City Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you. Call me in order.

Before we have a roll call, I'd like to request a moment of silence for one of our former firefighters, Captain David Tavares. He was hired with the Global Fire Department in 2004, I'm sorry, 2000 to 2004. He lost his battle to occupational cancer due to his firefighting at the ripe age of 52. He wasn't just an outstanding firefighter, he was an amazing individual. somebody that had that positive outgoing attitude, somebody I hated to lose in 2004. And he carried that out through his career. So please, a moment of silence. Thank you. Shelly, can you roll call please?

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

Here.

District 2, Councilman Pastor. Here. District 3, Councilman Leatham. Present. District 4, Vice Mayor Stapleton.

Here.

District 5, Councilman Gonzalez. Here. District 6, Councilman Shipley. Here. Mayor Gameroz. Here. We have a quorum, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you, Shelley.

Our Father in Heaven, We give thanks unto thee at this time for the rain that we've received in our community. We would pray that thou would continue to bless us with the adequate rain for our needs, that the drought may be eased, and that the areas impacted by fire may be affected, and that we can see the blessings of thy hand in our lives. We pray at this time for the Tavares family and for those impacted by the loss of David and would pray that that would bless them and comfort them in that loss. We pray for this body this night as they deliberate and make decisions that they will be productive and that the best interests of the city will be considered. These things we pray for in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Amen. Jesse, can you please?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

We'll start with current events. Mariano, we'll start with you down there.

Mr. Mayor, I've had two opportunities to travel this summer. Recently in Chicago for a week with an Elks convention, the national one. Prior to that, I toured the Walmart Emergency Operations Center in Bentonville, Arkansas. It goes to prove that an old dog can still learn new tricks. and is very pertinent to tonight's discussion. So I'm glad to be back and raring to go. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you. Fernando.

Just one thing. One of the hats I wear is working with the Cobra Valley Youth Club, and we used to be the Boys and Girls Club, and they had a summer program, so the kids did karate and dance and a few other things. So Thursday night at the old... Knights of Columbus building going out towards the casino. We got that building, and they're using it for the kids. But they're going to have a little performance, so they wanted to invite everybody. It's $5, and it's a way for them to raise a little bit of money for the club. But it starts at 6 on Thursday, so if anybody would like to come and support the kids, love to have you there.

Thank you for that. Freddie?

Before our last council meeting, I announced that I had to make a trip to Florida to take my daughter, move her from Denver to Florida. That all happened, and I'm glad to be home. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Freddie. Mike.

Mr. Mayor, I don't have anything. Thank you.

Yes. The only thing I have to report is I, too, went to the Bentonville, Arkansas Emergency Management Operations Conference. That was really well done and excited to be back and share that with the rest of council when needed. That's all I have, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, Jason. Mike?

I just have a few updates, Mayor. First of all, I just want to let everybody know, if you don't know, that the Jess Hayes sidewalk project continues. The projects right now include saw cutting along Hagen Road from Oil Circle to the skate park. That's what's going on right now. And then some exciting improvements are coming to the community center skate park, which are actually going on right now. We're preparing for installation of new skate features, but the skate park will be closed July 9th through the 17th. And then on July, well, it's actually happened already, 9th and 10th, the city will remove the existing skate equipment. And the week of the 13th, the new equipment will be delivered and installed. So that's happening, I guess, right now. And that includes also an ADA sidewalk, which is being put in place. And then tomorrow, we have coffee with the mayor at Copper City's Coffee at 1 o'clock. And... If you haven't been, definitely, it's a good thing to attend. Him and I usually go there and have a good conversation for a couple hours. So it's a really good event. And then I want to wish my colleague here a happy birthday. Thank you. He's 28 years old. Again? Again. He said it's going to continue. It's going to continue for the rest of my life. And then I want to congratulate Jody. 30 years of service, correct? It's like, man, good. Congratulations. Enjoy your retirement. You'll love it. That's all I have, man.

Thank you, Mike. Yeah, congratulations, Jody. 30 years is a long time. And again, just keep your prayers with the Tavares family this next week as they bury their loved one. And that's all I have. Yeah.

Was that for me? Yep. Oh, I have nothing. Mr. Mayor, members of council, I have nothing. Thank you.

So we'll go to first community call of the public. Again, this is a time when anybody from the public can come forward and speak for three minutes. And any item of concern that's not on the agenda, just fill out a speaker card so we can call your name and call you up. Again, all comments are to the council. We cannot respond to you, but we can direct staff to follow up after that. So we have one community call, the public, Dave Barry.

Hello everybody, Dave Barry, property owner in the City of Globe, flood victim, and just trying to deal with some issues that have come up from the ACT 45 reports and the lack of your guys' oversight, the council's oversight on Paul Jepson.

So let's start off with what you guys sent out to the public.

First off, you're telling everybody to pay attention to make sure that protect yourself against the scans, only hire licensed contractors. So you're telling everybody, make sure you check licenses. That's something, a standard you should hold to yourself. On the flood information for affected business owners that you guys sent out on 10-21-25. Let's see. You guys are stating everything boils down to yellow, red and green standard. And you guys have boiled down people's property rights to three standards. You guys have avoided the actual code that you adopted, the international building code for a quick bypass that has violated the rights of multiple flood owners, including myself. And after you came out and did the assessments, And you said this was a mandatory process on the 21st. You said that we had to go through this process. This wasn't a voluntary option. And you said that these professionals would be licensed. And then afterwards, you said thank you for participating in our safety assessment process. Please attach this as a copy of your ACT 45 safety assessment form for your building along with portions of the applicable city code. The safety assessment was completed by a licensed structural engineer to evaluate your property and identify specific damages. So first off, to claim to be a licensed structural engineer, you actually have to be a structural engineer. You can't just be a CE or PE. You have to be an actual structural engineer. Second off, the person that you guys sent to my property isn't licensed in this state, and you guys are aware of that, and you're continuing to hold me to a standard that you just use the ACT for 45 for whatever you need. It's an administrative document when you need it to be, and it's an engineering document when you need it to be. And this is bad for me. You know, this is bad for me, but at least I could take the licks better than the five people that actually had their homes wrecked. And you guys are applying the same process to them. I'm sure that if you guys hadn't applied this process to them and they would have been allowed to work on their properties without having to go through the rigmarole of the structural engineers that you guys are requiring for us, but not setting yourself to that standard, I'm sure this community would have banded together and helped them rebuild their houses. There's people that are still paying mortgages on their houses that you guys are forcing to demolish. And the option that you guys offer of we'll just pull a permit for demo and we'll stop this court procedure, that's not an option. That's just capitulate and we'll give you more time. You guys need to treat people fairly and you need to hold Paul Jepson accountable. This is ridiculous that this was allowed to be applied to flood victims and now you guys aren't even talking about it in public. You guys are going to talk about it in an executive session and then use that as an excuse to not talk about it in public. Thank you for your time. Thank you guys all for your time. Thank you.

Next, we go to a special presentation and ceremonial matters. We have item three, recognition and celebration of the replacement of Jody Martin, or the retirement, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We haven't replaced you yet. Retirement of Jody Martin after 30 years of service as water office manager. John.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Thank you for the opportunity to come before you again. A few months ago, we celebrated Jody's 30-year anniversary as we did with other employees. We actually had a good graduate waiting class that year. And once again, I come before you kind of in a bittersweet moment once I'll celebrate her retirement, but also I know what Jody's brought to the table in her department and the city throughout the years. And that's actually, you know, we've talked about administrative, her duties, where it's billing and our meter changeouts and customer complaints and, you know, handling the garbage service complaints. Not just her, but her other, you know, coworkers. But throughout the years, she's been steadfast with that. You know, talking with Shelly earlier today, we started talking when we had another previous employee that worked for probably just a hair over that. You know, between two employees, when we talk about retention, there was a little overlap there, but really there's over 60 years from Marta Lou Schultz to Jody, and Jody was the trainee, you know. So when Marta Lou retired, Jody accepted that responsibility, and she's carried it all these years, obviously 30 years. so that's one of the things i kind of wanted to bring up this evening because so many avenues and so many things that jody has done are not just administrative you know she's worked with our public works department she's a key point a point of contact you know she's the front lines for water complaints water issues not just her but her co-workers throughout the years as well but it's always gravitated to jody You know, they usually ask Jody, I do that, you know, even with my years of service. And I always hold it personal only for the fact that Jody just started a few months before I did. So we've kind of gone through the different levels through the city, you know, the city team and management, seeing different changes, mayor and council, different city managers, directors. So that was one of the things when I was actually getting my position, I was told, well, Jody's going to be working for you. I was a little cautious there because I already knew what Jody was all about. And sometimes people would caution you, but I found that it's really easy to work with Jody, one, when you listen to what she's saying, and two, when you do what she wants. So it's not an argument there. But most respectively, I'm a traditional person within our department, of course, within the years of service with the city. And I've always, there was always a term that we use for our water department workers or maintenance workers was the water dogs. with great respect to that. Those were the crews that were out after hours, hours on end, responding to these emergencies. But tonight, I actually want to bring that up because I consider Jody one of those people. You know, more so, not only that, her spouse, Ken Salick, sitting here is one of those water dogs. And he retired at that with great respect in that, you know, in his title as a superintendent. But Jody did the administrative part with the city But she also took that home because you know those stories didn't stop and those conversations didn't stop when you got home So when you support your spouse when they support you I'm sure there was a lot of water conversations that had to be had and to this day There's a lot of times When we actually need some resource Jody's come in that very next morning and say well You might want to look at this because Kenny said we installed this 20 years ago So it's always with great respect that that's a lot of knowledge, you know Not just between them two but through through the years of service So I did want to celebrate that and I want to go ahead Jody Come on On a personal level, I also want to thank Jody, because when I actually first applied for my first position as a superintendent, Jody was one of three people that gave me the encouragement. I turned in my application for the position 10 minutes till 5, and she says, you'll be great at it. So it was that confidence that she shared. She shared with me, she shared with not just me, other employees, encouragement to better themselves, better, you know, for what they're doing, but also sharing the knowledge. There's a lot of knowledge that I had absorbed, you know, coming into the positions that I was normally on the maintenance aspect of. So there's a lot that Jody's taught me as well as she continued to teach us moving along. One of the things that I believe that, like I said, was the tradition. And, you know, so tonight I do want to make sure that I retire that term, you know, as far as water dogs, because, you know, the guys still come out and do what needs to be done. But I hold true to the value of when I started and those were those crews. So, Jody, I consider you one of those water dogs with respect to Ken Selleck sitting in the audience here. Also, last but not least, I'd also as a director, When we all started, I know Globe PD, Globe Fire has their, you know, they retired their badge number and stuff. And that's great. Public Works doesn't normally have that. But when we started, we carry our big handheld radios. My call sign was 14A. It was a street sweeper, went from maintenance worker street sweeper. And downtown was remote one. So I'd like to retire that term as well, remote one, Jody, because she is one of those last, you know, we don't use obviously radios anymore as a phone call. We address each other by our titles, but Jody to me is one of those last, the last remote one. And like I said, I just want to congratulate you. Thank you for your service to the department, to the city and mostly the community.

Well, I can tell you the one thing that retirement didn't do is make it any easier to stand here. Thank you all, really, for all the time that I've been here and all the support I've had and made it comfortable and easy. And it was a good 30 years. Thank you.

We are going to take a short 10-minute intermission. We do have a cake for Jody, and if everybody wants to get a piece of cake, come up.

The watch from council is down, too, if you'd like to present.

I think you want to present before we break for the cake.

Yeah, we'll never get their attention.

We're going to miss you, Jody. Yes, we are. For sure.

Hang on. Only photo.

You don't want your dad in there, do you? Come on, think about it. One, two, three.

Congratulations, John.

So please come up and enjoy some cake, about a 10-minute break, and then we'll go back to regular meeting.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. you you you you Thank you. Thank you.

We'll go ahead back into regular session. Again, there's a lot of cake up here. Don't be afraid to come and get some. There's a lot left over, so please come and get some more. We go to item B. We have timeline of the City of Globe flood recovery efforts presentation by staff.

And do we have the PowerPoint?

Oh, I do, yes. Yes, sorry.

And did we have copies in the background?

Yes, copies in the background.

So if you want to go to the first slide. So Mr. Mayor, members of Council, there's been requests, and Mayor, this comes from your request, to kind of take a look at the timeline of some of the things that we've done in preparation for the, in response to the flood recovery that we experienced from the September 26th. We started putting this together. We looked at different sources. We didn't look at every little thing, but we looked at those major things that were influential. And what I thought would be a one or two-page PowerPoint turned into a seven-page PowerPoint. Okay, so I promise you I will not go through Councilman Latham's looking at me. I will not go through month by month and go through this. But I think in total.

And I think just we do have copies for the public if they want to follow along or if they want to take a copy with them.

Yeah, and we, there should be some in the back and I know it's very hard to read on there, but you have those in front. Um, but it, but it shows some of the, um, the intensity and how staff and and council and the, and the community was, um, you know, going through experiences in this. this regional historic event uh catastrophe um it started on thursday with efforts in in miami and the storms hit there the city globe public works responded even the next day we were helping out there um i remember the 26 got a phone call from councilman pastor who said it looks like it's our turn and indeed it was um And so, Mayor, you know we were out all night. Public Safety was doing search and rescue. Public Works was trying to help manage the roads. We were trying to get the word out. Then for two weeks in a row, we just had storm after storm with recovery looped in there. Everybody was pulling together. The county was helping. Miami was doing their own thing. We had teams in, and then we started realizing our infrastructure was more damaged. I think the biggest shock to me was that we did not realize the pounding that our water system and our sewer system took on that. But we had people working every weekend for almost two months straight trying to recover from trying to get things together. We had three different type three teams come through here and they, Gary, they stay seven days or 10 days? And that was crucial because they knew what they were doing. We had, you know, DEMA was just four letters strung together before September 26th. And so we, and there was a group of bureaucracies that we had to manage. And right off the bat, people are like, well, we gotta make sure we document this, we gotta make sure we document that. I'm like, we just gotta help the people. But we had to do that because the money is not just there. The money does not come rolling in. We have to make sure that we qualify for it and that we document for it. And we've been fighting that ever since. And then you had the second storm in October come through. And then you had the tanks that weren't even in our city that we had to deal with. There were so many layers and so much. So I wanted to let everyone look at this and, Anybody in the audience or here in Council, and if you have any questions, we have the full leadership team here. If you want to know more about any of this, we have it goes into the business assistance that we started and then was picked up by United Fund. It goes into our state, our governor and our members of Congress coming in and helping us. The times are a blur, but there was a presentation that some people in Phoenix sent me that showed that other than COVID, that this storm event was the biggest natural disaster in Arizona in the past 20 years, the most expensive. Okay, and so so we've been we've been fighting this ever since then trying to get downtown broad reopen, trying to get the businesses reopen, trying to get back to normal with Halloween didn't happen. But Christmas did happen. And then we get into and get to January. We're putting in our documentation. Our initial documentation was. Was it 1 damage assessment was 1 level and then we had to do a big damage assessment that was due on the 28th of December. And so many staff work through that holiday season that we normally are off and got that 1st damage assessment. 30 day was. Do October and then in December we had to do the 90 day assessment and every time. Every time DEMA or the Corps of Engineers or FEMA comes to town, it's not just, oh, they knock on the door and they visit. It's a two-week exercise in documentation, in preparation, in filing paperwork. AND UPLOADING AND GETTING THIS STUFF. SO THERE'S SO MUCH GOING ON. I THINK ONE OF THE BIG THINGS WE DID DO IS AT FIRST WE HIRED A DEBRIS MANAGEMENT COMPANY AND THAT FELL THROUGH AND I THINK THAT WAS A GOOD THING BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WE ARE ABLE TO DO THAT OURSELVES. WE GOT THE NRCS RIGHT OFF THE BAT. STAFF WAS PICKING UP ON NRCS WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM TONIGHT. WE HAVE CIV TECH HERE. and Tiffany here who are being funded out of that NRCS payment that we got. And that 24 million, 21 that we have to do the match for. And then it's still a little bit of everything. Every time, I mean, we're just, we will be doing our best to deal with as many things as we can to get us People argue. Do we want to go back to normal? Is this a new normal? No, I think what we have proven is that this staff can step up, can learn how to manage the bureaucracies, how to submit this information right, how to get the reimbursements as best we can, and still hold out and do council's priorities. We had a strategic action plan. We still have things that we want to get done. And so we're trying to recover from the flood, get those things handled, but still not freeze in time. And I think we've done that. We had a budget to get out. We got the budget out. And it, like, say it's tight, but it wasn't it wasn't undoing, you know, it wasn't horrible. We're still able to keep our commitments to make to merit raises and things like that. And so, as you get into February, March, April, it starts to thin out. I think the highlight was in March when we had the core and so much going on. We really thought we had the had FEMA. Um, uh, they sent the core, they got, uh, after the 3rd meeting, we got a really good look. We got a good core report. Um, but now we're hearing that that FEMA has been denied and that is the word on the street. And that is what we have been been informed that our appeal. We were denied initially. We appealed and our, our appeal has been denied. So that is a hardship more so than the city on the residents who are now not eligible for the full FEMA buyout. But we do know that now that that's happened, we can go through to NRCS and try to do at least the property buyout. And that's real important because people are going to have property and the demolitions are happening starting As soon as this week, and but those people will qualify and be eligible at least to have those properties bought up. I don't know the details, so I don't want to say too much. Um, but but if we know what we'll be informing them, and I've already been giving, you know, letting some people know. Um, so so this is an ongoing process. I the last page. I went through and counted how many presentations we've had to city council since the 26th. Actually, it's the first one, 27th. 25 times we presented to council just on updates. And that doesn't include the payments and different things that are flood related. So we try to do a good job of keeping everybody informed. This is something that professionals in municipalities is a once in a lifetime. And we hope it's a once in a lifetime event for us. It doesn't happen often. People talk about flooding in other cities. It's like, well, one little area. There was a river crossing and people crossed it and were injured. This was citywide. But the two type three teams, both the team leader from Avondale and the team leader from Glendale, even though they were experts in their field, they had never been in anything of this magnitude. They'd been in fires, but they'd never been in a flood or anything like this. It was a once in a lifetime for them also. So I think we've all learned, all our communities have learned. We know so much more. We'll never, like I say, we know so much more now than we did before. And wisdom is knowledge along with experience. We now have that experience. We have that wisdom. And so every day we get more wisdom, it feeds into our cycle and our ability to do better and do more for the council, for the city, for the residents, and for the region. So I just wanted to leave on that and see if any questions.

Any questions for Fernando? I just got a quick question. So my understanding is that we've met all the FEMA requirements. They just chose not to fund us. Is that correct?

I would like to have a standalone presentation on what happened with FEMA. I believe that we've met all the requirements and that they're saying that our total didn't hit the 13 million. It was interesting because the sewer system was the only event that was going to get us to reach there. The county didn't have enough. And FEMA is looking at public infrastructure that did not have anybody else to pay for it. Any damage that was not covered, like road damage. Well, if federal highways will cover it, they take that out. Well, it was interesting because you would think that we're getting $24 million to do the creek. That seems like that's over $13 million. But when we got that, they took that out of the picture, which took the number back down below the 13 million. And then we had the arguments on the sewer system. And was the sewer system damaged by the flood or was it damaged by wear and tear? And we made a very good case that the sewer system was put in at one time, two and a half miles. yet there are areas downstream of where the manholes came off where it was damaged and other areas where it wasn't. Well, wear and tear usually happens across the spectrum, and you can kind of pinpoint this, but yet they still were like, well, we can't determine absolutely whether the tripping of the lining of the concrete caused by the debris going through it was caused by maintenance or lack of maintenance and wear and tear or by all of the debris that went down and through the pipe. And then it kept going. Once you break open the pipe or you get that down there and you clean the mess, you get a clog and some comes up with a jetter and then some keep going to the next manhole you heard this term a lot where we were chasing the the plug all the way down and that and so every time it would it would go down we would disagree with the way that they they did the calculations on on hitting that 13 million and we would disagree with their assessment of the of the sewer line being unable to determine whether it was uh maintenance uh wear and tear or damage from the flood I think those are the two issues that are out there that will make or break on this. But, I mean, this is Washington, D.C. This is a weird time right now. We had, you know, we had Greg Phillips, the number two in FEMA out here, but we also had, I don't want to go into the politics, but there's, you know, any time the federal government does politics, leave it at that.

Okay. Any other questions for Paul?

We went through this situation since last September of last year, and it was something that none of us had ever experienced. We heard about the 1950 floods, so we really didn't have any idea what that was like because most of us were born probably in 48 and soonest. This document, although it's only eight pages long, it's probably 800, 900, 1,000 hours of manpower were put in by this staff. And it wasn't put in in just eight hours a day. Our staff worked a huge amount of hours overtime. And I have to commend them. I think they've done a great job. I've been watching the results that we've been doing ever since last September. I'm walking the creeks and seeing the work's done. I'm probably getting in the way of some of our are contractors out there, but that's the way I am. We're moving forward. When it happened, nobody realized how devastating that flood was. It wasn't just a flood. It was a second coming is what happened.

It was every aspect of the low-lying areas of the city.

Exactly. So, you know, I would commend our staff for the work they've done on this. And I hope the public gets a copy of this.

So right now, this is it was added to the packet and is also on our flood page, a button on our we have a button for the flood. And on there, this is listed there. And anybody is welcome to pull it out, take a look at it. It was kind of when we started putting this together. I mean, it was it was. Kind of like bringing back. I mean, you know, oh, my gosh, I remember that. And you remember this and we would add it on. It was kind of reliving it, but we're happy. I wish we had this for the 1954 flood. That would have been nice. And so, and maybe we can figure out a way to make a better record. So, so the city staff, 75 years from now, 100 years from now, this happens again, they can look back at 2025.

I'm compelled to say a couple things. The career I had in planning in emergency management, the first three days are always the most telling about a staff. And within 72 hours, with training from DEMA personnel, We began producing the situation reports. I waited three days, walked into Shelly's office and asked her, have you got a SITREP I can take a look at? Yeah, we just printed one out, here you go. That's the best thing about just-in-time training. Our staff was already on a cycle of a daily schedule of a situation report, produced every shift, and they were living it, and they were living by it, as a matter of fact. The next mark had to do with management. The trigger points for calling in search and rescue were done automatically by fire and police. They knew they were overwhelmed. They always teach you in FEMA classes to be ready for the third day. What are you doing to get through the fourth day? And if you're not already ordering assets and resources, you're already overwhelmed. They were coming. We knew within 24 hours the entire state was moving. But I know at State EOC, they were touching other states as well as the federal government for resources. That's the flow in large scale disasters. Was this that? Yes, it was. And the triggers, listening to you and the mayor, the first two hours of that event meant that we were gonna be in this for the long haul. And of course, recovery starts immediately. So did we miss any marks on this timeline? I don't see anything wrong with the timeline in terms of what we had to do, what we had to project to do, and how we got to the next phase, which is recovery. And so there's always the argument that there's not enough time to do training to be ready for the next event. And in that night, we had other things happening. There's always babies to be born in the world and deaths to occur. Those are the things that we have to cycle through that. And so an emergency operations center, whether it's at the state or at the local level or at the county level, all eyes are on the rest of the world to be sure we're not missing logistics and that we're ready for the next event. And I had a good sense of that after I read through that first SITREP report. We had people on staff. They were here. They knew the drill. Did we have an emergency operations plan? Yeah, it's about 18 pages long. I reviewed the cities. when I worked at the state. Yes, it was thin, but this is glow. And you see that all across the 90 cities and towns. Little binders, this is what we're gonna do, a framework. And that's all it is, to define what we need to get done and how to get to the next shift. And that's all you really need for your infrastructure. Are fire and police adequately trained? PD just got an award for going through the accreditation. fire is NIMS compliant. How did I know that? Gee, in my career, I was a NIMS coordinator for the state of Arizona, where I could look at the records, any agency in the state, to determine if they needed more training. I could walk in the door and ask to see their records, but you see it online. So when the mayor asked me to consider running for this position, I didn't realize that I was going to be used immediately after the telegraph fire. And that's the luck of the draw. I've been doing that ever since. I didn't want three more floods to work on, but here we are. So I start looking for values and metrics. What's being done? What are we missing? What are the gaps? Those people out there in our audience are firing police. They had it. They knew that they had to call for more resources. They didn't beat around the bush. There was no hesitancy by the mayor. He followed Title 26 of ARS statutes, and all hands on deck, and away you go. But it gets tiring, and I know our staff is exhausted. I know what you've gone through. I've had to do it at county level. and negotiate with FEMA. And sometimes a boss would recommend, let's sue FEMA. That's a nasty word in the federal world. You don't like to say that. But when you're not getting the resources, Title 26 forces you to act. And that's how we're doing right now. We're still in the recovery phase. We're still trying to call in all more resources. And the staff's been very successful at juggling that extra ball in the air and still trying to improve our way of life around here. That's a tough nut and I really congratulate our staff on that. And the entire community deserves a big thank you for putting up with the delays in logistics. And I thank all of the mass care agencies that did this on behalf of Arizona. We know they came running and there are still many letters, thank you letters to write, because this is that once in a lifetime event. I had a career to see that over 26 years. throughout the state of Arizona and sometimes in the larger national events. So it's a daunting experience. And I really think that the expertise was brought to bear at the right moments in time on this timeline. Could we have done it differently? Sure. You know, the bigger the budget, the bigger the responsibilities, too. And after, and that's the one thing I want to mention, Mr. Mayor, the visit to the Walmart Emergency Operations Center brought together a lot of elected officials, similar specialists in emergency management, and we all traded notes at that time. What could we do to be better in the future? And that was a good learning moment, and I'll try to offer that expertise later as we go through the rest of the year. But I really appreciate what has been done. I think we've done everything we can to this point in time with the resources that have been made available to us. Things we've never seen before have arrived. Who knew we'd have an internet where you could jump online and ask for donations? Wasn't in my day. So the things I want to connect to is that the timeline is there. It says what we did. And reading it earlier this afternoon in my binder, I really felt it was well-timed and accurate. And so I congratulate our staff and all the players who came to help us. And that's all I have, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, sir.

Anybody else have any questions? I do have one card here. I'll call up in a minute. I do appreciate the timeline. I know there's a lot of things going on. But I also just want to commend our council, this council, and the staff for all the time that they put into this whole event. All the requirements that were required just to maximize what a reimbursement was. is amazing. You know, if we, I know there were vendors, there's vendors out there frustration because they, they, they wanted their money right away, but we also had to make sure that we had our, our paperwork in place and still have to, in order to maximize that reimbursement or it would bankrupt our city, you know, bankrupt 75%, a lot of money. And there's no way we have that type of money to do that. So we need to make sure that, that we, we maximize what we can in order to get it back. And we did all that, this staff did all that, at the same time running a city, continue to run our city and operate a city. That isn't hard. That's a hard task. We have a tough year ahead of us. Our money is going to be tight. I don't see much more than what we are gonna just hold it, I think holding it steady and hopefully recover from this year and in 27, 28, maybe we can start our movement up again. But we got a tough year ahead of us, we do. Well, thank you.

Mr. Mayor, members of council, and I don't wanna end this without thanking This council and the members of our council who testified at the state legislature and went to directly to the governor And and I will tell you for about six months I've been telling you we got a 25% match and I'm not sure how we're gonna pay for it well now I can tell you that the 2.5 million that the governor and the the Republican-led House and Senate along with, they don't agree on much, but they agreed that we needed $10 million for the region and 2.5 million for us, and that is how we will pay for the match, the 25% match on our NRCS grant that we're funding Tiffany and Sivchak, which we'll be talking to soon.

Okay. I do have David Barry that wants to comment on this agenda item.

First off, I'd like to thank everybody that contributed and helped out in clearing out properties on Globe, from the prisoners to the volunteers to everybody that helped out along the way. And the Public Works Department and all the city staff that put their boots on and got dirty, I really appreciate their help in this process. So any criticism, I just want to clarify that I do appreciate the acts that people have taken. On this timeline, there is some issues and errors with it. for when it says October 4th through 8th, the city of, or it says, will then engineers conduct commercial structural assessments? Like I stated earlier, that person that inspected my property was not a licensed engineer in this state. And that has a rippling effect because those reports, your insurance companies won't accept them. Just like you guys are having problems with the causations with the sewer line, the failures to check the licenses for your engineers have ripple effects on the flood victims. In addition,

On December 2nd through 15th, the emergency shoring at 410 North Broad.

Everybody knows that building wasn't falling down. That crack has been there for years. Paul, you went into the building without any bracing in there. You sent your city staff into there. It wasn't an emergency. It was used as an emergency. It was classified as an emergency. But that could have been done through the normal process. I tried to work with Paul. I tried to have my contractor, Westmore, work with me from the start. And because of how Paul handled it, railroaded into a state of bracing that your own city engineer is refusing to acknowledge and accept professional responsibility for. The city has not one single stamped engineer's document for 410 and for North Broad Street. There's no load calculations when the bracing was installed. You guys bypassed your own permitting process to avoid gross negligence for your engineer for not doing those type of reports that would require it. And now I'm forced to go because I can't get any, any ability to address it at the state level. Paul has instructed you guys not to speak to me, and he's instructed me not to speak to you about this issue. I'm busy talking to people at the state level about these issues.

When this first happened, I really... Just to correct you, Paul is not directing us not to talk to you. We cannot talk to you if you're in the citation process with the court system, okay? Well, we can't... expand on what what you're you're dealing with right now okay so don't put that out there okay that we are directed we we know you're in the process so put that out there okay in the citation process okay

I'm specifically referring to an email that was sent to the council where he instructed him not to speak to you. So that's what I'm referring to there is he instructed you guys not to speak to me. And just because you get dragged into the judicial process doesn't make it proper and right.

You know, Paul lied on the... And keep it to the agenda. I don't want any direct... comments towards staff. We don't need to mention names. You can make your comments, but don't make any comments to staff, okay?

Okay, well, this is about something that's on the agenda, about the emergency issue of the shoring. Even your non-engineer didn't say that shoring was necessary. There's nobody that said shoring was necessary in the property. That was decided out of the blue. And then the city, through its staff, has applied influence on its own engineers. The city staff has said that you have to prod them to get them to do what you want. I have it on video. And when you're saying you can't talk about this, there was never any ability for the flood victims to actually have an open, honest dialogue with you guys. You guys never gave the opportunity for criticism, and you still haven't. So that's the issue. But 410-424 wasn't coming down. It was an emergency. It could have been him.

let's talk for one second our numbers are listed publicly our emails are listed publicly at any time you have asked me i've taken the opportunity to speak with you have i not yes yeah nobody has from staff has directed me from my position as a councilman to not speak to somebody else that our positions here on council at least when it comes to me is to be here for the residents, to be that liaison between resident and city. So please don't sit there and say that we have been directed some way in some fashion and that there hasn't been an opportunity for anybody in the city to give us criticism, to talk to us, to reach out to us. What are you doing now? You have taken the opportunity to come and criticize us, which we are sitting here and we are taking and that's fine. This is the opportunities that we have allotted. We have given public rights to come and talk at the beginning and at the end of our council meetings, talk to the items. Again, are my emails listed? My cell phone's listed? I've been contacted on Facebook. Numerous different ways to get ahold of me. And we have all taken it. The mayor has coffee with the mayor, which the vice mayor and him both sit down. There are numerous ways to get a hold of us, to criticize us, to critique us, to ask us what next, to get there. But for everything that there is, there's a process. And understanding that process is something that we don't know right off the hand and staff doesn't know. So to get on the same page, it might give us a couple days to a week to get on the same page to let you know what we know, what they know. And that comes down from federal to state to us.

And I have used the coffee within there and I've tried to use every opportunity to reach out and I have contacted people. I'm referring to specific instances that I have on video where I was instructed by your staff not to talk to you about the situation and in an email. So I'm sorry if you guys are taking that offensively, but this is what I've been told and this is what I can document. And there needs to be open dialogue. This is a major event. I had four buildings that were heavily affected by this. And my one point of contact wasn't treating me fairly. And I tried to reach out to you. I've tried to reach out to everybody to the point where I've just given up and gone to the state level. So I appreciate and I want to have open dialogue, you know, and I would like the type of advocacy that I think I deserve to have, you know, this this ATC 45 process. It's a black box. You can't figure out what goes into it. It's a private company that you have to pay $27 for the manual for it. It's subjective. It's not objective. And when you're put through that process and you're told everybody gets a learning curve, well, you guys are learning on my dime. I am personally taking the hit. I understand you guys talk about money, but this is coming out of my pocket personally. And I, Jesse, I appreciate your help. You have talked to me. I'm not calling, you know, and I, I, I, I'm, you know, appreciate that, but I still, but Mario, aside from the one tiny stop there, you haven't reached out to me and I'm willing to sit down and talk to you, but I have the same contact points.

Okay.

Okay. I'll call you. We can sit down, but if you just get dragged into court before you can get sit down, then you can't talk to anybody about anything. And then it's just, you know, deal with it with the courts. Of course I'm going to take things to the state level. Of course I'm going to go file 1487 reports to try to keep you guys from getting funding. Because when you spend your funds on people that aren't licensed and then hold me accountable instead of holding the person that should have made sure that they're licensed accountable, it's going to make people upset.

So are you intentionally trying to block funding to the City of Globe? No, I'm trying to... You said, of course I'm going to try to stop funding to come to the City of Globe.

Of course I'm going to use my civic property, my civic abilities, and advocate to the state level to file a 1487 report to do an investigation from the Attorney State General's office to make sure you guys are going and handling things properly. Because a certain individual has pushed me to that level where I can't have any redress in there. So if you want to ask, yes. And I spoke to the press multiple times when this flood happened. I tried to get funding for you guys. I advocated heavily. for this. I waited until, I tried to resolve this until I raised the issue. So I didn't start off with this. I've been pushed to that. So if you want to clarify it, Paul, let's clarify it. And if you want to clarify things for the record, there's lots of things I would like to get clarified. Okay. So as the timeline goes, don't abuse the title of engineer. You guys have leveraged that title and I still don't have a single document. Paul, I sent you emails. I still don't have a single document stamped from an engineer. And that's what I need for my side of things. You know, there could be a lot of progress in downtown. It's not being held up because of me. I'm not a refusenik. You know, the city has been the worst neighbor I've dealt with. And I wish it wasn't so. I'd like to work with you guys. I'd like to make downtown vibrant. But when you put somebody into the corner, you've got to expect that... And you didn't even apply these. These aren't even laws. You just made up rules, applied them to flood victims, and then fight it out in court. And then... just held them to a different standard. So I do appreciate you guys taking, you know, my opinion, but what am I supposed to do? You know, the staff individual that you, Mary, you guys sent me an option of a release. And in that release, it was sent at midnight. It was sent close to midnight. And if I didn't sign it by the next day, I was told that I had 15 minutes or that staff individual was going to call the judge and have him sign the court order. What kind of pressure are you guys going to put on flood victims like that? And the release was wrong. It said that an engineer had determined it an imminent hazard. And no engineer ever looked at it. So you guys are, and it was telling me to give you guys all, take all the liability for a bracing method that your own engineer won't sign his name to.

Did you get you an engineer to address your building?

I contacted my insurance company like your ACT 45 process recommends. They sent out an engineer. They did a report. I gave that report to the city because it didn't specifically address the issues that the non-engineer that you guys sent out

Then why didn't you get your own engineer? Well, why didn't you get your own engineer?

Because it's absorbently expensive. Why didn't you guys check the engineer for your license for your engineer that you paid for?

I'm just saying, you know, you don't put all the responsibility and liability on the city. You have a responsibility, too. You have multiple buildings. That's why you have so much damage. You aren't just one building. And we did work with you. You were sent about that building and wanting us to bring that fencing back. But you just delay things, delay things, delay things. You always do that. You always try and do- Mayor, if you're gonna say- We've had these conversations. We have had these conversations, okay? But you always delay things.

No, I don't, Mayor. Yes, you do. You guys are delaying. You guys delayed a public records request. You guys delayed providing documents to me. You guys delayed the bracing process. You delay, delay, delay.

We're way off subject. We're way off talking about this. I think you're repetitive on different things.

You know, get to the point so we can move on with the agenda.

If you guys are saying that I need to do my job, you need to do your job. You need to do our job.

If you could send me all of that information to the city of Globe so I could look it over and we can look it over and we can see where we are. I'm sure any of us at that point would love to have a conversation. We could sit down and collaboratively work something, work through this. But to sit here while we're talking about a timeline and get into the weeds about one property versus the three properties that you own. And who's right and who's wrong in this situation, in this agenda topic? I think this is the wrong time for that.

Well, you guys give three minutes at a time and control people's lives. So, of course, I'm going to take an opportunity to voice my grievances. And if you don't want to hear them, that's fine. But I'd love to. Nobody said that.

Nobody said that at all. You're getting off topic when we're talking about a timeline.

These the timeline involves my property.

So you guys mentioned addresses it and you're saying it's wrong. We've taken that into account. I'm giving you an opportunity of what what to remedy that how to remedy that. And we've understand that you have an issue with ATC 45. I understand you have an issue with their wheeled and construction company. I understand that you have another issue with with the with the shoring at your business. I've written all those things down. as I'm sure my colleagues have. And like I said, if you want to send that information to us, we'll be addressed to Shelly, our clerk, and she'll put it in our boxes. And at that point, we can have an offline conversation with you.

Okay. Well, this information, the city's had it for a long time, so it should have been provided to you from your staff. So don't blame it on me. This is information that should have been provided to you guys along the process. And thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. And Mr. Mayor, just a technical reminder, this is speaking to the item, so there's no time limit, and the back and forth conversation is allowed, as opposed to call the public.

So he was getting off line, and he wasn't. We are going way off line.

So we need to stick to the agenda. But that's why people are watching home, the back and forth conversation, and there's no time limit.

Yes. Okay, we've got item C, presentation by Civic Tech Engineering and Tiffany Construction Transition from Sediment Removal to Bank Stabilization. And we have Chris Dusa and Mike Garrison.

And Mr. Mayor, members of council, they're going to tag team on here. First, Mike is going to talk about completion on time of the sediment removal. And then Chris is going to talk about next steps. And then Mike's going to go back and talk about his next deadline. So, Mike, if you want to give them the good news.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Councilman. As most of you know, my name is Mike Garrison, General Superintendent, Tiffany Construction. Here to give you an update of where we're standing currently with the City of Globe projects. At this point, we have removed all of the heavy haul out of it. Currently we are setting at 44,000 cubic yards of material have been moved out. Our crew right now is working doing the finer details, cleaning up slopes, tree branches, concrete, and things of that nature. We are on track to be first part of next week up and pulling ourselves out, getting into the next phase. currently right now we're running about 40 cents on the dollar so we're 90 percent complete and used about 40 percent of our funds so uh Looking to give you guys a nice little chunk of money back on top of all this. So everything is running very well as we're running through. We have some minor adjustments that we're taking care of between Haskins and Yuma. You know, we have a special box covert there that we brought a little zero clearance machine in. He's pulled that material out. And then we have one cell of the Haskins bridge that is short that he's working his way down to. He currently is up at Willimon working our way underneath the Willimon box and the trestle and cleaning that up. So we have been very successful at going through with Civil Tech and pulling out the amounts of sediments that have to be removed from there and working our way through into the next phase.

Mr. Mayor and members of the Council, Chris Duzza with Civil Tech Engineering, and thanks for having me tonight. So Mike spoke a little bit about the sediment removal, just to maybe back up a step. So we wanted to break the project down really in a couple of phases, and that first phase was the sediment removal. With all the sediment that had degraded with the debris that was down in the creek, as you're well aware of, a lot of the existing bridges and box culverts and structures were compromised. They were fairly full of sediment. So really the first thing that we wanted to do in the project was to get a set of plans through the NRCS working with the staff at the city that's been great to work with to get those plans out there and to get Mike mobilized down into the creek to get that sediment. And the goal was to get that completed or nearly completed before the rains came, before monsoon season. To some degree, we're fortunate that the rains came later than sooner, gave Mike a little bit more opportunity to get out there. But if you've been down in the creek or have seen the creek, these guys have done an incredible job getting all that material out of there, getting those structures opened up, getting all the dead and down material that was in the creek out of there. So it looks great. So compliments to you guys. So the next phase of our project that we're moving into now is bank stabilization. So there are some areas. particularly around existing structures, whether they're businesses or homes, or in the vicinity of the roadways or utilities, where we'd like to do some stabilization on those banks. And this is something that's eligible through the NRCS, through the EWP program. So what we've done is we've identified nine areas along the creek. um that we're going to go ahead and get in there and do some bank stabilization so the bank stabilization that we're going to be doing is uh riprap it's rock so it's going to be rock bank stabilization you know not the shotcrete that's going on further upstream so um This is going to be large diameter rock. You know, we've gone through and we've sized the rock through here. What you typically see, you know, where they had dumped that riprap along the railroad, the rock there, that's probably a median diameter. We call it a D50 of maybe, I don't know, 12 to 16 inches. Yes, sir. The D50 that we're looking at doing on the banks is a D50 of 30 inches. So this is going to be, you know, And that's the median diameter. So it's gonna be pretty large, pretty large material going in on those banks, pretty thick, about 3.75 feet thick of rock stabilization that'll go on there. That'll be underlaying with a filter factor to keep the fine materials in place. In total, we're looking at about 16,000 cubic yards of riprap that'll be placed. on those banks. We want to, again, through this whole process, you know, we've really wanted to try to preserve as much of the existing vegetation along the creek as we can, especially the large trees. If you've noticed, you know, we've called them the islands out there where we wanted to leave those trees in place, the root structures in place. It's going to be the same thing with the riprap. You know, we're going to want to leave as much of the mature vegetation as we can there because it really does hold things together. So you're going to see large diameter riprap going in on side slopes throughout the creek, you know, starting over by Ice House Canyon, making its way, you know, all the way down to the Ford dealership there in various areas. They'll also be, in addition to the riprap that you'll see on the side slopes of the creek, they'll also be riprap that'll be going underground. That'll be part of the tow protection there. that's to protect against scour. Typically you know in this section of the creek you know we as you're well aware of we don't see a lot of scour here the scour occurs further up in the watershed which is where all the sediment is coming from and typically gets deposited here but we will have we will have along all these slopes that we'll be putting the riprap we will have a toe in going down in under the creek that'll wind up being buried We have to be very careful and conscientious of the utilities are there. We do have water lines that run across the creek and of course you're well aware of the sewer line that runs through there. So we're going to avoid you know undermining the sewer or putting additional loads on the existing sewer line as best as we can with the with the riprap stabilization. So with that, I know soon that you'll be seeing another GMP coming from Tiffany Construction to go ahead and complete this work. But as far as schedule goes on it, we're looking

Yeah, currently at the point we have 90% plans. We'll be turning in a, submitting a 90% GMP tomorrow. Yeah, if you can get close to the mic so they can hear you. Sorry, sir. We'll be turning the 90% GMP tomorrow. Hopefully we can get in front of the council next week and get approval. We're looking to go into the end of next week to be on grade. We are looking at running two full crows, Working our way through each crew will be running approximately 250 cubic yards per day of rock. So we'll be running a 500 total cubic yards per day for the pair running into approximately about five weeks pending weather. We have put a lot of a thought and concern into the safety situations and how to handle this, knowing that as we're dropping into each of these locations, we will be working on the furthest upstream part of that section and working our way through. We will be only opening up enough material to get the rock in. That way we do not have any slopes left vulnerable through any type of event that might pop up through. being very cognizant of our rock piles and our spoil piles. And as you guys know, we have an excellent safety record. We're going to keep moving forward with that, making sure that we're up and out and everybody's covered. As we mentioned before with last night's event, my guys spent an hour checking in with me that their boys were accounted for. They knew where everybody was at. All the equipment is out. Everything's in a good condition. And then from there, they went into sending me pictures and data on how everything was reacting to the work that we did. That's where we're looking to wrap our way through. That's our plan on getting into monsoon season, handling the events that this is handling it. We do know that we're heading for 9-11, which is the end of the current NRCS funding. We are looking to be done in the last week of August and maybe some minor adjustments going into the first week of September, again, pending weather.

Yeah, and just one last thing I should have mentioned as well. So this large diameter riprap, the rock that we'll be putting on there, it's very angular. It locks into place very well. It has a good gradation to lock together. And we do have a local source for the material where it will be produced here locally. I don't know if you want to...

Yeah, it's Mr. Mike Godinetto. It's the stuff we're pulling out of Superior. So it's the same shot rock that we're using up in Six Shooter right now. And as most of you know, when you're dealing with the shot rock, it interlops itself together. So we don't do a dumped riprap. We actually do a placed riprap with a track hoe. So the guys are pretty much fingerprinting every single rock. I always kind of laugh about it. It's my giant game of Tetris, stacking it all together. Getting everything linked in real nice, making sure that we don't have any voids that can come apart. So as we get into his 3.7, which is my rules, four foot is all locked together and in a very good product. We don't like to use any of the local stuff that's coming out of the creek because of its round. You know, you start trying to put a bunch of BBs and you start stacking them together. They don't hold together, but you start putting edges on that. And now all of a sudden you got a product that does real well. And that's what our goal is.

Is this kind of the same idea they did at West of Miami on the highway to stabilize Highway 60? They put a lot of rock on the...

Yes, sir. Mr. Mayor and members of council, just real quick. The plan that they came up with, it's not the high angle, it's a low angle. So it doesn't need to have any shotcrete or anything else. It holds together by the weight, which is faster to place. And so we can get more linear feet of this protection put in in the time remaining. And that's because of the structure of our creek, we can get a lot of bank stabilization done in a quick amount of time without running into any problems and costs. So this just really fits into the timeline and the cost estimates. But I don't know if anybody else has questions. Mike, you.

Yeah. I don't understand how that works, the riprap. I think you said a puzzle. Is that going to be on the base as well? It's just on the bank.

So what we'll do is you can imagine a long slope and here is the bottom of your channel. We're going to run ourselves up to the top of the slope, down to where the flow line is. But to make sure that this doesn't degrade and do anything to us, We're going to run another six, eight feet down into the base of this, put all this rock in my four foot thick layer, and then we're going to put all that dirt back in. So if we do get a monster event that's coming through here and wants to start working on the floor of that, I've got another six, eight foot of rock that's buried below that to help contain the flows.

Yeah, and there's really two ways not to get down into the weeds too far. There's really two ways that we can do that. We can bury the rock like we're planning on doing. or we can do something that's called a launchable tow where we just kind of build a tow there and it basically falls in the place as the creek scours and degrades. It's a little less predictable doing that way. Given the proximity of the sewer line, I'd rather not do that. So we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna bury those tows so that we know where it's at. So the base will still be the sand or the dirt, whatever is there right now? Correct, sir.

Correct, except on the side slope. Right, not on the sides. So is this cheaper than shotcrete? Yes. Is that why we're going with it?

It's cheaper and faster. A lot of the points where we're at right now in this time of year, As you start getting anything hard with shotcrete and soil nails and bar, if you hit an event, you lost all the work that you have. The thing with what Mr. Doozy has given us with the rock, we can dig and lay as we go. And if we do have an event, you can cover it up with dirt and come back at it again. You just find out where you left your rock off and you start over again where you can't with a shotcrete product. You've lost your entire slope. You're pulling things apart and you're pretty much starting over. And as you guys know, with monsoon season here, you'd be doing it every day.

thursday we're supposed to get a hell of a storm this week yes sir yeah we're we're very in tuned with the with your people's weather yesterday give us a nice preview of what we're expecting so yeah and you say just certain banks i think you said nine banks so this isn't gonna go from matlock all the way down to explain your your philosophy on how you pick where you reinforce

So we're looking at nine separate areas. But, you know, these are large areas. And what we want to, you know, what we really want to focus on is... There's areas where the creek turns and typically where the creek turns, you have a cut bank on the outer edge. That's where the water typically will want to cut on those banks. So we really want to focus more on cut banks and we want to focus in areas where we're trying to protect something. Being a roadway is close by. There's homes or there's structures or there's businesses or there's something that's close by so that if we start to lose part of those banks, you could lose the road, you could lose the utilities, it could affect these structures. So we really wanted to focus on these areas. you know, and not necessarily the entire creek, you know, straight runs along the creek that are well vegetated, that aren't really susceptible. We don't see a lot of evidence where it's been cutting. We just kind of want to leave those alone.

So like behind La Casita and all that, that whole bank.

Let me talk about the walls at the end. Before we leave, let me talk about phase three. The walls are not going to be able to be accomplished in this phase. Different set of funding, but we have the plans coming.

I have an area in my district. I'm in district two. I don't know if you know about Buena Vista over by the new bridge and Connie's Market. Okay. That street there below the store is pretty much sand rather than caliche or anything. Is that area on your list?

Not at this time, sir. Right now, the areas that they're really focusing on is all the homes up there at Jesse Hayes, which is above Connie's Bridge. That entire piece... There are some sections that are further down from that, but at this point, we don't have anything in that area. That's one of the straighter stretches where Mr. Doozle was talking about with mature vegetation and looking at it right now, kind of deeming that we will cause more harm by trying to tear apart what's there than leaving it alone, sir.

Well, one side of the creek on the side where the houses are, most of it is sand. Yes, sir. And the residents are kind of worried about that, so... I would like you to take a look, at least see if you could do something.

Yes, sir, we definitely will take a look at that, sir.

Okay, thank you.

And so, Mayor, let me just tell you what the third phase is. So one of the things that we were laser focused on is we have 220 days, we have limited money, and we need to, we didn't have any engineering. One of the advantages the county had is the county had engineering from the last event. So both in Jess Hayes and up into six shooter and Russell Gulch, the engineering was pretty much complete. We had to do engineering and the construction. So it ended up where we couldn't get as much done as we had hoped. What we had to wait on are the Shored up, poured, formed concrete walls that need to be placed. Now, CivTech and Chris is working on designs for that, but we won't have the time to get those going in the envelope. Even if we were to run a little bit long, if we're finishing a project, we could get that finished and go a little bit past September. But what we absolutely don't have the time to get the designs get to 90% and and start forming walls along La Casita along variety street. We both those walls are top priority. We need to get those areas fixed, but we are waiting for the second round of funding. There's a midterm funding that we'll be applying for, but we'll have the engineering, which will save a whole lot of time. And then we can just go straight to construction.

Is that NRCS funding also, secondary?

Yes. Connie, what's that called?

EWP. EWP. So the EWP funding is what we will be applying for.

I'm sure this isn't a question to you, but for a question for a city manager.

After these fine gentlemen leave us and our companies leave us, how are we going to control the sediment if it comes down again?

No, we will have to put together a maintenance plan on both clearing and if floods do and deposit sediment on what we need to take out. The clearing and the maintenance I think we can do if we get another big flow, I think we have to come up with a down and dirty way of getting someone in. We can't have, I mean, Public Works is limited. They have a lot of the responsibilities, but I think we can get lined up contractors that if we need to. I think one of the things, John, I mean, we're kind of leaving the entrance ramps and things like that. Do you want to talk to future maintenance while we're? And I know you were here, but we'll have to get a dump truck.

Any of you directly right before John.

So John, you'll have to get a dump truck, huh?

Part of what I'll be providing, what Civil Tech will be providing, will be a simple O&M plan to the city. It's a requirement from our funding partner that we provide that. So there will be an O&M plan, but it The good news is you have a good baseline now. You have a good baseline with the plans that have been produced, and it's really gonna be monitoring it, and if the creek starts to degrade, when it starts to degrade, getting in there and cleaning it out is necessary.

I did not know that. Paul's going to really be looking at me here, so I won't even look that direction. So no, you know, we know it's a budgeting long-term plan. Of course, that's our goal for everybody. You know, we said we can't go back to what was the new normals change for the whole element, for all the town and their surrounding area. I was just in the creeks just this morning because I've been following that process for prior to the start of the program. and then in midway getting ready for a second phase. Um, but I think it's important too, because, um, that was one of the things I mentioned to Paul, uh, staff, you know, I want to take the measurements. I want to see what's ground level kind of where we're, our starting point once, Tiffany construction working with civil tech, of course, with the group to see where we're at. So this is what this is going to be our maintenance schedule. And then them working with us and building that plan. One area I did want to bring up off of a councilman pastor we mentioned. off of Buena Vista. There's some outlying area off that bridge tying into the old bridge. When we met, me and Connie met with the Federal Highway, they said when we did get the engineering done, that's part of that scope, so we can actually expand that. It wouldn't be in this project, but we can actually, having the design and coming forward for a cost, so there could be additional work in a different phase. Not in this one, but in additional work. We anticipate additional work that's still going to be, you know, long term and even, you know, continued into the next season. Fernando, go ahead.

So with this O&M plan, that will give us ongoing jurisdiction to get in there to clean? Because I know years past, we couldn't get in there without basically applying to the federal government to get permission to go in there and do any work. And if we got caught doing it without permission, we would get in trouble. So does this plan then give us some maintenance jurisdiction to get in there, or do we still have to basically ask for permission?

The O&M plan itself, I would say, does not give you, quote, you know, permission to do that work. But maintenance, you know, is... I'm assuming that you're talking about the Corps of Engineers with that. So... TO GO AHEAD AND DO MAINTENANCE IN THERE IS COVERED UNDER NATIONWIDE PERMIT. SO I WOULD ASSUME THAT YOU WOULD FALL UNDER A NATIONWIDE PERMIT FOR MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES UNDER NATIONWIDE.

BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE A BASELINE IN ORDER TO KNOW WHAT THAT IS AND SO NOW WE HAVE THAT.

YOU WILL HAVE THE BASELINE. YOU ALSO, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE WORK IS COMPLETED, WE WILL BE AS BUILTING EVERYTHING BY SURVEY. WE HAVE A SET OF DESIGN PLANS. Mike's got it really close, but we're going to as-build everything once the bank stabilization is in place, and so you're going to have a really good baseline moving forward. But you're right. Anytime you have a fire in those watersheds, you can expect in the near future... You're gonna see more runoff coming out of these watersheds and you're gonna see more sediment. You know, those upper parts of the watershed, are gonna be degrading, they're gonna be scouring, and it's gonna be deposited here in town. You can count on it.

Mr. Mayor, members of council, to Councilman Chifley's question, we are looking into and doing the permanent drainage easements in those areas where we're putting the bank stabilization. I'm sure the property owners don't wanna have to keep keep tabs on that and maintenance that. So we're gonna be, I have the framework in my head and the staff knows more about this, but in certain areas, we are going to look to get those easements so we have permanent responsibility for keeping them clean and keeping them in shape. I don't know exactly what could happen that we would have to do something about it, but to your point, we wanna have as much ability at the drop of a hat to get into the creek and have those in tandem in concert with the property owners allowing that. So we don't have what we had prior to this where people were reluctant. And that's another reason why you want to keep up on the maintenance because that little thing that falls in the dirt 10 years later is beautiful and supplying shade. And so we're working on those aspects also. Okay.

Freddie. Hopefully I'm using the right terminology, but the as-built would have waypoints, all the surveying marks that you had put together to create the baseline?

Yes, sir, that's correct. We would have both horizontal and vertical locations for all the shots that we would take so that they could be easily retraced.

Very good.

Mr. Mayor, members of council, John, I believe we do know now where all our manholes are. Because over the years, some of them have been not visible to the naked eye.

We found them all. We found them all. Plus a couple extra. Plus a couple extra.

So, Paul, hopefully it'll be an easier process. I know the Army Corps of Engineers is one of our... but also we only own 15% of the Creek. So we have to have ongoing right of entries in order to be able to.

And we have major partners that railroad the mines that I think are gonna be on board. And we had talked about this from like the week one that we need to, I mean, people now are alerted to the benefit Of allowing us to if we're going to do the maintenance to do it across the board, this creek is like a chain and any weak link in that chain can cause problem for everywhere. And so as much property and as much many partnerships that we can build and allow us to take on that responsibility of the maintenance and the cleaning and after a storm. doing the sediment removal, the better chance we have of making sure that in the future that no one rain event overpowers us.

One more question. Go ahead, Justin. Given the riprap design, what's the likelihood of success if we do get another 100-year storm?

That's a great question, something I failed to mention. So when we looked at sizing the riprap, And I mentioned it's a median diameter of 30 inches or a D50 of 30 inches. So what we wanted to do is we looked at all these areas and we looked at it in either a bank full condition, right, from bank to bank, or the 100 year event based on the FEMA FIS. If the creek, if the bank full condition would convey that entire 100 year event, then we looked at the 100 year event. If it was less than that, then we looked at the bank full capacity. And based on the velocities going through there, we sized the riprap based on that. Of course, it's going to vary. In these nine different areas, it's going to vary. It varied anywhere from a D50 of 12 inches all the way up to 30 inches to be safe, to be conservative, to make the construction go faster. We're doing 30 inches everywhere. So it was sized for some considerable velocities. Thank you for that.

And Mr. Mayor, members, council staff is telling me that we are working on some type of agreement with the Corps of Engineers. So we have that ability. So we're not hamstrung to get in there, but some type of an active permit that allow us for certain activities when we need to. So so we're working on doing that coordination with them also. And then let's see, then we do, we did get, We did have one question that came up during this. And the question is, what is the contingency plan for closure of Jess Hayes Road? Beer Tree Crossing is flooded. And how are we going to get home or to town? John, do you want to talk about that? And explain to council that could we have some closures coming up? And since we're talking about floods, I'm going to kind of slip this one in.

Yeah, so this is a relation to the sidewalk project. As you know, off of Oil Circle and Jesse's Road, we have the situation. Everybody's driven past to see the culverts where they're lifted. That work has to be completed. We can't go around it. Actually, literally right now it's Even with the rains that we had yesterday, it's not draining right because actually the culverts lifted. So it's going to retain. What's going to happen there is that actually it just back fills itself, sediment gets back in there, and it's going to jump the road just like it did during our event. So this project, what that's doing is actually they're having to cut the whole road out remove that culvert, replace the culverts, add an additional span, another section of culvert there, and reestablish that. That is truly not an overnight process because we're going to set the grades, do the grade work, set the grade of the culvert for the drainage so it drains right, add the additional where this is spanning the headwall. So it's not an overnight process. Unfortunately, a contractor is working with city staff we've been mindful of not wanting we were totally against any type of closure we know what type of you know what it creates most importantly right now you know i know that was uh an item that was brought up earlier today most of the time just like we did when we did with the closure of the bridge when we had that closure at that point there was same concerns if there's low line crossing that's what we're trying to avoid is you know because taking out the covert If it starts flooding and we get a significant amount of water, it's gonna happen. It can happen where we just dealt with, during the event, we had to close off both Beardtree Crossing and Oil Circle. And we basically had to wait that out with police and fire and public work staff. Contingency plan really is contractors aware of that. They're doing all the material that they're going to have there next to the project because they're working over the weekend. So it's not expanded. The project's not extended from week to week. They're going to give the best. estimate as far as the days of closure. We hope to have it done sooner, but we can't, in any construction job, you're always gonna set your guideline. Of course, we can't control any rain event, but the contingency would be just like we handled on the bridge. uh the the expand of those culverts is so wide you just can't put plates over that uh on the other drainage projects that going down just hayes road there'll be smaller culverts they're going to cross the road we can plate those overnight this one's got four span across so that's why there's actually that immediate closure what we will do with working with the contractor after discussion this afternoon which we anticipated would be if we actually temporarily have to close Beertree and make sure we would have staff out there for that. Of course, my PD and fire usually respond just as well as we would. But we would have to basically stop the construction project and backfill that. They're going to have material on hand. There's equipment there. So basically we had a closed beer tree and we're open oil circle. That's, that's the plan really is you basically your culvert and everything, your construction basically stops you backfill that level it off. And then you can put traffic over that. So that's kind of where we're at on that. We don't normally, like any construction company, wouldn't like to do that, because it's basically back to square one. So at some point, we're going to have to dig it out. But ultimately, if that's what we have to do, that's kind of where we're at.

John, how many days will it be shut down? And just a question, is this the right time to do it? With a monsoon season on top of us, is it the right season, the right time to do it? Or is it a delay that we wait till the monsoon is over? I don't know.

That would really set the whole project back. I mean, we've been, Travis, how long have we been? Do you want to come up and speak on that part? Okay.

So part of the reason why they scheduled it for now is because of the school. School's going to be opening up. It's a major bus stop there from what I understand. So they're trying to get this done before school starts. But we've been working on this project, trying to get the bid as early as last December. We had to re-bid it because it was over the amount that we had. We had to adjust that scope of work. and we got it to work within our budget. So it's just taking time to get everything processed through contracts for them to get mobilized. And so we're just trying to beat the school schedule before they open up.

It's good to hear a contingency plan we have in place, you have in place too.

Yeah, and the other thing is, you know, like you mentioned earlier in the comments when we first started the meeting, the updates, Councilman, Vice Mayor Stapleton, you know, we got the sidewalk project. We've been working with Tiffany trying to coordinate the truck traffic. There is one thing where they expanded the work project because they've got to do some potholing because there's a gas line there. We've got some utilities. Their concern is, and that's why they brought that day closure, because if the gas company is specific to when they're going to go and do the potholing, if they have to move that gas line, then that kind of takes up more time. So they're kind of contingent on what the gas company comes. So they're going to come in, pothole that, but the gas company will not come in and pothole until the asphalt's removed. So it's kind of a lot of things in progress, and then not to mention with the work that we're doing up at the skate park, We got three main, it's a great problem to have as far as the construction and the funding that we're going to this area, but planning has actually not been the easiest and more so to add on to the weather. We definitely would have liked to have this already done prior to the rain season.

Thank you. Any other questions, comments for Tiffany?

Thank you.

Thank you. So we go to a consent calendar. Matters listed on the consent calendar are considered to be routinely enacted by one motion, one vote. Public hearing items are designated with an asterisk. Prior to consideration of the consent agenda, the mayor will ask either whether any member of the public wishes to remove a public hearing item for separate consideration. Members of the council and or staff may also remove any item for separate consideration. Item A, consideration to Waiver of section 2-4-10A prior discussion rule to allow action on the balance of the consent agenda. A1, accounts payable $947,642.89. A2, consideration of approval of council minutes. Consideration to approve June 23rd, 2026 meeting minutes. B, consideration to approve the Field Use Memorandum of Understanding MOU2024009 and Addendum Number 1 with the Copper City Youth Basketball League Incorporated establishing terms and conditions for the use of the City of Globe Field and Community Center Pool for the Piranha Swim Team Summer League. C, motion to ratify contract PS20260132 for Sustainability Engineering Group LLC for online interactive zoning code, geographical information services from account 106951234, building compliance contractual service in the amount not to exceed $7,000. Item D, discussion and approve amendment number one to contract number CS20260099 with Apache Underground and excavating to include WIFA requirements with regards to globe water transmission main 595 project. Item E is consideration to ratify contract number PS20270005 to Adams and Wendt to conduct a limited asbestos inspection as part of the OSHA related inspection for the amount of $600. Funds for this project are budgeted in account 518051236 building maintenance. If consideration to ratify contract CS2027006 with cone cranes incorporated conduct monorail load testing and inspecting services at the wastewater treatment plant for OSHA requirements compliance for the amount of $7,027.27. Funds from this project are budgeted in account 518051234 contractual services. Item G, consideration to ratify contract number CS2027008 to JJ Electrical Contracting LLC to make repairs on the wastewater treatment plant to maintain compliance regarding an OSHA action concern for the amount of $1,885. Funds from this project are budgeted in account 5180-52202. H, consideration to ratify contract CA20270010 to Atlas Technical Consultants to conduct airborne asbestos monitoring of the flood debris at the temporary debris management site for the amount of $4,465.26. Funds from this project are budget and account 1055151234, contractual services. I, consideration to ratify contract number CA2026 to emergency environmental services to proper disposal of old water meter battery for the amount of $15,960.45. Funds from this project are budgeted in account 5080-54005, grant fund capital outlay through the water conservation grant. In item J, consideration to approve contract number CS2027, 0011 to JJ Electrical Contracting LLC to replace the transformer cutter well number one for the amount of $8,100. Funds are budgeted from account 508051251, well pump maintenance and repair. Do we have anybody from the public, the staff, or council wishing to move any of these items for separate consideration?

Mayor, we had talked about pulling 4C on the zoning software. Yes, that's what I was going to request. And 4I on the batteries.

Mayor, I would move to approve the consent agenda minus 4C and 4I. Second.

Motion second for approval of consent agenda minus those two items. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those nay, motion passed. Tony. So item 4C is Travis. Is it Travis? No, this is Tony. Tony, I'm sorry.

And Tony's got 30 seconds. Yeah, just a brief on what it really is. Hide that pad. No pressure. Hide that pad.

Good evening, Mayor, city council members. I was asked to come up and just give a little update on the use of our interactive map program. This was in the past hosted by a company that is now no longer providing that service. We have to look at new contractional services to keep that map up and running. So we went with SGG. They came in and they built a interactive map that surpasses what we had in the past. And so this is a great opportunity, again, to look at the service that we're providing to the citizens of CLOPE and the transparency and the usability of them getting the information that this interactive map gives. And so just to give you a few examples of what that information looks like, At this point, we have multiple layers that we can now search by. It's addressing, it's APNs, we have overlays that address our floodways, our pad overlays, our mobile home overlays, city of globe, city limits. This is something different than the map that we had previously did. And to get that information before, you had to go to many different sites from the county to obtain that. that documented information. Now we have it on our side through this interactive map. Makes it a whole lot easier. It's not only just for staff, but it's for the public. So this is accessible no differently to our public than it is to our staff. It's used daily. It's a very diverse and utilized software that we use a lot for everyday operations. Questions for Tony?

I have not used that. So if you go to the city website, we can access that portal?

You can. The city website, there's a link there for interactive maps. This will now be aware we're still in the old. This is a demo. We just had demo on this. So it's ready to go up. But the city will get a demo from the provider. But yes, the website has it. And Councilman also, our CitizenServe portal, it also has it. So the links are also on there. So when people are getting on CitizenServe to submit, whether it's a building permit or a zoning permit or a pre-development meeting or whatever else, the links are also there at their disposal.

Okay. Yeah, because I go to the Gila County website for the assessor, but sometimes it's not even easy to figure out what it's zoned. It's pretty finicky, isn't it? Yeah, it's like, okay.

And this is pretty easy because there's an index right off to the side, and you can pick and choose what you want to look at. If you want to look at it all, you can. Or if you wanted to see certain things like floodway, floodplain, you can do that. Or if you want to see pads or overlays, it's pretty neat software. Good deal, good. Any other questions?

We have a motion for approval of 4C.

I make a motion to approve 4C. Mr. Mayor? Second.

Motion second for approval of item 4C. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passed. Thank you.

Thank you, Thomas.

Who's for aye? Travis. Travis is.

Travis, 30 seconds. All right.

Good evening mayor and vice mayor members of the council As you know, we completed our water meter exchange with all the water meters in the city. So we had the leftover meters that we took off we have to dispose those batteries and so waste connections recommended This company to dispose of them properly environmentally safe. Just think of a Tesla car catching on fire That's what would happen if we had these on at the yard for too long and something happened. So we wanted to dispose of them right away, and we had a little bit of extra funding left from the water conservation grant. So ergo, we used the state contract that Emergency Environmental LLC had to dispose of those properly and in time before the conservation grant closed.

Great.

So, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Council, Travis, there are 3,400 meters?

There is, I mean, those batteries that we had to dispose of was probably about 3,000, 3,100. Yeah. I don't know how many were the brass ones, but.

It's about five bucks a battery, and better that we do it the right way. They're not connected to the meters. The meters were not all brass, and so these have been separated from the meter themselves. Now it's just those batteries that you need to dispose of properly, and so that's what it is. It seems like a lot, but at five bucks a pop, yeah.

Mayor, I move to approve for aye. Second.

Motion second for approval of four aye. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Motion passed.

Thank you, Travis.

New business item A is consideration to approve contract SUB20270015, a five-year purchase agreement with Axon Enterprise Incorporated to purchase body-worn cameras in the amount of $332,865.99. EXPENDING $66,226.56 IN FISCAL YEAR 2627 FOR ONE YEAR AND FROM ACCOUNT 10571234 AND REQUEST TO WAVE SECTION 2-4-10A DISCUSSION RULE. AND WE HAVE AJ.

HI, MAYOR AND COUNSEL. SO IT'S TIME FOR OUR TO RENEW OUR AXON CONTRACT FOR BODY-WARNED CAMERAS. and taser devices. This contract will provide all sworn personnel and civilian aides with the necessary equipment of tasers and body cams. To cut the cost, we're not replacing the taser batteries, let's see, or we're not replacing our tasers as it stands, but we will need to add four additional tasers to make sure that we have enough for all personnel. That includes our police aides who are new to our department. And the contract provides for all hardware, software, licensing, data packaging, warranties, and refresh options. And those are kind of the key details of what we're looking for. The cost is a lot, but I think it's a cost of doing business and it's split up in over five years and 66,000 and some a few dollars per year.

Mr. Mayor, Members, Council, this has been a wonderful program. It's complex to keep track of everything going on, but it is a five-year contract. And so we put the amount, the $300,000 number, but again, it's budgeted over those five years. So $66,000, I believe, is the number just for this year.

And one of the, Commander Haynes was interested in, they have an auditing program aspect of TASER, and it randomly pulls out different traffic stops or assaults or whatever, and it kind of forces your hand at reviewing body-worn camera to make sure that our personnel are doing their job accordingly. And Commander Haynes was looking at getting that as something that we would pay for. But in this contract, that's thrown into what we're looking at. So that's kind of a bonus, kind of a savings that's not really looked at. But I think it's something that's necessary to keep You know because in the in the in the busy schedule that we have sometimes it's hard to you know go back and look at something unless there's a you know a negative or even a positive interaction, but this pulls random incidents and forces us to look at them and to review them and kind of police ourselves and I think it's a it's a great thing that that will be in this contract.

Fernando.

I just have a quick question, because I know when this technology first started to be implemented, it was kind of like, I don't know, it seems like they're going to use this against us. But in your experience, has it felt like it actually protects the officers to have the cameras?

I think overwhelmingly that's true. And I think that it's taken some adjustment. I know that... You know, just like anybody else, we're human beings. Something happens. You've got to remember that you're always being recorded when you do it. Like things have changed in my career, you know, where we didn't have that and now they do. So I think their approach is more professional as a whole, you would hope. And I think overwhelmingly it's been, it's proven our office, you know, what people see a lot of the times isn't reality of what actually happened and it comes back and saves us. There are times where, you know, we do things that are wrong and we hold our people accountable when they, you know, and police our own. But I think it's a good thing, you know, especially, you know, I don't know, the tone of society now is negative toward the police a lot of times. And I think that it's proven to be beneficial for us to be able to go back and review when people come in and say, hey, I want to file a complaint on Officer X. And then you look at the body warrant camera and what they think happened is absolutely not what happened. And it's overwhelmingly kept us out of trouble, you know, or, you know, where you're, you're able to vindicate the officer and say, you know what, that's really not what happened, but come in, let's look at the body cam. Then they view it and say, oh my God, that's not what I thought happened. And you're absolutely right, because it's the truth. It's video of the actual incident. So yeah, I think it is beneficial for us and necessary in the climate of society nowadays. I mean, I think when you don't have body-worn cameras, you know, people wonder, well, why don't you have the camera?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yep. Any other questions?

No. If there are no other questions or comments, I motion to approve item 5A and waive section 2-4 to 10A for discussion. Second.

Motion to second for approval of item 5A. Is there any further discussion? I have a question. Go ahead, Freddie.

Just for clarity, this references account 1057-51234, but there's nothing in parentheses what that account is. Contract services. Okay. All right. That's all I needed.

Thank you.

Oh, on top. Okay. Thank you.

Okay.

All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Motion passed. Thank you, AJ. Item B is consideration to approve Resolution 1936, approving the submission of grant GO20265705088-2026 Tohono O'odham Nation's 12D grant program by the Globe Police Department for the amount of $8,831.85, which will support the purchase of a police drone. Shelly, can you read Resolution 1937, please?

So this is just

trying to get your guys' approval for the $8,800 grant that Tohono O'odham has put out there. I think that given the past couple of years where we've had significant incidents like the flood, I will tell you that when you're searching for bodies and things, you can cover so much more area in such a limited amount of time, you know, where you put boots on the ground and say, hey, we're looking for, you know, people that were swept maybe down the waterways or whatever, you just cover so much ground, you're so much more efficient. But I'll tell you of an incident this past school year, some kids and it kind of got blown out of proportion. One kid said they saw somebody with a gun up behind Copper Rim. And, of course, we had a huge police response to that. DPS, county, everybody that was available went up there. But DPS came with a drone. We went up on the hillside behind there. We launched the drone. And it was just amazing how fast that drone could fly. could cover the territory, uh, that needed to be covered. I think, uh, you know, it's just an evolution of, of, uh, of police technology that's available out there and, and to not, to not have a drone in this day and age is, is really kind of, uh, behind the times. It is just absolutely, uh, you know, if we could get it, uh, would be just an asset to not only our department, but to the community that we serve when we're looking for lost people, when we're looking for victims of whatever, when we're looking at traffic accidents, there's any number of, and I went to the chief and Commander Haynes are at ACOP now and they have all the displays And the technology moving forward is drones are going to be on your patrol car. When you make a stop, it goes up in the air and it actually monitors your activity that if you needed help right away, you know, I mean, we're not looking at that, but I'm just saying the technology is evolving and it's just, so we're not, we just want to know that, you know, we're asking for permission to apply for the loan. the grant so that if we were to get it, that you guys are aware and we have your blessing.

And the grant requires a resolution. Yes, sir. To be adopted, yeah.

Is it true that our drone that we did have got wrecked?

We had a drone?

Didn't we have a drone? I thought we did. That's what I thought. I thought we did.

I saw somebody else's get wrecked.

I heard it got wrecked and we were doing the flood thing.

No, that wasn't ours. That was a private one.

We've never had a drone. You need a pilot. And we do have people that are pilots.

Oh, okay. I thought we had one, and then I thought it got wrecked. And I'm like, can we get an insurance policy, especially if it's $8,000? That's pretty cheap.

That's pretty cheap. A drone crashing and burning?

I saw the drone downtown crash when it got wrecked.

I'll tell you that the day that we went to a copper rim for that deal We had a wind gust of 37 miles per hour and they brought that drone right because it was like Shook everything up there You

So while he's doing that, I have a question, Mayor. Okay. Do we have personnel that are able to fly the drone? We do. We do, okay.

We have one that I know of. You? No, not me. But we do have one officer that is pilot trained. I don't know how big of an airplane you have, but you do have to have a pilot's license. I'm sure there's training, wow, yeah.

Yeah. Okay, great. I can just see it helping you with like downtown events such as like... Oh yeah, absolutely. I'll take it. Thank you. You can go up there. That was item 5B. Okay.

Come up to the mic, please.

I would just recommend that if you're going to invest in a drone, I would get one with thermal capabilities because that way that you can actually use it at night to find people. And the greatest tool for these are search and rescue. I mean, I sit on the fence about cops running around with drones, but I think it's a very valuable tool for search and rescue. And I would recommend getting a thermal camera and then looking at some of the non-DJI products that fit for federal use. regulation. So I was a white licensed 107 drone pilot. So I think it's, that would be worth the upgrade, just the thermal alone. That's all I wanted to say. That makes sense. Thank you.

That isn't thermal capable on that?

I don't know what, First, I think we have to get the funding, you know, and then really kind of narrow it down. I'm by far not an expert in drones or the technology behind it, but he's absolutely right. The DPS helicopter, we've had a couple of, elderly people come up, you know, leave Haven or whatever, and they've come and kind of looked in the area, and they had thermal imaging where if there was a body, they'll see dogs, they'll see coyotes, and the heat that you give off... kind of narrows down the search. So whether there's a dog or there's a coyote or whatever.

Even Round Mountain, we've had people lost on Round Mountain. That would serve amazing. Oh, absolutely. It's kind of the same technology fire uses. Yes. When we go on the fires and you're able to detect heat.

Right. Mayor, I think Danny has something to add.

I just want to look, Mayor and Council, I saw the quote, so I know this does have thermal, the one that... that they're looking at. And this 8,000 is only a portion. We have already received 10,000 of it. It's a total of $18,000 for this one drone.

That's what we're talking about then. We did receive some funding for one, but we never did get one.

This is just the other, the rest of what we need, too.

Oh, okay. Okay.

Good.

Well, thank you. You're right, we did get funding.

Yeah, then I heard one wrecked, so I figured it was ours.

Can we get a policy?

We got a motion from Jenny, Jesse, and a second from Mike for approval of item 5B. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Motion passed. Thank you, AJ. Item C is discussing consideration to approve contract number CA2027009 with Weber Water Resources LLC to rehabilitate the Hagen well for the amount of $128,015. Funds are budgeted in account 508051251, well pump maintenance repair, and request to waive section 2-10 for 2-10. 2-4-10A, prior discussion of the prior Travis.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and members of the council. The Hagan Well has been out of commission since about October, and so we need to rehabilitate it. What we need to do is replace the pump in there and do an electrical upgrade to it. This is also to help us to stay in compliance with ADEQ, so this is something that needs to be done before the end of this calendar year, and so we're just now scheduling to get that done. Questions for Travis?

Mayor, I would move to approve item 5C.

Second. Motion second for approval of 5C. You've got to waive section 2.

Oh, and waive the prior discussion.

Any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passed. Thank you, Travis. Action items. Item A is consideration to approve Ordinance 900, Adopting Fiscal Year 2627, Property Tax Rate Reduction from $1.1892 to the amount of $1.639 on each $100 of assessed valuation. That will be Paul, but Shelly, can you read Ordinance 900, please?

Thank you, Mayor. Ordinance number 900, an ordinance of the Mayor and Council of the City of Globe levying upon the assessed valuation of the property within the City of Globe subject to taxation a certain sum upon each $100 of valuation sufficient to raise the amount estimated to be required in the annual budget, lest the amount estimated to be received from other sources of revenue, providing funds for... for general municipal expense for the fiscal year ending the 30th day of June, 2027. Is council please with that reading?

Yes. So Mr. Mayor, members of council, this is the last, the final action in our budget cycle. And as you know, since we made our adjustment to our sales tax, we've made a pledge to keep the levy flat. And so the levy is a calculation between the valuation and the rate. Since the valuations have gone up, we can take the property tax rate down so that the levy holds constant. there be a slight increase in what we budgeted for the levy only because a new construction that is added in. And so we are reducing the tax rate from the 1.18 down to the 1.16. Mayor?

I just wanted to point out, because a lot of people don't understand this, is that if we did not change it and we bring in more revenue because the assessed value went up, we have to say that we raised taxes, which in fact, that's not what happened. But because of the rule and the way it is, in order to keep it the same, we have to lower the rate. So that way people understand.

And in contrary, if the valuations were to go down, we would adjust the rate up to keep this flat so that we could capture the revenue we were committed to. But I think this has been a wise decision by council. Property tax policy and law in Arizona is just convoluted. It's awful. So we keep it simple.

Any other questions, comments?

No. I make a motion to approve item 6A, Trey. Second.

We have a motion and a second for approval of item 6A, Resolution 900, or Ordinance 900. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. You post a motion pass item B is discussed rich discussion and consideration to work contracts he is to 0 to 60109 to Schultz contracting LLC to provide Cedar Street sidewalk and drainage improvements for the amount of $171,600 $19.84 funds from this project or budget in account 12. 8052200, capital outlay construction. Travis.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council. This is the contract after going through a bid system to get a bid for the Cedar Street sidewalk and drainage improvements. And Schultz was the lowest responsible bid that we received. And what we had budgeted for this particular project, they came well underneath what we had estimated. So very happy and pleased to see that. And so we'd like to get this project started as well as soon as possible. Great.

And we had a pretty extensive conversation or presentation of this earlier, too, in an earlier council meeting.

Yeah, we've gone through the IFB process, probably talked about it a couple times, I think, because we had to re-bid it. Oh, no, that wasn't a re-bid. That was Jesse Hayes.

Mayor, I would move to approve item 6B as presented.

Second.

And Mr. Mayor, members, council, before you vote, Travis, did you say that where this came in, this came in under budget? Significantly under what we estimated.

This is going.

Should have done that 12 years ago.

It won't follow there. Thanks, Travis.

You're welcome. It was in here. You didn't get it then. There you go.

Okay, we do have a motion and a second for approval of item 6B. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passed. Thank you, Travis. We go into late agenda items, and item 7A is council will consider the appointment of D.J. Bollinger to the Municipal Property Corporation.

And Mr. Mayor, I'm a council assistant city manager. Okay. Take that one.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'll be brief. With the resignation of one of our members, James Menlove, we have to replace this member so that we can continue to move forward with the newly formed group, though Council has, in the past, since 2007, I believe, has acted as our MPC. And so with this new group, we are looking at ways to bring more opportunities into our downtown and working with our other economic development organization partners to bring other opportunities in the area. For instance, if the city were to go to bond for any infrastructure project, the MPC, as is the IDA, is an opportunity to partner with on something like this. So just a little bit of background on DJ. Mayor Maros, you know him very well. DJ grew up in the Globe Miami community. He is married with two children, who he raised in Globe with his wife, Anjanette. He served 20 years with the Globe Fire Department, retiring, I believe it was two years ago, as a captain and paramedic, and he's currently a partner in the local company, Allegiance Builders. So we're very fortunate that he has accepted the opportunity to join the board if Council so approves.

I'm just curious, do the people on the board represent a certain sector, or is it just kind of just community members that would?

Community members. Okay. That live locally, have local interests, and...

He has a business background, so yeah.

He does. I mean, even in all of his years on the fire department, he always had a small business going on the side.

They don't have to be city residents? They can be community members?

They can be community members, so they can live outside the city limit jurisdiction.

Do you need a motion for that?

Yes.

Make a motion to approve item 7A. Second.

Motion second for approval of item 7A. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passed. Thank you, Linda. Thank you. Item B is discussion and consideration of resolution number 1938, which would designate the City of Globe manager, Paul Jepton, as a chief fiscal officer on behalf of the City of Globe to submit annual expenditure limitation report for fiscal year 2026 to the auditor general in consideration to waiver section 2-4-10A prior discussion room. Oh, Shelly, can you read the resolution 1938?

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Resolution number 1938, a resolution of the city of Florida, Arizona, Mayor and Common Council designating the Chief Fiscal Officer for officially submitting the fiscal year 2026 expenditure limitation report to the Arizona Auditor General. Is Council please do that reading? Yes.

Yes. And Mr. Mayor, Members of Council, Shelly's going to discuss this for us.

Mr. Mayor, Members of Council, this is a requirement from the Arizona State revised statutes that we designate a chief fiscal officer. Typically, it is the finance director. We don't have a finance director, so our city manager has been designated for the past five years. And this is just in connection with the Auditor General.

And it's just to file a report to make sure it goes through.

It is. It's a formality to... It precludes the audit that's being filed.

So that means somebody goes to jail 10, right? I got a call card.

7B, Dave Berry.

I talked to the auditor general's office and I think approval is off the issue.

Okay. Make a motion to approve item 7B, is that right?

Second.

Motion is second for approval of item 7B. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Motion passed. Second call to the public. Do we have anybody online or card? I do have a call to the public. Dave Barry, if you want to come up. We can check line and email. Go ahead.

Part of the process of rebuilding is working with the city, and there's a large void on the city sidewalk directly underneath 410 and 424. I brought that up to the attention of the Public Works, and it's apparently waiting for grants to be addressed. That is affecting the lateral support for the foundation of my building. I have had a foundation specialist come in and measure that, and they have raised the issue of the void underneath the city sidewalk. So that is affecting the timeline. as well for getting things re established. And then I just I can't have any contractors come in and work on anything because they don't have the load calculations for the bracing that was installed so they don't know what there would be removing so I'm running into this issue because there's no engineering documents from the city that I can't proceed forward so and that's at 410 the 410 424 there's no not a single stamp document from the city that from an engineer and there's nothing for me to hand off to contractors or engineers for them to work with so I'm not trying to delay I'm trying to work I'm running into

Can we check and do that? Oh, I know all about it. Okay, okay. We've had many discussions. Okay.

There's been no resolution, though. So, thank you. Thank you.

Item nine, scheduling of meetings. Do we have any?

Did you say you have another one?

No, we have nothing. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. Nothing from email. I thought I heard somebody say they had one. Yeah. Let's check the phone. All right. All right, sure.

Okay, thank you. So we have scheduling that means may, okay, special meeting on July 21st at noon council regarding council approval of flood mitigation deadlines.

Yeah, Mr. Mayor, members of council, so as Tiffany referred to, we are very close to having the flood mitigation the GMP, which is guaranteed maximum price for the segment of work, which is the bank stabilization. And so they were at 90% plans. They give us an offer. We have to evaluate that offer and then approve that. And then council needs to approve that offer. We didn't, it wasn't gonna be ready by this meeting. We don't wanna wait two meetings. And so we figured next Tuesday at noon, if we could just get four of you in here, four members of council in here at minimum, so we can approve that price so that the next morning, Mark can get going on that. But I do believe we have some, what are they called? Travis, Travis up there. It's, we have 20 something somethings.

So we're also trying to work on public drainage easements that were, as you guys were discussing earlier, to have that permanent access to maintain and do the maintenance. So we be responsible for maintaining all the drainage structures that are going in. And so talking with Civil Tech before this meeting, he actually said it's probably going to be about 10 and hopefully that we'll get those by the end of this week. And so I can have that on the agenda as well. But it takes a resolution. and the agreements that need to be passed by the council in order to move forward and get those recorded to be official.

Who'd have two items on that special meeting?

Those will be the only two items, yes. Okay. How does the schedule look for us?

How does it look for anybody? I'm okay.

I got to work. I'm good. Check my schedule.

You don't have a schedule anymore. I got to work.

So I guess we're good to 21st.

Okay, good. That'll be very good. Okay.

Thank you, Trevor. Future agenda items, anybody have any? Motion to go into executive session. Motion to move.

Second.

Motion to second to go into executive session. All those in favor say aye. Aye.

Do we have anything coming out? When we come out, there is nothing on the agenda. We will come out and adjourn only. No other action will be taken. Okay.