City Council - Regular Meeting

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Call meeting to order.

Shelly can do roll call, please.

Mr. and Mr. Mayor, thank you. District 1, Councilman Rios is excused. District 2, Councilman Pestar.

Here.

District 3, Councilman Lethem. Here. 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.

Thank you, Shelly. Fernando, can you lead us in the invocation, please?

I thought I would start down here. Please bow your head in prayer. Dear Lord, thank you that we can be gathered here to do the city's business today. Please help us to make the best decisions possible to help all of our citizens. Help all of us to remember that we are only as good as our weakest link and that the more we help each other, the more we will be together. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen.

States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Let's start with the summary of current events. Mariano, we'll start with you down there.

I have to thank city staff for staying in focus. Eric, I don't see him around here. He took a call from me on Monday, and Monday was a busy day, I realize that. I got a call Saturday from a constituent who got ahold of me in my district because she hadn't had her garbage picked up in two cycles on a Tuesday. And I promised her I'd look into it on Monday. made a phone call, waited till the end of the day knowing Mark. Eric ran with the call. He got with staff and he called me back and said, we will get that garbage picked up today and we will take care of it. I said, thank you very much. So about an hour, hour and a half later, I got a phone call from my constituent who thanked me She thought the world of me and just thanked me wholeheartedly with a lot of respect and happiness. So I wanted to convey that to council as well as to our staff. The point is I'm not deserving or worthy of that credit. Our staff is. Over the past 11 months, we've been working hard on many different subjects. And our staff has had to work hard delivering information to various federal and state entities. But they didn't lose sight of the ball, even though it took them a day to react. They still took care of business. They stayed focused on the job. And I know they did it with pleasure. And I just want to thank them for keeping their eyes on the ball. You're all a good example. I've said that on the days before in the last 11 months. And I really mean it when I say that you guys are the best staff comparable to any size city and town in the U.S., and especially in the state of Arizona. So keep up the good work. That's all I have, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you.

Fernando?

I don't think I can top that.

But no, we really do have a great staff.

Yes, we do. One of my customers had a backup of their sewer, and we couldn't figure out what was going on. Anyways, I didn't know whose number to give except for John, and they were on it that night, figured out that it was, in fact, a backup. And so we'll have to figure out if it's a common line or not, but yeah, they're just great to, it's a pleasure to work with you guys. So thank you. And I got to attend the rural policy forum. And it's not only do they have a lot of good information and presentations, but you get to meet other people, leaders, department heads. So I got to meet a lot of really important people and make connections. So hopefully that'll turn into something. So thank you.

Yeah. Thank you. Mike.

Mr. Mayor, just been a busy week for me working with constituents and stuff. down. Thank you.

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

Thank you. Mike? Yeah, Mayor, I just have a few reminders. Just to let everybody know, we'll be out of town next week starting Tuesday through Friday. We'll be at the League of Cities down in Phoenix. So the entire staff will be going, or the council at least, will be going down there. Well, you'll be going Monday, but the rest of us will be leaving Tuesday. And then the second reminder is the coffee with the mayor scheduled for next Wednesday as well. And that's been postponed until September 16th, I believe. So we'll resume that in September. And that's all I have, Mayor.

Thank you, Mike. Yeah, I was going to mention that also it'll be canceled, but we'll resume the same third Wednesday. I'm going to have to look at the time. Copper City's coffee has changed their timeframe. They close at two o'clock now, I think on Wednesday. So it may start at 12 and I'll have to adjust that. With the League of Cities, yeah, we'll be gone next week. I'll be serving on a panel Tuesday morning at the League and then a panel on Thursday also to share different about our disaster, about our flooding, about fires and stuff like that. PHI membership, helicopter membership expires. You can apply up until tomorrow, I think it is, the 12th. They were at Copper City's Coffee this last Saturday, and they signed up a bunch of people, and not only residents from Globe, but residents from all over Globe, Miami, because it's offered to everybody. Ours in the city of Globe was $30 for the year, remember, for your whole family, I think, in the county, and Miami is like $40. So it's not much of a difference, but for $30... for flight insurance for the year for your whole family is amazing. We'll also have staff working on bringing forward an agenda for the upcoming anniversary of the flooding event in September. So we'll be working on something to kind of coordinate it with the state of the city maybe and then the flood event and come up with some ideas as to how we, I don't want to say celebrate, but how we remember how our community changed. So last thing I have, I want to read a statement that I have prepared. So I want to start by, after visiting with the families, some of the families on the Jess Hage Road, I want to take this opportunity as your mayor to sincerely apologize for how the citation process unfolded. There was never an intention to add to the hardship you are already experiencing. The goal was to address safety concerns and to help move the recovery process forward. I'm not here to defend what was done, but to acknowledge it and ask ourselves what we could have done better. At the end of the day, we all share the same goal, to recover, to rebuild, and to protect our community. That responsibility belongs to all of us. our city, our businesses, and our residents. We want to make sure that when another storm of that magnitude were to come again, that we are better prepared and better protected. So as we move forward, our work does not end with recovery. It begins with what we learned from this experience. We must develop a comprehensive long-term mitigation plan for the future. working together with the town of Miami and the county. We will evaluate what we can improve and put strategies in place to better prepare and protect our homes, our businesses, and our city's critical infrastructure, knowing that our city sits in a valley and water naturally runs through it. We cannot control Mother Nature or water, but we can control how prepared We are when it comes. We can build smarter and safer to protect the community that we all call home. Thank you.

Paul. Mr. Mayor, members of council, I just wanted to add that as city manager, I take full responsibility for the civil citations process used by the city, along with the impact those citations have. I will just add that I have given direction that all flood-related citations issued this past April to be dismissed. That process is completed.

So we have a first community call to the public and I want to read the public statement on it. Call to the public is an opportunity for any citizen desiring to speak on a matter that is not scheduled on the agenda may do so at this time. This is a time for the public to comment to members of the city council, not to members of the staff. Comments are limited to three minutes per person and shall be addressed to the city council as a whole body, not to any individual member. Please complete a request to speak card located at the rear of the chambers and turn it in to our city clerk. We don't have any cards. Do we have any online?

I do have an email.

Okay.

This email is from David Lamar Berry. Mayor and members of the council, my name is David Lamar Berry. I'm speaking about the motion to quash and request for sanctions in which the city of Globe is expressly named. I'm not asking the council to decide The merits of that court proceeding tonight, I'm asking the council to address why the city of Globe's name appears in accusations against me, how those accusations were generated, who supplied the information, and why Globe has been communicating with Miami and Gila County about a generalized David Berry situation for years. The motion states, past year, Berry has engaged in illegal to harass the town and its employees, the City of Globe, Gila County, Justice of the Peace, Webb, and others. That is a serious accusation, but the motion does not identify the specific City of Globe employee alleged harassed. the specific judge, the specific justice of the peace, the specific conduct, the date, the witness, or the document supporting the accusation. The motion also states, notably, the City of Globe, Gila County, and Arizona Water District have all directed Mr. Berry to only communicate through their respective legal offices because of his behavior towards their employees. It further states, during this period, Mr. Berry frequently corresponded with town staff in a mean-spirited, argumentative, and accusatory manner. And it says, due to Mr. Berry's behavior, the town manager required all correspondence be directed through the town attorney's office. since the town employees did not feel comfortable dealing with him. Those statements are presented as facts, but the motion does not identify the Globe employees, county employees, Arizona Water employees, judges, engineers, or other persons who supposedly made or supported those accusations. It does not identify any official finding that I harassed anyone. The cross-government connection is documented. On May 9th, 2024, Gila County Manager James Menlove wrote to Paul Jepson and Alexis Rivera, can we schedule a meeting for the next week or two to discuss the David Berry situation? A lunch meeting, I'll buy. Alexis Rivera then responded, Town of Miami has taken the same approach since late 2023. That exchange raises a basic question. What exactly was the David Berry situation? Who defined it and what information was shared among Miami, Globe, Gila County and other agencies? The motion to quash now uses the city of Globe's name alongside the town Gila County and Justice of the Peace, Ray Webb, and others. If GloBE supplied information, adopted allegations, approved the wording, or participated in the strategy, the Council should know who acted in what official capacity and on what evidence. Page two. I therefore request that the Council direct the City Manager and the City Clerk to preserve and produce existing public records concerning the phrase, David Barry's situation. The motion to squash and request for sanctions. C, communications with Miami, Gila County, Arizona, Arizona Water District, Ray Webb, Pierce Coleman, and any other judge or court employee. D, every statement that I harassed, threatened, or conducted a legal campaign against anyone. E, the identity of every alleged victim, witness, judge, employee, engineer, or official relied upon. F, the documents and communications provided to the attorneys who made those accusations. And G, any decision to restrict any communication to legal offices. Arizona law requires public bodies to maintain records reasonably necessary to account for official activities and activities supported by public funds. ARS, 39-121-01B, a public record search should not fail merely because officials use Dave, Barry, the situation, or another indirect reference. I also ask the council to place this matter on a properly noticed agenda under Arizona Open Meeting Law. Public bodies must conduct public business openly and agenda descriptions must reasonably inform the public of the matters to be discussed. ARS 38-431.018. 38-431.018. The council should not discuss the substance of this unagendized matter tonight, but it can direct staff to preserve records, conduct a review, and place the issue on a further agenda. I am not asking the council to accept every allegation I have made. I am asking the council to stop relying on unnamed accusations and generalized labels. If there is a factual basis for describing me as a harasser, Identify the person, conduct date, document, and official decision.

That's over three minutes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. We'll go to special presentations and ceremonial matters. Item 3A is to recognize the five years of service to the Globe Public Works Department by Noel Parrish, John Angulo.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Noah Perez could not make it this evening, so we'll actually go ahead and give his award tomorrow at our morning safety meeting. But I just kind of did want to say a few words on his behalf or from our department as being his director. Noah's been working with us, obviously, the five years, but he's been a key element as far as one of our main equipment operators in the field and doing what he does. just a couple of notable projects that he's been working on and actually continues to do daily with us. If you remember the Miami fire that was right off the Highway 60, the old lumber yard, you know, you saw a lot of pictures. We responded to fire after many phone calls for assistance. He was one of the guys who was running the backhoe amongst the fire, working with Kendall Cormack and the fire department, spreading the material, trying to stabilize that fire. So he was, you know, it's those kinds of calls that he responds to as an operator and as an employee for us. Another one most notable recently is after the floods when we had our bridges closed. He was one of two employees. He's the one that actually did most of the welding for the handrails to open Haskins and Yuma Bridge. So he's the one that was conducting a lot of the work with another staff member and to get those opened as soon as we did. Third one, I mean, he's been actively working with other staff on the Ramadas in our parks area community center, going out to Roosevelt, receiving those donations, and actually placing those within our parks areas. And also, during the floods, he's been one of our main equipment operators working in the streets, repairing these drainage issues, and continues to do that today, you know. So it's ongoing. Some of the enhancements we're doing with the skate park, there's some areas that we're needing to build a retaining wall. public work staff that's doing that. And he's been a big point of that project working along. Last but not least, I just wanted to note if some of you for the public that have seen the video that I shared in our When we do our annual Citizens Academy, I'm sorry, I almost lost that one. Citizens Academy, I showed a video to some of you council members and mayor where there's a gentleman that's actually removing a horse trailer off of Russell Gulch underneath. It was causing a backup on the bridge. And he was the equipment operator at that time that was removing that equipment amongst the overflow of water. We pulled that. You can't see it until you actually remove it out of there. So it's to that magnitude that he's very soft-spoken, but he's very opinionated. So we'll definitely share this with him tomorrow morning and give him his praise. So I just want to tell you thank you and take a moment for that. Thank you.

Thank you. Item B, we're going to table that one. A recognition for the fire department for Jose. Jose. Valadrez, he is not Chief Robbins, not a Townsville. We'll table that one till they're back in. Item C, recognition of 30 years of service to the Globe Police Department by Commander Charles Chuck Haynes, Chief Walters.

Good evening, Mayor. Good evening, Council. Commander Haynes, if you could join me down here at the podium, I'd appreciate it. So I didn't know this day was ever gonna come because nobody has ever dodged recognition more successfully than Commander Haynes. So there are very few people who can say that they've dedicated 30 years of their life to serving the same community they grew up in. Commander Chuck Haynes is one of those people. Chuck grew up in the community, graduated from Miami High School, and not a day goes by he doesn't remind me he's a Vandal.

He's once a Vandal, always a Vandal.

Apparently. And later, a graduate from the Arizona State University, we won't hold that against him, bear down. In January 1996, the Globe Police Department sponsored him to attend the Arizona Law Enforcement Training Academy in Tucson. In May of that year, he officially began a full-time career with the Globe Police Department as a police officer. Over the next 30 years, Chuck would serve the department and community in nearly every capacity possible. He began as a patrol officer before being selected to serve as a narcotics agent with the Gila County Narcotics Task Force. He later served as a detective in criminal investigations and was eventually promoted to sergeant where he spent many years supervising the patrol division. Even when Chuck stepped away from full-time service in 2016, he never truly left the Globe Police Department. He continued serving as a reserve officer, maintaining his connection to the commitment and the department and community. In 2018, he returned to full-time service as an administrative sergeant for the Globe Police Department. That is also when my experience with Chuck began. When I came to the Globe Police Department in 2018, I was coming into a new department and a new community. Chuck possessed something that could not be taught in an academy, obtained through promotion, or learned from a policy manual. He had decades of knowledge about the department, this community, and the people who call this area home. From the beginning, I learned that Chuck was someone I could depend on. He understood where the department had been, but more importantly, he understood where it needed to go. He was willing to take on difficult assignments, provide an honest assessment when one was needed, and support the changes necessary to move the organization forward. Chuck was promoted to lieutenant in 2020, and he continued preparing himself for greater leadership responsibilities by attending the 10-week Northwestern University School of Police Staff and Command. In September 2021, he was promoted to commander of the Globe Police Department. As commander, Chuck has become an essential part of the leadership of this organization. A command position is not only simply about rank, it is also about being the person others turn to when circumstances are difficult, when decisions have consequences, and when an organization needs stability. Chuck has repeatedly been that person. Throughout my time as chief, I have relied upon his experience, judgment, work ethic, and knowledge more times than I could possibly count. He has never been afraid of difficult work, and he has never been someone who needed recognition for doing it, as tonight highlights. His focus has always been on getting the job done and doing what is best for the department and this community. He has also been an advocate for our employees. He understands that leadership means holding people accountable, but it also means supporting them, developing them, and standing beside them when they need their leadership most. One of Chuck's greatest strengths is his commitment to the community in his personal life. These are not simply streets that he patrols or citizens he serves. This is his home. He grew up here. He went to school here. He built his career here. He knows the families, the history, and the character of this community in the way that very few people ever will. During his 30-year career, Chuck has served as patrol narcotics agent, detective, sergeant, lieutenant, commander. Those titles tell the story of professional advancement, but they do not fully tell the story of his service. The true measure of Chuck's career can be found in the officers he has trained and mentored, the employees he has supported, the citizens he has helped, the difficult situations he has helped guide this department through, and the countless times his experience and judgment have made the organization better. When I look back at the progress of the Globe Police Department, has made since I arrived. I know that much of that progress required people who were willing to believe in what we were trying to accomplish and then put in the work necessary to make this happen. Commander Haynes has been one of those people. There is a tremendous amount of pride associated with serving 30 years in law enforcement. There should be even greater pride knowing that those 30 years were spent serving the community that helped shape the person that you become. Chuck, it has been my privilege to serve alongside you and to have you as a member of my command staff. I am personally grateful for your counsel, your friendship, your willingness to take on whatever has been asked of you, and most importantly, your unwavering commitment to this department and this community.

Thank you.

On behalf of myself and the men and women of the Globe Police Department, the community, you have faithfully served for three decades. It is my privilege to recognize Commander Chuck Haynes for 30 years of dedicated and distinguished service. 30 years of service, 30 years of commitment, 30 years of protecting the community you call home. Congratulations, Commander Haynes, and thank you for everything you have given to the Globe Police Department and the people of this community. including the lady in the room.

Beth, what are you doing here? That's our partner.

Chuck, did you want to say a few words?

So yeah, I tried kicking this down the road for a while to stand up here and do this, but it seems like just yesterday the former or retired chief John Armour had asked me to show up to one of these meetings to be introduced as the new guy. And now I guess I'm showing up to be introduced as the old guy. It's been a fun career. I hope to dedicate several more years to this community and this department. When I came back, One of our biggest goals was to move this department forward into this current century. We'd had a, one of our officers several years ago had gone on a vacation and he came back and he had visited a museum in San Diego and he said, you know, we're still using a lot of the equipment that I saw. And so one of my biggest goals when I came back Chief Walters' vision of this place was to move us into the current century, and I want to continue doing that. So thank everybody for your support, and especially the men and women of the police department. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. Item D is staff will present council with an update on the safe streets and roads for all grant. Connie.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. It's my privilege to stand at the podium tonight and give you another update on the Safe Streets and Roads for All grant. And just as a reminder, it is a federal grant, and we are at the process of collaborating with what we are going to demonstrate in the demonstration corridor, which is our entire mile of our downtown corridor. And tonight on Zoom, we have Kate Saunders and Vanessa, and they've been in this process from Libby Streets Alliance during the whole time. They've had workshops, they've had workshops, open town halls we've had a lot of very good workshop sessions with the business owners as well and so tonight they're going to show what the collaboration process has brought and I did want to make a note that we will probably do some very impactful but yet very low cost things at the start the beginning and the end of the corridor to help slow down traffic as well from this presentation. So at this point, I will give it over to Kate and Vanessa.

Thank you so much, Connie, for the wonderful introduction. Good evening, mayor, members of the council. I'm gonna guide your attention to the PowerPoint presentation that'll guide our discussion. So just as a reminder, why we're here today, we're here to talk about the SS4A demonstration project Next slide. And we've had the opportunity to visit now the City of Globe twice. My name is Vanessa Cascio. I've met several of you already. I'm the executive director of Living Streets Alliance. We're a nonprofit. organization based in Tucson and the principal on this contract with the city. And I'm joined tonight by Kate Saunders, who's been project managing and brings extensive experience around community engagement. And it's lovely to see y'all again. Next slide. So just a reminder of why we're here. The city of Globe was awarded a Safe Streets and Roads for And this grant, this program, has one overarching purpose, and that is roadway safety and reducing serious injury and fatalities on our roadway for everybody that uses them. For this particular grant, for this particular grant funding, we're focused on Broad Street within the city of Globe. And this is a multi-year initiative. So we kicked off this work with Globe a year ago now, and we're sort of in the middle of it. But really the main deliverable for this grant is to demonstrate or to show quickly how we can address some of the safety concerns that have been coming up through our engagement with residents and business owners. So with that, I'm gonna pass it off to Kate to take on the next slide if you wanna advance that.

Good evening, Mayor and members of the Council. It's great to see you, even on Zoom. So we're going to share what we did and what we found out. But quick, a timeline. Where are we at in this whole thing? We last saw you in March of this year, where we had, we were in town for three days, and we had a pretty robust set of community engagement activities. That was part of visioning. So hearing from people, what are their experiences, what are their challenges, and what do they want to see from this project looking forward? Tonight we're reporting out on those findings. And your team is working diligently to bring the project together and move it towards installation. That will happen in the fall. And that will last for about 10 months. And during that time, we'll come back again and do another round of community engagement and ask people, how's it going? What's working? What isn't? How is this changing people's behavior? And things like that. So we can go to the next slide. What did we do last time we were here, last time we were there? We connected with residents. We hosted six different community engagement opportunities, from walk-in talks, looking at the curves and the intersections and crosswalks, to a pop-up booth at the First Friday event, a town hall, and an online survey. So it was a really packed full three days. We heard from over 200 community members. and received over 2,000 public comments, which is excellent for a project this size. And I want to share that most unique to this project was the breadth of people we were able to connect with. So I wanted to say thank you to you all and your staff for also helping us connect with community members. We heard from parents of small children, older adults who use mobility devices, who know the long history of GLOBE and how the corridor has changed over time. We heard from teenagers and people who have recently moved to Globe who care about the future of the city and just like business owners and people who go to the doctor downtown. So a wide range of feedback that we got. We can move to the next slide.

I think we're one slide behind.

So the slide there shows the community engagement photos.

But I think you should have that in your packet. Yeah. There we go. So what did we hear when we put it all together and collected all of the feedback? We heard that the number, the top issues are speeding and aggressive driving. And from the driver's perspective, there's limited visibility and it's difficult to see people entering the crosswalks. And from the pedestrian perspective, they said drivers don't stop for people in the crosswalks. And then overall, they said that crossing the street being unsafe or feeling unsafe. And We can move to the next slide. When we're looking at where that really surface to the top for people the most along the corridor, there's five priority locations, although the whole corridor is important. And of course, it would be wonderful to do something across the whole corridor. With this project, we do have a certain amount of funding and looking at how we're going to spread that. and what really will be the most worthwhile with the funding that we do have. So number one came at Cottonwood, which is over by the library in Pickle Barrel. Number two at the north end of the corridor was at the Yuma Street crossing by El Ranchito. Number three was just a little further south of that at the Silver King Mid-Block crossing. And then fourth and fifth are Sycamore over by the Holy Angels Church and Mesquite, which and Dominion Cutting Co. So this is if you lifted out one through five, but really what emerged in the conversations was that one and two, Cottonwood and Yuma Street were pretty tight for first. And so that's how you see on this map, we've highlighted those in green and they emerged like Connie mentioned as sort of this idea of the gateways to the corridor. And when we started asking people then, Really, where does it feel like you've entered the corridor? And those were the two places that people chose the most and said, yeah, it really starts when you get to Albany Chiefs, or it really starts once you hit the library. And so getting attention to those areas to help develop that sense of expanding the corridor to reach those locations. And then you could see it as a tiered system, so working your way into the silver pavement block crossing and then even further into the interior. of the quarter, we already have a lot of existing infrastructure, like benches, shades, and things like that. So we can move to the next slide. I'm just going to get into the top two, but you have their full analysis of all these intersections. So feel free to reach out to us with any questions tonight or after tonight, and we can support those.

So we're looking at Cottonwood over by the library.

Currently, there's no crosswalks in either direction. signs along Broad Street. And then there's some missing sidewalks, a missing sidewalk on the corner, and so really not a lot of pedestrian infrastructure to support game crossing. You get about 4,000 vehicles passing through there every day. And some insights we learned are that if you're headed northbound, like say you're coming from Pine to Braden, you're driving north, you don't reach a stop sign until the church at Sycamore. And so there's nothing to slow people down or really promote being able to cross the street safely. And similarly, we heard that southbound, if you're headed out of this corridor, that's really the area where people said they'd pick up speed as they're headed out of the area. So definitely a high-speed zone. And people said they would attend the library programs more if there were more places to cross and walk and access and park safely and get to the programs. a lot of families and children and older adults. So really something that would support those existing programs. Yeah, I will go to the next slide and I'll talk about Yuma Street. So at the Yuma Street crossing, you could consider that the northern gateway. And there are crosswalks, but they're really faded and they're just those two lines. So they're not the high visibility striping. And there's no stop signs. And there's no signage to say that lanes are crossing here. And so you have about 5,000 cars passing through here every day, a higher count. And similar to the southern part, people said, when you're driving out of the corridor, you're headed northbound. This is also the place that people are like, yeah, here's where we pick up speed. And if you're headed into the corridor coming up the 60, you're coming up a high-speed road, and you don't reach a stop sign in that direction until Mesquite, I believe. And there's a crossing here, so there's a lot that can be done there to support a safer crossing and really slowing traffic down as they enter the corridor. So I'll move on. I'll hand it back actually to Vanessa

So that means we're going to zoom ahead, so if you want to advance one, two, three, four slides, then we'll be at where we have a slide that reads the Title III recommendations. I think one of the things I want to emphasize is while we are focused, like the two priority locations that kind of rose to the top, I think a lot of the data that we've collected also provides a lot of good fodder for pursuing follow-up funding and grants to continue to support sort of the safety and enhancement along Broad Street. knowing that there's a finite number of resources and also based on the feedback that we received is really focusing on Yuma Street crossing and the Cottonwood Street intersection, like he mentioned. And the second is really choosing a demonstration project that addresses some of the concerns that we heard in a lot of the engagement and also the community survey, which was treatments that help to slow down vehicle traffic, treatments that help to increase the visibility and the sidelines for people crossing the street and really taking advantage of the opportunity to create the cohesive gateway. into downtown from either end and, lastly, one thing we thought we felt it was worth mentioning because people have. share this in their engagement surveys and also we know that it's a relatively low cost high impact way to improve safety is if there should there should funding allow to really take advantage of the existing crosswalks and restribe them to become high visibility crosswalks or ladder what we call the ladder or zebra strikes and that really does help to boost the visibility of people crossing. There's been research that really shows that just the high visibility crossing parking alone can reduce overall crashes by roughly 37 to 48%. So sort of the low hanging fruit of take what you have and just give it a glow up as they say. So, yeah. So what's next for us, the next slide, just to wrap up our portion is We are completing the first phase of this engagement process and now we're looking forward to what happens in really installing once this demonstration project gets installed later this fall. We'll be coming back to GLOBE later this year once the has been in place for some time once people have gotten used to it and have experience to gather feedback and use the demonstration project as another opportunity for engagement. So we'll be back later this year to do similarly interactive engagement and gather community input of how things are working or not working. And then we'll capstone next year with once this demonstration and give you all a good report and takeaways and recommendations going forward.

Yes, I'll jump in and add that we are gonna reach out to the stakeholders as well and provide them a full update because they really were strong contributors to the feedback in the process. And we're looking forward to reconnecting with them when we come back.

Awesome. Kate, I think that Councilman Shipley has a question for you.

Mayor, is that okay? Go ahead. So I got two questions. So one is I've noticed that Google Maps did not update the stop sign at Mesquite. So it says turn left at the next stop sign. Well, turning left if you're going southbound on Broad Street or technically maybe east, it would put you going the wrong way on a one-way street. And so is there something that we need to do to get Google to update and add that stop sign to their database? And then the other question I have is, when we did the intersections on Broad Street, where right here off of, what is this, Oak Street? When we did cedar, we narrowed the intersections, we added the islands in the middle, and then we put pavers across so that it creates a different texture so that people know that it is a crosswalk. And so to me, if we paint them with bright yellow or whatever color it is, that's great for seven months. And then we have to put it on the schedule to get them repainted. And it just doesn't work. So to me, I'm thinking, wouldn't it be better to do something different? I know that way back when we did the other intersections, they had, it was like a polycarbonate that would be melted right onto the roadway and it was textured and it had a really long durability. So is that something that you guys take into consideration or is that all come back down to city budgets and what's feasible or how does that work?

Yeah, definitely. I'll share a little bit and then Vanessa feel free to jump in. This funding mechanism is for a demonstration project. So by nature, the materials that we use do have to be temporary in order to qualify for the grant funding. And so the projects that will be proposed later in September by your team and the engineers really will reflect that requirement of the grant. So using things like paint and bollards that are, you know, plastic or resin, things like that, that can be a stop sign that's temporary, things like that, kind of the materials that are required for the grant. And I don't know if Vanessa, if you want to add anything to that or...

But that's just for... I'm sorry, that's just for this grant though. The final recommendation could be different, right? As far as how we solve the problem?

Correct.

Yeah, that would be an extended conversation after the life of the project. And definitely something we might learn from this installation is like, oh, if people really like what this installation has to offer, maybe with a few tweaks, then you could pursue, you have ample data to be able to pursue future funding to do something more permanent and provide that permanent infrastructure.

And just let me add into, this is the demonstration portion of this grant, and then after this grant, with the recommendations moving forward, we can put in for an implementation grant, which is meant to be permanent.

Okay. Any response to the Google Maps? That was the stop sign? It's missing from Google Maps?

I think we could follow up with you on that. I don't have experience with interfacing with Google to change something like that, but maybe others do.

Okay.

Thank you. Do we have any other questions?

Just a comment, Mr. Mayor. It was an eye-opener to take the walking tour, especially on South Broad. And the speed that develops either way, people just step on the gas and away they go. And it's time to rethink that intersection, to try to apply something to slow people down. Whatever it takes would be a great demonstration. And safety was the first issue I thought of. And one little toddler running across the street was my other worst case scenario. So yes, I'm glad we're taking a hard look at it.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Okay, any other questions? Kate and Vanessa, I'm so glad that you were able to join us tonight by Zoom and present. I just wanted to thank you for being part of this demonstration grant with us. Thank you. Thank you all so much.

Thank you all so much.

Thank you both.

Okay, good. Next we go to consent calendar. The matters listed under the consent calendar are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion and one vote. Public hearing items are designated with an asterisk. Prior to consideration of the consent agenda, the mayor will ask whether any member of the public wishes to remove a public hearing item for separate consideration. Members of the council and or staff may remove any item for separate consideration also. Item A is consideration of waiver of section 2-4-10A prior discussion rule to allow action on the balance of the consent agenda. Item 1, accounts payable, $671,318.86. Item 2, consideration of approval of council minutes. A, consideration to approve the July 14, 2026 meeting minutes. B, consideration to approve the July 21, 2026 special meeting minutes. Item C, consideration to approve the July 28, 2026 meeting minutes. And item D is consideration to approve August 4, 2026 special meeting minutes. B, consideration to approve the donation of metal animal silhouette art pieces by the Love Where You Live organizations to be installed along the Starizona Trail at a value of $3,000. C, consideration to approve agreement number FUA20270002 with Gila Community College for classroom use for the art and fitness courses at the Active Adult Center. D, consideration to ratify contract number CS20270014 with JJ Electrical Contracting LLC to repair the alarm horn for the belt press at the wastewater treatment plant for the amount of $1,330. Funds from this project are budget and account 518051242 equipment repairs. E, consideration to ratify contract number CS20270014 20270016 with JJ Electrical LLC to repair the breaker box for cutter number two booster for the amount of $4,550. Funds for this project are budgeted in account 508051251, well pump maintenance and repair. Item F, consideration to ratify contract number CS20270019 with JJ Electrical Contracting LLC to repair mixer number one at the wastewater treatment plant for the amount of $2,200. Funds for this project are budgeted in account 518051242, equipment repair maintenance. G, consideration to ratify contract number CS2020270017 to just-in-time heating and cooling LLC to modify ductwork in the police department interview room for the amount of $1,245. Funds from this project are budgeted in account 1057-51236, building maintenance. And item H is consideration to ratify contract number CS-2027-0021 to Multi-Technical Services Incorporated for the installation of video surveillance system upgrades to the existing security system at City Hall for the amount of $4,997.27. Funds from this project are budgeted in account 1055-51236 building maintenance. Is there anybody from the staff, council, or public wishing to remove any of these items for separate consideration?

Mr. Mayor, I would like to pull 4B.

Okay. Any other considerations?

Other questions or comments, Mayor? I don't. Motion to make to approve the items as read with item 4B. Hold. Second.

Motion second for approval of consent agenda minus item 4B. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Motion passed. 4B, Mike, go ahead.

Yeah, Mr. Mayor. I don't have a problem where the location is going to place. These are the Javelina structures, I think.

Right? Right.

off to the right side or left side if you're looking right at it. The runoff, John, has undercut on the roadway there. And I would be cautious if we let people park there to look at those Avelina structures because of the way it's washed out there. You might want to go and check that out before we My only concern is if a car parked close to where the runoff is, it's going to be a problem.

Yes, to your point, Councilmember, we will have to go do a little bit of ground preliminary work. It's not kind of in the application process. It says there's no city staff, but that is city property. There is some maintenance. There's some creek cleanup that we do from the highway drainage that come across through there. So there's some brush that would need to be cut back. To your point, I actually drove by there prior once we've received the application. There is some area that would probably do some fill then actually put something on the backdrop of it so nobody gets too far. So it's more of a highlight the area. Of course, the javelinas, the artwork will probably do most of that, but it would be a little bit of dirt work and some background.

That's the only concern I had is that you can't really tell that it's washed out there or anything. You want somebody to pull up there and park off there to look at it and find their car down in the creek.

I told Pia and Regina that I would help answer any questions, but I can't answer that one.

I don't have a problem with it. It's a good idea and a great place to put it. I was concerned about that runoff. That's all I have, Mr. Mayor.

Do we have a motion for approval of 4B?

Yeah, I would make a motion that we go ahead approve item 4B based on the discussion that we've had with the Public Works Director. Second.

Motion to second for approval of item 4B. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Thank you, John. Thank you, John. Your business 5, a discussion consideration approved contract number is to be to 0, 2, 6, 0, 1, 4, 3, with leads online software in the amount of $7,072.49 for one year subscription through the July 31st, 2027. Funds from this investigative software. have been budgeted through account 105751234 PD contractual service, and they request in the way section 2-4-10A prior discussion room.

Chuck.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

So we're looking to move forward with these pieces of software. One's referred to as Nighthawk, and then the other is Leeds Online. Both of those will be implemented in our criminal investigations unit, be operated by our detectives. This is a method Nighthawk would take metadata that they collect on calls that they're investigating or cases they're investigating. and it dumps it into one database that they're able to piece together and make sense of a case and the connections involved with all that data and kind of gives it a visual picture. So typically now they have to decipher all that data on their own. And that could take weeks or longer to go through and figure out a case. Meanwhile, leads are going cold and they're losing valuable time in solving cases. This kind of puts everything together within a matter of minutes from the data that they're collecting on a case, whether that be a search warrant off of a phone or whatever other type of data that they collect. and they're able to take a look at that and make sense of it. Leeds Online is another one that will make them more efficient and save them quite a bit of time in that any type of property we have that we input, like serial numbers and that type of thing that have been taken in a burglary, for years now, other agencies, we've asked them to check things for us because Leeds Online is a database that's connected with thousands of businesses and pawn shops across the United States. And so when we start inputting serial numbers, we'll get hits off of where that property may have gone, because typically it's not gonna be sold here locally. And this gives us a better idea of where that property might've ended up. So it saves them a lot of time, gives them a lot of leads, and we want to move forward with getting this software to make their jobs a little bit easier, a lot easier actually, and save them time so that they can focus on other things. So that's what we're looking to do.

So this wasn't in a museum then? No.

Any other questions?

I would move to approve item 5A as presented and waive the prior discussion rule. Second.

Motion and second for approval of 5A as presented and waive the prior discussion rules. Do we have any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Action items. Item 6A, consideration to approve the purchase of two 2026 F-150 police responder vehicles for the budget amount of $116,304.58 from Peoria Ford budgeted through account 1057-5200 police capital outlay equipment. Chief.

Good evening again, Mayor and Council. We've had a number of discussions about creating a pathway to maintain our fleet integrity. This is the first year we've actually followed through with it, with the implementation of the automatic purchase of the two vehicles. The idea behind that is to maintain refreshing capabilities of replacing vehicles, and this is just the first step in that. These are the same style vehicles that we had just purchased last year. It's going to be set up the same almost identical with one exception. We're probably looking at doing something different with the cage part of the vehicle in the back, but everything else will be the same. Any questions?

Does this price include all the lights and radio?

It does not. This is $58,000 for the vehicles. There is some work being done at the dealership. They put a leveling kit on it and then a different size tire. But other than that, everything else will be done up here locally through the vendor that we have in Miami.

Okay, good, good.

And Mr. Mayor, members, council, again, we have moved away from the leasing program we had had previously to get vehicles. And now we're better to buy outright vehicles as we rotate through than doing the leasing and saving those leasing charges.

And this was all budgeted through our this year's budget in the capital budget?

This is all included in the 26 budget. Any other questions?

Mr. Merrick, if there's any further discussion, I would make a motion to approve the purchase of the two 4026 F-150 police responder vehicles as presented. Second.

Motion to second for approval of item 6A. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passed.

Thank you, counsel. Thank you.

Item 6B is consideration to approve additional funding in the amount of $15,000 to the Arizona Department of Transportation for additional design administration costs on the Broad Street Sidewalks Transportation Alternative TA project to be funded through account 128052200, excise tax, capital ILA construction, and wave section 2-4-10A, prior discussion rule. Travis.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council. If you've seen this project before on the agenda for other funding requests, you're not wrong. This is another request, this time through ADOT for administrative costs that they need in addition to finish up the design. Can you put the slide up? To finish up the design work. As you recall that, and I'm going to go through a chronological, time frame here with this grant, because there's been so many things that have moved with this project, with the Broad Street Sidewalk project, that it warrants a presentation. Hopefully I hit the right button when I go forward. So just to start off, back in March, 2023, the city wrapped up a sidewalk improvement study that was done by Rick Engineering. This kind of provided the support to apply for any kind of grants that are out there for sidewalk projects within the downtown area. What I had studied was about 48 blocks worth of sidewalk within downtown, about 13,000 linear feet, if I recall, and just assessing what needed to be done to be upgraded to ADA compliance. In August of 2023, city staff requested approval from the council to submit an ADOT Transportation Alternatives or TA grant for design and construction. That request that we were making would have been $2,910,404, which would have required a match of $165,893 for a total project of over $3 million. But in March of 2024, when ADOT actually awarded the TA grants, they only awarded the design portion of it because they didn't want all the money tied up from that fiscal year into design and construction when they knew the design was gonna take about a year to 18 months like it typically does. And so they only awarded City of Globe for the design for $192,687, which then required the match of 11,657 for a total of 204,344. Then in May of 2025, city staff requested approval from council to submit the construction portion of what we were trying to do with the sidewalk project. And so it was the next cycle for the TA grant. So we applied for the construction as the design was wrapping up at that point. And so going with the cost, engineer cost estimate that we had at the time, we applied for a federal grant of for the construction of 1,091,810, which would require the match of 60,523 for a total a little over 1.1 million. But when we actually got awarded the construction funding, they only awarded us 1,038,000, some change. And then the required local match actually went higher because I think when we first applied, the ratio wasn't, on par, but we were awarded the $1,038,243 to do the construction. Now we fast forward to November. We ran into some issues with the design, and so we came to the infrastructure committee explaining what was going on with the design. It did not meet the intent of of the city and what we were wanting to do under the grant. And so by that time, a lot of the grant money was already expended. And we talked with the design team, Ardura, who was hired by ADOT. So ADOT is the one administering these grants. So all the money is being passing through them that, We had to come to council and basically ask for another $111,000 and some change to continue the redesign of the Broad Street sidewalk. And as I explained, the reasons were the city engineer redirected the design to better align with our intent. ADOT's construction award at that time, they needed an answer from us, whether we're gonna move forward with that $1,038,000 plus of construction that was awarded. And we simply could not tell them, we feel comfortable that that is the amount of funding we need. So they needed an answer. We requested... council to see if we could just withdraw that award. And so, given these reasons, and these are just two of the reasons. The other two reasons were city had consulted with ADOT regarding the potential consequences of if we did withdraw these funds, what would be the guarantees or the risks that we would have? And as you may recall that we discussed that even though ADOT cannot guarantee us, really what it came down to is we're taking the risk in the sense that if they're gonna fund the design, they're most likely gonna fund the construction. So we took that risk knowing that if we did that, we could possibly seek more and additional funding from the next fiscal year grant opportunity. And so I am proud to say that Well, I'll get to there, I'm not there yet, so.

Mr. Mayor, members, council, just to Travis, I think one of the significant reasons we looked at redoing the grant was the design only touched on certain parts of Broad Street and not comprehensive, do you wanna explain

Yeah, so, I mean, originally we were wanting to do the 48 blocks, but when we got word of the design, the design team through Ardura said, well, we can't design 48 blocks worth of sidewalk for the amount of money that was awarded. So it got shrunk down to Broad Street. And it was originally going from Yuma to... And so even going through that process, we realized that from a construction standpoint, we had to shrink it down. So basically the project limits is from Mesquite to Cottonwood. So that's on Broad Street. So that has been the focus. Originally what the first design was coming out was that they were just touching parts of the sidewalk to make it ADA compliant. By the time our engineer realized through the process of, hey, we're not actually replacing the sidewalk, we're just doing patches. And, you know, aesthetically that would have looked horrible downtown having all these patches. And so we redirected and was like, no, we want the whole entire area redesigned to be ADA compliant. and replaced, and that was the purpose and the original intent. And so, hence why we had to request additional funding for that. And that's why, because of that timeline, it pushed the design out a little bit more, and therefore we asked to withdraw the original construction award of $1,038,000 plus, so that we can go after more funding in the next TA grant cycle through ADOT.

Mr. Mayor, Members, Council, yeah, it seems kind of counterintuitive to give up a grant. But we have a very close working relationship with ADOT. And they try to get our projects into the grant program that works best. We need a little bit of money. And so they found a way to do this. And it was about maybe five years ago there was another program. where we just didn't have the funds and we gave up a grant based on the conditions of working with ADOT. They can't guarantee .

And then we just, the balance of 48,709, we didn't see that official design, is I didn't want rail all the way across. We want at least an area to where people can step up like they do now in the middle. And I said, if we can design a set of steps in that small area to step up, that would be ideal because nobody wants to park in the middle and have to walk all the way to the edge to get on there. But in order to make ADA compliant, you need a rail there. Is that on the skate? Well, it's on Broad, but it's between. By the coffee shop. By the coffee shop, correct.

Yeah, pretty high, yeah.

Isn't it? Pretty high.

so you're not going back so it's all broad so like where johnny's place is so going west we're not touching that where the sidewalks are three feet high so mayor and council as you know um this is to for us this project is a great stepping stone you know in the right direction we've all wanted but there's so many other elements so as far as mesquite street this is just broad street alone But there's also other funding sources that Travis has been really diligently working with staff and the engineering and the design team, but also working towards this. Like I said, this is the stepping stone in the right direction for us. One of the high step areas we're talking about, kind of like the coffee shop where it's a two step down, where you can't traditionally just put a handrail across because the vehicle's actually go over when the vehicles park, they're going to be running into the handrail. So those are part of that design. The work that you're talking about off of Mesquite Street, those areas still have to be addressed and working those in there. So like I said, it's a starting point, but we don't stop here because even on the north broadside where we talk about integrating or getting funding for our bridges, those areas are going to be tied into sidewalks. We might say, why didn't we start from one side to the other? The safety grant also, we've talked about the, you know, the bump kickouts. Councilman Shipley mentioned that. A lot of these things are kind of, so there's a lot of pieces of that puzzle, including the asphalt. And Mayor, to your point, when we looked at the sidewalk on the field visit, actually going out there and looking at that assessment, They actually talked about bringing, as opposed to changing the whole height of the sidewalk, it's probably when we do our paving project through downtown area, which would be another part of that phase, you're going to bring up a little bit more asphalt and you actually make up that difference so the curbs aren't as high up. So there's a lot of other key elements to this project, but this is the stepping stone to get us in that direction.

And one point I would like to add too, I mean, we do have to work with, since we've got the SS4A demonstration project going down the same corridor, we're going to have to time that with ADOT when we actually get the construction going because we do need that 10-month demonstration period to actually function without any construction so there's no influence on the data that we're going to receive from that. So we will have to work with ADOT on that part.

Good job. Anybody else? Good job.

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for your work.

Thank you, Travis.

There's no other questions or comments. Motion to approve item 6B and waive section 2-4-10A, prior discussion rule. Second.

Motion to second for approval of item 6B and waive section 2-4-10A. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passed. Thank you, Travis. I am she is consideration to prove contract number see a 2, 0, 2, 7, 0, 0, 2, 0, was liking specialty contracting LLC to provide flood debris sorting services at the temporary debris management site caused by the September 26 2026 flood event in the amount of 20,000 $306.40 this project is budgeted for account to 0, 8, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 8. DEMA 2025 flood will be submitted for 75% reimbursement. The other 25% of costs are to be funded through account number 10551296 NRCS matching fund with a possibility of waiver matching requirement. Should the waiver be approved, 100% will be funded through account 208008009 and to waive section 2-4-10A prior discussion rule. So we have Connie.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. So in bringing this to you for our temporary debris site, I'd like to Just go over a couple of points that mean a lot of things to a lot of different categories. First of all, I need to address we have to follow our procurement process that is through Arizona DEMA who we are now dealing with because of the FEMA denial. And then so it will be reimbursed back at 75% and 25% match. And I would like to state for the public and for council that if we would have received the FEMA declaration that it would have been 90% reimbursement and 10% cost match, but we received a denial. So we're at the 75 and 25% cost match. And I'd like to make a correction here on the funding for it's not NCRS matching cost match. So we're going to have to make a correction in this, Paul.

This is not under NRCS? No.

This is FEMA flood.

It's noted for the record.

Yeah. The account number that's on here is correct. It's just the title that's wrong. So the account number for the 25% is correct. Okay. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you, Danny.

Okay, thank you so much, Danny, for that. Okay, and then the, and then, so when we go to our procurement process, then there's an extra step that we have to do. And that is why I also asked for the Viking, Jeff Burns from Viking and Alex from Viking to be here tonight. Because with Arizona DEMA, they have to be state contractors. We can't hire anyone for these projects that are on our 60-day damage assessment list. We cannot hire anyone but a state contractor. So they are state contractors. They meet the right numbers with debris because we're dealing with our temporary debris site. So that is what'll happen. And so what we did previous to what we're about ready to do is we did the air testing, okay? And then we received the results and we have not had anything in the air and pop for any kind of Particulates so we're moving forward with the sampling process and already you've had the atlas contract. And they will come in sample and alongside viking viking will do the separating of the sampling and i'm like for. Alex or Jeff just speak to how that's going to happen with all of the heavy equipment. And then while the sampling is being taken and sending to the lab, we have three to five weeks for the lab to process the testing. And then from there, ADEQ receives a set of results and then they will tell us where to take. the items that are at the temporary debris site. So if anything does not register to be hot, then we can take it to a regular landfill. But if it does, then if it's asbestos, it has to go to Apache Junction. So then from there, we would be doing hauling contracts. But for tonight's contract, it is for the separating and the sorting. And so I'd like for you to come up and talk about that.

Good evening, everybody. I'm Jeff Burns. I'm the CEO of Viking. We're basically, we're support for the testing. We're going to be sorting all the waste, all the white goods are going to be separated from the I think we're not saying that there's hazardous material out there. We're just trying to minimize any exposure to the town. We're not gonna be doing any of the sampling and nor does this constitute any disposal of any hazardous waste. It's just merely we're out there with certified guys and certified equipment to rearrange basically all the white goods, all the ranges, refrigerators, Stoves, you know, all the stuff that's been floating around out there, any propane tanks, stuff like that will be all we're going to put in an isolated area. And then once that's done, that's when those samples will be taken.

So for us, Mr. Mayor, Members Council, if you think back to when the September, October, we were looking at a comprehensive contract with a large company to handle a lot of this stuff because it is very complicated. Federal money is involved. And so you have to follow the rules. And there are many of them. And that is what Viking does so well. What we have, though, is we chose to hire our... A grouping of contractors to do the work as opposed to what we started to do. And then there was a glitch with the contracting. That is what the county has done is they have a 1. Overseeing contract with the company that does all this small subs. We are kind of overseeing this contract with our subs to do this, and it's saving us a lot of a lot of money. It really is a big savings for us granted. We don't have the debris field that the county has to deal with. Ours is probably one tenth of what they're dealing with, but our ability to do this and. Internally, and then and then do individual contracts and with supportive of good partners, saving a lot of the money and still making sure that our costs will be reimbursable.

Go ahead.

Mr. Mayor, I've had a long career. Some people tease me about it, but these are the nuts and bolts that we have to work with in the field of emergency management. Procurement contracts, companies that meet criteria for the specific job to be done in an emergency mode. Using DEMA as the provider of these contracts makes our work so much easier. And I have no problem with this consideration. And I need counsel to be aware of that. There's nothing there that makes me uncomfortable. Can I sleep at night with these companies on the job and doing their work? Yes. Not just because they're DEMA certified, because this is their nature of their work. And after a long career of watching successful consultants come to Haley County or Globe or Miami with a national reputation, I can sleep at night. So that's my comment, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you. Yeah, and I think the public needs to understand the complexity of every project that we do in order to get full reimbursement from the state and DEMA. If you don't cross your T's and dot your I's in the proper way and do it right, we could be paying the full bill. We wouldn't, our residents, our taxpayers will pay that full bill. So it's vital that we follow all the guidelines and the requirements. I know finance has to cover everything by account number. I mean, it is very complex. Do you have a question?

Just a comment. Because if you ask the average citizen, they'd be like, really? Just take it to the dump. You could end up in jail for doing that. So this is unfortunately what we have to do, and we have to make sure we do it right.

Will you be handling all those tanks that came out of the

That's not agendized.

Is that part of the?

No, that is a separate case case I'm dealing with independently.

That answers my question.

Before you open it up to public comment, I just want to make a comment about this 32-page submission that we have. Go ahead, yes, yeah. Well, I support everybody's opportunity to come and speak to the council to submit 33 pages and ask our clerk to read it. It's obsessive. I think that if the council's okay, I'd ask for it to be entered into the record. I mean, we all have a copy of it. Put it into the record before the public has it. And if our clerk could just read the first page of this, it summarizes basically Mr. Berry's whole purpose for sending this in. I don't know how the council feels about that, but that's what I would ask.

Yes, thank you, Jesse.

because we just so the public understands we got a 33 page comment on this subject and yeah you're right we'd be here all night if we're going to read 33 pages well if he was here to speak to the item we would still give him the ample opportunity but three minutes to speak to the item but to to go through our clerk and allow to unlimited time to speak it's not reasonable and i think just the first page summarizes it it's not to say that

we agree or disagree with his position it's just this is obsessive that's a good point yeah so at this point you have you want to read the first page of the highlights on the 33 page document yes sir mr mayor thank you thank you councilman mason members of the council uh this is a public uh objection uh to item uh 60 the viking uh contract uh it is received from David Berry. Mayor and members of the Council, I respectfully request that the Council deny or table Agenda Item 6C. The proposed contract would authorize another proposed payment to Viking Specialty Contracting while the City has not resolved material questions concerning Viking's prior flood-related work, the City's engineering representations, contractor selection, Dima reimbursement and the public's access to the underlying records. The concerns began with the city's handling of the silver King building, and then continue into later flood recovery work before approving another discretionary Viking contract. The council should require a complete public accounting of how Viking was selected. what engineering documents existed, who accepted professional responsibility, what the city represented to DEMA, and whether the same licensing and documentation standards were applied to other Vikings.

Do we have any comment from Viking on that subject or from, because we can respond, it's on the agenda.

Yeah, I don't, you know, I mean, I have nothing to speak to. We're a straight up outfit and we do good work and I don't know what the problem is. Okay.

And Mr. Mayor, members of the council, it's like we go through the process. You know, have have access to these contractors. We've done this before all the, as you said, mayor, all the, the eyes are crossed and the or the cross and eyes are dotted. We stand by our actions and our partnership with liking that everything done proper and appropriate. And we think liking for for working with us. to help us with these difficult tasks we have and these complex tasks. They're very good at what they do and we're happy that they are here tonight to continue that support of the city of Cloak.

And just to dovetail off of that, Mayor and Council, Arizona DEMA is part of this official process with us now. So when we go to contracting and and Travis has made the contract, they get a view of that and they double check the numbers for the state contracting after us. So they're part of that process now. And just as a reminder, there's 115 projects on our damage assessment list and this is one of them. And we need to move forward because we are coming up on our date of no return. and we have to follow ADEQ, our regulatory agency. And this is part of the process that our regulatory agency of the state of Arizona has put out for us to follow with this temporary debris site.

May I ask for no other questions or comments? I have a motion to approve item 5C in ways section 2-4-10A, prior discussion will. 6C.

6C. Yeah.

Who's the second?

Who's the second? Yes, sir.

OK, we have a motion and a second for approval of item 6C. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passed. Thank you.

Thank you, mayor and council. Thank you both. Now the long list. Forget about it.

Item D is consideration city council resolution number 1939 to grant approximately a combined plus 406 square feet for a public sewer utility easement on Gila County, Arizona, assessor parcel number APM 205-13094, owned by Anita and Jesse Kuzmalyana, and to waive section 2-4-10A, prior discussion rule. Shelly, can you read the resolution 1939, please? Okay.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. Resolution number 1939, resolution of the mayor and council of the city of Globe, Gila County, Arizona, accepting a public sewer utility assessment from Anita and Jesse Molanana. Pardon me. Parcel number 205-13-094 to the City of Globe in authorizing the execution and recording of said resolution within the city limits of the City of Globe, Gila County, Arizona, pursuant to applicable Arizona Revised Statute. Is Council please with that reading? Yes.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council. This item and the next three afterwards are all public sewer utility easements. And so as we encounter situations within our sewer system and we notice that it's a long private property, we know that we don't have the easements in place, even though we have a prescriptive right to still access and take care of our sewer system for the public. we still like to put a public utility easement there so that way when people sell their property it shows up on a title report and that way there's clear language on what the city can do and it helps protect the property owner and so these next four items are just some of those that we've encountered through various reasons why we when we're encountering a sewer issue.

So these easements are private property and we've never had them as a city?

Well, there's no documentation that we can find. So as we approach situations like this and if we know that there's not a public utility easement, we will, if it's in the funding to allow us to use our on-call surveyors, we'll get them out there to survey it and give us the legal description and exhibit so we can go out and record them with the permission of the property owners. Thank you. Okay.

Any other questions or comments on that? Motion to approve item 6D is read. Second.

Motion to second for approval of item 6D. Any further discussion?

Do we need to wait for our discussion? Oh, I'm sorry. I'll amend it for 2-4-10A. Okay, second.

You got that, Shelley? Can we add that? Yes. Okay. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion nay. Any abstaining? Motion passed. Item E. Consideration of City Council Resolution 1940 to grant approximately a combined plus 1,033 square feet for a public sewer utility easement on Gila County, Arizona, assessor parcel number APN-20806043C, owned by Hector and Jeanette Castile, in Wave Section 2-4-10A, prior discussion room. Shelly, can you read Resolution 1940, please?

Resolution number 1940, resolution of the Mayor and Council of the City of Globe, Gila County, Arizona accepting a public sewer utility easement from Hector and Jeanette Castile, parcel number 208-06-043C to the City of Globe and authorizing the execution and recording of said resolution within the city limits of the City of Globe, Gila County, Arizona pursuant to applicable Arizona revised statutes. Is Council please with that reading? Yes.

Same deal, right?

Same deal.

I move to approve item 6E.

And waive section.

And waive section prior discussion. Second.

Motion second for approval of resolution 1940. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed nay and abstaining. Motion passed. Item F, consideration of city council resolution 1941 to grant approximately a combined plus 827 square feet for a public sewer utility easement on Gila County, Arizona, assessor. Parcel number APN20806043B, owned by Benjamin and Emily Domlin, and waived section 2-4-10A, prior discussion room. Shelly, can you read 1940, please?

Resolution number 1940, resolution of the Mayor and Council of the City of Globe, Gila County, Arizona, accepting a public sewer utility easement from Benjamin and Emily Domlin, parcel number 208, dash zero six dash zero four three B to the city of Globe and authorizing the execution recording of said resolution within the city limits of the city of Globe, Gila County, Arizona, pursuant to applicable Arizona revised statutes. Is the council please with that reading?

Yes. 1941. 1941 for the record, thank you. Oh, yeah. You're right. Mr. Mayor, I'd like to approve Resolution 1941 as read and waive the prior discussion rule. Second.

Motion second for approval of Resolution 1941. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Any abstaining? Motion passes. Item G, consideration of resolution number 1942 to grant approximately a combined plus 13,308 square feet for a public sewer utility easement on Gila County, Arizona. Assessor, parcel number APN207150778 owned by 1100 Center LLC and wave section 2-4-10A prior discussion room. Shelly, can you read resolution 1942, please?

resolution number 1942 a resolution of the mayor and council of the city of globe healer county arizona accepting a public sewer utility easement from 1100 center llc parcel number 207-15-077a to the city of globe and authorizing the execution and recording of said resolution within the city limits of the city of Globe, Hewlett County, Arizona, pursuant to applicable Arizona revised statutes. Is council please with that reading?

Yes. Yes. Mayor, I would move to approve item 6G and weigh the prior discussion roll. Second.

Motion and second for approval of resolution 1942. Any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Any abstaining? Motion passed. Item H, consideration of City Council Resolution Number 1962 to accept approximately a combined plus 3,222 square feet for an ingress-egress easement for access to a public drainage easement granted to the City of Globe on Gila County, Arizona, assessor of parcel number APN 207-15009, owned by Perry and Candace Lundstrom, and waive section 2-4-10A. Shelly, can you read resolution 1962, please?

Resolution number 1962, a resolution of the mayor and council of the city of Globe, Gila County, Arizona, accepting a permanent egress easement for access to a public drainage easement. from Perry and Candace Lundstrom, parcel number 207-15-009 to the city of Globe and authorizing the execution and recording of said resolution within the city limits of Globe, Gila County, Arizona pursuant to applicable Arizona revised statutes. Is Council pleased with that reading?

Yes. This is a little different, Travis.

This one is different. Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the Council, so this item and the next item is the same property, two different easements. One is for the ingress-egress to actually access with Upper Pinal Creek. The other one that we'll be following, this is for a permanent drainage easement to where, as you recall, previous council, we went through a lot of drainage easements from the flood mitigation stuff that we're doing. So this is the two for this particular property. Separate easements. And this is also for the next phase in preparation for phase three where there's walls going to be designed and constructed from what I understand and was told.

Okay. Any other questions or comments? I motion to approve item 6H as read in the section 2-4-10A.

Second.

Motion second for approval of resolution 1962. Any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Any abstaining? Motion passed. Item I, consideration of city council resolution number 1963 to accept approximately a combined 7,143 square feet for a public drainage easement on Gila County, Arizona. Assessor, parcel number APN20715009, owned by Perry and Candace Lundstrom, and waive section 2-4-10A, prior discussion rule. Shelly, can you read 1963, please? Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Resolution number 1963, a resolution of the Mayor and Council of the City of Globe, Gila County, Arizona, accepting a permanent public drainage easement from Perry and Candace Lundstrom, parcel number 207-15-109, to the City of Globe and authorizing the execution and recording of said resolution within the city limits of the City of Globe, Gila County, Arizona, pursuant to applicable Arizona revised statute. Is Council pleased with that reading? Yes.

Mr. Mayor, if there are no other questions, I'd like to approve Resolution 1963 as read and waive the prior discussion.

And second.

Motion and second for approval of Resolution 1963. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Any abstaining? Motion passed. Thank you, Travis.

Thank you, sir. Thank you, Travis.

Item 7, late agenda items. We have none. Second call to the public. I have none. Do you have any?

I do, sir. I have a public statement from David Berry. December 9th agreement, the city manager's threat and judicial independence. Mayor and members of the council, my name is David Lamar Berry. I am asking the council to confront what the city, acting under authority approved by this council, asked me to sign and how the city allegedly used the court's name to force that signature. At 1159 p.m. on December 9th, 2025, city manager Paul Jepson sent me a city-signed right of entry and shoring agreement and wrote, David, please sign the attached copy of the shoring agreement. This copy has already been signed by the city. I will have the original with me in the morning if you want to sign then. Biking will be on site to start at 8 a.m. Thanks, Paul. The city was asking me to sign by morning a document delivered at the last possible moment while Viking was scheduled to work. To begin work at 08 AM, the agreement offered an enforcement pause, threatened civil and or criminal enforcement and recovery costs and required me to release the city from liability. The agreement also stated that. ON OCTOBER 22ND, INSPECTION OF THE 410 BUILDING BY STRUCTURAL ENGINEER REVEALED STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. be performed as deemed necessary by a qualified engineer and contractor. Those statements are allegedly false and materially misleading. The city's own cover sheet represented that the assessment had been completed by a licensed structural engineer. But the Arizona Board of Technical Registration reported that it could not locate an Arizona license for Stefan Chios, the identified inspector associated with the ATC45 assessment. The city therefore used the authority of a licensed structural engineer while failing to identify a licensed Arizona engineer who actually assumed responsibility for the determination. December 10th, Mr. Jepson sent this message. David, if I don't hear back from you in 15 minutes, I'm going to call Judge Reardon and have him sign a court order allowing us to enter and then the deal is off and you'll be responsible for all the costs immediately or you can sign the agreement and you have six months. As per our code and the posting on the door, we will also be issuing you a citation. That message allegedly turned the judge's name into a pressure device. Sign the city's agreement immediately or face entry costs and a citation. It conveyed the appearance that the city manager could simply obtain a court order by calling the judge. The court later stated, the city manager is the head of the executive branch of the city and the magistrate serves as the head of the judicial branch of the city. The court also stated no one has the... Mr. Mayor, that's three minutes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

We've got Item 9, Schedule and Meetings. Done? None. Any agenda items? Does anybody have any?

Just bring back policy. We brought something up during COVID that people would be allowed to send stuff in and we talked about maybe bringing something back. They would bring that if they wanted to speak, put that ahead of time before the council meetings that we had a reasonable time to figure out who they were. So staff would come back with a policy on that.

I agree. It makes it difficult if you get it the same day and you're trying to Yeah, like the 32-page was hard to read while we're sitting here.

And so if we have it ahead of time, then they could vet what it is and make sure it's not nuisance and it's something that really needs to be on the record.

We can get staff to work on a presentation to council maybe on a proposal on that.

Yeah, I think Shelly's already been working on something that mirrors what other cities are doing. And so I'd be happy to bring that back to the next meeting. Thank you.

I'm good.

We got a motion for adjournment?

Motion to adjourn.

Motion to adjourn. First to say motion to adjourn. All those in favor say aye. Aye.

Meeting adjourned.

Thank you.