they put together a bill. Uh it's 20 It's 2070 and it I screwed that up. It's actually HB 2070. I apologize. And um that is 25 $25 million for Hila County flood relief. It includes municipalities and other entities. Um uh Representative Blackman is running that. We are going to be very helpful and and supporting that. I think we have a we have the message. We'll team up. It'll help Miami. It'll help us. It'll help San Carlos, I believe, uh and help the county. I I think I I I dare to say the county has probably a bigger hill to climb on these funding than we do, but we will find a we we that will participate and if that goes through that will help us. We we're already talking about congressionally directed funding. Uh we've always done that and we're steering those requests now to to uh flood recovery money. Um uh we have and now we go to a list of of different pro uh sources. I I'm not going to go into great detail on these. The emergency watershed protection program that is a the NR the NRCS long-term what if we don't get everything done in the 220 days. The project will be engineered and then we will wait and get more funding after that 220 and use that funding to finish it off. We'd like to get in the 220 because we're we're at the mercy of the weather right now. Um and then we have the the regional partnerships and we're talking to everyone. Uh we have um FHWA funds. These are federal highway and they're looking at some road projects that John will talk about later. Just some of the work in the bridges. Uh we have Shipo will help with downtown redesign. We have a loans which are going to help on

our sewer side because we still need work to do on our sewer. Um we have public assistance grants, hazard mitigation grants, and then what I call the small alphabet soup grants. There's a bunch of agencies. I didn't want to just plug them in there. I couldn't even be able to tell you what they were, but but every small agency has a little bucket of money that we may able to. So, it may be one, it may be the waiver, it may be a couple of them, it may be all of the above. But, but we will while we're moving forward, we can't wait to have them till we know where the money's coming from. If we wait for where we know the money is coming for the match, it's going to be too late. So, we move forward with the contract and we're gonna get done what we can get done. And we're while while this hand's working to to do the sediment removal, we're going to be over here looking for money to pay it. And we'll just keep filling that bucket and and rotating it around. And and hopefully at the end of the day, the the chain from Matlock down to the sewer plant will be equally uh mitigated for safety and and we'll get it done that 220.

So that's the I I I hate to tell you I don't know where the money is coming from. I can tell you where we're looking and I and I I trust that that that we will be productive. So, questions about that. And if we don't do it, we're going to be in a jam. So, I mean,

well, if we don't do it, we'll we'll have to find it somewhere or we'll have to ratchet back a little bit if we have to ratchet back and and we'll see. So, so maybe we get the the the sediment removal, but we don't get the shot crete done. And and that's okay. It's it's the the sediment removal getting the channel balanced out and deepened. That's the the the the main thing, but but we're not going to wait until we get this all figured out. This we we have a goal. We don't really and and we have a plan, but we don't have all the pieces in there yet. But it will fall into place. We've done this before. Thank you. And I appreciate your trust, Mr. We're going to be able the core of engineers is going to let us get in the

We already and we have a copy of that. We there is an existing and again thank you to the county who has already has an entry um uh permit that we can get in there and do this work. That's always been a hiccup. And then the and and we will talk about the other hiccup um which is the the right of entry and that'll come up after Travis's where he's going to talk about the actual contracts. But mayor, you have a question. So

Mr. Mayor, um we're about to enter into our strategic action planning cycle and we've got a date set and we'll be discussing many things. Um I want to float one thing before we get into that to address this. Um the flood of that occurred in 54 and the um construction that that went on in the channel is what we saw uh the result uh the the thing that happened on the 26th. It jumped the banks. It was beyond what happened in 54. And now people are asking us, what are we doing about the future? With all of this activity, we're addressing it. But it's only one of several components. The other component, back when I was retiring from division, um, western states were coming up with an uh, the concept of adding to their governments the the office and office of resiliency. I had a long time getting my my arms around, but I finally realized with this what they were trying to do. Um, it's not uh contingency planning. It's not mitigation planning. It's the widest set you can bring to view what you're facing going into the future. So a resiliency director looks at that big picture of the region, private and government and other entities of that region and what they're doing to build an effective response to any hazard into the future. is also the responsibility of that office to tell the government in this case the council the pluses and minuses that have occurred in the region. So you have tabs on flooding, you have tabs on on construction, you have tabs on strengths and weaknesses of your surrounding partners. So it's a big picture view um uh reviewed every year

and presented to the the council a council. So that gives you the responsibility to look at what you've been given and to decide how you as a counselor are going to attack it. It doesn't mean anything except that you've taken stock of your world and you can proceed with some planning into the future to to attack some of the things that need to be done in your particular area of the vineyard. And now I get it. U people have asked us already, what are you doing about the next flood? Well, it may not happen for another 60 to 75 years. What's our way forward? Well, we look to our resiliency director to tell us the state of the world of Globe Miami, the pieces and parts that we're responsible for, and then how do we address improving them? And then we've always done it using a strategic action plan. We've never had an an emergency director and now we may need a resiliency director or department that tells us of these things as we go into the future. Oh yeah, he said we got to do this. Is this this year or is that a next year problem? So we have a way forward and and I recommend we consider that a department that will help us do that right now. No offense to our our staff. We have nothing going into the future that addresses this component. Many players in this region we have no jurisdiction over. Just name them. The federal agencies, the Forest Service, the state, they all have their piece of the pie and their responsibilities. Do we know? Did we know on September 26 what they were about to do? Of course not. A resiliency office or department might do that for us is all I'm saying. So the next time it happens, we just check down the list. Okay, they're pretty good in this area. Tonight in this area, they're not so good. We're going to have to focus on this a little bit. So the big concept is a resiliency

department answering to the mayor and to the city manager and council that may give us things to look at in an annual basis as we develop our strategic action plan. And I would be able as a councilman to say we're looking at it and we have a system and it's addressing it. We've already identified several things we need to do. We need an emergency plan. We need an emergency operation center. These are things that came to light that night. I'm talking about a long-term process of knowing where we're going into the future in the area of preparing for the next disasters is going to be more than one. And we have a way forward with an office that does that for us. It's been done in Denver. It's been done in other large cities in the west. I don't know about the east, but in the west it was quite quite the phrase when I was retiring. So, I'll leave it at that.

And we're staff is very ready to have this conversation with the SAP about what we are doing. So, so council can ask ask that question. How are we going to prevent the next how are we going to fund it? Who are we going to you know those many questions there, but that's all I wanted to point. So, we're moving on to Travis and Danny is Thank you, Danny. And and again, these presentations should uh cover the present the the not require us to have a presentation in the later items. So Travis, we got three contracts coming up, huh?

Three contracts coming up under the um this NRCS funding that we're going to be doing under that that funding element. Uh two of them are on the uh agenda tonight with CivilTech. And the first one that being they're going to help us with that Seymar or the construction management risk um procurement. So uh they're going to assist us in that process uh just because simply we've never gone through that before. Um so what that entails is uh basically they'll help us um coordinate um develop some cost uh developments development of the cost and some technical support on on that process. So, um, and we'll we'll I can explain that a little bit more when we get to the contract, but, um, it's just to help us assist in setting everything up. The second contract we have tonight with CivilTech is to do the actual uh civil engineering of the sediment removal and the embankment stabilizations which could include shock creek uh gabian baskets or any other sort of methods that will help the stabilizing the embankments of the upper panel creek within our city limits. And um but uh as it was mentioned earlier, I'd be remissed if I didn't say that, you know, uh through this design, if even if we identify every area that we can do the uh embankment stabilization, that doesn't mean it's going to be covered in the 220 days. So at least we get the design done, it's covered under the NRCS funding. um we'll at least have that for future and we can figure out if if it does if it's not covered in that 220 uh time day time frame we can look for other funding to continue that work uh if that's the case. Um the third contract that we will eventually bring back is the actual uh Semar um the construction manager. Uh so um we're identifying um companies as we speak um and looking at a few. Uh what we're planning on doing oh with the two

contracts with CivilTech, it is through a cooperative state contract and we're also planning on doing that with the actual construction management uh contract as well. But um we are looking at one and hopefully be able to bring that to you as quickly as possible.

And and Mr. Mr. Mayor, members of council and to to Travis um uh our we're going to bring Chris is here the the engineer that that is going from if I'm sac that is going to be uh doing the work. Um he had participated in the Cookanino efforts. Um and and he has presented on this to to groups. Uh he is an expert and has recent experience. We also are looking at a company that was highly involved in the Cookanino project um and worked with CITEC at the same time and worked with uh the Cookano Flood Control District. Um they they have experience doing this. We're trying to lock down the procurement method, but I I will tell you that it is is some is somewhat specialized and it is important that there's a relationship between the the engineer and the c the the construction company because they're going to be doing the same thing. They'll be doing some engineering, pass that off to the construction company while he does more engineering and and it's going to be this pass off. It's not going to be we're going to do everything and then go get the construction company. Uh as Chris had said, this Semar risk has to happen that way. You can't get it done in 220 days. Now, this construction company that that we're looking at has is as many we've learned that company come to Globe um do tend to hire local people for certain tasks. So we we haven't we haven't left our our our locals may may find our local companies may find uh that this company may you know they may be able to to work out some things with that but for the specialization and especially for the time requirements we we are looking for someone who can hit the ground running fast has experience has relationships and and that's why we're that's where we're going on this this big contract. Now, with that, I'd like to invite Chris to kind of talk about your scope and what you're going to try to accomplish in 220 days.

In two minutes, thank thank you, mayor, and and

members of the council. Um, I'm Chris Duza with Civil Tech Engineering. It's my honor to be here in front of you tonight. Um so our scope of work um it it's not just civil tech. I'll start out you know with that. We'll have there'll be there'll be a lot of um entities working with us including you know aerial mappers uh geotechnical engineers uh utility locating you know those those sorts of things. Um as well as um as you mentioned you know we'll be working handinhand with a with a semar construction manager at risk. So really, our scope of work is um the best way to think about it, it's a it's a two-phaseed or a twoprong scope of work. So what we immediately want to do is hit the ground running with uh the sediment removal in the creek. Um there's places in the in the creek that the sediments are graded um about 8 feet in some places. So it's limiting the carrying capacity of the creek to carry water. So again, you have another event. Um we have limited capacity now. So, the first thing we want to do is develop those plans and work with the the construction manager at risk to start moving that sediment out. We've estimated about um might be upwards of around 200,000 cubic yards of material that's going to have to come out of there. Um so, that's the first thing we want to do. We want to get them working on that, you know, spending that EWP money um in that in our 220day time frame. As we're doing that, we we'll develop a second set of plans which will be the bank stabilization plans. You know, hopefully um things will align with with property rights, with drainage easements, with all those sorts of things and we can begin, if not complete the construction of those bank stabilization managers. But the most important thing we want to do right now uh is make sure that we get uh get that creek cleaned out and give

it some capacity uh including, you know, at the bridges and and culverts. um you know, get those all cleaned out and opened back up. So, in a in a nutshell, um that's what we'll be doing. Um the construction manager at risk process, um as they've mentioned, is a is a little bit different than than probably what you're used to seeing. A traditional design, bid it, build it. We really don't have the time for that. Um so, that's the advantage of the Seymour process is bringing them on. It It's really a partnership. It's a partnership between CivilTech, the city, the contractor. Um, you know, it's going to be a very accelerated process to get as much work as we can possibly get done uh within that 220day time frame. So, with that, if there's any questions, I'd be happy to try to answer them. Um, you know, one one thing I would like to mention I or or just to clarify when I was listening, um, and and please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding with the EWP funding there it there's essentially two buckets in the EWP. There's construction funding and that's the match. That's that 75 or hopefully a 90% match, but then there's TA funding, which is the technical assistance funding. and the TA which we fall under will be covered 100% by EWP. There's no match on that.

Okay. So, please please verify that. But that's that is my understanding. Thank you. You bet. So, next up we have Melissa. So, an important part of getting Chris and the construction company ready to go is to make sure that we have the the legal right to enter all portions of the creek, no matter who. And so, Melissa is going to quickly explain the the the three-part process. We're we're we're doing this in house and we're doing education, right?

Yes. So, good evening, mayor and council. We are going to start with education. Um, and to start that, I just want to let you know that the city only owns about 10 to 15% of the creeks within city limits. So 80% of the property owners need to know that we need to work with them for the work to get done that they want to do. We have to have them coincide and let us own their property. Basically, it's it's illegal not to um collaboration best practices. First, we're going to start with a right of entry, which is a simple form that lets us get in there, lets the contractors get in there and the engineer to say this is what it looks like, and we're going to do our survey um legal information. And then after that is a temporary construction easement, which is a TCE. the tce allows them to do the work for a temporary amount of time. It doesn't last forever. Um, and then third, depending on what the survey and other things happen, that would come down to ongoing maintenance, which would be the it might come out to like a quick claim. If the person can't take care of their property and we need that property, it might come out to a permanent drainage easement situation. Um, it really just depends on what what happens there.

So, we're going to handle this in-house. We're not jobing this out to anybody else. This is very personal, not personal, but it's very a local thing to talk to these property owners. Melissa is heading this function up because it is communication and and we think we'll be successful. Questions? Go ahead for none. So, um, hypothetically, we have an absentee property owner that cannot be contacted. So, does that mean we can't touch that part or or is it more they just refuse to let us on and let us do it?

We we're working through and process and and we have documents that the with our attorney and and at some point we have uh different ways we'll ratchet up uh our ability to get on that property. Uh I we I for given the time I I don't want to go into that but um I I we cannot come up with a scenario where we don't get on the property but we hope that we never have to go to that point. Okay. But but but you you can't you can't let the the concerns of one person when it puts everybody else at danger. There are methods to to get make that happen. And

we are planning to do doortodoor communications as well, packets, information, social media, radio, the whole nine yards. So, we're going to be getting that information out there. It's going to be a lot of boots to the ground, hard work. But John,

uh, good evening, mayor and council. Just to add piggy back on to that question, uh, historically when we had our 21 floods, there was actually only three properties that we had a little bit of additional conversations with. the majority actually filled the paperwork out, but a lot of the areas that were in the globe vicinity actually is bigger anywhere from the railroad to the mine. Um, so those sites, there's a big majority of that area that's actually with the railroad. So, we'll be meeting with them as well, but historically, we haven't had any issue. There was just those two to three that we had.

Just a question, Paul. Those easements that the that we get filled out, they're only temporary. Once we do the work, then it goes back to the property owner. We're we're doing a we're doing a two-phase well three phases, but we're going to get the temporary so we can get going. But we're going to continue to communicate with those property owners and work through the for certain property owners. We are going to ask for a a continuation where it goes uh into the future for maintenance. If we stay ahead of the maintenance, then we'll we'll uh we won't have to get on their property uh and we won't have these events. But Chris, go ahead.

Yeah, if I may, I should have explained that better. So, so the right of entry, um, it's not a recorded document. It's a simple document that just gives us permission to go on the property that's going to allow us to come in and do our initial work, um, with the surveying, the geotechnical engineering, the aerial mapping, the utility locating. Um, so that allows us to get started. The right of entry, the sediment removal from the creek, we'd like to do under a temporary construction easement. So, again, those are not recorded documents. um you know they are easements but uh they they will expire at some date post construction. We would only really want to pursue the permanent drainage easements in areas where we're going to be doing the bank stabilization um you know where where that would be you know ultimately um operated and maintained by the city. We would want to have a permanent drainage easement in those locations. But

so that means owning it. The city would own it in order to do that future maintenance. Okay. you you the city would be the um they would be the bene beneficiary of the easement. The the underlying land itself would still be owned by the property owner. Um but the city would have the rights to the easement and and the structures that are constructed upon it

and and to council mayor and council and councilman Shipley, you know, your scenario where you have somebody that's not resistant but just not available that you know that is probably the the the worst case. But but um we're going to we're going to just keep learning from what Chris knows, what Lucinda knows from Cookanino and and just ratcheting it up as we need to do and and uh hopefully we we don't get to that point, but but we're prepared for that. Freddy, just little clarification. Did I hear a a temporary construction ement? Yes, sir. But then it would be perpetual if we're going to maintain it.

So how So, there's two different easements. So, there's the temporary construction easement, which is a temporary arrangement where we're allowed to go in and do the construction. Okay. Um, the permanent drainage easement is where they would give the easement to the city. That makes it perpetual, which makes it perpetual for ongoing maintenance.

Right. But, but for the purposes of getting in there as quickly as we can and getting the sediment cleaned out, we just want to do a temporary construction ement. It's a little more of a process. Um especially with um you know there may be partnerships, there may be mortgages and you have to get lenders involved and and all those sorts of things with those permanent easements. You don't with the temporary ones. So the idea with the behind the temporary construction easements is really just getting us in there so we can do the work quickly. Okay.

Sorry. But so my other question is um I know that with some of the other groups that I've worked with, we've had to worry about lowmar or something like that. So if we put some kind of structure or retaining wall, is that something that we got to get permission for or as long as we don't try to raise the level or how does that work?

Yeah, that that is a good question. So, um there is an ongoing study that's happening right now that's being done by Atkins. Um it's been going on for about five years and I have reached out to the um the project manager um who's doing that study. Um unfortunately, the the the basis of their study that they're doing right now is pre flood. So, the creek's changed. So everything that they've done is kind of no longer valid right now. So I don't have a firm answer um you know for for your question. Um you know we should be able to get it all permitted through the flood control district with bank stabilization. We're not we're not looking to restrict flow in any way. Um so I don't anticipate that we would have any problems um you know having the bank stabilization permitted through the uh flood control district. Um but to your point that that whole remapping effort that's going on right now is is um kind of in question I guess right now. But but that's one of the things that um we have requested um is that uh through the consultant and through FEMA that if we can get that mapping that was done pre flood event so that we can see what the creek looked like um before that I think it'll be helpful for us to restore it um to at least you know what it was pre- flood.

Thank you. All right. So, next up is John. Just a a quick review of uh this is we're moving on from the from the creek. And um John, just a a a very quick update on on sewer system and our bridge system.

Um just really quick um I'm going to just go over as we all talked about the NRCS list, the FEMA list, the dema list. So basically all these have been incorporated. uh at some point we're looking at additional funding sources. Also, I met with the federal highway actually staff and you know we took them on a tour as well. So on that big list that we have at some point they've actually that's why it's really important to bring on civil as well. One of their indicators there was said to make sure that we have uh you know the design and actually some cost accured and actually for that work uh because at some point on our main list it may not just be through NRCS it will actually be from the federal highways uh that work could be done there and that's extending the gabian walls and doing a lot of the work actually the washouts that have been affected. That's only per the bridges. Uh so we did we visited four sites through town. There's actually three to four that are actually a dots. Um, but having them come and go come through town, they actually did analysis on those as well. But that's what they do and them to work out. The ones that were immediate would be from the Reese bridge, you know, um, Cottonwood was not actually that was a newer bridge that was actually off system. So that's that one's ours, but that one did not receive significant damage, but the sediment removal was talked about at that point. That would be on the other equation. So, we're be looking at that. Uh, one of the other things when we talk about infrastructure, um, the avenues that we may take for additional funding. Uh, staff, myself, um, actually the group met and we will be pro possibly looking to come back to mayor council at a later date. We're looking, we're closing out the current WIFFA that we had prior for the community center development area. That's finally finished off. We're closing that with a fund out, but we may come back to you at a later date uh for additional funding. Uh there was going

to be possible 4 million for sewer and 2 million for water. Um so that will we're pretty much working on the list now, the initial list and then for the alternate list and some of that could be for also grant match for one of these other projects that we have coming up. Do you want to

and mayor and council? So, we we had uh over a million dollars in work on our sewer system that we've already had done. All right. And that's come out of the work the the money that we had for our future growth projects. Um so, we had hoped to avoid whiffle loans because we we we had we had a bucket of money that was substantial, but but that has been had to go to the the flood. It may get filled back by DIMA later. Um, but to get to so that we can work on flood recovery and growth for the future, we're looking to go back to DEMA to get money to go back and do the the projects that the funding was was shifted that are the growth projects. So, that is clear as mud. I don't know. But, uh, but we'll come and and and I'm just give we're just giving you a heads up today that we're looking at 4 million sewer, 2 million water. We'll come back and have a much more extensive as the project list and what that all means, but I thought was important to let you know because this is all about where we're getting the money. Um, we wea is is very good at at helping us out. So,

uh, two more things I just wanted to add. uh when we talk about the the sediment removal you know through the panel creek but also we've included on the you know our visiting sites and with the groups uh you know we we look at hackne you know m Mc McMillan wash um you know McCormick wash we're looking at all these feeders because actually when we had the flooding event every one of them actually topped the bridges in every direction I think that's what made it so significant where normally it's just one or the other or sometimes two or three but this time we had them all. So for for the public, for yourselves, uh, mayor and council, I think it's important that we we are including those areas because there's areas that right now that we've, you know, documented, visited, and we'll be doing additional work, and those are part of the sediment removal group, even by Hagen Road, you know, those that wash there as well. Um, and then just to top off, uh, Travis and engineering staff did apply for a bridge formula program, uh, and requested 4.2 2 million um prior they were already working on that for the Haskins bridge. So, those are other alternative things that are actually beyond just this list, the NRCS and all this other funding where we applied also for the uh the Yuma Bridge. Uh one of the uh when I met with the federal highway group, they indicated because it's over 460,000 for the repairs on Yumish Bridge, they said it probably help us in our application if we look to when we we opted not to just do that type of repair. Um we would actually look to replace the bridge because of its needs. uh the sidewalk still needs to replace. So they said it'd probably help our application in that time. That way we look to replace it and and our match would probably be better spent to replace the bridge rather than just repair it because it still is uh you know at a low score on the bridge, you know, pro program.

So unless you have any other questions for John. So John, thank you. Thank you, John. Thank you. Okay. And then Kendall's our uh second to last. I'm going to I'll be quick. Well, he's got he's got the glamour stuff. He's got the propane tank.

Yeah, I got propane and debris mayor and council. Um so I've been tasked with to discuss our TDMS site and the propane tanks, the ongoing projects that we have there. Uh there isn't much headway uh moving on that. We're still trying to vet uh vendors um with removing uh the debris. I don't know if everybody's familiar with how the debris works. It's very, very complicated on if we want to get reimbursed through DEMA or FEMA, how this works. Lots of pictures, lots of photos, lots of documentation. As we know, there's a lot of cheating with these companies. They build companies off of these flood events. So, they come in and they pray on us and they build these companies. So, we have to do our diligence to make sure that that doesn't happen so we can get the funding. Um, so right now we're in that process of vetting uh companies. I think we're tied up with ADQ on how we're supposed to test. Originally we were supposed to test for lead asbestous, things like that. Uh, but now they're telling the companies that we have to do some E.coli stuff like that. So um, the confusing thing with this is it's not as easy as grab garbage and throw it in the dumpster. We have to separate everything. We have to separate white goods from household uh um chemicals, uh construction debris, um branches, things like that. One of the positive things, one of our uh cohorts down the um in Superior is going to take all of our wood, so our trees and things like that, and they're going to burn it because they have an incinerator down there. So, I don't believe they're going to be charging us for that, but you know, that's

So, Mr. Mayor, members council, we're we're looking at what it's going to cost to do it the the paperwork way um with all of the testing and but but the but all the documentation where you get the load, where did you know, how did it go that way? If if that is too ownorous, we are also going to we're going to look at that but cost effectively look at what if we don't go after uh getting reimbursed on this and what would it take to test it, sort it, test it and then ship it to the people who will take that type of material and just do it on our own dime. It it may be it may be worth it just to you know we we could if we can pay a flat rate that we know right now out of pocket versus putting three times that in the demol list and keeping our fingers crossed for that we don't get dked on on some technical aspect. Um, we may we may do it in not internally, but we may do it ourselves without seeking uh reimbursement and and save some uh we won't save money, but we'll save some time and we won't be sitting on pins and needles waiting for the reimbursement check,

but we're not sure yet. We have about 200 cubic uh meters of material, which sounds like a lot, but it's not very much in the grand scheme of I mean, this is like one and we're and some of our original um quotes were upwards of a million dollars just to remove that stuff. So, the county that's kind of where we're like, so three million, the county is looking at 3 million to get and we think we can do it,000 or less. Yeah. So, um, but the propane tanks on the other hand, um, I haven't I've seen some movement up there, uh, with the site. I'm not 100% sure if the brothers are moving them, but they are marking the tanks, so I think they're getting ready to go ahead and, uh, move those tanks. Um,

we have various staff members have conversations. John's had conversations and we've seen that. And so, that's that's on our to-do list is to go and visit with them and and see what they what they what their plan is. They have a year to get them off of there. Um, and then we'll take action. But the but our agreement says they cannot move them back down to the their local site. They have a site in Rye. Um, and and um I think they're taking action, but we will have a a more comprehensive follow-up, probably an individual discussion about about the saga of the tanks. Debris is pretty pretty complicated when it comes I think if you offered them five bucks. So

there's categories and things like that. I think if we have a flood event again, we'll be better prepared. Uh we won't just let everything go to one site. We'll push it off to the side because then that's category differently and we can pick it up and dump it immediately. So just different things you learn. But any other qu any questions? One more slide to the appreciate you guys. Thank you. Nope. Keep the other way.

Other way. Both projects. That's it. You can tell where I stole the PowerPoint from. It was citizens academy PowerPoint I stole. Um growth projects we are still working on. Um this is a lot. You've seen a lot and and you know that on the screen right now are the things that we're still working on and and so fire station funding that's going to be pushed back. We were going to start in spring. We're probably going to go to September August September to to work on that. Um but but that is going to happen. Uh we the the important thing is we get the the 27 budget lined up and get a handle. But it it should be uh it's not directly reliant on a lot of the funding issues here. We we have a plan. It's just a matter of getting the messaging. I think I think what council would like to know is have a better handle on the money for the flood before we go making the decision on that. But the but the the plan remains the same. And so I think we're about four months is what we're pushing back on. Uh ladder truck, no disruption. That ladder is going to be here. And um one way or another, we will we will get the money to do that. Um if we're still seeking How much are we up to?

1.5 1.2. And we need to get to 2.5. Yeah. So we're we're inking our way there and and we we have a a plan B if that doesn't happen. Totally. uh Michaelelsson building. Keep going forward. Uh we're still having meetings. I I will tell you that some of the the 25 million that the county is asking for for flood recovery includes a small portion of economic development funding that may assist on this project.

So, so that might be a solution, too. But, but we're still moving forward on that. Um Jez sidewalks, no disruptions. uh fairgrounds water line uh that is main to mainly to uh staffing changes uh at the army corps um and some disruption there. So uh we have a we have a meeting Thursday I think tomorrow. Yeah. Uh to to get to meet the new project manager um McCormic Tunnel uh that was disrupted due to the shutdown and funding cuts that or funding that just went away. Um, uh, safe streets grants. There were some external problems, but we're back on track there. Adot sidewalks, no additional disruptions. Uh, we're in the process. Remember, we we halted on the the the smaller one. We kicked it out a year. Um, Yuma Bridge, uh, this may enhance, as John said, enhance our replacement options. Same with Haskins. Uh, Haven Building, no disruptions. We're going forward on that. Um, and then Municipal Property Corporation. While all this is going on, we're taking on some new stuff, which I think is important. uh that our our hallmark has been our ability when an opportunity comes, we're able to jump on it and take advantage of it. And in the middle of a flood, this the the municipal property corporation is happening and and we're going to we're going to jump on it and try to take advantage of it. There'll be more to come. So, uh and we'll go over more of this in strategic action plan, but but yes, we're covering the flood. We're dividing and conquering. We're going to get that taken care of, but we're still working on the projects that going to make globe uh you know, continue to grow. Mr. Mayor, members of council, thank you so much for allowing us this amount of time.

Fernando, I I just want to make a comment because I think, you know, being a small town, sometimes it's it's hard to be sophisticated and professional. I'm just so impressed on how well our staff has responded and what they've been able to do and meet all these deadlines and and that's some of that stuff is technical, technical, technical. Yeah, you guys have just done an amazing job and I'm just so proud of of all of you. So, I'm just Well, thank you. They everybody has pitched in.

I have the same comment and and I share your pain. Back in 93 after that flood, I was burning the midnight oil adjusting and readjusting figures to submit to FEMA. We'd had bones of cont contention and I had to go back and rework spreadsheets back in the old days and over and over and over many nights reconfiguring getting to new numbers and then ready for presentation to FEMA ASAP. So, I congratulate you for putting up with that and for being successful. Once again, you've taken another project on and you've you've really have have done a tremendous job with just that one response and all the other things that we're asking you before we walked into September 26th. So, you to be congratulated and I really am proud of you all. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Yeah, I want to thank staff, too. Just it's a testimony to our staff on everything that's being done. if people really understood the the complexity and the details of everything that's happening. And if we didn't have we didn't have the staff several years ago. Now the staff that we built is very committed to this community and there's no way it would have been done and and we really appreciate it. The community should appreciate the work that you guys are doing

and and out of transparency we have the website up. We have a flood recovery website. uh we're putting the documents that we're going to be talked about today, the letters, everything will be go on there as a a central repository of information. Uh and people have questions. Uh you know, we're transparency is important, too, because it is hard. It we're we're hunker down to get this done. Uh no one sees that. Okay. Right. Good. Jesse wants to table item G. Okay. You want a motion?

Okay. Uh item G is City of Globe staff will present council with section 15-4-1 of the City of Globe which prohibits the use of scooters and sidewalks or roadways for discussion. I have a motion to table that and bring it up in future agenda items. Second. We have a motion to second to table item G for future agenda item. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I.

I oppose. Nay. Motion pass. Let's move into consent agenda. And item 5A is consideration of waiver of section 2-4-10A prior discussion rule to action on the balance of the consent agenda. We have accounts payable at 741,447.88. We have consideration of approval of council minutes. September 27th, 2025 emergency meeting minutes. September 23rd, 2025 meeting minutes. B. Consideration to ratify the City of Globe letter of support for the appeal of the federal declaration requests made by the state of Arizona related to the September 2025 flood event. Item C, consideration to award contract number CS 20260092 to Pumpkin Phoenix Pumpman Phoenix to replace the community pool and motor motor for the amount of 6,35863 plus an additional $1,500 in contingency for possible freight charges for a total amount of $7,85863. Funds of this project are budgeted from account 106751-242 equipment repairs. Item D, consideration to ratify contract CS20260070 to Convenient Mobile Services LLC executed under the City of Globes Emergency Declaration Resolution number 1912 for emergency flood debris clearing loading service and use of heavy equipment necessitated by the September 26, 2025 flood event for a total contractual amount of $9,5855 75% % of this cost will be re reimbursed by DEMA contingent on eligibility requirements through account 20808

08 DEMA 2025 flood. The remaining 25% will be from account 10551296 DMA 2025 flood match. Is there anybody from council staff or the public wishing to remove any of these items for separate consideration? Mr. Mayor, if there's no request to pull anything, I would make a motion that we approve the consent agenda items as presented tonight. Second. We have a motion, a second for approval of the consent agenda as read. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Nay. Motion passes.

New business. Item 6A is public hearing and consideration to approve Arizona Department of Liquor License number 09040016 location transfer for the Safeway store located at 240 South Hill Street, Globe, Arizona. Shelley.

Yes, sir. Mr. Mayor, members of the council, uh the liquor license application before you is for the Safeway store. I I this is not a new liquor license. This is a location transfer. Um they did have a they do have a license in place. However, um they they needed to re-qualify for that location. And I'm not real sure what that means, but I do have Stacy Gonzalez, who is the liquor parallegal for the Safeway uh chain online, and I'm sure that she can explain where that location uh was transferred from or or why that came about. Okay,

Stacy, are you can you hear us? Actually, Shel, I'm Ryan Anderson. Stacy's by parillegal. I'm the lawyer for Safeway. Thank you. Yeah, I can I can completely explain. Good evening, mayor, vice vice mayor, members of the council. Uh, this is a liquor license application, but there's already a license there at the same land. This is a second license going into this location. Uh, this will the second license will be inactive license available, but will Safeway system have a license in Hila County that can be deployed uh if necessary for a new location. Um so there's not a new application. It's a new application. There's no new license. There's already license.

Go ahead.

So this license Ryan would effectively bring it into Hila County that in in the essence if you wanted to open another branch of Safeway, you could move this secondary license to that location. Correct. Correct. That's exactly if you have a two license, you can have multiple nines in one location in the county and and so you can then expand in the county without having to then locate and purchase a license at the time of your expansion. This is a very common uh element in uh the management of these large liquor licensing clients who have large retail operations uh to enable expansion in the county to have multiple series 9 licenses available. Okay, thank you for that clarification.

Is there a critical need that need that uh needs to take place or to wave the rules or can you put it to the next agenda items, the new business? No, I I would I would uh ask council to wave the the prior discussion rule and and approve. Mr. Mayor, if there no other questions or comments, I had a motion to approve item 6A as read and wave section 2-4-10A prior discussion rule. Second. We have a motion and a second for approval of item 6A. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppos? Nay. Motion pass. Thank you. Thank you for

item 6 A 6B consideration to approve resolution 1924 approving the amended bylaws for the city of Globe Municipal Property Corporation and request to wave section 2-4-10A prior discussion role. Shelley, can you read resolution 1924, please? Yes, sir. Mr. Mayor, thank you. Resolution number 1924, a resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of Globe, Hila County, Arizona, approving the amended bylaws of the city of Globe Municipal Property Corporation. Is council pleased with that reading? Yes.

So, Mr. Mayor, members of council, the the property corporation has asked to make some adjustments on there. Um we had we had discussed them and and while is a recommendation from municipal property corporation is up to council to approve that those um items uh uh to make this official. Uh as you know we're adjusting the membership uh and qualifications and requirements and things like that. Um I don't know if you want a detailed analysis or we'd like to just um go ahead. This has been um vetted by the attorney also. I think we reviewed it. Everybody review that. Are we good with that? Y.

Do we have a motion for approve? Motion to approve resolution number 1924. And wave the roof. And wave section 2-4-2. Second. Second. Motion second for approve item 6B. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I.

Oppos. Nay. Motion pass. Action item 7A. Consideration to approve an Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs DEMA budget adjustment of $150,000 to increase to increase account number 105512 96 DMA 2025 flood match and reduce account number one553002 capital project reserve for the 25% match on all invoices paid for projects on the 60-day list, which calculates a total of approximately $150,000 meeting the financial match needs for the fiscal year 26 without impacting any contingency funds and request to wave section two. Prior discussion room may

Okay, as we as we discussed before, I mean, we had bills that we had to pay regardless. So, it was emergency. Um, and you have the spreadsheet in front of you showing exactly what that that is. Um, as you can see on that spreadsheet, the general fund payments for the bills that have already currently been paid is around $125,000. We have to have that 25% match. So, in order to do that, this money is sitting in the capital project reserve, which is already budgeted. It this will have no effect whatsoever on the budget. We're just moving it basically from one account to the other account. So, increasing the expenditure ability of that match account from the uh by reducing the capital project reserve account.

So, when the money comes in from the match, if we were to if we are to get it from FEMA, then it would go back into that by council action, correct? No, this is this is just we have to pay 25% regardless. So, The money that's coming back is going to be the 75% that we've paid out already, not the 25. This 25% is our responsibility for the um the payments of the invoices we've already paid.

What do we normally use? Sorry, mayor, if you could. What do we normally use this fund for? Just for capital improvement as expenditures. At this point, this was the rainy day fund that was set aside in case we had something come up where we needed to have a little extra cash that we didn't it like I said, it's already been budgeted. So, it's not taking from the budget at all in any line item the contingency. It is just moving it from one line item to the other basically.

And Mr. Mr. Mayor, members of Council to Council Leam's question, we we had the 3 million match for uh the council, but then we had administrative 150,000. Um although the mayor said it's all your guys' money, but that was that was for these kind of lowhanging fruit, so we didn't have to touch the the the your pot of money. Um and so we're moving that on this account item now. But not to be disappointed, the the next item will go into the the council 3 million. Okay. questions. I'm just trying to remember what that amount was when we we baked that in. Well, the 150,000 was it was 150. Yes. Yeah. No one got to it before you got we did on this.

So, and there's some project 50,000 that's a full amount including 75 and 25 including our match 150,000. Our match is going to be the at this point is sitting at 125,000. Okay. That's our match. That's our match. We're looking to possibly be reimbursed for the 375,000 that we've already Okay. Okay. paid out. May have no other questions or comments. I motion to approve item 7 A is read and wave section 2-4-10A for our discussion. Second.

Motion second for approval of item 7A. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. Post nay. Motion passes. Item 7B, consideration to approve the National Resources Conservation Service NRCS budget adjustment of $150,000 in anticipation of the approval of the civil tech contract. Staff is requesting council to approve 150,000 budgetary transfer and expenditure authority from account 10553000000 contingency undesated to account number 10551297 NRCS matching funds thereby reducing the current balance of undesated contingency from two 2 million779,816 to 2,629816. $16 for fiscal year 26. Additional match funds will be budgeted for fiscal year 27 if needed.

Um, and this this one here is for the the NRCS project that we talked about for the settlement rem sediment removal. Um, well, like he stated, at this time, we don't necessarily need it because his services are covered 100% due to my misunderstanding. However, we were looking at possibly having to have $5 million in there. So, um if the a little start is good, you know, I mean, we have a lot of money we have to come up with. So, if we can move just this little bit that is moving from the $3 million contingency, which we have already at this point dipped into just a little. Um but it is possible with the future budget with the FY27 budget with u budget possible budget savings we can replenish that. So

and Mr. Mayor members of council we this time uh we are breaking up the moving of the contingency fund from the actual expenditure that requires a contingency fund just because this is so complicated. These agendas help us keep track of everything we've done and so in sometimes we'll wrap that up. We'll we'll move the money and spend at the same time. We're moving the money here and then Travis is going to spend it for you. Okay. So, at this point it's it's a placeholder at this point. Yes. Well, no, it's it's it's a move of the money, but um but it it it we're not we're not addressing you're not council's not approving what will be hitting this line item, which would be very soon. Okay. It's it's moving it, but it's not going anywhere right now. It's not my

No, because if you if you don't approve the other contract, then it'll be safe. Well, actually, because of the the the 100% cover, we um because of the what was it the technical assistance, it may not be hit at all. So, until we get into uh there's sub there's different things coming, but uh we we do want to move this and and have a a starting pool of money, right? U Mr. Mayor, if there no comments or questions, I motion that we approve uh this item as read. Second. We have a motion second for approval of item 7B. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I.

Oppos? Nay. Motion pass. Item C is discussion and consideration to approve contract number CA 20260068 with CivilTech Engineering Incorporated to provide construction manager at risk process assistance for upper canal creek flood mitigation activities for a total not to exceed $10,000. 75% of the cost will be reimbursed through the emergency watershed protection program funding administered by the natural resources conservation services on eligibility requirements through account 20808009 NRCS sediment removal. The remaining 25% is currently scheduled to be funded through account 10551297 NRCS matching fund and the possibility of a waiver to the match requirement. Travis Thank you, mayor, vice mayor, members of the council. I apologize for that being such a long read, but uh it's important to get that information.

We shortened it actually. So, this is uh the first contract that we mentioned in the presentation. So, u for the Seymour process assistance by CivilTech, Mr. Mayor, no other questions or comments on motion to approve contract number CA 2026006A, item 7 C as read. Second. Motion second for approval of item 7 C. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I.

You oppose. Nay. Motion pass. Item D is to consideration discussion and consideration to approve contract number CA20260069 with CivilTech Engineering Incorporated to provide engineering services on the upper Panel Creek for a total not to exceed 1,160,660 75% of the cost will be reimbured from the emergency watershed protection program funding administered by natural resources conservation services on eligibility requirements through account 208008009 NRCS sediment re removal. The remaining 25% is currently scheduled to be funded through account number 10551 297 NRCS matching fund with a possibility of a waiver to the match requirement.

Thank you mayor, vice mayor, members of the council. This is the second of the two that mentioned in the presentation for the engineering services that they will be provided under the Seymar process. And Mr. Mayor, members of council, like say uh it it may turn out that the technical assistance will cover this 100%. Uh but but this will not be the only thing hitting that account. Uh but with with that, we may that 150 may make it all the way to July, which we hope. So we'll have to see. Well, actually hopefully we're getting construction bills in sooner than that. So, okay. So, and then Chris, of course, is here is uh representing Civ if you have any questions, additional questions.

Before Jesse makes a motion, I'd like to make that motion. One minute. Be quick on it. Get some action on this side. Oh, was that a motion? Yes. Then I'll second. Then I'll second that. No, I second it. You can second it. All right. Yes, we got a motion, a second for item 7D. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppos? Nay. Motion pass. Thank you, Travis. Any late agenda items? No, there are no late agenda items. Second call to the public.

Um, let's see here. Um, I think the date is on this. Yes, we do. We do have one um that was emailed here. Um, I'm going to do my best to read this to uh this is from Marshia O'Brien. Uh, mayor and council. I am appalled at the comments being made online regarding the council, especially a member of council. Um, does he know people are writing stuff like this? It is not right to talk of the council like people are tonight. I am shocked. Is the globe uh is this globe talking like this on the live comments? It is not right. Um I have most respect for the globe council. I hope I did not read things wrong, but it sure looks like I hit it with a big shock that people are reacting like this. And that's Marcus Campbell.

Give thanks each day. So, and I I edited the I didn't want to read out the names. So, okay. And this is for So that's you email it, we read it. Yeah. So she was talking to comments online. Um comments made on the live stream. On the live stream. Okay. How about us? Council member on our live stream. I don't read those. Okay. Huh? You read it? No. We'll we'll look into it. I don't know what we can we can't we don't We don't filter. No. Okay. Scheduling of meetings. Um nothing.

Yeah. Nothing other than we know we're doing uh uh SAP on February 4th, 11 to 4. Okay. Maybe it's 11 to 3. 11 to 4. 11 to 4. 11 to 4 Street, right? Yes. And our next meeting is still Wednesday for this month. Yes. Our new is Yeah. Both Monday, I'm sorry, both January meetings have been pushed to the Wednesday. So the the next will be uh regular council meeting will be the 28th of June. Okay. January. January. January. Oh, wouldn't that be nice? Yeah. No, it would be like a marathon. Future agenda items. Yes.

Mr. Mayor, if you could bring back u item G. Item G541, the code. I just wanted to bring it up because it's been it's been on the books since 2009 and with us increasing foot traffic downtown I think it's just look nice to look at that code look and see what it is see if it fits within best practices and council's intent. Okay. So we can bring that back.

Bring it back. Okay. And then I uh Mor members council uh I have full intention to bring back an item where we relook at the the business license code 8.1. Um it is uh is muddled. It has some areas where it's silent. It it it compro it it goes back on each other. It contradicts itself. Um yeah Paul and I have been at it for about a month back and forth for a month on this. And and it'd be good for us to understand it, too.

I think it'd be great to look at it, see what it looks like, see what this council's intent is, and and I think from that code, it was brought up from what you say, PAC, and it was a it's all over Eastern Arizona, and it needs to be needs to be fixed what what we're doing. And I think that um staff and council and our business community to look at that and make it into

our our business license and and we what we've done is we've we've uh there was a admin administrative requirement of uh providing documentation on any type of state or or county licensing. um it was in conflict with the code and so we removed that requirement and I will follow up with the the call of the public person and let them know and we are currently uh alerting everyone that that requirement has has been um paused for this cycle. Okay. So we still need TPT information but we don't need to have uh the the documentation on the licensing uh and then it's something we will have a conversation when we go to relook at the whole thing.

Okay, good. Anybody else have any future agenda items? Okay. Do I have a motion to go into executive session? Motion made. Motion second to go into e session. All those in favor say I. I. Oh, I can we go back. Go back. Yes.

Okay. agenda item. Yes. Okay. All those in favor say I. I.

So, mayor, I I did I did forget to to ask there is a there is a a retention um strategy for supporting employees that that to help them stay at the city of Globe. It is used by many other cities. It there is a company called Educational Services Inc. and they allow um people to uh take their retirement and then actually come back and work for the city. And that is something that we would offer to help employees that are towards the end of their career to incentivize them to stay with the city and continue to work for the city. So we can we have that and they would offer that to anybody who qualify that. There's there's about 20 cities that are using it now. Scottsdale, Poria, uh, and and Tempe. I don't know about Tempe, but it it's a very helpful program and um I would like to ask council if I can bring forward a presentation about a incentive program using educational services which is a a third party vendor that you can retire and then rehire through that program and then re come back to the city without the 2020 rule. So you can come back as a full-time employee, continue on with your work, and um it benefits the employee and it benefits the employer because we can retain good employees. And so just let you know that that educational services, Inc. is something that um we are hoping to to bring back and and give you more information about.

It's kind of what we have with PSPRS and our public safety. It's like the drop program. It's like a drop program really is what it is. Okay. Yeah. So I'm sorry, but I and thank you for reversing yourself. I know it's been a long night and I I've never seen you guys close to saying no. I'll move to go to motion second to go into executive session. All those in favor say I. I. Okay. Thank you. Do we have anything?