City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome to the Goodyear City Council meeting. We're excited to have you be a part of this important public process. Tonight, you will have the opportunity to address city council on both non-aggenda and agenda items. You must fill out a speaker request card in order to address the city council. The agendas and speaker request cards are located in the back of the council chambers. Please drop your completed card in the tray next to the blank speaker cards. If the meeting has already begun, please hand it to the city employee at the back of the room. You may check the I do not wish to speak option on the card. This allows you to let council know your opinion without having to speak. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, please contact a staff member if you need any assistance. Public comment on a non-aggenda item will take place during the citizen comment portion of the evening. These are items that don't appear on tonight's formal agenda. The city clerk will call your name when it's time for you to speak. At that time, please approach the podium and tell us your name for the record. You'll have a maximum of 3 minutes. The timer is on the screens visible from the podium. Note that you may also choose not to speak if other speakers before you have said what you wanted to say. Shouting, cheering, and loud noises will not be tolerated, and violators may be removed for disrupting the meeting. Goodyear city council meetings stream live on Facebook, YouTube, X, and online at goodyearaz.gov. Follow the city's social media pages so you don't miss out on all that's happening in Goodyear. Thank you for coming to this meeting and being an active part of your city. And remember, it's a great time to be in Goodyear.

Like to call the regular meeting to order for May 18th. City council. All present. Let the record reflect that all members are present. Thank you. Um, please join Vice Mayor Hampton in the pledge of allegiance and invocation. 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.

Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we come before you tonight with grateful hearts for this community and for the opportunity to serve. We ask for your blessing upon the city, its residents, and all those who work each day to make it strong, safe, and prosperous. Lift up our city staff, public works employees, planners, administrators, and every individual who quietly serve behind the scenes doing the important work that keeps our city moving forward. Give them strength, integrity, patience, and encouragement in their service. We pray especially for our police officers, firefighters, first responders, and military men and women who put themselves in harm's way to protect others. Surround them and their families with your protection, courage, peace, and comfort. Lord, grant wisdom and discernment to the mayor and council members gathered here tonight. Help them lead with humility, fairness, and vision. May the decisions reflect what is right and beneficial for the people they serve, even when the choices are difficult. Guide this meeting with respect, unity, and thoughtful discussion. Help us work together for the good of our community and for our future. And also, thank you for our new city manager on his first day here as well. Dear name, amen. Thank you.

Uh, now is the time for members of the public who wish to address the city council on any non-aggenda items within the jurisdiction of city of Goodyear. Do we have any speaker cards? Yes, mayor. I have one speaker card for Eric Auster.

Sir, council will listen to comments and may take one of the following. Respond to criticism. Requested staff investigate and report on the matter. request that a matter be scheduled on the future agenda item. Uh each speaker is limited three minutes. The timer will be on the screen so you can see when it turns red. You have about 20 seconds left. Uh before you begin, speak identify yourself clearly and just whether you're a Goodyear resident. You don't have to give the address. My name is Eric Auster and I'm a resident of Goodyear. Good evening, mayor and city council. At the May 4th, 2026 city council general meeting, Miss Tammy Bo, Goodyear's digital communications director, presented an informative update regarding the modernization of the city website. She did a great job. While the presentation was positive and encouraging, I believe several important business and project management issues were not addressed. My background, I have more than 40 years of executive experience, business experience at both the COO and CEO levels, a business owner, including extensive involvement in IT operations, website development, and project execution. My concerns are straightforward. One, there is no discussion regarding the total budget allocated for this project. Two, there is no indication whether the project is currently on budget, under budget, or exceeding budget expectations. Excuse me. Three, there was no discussion regarding development challenges or risk associated with meeting the stated completion target of December 2026. Every major IT development project encounters obstacles, delays, integration issues or operational

challenges. However, the presentation reflected only positive progress updates without addressing potential roadblocks facing the development team. Four, I understand that Vision Internet, a government website development company based in Elsagundo, California, is serving as a primary contractor with support from the Goodyear IT department. Five. My primary concern is whether once the project is completed, the Goodyear IT department will have full operational control and management authority over the city website. From my professional experience, again over 40 years, outside IT consultants often charge extremely high ongoing fees for support, maintenance, modifications, and system management. I trust the city council is maintaining close oversight of this project and remains in regular communication with the city's IT department regarding budget accountability, project risk, operational control, and long-term maintenance costs. I ask all of you to follow what President Ronald Reagan said one time, trust with verification. Thank you for your time and consideration.

City manager, would you reach out and address those issues that he had? Yes, sir. Glad to. Okay, we have the information. This Okay, thank you, sir. Thank you.

We have two communication items tonight. First item is received an update on the Goodyear Youth Commission fiscal year 2026 annual project. Would you please come up and introduce yourself? And I see you've got a lot of your members here. Good evening, mayor and council. My name is Jeremy Dyke and I am the neighborhood services manager as well as the liaison for the Goodyear youth commission. Our youth commission has been hard at work this year with various volunteer efforts, Earth Day cleanup events, youth leadership summits, and more. And I want to thank you for giving the youth commission the opportunity to share a quick highlight of two events that we hosted this year. Our goal has been to create hands-on meaningful experiences that support teens in our community and help us prepare for real world challenges. Uh tonight, Chair Arya Singh and Vice Chair Maline Smith uh will be sharing updates on our Need for Speed safe driving event and our boarding pass to a better you life skills and mental health fair. We're proud of the impact that these events had and we're excited to share some of the wins with you. So with that, I'm going to hand this over to Vice Chair Maline Smith.

Good evening and thank you mayor and council. Again, my name is Maline Smith and I'm the vice chair of our Goodyear youth commission. Our first event, the need for speed, was all about promoting safe driving in a way that was event was an interactive, memorable, and honestly very fun. We hosted at Millennium High School where we had about 130 students. We want to extend our sincere thank you to our amazing partners, the Goodyear Police Department, Radford Racing, Outlaw Racing Engines, and Millennium High School. Their support and enthusiasm made this event truly special. Students got to hands-on experience with DUI car crashes and participated in field sobriety activities while wearing impairment simulation goggles. These goggles really helped us understand how even slight impairment affects reaction times and judgment. One of our favorites of the day was the tricycle drag racing along with the goggles, which was fun, but it also made a powerful point about how difficult it can be to stay in control while you are impaired. We also had a reaction testing activity and a chance to learn directly from professionals at Radford Racing about the importance of focus, discipline, and responsibility when driving. The Q&A portion at the end allowed students to ask real questions about real situations, which helped connect everything we experience back to our everyday lives. The event was a huge success. Radford Racing School even donated a $2,500 scholarship to a safe driving education to one lucky student. Students left with a stronger understanding of why safe driving matters, not just for themselves, but for their friends, their family, and the community. We're grateful to everyone who helped make it happen. Thank you.

Good evening and thank you, mayor and council. My name is Arya Singh and I'm chair of the Good Youth Commission. Our second event was boarding pass to a better you, a life skills and mental health resource fair hosted right here at city hall. This event brought together an incredible group of city departments and community partners who helped us build confidence, independence, and emotional resiliency. We'd like to thank the representatives from Goodyear's facility, fleet, IT, parks and recreation, economic development, engineering, and human resources. We also appreciate the Maricopa County Workforce Development Team and CPA Julie Hartzhorn for joining us. Their time and generosity meant the world to us. On the first floor, students rotated through hands-on skill stations. Everything from changing a tire and checking car fluids to basic drywall repair, checking an electrical breaker box, and learning water and internet safety. We also practiced public speaking, learned about financial literacy, and worked on resume and interview skills, and even got an introduction to CPR and entrepreneurship. It was like getting a crash course in one single morning. Upstairs, the focus shifted to mental health and emotional well-being. We're grateful to the mental health professionals Jack Register and Julia England, who led sessions on topics like peer pressure, gaming, addiction, healthy friendships, and boundaries. We also heard from Alice Cooper Solid Rock Teen Center and Young Life about the importance of community creativity and music as tools for staying grounded. We'd like to make sure to say thank you to Matthew White from 72 andU for his help in connecting us with mental health professionals here in Goodyear. In addition to the students we invited, visitors from Georgia T Lid Library were able to join in which helped broaden the event's impact even more. These attendees expressed how valuable they found the skills that they were taught, showing that what we brought had applications across all age groups. Boarding pass to better you helped us build practical skills we'll use for the rest of our lives while also reminding us that staying mentally healthy matters just as much as being prepared for the

future. Thank you again, mayor and council, for allowing us to share with you and thank you for your continued support of the Goodyear Youth Commission and the impact it's having on Goodyear students. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Thank you again for the opportunity to share just some of the work that the Goodyear Youth Commission has been doing this past year. Uh I want to be sure to recognize our commissioners that are here in support of the team. And uh with that we will conclude our presentation and are available for any questions or comments. Thank you. Hold it right there. Any comments over here to the left? You got something, Willie?

Yeah. Will the current commissioners please stand so we can recognize all of you? Come on. Come on. Up. Up. up. These wonderful kids live in Goodyear. They go to school in Goodyear. And we're so proud of them that they want to take part in government, that they want to see how our city operates, and they want to be better citizens. So, thank you to all of you who continually support our youth commission. I think your two projects were outstanding, especially the DUI and the and the wreck car. I remember going to Millennium High School a couple of years ago and seeing it on the field and it's when you see it in person, it's really an eyeopener, but and then a border boarding pass for a better you to touch all those subjects. It's amazing that you were able to put it all together in just one or two days. So, thank you all so much. We're so appreciative of you and we expect to see all of you up here someday.

Councilwoman Gillis, yes, I agree with Wally. Thank you to all of you and thank you for coming here and thanking us for everything that we do for you. I appreciate you doing that. That means a lot. Thanks and good luck to everything that your your projects are going to be in the future. Council member Kano.

Well, I want to commend both of our presenters on your excellent public speaking skills. you are were absolutely flawless and I love the energy that your entire youth commission has put into the serving this year. We've seen you at so many different events. Uh even last Saturday at the EMS open house, we had youth commissioners there. You've been very very involved this year and it's great to hear report directly from you. So, whatever we can do to support your efforts, I love like Wall-E and and uh and Councilwoman Gillis said, your your projects that you did were excellent. Whatever we can do to support you going forward, uh we're happy to help. Vice Mayor,

not much more to say. Yeah, you guys are a great group of great group of students and I thank you Jeremy for for leading them. I know it's a pretty uh prestigious group because I know my son can't get in because you guys are so it's so it's so you have you have too many too many participants. So, I guess you're not taking any more applicants. So, maybe one day he'll get in. So, but yeah. So, yeah, great job on your projects and I think all those topics are fantastic just to help people get more real world experience and understand what's like to be out out of high school and what it's going to be to be a member of uh the community. So, great jobs and look, I'm sure I'll see you guys around in DC or otherwise. So, thank you. Oops. Hold on. Sorry.

It's it's it's it's amazing. Uh I'm going to see you make a difference today. I'm sure you guys are going to be there for that. And uh you know the future as we look bright and unfortunately with a lot of the stuff you see on the news or whatever I know future is bright because of kids like you and I appreciate everything you do and if you need any support from us all you got to do is ask. So again congratulations on your projects and I've done that thing before with the glasses. Yeah it's a little difficult to drive when you're dealing with those glasses and everything looks kind of funky on you. So uh again thank you very much.

Thank you mayor and council. We have uh two communication items tonight. The first item is to receive an update on the good which we did. The second item is to recognize Carlos Nunes retirement 21 years of service to the city of Goodyear. Unfortunately, Carlos was unexpectedly unable to join us this evening, but we would still like to extend our sincere appreciation for his dedication, years of service to the city of Goodyear, and congratulate him on a well-deserved retirement. Let's give him a hand. Even though he's happy, let's see, what do we have here next? Enter motion sign. Um, agenda approve the appointments. All right. Next on the agenda is to approve the appointments and reappoints to the board commissions and committees. Do we have any speaker cards?

No, mayor. Would anybody in the audience like to speak? Seeing none, council, please enter a motion in a second to approve the appointments to the arts and culture commissions and the parks and recreation advisory commission and the reappointments to the youth commission and the public improvements corporation as recommended by the council subcommittee on the boards and commissions and committees. Do I have a motion?

And I see a second. Okay. Council have any questions or comments? Saying none. City clerk the vote semini. Thank you. Now you're going to come and um swear who's here. Yes, mayor. Thank you. You have the floor.

Yes. So um if you are in attendance, I'm going to go ahead and call your name. Please come forward and step into the well and we will be administering your oath of office. Ryan Williams, Lisa Palos, Larry Atkinson, Yasmin Cornnejo, Brian Murphy, Graham Holmes, Jacob Murphy, Leilani Manley, Maline Smith, Wyatt Arnsburgger, Ida Hudson, Anna Pekk, Isabella Franco, Caitlyn Husvelt, Logan McGee, Mason McEl Downey, Mercedes Martinez, and Micah Atinson. Then turn this one on. Is that green? All right. So, I'm going to do your oath of office. raise your right hand and go ahead and repeat after me when we get to state your name. Go ahead and state your name.

I state your name. I, Maline Smith, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws and the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona of the State of Arizona. that I will bear true faith and allegiance That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the same and defend them and defend them against all enemies against all enemies foreign and domestic foreign and domestic and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully and impartially and impartially discharge the duties of commissioner discharge the duty of commissioner

according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so I do affirm so I do affirm congratulations Can we give them a round of applause?

At this time, I'd like to invite the council down for a quick photo opportunity. Two brows, guys. Mercedes. All right. One, two, three. Yeah, we're good, guys.

Get everybody in place. All right. Will the uh city clerk please read the consent agenda items four through eight by title only.

Item four, approval of minutes. Item five, approval of budget amendments and related expenditure authority. Item six, adopt fiscal year 2027 financial policies. Item seven, approve four-year advanced notice of abandonment waiver with Arizona Department of Transportation AOT for Camelback Road. And item eight, adopt resolution number 2026-2521 authorizing the submission of an application for 12% gaming distribution funds to the Tohona ODM Nation authorizing the city manager or their designate to execute all documents relating to set applications and execute a grant agreement if grant funds are awarded and approve the required budget transfer if grant funds are awarded. Thank you. Any speaker cards?

No, mayor.

Anybody in the audience like to speak? Seeing none, um, does the city council wish to move an item on the agenda? Seeing none, can I get a motion in a second? I see a motion, a second on the board. Go ahead, open it up. Vote. Passes 70. We have one public hearing tonight and we're okay to go in with this because everybody's here now. Okay. Uh, we have one public hearing tonight to consider a reasonzoning approximately 35.035 acres of property located at the norththeast corner of Mcdal and Bullard from Palm Valley Prominade first amended uh planned area development to Palm Valley Prominade second amended parent. Let's go ahead and open the public hearing. The floor is yours. Please just introduce yourself to the public if you would. Good evening, mayor, council. I'm Kyle Abbott, senior planner. This is a reasonzone to amend the Palm Valley Prominade P A. In total, the Palm Valley Prominade P A is currently comprised of 35 acres of property and generally located north of Mcdal between Bullard and 145th Avenue. that's currently shown on the screen in yellow. The Palm Valley Prominade PAD and development guidelines were originally approved by council in 2005. And in 2009, the first amendment was approved, removing the multif family property north of Lifetime Fitness from the Pad.

Today, the 35 acres of property within the Palm Valley Prominade first amended P A include both the Lifetime Fitness property and an approximately 16.57 acre property that is currently undeveloped shown on the screen in blue and known as the Palm Valley Prominade West Parcel. What the original and first amended PAD does is allow C2 uses and development standards except as modified by the PA AD. Specifically, the 2005 and 2009 PAD contemplated the location of future single family development and included a max building height of three stories up to no more than 50 ft. The Palm Valley Prominade second amended PAD before you today would amend the development guidelines for the PAD as a whole such that there will remain one single booklet that applies to the PAD as a whole. However, the revision to the PA AD's development guidelines proposed with this reszone is the addition of a single line. A single line stating that the undeveloped portion of the PA AD known as the west parcel, which is farthest from existing or planned single family development, will not have to follow the three-story restrictions.

and that development on the west parcel would be subject to the C2 general commercial building maximum as provided in the city of Goodyear zoning ordinance. In summary, whether P A currently restricts development to three stories no greater than 50 ft, the Palm Valley Prominade second amended P A supports C2 building height standards permitting up to 56 feet of height and the four stories envisioned by the applicant for a future hotel project on the property. Now, for context, I will point out the heights and allowed heights nearby. To the east, Lifetime Fitness is 42 feet or 57 ft with architectural embellishments. Amaya Apartments just north of Lifetime Fitness and formerly a part of the PA was built to approximately 39 ft in height. Centerscape located just south of the Palm Valley Primade south of McDow allows up to 92 feet. And across the street from the subject property on the west side of Bolard is GSQ which supports up to 200 ft in building height. We looked at the reszone evaluation criteria provided in the Goodyear zoning ordinance and this request meets the reszone evaluation criteria. We sent 32 public notices by mail to property owners within 500 ft of the

west parcel, posted two signs on the property, and ran a legal ad in the paper. There are no single family residential within 500 ft of the area for which increased height would be allowed and we received no comments. At the May 6 public hearing before planning and zoning commission, the commission voted unanimously to recommend approval. Based on this, staff recommends approval of the Palm Valley Prominade second amended P A reszone. I am available to answer questions and the applicant does not have a presentation but is available to address questions. Thank you.

Any speaker cards? No, mayor. Anybody in the audience like to speak? Seeing none, I'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing. City clerk, please read ordinance number 202649 by title only.

Adopt ordinance number 2026-1649 conditionally reszoning approximately 35.053 gross acres of property located at the northeast corner of Mcdal Road and Bullard Avenue from Palm Valley Prominade first amended planned area development P A to Palm Valley Prominade second amended P A and mending the zoning map of the city of Goodyear. City clerk, please. City council, please enter a motion a second to adopt ordinance 2026 1649. I see a motion and I second on the board. Uh open up for discussion. First up is uh council member Cherry.

Thank you, mayor. Um Kyle, this is currently zone C2. Can you explain um various uses? What what is C2? Just um for anyone watching, what could this property be used for as currently zoned and it would remain C2 as well?

Yeah. The current zoning is P A and the PA AD allows C2 uses and development standards except for the height which we are here to address today. The C2 uses are provided in the city of Goodyear zoning ordinance posted to the city website. Um C2 uses are what you commonly see in shopping centers and commercial corners. Um it is uh broadly our commercial zoning district. Okay. And um while removing the threetory restriction, effectively this is just adding six feet of potential height. Is that correct? Correct.

So it's not anything major and it's still less than the lifetime fitness with its architecture um just directly to the east which is further away from GC uh GSQ. Sorry, I'm getting my stuff. Um that that was basically it. I I just want more of a explanation on C2. So, this would be commercial shopping center or something to that effect. However, the applicant's desire is to have hotels there. It's not a housing development. It's not any of those sort of thing. The the idea here is from the applicant is uh hotels. Is that correct?

Correct. The reason is intended to facilitate the development of a hotel on the property. Perfect. Thank you. Uh, next up we have a vice mayor. Yeah, thank you. So, I know Brendan mentioned this before, but where on the parcel do they foresee the two two hotels to be? And how many acres do they take up of the 16.57?

I'd like to share an exhibit. What we're seeing here is the west parcel. That's just over half of the total 35 acres within the PAD. It is the only portion that remains undeveloped. It's currently divided into three parcels um with the intended hotel property being that directly across the street from Lifetime Fitness. Um so it would be that situated kind of central within the middle of the west parcel but on the east side directly across the street from Lifetime

and the hotel and the apartments. Okay. Okay. And then I'm sure they'll take care of their own parking there. Are they any foresee any widening of of that road that goes all the way up and connects to I forget what road that goes on the city GSQ side or is that road built out the way it's going to be?

I believe we're referring to the private road that starts along Mcdal and wraps up around um connecting to Bolard. It is a fully private road, not a public city road. Um however as a part of the next stage in the development process we will be reviewing a site plan and the site plan submitt must include a traffic impact statement. The traffic impact statement must be reviewed by city traffic engineers and approved prior to moving forward with any permits.

Okay. Yeah. I just know how busy the school is using that as their own parking lot that part of the road there. So, I just want to make sure that the hotel users can actually get in and out of that spot. It turns into a onelane road because there's there's traffic on both sides of that of that from Lifetime all the way up to the school area. So, I know it's a school. They need to figure out their own parking most likely, but I just need to figure I was just curious what that's going to look like long term and to make sure that parcel is going to be successful with the parking that's around there. Absolutely.

So, no, I'm glad you're doing a traffic study. So, thank you for answering that. And I think that's it. I'm okay with the height there. It's so far away from everything and it is commercial area. I'm okay with the height. It could be as high as it would want to be. So, thank you, Council Member Kano.

Well, I live in Palm Valley and this project's in my neighborhood. So, when the signs went up, I saw a Brendan Ray's number on it. So, I called them and said, "What what are you looking to bring here?" So, that's exciting. I think it's a great project. I I think with all the development at GSQ plus uh that big thing going on uh south of I 10 uh this is pro likely going to draw a lot of people. I think it's a great great spot for this project. um uh like council or vice mayor Hampton did have questions about the road because the school does use it extensively for the their parking and um can you give us any indication what the how what's being done to address that

at this point we are early in the process um I will open the conversation to our applicant who is here today Brennan Ray

okay thank Uh, good evening, mayor, members of council. Brennan Ray, 2325 East Camelback. With respect to this, we're obviously very excited to be before you today to be able to talk about a hotel, but with respect to the question of the vice mayor and council member Kano, your question as well. That actually is a private tract that loops around uh our site. Uh, as Kyle indicated, starts at McDow, wraps all the way up to Bullard. That is owned by the um property owners association. Uh so we've had lots of discussions with um then acting city manager uh Keany uh Kenudson as well as as Katie and traffic and everybody. We've had lots of discussions about it. And so we've reached out to the association and continuing to follow up with them to ensure that um that um road big air quotes it is a road. It's not a public road. Um that it it operates as it's intended to be safely and efficient. um we do not believe that parking is permitted on that uh that private tract and so we will follow up with the association and to ensure that that those rules are are enforced uh relative to that because we're we're very excited here obviously you all know what's going on in the area and excited to be a part of this as well.

Great. Well, I understand the ingress and egress into your hotels will be off that private road. So, but I think that road can be very busy two times a day. And uh and I and there's only um it it does go to both signals. It like I said, it starts at McDow and goes up to Bullard. At Bullard, there is a street name, but there is no street name at the at the Mcdow uh corner. So, it'll be turn where right past Lifetime Fitness Way or something. I don't know. um as respect to you know the renderings and I'm sure those are just your artistic renderings of the properties. It's got a very clean and and modern look to it and um it it it it's kind of interesting on the architecture because there's been a trend starting with the early 2000s of a lot of flat roofs and I know the AMA apartments in the back have a flat roof. So, I don't know. You know, I'm sure you're early on in the plans. Just it would be fun to see a little more architectural interest if that at all possible on that.

Yeah. Through the mayor, council member, I will certainly pass that on to my client. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Um, let's see who's up next. Go ahead, Wally.

Well, a lot has changed from 2005 and 2009, and I've been driving by that corner 26 years wishing something would be built. So, I'm thrilled to know that we're finally going to be able to develop and get rid of the dirt. Although dirt's great, but it's more fun to have something built. To have two hotels or even a hotel come in is exciting for Goodyear. Um, I'm not concerned about the height. I like the height and I don't know if we have to have all of our hotels can no longer or no higher than three feet or four feet tall or four floors. Um because that whole area is being developed and our downtown area to the left of it. We want it to be able to be uh almost like a destination place with the hotel. We're excited about that because not only with spring training and of course Buckyy's coming in. We're going to have a lot of activities. We have a lot of activities on the G GSQ square and people from the hotel can walk over and see it. And of course, Trader Joe's is across the street. So, we're delighted to have this and we thank the uh developer and we thank you for bringing it forward so that we can do something to that property. And you're right, the road they do park on it. I don't know that they should be parking on it to be honest. Um are you not going to have any entrance entrances entrances to the hotel on either Bullard or McDall? Are they going to have to come in just that that the road between them and Lifetime Fitness?

Yeah. through the mayor, council member Campbell. Yes, as as as for now, our access will be limited to the east side of our property, which is that road between us and Lifetime. Okay. I would expect and anticipate that as the rest of this parcel hopefully develops that there will be cross access. I would hope so because you know the for to get if we're going down Bullard uh northbound and we want to go to um Trader Joe's, we have to go up, make a U-turn, come back and then go into Trader Joe's. And so I would hate for people that are coming down Bullard going southbound not realize they have to turn at the school to get into the hotel.

Yeah, I know. Because if they get on McDow, then they can't they'll have to go to that light to get in. Yeah. Through the mayor, council member Campbell. I know you can't see the site plan. That's on my iPad right here. I just looked at it really quick to make sure and obviously we'll work with staff to ensure that, but I know about let's just call it where the word acres is. Yeah.

On our west side, there is access that is planned further um to the west from our development. So if you can imagine a hotel on the kind of south side of acres, the word acres and a hotel on the north side of acres with a a a through access to be able to do that. Certainly we want to provide as much access as we can to this site and we'll hopefully with our design be able to dictate what the future development uh west of us does to ensure that there is that cross access and I'm confident that staff will ensure that that happens. Well, it does look like stuff is being built across the street from you, so you know, good things are coming to GSQ. So, thank you so much.

Uhuh. Thank you, Councilwoman Gillis. Brennan, you and I have been talking about this for a while. Ever since um Bies start decided they were going to go inslated to go in. I'm super excited about these hotels going in there because with all the people that they say we're going to have coming in and out of here for BIES, they're going to have a place to stay. So, some of those are going to take some of those people are going to stay. We don't have enough hotels in this city to accommodate those people if if that many people come in and out of this town. So, I'm super excited that you brought this to us and I can't wait to get going on it. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Councilwoman McIllis, Council Member Beck.

Yes. I just wanted to echo my thank you for this project based on really the comments that from everybody else that this is a great project for the city at this time with all the development with the new things coming in the GSQ and BIES coming. We definitely need more hotel space. So, thank you. Thank you. You know, we had talked this is uh this is perfect because it's going to add to our GSQ uh for people to stay and we're hoping that they spend their money at our new downtown area that's coming and with Bucky. So, uh looking forward to this thing starting to go vertical. Thank you very much. Thank you, mayor. All right, with that, where we at? Uh we had council discussion. We going to open it up for a vote.

Passes 70. Thank you. Um, next we have one item on business to consider the tenative budget for fiscal year 2027. It's at a public hearing. Would like to remind council to wait for a motion and a second for discussion. Go ahead and introduce yourself. And just for the public, uh, this is not the first time we're seeing this. So, go ahead.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm Ryan Biddle, deputy director of finance here at the city of Goodyear. and I'm here to present our fiscal year 2027 tenative budget in the amount of 1 bill419,198,600. So here's an overview of our presentation, the primary focus of which is to share any changes from our city manager's recommended budget last time we met in April. At this point in the budget process, we're on about month seven of work by staff um in preparation of the upcoming fiscal year's budget. So, for the benefit of those who may have not followed us closely through the budget process, I want to quickly share a recap of some of the steps the city's already taken, as well as highlight some of the work staff has done behind the scenes to get us to where we are at this point in the process. So, the fiscal year 2027 budget officially kicked off back in November where there were formal discussions around department priorities, future funding requests, and managing existing costs. But informally, conversations around the budget and budget monitoring are done throughout the year and is at the core of what Goodyear does as a city, regularly promoting fiscal stewardship and the use of taxpayer resources, efficient use of taxpayer resources, that is. During December, these formal requests get submitted in our budgeting software and are included in various combinations that have supporting quotes, detailed cost estimates, and outline any ties to our strategic plan or various master plans throughout the city. Then in February, we had a discussion with council that focused on city revenues as part of our general fund 5-year forecast, which set the capacity for upcoming fiscal year funding recommendations. Our 5-year forecast demonstrated fiscal sustainability into the foreseeable future, factoring in all available information and economic conditions at the time. In April, we had an extensive work session with council where discussions centered around applying funding recommendations against our existing capacity. Our

recommendation prioritized delivering against our strategic plan, maintaining current levels of service, and funding for public safety. Prior to being presented to council, each of these funding recommendations went through strenuous vetting internally starting at the department level through managers through department directors, additional review by budget staff or quality assurance at the city managers level and through our executive budget committee. Vetting also occurs in a cross departmental fashion for vehicles, software and personnel requests and turning that ensuring that stakeholders have the resources to meet an increasing workload. All of our funding recommendations, including capital improvement projects, base budgets, and anything you'd want to know about the city's budget, are outlined in a 150 plus budget book that was created for council, shared with council, and attached to our work session in April. All those steps and more get us to where we are to tonight for tenative adoption. So, with all of that vetting that's already occurred, our focus tonight, like I just mentioned, is on what's changed since we last met in April. As it is each year, not only in Goodyear, but with mo most municipalities, the majority of our changes from our city manager's recommended budget comes from carryovers. So, what are carryovers? Carryovers are simply an administrative process that aligns the timing of one-time expenditures with the fiscal year we anticipate these expenditures to be recorded. To a lesser extent, carryovers involve one-time revenues. But the key takeaway here is that carryovers do not change any amounts that have been previously approved and funded by council, only the timing of which we expect the transactions to occur. Additionally, because this exercise is completed by the finance department, city operations are unaffected, allowing staff and project managers to continue their day-to-day duties without interruption. Then later in August, we do a true up or reconciliation, if you will, of our carryovers, ensuring all transactions and associated budget authority are

recorded and updated accurately in our financial system. Details of our carryovers have been attached to this agenda item and been made available both for council and for the benefit of the public. So, let's go through a reconciliation of what changed from the last time we spoke. Starting with our sources. So sources went up about $571 million from our April work session, most of which coming from the carryover process that I just discussed. The remaining $6.4 million comes from updated estimates impacting our beginning fund balance going into fiscal year 27. On the expenditure side, there was a change of roughly $564 million. again with the majority of that coming from these carryovers that we just discussed for CIP. As discussed in our work session in April, a lot of these dollars come from large projects that we're currently working through. In fact, about 10 CIP projects make up over 80% of the $59 million that we're carrying over from fiscal year 26 to fiscal year 27. The 55 million in operating carryovers, the majority relates to grants, reimbursements, and development agreements that at one point in time have already been approved by council. There's $7 million related to vehicles, which can often be on back order and have long lead times of multiple years. And there's also $6 to $7 million related to our asset replacement program baked into that. From there, number three, base budget adjustments. So of 438,000 roughly. That includes funding for our risk insurance premiums which came in higher than we anticipated. Uh covering of our PAP which is no longer expected to be paid at the state level. And then number four, debt debt as debt issuance true-ups. So at the time when we program debt into our fiscal year 27 budget, we might not have final numbers from our bond

attorneys yet because those processes are always in progress. Um we got updated numbers before issuance. So we're trueing up those amounts to align with exactly what we'll be issuing the debt for. The CIP reserve number five and number six on the screen in front of you. Think of those as just the outputs of the adjustments that we're making above ensuring that we have a balanced budget going into fiscal year 27. So, mayor and council, before you is resolution 2026-2522, which adopts the fiscal year 2027 expenditure limitation budget at1 bill419,98,600 and sets the dates of public hearings both on the final budget as well as truth and taxation. Tonight, you're being asked to adopt this resolution authorizing us to complete all the required publications. On June 8th, we'll have a public hearing and at a special meeting immediately following adopt the budget. A few weeks after that, on June 22nd, we'll come back for the property tax levy adoption. And with that, I'm available any for any questions council might have. Any speaker cards?

No, mayor. Anyone in the audience like to speak?

Seeing none, will the city clerk please read resolution number 2026 2522 by title only? Adopt resolution number 2026-2522 adopting the fiscal year 2026-2027 estimates of revenues and expenses for the city of Goodyear including estimated property tax levy and property tax rates as the tenative budget for fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027. Setting forth the receipts and the amounts estimated as collectible for the previous fiscal year. the amount proposed to be raised by direct property taxation for the various purposes giving notice of the time for hearing taxpayers for adoption of budget and setting the tax levies. Can I get a motion in a second uh for the uh resolution 2026 2522? I see a motion in a second before open for council discussion. I know Ryan Prior uh I you always give me that next, you know, one page um which is a nice review when I'm out in the public. I speak about can you update that for me and make sure the carryovers are in there so I can explain those those uh capital projects and etc that were prior approved that are still in process not finished uh because we go from 855 to 1.4. I' I'd appreciate that update.

Yes, mayor.

Okay. Thank you. With that, let's see who we have up first. Uh Council Member Beckles. When we look at the recation budget, I know that programs as the operations uh operations budget continues to rise.

Mayor and council member Beckles. Yes, it does. Uh I believe our David Seed or side, sorry, our deputy parks director has some additional information he can share with you.

Yeah, good evening everyone. David Side, interim parks and recreation director. Um mayor, uh council member Beckles, uh yes, uh this budget does support um affordability and access uh for residents. Um we definitely make that a priority when we do any of our pricing. Um to not get too deep, uh council approved a cost recovery expectation that is on a pyramid. So um the broader the impact and appeal and um u reach of of a program, the lower the cost recovery and then those programs that have more of an individual benefit or have a higher cost recovery. That all being said, we prioritize availability, accessibility, and affordability to our youth and to our seniors, and the FY27 budget continues uh in that same effort.

Thank you. Um so for CIP, is there a specific construction inflation rate modeled into the five-year projections for CIP projects? Again, I can probably answer that, but I think uh Steve Sinto, our our city engineer, we'll let him speak on it first. Mayor, Council Member Beckles, um we don't have a specific percentage that we use to update the 5-year. The five-year working with finance is apples to apples comparison. So, all of them are fiscal year $27. Um, however, every year we do look at every project and update them on a number of different factors including inflation for the next fiscal year.

Okay, thank you. And I just have one more question. Um, so nearly twothirds of our positions are requested in a budget are for police public safety. And I just want and I know that for um the valley area many of our um other cities are having problems hiring especially police and for last year's vacancies we had a number of vacancies. Uh how many vacancies do we have after last year? doesn't matter.

Uh, Mayor Pazello, Council Member Beckles. Uh so uh as I've en enjoyed uh talking to you uh about uh our staffing before, we do not have a recruitment uh uh problem whatsoever. Of the um of the FTS that we are allotted uh for uh fiscal year 26, uh we really have three remaining vacancies from that lot. We're currently staffed at around uh 95% as of May 23rd. Uh we will have 10 vacancies uh and we have 10 uh officers right now currently in background. Uh so we will by um July we should have everybody completely full. Um and that's the officers uh from a uh professional staff perspective. Uh we're sitting at about 80% uh sta 81% fully staffed. Uh we do have nine uh nine people in background to fill uh 14 vacancies. Some of the vacancies just uh occurred uh because of some recent events. Uh but we're uh currently in in the process of filling th those vacancies as well.

Okay. Thank you. Okay. I just have one statement I'd like to make regarding the budget and I want to thank um our staff for this proposed budget. It certainly does reflect the realities and the responsibilities that we have and bringing on this fast growing city. Um, as our city continues to expand, our residents expect safe neighborhoods, reliable infrastructure, responsible water re stewardship, and thoughtful investments that protect and enhance the quality of life. I appreciate the tremendous work of of the city staff in developing a budget that addresses both current operational needs and long-term demands for the city. This budget really keeps Goodyear physically disciplined, strategically balanced and and transparent as we navigate our growth. So, thank you to the staff, the leadership, and everyone involved for your dedication, professionalism, and commitment to serving our residents. And that I I feel that's very important for us.

Well said, Bonita. Uh, let's see who we got next. Uh, Council Member Kerry.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh, Ryan, just I will save a lot of my um stuff for next time. I know for the public watching, we had the long uh work session on the budget last month. So, there's several hours of uh thrilling video you can go through. But, um just looking at the top line, $1.4 billion is a lot of money. Uh how do we get there? Just at its most basic level. um you know when we talk about you know 2/3 of our operational budget being used on public safety that sort of stuff how much of that budget is operational as opposed to CIP and then carryover so last year it was a $1.2 2 billion budget. But can can you explain how that carryover maybe makes that look a lot bigger than maybe it really is of what we're uh newly approving

or discussing. We're not approving yet. Thank you, Council Member Terry.

Yes. Uh so 1.2 billion last year, 1.4 billion this year. Uh the budget is last year was largely made up about 70% of it was one time in nature meaning it is dedicated to a lot of the infrastructure public safety um water resource projects that you're seeing dirt moving all throughout the city. Were we not a growing city those projects would not be needed but they are and a lot of those projects are being funded from the growth. You go into the philosophy of growth paying for growth here in the city. So, it's not directly falling on the shoulders of the residents of the city to foot those bills. Um, yes, public safety is also a large part of the operations of it. It's going to make up over half again of our ongoing uh budget. So, I've said if you shop in Goodyear, your sales tax dollars, over 50 cents of every dollar that you're spending is being reinvested back directly into public safety here in the city.

Okay. So, how much um you know, of the 1.4, for what's roughly our operational um budget out of this? So only around only around 226 million is the general fund portion

that that's more or less what I wanted to get to with as far as the carryover, the CIP, all that stuff. Yes, $1.4 four billion dollars is a lot of money, but it's also slightly um it it's not it it can give you a different perception of the city operations as opposed to the growth operations of the city, I guess, is one way to put it. All right. Thank you. Lot we good?

You're good. Okay. Councilwoman um Dillis um Ryan, but public safety, just for the people out there so they understand because I've had a lot of people asking me about this as well as um Council Member Terry. Um a billion dollar budget is a large amount. We can't downplay that for the people that are taxpayers in this town. Um public safety is pretty much the same across the board in most cities, isn't it? Council, Mayor and Councilwoman Gillis. Yes. Public safety, depending on which city you goes to, roughly equates to a similar percentage of the operational budget. Right. So, we're not paying that much more than any other city is paying to keep the people of the city safe. Correct. Correct.

Correct. Thank you. Um, also, um, the eth is the adoption of the budget. The final adoption of the budget then. That's what you're saying. Yes. Okay. And I had some people ask me about that heard when I called in that one time from Washington and I asked about the rainy day fund was trying to get to the bottom of how much was in there. Um I had some people ask me exactly what that was. So for the people listening, would you explain the $30 million rainy day fund that we have and so that they understand what it is because you're going to explain it better than I am.

Yeah. No, thank you mayor and councilwoman Gillis. So yes, so rainy day fund is pretty standard for most municipalities and government agencies. Um it's varies based on what the amount is pegged to. Here in Goodyear, our rainy day fund is set at for the general fund is 15% of ongoing revenues. Um and that is in a catastrophic event. Um were we not to be able to collect money at the state level, it allows us to operate, it gives us a little bit of a runway, so to speak, um to weather those storms. Um thus the term rainy rainy day fund. Um but allows us to continue operations uninterrupted. So basically take care of our city and the constituents in our city. Correct. If needed. Okay, great. Thanks, Ryan. Appreciate it. Vice Mayor.

Yeah, thank you uh for continuing through this. I'm excited for the next budget, too. That would be fun to get that started as well. But um what percent is this of this budget is infrastructure? It's going to roughly Thank you, mayor. Roughly, it's it's roughly going to end up in the same ballpark that it was last year. 60 to 70% will be onetime in nature driven primarily by CIP projects. Yes.

Yeah. Which is the bulk of the budget for the public to know why the large the number keeps getting larger and larger. It's for the roads, the streets, all the things that they want fully built out and that we're trying to trying to keep pace with that growth and the growth has just been really really um impactful. So we're trying to keep pace with that. So that's what a lot of this is. So, um, obviously it's other personnel, things like that, but it's mostly obviously majority is going to be infrastructure. And then I had some very specific things that I remember asking during the last meeting. Did we ever increase I don't see it here. Uh, did we increase the for ecdev, did we increase the business attraction and marketing funds by an extra 50,000 and then also the business retention expansion by another 30,000?

Mayor and council member Hampton, we did not change that yet. Um we do have a new city manager here now that would have a chance to overlook that and see if that's something we want to um push through before final budget in June.

Okay. And also along with that just to make note publicly also the tourism as well maybe increase that a little bit too. And then another thing I had brought up is the arts. Just want to see what the dollar amounts are. If right now it's pegged to 1% of our general fund what would 1.2 look like to increase the arts commission budget. So, and then those are the big things. I mean, I know and going back around public safety asked for every they asked for that those things that we budgeted and we approved. So, they got I think most of everything that they asked for there. So, um because we do go through a pro for the public's sake, we go through a process. Our directors bring their needs and their requirements and then we vet those and then we they come to here and then we approve those. So, um so yeah. So, I'm happy with the budget overall. It's just a few little tweaks here and there. I just make sure that we're we're planning for the future also. So, thank you.

Great questions. Um, first off, if I recall from the other uh general one pager that you gave me and and 225 and the 1.4 is is is pretty much it. The general fund, if anybody's looking at our budget, is what we can use for anything. all the other funds you have out there for capital improvement, replacement equipment, you know, CIT, um that all is separate funds. So, you might see some cash, you might see some different pots of money, but really the general fund is the one that you can use pretty much for anything. All right, that's 225 million. Now, if I recall, when you look at that number, uh public safety, if you get if you deal anything deals with first responders, whether it's the court, fire, or police, was about 68% of that new budget. Does that sound about right on the general fund operating?

Uh about Thank you, mayor. Uh about twothirds of our new addition FTEES were public safety first responders. Yes. That's

all right. So that okay, that kind of so the public out there just let them know that uh health and safety is always number one for these people here that you see on your city council and it's always going to it's always going to stay that way. So that 60ome percent sounds about sounds about right on there. But but I appreciate all the stuff in there and we have a very fiscally conservative uh uh what do you call things here which deals with specifically like you say the replacement funds when when things go out they don't have to fight the one-time money doesn't have to fight for ongoing uh our rainy day fund the same thing. So I think it has allowed us to make it through 2008 when we had that major downturn or any other downturns as a result of very very conservative fiscal policies. So, uh, we're going to continue that and we've gone over that and we've got that as part of it as well. So, I appreciate all your hard work and making sure that the fiscal stability is there and the soundness there as well. And that's what I think I'm most proud of. Uh, and being in your spot many, many, many moons ago, uh, I appreciate all that's required to try to keep up with what's going on out there. But it's important that for the public to realize as we grow, our top priority as well as public safety is to try to stay ahead of this growth. which means that's why you see so much money going to capital improvements, the road improvements, traffic, all of that kind of good stuff, water infrastructure. So, uh, and I appreciate all your efforts. So, thank you very much. With that, can we go and open up for a vote? Passes 70. Thank you for the presentation. Does the council have any comments, commendations, or reports on current events in the future? Go ahead.

I have no current events or anything like that, but I just wanted to extend another welcome to our new city manager, Brian Langley. I'd like to say thank you um for choosing us as well as us choosing you. Um he's amazing. There was a guy here earlier that was talking about finance and I just want to say for the people that are listening tonight, we have someone sitting in this position now that has a background in finance and so that's pretty awesome. So that'll keep us on the right track and um I think he's going to be a huge asset to this city. Thank you. Brian, did you have something?

I do. Go ahead. Um, today at the Maricopa County Consortum meeting this morning that I attended, it was announced that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors passed their budget today and they included a new program to stop evictions by contacting people who are being evicted and if they join their pilot program, they will pay their back rent and they will help them stay in their home. And I'd like for someone to look into that because we are we're giving our CBDG funds to a a a group to work with people who are getting evicted. But if if our residents are eligible for the Maricopa County program, I want to be sure we get that message out to them. but it's something very new and um it sounds like um enough people have gone to the county asking for help to stop the evictions for people that are either laid off or they're not able to make their their rent payments. So, I just wanted to put that out there. We need to take a look at it because I don't know that the county will let all the cities know about it, but we know about it now and that's it. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you. Um Benina, do you have something? Uh just wanted to extend my uh welcome to our new city manager, Brian. Welcome aboard. Laura, I just wanted to make a a note publicly and thank Kenny Kenudson for taking over the role of interim city manager between the time when we left and Brian's arrival. He did a great job. uh the the city was in steady hands and uh he's on a well-deserved break and look forward to him getting back and and uh looking to see what uh good things are going to be happening here in Goodyear. Go ahead.

Very similar. I want to extend my uh welcome to Brian Langley uh and looking forward to his direction with the city and uh yeah, welcome. So, thank you. Well, I'm just going to echo that, Brian. You know, welcome aboard and uh hopefully these council meetings are a little less detailed and uh timewise that you were used to over there and uh whatever. So, yeah. Yeah. You were telling me this today when we met, what is it? Midnight or something along those lines. We don't do that. Yeah. We we we don't we don't do that here. So, yeah. No, that's okay.

All right. Do we do uh the city manager have anything you want to add? Well, I just wanted to say thank you to all of you. It's great to be here. Uh the staff has been incredibly welcoming to me today. Uh they may try to get lost anywhere. I may have looked a little lost a couple of times, but they were great. And I also want to just thank you. You've been incredibly uh kind to me. So, I'm looking forward to working with all of you. So, thank you so much. Well, thank you. Uh with that, the uh next meeting is June 8th. No further business. This meeting's over.