City Council - Regular Meeting

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Whenever you're Call meeting to order. Shelley can do roll call, please. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. District one, Councilman Rios is excused. District two, Councilman Pastor here. District three, Councilman Le is excused. District four, Vice Mayor Stapleton here. District five, Councilman Gonzalez here. District Councilman Shipley here. Mayor Gro here. We have a quorum. Mr. Mayor, thank you. Shel chief will lead us in the invocation today.

Our father in heaven, this time we gather together give gratitude unto thee for all that thou has blessed us with. We are grateful for this community. would continue in prayer that those in in our community who may be in need will feel blessed and will be able to recognize thy hand in their lives. We pray for those whose health may be in decline that they may be able to receive the strength and the support that they need. We would also pray for the rain that our community needs. to ease the drought that we have. At this time, Father, we offer prayer for these proceedings that they may be conducted in a respectful and productive manner. And we offer this prayer in the name of thy son Jesus Christ. Amen.

Can you please the pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We'll start with some of your current events. Mariano, we'll start with you down there.

Uh, just one item, Mr. Mayor. I want to compliment you and Mr. Jeepson for getting down to the legislature this morning and testifying in front of the appropriations committee and seems We've had to work long and hard with our peers at the legislature to try to obtain funding. And while you may not have been successful this morning, I did see you on the video link and I was pleased with the way you presented our case and the rest of the region's case to the legislature. I know um it takes a while to get down to Phoenix and get into the right frame of mind and you did all that today and I want to thank you both for attending. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. Just a couple things. Um, I was able to attend Larry Alderman's funeral and it was really nice and they were very appreciative that I was represented a lot. Um, the other thing is that love where you live which is one of our local nonprofits in works at making community a nice place to live. A lot of art projects and murals and just a lot of improvement projects. They are actually a finalist for the UNA award which is Una was a lady who was very famous in Arizona. She came from a wealthy background but was able to bring all these organizations together to help promote the arts and do was capable of all them doing their own thing. And so that is the finalist for and we will find out on Monday the 8th in the morning who won.

Is it Friday? Yeah, Friday, May, whatever day that is. So, um, so it's exciting. So, we'll see. Mike, yes, Mr. Mayor, as usual, we have schedule of all the activities going up library. I think she's probably got some copies back there on the table. So, people want to pick them up. She does a good job programs at the library. And it looks like we're having a Empire.

Adrian. Adrian. Okay. Well, that's why I need to go to the library more often. Anyways, the reading kickoff program and it's going to be on May 30th, 9:00 there's opening ceremonies. Then at 10:00 a.m. there's live demonstrations with a variety of blades and craftsman. So at 9 it's a tail and night's tail and a tea party at 12:30 and they'll be closing court at 1:00. So, if you're looking for a little something different to do with your kids, you might enjoy doing that. Other than that, Mr. Mayor, I'm done. Thank you, Mike. Mike.

Yes, Mayor. Thank you. I just have a few things. Uh, first of all, I want to remind everybody that uh this Friday's first Friday, come down there and see us and uh enjoy all the activities that's going on. And that's from 4 o'clock to 8 o'clock. Correct. Nice. And then uh secondly, I want to remind everybody that the farmers market is coming back starting this Saturday and it runs through all the way through September now. And it's every Saturday here in the park from uh 8 to 11. So go down there and get your fresh vegetables and baked goods and all that good stuff. And then uh thirdly, a reminder that uh this is actually an event from the Chamber of Commerce. They're having a Mother's Day social brunch and sips and that's Saturday, May 9th at 10:00 and that's at of course at the Globe uh Miami Chamber of Commerce. And tickets are $25 single and if you uh bring your mother, which you should, it's $35 for uh you and your mom. And you can call the chamber to purchase tickets or go online to do that. And then uh I want to thank the mayor for I attended the state of the city uh address on Thursday night and uh he had me open up the meeting. So, I just want to say thank you. I appreciate that. And the uh the address was really good.

Had a good turnout. So, thank you, mayor. Thank you.

And then uh Saturday uh I attended the 10th annual uh Angel Perez Wings of Hope. And uh man, Broad Street was packed. That was really cool. And I believe the last time I heard there was about 120 cars, trucks, low riders, hot rods, everything up there. It was a really good turnout. And then the parking lot was packed with vendors, live music, and everything. So, it was just a it was a really good time. And then lastly, I just want to remind everybody that the pool opens May 22nd. So, I know uh my grandkids are ready for that. So, they've been bug they even bugged me last night down in the valley. When are we coming up to swim? So, but that's all I have, mayor. Thank you.

Thank you, Mike. Yeah, I just want to uh talk a little more about this weekend events, too. Um I think we had two signature events in our community. Uh starting with the uh Old Dominion Days and the breakfast they started on Thursday morning, which was at the golf course. Uh they had uh presentations from all three mines, BHP, Freeport, and Capstone. And they gave a a great uh just an update on the mines. They didn't go into a lot of detail, but they spent about 20 30 minutes each and it was a great event there to start kick it off. Then it followed through with all with the vintage baseball game. We had hundreds of people here from all over. I talked to people from Tombstone Mesa. They were from all over. They were here several days uh staying in our motel using our restaurants and and buying souvenirs. So, it was a great event. Sunday I was able to participate in the trophy awards and that was at the community center and Mesa won it again. They won it two years in a row. That is a signature event. That is something that brings a lot of people uh back and it brings new people that that are going to return. And I also want to talk about the Wings of Hope car show. I want to congratulate Johnny and Monica for an amazing event. It was great. It was that's another signature event that I hope we keep in Globe because they try and alternate different places but I think I believe it it belongs in Globe and uh you're right they had vendors I don't know where they would have put any more vendors there if they would have brought any more the vehicles were there a lot of people in town new people coming to the area you know indirectly we we benefit from all this revenue that comes in so we need to work at keeping that here for the future so congratulations on that 10th annual Wings of Hope car Uh today, as Mariano mentioned, uh last night, late last night, Paul called me. Um they had a a surprise or emergency appropriation budget meeting uh today scheduled at 10:00 and that was in front

of the House and the Senate at the capital. And that was to just hear the the the governor has her her budget and then the Republican uh majority uh in the Senate and the House have their budget that they're uh turning over to the to the governor. Uh so they have their proposal but it gave us the opportunity I was there to represent not only Globe but Hila County in town of Miami and and it gave us the opportunity to ask for support for the Hila County flood relief funding and that's the one that Governor Hobbs mentioned in her state of the city that she wanted to support our community and the initial money initial amount was I think around 25 million whether we'll get that whatever we get will help any of us because we have to pay for these uh matches. on on these street project that different or we're we're working on. So, anything we get so we were heard there and I hope that is passed on when they go negotiate now with the governor on the future of the budget, the state budget. So, again, thank you Paul for uh letting me know late at night we were able to make it and uh we had the lobbyists from the county there that set everything up. So, it it was uh good that we were there to at least uh make our presentation. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of council, um the couple things I I wanted to start with the fact that we we did have very successful uh clean and vehicle um clean up this weekend. Uh put that together and did a wonderful job this time. Also had that uh nearly 200,000 pounds, almost 100 tons of of mixed waste called to the landfill. um 477 tires collected. Additionally, 10 to 12,000 pounds of scrap metal collected by private citizens. Um Friday, Saturday alone, over 43,000 pounds of garbage, more than

21 tons in two days. Um total dump fees came to almost $8,000. Uh shows how much was hauled out of Globe. And so that's a big win. Um, not only other people we want to thank for that, uh, Waste Connections, uh, our our contract hauler that that picks up trash. Um, they are our partners in that. Larry and Travis helped out there. Um, of course, John, Uriel and their team, uh, public works, um, on the ground supporting that. Um, Gary from the building department helping also. Uh, Maya and Melissa, uh, handing out the the PSAs and outreach material, spreading the word. and many many volunteers in the community that helped out. Um so this is a a big win, a good spring cleaning event. Uh and glad it was taken care of. Um uh but that it was uh highly utilized. Um also the again the this this flood didn't just hit city of globe. We we are working very closely with our partners with Gila County with uh town of Miami. Um they were discussing Miami situation and Miami funding in in that event today that we were at. Um like say it was uh county had taken point on working with Representative Blackman uh to get this bill starting started and and I think we're happy that we could come down there and and help help carry the you know get this keep this moving. um we probably won't know for a while what the outcome was, but um we definitely improved our chances of of getting some benefit from the state. And also thank um our partners at DIMA. Um DEMA has been working very closely through all the federal stuff and the the regulation, the the paperwork and and get giving us, you know, advice and and

it's we've all we've all upped our game, I believe, from this. And um The last thing I wanted to say is is thank you to council for your availability. Um when we when we got a lot of stuff going on, we got tight schedules trying to get the budget done. A lot of things when when we need you, you're always available. You make yourselves available like you did, mayor. And like everyone every council has from council workg groupoups to quick lunch to uh special meetings. Um and I'm not just putting you up for a special meeting we're talking about later on the agenda. So, but it really it really makes our job easier when your availability. We can better fill your needs when we when when we're able to, you know, make sure that we're we're communicating. So, thank you all for that and to to Councilman Leam also. That's all I have. Mr. Mayor, me council.

Thank you, Paul. I just want to make a comment on the cleanup also. I went up there Sunday and uh to drop off some branches, tree branches. It was amazing to see the amount of stuff that was out there. But I want to commend our staff for the way they set it up with the markings on everything was separated and and everybody was paying attention to that signage and so it makes it easy. And yeah, I'm imagine they had truckloads coming out of there cuz it it was full up there with everything, appliances, tires, branches. I mean, you name it, it was up there and it was separated very well. So, I commend our staff for the way they they set that up. Thank you. We have our first community call the public. I have no uh call cards up here. Do we have any online or

nothing on text, Mr. Mayor?

Mr. Mayor, thank you. Thank you. So we'll go to special presentations and item A is budgetary update and possible direction on budgetary process including utilization of the 3% PSPs fund and council contingency funds for fiscal year 2627 budget and Linda will resetti.

Good evening mayor, vice mayor and council members just to touch upon the community cleanup. It was we we actually got a thank you note from two of the gentlemen that come and they sit there all day long to take away the the scrap metal and it was just so complimentary of all of our staff and they they look forward to the event every year and so word is spreading and so they one one gentleman said that that's how he has been paying for his family's vacation. So that was really cool. That's cool.

Yeah. So tonight we're going to hear a little bit about the uh budget update where we are in the process. We're here tonight to ask for C and you should have the um powerpoints printed in front of you until we we get that up. That's okay. We can we can still roll. So we're here to ask council for direction on utilization of the.3% PSPRS funds and also council contingency funds. I I'll wait so the public can see that as well if you don't mind. Okay.

Just be a moment. There we go. See?

Thank you. Fantastic. So, of course, as as mayor and council know, one of our our primary SAP goals has been to build a new fire station for our department. And here's some facts behind that. Our our current department or current location is 125 20-year-old firehouse. It does not meet the needs or the safety standards for a modern fire department. The property where the the future fire department will be built has been acquired. Right now, we're working on a feasibility study and expect that to arrive in the next couple of weeks. This feasibility study will give us an estimated maximum price. Um, another piece to moving forward is completing our audits. We're happy to say that we will be caught up on our audits. Uh we anticipate before July of this year, but we're we're going to put July out there as as last case scenario. And then we can begin finalizing our funding plan. And after that, we go to full design and then we break ground and build the station. So how are how are we going to fund our station? So based on the preliminary design, we we've learned that the estimated cost of a new facility is between 13 and 15 million. And of course, that's based on preliminary design. This feasibility study is going to give us a a better idea of what the actual cost will be. And of course, we plan to value engineer that as needed. So where's the funding going to come from? So, we've been exploring all of our options and talking to other municipalities and how they've been able to achieve huge

capital projects like this. Bonding is is been recommended for our our way to seek funding. It's it's similar to going to the bank and and getting a loan, but instead we're going to the bond market for financing. And based on the preliminary costs, we we need to demonstrate that we can cover 1.2 million in annual debt service. And by by doing so, even even if we can bring that cost down, by by being able to to say we have dedicated funding source for for a 1.2 million debt service, this will give us the most competitive rates. So the PSPRS.3 sales tax is that dedicated funding source that through council action can make this this project possible. Right now we we are anticipating bringing in 900,000 in in the.3 the PSPs sales tax and so the remaining 300,000 will come from future operational revenue.

So mayor and council the going out to bond is is like filling out an app and going to a bank and saying, you know, you know, can do we qualify. We we need to do certain things to make sure that that we qualify uh for bonding and and more so for uh the most uh lowest rate that we can get. Um showing financial uh sustainability and stability. Being caught up on our our um audits is important. Having uh you know having the ability to pay the money back that is real important and that's that's what makes uh um dedicating the the public safety the the.3% to that bond payment shows it here's a source and and so here's the loan and here's a source that's going to be going to that um it's real important uh it will it will make them the bond market the the bonding company the the people there's a lot of terminology out there that um uh more confident that that we have a plan on on how to pay this over the over the time. And again, uh as many other things that we have um we'll be we're we'll be going and and doing going after the bond in in after the summer, probably early spring once we have a couple of the questions resolved for the flooding. But we need to plan for it in this budget cycle because we're we're right around the from this. And so that's why we're talking about this now. So we have to we have to put certain things in our budget to make sure that we are ready when the time comes that we can pull the trigger on the bond request.

And actually that that is one of the requirements that we do build that into our our next fiscal year budget and and because this has been in place since 2016, we have that historical data to also demonstrate that this is a very productive revenue source.

Just a comment on that. I think when we go to When people talk or they hear about bonding, they think, "Well, there go my taxes and everything." But with this proposed plan that the city has, they won't see that increase in their property tax rate in their bonding. So, I think it's a I commend our staff for really looking into this and coming up with options on how to fund this station without increasing any cost to our taxpayers. Um, I also have to commend the city for 10 years ago, 2016, for being proactive in in addressing the unfunded liability for police and fire where the then council then um took $1 million out of their fund balance to pay off some of their unfunded and then created a.3% tax increase dedicated to bring that funding down. And a lot of cities ignored it. A lot of cities are really they went to bond to pay for their unfunded liability or now they extended to 30 years instead of 20 years. So the cost amount to these cities is huge. So where we're at now and I think we're close to 80% funded now which is amazing where we're at and we're kind of a um an example when they talk about when PSPRS has their their seminars how we handle it in right from the beginning instead of putting it off down the road. So, I commend the council and the staff and for really stepping forward and taking care of that.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh the bond. Yes. And because many residents won't remember recall the PSPs.

It's got a mind Oh, you were gonna say it already. You You read my bullet points. I didn't see it. Sorry. Um, thank you. Hey, there it is.

So, we're going to touch a little bit upon the PSPs history. As mayor mentioned in July of 16 there was a council task force uh formed and and mayor was actually on that task force as was vice mayor Stapleton and this was the task force met I think four times over three weeks and came to the conclusion to make a recommendation to city council to create the.3% sales tax to support fire and police by paying down that that unfunded liability. And so kudos to the council for the foresight that they had because the city's liability has been greatly reduced and now we are in the situation that we are now so that we can look forward and and complete a project such as this magnitude otherwise we wouldn't have the the funding to to tackle it. staff at this time is requesting that this sales tax uh could be reassigned by the city council towards the debt service for the new fire station, allowing the funds brought in to be allocated towards advancing and securing public safety services for the residents of our area.

So, Mr. Mayor, members of council uh like I say was there when when we did this we were we had problems with affording fire and police uh because we were in the the 70 to you know 60 to 70% and what that means we would there would be amount that we had to pay for PSPs normally for our buyer and police people and then that that 70% represent an additional amount of their salary and and this was just killing us. Um, this was done to stabilize public safety and and this money has paid off both in the budget but in in the quality police and fire services we have now. and and that has come we we led the way with taking upon ourselves as we as I recall we said you know you don't make the minimum payments on your credit card you never get it paid off and and that 1 million and this dedicated funding sources.3 was there to to to help public safety and keep it viable as it is now like I say what we're looking to do is is redirect that that.3 money not to PSPs but now to the the dedicated bonding source for the fire station because it it will it will do the job. It's one of the only options we have and and it it fits in the spirit of what we passed what council at that point continuing on being proactive and taking the lead and taking uh and being you know being out there going we're not going to you know we're going to we're going to take action and and make this station happen. So that that's where that's where we we feel comfortable asking council about this and for this transition

for the benefit of everybody else. Can you tell them what PSP RS stands for? Um uh public safety retirement system. Yeah. So that is so it's a different system than ASRS, Arizona safe retirement system, but it it is um so okay. So I'm going to go history here.

2008 there was a blip in the stock market. It was going it dropped like a rock half and then came back up. And what that did there was a there was a nuance in the PSP system that if the money if the money went down then the the cities had to cover the loss in the retirement system. But if the money went up, the public safety retire retirees got a cola. Well, they didn't encounter that it would go down and up in one cycle. And so it went down, created a a a deficit in there, and then bounced back up, but that money didn't go back to fill that deficit. So it left all cities, I think about 2008, 2010, in a hole. And and that is the the a nuance from the law. something no one envisioned that the stock market would drop 50 and then come back up. Um and so they were redoing the law. They were they had a constitutional amendment to create the tier three which has kind of saved that but all these cities were left with this hole and and it was so it was a fluke from an economic you know uh activity from that that that 2008 thing um the where the market crash uh and uh we were the we were one of the first we had um people coming to us and asking us well that was cool how did you do that and that's a good plan and and people, you know you're doing the right thing when people follow what you do. But um but no, it's just a little history. Um I'm glad those days are over.

One other thing they did also with that with the tier three um system also is the retirees were automatically getting getting 4% raises every year on their on their retirement. So what they did now is they changed it. Now they get a 2% but the market has to make greater than 7% increase on it benefit to it. So it decreased the the really decreased the benefits of retirees, but it actually helped save the system also in going to tier three.

And Scotty McCarthy, the is the um finance director right now for Queen Creek. He was on that PSBS board, still is. He helped write the legislation and he came up and spoke to our group and and helped us with this plan. So anyway, it was um like I say, it was a good move, a proactive move and and I think this city should be very proud of that. Thank you. So just take it one step further for for my information because I'm not involved. I'm an ASRS retiree.

What's our liability outstanding right now and how soon will that go down to zero? it the liability is hovering about 22% right now and and people will tell you that's that's as good as you want to get if you if you it will we will still continue to pay a small fraction of what we're mandated to pay to bring that down but it it it varies on the percentage that PSPs is receiving on their investment and it it varies on the average salary of public safety employees. And so if if they if they drop the rate of return uh by a point one one uh onetenth of a percent, all of a sudden our our uh uh what we owe goes up or if they take it down. So it's it's it's like trying to track down a butterfly. It's it's flying all over the place. If we're within the if we're get to that 20% area, we're considered safe and where you should be. you don't want to overpay it either. So, but we're in that in that range where we were um 10 million uh 10 to 11 million at at the time. And you have to remember it's split between half as fire and half as police. But but that was a number that we we recommended was to get down to that that near that 20% range. Uh and that would be considered um be fiscally sound.

But I don't have the exact number right now. That's the the final uh answer I may need to my constituency who ask it. Well, what happens? And so now we have an endgame. And we will continue, like I say, we will continue to make the mandated payments, but what we're going to what we've successfully done is made that above and beyond payment that that needed to get uh because most people carry just a little bit of capacity on their credit card, but but we you know 10 million was we needed to get that down so we could under our terms and that's what we did. Thank you. That answers my question.

Some cities in Arizona were up to 80 100% unfunded liability. I think we bounced to about 65% our highest and now we're down to to the 20% area, 22%. That is amazing to be in that area. Well, it answers my questions because I'm sure I'll I'll get asked about what's our end game. So, I see it. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. There were there were cities that Yeah. over a hundred you could get rid of your police department or fire department and you still the liability. You had one employee, that one employee had had to help carry that. Uh, you know, that was money that that the city's owed to the system and and it needed to be paid off is what we did. Thank you.

Last year, council adopted a policy to maintain a $3 million contingency fund, and it was often referred to as the rainy day fund. And then we had the floods. And so we we did tap into into that rainy day fund. And based on on the reduced revenues this fiscal year due to the event, we we were not able to grow the council's contingencies fund. So we're asking the city council to please consider uh a reduction of the count of the contingency to 2.5 million. And this would allow us the budget capacity for much needed one-time projects next year. Mr. Mayor, members of council, just want to I've said this before, I think individually, but this is council's fund. This is money. This is by policy what what you like to see in that in that rainy day fund in that contingency. Um uh by and you have every right to say no, we want to hold to the policy and and we we can you give us that marching order and we will find a way to do it without it. But if you If you think about it, we had a blip in the revenue. That blip was about a million dollars. We also uh normally the contingency fund is paid for by money that is budgeted from ongoing funds and then uh is never spent and that makes it one-time funds and that will fill that contingency bucket. We had half a million dollars that was un that was unspent and went back to fill that but it couldn't come the million dollar hit we took in in our revenue projection. Um if if not I I wouldn't say if not for the flood but but the the process would have continued and we would have been able to build that fund. Um but uh but like I say before we go any further say we want to check with council and make sure you're

okay with us making budgetary decisions based on on what we're asking tonight.

I just want to comment Mr. Mayor if I could. Today, right now, we have received information about our economy um regionwide, including Superior. It's bright. It wasn't bright six months ago, but events have happened. And in the mining industry, uh which will help this economy tremendously. Uh yes, we took a hit. Our revenues were down. that's documented. But the events surrounding this, the economy surrounding us all the way to superior turbine four different minds. I think it's a very bright future and my hopes are high for that to occur. Um, other events have have not, let's just say the minds have not stumbled. They kept right on growing and growing and we're at the right point in time to sacrifice and hope for the best. I'm very encouraged with what I see. Couldn't say that a year ago. Couldn't say we weren't going to have a 100 year 135 year flood either, but we have survived that and with our strategic action plan and meetings that we have held. Couple things in our economy have come to fruition. The meeting the other day at the the Mines Country Club, I'll call it, was a very informative meeting. U they all mention things casting about worldwide in their operations and I'm encouraged with that. So does it affect us? Of course it does. But we have planned for years as a region for those dark days when an economy goes down. We know what it looks like. We've spent decades uh expanding our ability to grow and

having not just one driver of the economy. Uh tourism is is our other component. So we we've met that challenge and I'm encouraged with our efforts and now I'm also able to say I'm encouraged with uh the stakeholders who are in the mining industry and that viability for our immediate future and a long-term future. So I'm encouraged looking at that tonight. We're we're we're about to go into into the next year. That's all I have. Mr. Mayor, thank you. Thank you.

So we're here request council direction as we move forward in the development of a of the budget to bring forth uh May 19th for tenative. We're requesting that staff be allowed to build the fiscal year 27 budget allocating the the redirection of the public safety tax to fund the build of the new city of globe fire station. Also, staff is requesting council to to allow us to bring forth a budget that utilizes 500,000 of your $3 million contingency to cover much needed one-time projects.

There is there is no vote on this. presentation and direction and and like I say the the there will be action that comes to lock in both of these items as we go to adopt the tenative there'll be uh some some legislative uh requirements that we'll have to meet but we we want to build this in so if take this assumption lock it into the formula as we get closer and closer to closing the gap and and finishing that budget we wanted to make sure that that this was meeting council's approval. Um so when we get to that tenative budget that you're happy with all the the pieces that went into producing that budget. So we're looking for preferably verbal support.

Have you got any questions or comments for Linda or Paul? Either one.

Mr. Mayor 10 years almost 10 years. When we come across problems like this that are going to actually benefit us if we make the right decision, we come together look at it as what it's going to do for our community. And I know we have one one council member, he's not here today about $3 million, but I think there's some special circumstances we're dealing with right now and I don't want to say how he would vote, but I think he would probably favor it. But I would rather make a decision completely on that when he's here, you know, but as far as I'm concerned, I would be an okay vote for it when it comes.

Me, too. Like said, you guys are doing a phenomenal job. So, you guys know exactly what you're doing, and I'm all for this. So we can always build this back up this and we know we will times are tough right now. Times are tough the last six months. So if this is what we need to do, I'm all for it.

I I don't have any questions. I like to look at what we have accomplished. Um, in the last year, we've improved our fleet uh across the board. Some of it appeared just in time as we were dealing with the cleanhouse of our sewer and the rest of the things that we've improved. I think we've accomplished a lot and that's why I feel encouraged by making these kinds of decisions right now. I think bragging a little. I think we're showing leadership across the region. look to globe, see what we're doing from around the state. How did you get there? Planning and hard work are the two things that I see of our staff as well as this council. So, if you ask me to take a leap, let's take that leap and see where it takes us this year. That's I'm not judgmental. I'm always pessimistic in in my mitigation planning. What's my worst case scenario? And in spite of that, I think we're in good shape to go into the future. Let's run with it. That's all I have, Mr. Mayor. Thank you.

You know, I think we all anticipated a decrease in revenues from the flooding. Um, we have some true numbers that we can actually look at and people will understand where we're coming from. I think half million dollars is really uh really uh not a whole lot compared to the money we spent just to stabilize our infrastructure after the flooding. That isn't really a whole lot of money. Um this next year is going to be tough. We're going to hold the line. We're going to have to limit our spending, but we still need to move forward. And uh the long-term future is that we not only stabilize, but re looking at replacing our infrastructure. And that's going to be another plan for the future is going to be needs to take place. As far as the station, you know, I think it's uh I really commend like I said earlier for the forward thinking of the council and the staff at that time to get us to this point that we have have an option to use our PSPRS to build the fire station. So, you know, I think it it's a very well thoughtout plan and hopefully we can and we need to educate the public so they understand it totally too. Like I say, this is a redirecting of the same tax. There is no change in our tax rates or any of the collection. It just it's it's not what we collect, but it's how how we focus that and focusing within the original intent, which is support public safety. Now, the just and one quick comment to uh Council Member Pastor's comment, um I see clear support to move forward with building that budget. with with these assumptions. Uh at the end of the day, this what you say here tonight does not lock that in. Uh things could change and and we could get different opinion from from somebody and bring up different, you know, and and we can uh we can uh roll with that. Uh I I think I feel I feel comfortable

the support of council if if there's a change needs to happen, we still can change that. We're not locked. We're not really locked in until final final budget. Just for everybody's understanding, tenative budget is the maximum we will spend. Final budget is a maximum arrangement of how we do that spending under that tenative budget. Um, traditionally our this council has has been pretty strong at at tenative. Uh, there's just minor uh cleanup and things that we find that that we may have missed or But but we will have I think two three more budget meetings to talk about this. This is not the last time we will talk about this but but we did want to get in front of council and make sure that you had clear direction of what we were doing to to close this budget and make this work. Uh our situ our financial situation which is still strong but but this flood is a hiccups. Thank you, Linda.

Thank you so much. Thank you, Linda. Every council that the council members attending are in support for building that council.

Okay. Next, we go to consent calendar and matter listed in the consent calendar considered be routine and will be enacted by one motion and one vote. Public hearing items are designated 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 waiver of section 2-4-10A, prior discussion rule to allow action on the balance of the consent agenda. Accounts payable $413,78747. Council meeting minutes consideration of February 10th, 2026. Meeting minutes consideration to ratify contract number CS20260118 to JJ Electrical Consulting LLC for the repair of the return activated sludge pump number two at the wastewater treatment plant for the amount of $45. Funds from this project are budgeted from account number 518051340. Lift station maintenance. Consideration to ratify contract number PS20260117 with public state sector personnel consultants in the amount of $2,500 funded from account 10551234 administrative contractual service to prepare a public safety compensation survey. Consideration to award contract number CS20260115 to Rodriguez Construction Incorporated for sidewalk repair located at 226 North Broad Street for the amount of $18,750 with a 15% contingency of $2,812.50 for an amount not to exceed $21,562.50. Funds for this project are budgeted in account 1280522000.

Capital outlay construction from the one from the halfsent excise tax. Consideration to award contract number CS2026116 to Bulldog Remodeling LLC for an office remodel within City Hall building for the amount of $5,540. Funds are to come from account5522000. Capital Outlay Construction Consideration to ratify contract number CS20260121 to Lesley's Pool Mark Incorporated to install a chlorine acid controller and two standard pumps at the community pool for the amount of 7,28.73 from this project are budgeted in account 106751267 other supplies consideration to award contract number CS20260114 to BNA Electric LLC to make the necessary repairs to the best botanical garden lights and soccer field lights on the field number five for the amount of $5,216 with a 15% contingency of $782.40 for an amount not to exceed $5,998.40. Funds are to come from account 10615130 park maintenance. Is there anybody from council, staff, or the public wishing to remove any of these items separately for consideration?

Mr. Mayor, I'd like to pull item D, please. Item D is in David.

Any other requests? Mayor, I would move to approve the consent agenda minus item 4D. Second. We have a motion second for approval of the count's agenda. Might as item D. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppos. Travis, I guess you're going to explain that or you got a question. Yeah. Hello, Travis. Hello. Uh, I'm just curious. Uh, I know where you're talking about, but is it from the Silver Tap south to Cedar or is it just in front of the salon? Basically in front of the salon area. That's it.

Yes. Okay. No, I uh I work not in the salon obviously, but I work a few doors down and I've had a lot of people uh suggest or ask that we have a a handicap parking spot in that area. Is that doable while we're doing this project? And possibly a ramp too as well. There's a lot of elder people going in and out cars in that area. That sidewalk's pretty high and they've had a few people fall. Yeah, that would take some other design work. Um, so right now Broad Street, we are doing a a large design through out the corridor between Cottonwood Mosquite. So I believe that's within that area

that included in there. Well, if it's one of those areas where if you said looking, we want to look for ADA ramping in a specific area, I can certainly certainly let the design team know that. But they are looking at making everything ADA compliant. um from a holistic standpoint of where the the full sidewalk is. So, I would have to let me get with you sometime after and pinpoint what area you're specifically talking and then I can see what we can do about that.

And like you said, for a sign, I'm just thinking one of the parking spots uh near uh Cedar maybe the last one. It could be a handicap parking spot because there are no handicap spots. Yeah, it's tough to make a handicap parking spot when you're parallel to the curb is what I'm assuming. Right there along Cedar. Uh, no. Broad Street. Broad Street. Oh, in front of the the on the angle parking. Yeah. Okay. So, like the last parking spot or even possibly two uh just north of the intersection on the west side of Broad Street. Yeah, we can certainly look on that.

Something to look at while we're doing something. Might as well. Yeah, we can look into that. There there is a there is a spot right at the end. Okay, that's got a sign that says 15minute parking only. I know. We could Couldn't we designate that as handicap and change it from 15minute parking to a handicap spot? I mean, they're going to be remodeling the whole place. Yeah, I mean, we can certainly look into that. I'll make the note and we'll discuss it and see um designwise, see if that fit in there. Uhhuh. If you need extra space for uh van space for the lift, we can we can look into all that. I just can't give you an answer right now without looking at the I just throwing out ideas.

Sure. Yeah. Because I've heard a lot of people uh suggest that or have had complaints on that area. Now, are they going to be repairing the the sidewalk from is it 928 226? Yeah, there's a section all the way to the corner. Uh, I don't think it's all the way to the corner. It's just a section that's damaged right now. So, um, that's that's the portion that's going to be fixed. I don't think it's all the way to the corner. Yeah.

But, however, our Broad Street sidewalk overall project that we requested $2.2 million for recently through the transportation alternatives program with AOT. Um, should we be awarded for that, we will be taking care of the entire stretch. There's a lot of other spots along the sidewalks on Broad Street that need to be looked at because there some pretty bad spots out there. Yeah, I think that'll fall into the project that you're

It should fall into the project. Anything between Mosquite and Cottonwood, they're redesigning everything to for I'm hoping for a lower profile in some of those areas. Um, but it will be all ADA compliant and it'll be all redone. It's a full replacement. That'll be nice. That's all I have. Thank you. Question. A motion. I'll make a motion to accept item D. Second. A motion and a second to approve item D is read. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Nay. Pass. Thank you, Travis.

Go to new business. Item A is consideration approve resolution number of 1931 authorizing the application submittal for a clean water state revolving fund loan in the amount of $3 million from the water infrastructure finance authority WIFFA of Arizona as required for submission to the WHIFA project finance program application. Shelley, can you read resolution 1931? Yes, sir. Mr. Resolution number 1931, a resolution of the mayor and council of the city of Globe County, Arizona to authorize the application submitt of a clean water state revolving fund loan water infrastructure finance.

Yes.

Well, good evening, mayor, vice mayor, members of the council. As you recall, early February, one uh the first council meeting in February, we came to you for a debt authorization to apply for whiffle loan at 4 million for the clean water and 2 million for the drinking water. Um since there were some adjustments that we needed to make on what we were actually applying for uh WIFFA program asked us to just reauthorize a debt authorization for the amounts that we are now requesting for the specific projects that we're requesting under the under this particular uh clean water with a loan that we're going after now. So the the project before in February, we had a list of projects and alternative projects that covered a wide variety of eligible projects such as sewer lines, um common sewers, anything that that dealt with sewers. Um but uh since we are now focused on $3 million for um local match on the NRCS funding that we have, that is our basic and primary request under the new application that we're submitting. And this could only be used for sewer.

Well, this is only going to be used for local match for the the flood mitigation work that under the NRCS program since that does require has a $5.5 million local match responsibility to that. So, this is three million that we can throw at it. Are we are we uh eligible for any forgivable of that amount or we don't won't know? Well, we don't know at the moment, but there's always eligibility for forgiveness of of the whiff loans.

Very much council. We find that the more and more on top of stuff we are, the less and less the forgivables. We're a victim of our own success, but um but this money has been is is very much needed. Um we I may sound like a broken record, but uh like I say, the $5.5 million match that we need uh is a combination of uh possibly this, possibly the appeal to wave the match, possibly FEMA, possibly the state, possibly all of the above. A little bit of of everything, possibly uh value engineering, possibly that that comes in a little bit low, or possibly we run out of time and we can't spend all that money. you know, possible. That's how it was.

Is there a waiver we have to sign? But but what I what I will tell you is that they we are very close to starting that work in the creek and we are going to be doing it in time for um because we do have monsoon season that weathermen are telling us maybe more aggressive than others. Um the the only nuance to to to this presentation is um we need to get the loan the loan what is it what's the the market point for when we can start using this money.

So the whiffle board uh meets mid June I believe June 17th and uh from my understanding we can we can get it eligible to spend as as quickly as June 19th somewhere around there. So within days of them actually approving in the board. We just got to make sure we set that up properly.

But the but work that is work that is conducted before that June 19th uh is not eligible to be used this to be used for match. So we may be coming out of pocket a little bit on match money in the front end have this for the for the back end. But um we're still waiting for for clearances and things and so you just never know on the timing. But no, we're moving forward. See, I don't want to go off topic too far with not about flood recovery, but uh it's and and kudos to for Travis for pivoting and uh we we make a made a run at the last meeting trying to get in. Did not make it in, but but Travis pivoted. We did the readjustments needed to make it fit. And um on top of being pulled in the way of you know FEMA coming to visit and uh the core of engineers uh and pulling him from all directions he he got this applica these two applications in correct and so we're good on that.

Is there an urgency? Do we need to wave the rules?

The um I think because the fact that we are applying and then we will have to we will have to accept these that this this will not be the last time that this money comes for this this topic comes forward. So no need to weigh the rule. We'll be talking about the silver spender and and the other thing I want to say I if if it turns out that that we this money is not necessary for the match uh Travis has confirmed that we still can go back we have up to three years to uh recap projects in sewer that we could we can do. And just the other the other piece of the puzzle, the the sewer our sewer lines are in our flood plane and in our our creek. For us to get to the sewer lines, we need to get the debris and everything off of that. And that's how this falls into the into a a sewer funding bucket which may be one of the only break points.

Any other questions or motion to move forward? We move to approve item 5 as presented. Second. Got a motion, a second to move item 5A forward to the future meeting. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I.

The oppos. Motion passes. Item B is consideration to approve resolution 1932 authorizing the application submitt for a drinking water state revolving fund loan in the amount of $1 million from the water infrastructure finance authority WIFA of Arizona as required for the submission to the WIFA project finance application. Can you read resolution 1932 Shelley please?

Thank you Mr. Mayor. Resolution number 1932, a resolution of the mayor and council of the city of Globe, Hila County, Arizona, to authorize the application submitt of a drinking water state revolving fund loan from the water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona. Yes,

Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council, this is for the drinking water loan for $1 million. The $1 million will be applied to the low water transmission mainline under the 595 project. That that project carries a $2.1 million federal grant that we have with uh the Army Corps of Engineers and it also has a 700,000 local match for a total of 2.8. But the overall project costs more than that. So, we're requesting this million dollars to apply towards that uh that overall project.

Same thing on this one. This will move forward. Yeah, this um yeah, you don't need to weigh the rule. This is going to come back that money also. So, I make a motion to move item B forward to a later date. Motion second to move item B to a future meeting. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. They just a point of order. I mean moving that forward. Is that the same as approving it? But

no, we should really amend the motion. We're not bringing the resution back. for approving the resolution tonight for the submitt. Once it's awarded, we'll bring that that award back. That's what I say. Yeah, we're not really moving it. We're approving it tonight. So, I have make a motion to approve resolution 1932 as read. That okay. And bring back the

Well, no. So, you just approve this to go forward with the application. No need to weigh the rule or bring it back again because If we apply and we win it, we don't have to accept it. If something changes, let's say that, you know, the it's the final it's when we do something right off the bat and there and it's done. That's when the way when we we want to have two readings. So, so there's somebody's has concerns and they they hear about it after the fact. There there is the opportunity for someone to hear about after the fact, come forward, express concerns that maybe council's like, "Wow, I didn't realize that." and and you can in a in a future agenda item reverse yourself. You're not you're not married to it for now. You're giving permission to go forward, but there's still options to turn back if needed.

So, there's no reason to wait the vote. Okay. Right up. So, I made the motion. We had a second or Well, do we do we have to go back to the other one and unless we have a clear understanding that we're not um violating anything just by moving it forward. I I don't know. I don't understand it. So, we got to go back to item A2 to change that. Well, I I I motioned to approve it. I did motion to move it forward. Well, you did combination, I think, to approve it and move it forward to moving forward, but my motion said to approve it. Okay. And then it was seconded. So, he can't change that by talking about it. Um, hey Tina, are you listening in?

Yes. You have an attorney on So, so did you hear what happened here just now? We we we the council motioned and approved uh to move it forward when the actual motion and should have been an approval. Can can they reverse themselves?

Um yeah. So what I would do is somebody that was on the winning side just needs to make a motion to reconsider and then you can make a motion to approve the resolution. So, so anybody who and you all voted for it, so you're all on the winning side. So, anybody wants to make a motion to reconsider and do they have to vote on that motion? Motion second. Yeah. So, you you motion second and vote to reconsider. Then you're back to where you were and you can do the proper motion. We'd like to make that motion. 5B. 5B. My own. I think we're talking about 5B.

I thought 5B. I I move to approve. I didn't approve that. I put the wording in motion. So yeah, so we can what his motion the original motion was to approve it. So I'm the one that threw in the move forward. So it it shouldn't have I shouldn't have changed his his uh motion. So So for the record, item 5A was motion to approve, right? 5B was motion to bring forward. Okay. And so so then now we're looking at the point we're looking for a motion and a second to reconsider 5B. And he he made the motion. I did. You need a second. And then who we who seconded the reconsider? We need a second. We've got a second now. Okay.

And now you need to mayor, you need to call. So we have a motion and a second to reconsider the motion to move forward to a motion to approve it. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. Nay. Now you're back to to ground to to level to approve item or resolution 1932, right? And stop. Yeah. Yes. So I made that motion. So I'll second. So we have a motion to approve and a second to approve resolution number 1932. All those in favor say I. I. Nay. Motion back.

There we go. And it's it's so nice to say, is there an attorney in the house? We have one. Thank you, Tina. I'm so glad all experience. Okay. So, mayor, go ahead to now you're on 5C. Item C is consideration to approve contract number PS20260125 with Fitz Gibbons Law to hire Tina

Bonucci as legal council for the update of chapter 8 business regulations of the Globe City code funded by account 10551226 and request to wave section 2-4-108 prior discussion room. So, so mayor in I think it was in January, we we had conversations, discussion about the roll out of the renewals of the of the um business licenses. And at at that point, we started talking about um it highlighted the some of the the vagueness of our our chapter 8. And when I talk about chapter 8, let me for the record read what chapter 8 is. Chapter 8 is uh in our city code is business regulation. And primarily we're focusing on uh article 81 which is business license fees, article 82 which is peddlers, solicitors and transient merchants and 83 which is special event permits. Um for a number of reasons those are the three that that we've historically uh found were were lacking and and we made the commitment to uh to go ahead and um rewrite those. uh rewriting uh rewriting is is not an easy task and and that's why uh and council wants full involvement uh from that and that's why we had talked about bringing on a um an attorney to to walk us through that project. Uh this is something that that um Bill Sims our city attorney uh understands is a is more of a I I don't want to say it's a lot of work but it's it's a a strong focus. And so, uh, with Bill Sims, uh, recommendation and support, uh, we bring in Tina Bonucci and Fisk Given Associates to, um, to help us with this project. And this was what's on the agenda tonight is to approve um, uh, her the funding for for her, um, support of the city.

But but before you vote, I would like to introduce Tina, let her talk a little bit about herself and and talk about the process that we we met once and we've talked about a process and we wanted Tina to share the process with with council. So Tina, take it away.

Sure. Mayor, members of council, it's a pleasure meeting for you tonight. Um yeah, really just a little bit about me. I've been an attorney for over 20 years. Our firm represents six cities and towns across the state of Arizona and I also take on special projects like this, whether it's investigations or code rewrites when there's conflicts or it's just a focused area um or the city wants some outside help. So happy to step in. It's always a pleasure to work with Paul and your staff. We did have a introductory meeting, I would call it, with staff to give me a flavor of what's going on, the concerns. My um proposal would be also to have probably one-on-one meetings with you to get to the extent you want to to the extent you want have input and what you're hearing. businesses, what's not working, what is working, what you like, what you don't like. Once I have that input, I'll also be looking at other cities to, you know, just have a comparison available for you so you have some options and you can see what other cities are doing and what's working and not for them. And then based on that, we would come back and have kind of bullet points before we begin the rewrite, make sure we're all on the same page, and then dive into the actual rewrite. So, just want to be clear that I plan to fully involve both you and staff so that you'll have input along the way as we go through this process.

And Mr. Mayor, members of the council, one of the things that that as city manager, I I try not to put so much burden on you as to give you a blank slate. Here's a blank piece of paper. Let's start from scratch. So, because we we value your time. So, it's always it's easier to to modify and edge it and and ed um to edit. Um I I think what we're going to do is first start with the lowhanging fruit. I think city staff and city council agree on certain things. We've heard over the past 6 months on things that that you have um uh expressed and and we're always trying to to meet your needs. And so, so we're going to try to do a run at this to to get some things that that we think that will help um alleviate some of your concerns. Then you'll get your direct feedback and and then Tina will be putting her feedback into all of this. This all goes through the Tina filter. Then with you talking to Tina, she'll have direct impact or input from you and then we'll take all that, put it into some draft a draft document and then start the process of bringing it forward probably in daytime meetings. is it's a full council but a work a work um uh meeting and and and then go through until we get tighter and tighter uh until uh we we get down to the final last couple of pieces and uh once we get those worked out then bring it back and and go through that. Tina, is that kind of the the tail end of the process?

And this will be this will be public um definitely the the final the final roll out will be a uh in public evening meetings when we get to um bringing this forward for final approval. It will be a public process. And can you name those three uh titles again? Business license.

Business license. uh peddler solicitors and transient merchants special event permits, but we also have public use of the sidewalks and streets. You know, putting the uh those folding signs out used to be I think a contentious issue with people putting that and that kind of deals with that and we're and that's up for if there's anything that we need to to deal with that. Um uh there's a a a small section on uh uh adult businesses and then uh legal the uh marijuana facilities which we just redid because we uh maybe 5 years ago with Dana Burkhart um because we had to update that based on legal changes. So that one's pretty fresh. Uh I don't I don't know that there's anybody's had any any problems or complaints with the code. I know there's been questions on how we implement it with uh t uh temporary use permits, but that's that's not a code problem. That's that's more just how we handle our zoning. So, that's why I say that the primary uh to me the primary is going to be business licenses and special events.

Any other question of the current code, right? Yes. Okay. Yeah, but but it it it's it's likely going to look totally different. I mean, even even just from the structure, as an attorney puts things together, they organize, and some people like definitions at the top, some people don't. You know, it'll it'll have the the Tina stamp on it. And this chapter 8 doesn't cover any of the text amends we discussed about home home businesses and because we we waved those till down the no that the it it should uh now that the home businesses that is in the zoning code okay

and that's what we dealt with um before but um but no I mean if if I will tell you if things cross over and there's a there's an issue that you want to address now we can we can make that happen. I I if we're going to crack this open, I would I would like to to address all those issues that um that are are of concern and and if there's a little bit of project creep on this, I'm okay with that. And it's your call anyway. So, do we have a motion or have more? I move to approve item 5 C and wave the prior discussion role.

Second. We have a motion and second for approval of item 5C in waiver of the rules. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Name. Motion pass. Go to action items. Tina. Thank you. Tina. Thank you. Thank you, Tina. Thank you. Item A, action item, consideration of possible approval of change order number one to contract number CS2024106 to Senica Electrical for the cutter VFD replacement in the amount of $7421 with funds to come from account 5080520001 well pump repairs or Travis.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council. Um, this is just one of those cases where the the quote was over 30 days old by the time we got it before you and there were some increases in the cost of the material that they needed. So, that's the reason for the change order. Okay, questions, comments, no other questions. Mayor, I'd uh make a motion to approve item A as read. Second. Motion second for approval. of item 6A is red. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I.

Oppos? Nay. Motion pass. Item B is consideration to approve change order number one for contract number CS20260062 with Earthquest Plumbing and Pumping LLC executed under the city of Glo's Emergency Declaration Resolution 1912 for emergency water and sewer infrastructure repairs necessitated by the September 26, 2025 flood event in the amount of $1,18243. This project is budgeted through number 208008008 DEMA 2025 flood Travis.

Thank you mayor, vice mayor, members of the council. This was one of seven invoices during the period of October that Earthquest was doing for emergency work. This one was uh submitted to us until somewhat recently. So it wasn't in the original contract um that we had the other six invoices. Since it's the same work that was part of that contract, uh we figured this would be a best way to do it. just come back as an as a change order to add this invoice to that contract.

Mayor, I move to approve item 6B. Second. Motion a second for approval of item 6B as read. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Nay. Motion pass. Item C is consideration to approve change order number one for contract number CS20260101 with Weber Wastewater Resources LLC to repair the cutter booster number three motor in the amount of $8,860. Funds of this project are budgeted on account number 508051242 equipment repairs. Travis,

thank you. Mayor, vice mayor, members of the council. Um, generally when things like this happen with one of the motors that are boosters, uh, we get a quote to look at it to rehab and possibly rebuild, but once they get in there, they find other things that needed to that they need to do. And in this case, they needed, from what I understand, they had to rewire something and rewound something within that motor. So, they had an additional cost of uh, really 10,000 something, but we still had some room from the contingency of the previous uh, original contract. And so we're just doing a change order on that original contract for the remaining $8,860. Okay.

Questions, comments, motion. I'd like to make a motion to approve item C as written. Second. Motion, second for approval of item 6 C as read. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion pass. Thank you. Thank you, Travis. Uh, we have no late agenda items. We do not. Uh, second call to the public. Do we have online? We do have We do have one email.

An email. Okay. So, I'll I'll read this. This came in during the meeting. Um, let's see. Is this from uh Sarah Langstrom? Lang Langston, sorry. Good evening, members of council. Um, I'm writing to express my concerns regarding two recent issues impacting the city's budget and long-term financial sustainability. First, during the presentation at the last meeting, there was focus on the 9% health um healthcare insurance increase for individuals. However, there was no discussion regarding the 17% increase for employees with families which represent a significant uh financial impact. Second, uh there has been a notable increase in hiring for positions that were not originally budgeted. Had these funds not been under uh been used for unbudgeted positions. Uh they potentially could have been reallocated to offset the rising healthc care costs of all employees. Uh respectfully um uh I respectfully request that council ask staff to uh provide detailed presentation of unbudgeted positions filled over the past five years. uh detail the specific benefits of those positions and how they contributed to the city's financial standings and explore the possibility of relocating funds to help offset the insurance costs. Uh transparency is essential for our community. Thank you for your time and consideration of these matters. Best regard, Sarah Langstone. And um there's some some inaccuracies in here. Uh we can't comment about that, but I will follow up um with Sarah. We'll email her back and and see if I can uh kind of resolve some of the misstatements in there.

Okay, what was the individual's name? Sarah Langston. Langston. And that's that's all we have in the way of public comment. Scheduling meetings. So, so Mayor, nice try. Something um I'm busy.

Um uh we we are requesting the council approve a special council meeting on May 19th, 2026 at 6 PM to adopt this the tenative budget. That's a Tuesday. Yes, it is.

Yes. And that will get us in our budget cycle. It's we're moving we're splitting that in there because our budget analyst does have a once in a-lifetime trip. Uh not budget analyst, budget manager, uh Tina Allen has a trip and it's there's nothing wrong with with getting this done sooner rather than later. What then we have a month of public uh notice that we have to put in the paper twice and then we'll come back on what day? Um or final. I'm trying to remember in June. Middle of June. I think this I think the first meeting meeting in June for the final adoption. So this will be for what what part of the budget? Again this will be for adoption of the tenative budget

on the 19th. On the 19th of May, which would be the earliest we've ever done it. So that's So that's the third Monday, Tuesday of the month, right?

Yes. she will not be available for the fourth. And um but again to explain the tenative budget is the the budget put together. It it sets the top number the highest amount that we're allowed to spend our spending cap. Okay. Total everything grants enterprise general fund. After that in between that and the final we can reallocate and move money around. take a little bit from here and and move it to there. But we um and and we wouldn't we likely wouldn't raise that budget anyway because we don't think that the the funds are going to, you know, somehow increase between May and June. But it gives us a good chance to have a good look at the budget and see all the pieces together. It is it the tentative is 99% done

but you I'm good with it or how do we I'm good nod head nod or I'm good what's that head nod yes that that would be fine direction to allow that we will schedule that okay and hopefully everyone's available is anybody Hey, and we're if feel free to check your calendars if and do we still have a budget workg group meeting next on the 5th? Um, yes. We need to confirm that's different than this that that would be the small group. The small Yeah. work group. We need to confirm three.

We need to confirm three council members. Yes. We will we will try or do our best that and what we will do is we will um uh we'll we'll get three in a backup just in case something happens um future agenda items. Anybody have any

um we'll be going to executive session and it looks like we'll have possible action after recession. Correct. Okay. Correct. We will have we will have action uh possible action afterwards and so um we will uh be able to rebroad that. I don't think Danny will put this way. Danny should be able to turn the cameras back on and capture that when we come back. Okay. We have a motion to go into executive session. Motion made. Second. Motion second to go into executive session. All those in favor say I. I.

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Okay. Item 12A, consideration to approve contract number PS206120 with Copper Smith Brookkelman Lawyers for legal representation to the city of Globe Fire Department for advertisement and jur inter jurisdictional relationships funded through account651234 fire contractual services and wave section 2-104 2-4-10A prior discussion rule.

So, M Mr. Mayor, members of council, um so we we um we have worked side by side with Tri City Fire District for for many many years. Um we have come to that point. We believe that it would be very beneficial to both sides um that we enter into uh possibly a jurisdictional service agreement with them to kind of define the the framework and the relationships just to make sure there's clarity on both sides. And so we have we have looked for um a possible contract with Coppermith Blockman uh lawyers for that. And and mayor, can you remind me of who the the actual lawyer? It's Kathy. Kathy and I can't remember in the staff report. Steedman.

Steedman. Yeah. Kathy Steedman. Yes. Steman. Kathy Steedman. She's with Congressman uh Blockman Lawyers. um and and we're looking to enter into a a contractual relationship with her to help us uh with with our um communication and possibly negotiation uh with Tri Tri City Fire District. And so, um this would be we would ask to wave the roof wave the wave the rule and um uh approve this this relationship with our new attorney.

She's a very much a specialty attorney. deals a lot with CO issues. She's very uh very well known in the community and the state. Uh excellent uh reputation. Uh and and I think she can handle this efficiently and and and help us with uh with our goals. Any questions or comments? We're good. No. Um, mayor, I would move to approve the contract with Copper Smmith Brockman Lawyers for legal representation to the city regarding our fire introduced jurisdictional relationship. Second. We have a motion and a second for item 12A. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I.

Any oppose? Nay. Motion pass. Have a motion for adjournment. Motion made. Second. Motion second for adjournment. All those in favor say I. Hi. Thank you. And I think Danny