City Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you. . . Thank you.

We'll call meeting to order. Shelly, can you do a roll call, please?

Yes, sir. Mr. Mayor, thank you. District 1, Councilman Rios. Present.

District 2, Councilman Pastor. Here. District 3, Councilman Lethem. Present. District 4, Vice Mayor Stapleton. Here. District 5, Councilman Gonzalez.

Here.

District 6, Councilman Shipley. Here. Mr. Mayor.

Here.

We have a court.

Thank you, Shelly. And then will you lead us in the invocation? Sure.

Please join me in prayer. Dear Lord, thank you that we can be gathered here today to do the city's business. Please help us to make the best decisions possible. Thank you for our community unity, how we all work together to make things happen for our community and make it a better place. Please bless all those that put their lives in risk and toil to make our lives better. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Amen.

Mariano, you want to listen to the pledge, please?

Yes, Mr. Mayor.

We'll start with summary of current events. Mike, we'll start with you down there. You have anything?

Mr. Mayor, not really. I've been busy, but I don't really have anything to comment on today.

Thank you. Thank you. Jesse? I don't have anything, Mayor. Thank you. Mike? Ditto. I actually don't have anything.

Mariano, anything?

Just one thing, Mr. Mayor. I want to compliment our city staff. They have been working diligently for the past eight months to And a lot of new responsibilities have been placed on them. And everyone down to the frontline people, they have been shouldering that change and shouldering that work. And I just wanted to compliment them. I think they're the best and they're as good as any other staff in the state of Arizona and these United States. So thank you for your work. That's all.

Thank you.

Yeah, I just would like to say, thank you to the city staff and my fellow council members that attended my retirement luncheon from Arizona water company. I really appreciate the city's. a response in showing up and being there with my Arizona Water colleagues, and they really had some really good things to say. So thank you all for attending. Shelly, you were there as well. Mayor, I did. Thank you.

Go ahead for now.

One of the other hats that I wear is I'm a trustee on the Community College Board, and we were just approved with our initial accreditation. for the college, which means we are now pretty much on our own. And so we will do regular like every five year intervals and where we have to reaccreditate and make sure that we're doing everything right. But that's a big hurdle and we've jumped it. Yeah.

Congratulations. Thank you. Good deal. Been a lot of work getting there.

A lot of work.

I have a couple of things. Coffee with the mayor is the 17th, next Wednesday at 1 o'clock at Copper City's Coffee. Also on the 17th at night, I think at 6 p.m., is the candidate forum for City Globe, and that's at Bullion Plaza at 6 p.m. Just a few comments. I was able to visit the community center pool this weekend, and I spent four hours there with my granddaughter, and I was really amazed with the... the lifeguards and the staff that's there, the way the pool was handled. I mean, they were focused in on really the safety of the kids and all the people that were there. I was truly amazed. There was eight lifeguards, I counted, all the time around the pool. And I think there's 16 total. They rotate. But they were very professional, very courteous. I saw a couple of times where younger kids were there that weren't in reach of their parents. So they kindly escorted them to where their parents are because If you have a red band, I guess, you have to be within arm's reach of your kids. So it was good to see. There was also a little incident in the bathroom that the lead lifeguard handled very well. There were some kids in there banging on the walls. You could hear it outside, all the way outside, and they handled it very professionally. So kudos, and I know we're going to get a report on the update on the community center. Thank you. I want to thank Public Works John Angulo also. We heard of the incident out here in the city park where there was some – I don't know how to say that, but anyway, vandalism, but, uh, they, and thank you for going and cleaning it, sanitizing it. Uh, that was great to get it done right away. Uh, hopefully, you know, kids just need to understand don't destroy our property. It belongs to all of us. And, uh, so it's bad when we see that people doing that. Uh, no, before I pass it on, I want to acknowledge a couple of members of Miami. I got, we have the Miami mayor, uh, Gil Madrid. We have councilman, uh, Phil Stewart, and we have the city manager, Alexis Rivera from Miami, and we have Robin from Freeport. So thank you for coming. It's all you.

Thank you, Mayor. So we too look forward to the pool update, and it's wonderful to see two of our leads here in the audience. And looking forward to the number of guests that we've had to this point. Spoiler alert, just wait for the number. Looking forward to Tony, manfredi's uh report on the community cleanup we did hear a little bit of that uh in a prior meeting but to see the pictures and the community impact and the the number just keep getting bigger and bigger so it's really something that we thank council to for continuing to support this this cleanup has really become um really an event that community looks forward to so thank you And I'd like to wish Paul a happy vacation and congratulations to his daughter and her fiance on their upcoming nuptials this weekend.

Thank you, Linda. Next is our community call to the public. I have no call cards. Do we have anybody online or on email?

I think my text is in there. Let me check the email.

nothing okay thank you shelly so we'll go to special presentations and i want to ask council i'd like to table item uh 3a which was a proclamation i didn't get anybody here to accept that uh it isn't until august anyway but if i can get somebody here to accept that proclamation i'd like to table that i don't think on presentations we do we don't need a motion on presentations no we can just move that forward only an agenda item Um, item B is recognition of five years of service to go fire department, firefighter, Randall Gormany and chief Robinson.

Mr. Mayor, Firefighter Kormany is off today and unable to attend the meeting, so we're asking the council to push that forward as well.

Okay, so we'll table item B also. Next, we have presentation of the Upper Pinal Creek Remediation Project, Tiffany Construction, and we have Mike Garrison, Tiffany Construction.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, council members. My name is Mike Garrison, general superintendent of Tiffany Construction. We're the one that's tasked with the Pima, Pino Creek clean out. Great to award, to mention to you, we've had some excellent progress on TCEs. We actually got to get out in the field and meet a lot of the nice folks at Globes that had some questions and work them through. I believe at this point we do have all of the TCEs Our sign, ready to go. ROEs are in place. Currently at this time, survey has been done on the upper section of the creek. Those of you probably noticed there's a lot of yellow iron sitting around there and ready to go in. We have our 90% approval plans. GMP is in front of you guys for review tonight. Pending a vote tonight, come sun up, I'm ready to jump in the creek and start going to work with this. We are looking to work the next 40 days and get this through. I'll give my guys 4th of July off, a little bit of time on Father's Day. We're real big into our safety. The advantage of me is most of my guys have been with me for a lot of years, and we know when they're getting tired and they need time off. So I know when you start looking about crews going 40 days straight, the advantage of knowing your people is though they want a man up and they'll try to iron through, you can tell when a man's tired he just needs to go home. The other things that we'll be setting into place, knowing that we're going into monsoon seasons, we actually start getting ourselves our run and meet rooms. So if we're in the creek, we're looking at events, we start going into our safety protocols, where to be, where to meet up. My crews actually, we do a sign in, sign out during flood season, in which we also request that of anybody that is visiting our jobs, that I get a text when you're on grade and I get a text when you're off of grade, And if anything happens and I don't have that, then we automatically we go on the hunt for you. So there'll be special protocols that we'll be setting out before everybody as we go through. You'll be seeing traffic control plans coming out at daylight. I was in process of writing the schedule when I come over here for this meeting. So you'll be seeing a production schedule also to handle that. So we are in good shape. I took my foreman and my key people. We were running the channel today, showing our ins and our outs in our sections. You'll be looking at us dropping in with three separate crews. And again, good Lord willing, daylight tomorrow.

Do we have any questions for... Go ahead, Mike.

Mike, what is your... I mean, are you guys going to work... 12-hour shifts?

Yes, we work 7-12s unless I start having a scheduled drift, and then we'll go to 14s if need be. But usually we try to stay 7-12s. We do look forward to like a Sunday. We do an eight-hour Sunday, give the guys time to go get their laundry done and buy their groceries.

Mike, I know we're I know we say we'll work straight through, but we could start monsoon any time. Yes, sir. Are there priority areas that you're going to hit first? Does this include the whole 2.8 miles of City Creek, right?

Yes, sir. We're scattering through. So the main point that we're looking at right now is starting at Mesquite and 60, working our way one crew up towards Connie's Bridge. Then I have two small crews that are dropping in from Connie's Bridge down to, we call it the barbecue place, and working our way through that. Okay. You'll be seeing three complete separate groups. Your first group is your major big iron. It's your rock trucks, your 335s, your dozers. And then we drop into, there's two smaller crews that'll be taking care of all of your box structures and the areas that are in between that you can't get the big iron into. So right now you're slated for 25 bodies to roll into that channel tomorrow.

So the bridges obviously are in that process.

They are the very first thing. So I've got two crews that will be working on cleaning out structures. I do have Banneke will be coming in on the 21st. They actually have the 36-inch low clearance machine that will take care of Hill right there by Connie's Bridge. We'll get up underneath that, the railroad track. We also have some stuff over by And I'll have to get Yuma. There's an entry into Yuma, so we do have some specialty equipment and a sub that will be taking care of that stuff, getting out ahead of all the side little inlets to make sure we have capacity.

And with approval today, then you're ready to start tomorrow?

I'm waiting for an NTP from Mr. Travis, and he'll send that to me tonight. Like I said, I've got all the yellow and iron. Everything is pointed that direction. We're ready to drop into the tree.

Great.

Go ahead, Jesse.

The trees are the last of my worries, but a lot of my constituents have asked me to ask you about the trees.

Right now, phase one, there is not to be a tree touched. So currently what we are doing is any kind of debris, any of that junk is the only thing coming out of it. There is no tree removed. Thank you.

Mr. Mayor.

Mayor Mariano, go ahead.

We will have questions from the public. We've had contractors doing other things in the creek in the last two years who suddenly become engineers and they ask lots of questions of our council. My intention on that track is to pass all questions to the city manager and his staff. If necessary, we'll get with you and meet and ask those questions. And we'll try to keep it as organized as possible to stay out of your way as much as possible.

Yes, sir. My team understands that you have a lot of armchair quarterbacks out there that have their own perception. I have a set of plans that was approved and accepted by everybody in this room, which I will follow to the letter. We will not deviate unless we have the RFI in place, in writing, and the team has agreed to. Any other communications with that, my guys know to pass it off because it's not in their pay grade to discuss anything other than what the sediment removal they're dealing with at the current time.

Very good. Thank you, sir. That's all I have, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you, Mike. Thank you, sir.

See you in the morning, ma'am. So those armchair quarterbacks are our concerned citizens. And so Mike and Tiffany's team work very closely with our communications team so that we can get out in front of that, letting people know, when the area that they're gonna be working in is going to happen, what's happening, and if at any time a member of the public would like to come in and take a look at the plans, they're welcome to come in, sit down with staff, and take a look at the engineering, everything that goes into this project. We're happy to sit down and explain that to them.

What we'll do to add to that, if you don't mind, is every week we write a three-week look-ahead schedule, and it happens every week. That will be updated with you, as we talked to Ms. Linda before. We'll be updating you every week with schedule, where we're at, how well production is going. Part of that meeting, we'll let you know what percentage of cost I am for how many, what percentage of completion is at that point. So everybody will be well updated on what's happening, what to expect to see. We'll update you with haul routes and any of those things that we need to do weekly just to make sure everybody knows where we are at.

Great.

Thank you.

John, do you have some comments?

Sir. Excuse me, sir. Yes, sir.

Uh, getting remarried Council. I just wanted to also add on to this settlement removal. This project to this creek is 1, but if you remember, we had some additional requests and I had mentioned at that time that we would be doing some more work on the city of side. Public works aspect is doing the feeding. tributary creeks, the crew have started on some of those. So if any of the public, just like Linda mentioned, have some questions or concerns, definitely please reach out to us because not all the scope of work is gonna be all for Tiffany. They're gonna get the biggest part of the project through the sediment removal, but we're working on the McMillan wash. There's some crews and other staff that are starting to cut brush back and we're trying to work those other areas that are feeding into the Pinell Creek.

Thank you.

Good to hear. Great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Item D, community center pool operations update. We got Kathleen.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Let me find my notes. So the Globe Community Pool opened for the season on May 22nd, and it's been operating for 19 days. During this time, we approximately have welcomed 4,700 guests. This averages about 250 guests per day. Our busiest day continues to be Friday and Saturdays from 11 to 2 p.m. Our community has showed tremendous enthusiasm for the pool and have expressed interest for expanding programs and services. While we strive to meet many of these requests, there's a significant demand on operations for a single community pool. At this time, we have open swim from Tuesday through Saturday from 11 to 5, open swim on Sunday from 1 to 5. We also offer at this point lap swim, water aerobics, toddler time, Piranha swim team, private rentals on weekends and evenings. In addition to last week, we also announced swim lessons and Friday family fun splash that will have us open until 8 p.m. on Fridays. I want to address the importance of closing on Mondays. We've gotten a lot of questions on those. The pool remains closed on Mondays to, it's critical to our success of our operations. Monday allows public works to perform essential maintenance, including back washing, our filtration system, shock, water quality testing and circulation, along with general facility maintenance. This also allows us to have a proper day off and to do our essential training that we have to do once a month as lifeguards. An example of this, of the upcoming weekends illustrate the levels of activities that are managed by our pool staff. This Friday, we're going to start with 9 p.m. with toddler time and lap swimming. We will then jump into open swim from 11 to 5. After that, we will continue with Friday family staying at our facility until 8 o'clock, not closing until 9. The next day, we'll jump right into our day at 6 a.m. for piranha swim meet. Then we open for lap swim at 2 p.m., and then we have a private party at 6, lasting until 9, meaning we won't get out until 10. The facility on Sunday will be our easy day, which will allow us to be open from 1 to 5. These are just one of the reasons why we need to be closed on Mondays, because it's a mess for the pool after these days. A lot of the community feedback that we get, some of the most common requests that we receive from patrons include shade structures, a concession stand, and of course us being open on Mondays. Our operational improvements, we thought it was important to improve on customer service. The visibility of lead lifeguards are now, lead lifeguards wear the blue polo, and if they're on staff as a lifeguard, they wear the light, the red one. This is important for everybody to see them. I strive to be there as much as I can, but I can't be there all the time. So our lifeguards, early lifeguards do do everything that they can to facilitate the operation moving smoothly. I do want to say that we do try to do the best that we can, but ensuring that everybody, all the visitors utilizing our pool in the same concentrated setting Occasional issues are inevitable. We do our best to resolve these concerns and quickly maintain the staff in a welcoming, friendly environment. I do want to appreciate my sincere appreciation to the Globe Police Department for their support in continuing frequent patrols and visibility at the pool. I especially want to recognize Officer Smotherman, who has been there on our most busiest times, which are Fridays and Saturdays. He always provides exceptional support for both my staff and the patrons. The community response has been overwhelming and positive, and we remain committed to provide quality recreational opportunities while maintaining a safe and well-operated facility for all our residents and visitors. Any questions?

Questions, comments?

I've been out there a few times just checking outside and everybody looks happy.

Yeah.

You haven't gone down the slide yet.

I have not. I'll go down the slow one. No, I just want to commend you, Kat. You know, I went there and I was able to visualize it myself with all your lifeguards there and how professional they were. I was amazed how many kids were there and people in that pool that Saturday. It was crazy. How many lifeguards do we employ right now?

40.

40 lifeguards?

Well, I have a staff of 40. 36 of them are certified.

36 or so? Yes. So you utilize 36 lifeguards throughout the week?

And then four are the cashiers?

Four are the cashiers. They are CPR and first aid certified. Or they will be. Sorry about that. They will be.

Great. And then Friday night, you said family night, is there a certain amount of cost or is it a different setup?

No, it's the same price. We're just going to stay open a little bit later. We got a shark costume that the kids seem to like and we hand out a few popsicles for the kids and they get really excited about that. Great. Yeah, so it'll just be open a little bit later. I've gotten a lot of requests for people that they want to see the pool open a little bit later.

Fernando?

I have not yet gone swimming there, but every time I go by there, because I play disc golf, it just looks so nice. You guys keep it up really good.

That's all public works. Yeah, they do a great job there.

Yeah, would you introduce our two of our leads?

Yes, so Joey is my lead for the second year in a row. I like to say that he's also the person that trained me because I had no idea what I was stepping into when I got there. And then Madeline is new. She was a lifeguard last year and her brother was Levi who also took over the management of the pool for the first couple of years before we actually had a manager.

Excellent. Thank you very much.

It's been great to see our community youth. This really has been a workforce development project as well, and hopefully it could even be a good segue into public service. HAVING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT COME IN AND HAVE A CONSISTENT PRESENCE AND HAVING THE CONTACT WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR SOME OF OUR TRAININGS, I THINK IT COULD BE SUCH A GREAT WAY TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN OUR CITY DEPARTMENTS AND OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AND JUST WANT TO THANK YOU BOTH FOR COMING BACK. JOY, THIS IS YOUR FOURTH YEAR? That's incredible. So he's one of our originals. We have two more that started with us, don't we? And then as Kat had mentioned, Madeline's brother was one of our originals. And so we're so excited to have her be part of the team. She's also the one that leads our water aerobics. And one of our lifeguards who I believe she is a sophomore and she's going to be our swim lessons instructor. So it's just Fantastic to see our young people that are really coming up to fill these roles. You know, we went nearly a decade without having a swimming pool or swim lessons. And actually this year we had a tremendous turnout for lifeguards applications. And this was actually the first year we saw some of those applicants weren't able to pass the swim test. And part of that is because we didn't have those opportunities to strengthen their swim skills. And some who failed did come back and we brought two of them on as cashiers and they, am I right with two? They worked on their swim skills and they got certified. So we wanna help encourage that and bring them back. I wanna also thank Cobra Valley Rec Center, Reports Rec Center, because Ted Quinn, I don't know his title there, but he does everything. He has been training our lifeguards for the past three years, and not just ours, but the town of Miami's, and at one point he was doing the entire Copper Corridor. So this really is such a fantastic regional initiative, and we support one another. It's fantastic to see three community pools now, when there was a time we just had the one. That's Kat. Thank you very much.

Mr. Mayor. One question. Does the bus system run up to the community center?

It does.

It does all the way up to the park. I was asked that before the season started and I did not know. So that's good. I can answer that question.

Yeah.

Thank you.

It drops them off right at the park.

Good, okay, thank you.

Go ahead, Fernando.

Just a quick question. So I know that before we were hiring the lifeguards through like a employment service, and this year we hired them directly, right?

The past two years.

And that's working out a lot better for us?

Absolutely. Oh yes, it's less cost because we're not paying that third party. And I think it's, they feel more part of the city.

I do want to say we had a great like I couldn't believe the applicants. It was I worked with Liana and Lupita and it was their first time in HR and we pulled all of these kids and you know we interviewed and they all looked at me and they're like I feel sorry for you because how do you choose and it was it was hard. I have 40 kids but 26 of them were staying on staff from the previous years and I wanted to hire them all so I do want to say a great job to the Globe and Miami area because you guys raised some awesome kids.

I think swim lessons is going to help in the future to develop swimmers for the future for not only Lifeguard but the Piranha team and everything else. That's going to be critical in that area. You bet. And aerobics, 9 o'clock in the morning?

Yes, 9 and 9.30. Huh? I have two classes.

Okay. Which is the easy one?

This, 9 o'clock.

Thank you. Okay, thank you, guys.

Thank you all.

Next, we have item E is clean and beautiful spring cleanup update, and we've got Tony.

Good evening, Mayor, City Council members. I want to take a moment and figure out the remote and my PowerPoint and just give a quick summary of our Clean and Beautiful Dumpster Day campaign that we recently had in April. First, I just want to kind of re-emphasize on what Linda had mentioned. Your support for this campaign is just very important for us and the community. So we really appreciate the continued support and allowing us to maintain this event for our community. So April 17th through 19th, and I'll have to remind anybody of our flood event that we had. This was kind of another aspect of support. to help people move along. We've done many things prior to this. Having this dumpster day went a long way for us and provided more support for our community. We have a couple pictures here. I'm just showing some mixed storage staging areas. This is over at the ball field. You can see the scope of what we had collected here just in that short period of time. This was one of our largest events. for trash, debris, tires, appliances, metal, you name it, it came. Another picture, this was the appliance staging area. The event data, so going over this, again, this is one of our more successful events. We have 477 tires, 98.37 tons of debris. We broke that down into pounds, 10 to 12,000 pounds of metal were taken by local citizens for scrapping. So a lot of the scrappers will come and they'll take it. And if they want to do that and utilize it, it helps them out. It helps us out at the same time. So we allow that to happen. And then, of course, the total landfill costs. You know, these numbers are big. We have to look at that and you have to look at it as mayor and council and look at the fiduciary responsibility that you have here of having these types of events. But this number would otherwise be passed down to our community members. And so, you know, this is a big number. And The staging and the logistics behind these dumpsters and the locations, that's also huge. So I just feel, again, it goes without saying, this is a big event and good for our community. So community members in action. shows that our communities value our clean and safe neighborhoods. Again, this was a further support for our flooding. But this always goes back from our last events when we didn't have such flooding. We just want to focus on our campaign, which is clean and beautiful globe. And so providing clean and safe neighborhoods is the ultimate mission of this type of event. And making a call out of how amazing these type of events and others that we do really bring our community together. There's the social events. It's not just taking your trash to a dumpster. They turn out to be social events. Your neighbors come, they communicate, they take the time to interact with each other, they help with each other. For people who aren't as mobile as they used to, they reach out and give a helping hand. And that's what we're trying to promote here. It's not just take your trash to a dump. It's the community aspect of it. So pretty important aspect to me and to our community. We have many people involved in the event, our LDS church missionary volunteers, the amazing men, young men and women that come out on their time and help with this. We're very grateful for that. And then all of our other volunteers, our dedicated City of Globe members, our waste management partners, and our participants, our citizens who make this event what it is. And again, going back to our support from our mayor and council, very important. This is a great event. I hope that we continue to have it and that we appreciate it and see the value in it. So I thank you for that. Before I end this and ask if there's any questions, I just want to also touch that during this event, I want to remind we have many support options right now for what's going on in our community. And again, I don't have to remind everybody what we went through, what we're dealing with, and still what we see in our future and having to deal with. Every step of the way, we're trying to better those options. and keep in mind that we have the paint option. This goes with these types of services. people who may need to paint their homes at this point. We have free paint available for that. Reach out to our code compliance section and let them know what you need. And if we don't have it, we may be able to get it for you. We're always looking for that outreach and how we can get volunteers or volunteer material to our city to help with that. and paint goes a long ways it's expensive it's not cheap anymore it's not like seven dollars a gallon like we used to see more like 30 and 40 50 a gallon so that's a big deal but we do have current paint right now to help with that i just wanted to throw that out there and remind people that if you do need that please reach out to us and we can help arrange that and with that being said mayor council members you have any questions for me

I just have a comment. Oh, go ahead. I just want to thank you and the whole team. I mean, I used to run Globe Clean Beautiful 12 years ago or whatever, but it's really grown. So I just want to thank you for everything that everybody's doing. Actually, it'd be nice to have more events like this just because it's so popular. Well, thank you for that. Maybe in the future, but just keep up the good work. So I really appreciate that.

And that support from from your vice mayor and mayor and Councilman again it's you know I can't press upon how important that is so doing these increasing our event times and and the functions and the different type of events because. We just don't have the cleanups. We have the shreds, and we have the street trash pickup mobs, and we have other things that are going on. So these are great for our community. I would love to see it expand. Thank you.

Thank you, Tony. Fernando.

I remember when Michelle called me, because I used to run Clean and Beautiful, too, and she was like, oh, my God, what are you going to do? I'm like, you're going to do it your own way, and I think you guys have done it your own way and done a wonderful job. It's just getting people out there that care, that will pitch in to help their neighbor clean up their property and have a place for it to go, and a lot of it gets recycled and reused, so I just think you guys are doing a fantastic job.

Thank you. And, you know, I didn't know that. I didn't know the... all the far back history of the events that we had. So, you know, I think that's great. And hearing that and seeing that it's going into the future is important to me. And being able to grow them, like you said, is, you know, work upon what we have, make them better, offer more events, you know, and just kind of grow and move with it. So that's the whole function of the Clean and Beautiful campaign. So, but thank you.

Just one comment, too. I went up there on Sunday to drop off some brush, and the way you guys had it separated and broke down into sections where to throw your stuff, and I couldn't believe how much stuff was up there. There was even people looking for stuff to take, and they were loading some appliances up, which is good. They took the appliances.

They were still good.

It kind of looks like a dump up there, right? When it's all full, it looks like a transfer station. And yes, with the help of all of our Team Globe members, we've We perfect it every time we do it and utilize it the best way we can, make it the easiest for people to work with. And I hope people see that. I know that the one question we have with locations, We don't have all the locations in the world to offer. We have to, you know, there's things we look at, which is access, ingress, egress, just the general area size, and of course, city-owned property for liability purpose. And so all these have to go into consideration. I've gotten questions where, hey, can we put a dumpster in this area or that area? And I just want to portray why we don't do that and the reasoning behind that. Thank you, Tony. Thank you.

Next, we have a consent calendar. Matters listed on the consent calendar are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion and one vote. Public hearing items are designated with an asterisk. 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 considerations. Members of the council and or staff may also remove any item for separate consideration. We have item A, consideration of waiver of section 2-4-10A prior discussion rule to allow action on the balance of the consent agenda. Item A1, accounts payable $666,483.52. Item 2, consideration of approval of council minutes. Item 2A, consideration of April 14, 2026 meeting minutes. Item 2B, consideration to approve the April 28, 2026 meeting minutes. And item B is consideration to approve engagement letter number PS20260137 with Colby and Powell PLC certified public accountants to complete the fiscal year 26 single financial audit and annual expenditure limitation report. Is there everybody from the public, staff, or council wishing to remove one of these items for separate consideration?

Mayor, staff just pointed out, this is the 2025 audit.

Okay, okay, so we'll put that corrected. Okay.

Okay, thank you. Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to go ahead and approve the consent calendar as written with the waiver. Second.

We have motion to second for approval of the consent calendar as read. Is there any further discussion? I think just to mention that our top number for account, we had Civil Tech, we had a payment of that one also of $125,000. So that's part of the 666, why it's a little high this time. Okay, any other discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Motion passed. So go to new business item five is discussion and consideration of contract number two zero two seven zero zero zero one the fiscal year twenty six twenty seven library service agreement with the accounting library district approving a distribution to the city of glow four hundred thirty five thousand eight hundred dollars. plus $1,200 for telephone expenses for a total distribution to the city of $137,000 for library services for fiscal year 26-27 that will be received through the GL number 153040150 and request to waive section 2-4-10a prior discussion rule. Bray out.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. It is budget time once again, and we finally got the library service agreement from the county. We were very excited to see that we once again got a 3% increase. Last year it was stagnant, so seeing the increase made me very happy. I'm sure it made the finance department happy when they saw a little bit more coming in. So I just would like to see us approve this.

Any questions for Raelle?

Mr. Mayor, with all the activities that Raelle does over there at the library, this definitely isn't enough money, but it really does help her. And I would be more than happy to make a motion to approve the action on this item.

OK. You want to waive the rules, too? Yeah, I'll waive the rule.

Oh, OK. I'll waive the rule.

Second.

We have a motion and a second for approval of item 5A and waive the rules. Any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passed.

Just one other comment.

Go ahead.

We will be looking at maybe some plans for new library or expanding the library.

Mr. Mayor, would you like to move forward the agenda item regarding the IGA? We have so many guests in the audience.

Yeah, I think we have two more. Are we okay with that? I don't think they're very long. We could. You want to move item D up?

Sure, sure.

Okay, we'll move a new business item D, which is discussion and consideration to approve number IGA20260135 between Gila County, City of Globe and the Town of Miami to collaborate in the development of a long-term regional flood mitigation plan for the Globe Miami region, pending final approval by attorneys and request to waive section 2-4-10A prior discussion rule. Linda.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'd like to... So this this is an iga That will bring the city the town and the county together to collaborate and move forward on a long-term flood mitigation plan And this this will take many partners It starts with with the three entities and we're happy to come together and come to this point. It's Not going to happen overnight. It will take years of work, but as we all know, we are committed and we're here to commit to the community that we hope that something like this that happened in October, September won't happen again. And it'll take planning to get there. So at this time, I'd like to invite our guests to provide comment if they would like to.

That's either Supervisor Humphrey or Mayor Madrid, if you guys would wanna.

Supervisor Humphrey.

We'll go with Supervisor first on that. Oh, go ahead.

Thank you.

Yeah, Mayor and Council, thank you very much for bringing this to the Council. I think it's very important. I think it's great for Freeport to work with us and getting our communities together. And I already took it to the Board of Supervisors because rather than just one supervisor with a head nod, we have a whole board with a head nod. which is is a good thing town of miami did the same thing and i'm great to see it here because this is a this is a great opportunity to to work together for our community and and hopefully you know now that we have this relationship and going forward it can work for more than just for for flood mitigation and floods in the future maybe that's a step forward and helping us accomplish a lot of things so i i thank you all very much for for for being willing to jump in and put your hand in and for us to all work together. So thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Mayor, you want to?

I'm going to start by just, Let you know, Councilman and Mayor, that we really, speaking for Miami, we really appreciate the opportunity to come here and let you know that we are ready to go on the IGA. That is the right way to move forward, bringing our city and town together, working together. It's going to make a big difference, and I want to reach out to Freeport for helping us, being a big part of that. And I look forward to it. I know I speak for our council, for our town manager, and for Miami. We really look forward to it. Collaboration is the way to go. Thank you all.

I would like to acknowledge Robin Bradford from Freeport being in the room and bringing this opportunity to the table so that we can all move this regional plan forward. This plan will be moving forward when we are all moved on to different things, hopefully retirement. And this really is laying the groundwork for the next 20 to 30 years and learning from communities who've already done this, such as Coconino County. it's a long haul, it could be a pricey one, and to learn from those who have been able to put federal and state grants and resources together and create that finance stack to see a project of this magnitude come to fruition, I think we're very fortunate to have the partners in the community to help move us in that direction. Thank you.

Yeah, I want to thank Freeport also. I was in that initial meeting when they brought this concept forward. And I think this regional plan is much needed, especially after what we saw eight months ago. We need to work together. We need to partner together and collaborate and try and that brings us more opportunity or chances for funding to our city and to our region really is what it is. And we saw what happened in Coconino County and Flagstaff. And they don't only deal just with flooding, but they have also the similar thing, the burn scar in the mountain, that we really need to address. And hopefully that plan will be part of the whole thing. Any other comments?

Mr. Mayor, as a retired emergency manager for the state of Arizona, this plan lends itself to all the hazards that Arizona faces, and in particular, this region. fire, floods, snowstorms, high winds, monsoons, and hazmat. Those are records on file with FEMA that I spent a career planning and providing mitigation in all these areas. It's important to me that as a region, we use this document as a springboard to create a region-wide emergency operations plan. That would be an end result after this particular document is done. And the reaching out and cooperating across the region is the whole point and embraces our future and makes us stronger for the future. I wholeheartedly support it. I know it's one step. And I hate to warn you, it's a lot of work. But as the former state emergency response plan coordinator, that was my line of work. And so you take years of training and education and planning, and then you meet the next disaster. And it's easier to do that time around. So I wholeheartedly support it. And I look for many good things to come out of it. That's all I have. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you. Any comments?

Mariano pretty much covered it for me.

Do we have a motion on it?

We'll have to leave the room. Mr. Mayor, I would make a motion to approve IGA 20260135 between Gila County, City of Globe, and the Town of Miami to collaborate in the development of a long-term regional flood mitigation plan for the Globe-Miami region. In legal review by the attorneys, waive section 2410A, prior discussion rule. Second.

We have a motion and a second for approval of item 5D. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passed. Thank you for being here.

Thank you all.

We'll go back to item B is consideration to ratify contract number CS20260133 to Schultz Contracting LLC for the emergency water line repair located at the intersection of 3rd Street and Nash for the amount of $38,568.24. Funds from this project are budgeted in account 508052200 Capital Outlay Construction and request to waive section 2-4-10A prior discussion rule. Travis.

Thank you, Vice Mayor, members of the council. This was an emergency repair that was done, what started one morning as ADOT was doing their mill and fill project about 1.30 in the morning. I don't know the exact date when this occurred, but all the jackhammering they'd done around the collar around the water valve, made the water valve start leaking. And so we eventually had to call out Schultz to make this emergency repair because we couldn't get it done during the work hours. And so as they're repairing it a couple days later, as they repaired the valve, we've had historically issues with the packing of the valve. That's my understanding is the goo between the connection. And so they were able to successfully repair that, but a few days later we started seeing water puddling in the same area, and so we had Schultz come back out to later look at where that was coming. It was further down near the lead pipe joint where that was leaking, so we had them repair the entire pipe at this point. And the reason we had them do this is because since ADOT was already there, the milling was already exposed, they were going to do the paving anyways. This allowed us to take the opportunity and make that full repair that we've historically had issues with in that area. And so by doing that, we were able to save at least on the paving side and most of the traffic control costs that normally would have occurred if we would have done this completely on our own. So it was an emergency repair, had to be done, and therefore we had to call Schultz out to basically get that done right away. Happy to answer any questions.

John, you got any questions?

City Mayor and Council, just like Travis indicated, when we say historic, there's some issues. If you remember, Shoals did the repairs on 4th Street. There's a water line that was kind of ongoing. We had a permitting that kind of drug out for a while. So every time that line actually had issues, this same valve that we're talking about, this emergency repair, we'd have to sometimes go back and rework that valve. So that's where we come with the historic issues of that having to tap it and do the whole routine. Staff has always been great to make sure that was taken care of so there wasn't seepage onto the highway. But most importantly, with the initial work, the vibration and stuff, that's kind of what kind of, but we know that there was already, my concern was at that time was I didn't want ADOT to come through with the vibrators and compactors and then we're there a week later digging it back up and taking all the asphalt out, then we would accrue that cost as well. There's some timing, you know, things that we had to work with. Vince did a great job with staff to coordinate that working with ADOT because they were working overnight and they had traffic control. The initial repairs were able to work into that traffic plan. But when we did the slurry, which is required by spec, mag specs, when we did the slurry. So there's some additional traffic control fees that were accrued. It's because we actually did that during the day and plate that. So it would sit for the 24 hours and the process of ADOT doing their milling, they actually worked around it to let that set up correctly. And then they did their paving.

Any other questions?

Well, Mr. Mayor, I would tell you right there in my neighborhood over there, both times it was like, oh no. You know what? I mean, those guys were right there in the middle of the road. Traffic was going up and down the ash, and they maintained all their safety and views on it and everything. They did a great job. Just, I missed two showers. Other than that, we did okay.

Good deal.

Freddie? Travis, if you would, looking through the Schultz invoices, I hope it's a typo, but they've got 527 of 2020 as the date of their invoice. So if you could just look at that and clean it up. Just so the records are correct. I'm sure it's a 2026. It should have been 2026, but it reads 2020.

Oh, the year 2020.

Yes, the year 2020.

Okay, yeah, we'll clean it up. Yeah.

All right, thanks. Thank you, Greg. Anybody else?

I got to make a motion to ratify contract in section 2-4-10A. Second.

We have a motion and a second for approval of item 5B. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passed. Thank you, John. Item C is consideration to award contract number CS20260134 to Desert Valley Abatement LLC to conduct asbestos abatement activities at the wastewater treatment plant for the amount of $3,997.38. Funds are to come from account 518051236, building maintenance, and request to waive section 2-4-10A, prior discussion. Travis.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council. This is one of our OSHA findings that we have to take care of. The tiles on the floor have to be brought up since they're asbestos, so that's what we're doing. We're going to abate that and take the tiles out.

Is that just the abatement, the cost of the abatement? The cost of the abatement and removing the tiles. Removing the tiles, that's right.

And then we still have, are we going back with tile? My understanding is we're doing additional work on our own, staff doing it. Yes.

Mayor and Council, just when we speak of OSHA, it's not a violation. A couple weeks ago, I had indicated to staff and yourselves in a meeting, we actually signed up for a PEP program. It's a performance enhancement program through OSHA that's helping us doing site visits and improvements for our staff. This is one of the findings that they found. There was some old tile. So they came in today. They're doing that remediation. And then they're going to do additional testing, which it's all clear. And then we're just going to finish off that concrete with just like a clear coat. It's kind of encapsulating what's left, just sealing the concrete. But that's kind of where being at the sewer plant facility, you know, it's a little bit easier to keep up and maintain that way. So that's probably what we're going to do, just really follow up with staff.

And that's a PEP program?

PEP program, yes. It's a performance enhancement. They actually come in, we signed up for it. They actually come in, do site visits, encourage our staff as far as additional training. We do some safety inspections, and then they just give us a whole list. So they're not violations. They're actually, it's a program to help us get to where we need to be for the city overall and staff so we don't get cited for violations.

Okay, thank you. Any other questions?

Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to award contract number CS-20260134 to Desert Valley Abatement LLC to conduct asbestos statement activities at the wastewater treatment plant for the amount of $3,997.38 in Waste Section 2-4. Second. Motion to second for approval of Item 5C,

Is there any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Motion passed. All right, moving on to action item, big one. Consideration to approve the guaranteed maximum price GMP not to exceed $3,967,887.01 for contract number CA2026-01078. to 0, 7 to Tiffany construction for the upper canal Creek remediation project and authorize the mayor today to designate to sign all documents 75% of the cost will be in reimbursed through account 2, 0, 8, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 9, and RCS sediment removal. The other 25% of the cost. to be funded through account 1055-51297 NRCS matching fund with a possibility of a waiver of the matching requirement. Should the waiver be approved, 100% will be funded through account 2080-08009. Travis.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council. This is the first guaranteed maximum price project for the sediment removal for the flood mitigation activities. With your approval, Tiffany Construction could actually start tomorrow, start removing that sediment. So part of the CMR services that they're providing, one of the requirements in the contract stipulates that the design professional, which is Civil Tech, Tiffany Construction, which is the CMAR service, CMAR contractor, and the city all have to agree on this guaranteed maximum price and sign off on it. And so the amendment before you does just that and requires all three signatures from all three parties. Questions, comments?

Mr. Merritt, if there's no further questions, I'd make a motion that we approve Upper Canal Creek remediation project as presented. Second.

Motion to second for approval of item 6A. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passed. Do we have any late agenda items? We have none.

Second call to the public. Do we have anybody online? Email.

Okay. Schedule the meetings. Do we have any? Okay. What do we got next? Future agenda items. Anybody have any future agenda items? Oh. Yeah. Motion to adjourn?

Motion made. Second.

Motion second for adjournment. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Meeting adjourned.

Thank you.