City Council - Regular Meeting

Call the meeting to order, please. So, can you get a roll call? Thank you, Vice Mayor. District one, Councilman Rios here. District two, Councilman Pastor. District three, Councilman Letham. Present. District four, Vice Mayor. Vice Mayor Stapleton here. District five, Councilman Gonzalez here. District six, Councilman Shipley is excused. We do have a vice. Thank you, Shel. Okay, now Shel, can you do the please?

Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Please pray with me. Dear heavenly father, thank you for this time, Lord. We are so grateful for all of your blessings of protection as we serve this community. We ask for wisdom and courage when making decisions that affect the residents of the city of Globe. We ask that you continue to guide and encourage the council as they seek opportunities that make a positive impact on our community. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank you, Charlie. Freddy, can you lead us?

Yes, Mr. Vice Mayor. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Okay. Next on the agenda is a summary of current events and Mariano, we'll start with you. I have nothing to report, Mr. Vice Mayor.

Nothing. Okay. Thank you. Freddy.

Uh, thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. I just uh you're going to see here in a few minutes um some of my colleagues from Arizona Water Company are going to be here to present um a water conservation theme program. Um I'm happy that they're here. Thank you for being here, Luca. Um, and uh, this I think I talked about this in our last council meeting. I just brought it up, but uh, the brand name is called From the Ground Up. You'll see in the presentation. Uh, it's a conjunction with the city of uh, Globe, the town of Miami, the town of Wlman, and Arizona Water Company. Um, it's a live interaction uh, social media interaction uh, regarding water conservation. I you can enjoy it. Um, and there's opportunities for people to actually engage and and and talk about their um their stories of water conservation, how everybody can learn from that. So, uh, thank you again for being here. Thank you, Mr.

Thank you for Mr. Mayor. I was going to wish Mr. Vice Mayor Mr. Mayor welcome him to the 70 club tonight. look at you later and I really don't have anything else to do to address.

Okay. Thank you, Mike. I just have a few things. Uh first of all, uh I want to remind everybody that next Thursday is the state of the city address by Mayor Gomeros. It's going to be right out front at 6 o'clock, right? Five o'clock, I'm sorry. So, make sure you can attend that. It's a good time. Food, music, drinks. And then uh excuse me uh secondly I want to remind too uh everybody that tomorrow Wednesday is the coffee with the mayor at Copper City's coffee over on the highway. That's at 1:00 and that's a good time to uh speak openly. Uh he'll be there, I'll be there. Sometimes Mike's there. It's a good time about an hour and a half if you have any concerns or whatever. always a good time to bring something up. And then I did get a text from the mayor and he received an email from ADOT and he wanted me to share it. Uh it states I don't have the email but he said it states that uh ADOT has met a milestone on the US60 Queen Creek Bridge. They have reached the halfway mark on the project.

So yay. only two more years. Is that all? And then lastly, uh a good friend of mine and everybody here passed away April 7th, I believe. Uh Councilman Larry Alman, sorry, Larry Alman passed away last week. So, uh, he was a member of our group for years and just a good guy. He was a mentor of mine. I've been up here for over 12 years and he coached me and everything when I started. So,

I'd like to do a moment of silence for Larry if everybody doesn't mind. Thank you. That's all I have. And Mr. Vice Mayor, uh, Council Le Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry, Jesse. Do you have any I don't have anything to report. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Okay. Thank you. Sorry about that.

That's okay. So, vice mayor, members, council, um again, the state of the city, very important. We're excited about that. Um we do have a uh dump day coming up or dump days. um April 17th, 18th, and 19th called spring cleaning event, uh free dumpsters. Um and uh so the drop off locations, uh the dog park at 520 East Cupright, um the main staging area, so metal, appliances, tires, furniture, electronics, batteries, green waste, uh but no refrigerators. We don't do refrigerators, a freon thing.

So, um And then we have at 339 uh South Broad Street behind the teepee uh debris only there um Ash and Mosquite City parking lot. Um and then 621 uh Fifth Street again uh debris only. If you have the creative stuff, take that to the dog park. Um so that's real important. It's something we like to do is chance people uh to, you know, get that and just, you know, tidy up a little bit. enjoy that. Um, we uh we do not have any flood recovery events on the on the agenda, but that does not mean we are not needy and and trying to and working on a bunch of stuff. We're still actively uh doing our working with our partners, federal, state, uh, county, uh, Miami to, uh, move forward on that. Uh so so the the the efforts still consider continue. That's really good. Um the last thing on on Councilman Alderman, um I do believe that uh we are going to be putting together not the city but the community uh some sort of celebration of life event

uh in the near future. Not sure when that is. Um I I have not heard of a um of any of the details um on on everything, but if anybody wants to reach out to me, I I can share that information. I know uh Councilman Shiffley is very involved also with with planning this. So um and that's Mr. Vice Mayor, members council. That's all I have. Okay. Thank you, Paul.

Okay. Next on the agenda is our first community call to the public. Um, you can pick up a card in the back if you would like to speak to us. We can't answer you. Um, but now's the time to do it. And you take the card over to Shelley and she'll bring it up to me. So far, I only have one card, right? Community.

And this is from Pam Troal. If you'd like to come up to the podium, Pam, state your name and your address. Good evening, council members. I appreciate you letting me talk tonight. My name is Pam Troba. I live on Railroad Court in Globe. Um, I'm here to inquire about plans for the old Globe Head Start building on Murphy Street. Um, this building has sat empty since 2019, and it's well past time to put it to good use. I am aware of two separate times the city has been approached regarding the use of this building. I know one individual that was working with the late Carolyn Harl of First Things First two or three years ago to try and open a child care but had to give up when they could not get a response from city staff. I also know another resident that inquired about this building in 2021 to be used for 4 programming but also received limited responses. Fast forward with me to 2025. Veronica Gosset of First Things First began working with a company that is once again interested in opening a child care center in our area. Since August or earlier, um, Veronica has been in contact with city staff to create a request for proposal. So, this building might be used for that child care. However, after getting the runaround and limited responses once again, in early September, I was asked to come along as a consultant to help get this project moving, I emailed and I came and spoke to city staff in person. I left voicemails, many of them, asking for updates. I finally attended a coffee with the mayor event to ask for help. I have emailed and talked to Mayor Gomero several times, and I really do appreciate his responses. However, he was the only one who responded to tell me this topic has been discussed in

executive sessions and that I should hear something definitive soon. That was over a month ago. I have made phone calls and asked for updates by email since then and did not receive any responses. Now, fast forward one more time to last night. As I was drafting what I would say to you all this evening, I put up a simple post on my personal Facebook page that basically said I was frustrated and it was time to speak up. Right away this morning, I received a nice email and a phone call from Melissa Melissa Steel letting me know that the request request for proposal draft has been sent to legal and is being vetted. And I absolutely appreciated that follow-up phone call this morning. So, now that I know where we are in the process, I'm here asking why in the world I wasted over six months of my time and energy with phone calls and emails when all I needed to do was make a post on Facebook. Someone could have enlightened me sooner and I would have started with that. Why could no one simply reply to an email and let me know what was happening? I can't help but wonder what happened two years ago when the city was contacted about using the building for child care. Why did no one respond then? What happened in 2021 when 4 asked about using the building and heard crickets in response? This pill building could have been used to support families for the past several years. If only someone had put a Facebook post up, maybe they would have gotten a reply. I have been told repeatedly that this is a huge problem when dealing with city staff. Citizens get the runaround, if they get a response at all. This is so very unprofessional, and I know I'm not alone when I say this needs to change. I understand why this topic specifically had to be discussed in executive

sessions, and I know the wheels of government move like molasses. I believe I've been polite and patient as I have repeatedly asked for updates, but enough is enough and I'm now here demanding answers. And I want you to know I'm not going to go away like the others did. I'll leave with this. This is a little bit more positive. So, as you know, child care is desperately needed in this area. At the last council meeting, you made a proclamation recognizing this week as week of the young child. I encourage everyone to go to the Cobra Valley Center for the Arts where there is a children's art show honoring the late Carolyn Haro and her legacy. It is a beautiful site in memory of a beautiful soul. I am happy to know that this project may actually get the chance to see the light of day and I believe Carolyn would be excited to see this as well. Thank you. Mr. Vice Mayor, just a reminder to the crowd that on call the public uh we are not uh able to respond uh to anything stated and but we usually reach out to those persons and and we have already

say Melissa did reach out. Right. Right. So thank you for that Melissa. But yeah, legally we cannot respond.

Okay. Next on the agenda is special presentations and serum matters presentations, proclamations, awards, guest introductions, and announcements. Uh a council receive an update from Hila Community College, Janice Lawhorn. Vice Mayor Stapleton, my name is Dr. Janice Law Horn. I don't believe I've had the opportunity to meet you in person, so I'm thrilled to be here this evening. Um, Councilman Rios, I think you've received several emails from me over the last couple years as the college has been working towards our accreditation. Um, Councilman Gonzalez, very nice to see you again, Councilman Pastor, as well as Jesse. Hi, Jesse. I know you're out there in in that land. Okay, so again, my name is Dr. Janice Law Horton. I am the president of Hila Community College. I have been working tirelessly to get to the position that we are and I thought it would be um relevant for me to provide an update to the council. Okay, I'm going to try it. Shelley, ready? Oh, okay. So, a couple things I'm going to talk about um just as to what we've been doing to get to our independence. So in 2019 there was a change in the accreditation process which allowed us to choose a different accredititor. Up until then the higher learning commission was our only option. Well when they changed this the council on higher education and the US department of education said that regional accredititors no longer exists. You can go with any accredititor that will take you. And so we had been working with the Higher Learning Commission um for the

last couple years. I started as the interim president in 2022 um fall of 2022. And in working with HLC, it was a conflict of interest with our previous educational partner because they were a member and we were not. And so we weren't getting where we needed to be. And so in 2022 we had C or 2022 20 24 we had contacted ACCJC which is the accrediting commission for community and junior colleges which is connected to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Um the Western Association accredits the University of Arizona. Okay. So, Higher Learning Commission, not the only game in town since 2019, but it did take some time for those other institutions to determine if they wanted to take any other institutions. So, ACCJC opened their doors up. We are the first institution from Arizona to be part of ACCJC. So, we submitted our eligibility application in May of 24, our institutional self-evaluation report in August of 24. They came out in October of 2024 for a site visit and then we were awarded candidacy status in January 2025. When we received candidacy status, they said, "Okay, you got a couple things that you got to do." And so we're like, "Okay, what do we need to do? Just tell us and we will continue to move forward." We had two compliance requirements for initial accreditation and one recommendation. And here comes the train. Okay.

All right. Is that right on time? 6:30. Okay. And one recommendation to improve institutional effectiveness. So one of the compliance requirements were that we need to establish our institution set standards. All right. So you can see that there's the things that we had to do. See that big check mark? That's like okay. Did that when they came in October of 2023. uh 24. Um they said, "You don't have any students, you don't have any faculty, you don't have any staff. You need to get all that in in order." And that's what we've been working on the last couple years. Okay. The other thing they said is you need to implement and operationalize your governmental structure, your governance structure. So get everything set up, hire everybody. We pulled over about 150 employees from Eastern Arizona College that were already working at Hila Community College both in Pacin and in Globe. We had about 98% of our faculty and staff come over with us. And so we are, if you look at that chart right there, we are at the very last item on the road to full initial accreditation. And I always ask well what's next? What's next? Okay. No, full initial accreditation will mean that it is the first time as in initial that we have been accredited. And so we are hoping to be on the June 3 to 5 ACCJC commission agenda to be granted full initial accreditation. We have done everything that we said we did or needed to do to get this far. the site visit when they came on March 30th, they said, "Oh, you got faculty, you got staff, they talked to all of our people. They put a report together. We're just waiting for the final report to come

from ACCJC. I've already seen the draft." And then be on the agenda for June 3rd, 3 to 5. At that point, Hila County will never need another educational partner. The community college will operate independently just like every other community college in the state of Arizona. And so we have been operating since July 1st of last year when we ended our contract with Eastern Arizona College when we were receive when we received candidacy status. Candidacy status is akin to being pregnant. Okay? You either are pregnant or you're not. Okay? candidacy status, you have accreditation or you don't. And so under candidacy status, we were able to begin operating on July 1st. And so you can see some of the things that we've done over the last year. Just last week, we had a University of Arizona Global Campus Partnership signing ceremony so that our students could transfer to the UVA global campus with a seamless transfer. Some of the things that we've done in the last year is admit and register over 2,000 students last semester. Um, and again, we're talking about the Pacin campus, the Globe campus, the Globe Miami Regional Training Center, and the Hayden Fitness Center. About 1,500 students this semester. So, I believe we had 1540 last semester. We have 1520 students this semester. Some of the other things that we've done has submit submit our financial aid application. I don't know if any of you are aware of what's going on with the US Department of Education, but it's in a little bit of turmoil. And so we have as of March 30th, we have been assigned an actual individual to help us. We've already submitted our application. So they're just going to help us get to

that next stage. When we submitted our application in January, they had told us it was six to nine months before we could begin awarding financial aid. And so we knew that. And I will tell you that the that Panol Mountain Foundation here in this area, um, Aspire Foundation and Friends of Brim count country up in the northern part have been extremely generous. People have come out of the woodwork to provide scholarships for students. And so this year we've operated without any financial aid for our students. Um and we're getting through it. Okay. Um couple other things going on. Um we're going to have PACE will be have at the STEMfest up in PAC. They've never had one before just like you guys had the one here uh last weekend. So, one of the things that we did get when uh again because we are now a community college in the state of Arizona operating independently, we got $64,000 in Arizona Community College Promise funds. This is a state legislature um thing that was passed that provided funds to our students. We wouldn't have had that um would have never got those kind of funds from before. Okay. We also got a community investment fund grant of $75,000 for fixed plant maintenance program that we're continuing to work on um with Freeport Macaran and some of the individuals that work up there as we get ready for the fall. We've got a grant up at the northern campus that is building a observatory. Okay. And we've submitted a couple additional grants as well. So fix plant maintenance. The other thing we are doing is electrical fundamentals program. Right now, we've kicked off a a pilot program with the Arizona Department of Corrections here in Globe to offer an electrical program. And this is not only the first of its kind in the state of Arizona, it may be the first of its kind in the entire country. And so, if you think about a

prison program, generally you have a faculty member that will go into the prison every day and teach to those inmates and then come out. We have worked with the prison and I said doing a pilot right now where the inmates there are 17 inmates that are coming out that all have been cleared with gate passes and they are coming out to the regional training center four days a week to be trained in electrical and so that is that is pretty awesome. Um we've expanded some healthc care programs as well. We are hoping to offer some courses. In fact the contract was in my inbox today for Madera Peak. We're hoping to bring some some opportunities for those individuals at the senior the senior living area to take some classes as well. Uh same thing with piss and care center and I know there's been some conversation with Alexis um regarding is there a location where we can bring some classes to this end of of town specifically to Miami. Okay, I'm going to switch gears for just a minute. I'm going to talk about the expenditure limitation um and what's going on with the college. So the college gets funding based on what they call Footsie and that's full-time student equivalency. You'll hear it as FTSSE, you'll hear it as FTE, but we're all talking about the same thing. And what is that exactly? It's so that colleges, universities across the country can compare apples to apples. So, if I say I have 1500 students, that really doesn't tell you what kind of enrollment I have because I could have 1500 students each taking one three credit class. Okay? If I have 1500 students, um, you know, again, you've got some part-time, you've got some full-time students. And so, it becomes a combination of what they call a full-time student equivalency. One Footsie or one FTE is considered 30 student credit hours. Now 30 student credit hours can be any combination. I

can have 10 students each taking three credits over the course of a seme over the course of a year and get one FTE. I can have one student taking 15 credits this semester and one and the same student taking another 15 and it becomes that one FTE. So that's how the college receives funding from the state of Arizona. And I say the state the college receives funding. We have received limited funding because we were provisional district in the state of Arizona. Approximately $150,000 a year um with and I'm going to go over a little bit of of where the finances come from for that support the college. But you can see that our our highest footsie was in 2010 and that had to do with what was going on in the economy. people were losing their jobs and the recession was going on. And so when when people get a little um fidgety and they're like getting they're getting laid off, whatever it comes and they're like I'm going to go back to college. I'm going to retrain. I'm going to do something else. And so the footsie goes up and then you can see the footsie kind of tapered off. And if you look in 2019 2020 and you look at the drop in footsie there, another thing happened called COVID, right? Okay. And then students started staying home. students realized they had lots of other options to take online courses. In 2022, our previous institutional partner determined that they were going to claim all of the footsie for all students in Hila County that were taking online courses as well. We had at one time over almost 600 almost 600 students in Hila County taking online courses and at that time previous educational partner determined that they were going to claim that

Footsie for them. And so when we started having these conversations it was already unilaterally decided that they would claim the footsie for online courses in Hila County. And I said, "Okay, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I've got an instructor makes $50,000 a year. Half of their load or even twothirds of their load is they're teaching online courses. So they're teaching online courses to generate footsie for another institution, but not for us." I said, "That's not going to work for us." Okay. At that time, there was some contract things and that's many of you remember. Um, and that's when many of you started getting emails from Janice that said, "Hey, this is what we're doing. This is why we're splitting and this is our path to accreditation because we could not operate without all of the Footsie that was due Hila County. So, as you can see, our primary primary revenue sources are of course come from the property taxes that the Hila County residents pay, which is about 66%. I saw another one for this last year. It's about 70% of the revenue for Hila for Hila Community College. We have some state assistance. We're hoping to get some additional state assistance over the next year. And the other thing too, um, when I worked for the previous educational partner before, one of the things that I had asked to do, I was the senior dean over the Hila County campuses, and I said, "Can I write a grant, a community investment fund grant for Hila County, for Hila Community College specifically?" And at first they told me no and then they're like okay you go ahead and do it because we are not going to use our resources to write a grant for Hila County. So I wrote a grant community investment fund and that's when we first received

$150,000. Now, it had to be a matching grant, but that money came from Freeport Macaran. And so, we dumped in about four almost $400,000 into our regional training center here in Miami to upgrade all of the welders, put in an HVAC program, put in all new booths, things like that. Okay. So, again, we now have the opportunity to go after our own federal and state grants where we did not have that opportunity before. Okay, here's um some information on on this slide. If you look at the third number down, you'll see that this is our our expenditure limitation. Now, this expenditure limitation is put in statute by the state of Arizona back in 1979 1980 that says back in 1979 1980 you were spending is that 1.9 $1.9 million to run the campuses. Well, I should just say the campus because at that time the only campus there was was the Hila PBLO campus. uh did not include operations in PAC and they built a facility in 2000 with some additional funding from the state of Arizona. But our expenditure limitation which means you take your footsie, you take this random number, we have no idea where they got this 905 and it comes up with a population factor. Then it creates an inflation factor and then it goes and multiplies all of this by each other to come up with this is how much money you're allowed to spend. Okay? So a 1980 statute says here's what you can spend for 45 years. Other than the inflation factor there has been no changes to the formula. Okay. So talk a little bit about that.

We can spend $4.56 million based on the footsie. And you can see the formula up there that says what we can spend. That is nowhere near what our budget is and nowhere near what our revenues are. So the last three years as we've been building the college, we have exceeded our expenditure limitation. And what the the penalty is is onethird of your operating aid. Well, I told you our operating aid's been about $150,000 a year from the state of Arizona. So, we've had to pay a penalty. They withheld our operating aid for the last uh we're going into the second year that they will withhold $50,000 from Hila County because we've exceeded our expenditure limitation. As we talk about this and we and we look at where we're headed, we said, "Okay, well, we got to build. We got to get I mean, we have spent the last three and a half years building the infrastructure of the college." Back in 2005 when they wrote the contract with Eastern Arizona College, it was determined that even though the statute indicated as a provisional district, all you need to do is contract for educational services at that time, we had no accounts receivable. We had no accounts payable. We didn't have our own financial aid department. We didn't we didn't we didn't have we didn't have lot. Okay. And so when they contracted with Eastern Arizona College, the contract was for everything plus 25%. So someone asked at one of the town halls we had, how do you expect to pay for a community college? And I said, "The residents of Hila County have been supporting the college for the last 20 years because you passed a tax levy." Okay. Well, they said, "Well, Eastern No, no, no. Eastern Arizona College

charges us we have a $50,000 employee plus benefits plus 25%. Every piece of equipment that we have ever purchased has been this plus 25%. We were never going to get out from under that until we made the decision. So what can we do? Raise taxes, increase footsie, cut programs, faculty, staff. Okay, raising taxes, even if we had more money and we were generating more than about 6.26.4 million a year in property taxes, we're being penalized by the state of Arizona for spending that money. The goal for the Hila Community College governing board is to never go over $100 for per $100,000. Right now, we are at 9212. It's gonna be a 93 something, but it the plan is to never go back to the members of the county and ask for a tax increase. Okay? We can operate with the funds that we have if we can get on the November ballot and change that base limit. So that $1.9 million that gives us um money to spend it's this is this is not a tax implication for Hila County residents. Getting on the ballot this November and asking to adjust the base limit just says can I please have permission to spend the money the residents of Hila County are already giving us. Okay. No tax implications. They've run successful campaigns in 2024 in Maricopa and in Graham County. Someone said, "Why don't they just change this at the state? Why doesn't the state just change it?" And they said, "Because it has to be a voter initiative." Okay. All right. So, I

that clock is not I don't know what time it is. Okay. I should have paid more attention. Hopefully, I'm good. Um, but my question is, do you have any questions for me? I am happy to answer. I did want to um real quick if I could just um provide an update on the law enforcement training academy program. Okay. Um Chief Walters, I know you're here. I was working with Chief Walters on the law enforcement training academy program in 2021 I think is when we started and he came to us and said, "Can you do this law enforcement program?" a couple years ago. He also said, "Janice, you all need to keep working on this program because if I can get one officer to graduate from that program and become a police officer in this area and make it a career, it will be worth it." Is that still where we are, Dale?

Yes, ma'am.

Okay. So, with that, um, we had Lee Canard working for us for a couple years on that and now we have guy named Ray Tango that is working on that. I just found out today that the burm out at the uh firing range was damaged due to the flooding. They are getting bids on repairing that burn. I've heard one bid at 15 to $20,000, but I guess the flooding damage out to the to the um firing range will not allow us to go to the state of Arizona and get Arizona Post to come out and approve our firing range. We had rebuilt that burm, got money from the city of globe. We got money from FMI to rebuild that burm. And due to the flooding damage, we're going to have to repair that before we can move forward. So, I know that's in the works. At least conversation is recently started on that. So, again, I am happy to answer any questions. It is so very nice to meet all of you in person. And again, um, tell you that over the last three and a half years that I've been working with Hila County, we have done every single thing that we said we were going to do and that is to bring Hila Community College to full initial accreditation.

Great. Thank you. You have any questions? Yeah, I do, Mr. Vice. So bottom line that initiative in November is critical. It is very critical for the college. Yes. So who were involved to vote? Just the county citizens. Yes. Yes.

We will be we will be reaching out to some of our some of our constituents to ask about writing letters for support. Um you saw that there was a um a ballot measure in Graham County and in Maricopa the LA in 2024 where both of their initiatives was passed in 2022 or 2020. Puma Community College had the same issue where they're up against their expenditure limitation. It does not make sense for us to pay a penalty. That's a that's an instructor. That's another program. You know this $50,000. that the governing board president and I have had many conversations about where's the where's the cart and where's the horse what do we do first well we can't go to the residents of Hila County and say hey will you look at give us or adjusting our base limit and they'll be like uh shouldn't you be working on accreditation okay talk to us when you're done with that and so we are there yes very critical okay additional questions Uh, no. I I just, you know, hearing you talk and and then see because I was already thinking about this as you were going through your slides, but you know, we at the city also have a situation called the home.

Yes. Where every four years we have to go to the public and ask for those same graces to spend the money that we have. It's ridiculous. So, uh, I wish the best for you and and um, you know, I truly hope that the residents of Peter County will pay attention to this and and make a wise choice.

Councilman Rios, I appreciate your support and I would like to say the one thing different between the community college and cities and towns and things like that is if we adjust our base limit to maybe 6.4 million maybe to our budget, okay, we don't have to do this again. We don't have to do this again. The plan is as Footsie grows at the college and we rebuild some of our programs that we've lost. Okay, we do have a nursing program going on. We are in block two. We've got students in block one and block two out at the college right now. So, we are moving forward with all of that, but it will take us some time because we do not have any third and fourth semester students in the program yet. So, we have to rebuild. Um, Councilman Rios, thank you for bringing that up. I appreciate that. One more request. Please sidebar with me before you leave tonight. I am Exalted Ruler now over at Globe Miami Elks and whatever campaign fund or motions that you are making in the community, please let me know. We might be able to fit you into a presentation at Gloss.

Thank you very much. I have been to the Chamber of Commerce last week. I've been to Rotary. Um I've been to Cobra Valley Institute of Technology Board as well. And so we are trying to make the rounds if I can. And I've been I've been emailing Al for the last couple months going, "Hey, I need to get on your agenda. How does this work? What do I need to do?" And then my apologies. I did not know I was on the agenda last week until I don't know, an hour before the meeting started. Okay. But thank you again and thank you for your support. We appreciate what you guys do. And Mariano, I'll be happy to to visit with you after the meeting. Please. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Janice. Appreciate it. Thank you for all you do.

Thank you. You know what I'm doing?

Okay. Next on the agenda is item B, National Library Week Proclamation, presented by me, Vice Mayor Mike Stapleton. I'm going to read the proclamation. Okay. This is National Library Week 2026 proclamation. Whereas Library spark creativity, fuel imagination, and inspire lifelong learning, offering a space where individuals of all ages can find joy through exploration and discovery. Whereas libraries serve as vibrant community hubs, connecting people with knowledge, technology, and resources while fostering civic engagement, critical thinking, and c cultural enrichment. Whereas libraries provide free and equitable access to books, digital tools, and innovative programming, ensuring that all individuals, regardless of background, have the support they need to learn, connect, and thrive. Whereas libraries partner with schools, businesses, and organizations to maximize resources, increase efficiency, and expand access to essential services, strengthening the entire community. Whereas libraries empower job seekers, entrepreneurs, and lifelong learners by providing access to resources, training, and opportunities that support career growth and economic success. Whereas libraries nurture young minds through story times, steam programs, and literacy initiatives, fostering curiosity and a

love of learning that last a lifetime. Whereas libraries protect the right to read, think, and explore without censorship, standing as champions of intellectual freedom and free expression. Whereas dedicated librarians and library workers provide welcoming spaces that inspire discovery, collaboration, and creativity for all. Whereas libraries, librarians, and library workers across the county, the country are joining together to celebrate National Library Week under the theme find your joy. Now therefore, be it resolved that I, Mike Stapleton, Vice Mayor Cadia Globe, Arizona, proclaim April 19th to the 25th, 2026 as National Library Week. During this week, I encourage all residents to visit their library, explore its resources, and celebrate all the ways that the library helps our community find joy. And then I'm gonna go ahead and give this to

Well, Mr. Vice Mayor, um, our library director is not in attendance, right? Council Pastor, who works very closely with the library, has agreed to accept the city. Actually, Jared Torres is here, I believe, from the library. So, actually, no, I'd like you to give it to him. No, I just looked out and I didn't see Rael. So, I'm like trying to think Jared's right there. No one told me that one. So, he's a much better I just found out before the meeting. So, but I really would appreciate Mike.

It's kind of interesting that isn't always information. She's at a conference. I Yeah, that makes sense. She's always

Oh, no. This is much better. There you go. Mr. Mayor. Yes, sir.

I just wanted to make a comment. Uh Rael had a I think you were there, Mike. They had a read to a child or children moment last month. I You could pick a book and read it to the children. I had an audience of one one like a fouryear-old. and I think she was just putting out with me, but she was very attentive for the the whole book, a Dr. Seuss book, and I forget the title, but you don't know how much you might affect the channel just by doing that.

Um, she was she had shining eyes and listened attentively and I think patiently, and I was very pleased with that moment. I'd had a busy day. Uh, I'm member of the Elks, so they have me running all over town. And every time I drive up on Ash Street, I have this affection for the location of the library because I know there's good stuff going on there. And that day settles me down. It just calmed me right down. I got to interact one-on-one with the child. That was fun. So, they're doing good things there. Don't forget to use the library. Right. Thank you, sir.

Good. Thank you, Mariana. Thank you, Mike, for presenting. And thank you, Jerry. Appreciate it. Okay. Next on the agenda is item C. This is a presentation by Arizona Water Company regarding the launch of the integrated demand management program IDMP called from the ground up which provides water conservation resources to the communities of Globe Miami and Wlman. I'm gonna call up uh Ruca Mayo Chescu. Oh, very close. They wrote it for me.

I looked at that. I'm like, I'm gonna butcher. It's okay. Thank you.

Awesome. Uh let me just make sure this is right. Okay, perfect. Um thank you, Vice Mayor and Council and everyone here for inviting us to speak on this. My name is Ruca. I'm the water conservation administrator for Arizona Water Company. With me I have Amelia. She's our water conservation specialist. She'll be doing the real boots on the ground day-to-day stuff for this program. So I thought it'd be a great opportunity for her to also talk about the program launch, kind of introduce herself. Um okay, let's go ahead and get started. Uh just a quick overview. Um we've already introduced ourselves. We've been working really well really closely with uh Council Member Rios who happens to be an employee of Arizona Water Company on this program. So it's been great working alongside with him. Um, I'm just going to set things up. I'll talk about the strategy, our water resource strategy as a company, how we even got to this point and the priorities of the company, what's included in a demand management program. It's such a it's a mouthful of a title. So, what does that even mean, the work that we've done to date, and then I'll hand it over to Amelia to talk about the launch, next steps, and what some other resources that we thought the community would might um appreciate learning about um for the program. So, Arizona Water Company, we are the second uh largest private utility in the state of Arizona. For those that don't know, we don't just serve in this area. We have about 24 systems across the state. This is a map that shows some of our areas. But when it comes to water conservation, um and the areas that we serve, a big problem kind of came up to leadership. So, when you have a really diverse set of customers, they use water very differently, which means that their water conservation needs are very different. up here in this area or even in northern areas like Sedona or the White Mountains, the water uses are going to be very different than um in central Arizona like Apache Junction or Cassag Grand or even down south in like Bisby Sierra Vista. So when we have diverse customers in order to actually have effective conservation measures, we need to take a little bit more of a tailored approach if we actually want to achieve savings. Um, so we're also kind of having that in mind, we're also

thinking about from the regulatory perspective, what do we need to do for conservation? As a private utility, we're regulated by two main um, entities, the Department of Water Resources and the Corporation Commission. We're required to uh implement water conservation through both of these entities. But again, regionally, based on where our systems are, there were some systems that required a lot of conservation, other systems that required not as much conservation. But we just wanted it to be pretty standard. So everyone was getting equal attention, equal amount of resources. There wasn't one area that was getting more conservation because of a regulatory need than another area. So that was kind of another thing in the back of the mind of leadership. Um, and then this is like setting the tone from how things were in 2021 when I got hired. Another thing to consider was the Department of Water Resources was growing their management plans. And the management plans are essentially in certain spots in the state where the populations are really, really high. um they were going to require over the next four to five years that um water utilities and water providers do more for conservation. So we kind of knew that was already on the horizon. The sta the status quo was not going to be um good enough. So it was kind of the perfect time for us to restrategize what are we doing for conservation? How can we do more for our communities and how can we make sure that it's actually impactful and um effective for our communities and that's why they hired me. Um, so this is the list of uh conservation efforts that the company has already had since 2013. I'm not going to go through this list. Uh, it is posted on our website if you're interested in diving into it, but these are just resources that the community has already been doing. I want to give a shout out to Freddy and his staff, his local staff. Um, the Arizona Water Company office here, uh, implemented a lot of these things. So things like um if your water bill is higher than it normally is, a customer service representative in our Miami Globe office would call our customers and do a higher uh a high use notification, let people know, hey, your water use is a little higher than normal. You might have a leak. Let's figure out what's going on.

So shout out to Freddy's team for for doing things like that. Um but this is part of my job to understand what is the lay of the land, what is already happening for conservation and what more could be built. um already started having some conversations with Connie and Melissa a few years ago about what the community is doing for conservation as well. Um Connie did some fabulous work got a grant to get um AMI automatic metering infrastructure which is conservation. It does allow um you know customers and the utility to understand like what what are the water use patterns dialed in more from the just a monthly view. Um and then there was a workshop that was attended in tandem with Miami to see, hey, what more can we do? What are some resources um that could be could be grown from the municipality perspective? And then since 2009, I'm not sure if you guys are aware, Amelia will talk about a little bit more. Um but there has been a South Hilo water festival that's been happening. So that's a partnership with the UOVA organization within UVA called Arizona Project Wet. and that's focused on educating fourth graders on the water cycle, where groundwater comes from, what can fourth graders do to conserve water, why is it important to protect the watershed. Um, that's been an awesome effort that's been going on since 2009, and we plan on continuing that in the future. So, back to Arizona Water Company, our water resource strategy is really pretty simple. It's got two parts to it. The first is to obtain and maintain a diverse water supply. essentially making sure we're not putting all of our metaphorical water resource eggs in one basket. Um, and the second part is to promote the efficient use of those supplies. And that's what Amelia and I do. We're trying to make sure that all of our customers and us as a utility are using our water supplies as efficiently as possible. So, um, the strategy for conservation, we have those those two parts, but the overall goal for conservation, at least from my perspective, is to, um, use it as a tool to strengthen our relationships with our communities and to achieve water savings while also meeting any regulatory requirements.

Just to plug it in, my general thought on conservation is it's balancing a desired quality of life within a community with water efficiency. Right? The goal is not to not use any water. We absolutely need water, but let's just make sure that we're not wasting and that we're using every drop as efficiently as possible. It's called an integrated demand management program, uh, IDMP, because it's integrated because we're working with you guys, right? My goal this whole time and working with Melissa and Connie and Freddy is for you guys to tell us what would be impactful. Millie and I work at the corporate office. So, there's no way that we could know how the community uses water and what the best ways to, you know, implement conservation would be. So, that's why it's integrated. It's a collaborative relationship and it's called demand management because um we really want to make sure we communicate to residents that every gallon of water that is saved, not only is it the right thing to do, right, it's obviously the right thing to do, but it's an additional gallon of water that we can keep in the groundwater for reserves for a rainy day and for the future. Um so we're a if we're able to manage demand, that also puts less strain on Freddy's infrastructure, right? Our mains aren't aren't um experiencing as much demand. we're not having to do as much maintenance hopefully or like upgrades and things like that. So, we're communicating conservation and taking that next step for our customers. Um, and this this title for the program also makes sure that we as a utility are again held as responsible. It's not just a focus on the end user. You guys need to conserve water. It's also hey, we as a utility need to make sure that we're conserving and that we're being responsible stewards as well. Um, here are the benefits of the program. I've mentioned a few of them. Uh one of the things that I want to call out is um what Amelia will be talking about a little bit too is uh this program and this partnership will create additional channels for communication for education and things like that. Currently about 90% of our customers um as a utility are under a demand management program and benefit from the resources of a program.

So we're really excited to get this area um under one as well. So these are some of the elements included in a program. I won't go through these too tediously because I want to be mindful of time. Um, but we do an analysis to see, okay, from the numbers from our customers, you know, where are the potential for savings? We create a unique brand and logo that's from the ground up. These t-shirts that we're wearing and that you guys have all gotten a t-shirt of, it's important that we have a brand that um, all the partners can kind of fold into. And from the resident perspective, it doesn't seem like the brand is representing one partner more than the other, right? It's kind of like an umbrella that we can all fold under. Um, we do a public engagement program. We've launched a Facebook and a YouTube page. Through the Facebook page, once a month we're going to be posting on or not once a month, we pick a topic every single month and we do two to three Facebook posts a week educating people on that topic. Things like, you know, how do you test for leaks at your home on your own? What are some tips on things to do for uh increasing efficiency indoors versus outdoors? So, we select a topic, we try to make it super relevant. You know, when it's raining, how can you harvest rain water? Try to after that to to help water your plants so you're not using portable water, things like that. We have a landing page which is a website. It's already live. You can go online and you can see it. It explains this program in just a different way. It's got frequently asked questions, uh links to the YouTube page, stuff like that. A launch video. You guys might have already actually been served an ad with the launch video. It features uh the mayor of the community. He did a really great job. Features Freddy and myself. Um an implementation strategy guide. We worked with Melissa and Connie on that. basically just describes how posting online goes and all that. And then event attendance, we um attended an event, the first Friday event. Uh was it last week? Yes, last week. So much time has passed. Um and where we started talking to to the community about this, giving away um you know, swag to folks and and really just trying to in many many different forms let people know that this is a resource available to

them. A pre- campaign survey, which is live now. You can go online if you go to the Facebook page. It's the first post that you'll see. I encourage everyone to go out there and take it. It essentially we're just asking, you know, what does conservation mean to you? What are topics you'd be interested in learning about? How important do you think uh conservation is to your community? Print material. We've got posters we're going to be putting up around the community. I'm sure Melissa and Connie have already worked on that. Um and then eventually in the next few months, we'll be doing a water journey video which describes to the community where their water comes from. We have found that if we educate people on where their water comes from, then when things happen like some of the dicey things that were happening on the Colorado River in uh 2023, um people if they understand where their water comes from, then they can kind of interpret, you know, media news outlets and stuff what's going on with that in a different way if they understand where their supplies are coming from. And now, oh no, not yet. Okay. So, um we all the elements that I've talked about are are um standard elements. every one of our program gets those, but we also will come up with customized elements, things that are unique to the community um that will really fit fit the need. Uh one of the customized elements that we're already doing is that water festival I talked about and in working with Connie Melissa, another customized elements we thought element we thought would be impactful is doing adult education workshops. So, um, finding a venue in the community and two to three times a year having bringing a specialist in to talk about specific topics, whether it's, you know, irrigation 101, like how would you even install irrigation, um, having the department come in to talk about water resources, um, having someone talk about the Colorado River, you know, we can kind of tailor those topics, but, um, focusing on educating youth and focusing on educating our adults in that one-on-one classroom kind of setting. Okay, now I will hand it over to Amelia.

All right, thank you so much. Um, all right. So, just here I want to show everybody the logo first on the shirts. It's not just a pretty logo. It's uh it's good for shirts and it's good for conservation. Um, thanks for having us here today. Just going to talk a little bit about what from the ground up means to the actual community. Um, I've never even really been in council chambers until uh last week I was or two weeks ago I was in some for the first time. So, we're making big strides here. Um, I've worked for Arizona Water Company for about a year and this is the first time that I've been seeing a program from the beginning to the launch now. So, I'm really I'm really happy to be here. Okay. So, like Ruca said, this is a very collaborative partnership. So, this is us. This is the town of Miami. This is the city of Globe. And then also, um, we just were reached out to by the town of Winkkelman city clerk in the last day. So, We're hoping to get the town of Winklman looped in on this as well. Um, but yeah, like Rua said, we live in Phoenix, so knowing exactly what

Freddy's taking a photo.

Um, knowing exactly what the community wants, we wouldn't we wouldn't know that. We wouldn't know what exactly the community uses. Do they use more water in a residential setting or in a more commercial setting? What does that look like? So, um, Connie, Melissa, Alexis, Freddy, they've all been integral into getting this program off the ground. Um, they've been helpful in developing a brand and a logo. Um, I'm biased, but I think it's really cool. Um, I like the name From the Ground Up because we get our water from groundwater here. Um, both the city and Arizona Water Company. So, I think it's a really relevant title. Um and then like Rua mentioned um we've done so far we've developed the standard elements such as the pre- campaign survey working together to develop the you know brand logo, the landing page, the Facebook page um but also some unique elements. So she mentioned um that we're continuing to grow the fourth grade water festival. So this is one of the longest standing water festivals that we've participated in thus far. Um and then also like she mentioned um developing adult education workshops. So um we have discussed with Melissa, Connie, Alexis and some of the some of the topics that are pretty relevant and we'd love to hear what you guys have to say as well. That's kind of the whole point of the landing page and the Facebook page is we want to hear what the community says. Um, but we've decided so far that there's going to be some sort of workshops on water resources in the area to kind of lay the foundation. And then we also want to do some sort of passive and active rainwater harvesting. So getting an expert out in the area and just educating the community at some sort of, you know, shared space. So like she said, um, we launched last week um at the first Friday event. I had never been before, so that was really fun. Um, we met some really engaged people. We were able to we brought a trivia wheel, so we were able to educate some people on some water resources and water conservation information. We gave away some swag, some giveaways. Um, and

that was the same day that we launched the Facebook page and the YouTube. So, we've been promoting that launch video. Um, Freddy did a really great job in that launch video. Um, and honestly, everybody did. Um, we launched the pre- campaign survey. Um, so like she said, please go ahead and take that. Um I don't know if these slides will be made available to the Oh, they are available.

They are available. Okay. So, yeah, please take that. Um and then that that is the URL for the landing page. So, from the grounduparizona.com. All right. So, what's next? So, because we've already launched, we're now in the maintenance phase. Um so, what that means is we're going to be creating monthly content with partners. Um, and so something that's just been mentioned at some of the meetings that we've had thus far is what is AMI? How does it help conserve water? Um, just because AMI is very relevant with um, the city of Globe and also we're going to try to start implementing that in the next couple of years. Um, also I know H household hazardous waste was mentioned at the beginning of this um, presentation, but that is an example of, you know, some content that we would do. What's the why is it so important to dispose of your household hazardous waste responsibly so that it doesn't pollute any sort of waterways get into the ground? Um we also are going to do a water journey video. Um so that'll probably be in quarter 4 of 2026 and so we'll essentially um it'll be about a 3 to five minute video and it'll just tell people exactly how their water gets to them from the ground to their tap. So it'll it'll cover every stage of the process along the way. Um we're going to start the workshops in Q4 of 2026 as well or um or beginning of next year. And those like I said earlier, those will be the rainwater harvesting or irrigation or anything like that. And then we're going to continue with the water festivals. Speaking of water festivals, so the South Hilo Water Festival is the first established water festival for Arizona water. Um last year's festival had 180 students coming from three schools. So Globe Unified, Hayden Wkelman, and the Miami Area Unified School District. Um it spanned across eight teachers and

there were 33 volunteers and they are always always always looking for more. So if in addition to the pre- campaign survey, if anybody wants to volunteer at one of these water festivals, um Freddy would be a great resource. He's got the flyer. He would love to get that to you. Thank you. Yeah. I'm gonna make him work. I've heard my name about 10 times.

Um, but yeah, the the festival it's next month. It's May 5th. So, please, if anybody is interested in volunteering, it's a great opportunity to get involved. UCA and I will be there. I'll say your name an 11th time. Freddy will probably be there. And um, yeah, it's a good time and it's it's a good way to to teach the fourth graders. And honestly, before even getting this job, there were some things that I learned for the first time at these water festivals. So, even though it's tailored towards fourth graders, it's a really great opportunity to learn more about water and responsible water management. All right. And then these are just some of the things that we've already been doing. Um, Arizona Water Company for conservation. So, we've got a toilet rebate program where customers can get up to $200 back um for installing a high efficiency toilet. So that just means that it flushes um no no more than 1.28 gallons per flush. Um so you can get up to $100 for the cost of the toilet and then an additional 100 for the installation of the toilet. Um and then the current funding comes from WIFA for this. It was a grant that we received a couple of years ago. So the funding for that ends next month. So we're trying to spend as much of those funds as possible before um transitioning away from the WIFA funds. Um, but it'll still be a program that's available to all Arizona Water Company customers. Um, in addition to that, we've got a conservation kit program and so customers can apply online and then they'll um they'll get approved and then they can go to their local office in Miami and they can pick up a tote bag and it's got those items in it. So items for indoor and outdoor conservation. So for example, it's got like a toilet tank bank. Um, it's got a little package for irrigation. And then we also offer um commercial, industrial and institutional audits um for our commercial customers. So they're free water audits um and they're yeah no cost to the customer and we essentially

go out there and or we have a consultant that does it and he will look for anything that uses water and thinks how can how can anything here be made more efficient or checks for leaks anything like that and then he provides a report at the end. So yeah those are just some of our pre-existing programs. Does anybody have any questions? You guys good? I do. Um, Paul, yes. How do we tie in with Arizona Water Company? How can we share the load? How can we share the water resources and the programs that they are utilizing now and inject them into our own system?

No, we we're going to be having conversations on conservation. Conservation important and we can learn from our partners locally and we so so we we have had discussions actually today before that on some of the things that we're doing building off of that. I I'm really interested in this program. I really am. And I'll tell you one of the reasons why is because I have a secretary over at uh Low Miami Elks and she kept hearing water running and I'd walk in, she said, "There it goes again," she'd say. So, I finally traced it down and found it and it was a an old flapper ball in a toilet

that had gone bad and had uh chemicals and stuff on it. So, for the price of $4, I replaced and saved the the vlogs some money. And so, that's why I'm interested in these programs. And, you know, we've talked about this. Some of our water systems are a hundred years old. Can you imagine what kind of things we could replace and save water in our own city of globe uh systems? So, all I'm saying is Paul, look at me again, sir. Thank you. And let's tie in with this program, sir. I'll be watching you. Oh, no. Okay. You know, okay.

Remember everything voluntary reduction of water usage, water conservation, Yes. is something we can all buy in on. Yes. Yes. Thank you, sir.

One thing I want to mention to that point is when we have a program like this that has many different partners. So, I understand that we serve a small part of Globe, but for the most part, you guys are your own municipal water provider. One of the things that Ameilia and I have to do is balance those resources, right? So, things like the toilet rebate program, you have to be an Arizona Water Company customer to apply for that. So, one of the things we do with Melissa and Connie is try to make it as equitable as possible. So, for example, the uh conservation kit program, although we can apply that to our customers, we know of other resources where if a customer that wasn't our if someone that wasn't our customer but wanted a kit, we can provide them resources and point them in the right direction so they could still get a kit without having to be one of our customers. And that's one of the the sensitivities we have about content posting. So, we want to make sure that it feels equitable and that every customer gets um equal opportunity to the things available. On the flip side of that, you guys are going to get AMI, which is something that our customers won't have, which I think is a huge benefit. And so, it is a balancing act of how do we communicate that to our customers and make it as easy as possible for anyone accessing this information to understand where they fit in. One of the things that Amelia built for the landing page is a map that shows people, you know, you can plug in your address and see who is your water utility and then to then point people to those resources so that we can provide clarity and really get people in the right direction and hopefully minimize frustration so someone doesn't go into the toilet rebate program thinking that they can apply for it if they're not our customer. Um, so that is something that we try to manage and I appreciate that you brought that up. Yeah, tying in and finding that balance. We'll chat with you, Paul. Thank you, Mr. Spice.

You're welcome. I just wanted to comment Facebook.

Thank you. He's a natural. Yeah, it's well put together. It's not They made me look good. It's it's a wonder what camera people can do. Yeah, we have to give a shout out to our digital marketing team. We outsource that an organization called Blossom Digital Marketing. If you like any of the videos, if you like the landing pl page, they do all of that. Um, and they're incredible to work with. So, shout out to them. Yeah, if you haven't seen it, look it up. No, really, you know,

it talks I mean It highlights the communities, you know, um Miami Globe, Winklman. Um it's it's really integrated. Uh this is not just an Arizona Water thing. It's a partnership

and um I I think you know this is not the first time that Arizona Water has done this in it's first time in this in this community but all the other communities um Luca and her team have put these demand management programs together that that fit that fabric of that community. Um and it's it's equally going to happen here as well. So I invite I I really encourage all of you to get engaged in this. Um you know it's all on social media. Um you can interact. Um you know we just want to make this this interaction make it clean and um you know make it where where we're talking about one common goal which is water conservation. We all we're all in this world now about conservation over the uh western United States. So, um I really encourage everybody to to really engage in this, be a part of it, be a part of this entire movement. And I want to thank Luca and again, it's it's a pleasure working with you. You make things so easy for me. And so, thank you again.

Thank you. Thank you, girls. Appreciate it. Nice. A nice presentation. Thank you. Very welcome.

Okay. Next on the agenda is the consent calendar. Matters listed under the consent calendar are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion and one vote. Public hearing items are designated with an asterric. Prior to consideration of the consent agenda, the mayor will ask whether any member of the public wishes to remove a public hearing item for separate consideration. Members of the council and/or staff may remove any item for separate consideration. Item A, consideration of waivers of section 2-4-10A, prior discussion rule to allow action on the balance of the consent agenda. Accounts payable $454,70.73. Uh, item two, consideration of approval of council minutes. Item B, consideration of the January 28, 2026 meeting minutes.

Uh, Mr. Mayor, for no further comments or questions, I motion that we uh approve the consent agenda as read. I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Any nays? Any abstaining? Motion passes. Mr. Vice Mayor. Um, just a a quick request. We have uh guests in the audience from uh from Walmart and so we were asking if if new business if we could uh adjust the agenda order to start with D and then we'll go back to A. We're going to start with item D. Yeah. So, we start with 5D and then go back to the normal order.

Okay. I'm good with that. Are you guys good with that?

Okay. So, New business. We'll start with item D. Discussion and consideration to accept accept grant award number go-26-57-05083 from the Spark good local Walmart grant in the amount of $2500 received through account number 20-42-08120 Walmart PD grant which will be utilized to help fun the annual globe police rodeo in request to wave section 2-4-10A prior discussion rule. Officer Verdugo on Chief Walters.

Hi, Vice Mayor and Council. Good evening. If I can have Sergeant Cochran and Officer Berdugo join me along with some special guests tonight. Uh the manager from Walmart, uh Damian, and the general manager Erica could come down to the uh podium, please. I wanted to take a moment and talk about um the partnership that we've had with the Walmart uh here locally since I've been here. Officer Ferdo had reached out years ago and started a bike rodeo for uh bike safety education for our kids and our community. uh and it has grown every single year and it's be it has been because the partnership with Walmart uh their generous donation uh uh to our cause has enabled us to purchase bicycles and and raffle them off uh to the kids that attend the bike rodeo year after year along with some significant bike education and safety training that officer Verdugo has has led the charge this entire time. Uh this is on uh the heels of coming on to our next bike rodeo that's going to be this Saturday at the hospital. Uh and I'll let officer Berdugo come up and talk about it. Uh but I wanted to personally thank Erica and the general man and the manager uh for their continued support uh to the Globe Police Department and the city of Globe Youth. So thank you very much. Um, so it I came up with this idea because I I didn't see a lot of kids in bicycles in town. And I get why it's a lot of hills. It's hard to go up and down, but when

they get down, it's it's it's uh it's the the reward after you climb the hill, you get to, you know, go downhill and, you know, and then back up. So it keeps them active. So, and so the way the the program is going to work or what we do is we do a little obstacle course, do stop signs, yield signs, how to do crosswalk, talk to the kids about, you know, safety and how to maneuver the streets here in town with the hills. Um once they complete that obstacle course, they get a raffle ticket. Um with the uh grant from Walmart, we buy a bunch of bikes. Um, and then they get to pick a bike that they want to participate in or try to get a a raffle or try to get a win a bike with the raffle. So, they put that ticket on whatever, you know, bike they want to win. Um, essentially, so Oh, and we did get uh about 100 helmets donated to us. Who donated our helmets? The hospital donated about 100 helmets as well. So before they complete, we all we size them, make sure they wear it appropriately or properly um before and then so everybody gets a helmet. We have a 100 helmets. Um but we have enough to cover obviously the the bikes. You have to complete that obstacle course. You get a raffle ticket, put it on your bike that you want to win, and then the event starts at 10:00. It ends at two, but at 1:00 we do a raffle. Um and you must be present to win. So, we invite the community to come out um enjoy this event. It is through it is in conjunction with the hospital's health and safety fair. So, there's other stuff happening at the at the hospital as well. And then we just add our our bike rodeo um to the event. So, I can't thank Walmart enough. I don't do I think now avoids me and he know he knows he sees me coming. He's like, "No, tell him I'm busy because he knows I'm probably going to come ask for money." I told I was

like, "Hey, sometimes I just want to say hi, man." You know, courtesy. Officer Verdugo is coming. So, I just love the support from from the community, the support from the council. Um, thank you. Support from the chief. I'm the chief. Well, I wouldn't be I wouldn't have a job if it wasn't the chief. I do want to say I've been here a long time now. Well, eight years. And it is because of the chief. So, um, it's it's I planned to be when I got here, I was going to be here a year, two years, and then go somewhere to the valley, and then he shows up, makes the department great, and then now I'm here eight years later. Um, thank you.

So, you know, I love you guys. Thank you. Love you. Thank you, council, for the cons the continued support and thank you, Walmart, for supporting our our educating our kids and giving back to the community. Any questions? Do we have any questions?

No, I'll just if I could make Thank you. Uh, you know, Chief, you know, from the time you've come here, you have made significant changes in the department. Um, and it's not just internal, but you do you have proven to be a community leader as well with your department and your officers. And um I really appreciate um all the work that you do for the public, public outreaches, engaging business communities to to join um and you know support families, kids, you know, advocacies, victims all across the board. You have touched everybody's lives around there. So thank you.

Thank you for the kind words. Was the city manager listening? writing again. It's in the minutes. It's in the minutes, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. It's always good to see our our business community working so closely with the city. We really appreciate Walmart, everything they've done for us. Yes. Thank you. I'd like to thank Walmart, too, and the PD. It's good to see them working together. Sure.

I'd like to make a mot pictures. See Appreciate it. Yes.

Mr. I would make a motion we approve grant award number G25708 from the Walmart Spark grant in the amount of $2500 account number 2042 and request section 2-4A discussion second. Okay, I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I.

Any nays? Any abstaining? Motion passes. That was pretty light, wasn't it? Yeah, that wasn't too bad. Wait till the next motion. Okay. Next on the agenda is 5A. Uh this is a fiscal year 2026 2027 initial budget presentation to review and receive council direction on budget inclusions. Linda,

good evening vice mayor and council members. Appreciate your time tonight. This is our initial budget presentation for fiscal year 2627. Next slide. This is our our tenative budget calendar. We are possible adoption of the tenative budget. It would be a special meeting to be called Tuesday May 19th and then Wednesday May 27th and Wednesday June 3rd that tenative budget um AG schedule A and B and notice of public hearing for June 23rd of 2026 for the final budget. uh will be published in the Arizona silver belt and posted tenative budget on the city website at the same time. Tuesday, June 23rd, that is the public hearing in which uh the fiscal year 2627 final budget tax levy uh then convene into a special meeting for the adoption of the final budget. The the next day, Wednesday the 24th, we will post that final budget on the city website. And then Tuesday, July 14th, we would we will adopt the council will adopt the property tax levy 14 days after the adop adoption of the budget. And Monday, August 17th, this is the third Monday in August. This is the deadline for the tax levy adoption. And Mr. Vice Mayor, members of council, just a quick note, um every year we must adopt the property tax levy. Um but as as always we have committed to uh holding the the property taxes stable uh other than new construction. So that's that's the date we will we'll adopt that but uh our intentions is for no increase in property tax.

Good. Thank you. Thank you Paul. Next, we'll be hearing from Tina Allen, who will be going over our revenue projections, a revenue update, and the next fiscal year revenue projections. Tina, are you on? I am. Can you hear me? Yes. Thank you. Can you Okay. Want to make sure you can hear me.

Um, I'd like to thank you, Vice Mayor, and members of council, uh, for giving me this opportunity, and thank you for letting me do it by Zoom because in case you have any soft tomatoes or raw eggs, this is a a good time not to be in the building with you. That's because as you are aware, it has been a rough year in regarding uh glob revenues. The flood has truly jeopardize the city's revenue stream. That wasn't a pun intended when I wrote it, but that is what the fact is is that the city's revenues have been impacted by the flood. And on top of that, this was uh 2026 was the first fiscal year where I was a little bit more optimistic in the revenue forecast than I was in 4 and 25. So I cautioned a little bit by that. Currently the city's sales tax revenue projections are about 875,000 below the budget. So I forecast what's been received through March and what we think we'll get in April, May, and June. If we do as well in April, May, and June as we did last year, that would be 875,000 below the budget we set for revenues free this year. It's a real hit. Some other revenues also did not perform as expected. Some inmate reimbursements, some court fees, grant revenues, and the state shared sales tax is down. As you're aware, a little bit from Sand Valley, but the vehicle license tax continues to grow. So that's offset some of that. Again, because of the flood, other revenues were down like the museum, license fees, the gas, southwest gas revenues and franchise fees were down and finally due to some cash flows, we anticipate that the interest revenues

will also be down as well. So overall, Aside from the sales tax revenues, the forecasted revenues for fiscal year 26 are about a million dollars below the budget. There is some good news. However, after the completion of the 24 audit, we did have some time funding kick up. So, our beginning fund balance this year was actually higher than my original projection by about 462,000. So, while this doesn't help necessarily with operational costs, it does help to replenish some of the onetime expenditures that you have had this year particularly due to the flood as well some of the matching funds that you've had to expend. So there is some good news um about about that one time revenues going forward looking at the next fiscal year. We are going to try and leave the city sales tax flat at this year's current budget. And while that still feels like a little bit of a stretch, what we're trying to say is that we hope in 27 to get back to what we thought would happen in 26. So we are not growing the revenue budget in sales tax at all, but we are going to say we think we can at least catch up with what we had planned for this year because things are coming back. The businesses, you know, when I went Paul this year that you know, most of the businesses are back open. So we are optimistic that we can still get back to our uh current year revenue budget

and then Tina budgeted all the state shared revenue Tina

and the BT tax at the recommendation from the leak of cities and towns and that still is actually an improvement about 8,000 over the current budget. Um again mostly being offset by vehicle license tax as well as the urban revenue sharing is growing a little. We have reduced interest revenues again for next year and some of the other revenues that I was talking about have been rice rightsized based on this year. So next year's general fund operational revenue budget is still going to be about $340,000 less than what the current year's revenue budget is. Um Pat who I work with is still and and I are both looking at the timing of some of the revenues in the next few weeks. We will continue to see if anything is under forecasted but conservatively the message is we're going to need to do more with less. Finally regarding next year the best news is that the council's your decision 10 years ago to buy down your PSPSR PS debt obligation has really paid off. there was a drastic reduction in the rates for the retirement for police and fire and that saved over 300,000 in retirement costs for Y27. So if that had not occurred there would be just a really even larger gap. Um so that's the story mostly on the general fund revenues. There are some non-general fund revenues. I just want to touch on the fact that water and sewer are taking on additional debt again in part due to the flood and we do need to do a five-year forecast and it will be done to look at their operational obligations. And the good other good news for non-general funds is that several one-time projects still are fully funded. The Jesse Hay sidewalk project

is moving forward. the A dot sidewalk projects and AR core 595 waterline project at the fairgrounds and there are fund balances in her and the road tax to begin work on some capital projects and to fund some of the matches that we need. So that's kind of a very quick summary of the current year's forecast and what we're planning for the FY27 revenue budget

and Mr. Vice Mayor, members council to to Tina and to Linda also these revenue projections that that Tina is talking about is we are looking at at what we what we spent and then what we colle what we collected and then what we project uh going in. Uh and so when Tina talks up and down she's talking about the projections. So sales tax we're not we're saying okay this is what we think we will collect in the next budget cycle. sales tax rate stays static. That is fixed and and not changing. It just where do we think we're going to come out in our in our collections at the rate that we have and and so on and so forth with all of these. So this is once we get all of these numbers, we go conservative and then we have a baseline of revenue from that revenue. We are we are required to have a balanced budget and so our expenditures must stay within the framework of the revenue that is being told to you right now. So, so these revenue projections are the starting point, but they're they're so critical because they are what we have available to us to budget for the next year.

So, that being said, these these are the budget line items that we have currently baked into the working draft of the budget that we plan to bring to council for consideration. First is the annual 2.5 merit raises. This is something that that we we can't uh put to the side or put on pause at all. Our people are are our most valuable asset at this time at all times. Uh next is the Copper Mountain Transit program and at 73,000. Uh third is the annual DC lobbying meetings that council mayor and two council members make each year to the various federal agencies and that those have been very successful. That has brought millions of dollars back into our community to to complete these projects. Um and in doing so we work with Nexus Consulting, Bob and Anna and Tracy. They are federal lobbyists that make all of these connections happen. and very very um great investment on on the city council's part. And then of course the citizens academy. This has really been a fantastic incubator for people to come and be council members and members of our boards and commissions. And so we we would like to continue this. We did have to put it on pause because of the flood, but we are planning to pick that back up this year and resume the is this our sixth class?

I believe so. And Mr. Vice Mayor, members council, um I I can't stress how important it is uh that that we promise you that we that this staff will bring forward a budget that will include our our traditional what we've landed on 2.5 annual merit raises. It is the key to our success. Uh we are in a position where where we have is our budget struggling? Yes. But but that is something that is absolutely important. uh we will do what we have to do to to balance the budget, but but that will be included in this in what we bring forward and we will we will strongly urge council to to adopt that because it is so important.

I just wanted to to reiterate that. Thank you.

Next, these are these are the line items that are yet to be determined that we're bringing to council uh for for um recommendation. Is this something that council wants to continue moving forward with the nonprofit grant in the past? We have um budgeted for that. Uh it it was a competitive process for a few years and then one year an agency came forward and asked uh to be made in line. I've been in the budget and council had approved. um this past year it it was not in our budget and so this was something that we brought back for for consideration and that that amount was 15,000 that kind of ties into the Cobra Valley Youth Club and the commitment the council has made historically the the site is provided to the club at a dollar a year lease and also we provide water, sewer and trash and in the past we've also contributed uh 13,000 The third item is the PHI lifellight, the community contract that that we provide all residents within the the city of Globe. Um that is 18,000. We we do have in in the draft budget to be brought forward the um the coverage for for city staff and we did get Pam chased PHI for for numbers. That was something that the the other provider would not give us. That was Banner. And we've had 22 flights out for service.

Wow. And actually one one city staff. And the final final item, well final for this list is the Hila County Sheriff's Posi, the 5,000 that we we provide the Posi to uh provide additional support at special events to the city. Mr. Vice Mayor, on that point, the sheriff's policy contribution, uh, be sure, Paul, that we are apprised of the contribution made by the sheriff himself to that particular line item in the county budget, please. Okay. Thank you, sir.

Next, these this is our our benefits, our employee contribution. our BlueClass Bruce Shield uh benefit cost increased by 9%. Earlier in the year, we we thought we were going to be facing a nearly 30% increase, but thank you to Seagull, they were able to negotiate the price increase down to 9%. And meeting our previously stated goals, we will continue uh the goal of increasing the employee benefit share for dependent dependent coverage by 2%. Okay, in front of you, you have our HMO and the PO changes. So, you have your HMO single. Prior rate at 7523. The new rate per pay period will be $82. The dollar increase you'll see is $6.77. That is a 9% increase. It is also a 9% increase for the HMO plus family. 46343 is our prior rate. 50515 is the new rate only a change of 4172 the HMO single plus one prior rate is 31296 new rate per pay period 35754 that is a 14.2% 2% increase PO single 69.89 89 uh prior prior rate new rate per pay period 7618 this is a 9% increase PO single plus one 188822 the new rate per pay period is 22040 $22040 this is a 17.1 inc% increase and PO family is 30526 the new rate per pay period 35407.

This is a 16% increase. Any questions? Next, this is our high deductible plan. This this plan continues to be the least expensive premium cost for our employees in each category. The high deductible plan with the health um savings plan is the let's see per pay period for HHD single 58.25 25 and then per pay period the savings to the HMO 2375 monthly we have 4750 and then the annual cost is 570 the HD single plus one649 excuse me I should have brought my glasses um per period savings two of the HMO24105 and the annual cost 5700 $18520. The HD family 16309 per pay period. The pay period savings in comparison to the HMO is 34206 and annually it's 820944. per pay period savings to the HMO annually compared is 43032 annually uh for 8 for high deductible single plus one 24.9384 and for the high deductible family plan the annual savings is $4,58352. 2 cents. And this is the final proposal that we will be taking to our our staff, our uh open enrollment is May 8th is May 8th and that will be at

Beshbagawa for all staff members. We'll have a morning session and an afternoon session. So we Paul,

Mr. Mr. Vice Mayor, members of council, um this is our uh we have deadlines to get ready and lock these in for both budget and for the open enrollment. And and so I I would like to get just a a a nod of heads or direction to move forward with these numbers from council so we can build these in the budget and and get the paperwork right. Uh we we've uh consistently gone with our attempt to get that uh the the 7525 balance back to where the city pays 75% of uh of the the the plus one and the family. Um and then we pay uh we city pays 75 we pay um the the I'm butchering this um the employee pays the 25%. and and we're not there in all these, but we're getting closer, so we're moving them. So, uh again, it has um we've stayed with that. This is like the fifth or sixth, seventh year we've we've done this. We were pretty far off. We're getting there. Um and and these moves are representative of that desire to get back to that 7525.

Linda, I got a question. So, this was a 9% increase. Yes. And it was going to be 30% of nearly 30%. It was. Wow. Seagull has done a great job. It is. We're very fortunate. It's something to celebrate really. Um, open enrollment was when? May the 8th. May the 8th. May the 8th. And we'll get that information out to to council and staff members uh this week. Okay. And that's at the bash. Yes. And if there are no changes, you don't have to do anything. Correct. Correct. Correct.

Okay. Thank you. That's all I heard. That was good. Anybody else? So, so is council supportive of moving forward with this pres these numbers on the final proposal? Yes, I would say so. Okay. Yes. And did you want with Jesse? See? Oh, I'm sorry, Jesse. I keep forgetting about you. I look to the sky. You're usually sitting right here by my side, buddy. All right. I'm good with the numbers and hours as we have another budget meeting coming up, correct, Paul? Correct. We do. The 21st. Okay. Yeah. The 21st. Okay. I'm good with that. Thank you. Sorry.

I just have one comment, Mr. Vice Mayor. Go ahead. Uh Paul, in our deliberations on this and with our partners, it seems to me that uh the folks at uh the League of Cities and Towns are very important to us on budgeting and legislative issues. Do they anticipate increasing their dues to us? Um I have I have not seen any any numbers yet, but I do not anticipate. I think I think TAG and um league are staying stable. I think there's a little bit of an increase with uh um ARTAC, the rural transportation, uh but nothing significant coming forward.

Well, I I would support any increase they may bill us because they've been so valuable to us and saving us heartache at the higher elephant in the room. So, I really appreciate them.

Well, uh Mr. for Vice Mayor and Council Gonzalez. I mean, we we are not as involved in the legislative battles down there, but um but when they come and they hit our ability to to fund our city services um and and some of the some of the attacks on local control um and if if we have a story to tell, we we go down there just as every other city. and the league does an excellent job of coordinating and um uh you know and and building our case and making our case to protect us from legislation that's going to impair uh City of Globe's ability to thrive.

Yeah, they have been great in our corner and I support that. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Vice Mayor Stapleton, council member, do you have any other questions for myself or for Tina before we let her go? No, no, I think it's a good presentation. Thank you. Thank you, Tina. Thank you, Tina. Thank you, Tina.

Okay. Next on the agenda is item B, discussion and possible direction to request the city of Globe Planning and Zoning Commission to develop a text amendment to regulate the installation of wireless communication towers in the city of Globe. We have Zach Montgomery and Dana online.

And Mr. Vice Mayor, uh, members of council, um, uh, I just wanted to to do a little setup as to why this presentation and why now. Uh, as you recall, um, we had some previous, uh, council or uh, text amendments going through the PNZ code. Uh, and we hadn't nailed down our process. there was discussions about about bringing the text amendment forward. Uh but by the time it got to council, uh you you had not been informed and been part of that. And at that time made the commitment to council that any text amendment requests or any any changes in in the code, text amendments that PNZ would work on would be would begin with a recommendation by the city council. so that you know what what needs to be changed, why it needs to be changed, what the issues are. Uh and so so then P&Z can do their job and eventually come back to you. You're fully in the loop and and you're part of the uh part of the solution and and understand, you know, the why that we're working on stuff. So this is the first of of many you will see. Um and and this one actually happens to relate to an an issue that is on the agenda next, but but Zach wants to talk to you about uh uh our our new um planning zoning person about uh what that amendment would look like, what that uh uh code for um wireless ordinance would look like for the city of Globe. So, Zach, I'll stop talking and give it to you.

Thank you, Paul.

Good evening, Vice Mayor, members of the council. Um, essentially what a cell tower ordinance does or accomplishes for a city is it provides a uniform and comprehensive uh set of standards in place for the placement, construction, and maintenance of cell towers. And we currently don't have a cell tower ordinance. So, we're kind of limited on what we can and can't do. And I'll touch on that in a little bit. But uh this also allows us to have input on the design. Do we want it to be camouflaged like a sorero cactus in Tucson that they do with their cell towers? Uh you know some places use pine trees that actually have pine trees. So yeah, it's a me a way of camouflaging that makes it not so industrial looking with the gray ugly towers of old. Um when I was in Cocoa Beach, Florida, I was able to work with Ron John's and we they wanted to put a huge surfboard on the side of their three-story building and that ended up being the cell tower for that area. So it's pretty cool.

Yeah. You had no idea it was the cell tower. And you know, other things that it allows us to do is protect adjacent and abuing properties. So if the cell tower falls, we have codes in place that either get an easement from that property owner to allow the tower to fall, but preferably we have the engineers design the towers so they're self- collapsing and they collapse on themselves. And another big item that we it will allow us to do is have the ability to remove unused and old cell towers, which is a huge or used to be a huge problem until cities were able to put those into ordinances and say, "Okay, this cell tower has sat unused for 6 months or longer. uh per our codes, you need to get it taken down and removed, you know, from the site. And so until then, you know, a lot of these ugly towers remain forever. So with that, that's basically a brief um overview of what we can do with the cell tower ordinance. Are there any questions on that? And

um are there height limitations? Yes. Okay. And that's in the code as well. Yes, those will be established. Um sometimes we'll have color cords or coordination for you know brown to match the background of the hills or green or whatever. But all that will be worked out with you guys, the planning and zoning commission and the public. as necessary so that we can all agree on something that we can move forward with. Okay. Thank you.

So, Mr. Vice Mayor, members of council, um if you uh give direction, I I think this would be a vote to recommend PNZ develop a a cell tower ordinance. Um and since it would it'll come back to you. There's no need for um a uh wave the rule or anything like that. And then Zach, then that will then this will end up on on the agenda for um PNZ and then eventually it work its way back up for final approval by council as much. That's correct. And hopefully it'll be on the May uh PNZ meeting agenda. Okay. Since the draft is pretty much roughed out

comment, Mr. Vice Mayor, go ahead. We have uh we're growing. Believe it or not, we're growing and we need to stay ahead of this curve. And in the past, and we've had this discussion before with staff, we have an overgrowth of telephone polls and telephone posts in the city right now. And they seem to propagate over a hundred years. And so we're I know we're looking at ways to remove them. It's too bad we didn't have something like this in our past where given a time limit. Hey, you're not putting a sign up there. It's been six months to take it down, right?

And this is one way to help control it. So, my opinion is we're growing. It's time to get ahead of the curve and let's do that. Vice Mayor, if I could address what Mr. Uh, councelor Gonzalez said this cell tower ordinance will also cover and include antennas and any other types of towers in the city. So, it's not just cell towers, it'll cover everything. Okay.

So, Mr. Vice Mayor, members council, um before the vote, I just wanted to to explain um this is these are growing pains. This is one of those things that we haven't felt a need that we had to do. Uh but now people want to come invest in our city. They're trying to put more infrastructure. Having any utility, cell tower provider, anybody that's making our city city better and and putting and investing money in our infrastructure is going to benefit us both public safety um and accessibility for travelers and for our local businesses to have uh services equal to if not better than the valley. So this is very important piece of the puzzle. outside.

Well, did we also want to include the landscape ordinance and bring that at the same time or No, we'll do another Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We don't want to bring up landscape yet. Okay. One at a time. One at a time. Yeah. One at a time. I'm ready to go, man. You're ready. They were like, "Okay, you you're lucky they have a list this long. Wound up. I'm ready to go. Let's make this town look great." Good. So this would be a Mr. Vice Mayor, I make a motion that I send this to P. So I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. I.

Any nays? Any abstaining? Motion passes. Do we need to wave the rules on that? No, because it's coming back. Okay. Eventually this will land back on your lap and so that'll be so there'll be a second hearing of that. Okay. Thank you. And Paul, did you want me to give you kind of a uh background on what they're about to hear on what they can and can't? No, too late. They voted no for the upcoming code or the upcoming for the one coming up. Yes. Um but I was gonna I think we're going to let Dana start on that one. Okay. And but stay up there just and it's going to be tag team. Okay. So, thank you councel. Thank you.

Thank you, Zach. Thank you, Jess, for making the motion. Okay. So, we'll go on to item C. Uh, we're going to have a public clearing and consideration of ordinance number 896 to apply a planned area development P A zoning overlay to allow an 84 foot tall wireless communications tower in the C2 intermediate commercial zone as described in the P A application for plus or minus 10 acres of land. located at 2432 East US Highway 60, APN 206-04-007E, case number Z-26-01.

Do we need to open the public hearing now or wait?

Do we need to open You want to help us through this? Can Can we get Dana's up here on screen or Yeah. Yes, absolutely. Uh thank you so much, Vice Mayor, council members. Appreciate you hearing this item this evening. I will share a presentation and then uh uh before we get started here, just make sure or kind of remind you of the procedures for effectively a rebell is what this is. Um any zoning ordinance council adopts has to have a recommendation from planning. comes with a recommendation from planning and building commission uh after a public hearing process as well as a public notification citizen review meeting other requirements by the state uh so that correct you'll hear my presentation uh the applicant is also uh online and and would like to make a presentation or discussion as well with you and thenceuh conversation, discussion with staff, applicant, uh then open up for a public hearing and hear from the public on the topic. So that said, I think you can see my screen. Uh and again, this is ordinance number 896. Uh this would be the location of the uh property. It's uh on the Walmart site. the applicant SBA uh and I think they're uh working on behalf of Verizon Communication uh has a lease agreement with Walmart to locate a uh ground enclosure and cell tower uh where I was in town at this

location you see here in yellow just to the east of the existing I think kind of like lawn garden um outdoor enclosure uh there along That's the zoning ordinance to show you why this is before us. Uh that the area in red is city propert is city jurisdiction. Um and is zone C2 that was part of the old 1992 rean drive along Iowa. Um and the building maximum building height within CQ district very similar to a case you heard recently regarding the hospital. Um it has a 30 foot maximum height limitation. Um now in downtown and just to put this in perspective for you um downtown other areas closer to uh the downtown along the 60 are WC3 and the C3 zoning designation actually allows 100 all structures. And uh I have to believe that might partly or be in part because of uh communication power that we have in the downtown or in that area. Um because obviously there's not demand or request for any buildings over three stories if at all. So anyway, that's just a little perspective and again to um Zachary's point It's very specific to this nuance type of use. You may see more in the future. local the uh location and this area right here you can see my screen is that ground equipment enclosure the 8 foot screen wall with view steering gate uh surrounded with landscape and then the

full location in the middle 80 foot 80 foot 84t total height there and then we have the middle step back closest that is to a property line to the side property line there obviously If it were to fall, well, it's designed to collapse in place. But if it were to fall, and you don't hear about that very often, particularly, you know, place that doesn't have a lot of seismic activity um or storms, um it would stay on the property should something happen to it. Uh there is on the left the enclosure we're planting adjacent to uh again that fencing surrounding the lawn and garden area and then right adjacent to parking spaces which they'll kind of revise put a roll curve in there or curve cut to allow for that access. They anticipate about a month uh visit one month one visit per month uh to maintain the property and um make proper maintenance. This is a collocation facility. That's something you'll see in a future ordinance as well. We encourage and we like to require collocations. What that does is allow multiple providers. In this case, I think they have up to three allowed uh on the same tower that ultimately limits the number of uh towers and that's visual impact throughout the community. The number one I think um objective of community is to have those uh mounted on tall structures, buildings and integrated into that architecture somehow. They're commonly seen in um uh church steeples, church fires and large crosses, things like that. It's very common application and then baldfield light any existing vertical uh structures now in this area. Not a lot of options. Um so applicants brought

this forward. Uh and again this is also called a monopine or in that stealth. As Zach mentioned kind of the uh camouflage uh treatment of a cell tower um of a toraro is a common one you'll see down in the desert or you have more or on a ridge top ridge line to really hide that in the situation they uh use what they call mon pine f pine uh tree on top. So from a distance beyond the surrounding foothill uh in the immediate area, you would see effectively a a pine tree. Uh obviously from the60 and Walmart parking lot and other areas right around the structure, you'll see you'll see that and then off to the right is the antenna array. Uh client did provide this coverage existing coverage. they can speak about it a little further. Basically the red is good service. Uh green is less good service and then those blue areas are are lower level service they want to serve and we want to ask why or to see the justification or why to power needed and then this is the projected coverage after installation at this location. I'll just go back and really quick here speak on that quickly run through photo simulations uh that we like to see to understand the visual impact. I'll just show you I have one view shed one and view shed four. Uh you have to all of them in your packets. U there's an

example of what it could look like. from the east and then there's that uh visual impact over by the intersection of Ragus Road. looking towards Walmart. Uh so public input to date again uh the reasoning so it's required to be publicly advertised in the newspaper as well as uh postings on the site. We did three zoning two zoning signs posted on the property in Regus Road uh frontage. Um and then mailers to all property owners within 300 ft. And then also inviting neighbors within 300 ft to assist in meeting which was held at the site on March 25th we did not have attendance at that meeting and then on Janu or I'm sorry on April 1st uh the plan commission heard this item one member from the public spoke uh I was not at the site um so zoning commission uh deadlock two and two we have an even number of members um and motions failed uh in either direction to provide a recommendation city council. So with that staff is just reiterating staff's recommendations to city uh uh that was provided to planning zoning commission which is a recommendation for approval with the seven conditions listed in the staff report and those seven conditions are also integrated into the ordinance itself. uh and largely I identify and deal with some of the items the long-term maintenance expiration responsibility for landscape again maintenance and operation within FC

standards um so there was a very best practice type of list of conditions of approval being proposed so that is recommending approval and again here to speak to respond any questions you have. Mr. Vice Mayor Dana the question is to you. This is Mariano. U was the school district notified? They were one of the owners. Okay. Thank you.

Any other questions? Jesse,

there can you um just elaborate as to why an ordinance would why ordinance where versus uh why we can't just flat out deny something like this. So I know that the FCC they state that we news can't just flat out deny a cell tower from coming in but rather an ordinance as to what it looks like and things of that nature. So if you could just elaborate for the public to understand that as well. So, um, Vice Mayor, Council Leil, as you know, uh, it's a zoning ordinance at the council discretion. You can approve approve of conditions or deny any of those zoning requests. Um, I think you might be referring to a letter that the uh, applicant submitted. uh as we understand it that with regards to there's no conclusive evidence today of health effects and health impact to humans. So I understand the 5G is being studied um right now. However, prior to 5G, yes, I believe there's legislation that basically says you cannot solely deny an application based on um perceived health effects without any conclusion about that. So, but beyond that, this is a zoning ordinance, so you still have the ability to approve uh approve, you know, or deny. Um we would suggest that it would not be for health reasons because we know already that you know the federal government identify that that cannot be you know something that might hopefully that helps. Thank you.

Thank you Jesse. So Mr. Vice Mayor members of the council um Bill are are you on there? Can you hear us? Can you hear me?

Yes, we can hear you. Um, do you want you had uh there was a nuance in the FCC requirements that that you um alerted us to. Bill, do you do you want to cover that at this point with the question about whether we have the ability to uh approve or deny based on health reasons for 5G? I guess there is correct discretion there on their perceived health. As a result, the FCC is a notice about September of 2021 in effect would preempt and prevent government because some do. So if the majority of you want to deny it, I think the legal power right now I'm telling you attorney. I think you want to deny it for any reason. I think some of you talk to the lawyer who wrote the letter there's no preemption there. I'm not sure the lettering

well the know why they believe that gives you the elected official some bottom line is right now I don't think you suspect eventually that rule will be adopted and there will be but there's currently no preemption on the book now meaning you have the power as other elected across the nation.

Bill, thank you. And and just a clarification to to council that uh G3 G4 there is a requirement. Uh but this is a G5. But I I just wanted to I uh Bill and I thought it was important just to let council be informed of that nuance. I think Dana, go ahead and go let's go forward with the process. Uh and um and let everybody speak and and then uh we'll we'll take it from there. Very good. Vice Mayor, council members, you'd like to hear from the applicant. They are available. Okay,

Dana, go ahead with the applicant because that and they're on Zoom. birds right here. Okay. Yeah. So the this this there three there three members of this party. The actual applicant is on Zoom my understanding. Okay. So do we need to open the public hearing yet or wait till Dana where does the public hearing fall in or is there after discussion here? After we hear from everybody. Is it okay if I if I speak and present? Absolutely.

Thank you so much. So, my my name is uh Shazad Mood. I work for Kim. I want to thank uh all of the respective members of of council for um allowing us to present today on behalf of SBA communications. Um previously, as Dana stated, SBA communications is a owner and developer of cell tower from the US. Um they have worked with Walmart uh to find a location for cell tower where uh there is an area of lead and like Dana said in his presentation, Verizon uh who we actually have on this call as well. Um a representative from them on this call as well uh to provide more feedback associated with the need for coverage and the need for coverage within the area as shown through maps that we provided. um uh previously and and they can definitely speak to that more. But um what I want to do is because I I I want to speak a little bit to um if I could share my screen uh a little bit to the the health effects that you all um uh brought up. And also today I think in the uh in person with us is is our our legal attorney uh Michael will also after me to help clarify our position associated with the FCC. So with that, I just want to share one slide and I like to present when it comes to when it comes to the types of of radio waves um that are being emitted from these towers. uh and no difference between, you know, 4G and 5G. It's it's still similar type of wave, but um there's two types of waves. There's

ionizing waves versus nonionizing waves. Um ionizing waves are waves that can affect human DNA. Examples of this are gamma rays and Xrays. This is one of the reasons why I'm going to go get an X-ray, a nurse steps out of when you get Xrays at the dentist. Nonionizing waves. These are waves that do notffect human DNA. Examples of these are cars access. Absorption of waves is proximity based. the antenna, the more nonionizing energy is being absorbed. You will general public limit with your smartphone next to your ear versus less than 10% of the FCC's general public limit from the antennas when you are standing 20 ft away from that proposed tower. further you walk away from the tower um it decreases even more. So that being said, I I just wanted to um add that uh to the to the presentation and provide you all with a little bit more feedback with staff tower. landscaping. Again, getting feedback on the type of

mono pine which is what we're proposing here. All the antennas will be the pine branches of the tower where again we designing the tower from day one for multiple carriers place their equipment onto the tower. So from day one it's structurally capable. That basically means that new towers will not be required across the street because this tower has structural capacity for multiple carriers. It also has the ground space for multiple carriers to place their ground as you can see here three different spots. We also work very closely with um you know with with staff regarding landscaping to ensure that uh that we meet those requirements. Um SBA is more than willing to uh provide removal bonds as we've done in the past common common practice. uh when it comes to the tower and whether uh it it would fall over um SBA designs these towers with what's called break point technology. They provide the town with a signed and sealed engineered letter which states the tower will be designed so that in the event there is a catastrophic failure in the tower would actually fall within itself that it will fall within the existing compound. That being said, uh I do want to give um give Michael an opportunity to speak and also Jason with Verizon an opportunity to speak. Is it okay Jason? Do you want to go first? Sorry.

So, um you can see here represents in building. It's optimal for receiving a signal inside Walmart or inside commercial and residential developments. And green represents in car. It's good for, you know, when you're driving along Highway 60. And the blue represents outdoors. And you can If you go to the proposed coverage that tremendous impart everything will be nicely so that's when we say that there's there's a need here that is one aspect we talking about is we do have a high number of drops in this area specifically along Highway 60 and we are performance folks see that and that's how they put the community not just for emergency services.

Sure.

And just I guess expand on that further thousands of travelers every day that take the converge at Walmart. So that's another big dete and Dana, are we ready to go to Is it Michael?

Dana, are we good for Michael now?

Good evening, members of the council and Mr. Vice Mayor. I just want to touch on a couple of legal points and keeping in mind I'm not the city's attorney. The city has its own attorney to provide it with legal advice. So I just want to very briefly reiterate SBA communications position as council for SBA communications and that is the health and safety of RF radio frequency emissions is regulated at the federal level. That's for a number of reasons. It's similar to when we board an airplane we take a trip across the country. It's regulated federally because everyone has the same interest in safety in every municipality in every locality across the country. It's a very technical area and the FCC has undertaken hearings and regulations and studies and heard from many many hundreds and thousands of hours of experts in setting the radio frequency emission standards uniform across the nation. And that also avoids having to re litigate and resolve the same issue at the local level hundreds of thousands of times every time there's a cell phone tower. Now, part of the government federal government preeemption of that is the flip side of that is the federal telecommunications act of 1996 prohibits a locality from denying or approving or considering at all the health and safety effects of RF emissions when considering a cell tower replacement. And that's not because the safety isn't something that should be looked at. is simply because the federal government has allocated that responsibility solely to itself and it wishes to provote promote uniform standards across the country. So for 30 years the federal case law has been clear on this point. I'm aware of litigation within the past year in the district of Arizona and federal court here involving another municipality that ended up denying a permit on health and safety issues that went to litigation. that municipality ultimately realized

they had no leg to stand on and entered into a settlement agreement. The other issue I wanted to touch on very briefly was something that came up at a planning and zoning commission meeting because there was a suggestion by one of the commissioners that there's some rule on the minimum distance between the cell phone tower and the school. They said something about 1,000 ft or 1500 feet. There is no federal rule. There's no state rule. There's no local rule. In fact, not only is there no rule, but these towers are commonly placed on campuses for a number of reasons. One being the capacity available for potential emergencies, sporting events, anywhere you might have large groups of people trying to make phone calls at once. Uh, in this case, we're kind of in intermediate zone because the tower is, I believe, somewhere like 5 to 700 ft from the school. So, plenty close to provide capacity, but it's not even actually on the school grounds. Thank you,

Dana. Where do we then? Are we to the public hearing part? Yes. Mayor Council members, if you have any questions of the applicant or myself, uh, please respond. Otherwise, no further questions, you can check and open public hearing. the public hearing. Shel, can you read the ordinance? Right. 898. Um,

and if I could really, Vice Mayor, if you wanted to public hearing. Yeah, we did. We did open the public hearing, but does he need to read the entrance of the ordinance?

Hang on.

It's up to you.

Did all that work. Members of council, ordinance number 896, an ordinance of the mayor and council of the city of Globe adopting a planned area development overlay zoning ordinance to allow an 84 foot tall wireless communications tower with ground equipment in the C2 intermediate commercial zone for more or less 10 acres of land located at 2432 East US Highway 60, APN 206. in the city of Globe County of State of Arizona. Yes.

We'll open it up to you one speaker card. Okay. So, we'll start with Michael Vincent. Oh, that's you. Okay. Now I have one. Thank you, Michael. Uh, Jacqueline Anderson.

Good evening, members of the city council and vice mayor. My name is Jacqueline Anderson. I'm a resident of Globe. I am here tonight regarding the proposed installation of the 84 foot cell tower. I have provided the city council resources for this technology. These types of technology on January 28th and February 10th at city council meetings. I have updated the list as of some of those referenced resources have already been unavailable to the public. So more recently, April 1st, 2026, I attended a zoning committee meeting hearing with the proposed installation of the 84 foot cell tower to be placed. It was reportedly 600 to 700 feet from a school. At the meeting, there was some concern expressed for the proximity of the cell tower to the school. I did not hear clear information on the radiation. Um, so I provided 1,800 microwatts per square meter from the cell tower. And while cell smart meters can measure microwave densities from 15,000 to 38,900 microwatts per meter squared. This was provided by the Arizona Public Service Electric. Um I guess there was that the reception was poor or broken or um disconnect but I didn't see any statistics or percentage of that in the community at that meeting. And as I previously mentioned, children's brains and neural pathways are not fully developed until their early 20s. Children are at greater risk for adverse effects from the radiation. There was no mention of effects on technology regarding the environment, trees, insects, bees, birds, or water

usage. There was no information provided regarding the costs to homeowners in the use with technology nor the mention of increased homeowners insurance as a result and or the increased fires or the cost of the antenna replacements to cell towers which is typically every five years. In May 2025, 20 new bills were introduced to the House to be passed into law introduced by telecom companies and corporations to provide immunity from any harm done by this technology. And I ask why there was a need for um to request immunity. And yes, I was aware that um FCC regulations make it illegal for government entities to try to delay or stop cell tower installations on the basis of health risks and telecom companies can sue the cities and states that attempt to use health concerns to impede their cell tower building plans with all the research available. And I guess mine's kind of counter and I will I did leave another list with Shelly that's updated. Anyone's welcome to take a picture of that or have a Shel's offered to make copies if they're interested. I will say a lot of the research comes from Children's Health Defense and from the National Call for Safety Technology. So I guess what concerns me is with all the research available, the telecom companies, corporations, nor municipalities have provided shielding or protection on the technology. And I've stated like numerous health conditions. I know it lowers the calcium channel ion. It disrupts that. It disrupts and lowers the serum magnesium. There's things like cataracts and I

mentioned the brain thing and the heart conditions and the neuro conditions and the melatonin metabolic availability. So all of that information is available on that research. I do encourage people to do their own research. Um and caution AI is a closed source and not an open source for information. Um I just ask if there's been this consideration is there a consideration for the cost and it seems like who benefits from this people's health will be affected who will pay the cost for that is this progress or is it uh used for surveillance control of the grid and eventual depopulation as one of the symptoms from this is the um sperm malfform formation. I um guess I'll thank you for your time and consideration. Um and yeah, I just wonder who assumes the responsibility of this.

Thank you. Let me let me check online. Good evening, Vice Mayor and Council. Thank you for the opportunity to address some of this. In listening to the presentation tonight, it brought to light some of my past experiences and concerns. And I can't speak to the health benefits or the lack thereof for any of this, but I will tell you from an emergency services standpoint, uh, specifically, the capacity of communication is incredibly important to us. Uh, we've experienced a mass shooting, a forest fire that was devastating, a devastating flood, and things like that. And in my opinion, having been in law enforcement for 36 years, have dealt with major incidents that have a significant impact on communication grid and stuff like that, things that we can do to ex improve that is always a benefit for emergency services. So that's just my take on it and my personal experience over the years on not being able to contact people, not being able to hear from people that were in trouble and things like that. So, if there's something we can do within our community, just like the revamp of our entire radio system a few years ago uh for first responders that helps us, but it doesn't help us

communicate directly with the public. So, things that we can do that and the fact of the matter is is cell phones are here to stay and until technology changes or whatever, that's what we have to communicate with the ma vast majority. I doubt very few people, you know, under the age of 20 know what a home phone is. Everybody's got cell phones. So if we can do something to improve that, I would I would go along with that personally. Sorry.

We're going to close the public hearing.

Now we can go to council discussion after we close. Dana, do you have preferred motion language or

Yeah, you see your screen. should be recommend a motion to wave the rule and adopt or number 896 to apply development overlay zoning subject to the conditions outlined or

you can say as read as we have a second Second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Any nays? Any abstaining? Motion passes. Thank you everybody.

Okay. Next on the agenda is item E, consideration to approve resolution number 1930. Demonstrating the city of Glow Council approval of the submission of Arizona 2027 Governor's Office of Highway Safety Plan Grant number GS-27-57-0584 for $10,35 and number GS-27-57-5085 for 34,8 861 received through account number 20-42-09012 goss grants please if awarded grant projects include extra traffic details and four speed display signs Chief Walters oh sorry

he's gonna sit this one out go ahead Good evening, Vice Mayor and members of council. We're just It's that time of year where we're putting in for the GOHS grants and we need the signed resolution, the approved resolution to be able to compete for those grants. So, the request would be the approval of the resolution. Do you want to read resolution 1930? Thank you,

resolution number 1930. resolution of the mayor and council of the city of Gila County, Arizona, pertaining to the submission of projects for consideration in Arizona's 2027 highway safety plan and appointing the city's chief of police as the city's agent to represent the city's interest in processing every

discussion. I'd like to make a motion. I mean, this is, you know, chief and his staff um are do a great job going out looking for these grants and they're always for good cause. So, continued great work. Appreciate it so much. Motion to approve resolution 1930 for the submission of Arizona's 2027 Governor's Office of Highway Safety Plan grants in the amount of $45,166 received through account 20-42-09012. Second.

Do I have a motion and a second? All in favor say I. Any nays? Any abstaining? Motion passes. You wave the rules, right? Sorry. Did you wave the rules? Uh, it says here no need to wave. We don't need to. This will come back when it's Oh, okay. When it's a word.

Okay. Next on the agenda is item F, consideration to approve contract number PS--2026-0119 with Seagull Consulting for the period of three years beginning July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2029 at a fee of $34,000 a year or $2,833.33 monthly, which is budgeted in account number 10-55-51225 general fund administration consultants and request to wave section 2-4-10A Paul.

So Mr. Vice Mayor, members of council, Seagull Consulting has actually been with the city of Glo longer than I have. Um they were our our uh healthcare consultant when we got when I got here. I think uh Councilman Chipley brought them on when when he was mayor. Um and and they have been an extreme asset to us over those years. Um they help us navigate a very complex world of language and um rules of their own. Uh they they've always worked to help negotiate down those costs uh that I don't think we could do on our own and and then help us manage our our processes. And if there's something happens they they help us uh intercede on on behalf so they they bring benefit to the city and save save money for both the city and for employees of the city of globe. Uh so I would encourage council to renew that their contract and keep them as our partners that have done so.

Okay, there's no further discussion contract PS 2029 consulting second. Do I have a motion and a second? All in favor say I. I. I. Any nays? Any abstaining? That was light.

You okay, Jodyie? Just making sure there's awake out there.

Okay. Item G, consideration to award contract number CS-2026-011 to Schultz Contracting LLC to replace and install a city 6-in sewer line connection to a city 8 in sewer main mainline for the amount of $29,60 with a 15% contingency of $4,359 for an amount not to exceed $33,419. Funds are to come from account number 51-80-522000, capital outlay construction and request to wave section 2-4-10A Travis.

Vince, thank you.

Good evening, Vice Mayor and Council. Uh, see if I remember how to do this. I haven't been in a while. Um yeah, tonight we're asking to go to contract with Scholes. Um late February we got a phone call about a sewer overflow up there on Mosquet and Willow area by this uh school bus barn in that area. Um uh one of the local plumbers were on the job already. Um they called asked if there was if they knew if it was our problem or a customer problem. We sent city staff out there determined that it was our problem. It was it was a 6 in. It says I think connection on there. It's like a feeder to one of our mains. Um picks up about eight houses up on that 6 in that drops it down into the 8 in. Um after the report came back from the plumber, he said that there was a a metal pipe stuck through the main line causing a backup. Really weird to us. So we went and did some of our own cameraing. Uh we went out there three times actually to camera it just because we weren't sure what we were looking at. We we came to find out that it wasn't a pipe in the ground, but more like the connection kind of shifted somehow. We're not sure. We haven't had any construction that area. We don't know. But instead of a full circle, it kind of looks like a crescent. Um we decided not to do a city staff due to like the the complexity of the project. There's a lot of utilities. There's gas, there's water, there's sewer right in the way. Uh if you know that area, there's um it's a real tight corner right there where it makes a turn to go Mosqu. It's really tight. There's overhead power lines. Um the city the main there is at least 8 ft deep. Um just equipment and you know operational nightmare for us. So we decided to go out to bid. Um we went after quotes. We ended up getting

four quotes. One was a non-responsive and then uh Schles came back with the lowest responsible bid. Any questions?

If this gets awarded, when will this take place? Actually, I talked to them already and they're they're ready to roll because they're actually looking for projects. They're uh their projects down in the valley winding down. They're getting ready to jump on it soon. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. So, probably what's this? Like the second week of April. Probably by the end of the month it'd be up here rolling on it. Oh, really? Yeah.

Uh, not yet. Well, it did one during that first event. Yeah, it did. Uh, since then, we haven't had any complaints and just kind of slowly watching it. question. Actually, Jesse, Freddy has a question before you make the motion. Um, so I'm just looking at the proposal from the contractor. Um, is everything going to be replaced in like or are there going to be modifications to that? uh the T and all the types come there will be a slight modification on it because right now it's really strange like it kind of

makes like a U shape to come down into our main. We don't know why. So we're just going to kind of kind of shorten it up and yeah just put that little 45 bend in there and get it right down into the mean. Help reduce the the bends and possibles. Yeah. How'd you know? How'd you know?

I just I've been around this world for a while. Uh just looking at the the description of what they're going to do and the cost. You know, I I see 20 foot of pipe, you know, another 12 foot removing replacing AC pipe. So, it kind of leads me to believe it's not just in educated guess. Okay. Thank you, Jesse. You want to make the motion, Jesse? Yeah. I'll make the motion to approve as section.

So, I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. I. Any nays? Any abstaining? Passes. Thank you. It's quiet tonight. Okay. Next on the agenda, action items 6A. Save the best for last. Yeah. Consideration. should have been the first

consideration to approve resolution number 1929 uncollectible water debt in the amount of $6,516 91 for fiscal year 2025. Jody, do you want to read the resolution? Vice Mayor Resolution number 1929, a resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of Gloila County, Arizona, providing for treatment of certain debts owed the city which have been deemed potentially uncollectible and removing from the records as assets of the city of Globe, providing direction of Yes.

Good evening, vice mayor, members of the council. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them, but we all know that we've gone over kind of gone over been down this road. Yeah. Yeah. There's one of the comments or questions. We we went over this um in the previous meeting. Uh we already know the dollar amounts and I think it's just time that we ratify this. Um, make sure I got the right one. We're not moving this to the next meeting. No. Okay. So,

okay. So, okay. I'll just take that out then. Um, I'll motion that we approve resolution number 1929 as read. Second. So I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Any nays? Any abstaining? Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you for your work, too.

Okay. Next on the agenda is item seven, late agenda items. Do we have any? No late agenda items. Nothing. Nothing. Uh, second call to the public.

We're good. Uh, scheduling of meetings. Um, nothing to announce, future agenda items. Okay, I have a motion to adjurnn. Motion made. Second. Have a motion and a second to adjurnn. All in favor say I. I. Any nays? Any abstaining? Less than three hours.