City Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you.

We'll call meeting to order.

Shelly can do a roll call, please.

Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. District 1, Councilman Rios.

Here.

District 2, Councilman Pastor.

Here.

District 3, Councilman Latham.

Present.

District 4, Vice Mayor Stapleton.

Here.

District five, Councilman Gonzales. Here. District six, Councilman Shipley is excused. Mayor Guimaraes. Here. We have a quorum, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you, Shelly. We have our chief lead us in the invocation.

Our Father in heaven, we're grateful unto thee for those blessings that thou hast bestowed on us. We're grateful for this community, for the opportunities we have here, the friendships we enjoy and for those that serve to help make this a better place. We would pray at this time that thou would bless this meeting is that it will be conducted in a manner that is cordial and that the discussions that are held here will be productive and that the decisions that are made will be in the benefit of our community and the city of Globe. We're grateful for the rain that our community has received, and we pray that that would continue to bless us with adequate for our needs. And we would also pray that that would bless those in our community who suffer at this time or in need or mourning, that they will find comfort through thee. These things we pray for, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Mike, can you send the pledge? Sure, thank you, Mayor. one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

First, we'll go to summary of current events. Mariano, we'll start with you down there.

I was going to say something, but I forgot the thought. Just go ahead and go on, sir. Sorry.

Freddy's turn.

At this point, I have nothing, Mayor. Thank you.

Mike?

I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor. I thought you were talking to your vice chair there. As you can all see on your desk there, Raelle has left us quite a bit of information about what's going on at the library, and I think she's going to make a presentation sometime tonight about one of the other programs. But they're going to be having summer reading kickoff. blood donation there at the library. And then she's got her monthly calendar and wrap. Thank you for the T-shirt. It's always nice to get a T-shirt to wear. Thank you. That's all I have, Mr. Mayor.

Jesse?

I don't have anything. Thank you. Mike?

Yeah, I just have a couple of reminders of upcoming events. This Friday we have another hamburger fry over at the museum. It's $10 per person, and you can't go wrong. Hamburgers, hot dogs, all the fixings and everything. So if you can make it, definitely go. Then the Globe Miami Farmer's Market is again this Saturday. from 8 to 11, and that's going to run all the way through September this year. So again, if you can make it, it's an awesome event. Get all your fruits, vegetables, and plants and what have you, baked goods. And then finally, the pools are open. Finally. We've got the R pool, the glow pool. Miami Hostetler Pool and the Cobra Valley Rec Center Pool. And you can call their numbers for any details. I know we had a little mishap yesterday in our pool with the storm, I guess. I wasn't in town. But they tried to open and they closed it and then they opened.

We were afraid of lightning. Yeah. There you go. It looked bad. Like I said, I wasn't here, so I just saw it. Well, you see Facebook like it.

Yeah, I know. And then they closed again today, this afternoon? Biohazard. Biohazard, yeah. Oh, let's not talk about that.

Let's just skip over that one.

But that's all I got, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, Mike. I have nothing.

Paul? Mr. Mayor, Madam Council, no, just we, like I say, we're wrapping up one project and still leaning into the rest. It's warm enough out there, you know, and everybody's working hard and, you know, doing what needs to be done. Have a little bit of a flood update afterwards and can talk more about, I think, some of the questions that Council might have. But other than that, your staff is busy at every department trying to, you know, deliver quality municipal services to the Residency Club.

Okay, good. Thank you. So next, we go to the first committee to call the public. And I do have a card carry, Brookshire. You can state your name and come up to the mic up here. And remember, call the public. We can't respond back to you. It should be a presentation.

Good evening, my name is Carrie Brookshire, and I am a senior membership manager for PHI Cares, PHI Air Medical.

Hi, I'm Ashley Orsborn. I am one of the flight nurses based out of the Miami Air evac base. And then I've been with PHI for a while now.

I've been with PHI Cares for three years. And so our message today is for the community, for the residents of Globe to be aware of what's available to them right now and the importance of the timeliness of it. We are membership-based, and we offer a emergency air ambulance membership for the City of Globe residents. And between now, today, and August 12th, we have the ability to offer the nationwide benefit for the residents at a $65 discount for only $30 to cover an entire household. That is a nationwide plan. On August 13th, that price will then change to $95 if you're under the age of 60 or $75 if you're 60 or above. So at this moment in time, The City of Globe is the only location in the entire state of Arizona that has a $30 rate available. So because of that timeliness, we wanted to make sure that we were able to share that message and I do have brochures available that I can leave and we wanna make sure that the community has the ability to capture that and contact us if they're interested.

Thank you. Thank you, that's fantastic.

Could I ask?

Yeah, I think, go ahead, I was gonna ask probably.

Okay, probably gonna ask the same thing.

So this is an agenda item, so we'll ask the questions when it comes on the agenda item.

And because of, like I say, their message here is a general message to the public, but we can have follow-up questions. Okay, all right, we'll ask questions after. At the agenda, at the actual agenda item, which you're gonna bump forward a little bit.

Okay, thank you. Anybody else online or text? No. Call the public. I was asked on special presentation to table item A and B since those employees are not here. So we'll go to item C which recognition of five years of service to Globe Public Library to Linda Bruno and we have Rial.

And Mr. Mayor, members, council, we just want to make sure we got all the family members good notice so they can all be here for those for A and B. So those are coming back very soon.

OK. Good evening, mayor and council. I'm happy and sad today. We are very happy that we have had Linda Virgo as an employee for the past five years. Linda Bergo is an asset to Globe Public Library. She joined the library team on May 12, 2021. She wanted to work in the library because she failed the first time at retiring. That's her words, not mine. She always is a cheerleader for the people in her department, encouraging people to take on new and exciting things. She helps our community grow. Besides being active at the library by running our very popular chair aerobics class and the Kids Corner program that she just finished, She is active in her church and our community. She is well loved by our library customers. Many times they come in looking just for her. We are sad to say that Linda has tried or has decided to try her hand at retiring again. So May 29, 2026 will be her last day. She leaves very big shoes to fill, and we will miss her. Wow. Linda? Do you want to say anything?

I want to say something. Yeah, thank you. Just I love the community. I love, like she says, I get to lead the chair-robics. It's more of a community within us. It's fun. We joke. We laugh. I'll miss the kiddos. But I am coming back to volunteer with the library. That's if I pass background. Thank you. All right, come on up here. Where am I going?

We hate to see you go, but good luck in your retirement, Linda.

Thank you.

As if I don't kill the party.

Oh, okay.

Well, we'll wait and see then. So we got item D is a presentation of one of the Arizona Creative Excellent Award, the 2026 ONAC Award presented to Love Where You Live. And we have Thea Wilshire here that's gonna talk about the award.

I want to thank Mr. Mayor, you and members of the council and the staff for allowing me to come forward and share an award that the community has won. This is about partnerships and collaboration. It recognizes some on public art, but really it's about communities that come together to enact positive change. So this is an award for all of us. It's different than any I've seen, because each award was individually made by an artist. That's why I'm having you kind of take a look at it more up close. But Mr. Mayor, thank you for nominating us. You and Councilman Shipley came all the way down to Scottsdale, finalists with some spectacular programs around the state. I'm sorry, 29 applicants, four finalists, and then we were selected. That is part of why I'm here. And because I'm standing here, I thought I would also give you a quick update on Love Where You Live and what we've been doing in 2026 so far. 2026, we decided to shift from just two-dimensional to more interactive, three-dimensional art. collaborating more with the San Carlos Apache Tribe as one of our Copper Corridor partners, and hopefully bringing in some trees. So this is one of our recent things is we had a booth at the health fair and could encourage people on ways they can help in the community. We also have helped sponsor a street art and skateboard festival in San Carlos. We have Found at the metal recycling event, this great old newspaper container. And thank you to Raelle and to the Kathy-Kanya Sanchez family for helping partner with us to bring a toy exchange so kids can take a toy and leave a toy. And it's over by the library. We also were able to work with Globe Public Works to bring volunteers in to work on some of the eroded trails at Round Mountain. We thought this would be three weekends of work. We had so many community members show up that we got it all done in one day, what we had planned. So it's, yeah, it's tremendously impressive to me how hard people worked. And a lot of us older ones carrying granite was impressive. A number of community members have come to us about missing this old ad across from Safeway. And we got permission to put it back up temporarily because this building is going to be painted. But this, knowing it was temporary, gave us a chance to try a new technology, which is virtual reality glasses. And that's Rob... Otero, nope, I think I'm blanking on the name. That's right, at the hospital. If you haven't seen it, it's pretty impressive. The grant we got allowed us to do three professional and to try and launch three local creatives. So those were the applicants we got and three of those won. We then got another grant and we took the next two that were winning. So we have five local creatives from Globe Miami Superior who are creating these pieces. This is the path, and we now have a total of nine. Four are in. Three will go in on Friday, and two more hopefully by the end of June. That piece was donated by Lynnae Spencer and her husband. They bought it. I told them I had grant money, and they said, we want to give this to GLOBE. Because we got that piece, that was a memorial piece from the Arboretum's 100-year anniversary. Resolution said, hey, we bid on one of those, and this is a great place to put ours, so they gave us theirs. The middle is a piece by Alex Havari, and she was so supportive of what we're doing in Globe, she sold us a $25,000 piece for $7,500, because that's what we had in our grant. The one on the left is an installation that's happened from Amanda Ray over in Miami. This is a piece that was finished yesterday at the front of the Miami library. And now we're continuing. I told you these are some of the ones that are coming to the sculpture bath. Stan with the heart. And Amy on the far right will go in Friday morning about seven if you're out walking. And then the middle piece is by Daryl Yurkovich and it should hopefully be in by the end of the week, end of the month. I'm on cold medicine so I apologize. But it is an unbelievable piece and if you don't know Daryl, he's just finished working for SpaceX. He's amazing at the engineering aspects, and it's going to be solar-powered and motion-activated, and it's amazing. Where's that going? That's going to go in the very middle of the crossover path at the Sculpture Garden. We have continued to offer stairs on a trail tours for outsiders. These folks came down from Pinetop just to walk the stairs on a trail. And we continue to offer Heal the Monster activity books to any kids that can show they found 12 with selfies. So there were 20. We lost one in the flood. So of the 19, we'll give this to them for free or you can buy it. If you're interested in this with your kids or grandkids, we only have out of 1,000, we have, I think, about a dozen left. So chase me, chase me down for those last ones. They're pretty cool. And that was created by kids locally who helped us design it and then teens who helped us with some of the art in it. These are old pictures as far as the trees. This was when the Arboretum partnered with us to bring trees to the dog park. But we are actively looking at grants for trees and collaborating with Public Works We also have been adding into our grants benches, not these in particular, these are just images, but we want to start bringing some more creative benches along the places that people are walking where they're identifying that they need to rest. With the Apache Language Preservation Department, we're helping them create some preschool picture books in Apache and English, and We are also planning in September now, because of the heat, to help coordinate with the community of Miami for the community to paint the back of the library. There's a series of steps and walkways. So this is the current plan.

That used to be the ramp that the basketball players used to have to run when the coaches would get mad at them. We have to run up and down there sometimes.

The good things happen here would have applied then as well then. This is the one we lost. We're hoping to put that one back. The new building owner has given us permission to bring it back, the kitten one. And then we've got some other businesses that are working with us to potentially bring some more Gila Monsters. We originally wrote that grant to have 30, so we right now are at 19. And then we are writing into our grants, trying still to get a life-size bronze of George W.P. Hunt for downtown. This is very expensive, but this particular statue was created by Rusty Bowers that you might remember from the state legislature. And this is a piece that Kip wanted to see as a sculpture. which is part of why I've been pursuing it for about 10 years now. So if we can just get some seed money, I think I can work other people to come in and partner for us. So that's in the hopper if we get the funding.

What's the size and the cost of that?

Pre all the prices going up, it was $125,000. Now, I'm not sure, I'm working with Mr. Bowers on that, and the size, life size bronzes are 125% of what the person was, and he was short, he was five foot six, so it's about six feet, and we hope to put it on a pedestal, raise it a little bit. This is our last, the plans for our last staircase. We have three grant applications out. This is the most ambitious of any project we've undertaken, It is huge. It's a mosaic. This is a design Kate Stewart came up with with Regina. And we are waiting to hear. This would be the staircase, the upper part of the staircase by the bus barn. That's the last of the nine staircases. And we've been working on graffiti abatement around town, doing just some cleanups. But we've also proposed to you, and I wanted to finish with this, that we are willing to organize a citizen-led, volunteer-driven graffiti abatement group. And this is not a new concept. There are communities all over the world that do this. Globe did this about 10 years ago, but we can get the policy and procedures, the waivers, the permission form, all of that, the personal protective equipment. So we've researched it. We are willing, but we need your blessing. So that is my update. And I just wanted to share the award because it's for all of us. And thank you.

Be careful. Mariano, go ahead.

Mr. Mayor, see me, sidebar with me afterwards. I might have something through the Elks organization that can help you.

I will sidebar with you another day. Sure. But I'm going to go home and go back to bed.

Okay, well, yeah, go home.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you.

Any other questions or comments? Yeah, I just wanted to say, yeah, I was fortunate to go down to Scottsdale and for that awards assembly for this ONAG award. And you said there's 29 finalists. And during that award assembly, they showed the final four. And there was a lot of competition. There were some good projects throughout Arizona on the final four. So it was a tough decision. And I was glad to see that you guys were awarded that award. through that organization. The other thing is a lot of people have asked, and I think another project as you look in the future is if we can ever get back the murals that we had from the Silver King building back on the new building, if we can work a deal with the owner and the city owns the land, it'd be nice. We still got the teepee project that we'd love to see move forward. So maybe some more suggestions in the future, some meetings that we can take.

We have been actively pursuing the return of those kind of Instagram murals. We may need some help from you, and I'm not sure if the far back belongs to the business owner or if that's a different owner, but we would love to collaborate on that. We've definitely been working to try to bring those back.

I will get with you, I'll get with Paul, and we'll see who the owner is, and we get the schools, maybe get them involved again.

Yeah, they were amazing. And I apologize, I forgot to mention that Regina is zooming in from Hawaii right now and wanted to greet you as well and to express her appreciation for your support on all of our varied projects. So thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Good job, Claire. Thank you.

Yeah, we should with council.

I don't have a fever, so I don't think I'm going to get this. Okay.

Do we want to get a picture?

Let's go. Let's go down there.

Right? Yeah.

If it's good with council, we have PHI here that is going to be an action item 6A. If we're okay with moving PHI up right now before consent calendar? Yes. We're good with that? Yes, sir. So I will read that and then we'll bring you guys up on everything. So item 6A is consideration to approve PHI organization memberships for CityGlobe, employees beginning June 9, 2026 through June 8, 2027 at a fee of $6,000, which is budgeted in the account number 105551234, General Fund Administration Contractual Services. So we have Paul and we have Kerry here. So if you guys want to come up here, we're going to... Any questions or... Anyway, were you presenting on this membership fee or we're just going to ask?

I'm sorry. I was trying to track down a question. Oh, okay. I'm sorry, Mayor. What was the question?

On the action item.

Okay. I'm sorry. So, Mr. Mayor, members of council, as you know, we have been using PHI both for our employees and for the residents of Globe. But this year, because of budget restraints, we are limiting this just to employees. but we do believe that it's a really important piece. It's part of our benefit package and a benefit to all employees. And so if you just would like to recap the coverage and how this works and see if there was any questions from council. But I know that you were happy to come forward and just kind of share what you provide to the city and to the city staff.

Absolutely, so the membership is national, so it's not just limited to Globe, which is really important because people travel around the state and that's quite important if you're going to Safford or into Maricopa County, but it also is, it stretches amongst all of our current 82 air bases throughout the U.S. And as we continue to find and open new bases, they automatically get added onto that membership free of charge. So there's no additional cost, and we're looking to open a 12th base in Arizona on the west side this year, and We have opened two others in the state of Texas, amongst other areas that they are aggressively out there looking and trying to find the need and the demand in order to put in new air bases. So that would be the PHI Air Medical is currently under the membership program. However, we do have some affiliates throughout the US that are part of the membership plan, others are not. So we list on our website all the locations that this coverage applies, which is great. There is a 200 aeronautical mile radius, and we do have a map of that that I can send to Pam if need be, which shows the counties and the stretching of where we actually fly to in order to pick up a member. You know, if EMS, fire, police, 911 approves the call, right, for air ambulance flights. if somebody is flown within the household of the employee, right? So you have the employee, but then you have the household family. If they are flown, there is no out-of-pocket expense. So that's very important. If they do have insurance, we will work with their insurance in order to be able to collect what we can, which may be some, all, or none, but that is no worry to the member because there will be no out-of-pocket expense deemed for that individual flown. So it does take away any cost associated with this distance and what is performed on the aircraft. And if you would like to maybe speak on top of that.

Go ahead, Jesse.

So with getting, if they have private insurance and getting the all something or nothing from the insurance, they won't receive a bill from PHI, but they could receive a bill from their insurance for a deductible?

No, and yes, it is a little tricky. So we accept all insurance. excluding Medicaid because Medicaid is access, okay? And we accept no insurance as payment, only if you're a member being flown, okay? When it comes to insurance, what we've experienced today with all the changes that have occurred is that They may approve it, they may approve all of it, they may disapprove all of it, or they may pay a portion that is capped. But whatever happens with the insurance, PHI Health works directly with the insurance company to collect what we collect. and then the bill is considered satisfied. So there are no co-pays out of pocket for the person flown, there is no deductible, there's no co-insurance, and there's no balance billing. But that's a great question.

So Mr. Mayor, members, council, we've been working for, Pam was it six years now, five years? Yes, and a very successful program. I can't get into any numbers, but I can tell you that the staff believes that this is well utilized and a benefit. You know, there's HR concerns, but it's something that we do take advantage of and important and affordable. for the city staff. And so it's something I think if you see city vehicles and they have the PHI sticker on the back window, that just helps out so anybody knows that they do have that coverage. And like I say, this council's decision was to stick with this, at least for employees in the budget. And when we come back for final, it'll be part of that budget. And then we do have a system for going through and making sure that we document everyone that's on staff and have that available. And we have a variety. Not everybody has city insurance. There's different insurances that we have, and some people have different levels. So it's good. I see their description as kind of a gap coverage. Whatever the insurance picks up, they'll take it back to nothing for the employee, and that's a good thing.

It's great to hear that we're keeping this going for our employees. The campaign for that, I think it's important. You're telling the residents of Globe $30 a year to cover their household.

To cover their household. as long as they are a City of Globe residence.

And they have until August 12th to do that?

That is correct. August 13th, the prices change to 95 or 75. And it's the very same benefit. Nothing changes. So they have such an advantage. It's remarkable. And the only location in the state of Arizona that they're honoring that pricing. We don't even make these brochures anymore because our prices are higher. So it's just such an advantage.

Great. And is a resident, is that a national also membership like the city employees is also?

Yes, that is correct. They would get the national benefit for their household.

Yes. And just one more question on bases. I know you're based at Pinto Valley. What's your next closest base? Because again, if we get, if another helicopter gets called in, then we could get billed for that helicopter.

Yes.

We have Oracle is one of our closer ones. Oracle. And then Miami, or not Miami, Mesa as well.

Oracle. Okay. So you'll leave us information so we can blast it on social media, radio, all the information to get ahold of you to do that for residents?

Absolutely. My number is on the back of every brochure. I have a QR code that's on there. I always prefer if they call me because I like to get their questions answered and be very thorough. Everybody has questions, you know? And so it's important that we provide all of that and then go over what's available and see if it works with their budget. And if so, we just take care of it right there on the spot and provide them with their brand new member number, which would be activated for the term for the with PHI because we will never offer that pricing again.

And their family members are all covered too within that membership?

Yes, and to explain specifically who is covered, it covers the spouse or significant other, it covers all dependents living in the home, and it covers up to three non-dependents, in case you have a grandchild, mom or dad, a friend that's staying with you. So it wouldn't matter, all of those individuals get added onto the membership with their birth date, that connects us with the correct patient, And therefore, they're all part of that plan. The cost doesn't change. It remains at $30 for the one year.

I'm sorry, one more question. Non-city residents, what is their cost if somebody in the county or town of Miami would want to get this?

Well, at the moment, Miami and Superior, Kearney, Hayden, Winkleman, and Mammoth are all under our municipality plan. And if they reside in the town limits, they're under $40 for the same membership benefit. And if they reside outside the county line, then they're either $95 if they're under the age of 60 as a member, or 60 and above drops to $75. And currently we are the only company in history under $100 a year. Ready you mentioned the 3, 5, your plan is that listed on those brochures by chance it is they're all on there and you just pick a plan and and again either call for fastest service because when you call and you receive your member number you're actually receiving it before our member packet is mailed to the home. And that's very important because we want to make sure you're covered if anything were to occur between that day, the day that you initiate the purchase, and the day that you receive the packet, which tends to take approximately three to four weeks to receive, simply because we do one mail drop throughout the United States.

Okay, thank you.

Any other questions? Do we have a motion for approval of item 6A?

Mr. Mayor, no other comments or questions? I motion that we approve item 6A as read. Second. Is there a waive the rule on this one?

No.

No?

No. Okay, we do have a motion and a second for item 6A for approval. Any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Motion passed. Thank you. Thank you. Can we get some of those brochures? You're going to leave them.

I can leave them back here if you like. I have a big stack. Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. So we did, I see a skipped item E is council flood recovery mitigation update, Paul.

Yes, and I just wanted to do just a quick and simple update on this. Like I say, we've been working very hard continuing for the flood recovery, flood mitigation. Again, every Wednesday morning we have meetings. with Tiffany on the NRCS program. We should be very close to having full permission to go into the creek, into the creek to do the work that we have. We're getting our construction easements and we're getting 100% plans, final approval by NRCS officials. And once those two, everything comes together there, and we will have them working on behalf of the City of Globe. Tiffany is still here working for some in the county and will be working construction in the Miami area also. So we're all three using that, the same construction company, but it's going very well. And so in case there's any questions. Now we, Mayor, Mr. Mayor, myself and you attended the county meeting today. And saw that the county was making progress in some of the canyons I think the biggest progress they have is in the Russell built area because they had done design ahead of time they had done that after two thousand nineteen and so they're able to hit the ground running in the county. area there because they already had designs waiting to go we are still uh our our hold back is not even in the engineering but just in in uh we had lidar flights that we needed to do so we got our elevations right we flew those flights very early in the process but there's a It took time to process those by the company, and they were finally delivered, and now they're blending them into the engineering and taking it to 100%. So that has been the one issue that has been out of our control that has taken us to the spot. But they still have their eye on the ball on getting the sun before the beginning of monsoon season, at least for the debris removal from the creek. At the same time, they're working on bank stabilization, primarily shot creek and engineering that. So when they get the debris removal completed, then we can roll right into the shot creek. That's on nrcs and tiffany we attended like say gila county fema we are we are still going back and forth on the on the appeal. They had another request for information after the core request for information and so we had 2 weeks to get that together put that together and delivered that at 502 I think tonight. There's a sampling of what was delivered along with videos and some as-built plans. And I asked them to print out the report, but they said that a lot of receipts in there too. Um, but but that's okay. This is good news. This is what if we have a case to be made, we believe strongly that we qualify and FEMA is listening to us and taking and letting us make our case. Um, other than other than that, we're still waiting to see what. Comes of the, you know, the Arizona legislature and the governor working on a budget negotiation that usually will at some point. They'll come, they'll come out, they'll roll out and do some votes and we'll find out if anything made it in the budget as per the governor's request for funds for the for. the Southern Gila County flood mitigation program. So, Mr. Mayor, members of council, that's my quick update. Are there any questions?

I can't think of any, Mr. Mayor.

Do you have an anticipated time we might see work start within the city?

I would say between one and two weeks. Two weeks. Yeah, I'd say safely, I would say two. And I know that Tiffany was here. They will go where the construction easements are, and we have them ready to go. So we will see that. They're going to fan out, and they'll go wherever they'll start. They're not going to go from one end to the other. They'll go where they have the easements, and then we'll wrap up and continue that until it's all done.

Questioner.

Go ahead Mike has everybody signed off so that we can.

We have a, we have a significant amount in everything with 3 day weekend. I didn't get the latest today because all the people who are doing the easements are also the 1 putting this packet together. So, so we kind of give them the afternoon off. Well, they were, I think they didn't get the afternoon off, but I don't have an update. I know that we have enough easements that where we can begin work. and I think we'll follow up on those soon. I don't have an actual number, but I know that I've gotten no signals of concern that we are not on track to have easements ready to go. I know we have some in our pocket already.

We got a comment or a question. They were, when they were here doing their talk, are they still anticipating on the July 4th? I think is what he said.

Yes, even with these delays, they're still anticipating. Well, so they have all these projects going on. So the time they're not spending with us, they're spending at the county. And so they're, I think, shifting that around. I think they're getting a jump with the county stuff, which frees up more time. And so now they're focused on the county. Once we get ours in, they're going to be focused on us because they'll already be a little bit ahead in the county. I'm just speculating. I don't know. But I think that there is no problem with them being able to do that. Like, say, they're bringing in... uh i i believe 200 people yeah 200 people that will be working you know six to seven days a week so i i think they'll be able to do what they need to do and you think that'll start actually work in the creek in about a week or two i would say i would say two just to be safe and let's be surprised and happily surprised okay okay thank you mayor thank you what day number are we of 220 i know you guys track it where's eric i don't September seven, but both both my flood experts are taking some well, discerned time off right now. So, but I bet you, I will receive a text in about fifteen minutes here.

You can update us. So, let me.

Hang on, let me, let me see if there's anything in my text here. No, nothing new, but I bet you it'll show up.

Okay. Okay. So we'll move into consent calendar. Matters listed on the consent calendar is considered to be routine. It will be enacted by one motion, one vote. Public hearing items are designated with an asterisk. Prior to consideration of consent agenda, the mayor will ask whether any member of the public wishes to remove a public item for separate considerations. Members of the council and or staff may also 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 $155,009.82. Consideration of approval of council minutes. Consideration of March 31st, 2026 meeting minutes. Consideration to appoint Lou Ann Rickett to the Planning and Zoning Commission. Consideration to appoint Jim Harris to the Planning and Zoning Commission. Item D is consideration to approve the memorandum of understanding MOU20260124 between the City of Globe and the Globe Miami Tradition Softball League for the use of the City of Globe ball fields. Item... E, consideration to ratify contract number CS20260127 to JLS Backflow Testing LLC for the inspection and repairs on backflow on City of Globe property for the amount of $1,334.10. Funds for this project are budgeted in account 508051234, Contractual Services. And item F, consideration to approve grant award GS2780 0, 5, 0, 8, 6, from state libraries, L S T a 2026 express grant for $5,000. That will continue funding for the wifi for seniors and student programs. The city will receive this grant funding through account 2 0 4 2 0 8 1 8 4 L S T a library serve and tech grant revenue. Do we have anybody from the public, the staff or council wishing to move into items separate?

Mr. Mayor, members of council, I see nothing online, although we do have one of the applicants for P&Z, Luann Ricketts, is in the audience. So, but I don't know if she wants to, if you want to pull it, she can say it.

Luann, would you like to say anything?

Okay, so she's here, she's ready to support us, but don't go ahead and pull it. She'll be happy to just be included.

And we got copies of the application to applicants. I think there'd be excellent applicants for that. And she's a champion for the city.

Mr. Mayor, remove the comments or questions. I motion we approve the consent agenda as read. Second.

Motion to second for approval of the consent agenda as read. Any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passed. We have no new business. We already completed. Oh, no. We have no action item. So we go to late agenda.

No, we have an action item.

We already have the well. That PHI. Yeah.

Reduce PHI.

The PHI was the only action which we heard earlier, Mr. Mayor. So it's adjournment into executive session. Okay.

So second call to the public, do we have anybody online? No, nothing.

Nothing online.

Okay, scheduling the meetings.

No news on scheduling.

Future agenda items.

This council has any recommendations we do not have.

Anybody have any?

I don't. No, I'm good.

Motion to go into executive session. Motion moved. Second. Motion second to go into e-session. All those in favor say aye.

Aye. Industry, we will not return. There's no action scheduled after essential. Okay. Thank you for coming.

Thank you all.