Tri-City Council - Regular Meeting

I'd like to call this meeting to order. I would like to welcome everybody who might be here in chambers or watching online, our YouTube channel, or participating that way. Today is Tuesday, September 15th, 2026. This is the regularly scheduled meeting of the Kingman City Council. We'd like to turn some time over to our city clerk, Annie Meredith, for a roll call.

Mayor Watkins?

Present.

Vice Mayor Sammely? Here. Councilmember Dikens? Here. Councilmember Savage? Here. Councilmember Staley?

Present.

Councilmember Walker is excused this evening. Councilmember Ward?

Present.

We have a quorum.

Thank you. We'd like to invite those who would like to stand with us for our invocation, which will be given by Pastor Tony Henry of Kingman Nazarene Church, after which I have asked Councilor Savage to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thank you for giving me this opportunity to pray. Heavenly Father, we just come before you this afternoon, thankful that you are present among us. We thank you for our wonderful country and the freedoms that we have, that we can still come before you in prayer together. Father, we thank you for our wonderful city. We thank you for all of the ways that our community comes together to support one another. Help us to always look for ways to encourage our fellow citizens. Father, and we thank you for our Kingman City leaders and the heart that they do have for our community. Be with them as they conduct business tonight and make decisions that will affect all of those who live here and those who come to visit. Give them wisdom and discernment, insight and clarity. Help them to listen and respond to one another in love for themselves and for our city. May all that happens in this boardroom benefit our community and bring glory to you. Father, please continue to lead and guide us all. Keep us safe from harm, especially our first responders and our military men and women. We thank you for all of our blessings, and we thank you, Father, for hearing our prayers. And it is in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Thank you, Father.

and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. The council may go into executive session for legal counsel in accordance with ARS 38-431.03A3 to discuss any agenda item. The following items may be discussed, considered, and decisions made relating thereto. Item number one, presentations. 1A, Kingman Youth Advisory Council update. And let's turn some time over to our city clerk, Annie Meredith.

Thank you, Mayor. I would like to invite the council members that were able to attend tonight to come up. and they are going to just give you guys a quick update.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Thank you so much for having us tonight. We are excited to be back in front of you and to share an update on what the Kingman Youth Advisory Council has been up to. We may have just kicked off our new school year, but kayak is already hitting the ground running.

Our members... Our regular mic isn't working, so I just need it a little closer. Got it.

Where was I? We may have just kicked off our new school year, but Kayak is already hitting the ground running. Our members are bringing new ideas, new energy, and a lot of enthusiasm for making a difference in our community. Before we share some exciting new projects and ideas we have been working on, I would like to... Never mind. All right. At this time, our memberships include June Staley, chairperson, Samantha Batty, vice chairperson, Clara Brandt, secretary, Tiana Brown, publicity chair, Jack Fredrickson and Jack Hill from Kingman Academy, Isabel Brown and Logan Walsh from Lee Williams High School, Alyssa Roseli, forgive me, Roseli, Abraham Rosales Alejandre, writer, and homeschool student Lincoln Wyatt. We do have two available positions open that we would like to fill with additional representation from Lee Williams High School and with additional homeschool students. Anyone interested in applying can do so online at cityofkingman.gov or by contacting Ms. Meredith.

At our August meeting, Kayak began the process of identifying the projects and activities we would like to focus on throughout the coming year. As you know, each year Kayak strives to make a positive impact in our community through service, awareness, and outreach. We are excited about the ideas our members have brought forward and are currently considering several opportunities, which we finalize at our meeting tomorrow evening. Some of the projects under consideration include a teen-focused community event that brings youth together from schools throughout the community, a fundraising project to support a local charity or community cause, a book drive to benefit local organizations and replenish our community's little libraries, increased outreach and support from other youth programs, activities, and initiatives through Kingman, a review of current city ordinances to identify opportunity for improvement or change that could possibly impact local youth. We look forward to narrowing down these ideas and selecting projects where our members can make meaningful differences in the community this year.

This year kayak is taking our social media presence to the next level. We want to create more engagement and connect with more of the local youth and help our community get to know the young people who made up kayak. We have sent several fun ideas and meaningful outreach projects planned including we have motivational mondays which would be sharing encouragement positive positivity and inspiration to help each help start each week on a great note your city your voice giving local teams a platform to share their thoughts ideas and perspectives about growing up in our community and meeting kayak introducing our current officers and members so other youth can get to know people from behind kayak and see how they are making a difference. And we also have fun challenges and interactive activities creating opportunities for youth to participate, have fun, and engage with kayak in new ways. We have youth feedback and ideas. Most importantly, we want to hear directly from the youth in our community about what matters to them. We will be speaking on their feedback and ideas on the issues, projects, and events they believe Kayak should focus on. Our goal is not just to increase followers, it's to create conversations, listen to the voices of local youth, and get youth excited to get more involved.

All right, this is my favorite part now. Exactly one year ago, we started planning out what it would take to turn a huge eyesore into a beautiful representation of our community. Today, we, our artists, officially started the painting of our 440-foot mural project on the block wall behind Walmart along Mojave Walsh. This project would not be possible without the incredible talent, generosity, and hearts of our artists, Santana and Willow. We are deeply grateful for their creativity and, most importantly, their willingness to donate their time and talents to help bring this vision to life. Their work will leave a lasting impression on our community and we are truly honored to have them be a part of this project. We would also like to extend our sincere appreciation to Casey, our local Walmart manager, for believing in this project, supporting our artists, and generously donating supplies to help make their work possible. And to our generous local business partners who have provided financial support, Origin Mining Company, Preston Investments, Bulldog Disposal, Martin Swaney, Vision Landscaping and A1 Tractor LLC. Thank you for investing in our community and helping turn an idea into something our residents and visitors can enjoy for years to come. This project is a perfect example of what can happen when our community comes together, shares its talents, and believes in making a difference. We are incredibly grateful to each of you for helping make this vision a reality. Thank you again to the Council for this opportunity to provide this update. We are happy to answer any questions. Thank you.

Okay, ladies, thank you for that update. And please, not only to yourselves, but to your counterparts that are not here tonight on Kayak, a heartfelt thank you for what you do in our community, trying to make it better, and also serving and representing your fellow youth that are in high school. So we truly appreciate it. You are leaders, and this is great training for future things to come. So thank you. Council, any other comments or questions for these ladies? Okay. Thank you. Item number two, call to the public, comments from the public. Those wishing to address the council should fill out request forms in advance. Comments from the public will be restricted to items not on the agenda, with the exception of those on the consent agenda. There will be no comments allowed that advertise for a particular person or group. Comments should be limited to no longer than three minutes. The council may not respond to speakers during the call to the public. The council may direct the city manager to study the matter or request that the matter be placed on a future agenda. Tonight we have a couple citizens that would like to share their thoughts. Ms. Donna Penwarden, you can come up. Welcome.

Good evening. Council members and Mr. Mayor, saw your picture, but you know what? Not bad looking for an old boy. The reason that I wanted to be here this evening is something that's pretty dear to my heart, because I'm a member of, not a member, I'm part of the Senior Center, because I like to go there for the entertainment and the fun that we have. All that's been going on in the last few months have really disturbed me enough to where I thought I've got to make some remark. I have to let somebody know something's not right, and this is my only opportunity to do so, so forgive me if I stutter. I have an opinion on how maybe we can take care of this problem. Probably not a very good one to most people, but to me it makes more sense than not. I believe that the only way we can get our community back, our senior community back to where we were two, three months ago is I think we need to close it down, clean it up. My opinion is we do not have to continue with the rhetoric that is going on in that building all of the time. The defugality that's created by the people that are there running the place now are just Morons excuse my expression, but I think truly in my heart if we do close it up Let's get some people in there that are really sincere We had a good thing going until a few months ago and I'd sure like to see it happen again because we did have a lot of fun and we don't have anywhere to go and You know, 2020 killed so many of our people, our musicians and so forth. That's the only place we have. That's the only place these seniors have got to go other than going to church. And 99% of them can't even make it to church on most Sundays because of the transportation problem or their health problems. Let's clean this place up, you guys. You're the only ones that can do anything, and I appreciate you taking the time to let me bloviate on what my thoughts are. Thank you. Have a good evening.

Thank you, Donna. Mr. Wayne Wilson?

Mayor, council members, I've come before you tonight because I cannot get a satisfactory response from the code enforcement office. Since around August 12th, 13th, a fellow has moved his RV into the backyard at 4145 Quarter Circle Avenue. I live at 4133 Quarter Circle Avenue. The RV is parked four to five feet from my property line. It is five feet above my six foot tall block wall. It sits about 20 feet from my patio. He has sprayed automotive paint multiple times, day and night. The vapors come into my yard. causing me problems. I've put in multiple complaints to the code enforcement portal, called the police, no response. I personally talked to the code enforcement officer and was told that it was the guy's right to paint anything on his property. I don't understand what right he has to fill my property with vapors that are known to cause health problems. I was treated at KRMC on September 3rd for breathing problems caused by his painting the night before. I called the police and made a complaint to the portal. No results. If you read a can of spray paint, it'll tell you. This is dangerous, don't breathe it, don't spray it around fire. I gave everybody MSDS for automotive paint. If you read the MSDS for automotive paint, it gives a better picture of the dangers. But most people who use automotive paint tend to be safety conscious of the public. They use paint booths, air filters, et cetera. But code enforcement doesn't care about my safety. The code enforcement officer told me the guy was just flipping the RV to make some money. Would that be considered a business? Would that bring it under a different umbrella? And there's another RP Park behind it now. Is he going to start a business here? I'm beginning to feel like Rancho Santa Fe is the new Butler. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Wilson. Just as a reminder, as I read that paragraph before our call to the public, we oftentimes as council direct our city manager and staff to look into these things. So your thoughts are not falling on deaf ears. So thank you. Moving on, item number three, consent agenda. All matters listed here are considered to be routine by the city council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items. If discussion is desired, that item will be removed from the consent agenda and will be considered separately. Council, we have items A through P. What is your pleasure tonight?

I would like to pull item D. Item D. I would like to pull J and O.

J and item O, okay. Anything else? Okay, thank you. Can we have an approval then, or a vote, I mean, I'm sorry, a motion to approve our consent agenda, items A through P, with the exceptions of item D, item J, and item O.

So moved.

We have a motion, we have a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay, item D, approval of job order contract for mill and fill on a portion of Airway Avenue. This agenda item requests approval of a job order contract to perform pavement preservation on Airway Avenue between Annie Devine and Rutherford Street. The completed roadway will also include bike lanes throughout the asphalt replacement limits. The project was budgeted as part of the city's ongoing fiscal year 27 pavement preservation efforts. The fiscal impact is $1,258,000 and $59.97, and will be paid from the Highway Users Revenue Fund, HRF. Staff recommends approval. Councillor?

Thank you. I think this is a really important project. I know people are looking forward to seeing airway get fixed, especially at that Bank Street crossing, because it is in bad shape. However, I can no longer support hiring Sunland for our projects. In December of 2025, they chip sealed residential district number three and they did a terrible job. In fact, I believe they're supposed to come back and fix it because what they did was use less oil than what was needed. And so that district three is still in that same shape. I received complaints in December from people who lived in those neighborhoods Um, one gentleman had described it as why did you turn my street into a gravel road? And he was not wrong. There was so much aggregate sitting on top of the road. It didn't adhere because there wasn't enough oil and it did look like we turned normal streets into dirt roads. And I know it took us several trips with a sweeper to clean that up because there was so much leftover aggregate, which was cost on our end to fix that. Um, and the wear and tear on our sweeper. So, I am voting no on this item because I believe that when you spend millions of dollars with a company over and over again, they should give you quality work every single time. And I'm hoping that with a procurement officer that these large projects start going out to bid. So for me, while I want to see this work get done, I don't want to see the city using a contractor who has quality control issues.

Thank you, Councillor. Councilors, any other comment to add to that?

I'd like to hear from Jack first, Mr. Pawnee.

Sure. Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor. Councillor Steele, you're absolutely correct. We did have a failure. We've actually been working with Sunland, one, to try and determine the cause. Was it material? Was it lack of oil? We've checked a lot of things at this point. It appears to be a material failure. They have committed to coming back, which is in their warranty. It'll be no cost to the city. There was some upfront expense where we were trying to manage the loose aggregate as it was coming loose. Not making any excuses for it, just give some background on it. They did ultimately send a sweeper and re-sweep those roads. We let it stabilize and we're working out a date for their return to complete the warranty work too. It's roughly half of District 3 that had a failure, which is why we suspect a material issue was part of that failure. That's the background on it Airway, we do want to get it done. It is rough if we do miss this opportunity again not promoting for or against We will lose our our weather window and likely it won't be able to complete this project till The springtime which we would have to go out to bed if that's about we were going to go anyway, so At the will of the council and if you have any other questions, I'll try and answer those I

So Jack, they are warranting their work and they are making us whole? That is correct. Okay.

When are they doing that? Because that was in December of 2025.

Yeah, I don't have an exact schedule. We were actually talking with them today. Daniel, our street manager, he's been working with them. So I would anticipate it's going to be in the spring. And I kind of prefer that anyway because that makes sure that anything that's loose is done. We're not going to have a new chip seal on top of old and have a chance of it delaminating again. So at that point, we've already put other quality control measures in place on our side, some testing and things for those materials to help prevent that. We did execute District 4 with no failures. And so I would anticipate the warranty work would be successful as well. Any other questions I'll try and answer?

I have a couple, just a follow up. So I hear your concerns because I got several complaints as well. You're telling me they did a district post the other one and it was fine?

That is correct.

Okay. Tell me more about this warranty. Do they get the opportunity once the work is complete to determine when they come back? Is it something that, I don't know how Councillor Staley would feel about this, is it something that we can put in the contract that Within I mean that their work is is vetted and up to our standards and you said you put some quality control pieces into the process that within a certain amount of time if it's not satisfactory to the city they come back and

So they're obligated already by state statute to have to return if there was a failure.

But I'm talking about a stricter, shorter timeline so we don't end up with a December 2025 date that's looming out there that they're going to get to it when they get to it.

Yeah, understood. I don't think, sorry, the mic's running away. I don't think that there's an issue with them getting to it when they get to it. We will be dependent on weather. the oil has a weather window that we need to be down in as well and so the spring is going to give us the best chance of a successful project because that oil is warmer gives us more time to work it in you go into the heat of the summer the traffic continues that effort and so I would anticipate it being in the spring from our own desire from the cities, not to leave it out any longer for the residents. If we have sweeping issues, they'll have to maintain that up to that point. But to get the best quality product, I would say we'd probably want to do that in the spring already, especially since we've already had a failure in that area. Give it the best opportunity for successes would be our recommendation from Public Works.

So you're holding off on this project to do it in the spring?

Yes.

Okay.

All right. Just for clarification, this project that's being proposed would be occurring this fall. What's being held off for the spring is the warranty work on the chip sale that failed.

Thank you for that clarification. Can you... make council feel better about the quality control that will happen during this project. I have concerns. I hear what you're saying, and I don't want to chase good money over bad money. I don't want to waste the city's funds. I totally get that. But that intersection is absolutely horrendous. And if we go a much longer period of time, it's only going to continue to deteriorate. And there's, I mean, it's bad now. So I can only imagine if we postpone this. But can you tell me how you're going to make us feel a lot better about your quality control in this project?

Absolutely. So good question. The quality control on asphalt is already established in our standards and then through MAG. So we actually, the contractor is required to do quality control up front. That's on them. They hire an agency that comes out and they do their nuclear density tests and things as they're going along. we care about those but generally what i care about is we're going to come and we're going to take core samples and we're going to test those for in place air voids so it's up to their qc contractor to be on the ball and make sure that they have the appropriate settings for the nuclear gauges that do the the density testing because when it's done we will core it and if there are air voids in excess of the uh... the standard specifications They either pay a penalty up to a certain amount or they have to remove it all that's already built into our contracts and built into the city standards so our our quality Assurance or quality acceptance on asphalt is already a very robust program So I feel confident in that the contractor knows that coming in if there's a failure It's on them to mill that out and replace that or they pay a penalty based on the particular failure that is and the percentage of so It's in their best interest, as it was in the chip seal, to complete that work well. You don't make enough money when you do it once. You really don't make enough when you do it twice.

So my final question is this, do we pay them up front or do we get the opportunity to hold back funds should we have subpar quality?

So we already hold back funds in our pay apps because we hold a retention. And so when they put in a pay app, we may pay them for materials and labor for that month's work, which this project won't take a whole month anyway. We will have the quality assurance results back probably before we process an invoice at all. But even if we were to process an invoice, we're gonna hold 10% of that contract value back and that wouldn't be released until that project is accepted, which includes quality acceptance testing of the asphalt itself.

Okay, all right. Mayor. Thank you.

If I may? Yes. Just a difference here with these projects, and hopefully to give a little more assurance on this, definitely agree that the work that was done in the fall of 25 was subpar and definitely needs to come back and get fixed. This project Those projects we've been talking about are chip seal projects. This project will be a mill and fill, similar to what we saw with Stockton Hill, Andy Devine, and I believe Sunland was the company that did those mill and fills as well, correct?

Yes. We've had a couple contractors, but Sunland has completed a number of those.

So the quality that we've seen on Stockton Hill when we went through, milled that and replaced that pavement. So they go down, I think the plan is two inches on this, and then they'll come back and pave on top of that, a brand new asphalt two inches on top of it. So different type of product here, much more, I guess, controlled environment with the asphalt and being able to lay it and put it down properly.

Yeah, thank you for that.

Okay, Councillor Ward.

I know when they did that in the fall of 25, it was District 3, 11 District 4. When they did District 4, it was absolutely the best that I've ever seen, the whole district as far as The way they put it down, the way they swept it, the amount of time they spent there was incredible compared to what I had seen before. That's all I know. They did that whole neighborhood in District 4, and I have seen no issues. They did enough. Same company.

Yeah, and in District 4, again, from our own side, timing, rolling patterns, all that, we had a lot more oversight even on our side to ensure that was happening. And we haven't had any failures in District 4. And in District 3, it is isolated to a portion of, which appears to be from an aggregate change. we that's part of what we were working through was trying to determine where the failure had occurred and why and uh like say we've got to that point and they have committed to the warranty on it i don't have any concerns with that they'll come back we'll provide oversight again it is an inconvenience it's not great to us it costs you know the residents some inconvenience for us being in the way and we understand that and want to ensure that we get a good product

So are we currently holding that 10% from the District 3 job because they did not do a good job in that area?

No.

We paid them the full amount.

We had. But the failure, we had paid the full amount. The contract was substantially complete, which is what time we would release those retentions. And the failure started occurring after that. So that had already been paid.

I mean, we could tell, though, right after they put it down, that it wasn't right. it was not a normal chip seal because it clearly, there was so much aggregate sitting on top that it didn't look like a normal chip seal. So we knew right away. What kind of quality control happens during chip seal? Because I understand what it is for a mill and fill. That's a little bit more cut and dry. But I guess at the end of the day, my problem is that we've hired them time and time again. District 3 wasn't the first time we've had problems with Sunland's work quality, is that right?

Yeah, we actually had another sub in, which was Cholla, who was working with Sunland, and that was on some arterials. We had some rubberized chip seals that had delaminated. Cholla and Sunland came back and warrantied this. This is the first residential one we've had. uh... to answer your question as far as quality control some of it is means and methods we need to make sure they have the rollers of rollers are close to the to the lay down machine the the chip spreader uh... we're actually pulling aggregate samples as we go along we're taking weights for how much they're applying uh... we actually pull emulsion samples and have those tested and ensure they have the appropriate amount of asphalt content in those. So there's actually a lot of testing that goes into that. And we've upped that to try and catch any material changes that may occur.

Okay. My personal feeling is that We have a responsibility to the taxpayers to spend their dollars wisely. And then when we're hiring Sunland time and time again, they should produce the same top quality work every single time because we're a reoccurring customer. So I think it's great that they did a better job in the next neighborhood, but this one is still a mess. You know, it'll be over a year before they come back and fix it So to me, I think we need to find a new company that does a better job And I'm hoping that we'll put these out to bid in the future. So I'm I'm still a no vote Understood.

Thank you Any other comes counselor Dickens?

District 3 did what is the length of the warranty on that? I?

A state statute requires two years. However, that is two years not in a window. As soon as we noticed them, that hey, there's a failure here, we went through that, it's already on record. So if it occurs within a two-year period and we notice them on the last day of the second year, they're still obligated to that warranty. So being that they have noticed them, the clock stops. It doesn't continue. They're not under a two-year window is the short of it.

OK. Anybody else? Okay. Well, Councilor Sater, we know how you feel on this, so I'm sure you don't want to make a motion on this. Anybody else comfortable with this in making a motion on approving Item D, approval of job order contract for Mill and Fill on a portion of Airway Avenue?

So moved.

Okay. We have a motion. We have a second?

I'll second.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Nay.

Thank you, Councillor. Thank you. Thanks, Jack. City Manager, thank you. Okay, item J, M-STEP reprogram request for use of opioid settlement grant funds. At the October 21st, 2025 Council meeting, Council approved the award of five proposals that were submitted in response to a formal solicitation for the use of the City's opioid settlement grant funds. As part of that award, Mojave Substance Treatment Education Prevention Partnership, M-STEP, was approved for $25,000 of the opioid settlement funding to be used for outreach supplies and materials and other contracts and rentals. Due to a low participation rate in the $8,000 awarded for the purpose of providing scholarships to underprivileged youth, M-STEP is requesting $3,000 of these funds to be reprogrammed to cover the costs of travel for two M-STEP Youth Coalition members to attend the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, CADCA, National Forum on February 1st through the 5th in Washington, D.C. There is no fiscal impact to this reprogramming request. Staff recommends approval. Welcome, Bob.

Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of council, I'll be happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Okay, any questions? Actually, councilor, You pulled this one?

I did pull it. Thank you. I pulled it because I did see Mr. DeVries in the audience, and he doesn't get an opportunity often to talk about the great things that M-STEP is doing in our community. I realize this is already funding that has been provided. I am in favor of this. I just want you to tell us a little bit about the 3,000 being redirected and what's going to happen back in Washington, D.C., and how it's going to help the overall M-STEP program.

Yeah, absolutely. That's an excellent question. And the funding that you provided us is for community engagement as well as different resources, which we are continuing to do on a regular basis at a minimum once a month in September, October. We're typically out four plus times a month doing different events. This particular thing, we held our Hobbies Not Habits event on June 13th at the New Boys and Girls Club. It was a great turnout, over 300 people that came out and participated, but we missed the boat on one thing. And we realized it when we got together on July 2nd and debriefed how the event went. And the biggest thing we noticed was very, very few scholarships went actually out. We know the need is there because we've been told about it and we know from individuals that we've spoken with. However, I think because we did it in June 13th, that many of the families had already put plans in place uh for the summer months and we missed our mark so we in that time period now are looking at the end of february march in 2027 so hopefully we'll be able to catch those and help the individuals that need assistance with registrations memberships or so on to keep their kids involved in healthy habits We've been working with the students at Lee Williams High School to develop our youth coalition. And we've been working with a core group. And yesterday I'm very proud to say that we held our first meeting and we had 17 students show up for the meeting. And so we are looking to build that much like kayak. We want to build our future leaders within the school system. So we had all different grades represented, but we want to take two of those individuals with us to our mandatory annual conference in Washington, DC. The nice part about it is there's over 3000 individuals that attend this conference. Many of them are youth and they have a specific training track all week long that is dedicated to youth training on building coalitions, working with their fellow peers, leadership skills, all kinds of collaboration training that they can get. It's an excellent opportunity for them, plus we spend one day on Capitol Hill meeting with our congressmen and our senators to give the kids exposure to that. We believe it's a good investment for now to be able to help build our future and our youth and getting them involved in other activities versus illicit substance.

Yes, Vice Mayor.

I just, I think it's wonderful. So thank you for that. And I think you're doing great things in our community. So, I mean, again, I do support this. I just wanted you to tell us how this is going to further enhance M-STEP. So I appreciate you coming before us.

Thank you.

Thank you, Bob. Any other comments or questions for Mr. DeVries? Yes.

I love programs like this. Absolutely. I just have a question, and I'm sure it's a board decision. How do you choose the two children out of the children you have?

Right now, it's some of the leaders that we've seen within the coalition that have helped to rally the other students together.

So the leaders?

The leaders of the group right now. And what we're working is building that next generation so we have some continuity and have the kids build up and work towards achieving those types of a trip to get that exposure and training.

Cool.

Thank you for doing this. Thank you, Councilor. And Vice Mayor, forgive me for saying Councilor instead of Vice Mayor earlier.

It's fine. I am a Councilor.

I know. But anyway, thank you. Thank you, Bob. Thank you. Okay. Can we have a motion then, Vice Mayor, about item on our agenda, our consent agenda item J, M-STEP reprogram request for use of opioid settlement grants funds?

So moved.

Do we have a second? Second. Councillor Dykens, second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, thank you. Okay, item O, fee waiver request for the Kingman Route 66 Street Drags event October 8th through the 11th, 2026. The Kingman Route 66 Street Drags team has requested approval for a fee waiver for the upcoming Route 66 Street Drags event scheduled for October 8th through the 11th, 2026. The requested fee waiver includes $1,000,000. $1,530 for Lewis Kingman Park reservation fees and $5,670 for delivery and pickup of bleachers for the event. The total amount requested to be waived is $7,200. Staff recommends approval. Vice Mayor.

Thank you, Mayor. I did pull this item. I have a request. In the backup, it stated that these funds were going to come out of the general fund. And I would like to see these funds come out of tourism. It's a tourism event. It's bringing tourism to Kingman. I think it's more appropriately should be coming out of the tourism budget. And so I would like to have council support for that as well as I would like to see a report post street drags because I want to see with this deferment and fee waiver, I want to see exactly what the numbers are post event sales tax revenue generated, attendees, things of that nature. So those two requests I would like to have council support.

Yes, City Manager.

If I may, we can, on the post-report, we can definitely, we can use Placer AI to see how many attendees. We can work with the event coordinator to see how many ticket sales and those types of things. As far as specifics on sales tax generated, it gets a little bit tricky at that point. We can work, you know, through our models and do projections on that. It'll be hard to get specifics on that amount, but we'll... And that's fine.

I mean, I imagine there's a pre-event sales tax from a weekend where we don't have an event like this that we can compare and contrast to a weekend where we have an influx of, you know, with this event coming in. I would imagine we could do a date range.

comparison i'm looking at the expert to see if i can get her to help me that's what i'm hoping to get dina we need your help otherwise otherwise how will we know hi miss mullein thank you so much vice mayor so to manager walsh's point We're not able to extract the sales tax data for a short period of time like that. Our taxpayers pay on a monthly basis. Certainly, we can look back in prior years. We can compare and contrast different months, the month before, the month after. We can come up with something like that, but there would be no way for us to get exact and good data for that particular weekend without using place or AI and some of those other systems. Okay.

Well, we'll give it our best college try, right? Absolutely. Thank you. I appreciate that.

Thank you. Councillors, any other questions or comments about this item?

I absolutely agree with this going through tourism. It is a tourist program. I kind of had the same concept when it came to the insurance when we were talking about the insurance, so I would totally back that coming from tourism.

Okay. City Manager, we can make that happen? Okay, real good. Then, Vice Mayor, would you like to make a motion on item O, fee waiver request for the Kingman Route 66 street drags event October 8th through the 11th, 2026?

So moved.

We have a motion, we have a second? I'll second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Great, thank you. Motion carries. Moving on, item four, action items 4A, ordinance number 1996, amending the city street regulations to require and establish standards for street lighting associated with new development and street improvements. Approval of Ordinance Number 1996 amends the City street regulations to establish standards for street lighting associated with the new development and street improvements and identifying when lighting is required. Currently, regulations establish the Council may require lighting as part of a development's approval. Recent legislative changes have made many development approvals an administrative function, thus not coming before Council. These amendments clearly establish when lighting is to be required. Staff recommends approval.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council. As it says in the backup, the current street regs say that the decision to require street lighting for new developments is a council decision. And you guys don't really see plan approvals anymore, so there's not really a mechanism to bring this item before you for every subdivision that comes up. So the new ordinance will make it an administrative function. And it would be based on certain criteria. At a minimum, if a new development abuts the right of way for an arterial street, street lights will be required. when the developer builds their segment of the arterial street. Additionally, street lighting will be required at signalized intersections and on collector streets when required by the city engineer based on documented traffic and safety conditions. In addition to these requirements, the ordinance also updates our street lighting standards. So that's my little summary. You guys have any other questions?

Thank you, Mike. Any questions for Mike? Seems pretty straightforward. Okay. Can we have a motion then approving item 4A, ordinance number 1996? So moved. We have a motion. Do we have a second?

I'll second.

We have a motion to second. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Motion carries. 4B, approval of the proposed City of Kingman 75th Anniversary Celebration Plan and Sponsorship Program. Staff has began planning... for the city of king with seventy-fifth anniversary celebration scheduled for january twenty first two thousand twenty seven from five p m to eight p m a proposed event framework has been developed that includes several options for the main event attraction along with historical displays city department participation family activities food community recognition contest another anniversary themed programming to help offset the costs associated with the celebration staff has also developed a proposed sponsorship program with opportunities ranging from 250 dollars to five thousand dollars the program would allow staff to actively solicit sponsorships from local businesses organizations and community partners interested in supporting the city's 75th anniversary celebration staff requests council to review and approve the proposed event planning direction select a preferred main event option, approve the proposed sponsorship program, and authorize staff to solicit sponsorships for the celebration. Sarah, welcome. Thank you. And now you have all kinds of stuff to present to us, huh?

I do. Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council. So staff and a couple of our community partners have been planning for our 75th anniversary celebration, which will be on January 21st of 2027. The idea right now is to have kind of like a celebration on Beale Street between Grand and First from 5 to 8 p.m. We're hoping it would be like a signature celebration rooted in Kingman's history. We're planning on having city services, partnering with the Historical Society to do a historical event, like a little booth, hands-on activities, and community participation. We're looking to do a main event and we have different options to present to you. The first option would be a drone show along with an ice skating rink and then the public works train. The price on that is $22,000 to $35,000 depending on the ice skating rink you go with and also depending on how many drones you have in the show. The second option would be the drone show and then bounce houses. Bounce houses are a little bit cheaper than ice skating rink. Ice skating rinks range anywhere from 8,000 to 10,000, whereas bounce houses you can get for a couple thousand. And then the third option would just be to do a drone show. Staff is recommending option one a drone show would create a more memorable centerpiece appropriate for our milestone of anniversary More family appeal if you have the ice skating rate and public works train it adds activities beyond the drone show stronger event value and Also, their drone show will give us an opportunity to get diamond sponsorships because with the drone show you can have so many slots and actually put people's logos in and We also intend to do stuff beyond the main attraction. We are going to do a mini city expo with departments throughout the years to have historical trucks. We can bring in our old police and fire trucks and compare them to our new ones and then put up some images of what our trash trucks looked like back in the 1950s. We're going to do family activities, crafts and games, for example, yard tubes, paint by numbers, hula hoops, stuff that was popular in the 1950s. And then memorials and recognitions, I planned on doing like a QR code where residents could submit pictures and then during the event we can display them for different community photos throughout Kingman. And then put out a recognition of people that were born in 1952 and then any businesses that were here since 1952. and then we were also discussing having a food truck area along with a cake and providing some snacks and hot cocoa and then additionally we are looking into maybe doing like a passport program where depending on if we do an app or an actual paper passport people can go around to different places around town like the museums or city hall and get little passports and then come to the event and get a prize at the end and then doing like a coloring contest with the schools So how are we going to pay for this? So we're looking to do like a sponsorship. We have different levels for that. The first level would be the diamond sponsorships. Spots would be limited. That would include your logo in the drone show along with vendor booth space at the event and then placement on promotional material and social media. And then Platinum would do vendor space but no drone show and then also the social media and marketing, and gold would be marketing and social media, and then just silver would be your name at the event on a banner. And then any expenses not offset by sponsorship revenue would have to be paid for by city funds. So I'm looking for direction and what your opinion is on the anniversary celebration.

Thank you, Sarah. Venues, you talked about probably Centennial Park for a lot of this?

No, it would be at... Yeah, Grandin first.

Okay, so downtown here.

Yeah, it would be downtown, and then we would use the locomotive park.

Okay. Council, Councillor Dykens, I know you were ready to go first.

Option one, ice skating rink. How big of an ice skating rink are you talking? Just something small for little kids to play on? Or is it going to be big enough for adults to go with their kids?

It would depend on which company we went with. But most of them, like the one in Havasu, for example, it is big enough for kids and adults.

OK. Option two, bounce houses. That's in plural. How many houses for that price?

You can get a couple of them. We were thinking of doing more winter themes, so like a snow globe bounce house.

Okay. Okay. Anything more, Councilor Adkins? No. Okay. Councilor Saley? No.

Um, the ice skating rink, would that be up for longer than just the event from five to eight? Or is that something that we can have in place for a couple of days?

We, we, we would work on that with the vendor. Okay. Yeah. I don't know.

I think everyone would be so excited that you couldn't fit in everybody in, in a three hour time period, even if they could only do it for.

And that would be more incentive for them to come and set it up too. So, okay. We are talking about that.

Okay, I'm in favor of option one. I think that sounds like a lot of fun, and those are things that we haven't seen here before, a drone show and an ice skating rink, so that makes it really special.

And January is the perfect weather for that. Yes. It should be nice and cold for it.

I'd rather ice skate than be in a bounce house in January.

An ice skating rink is totally cool. That would be a great idea, I think. I'm thinking along the same lines as you are, Councilor.

Yes, Councilor Savage. I've been waiting for this all day. I love these type of things. It's kind of up my forte. I like the fact that we're going after the sponsors, and that's huge because we've got 75 years of businesses that have been or left us. I don't think you're going to have a problem for that. The first question is, how many diamond sponsors are you going to have?

That depends on how many drones we have in the show and how many we can put in there.

Ballpark, four, five, three.

I think we were more like... Eight to ten?

Oh, that's music to my ear. Next, the ice skating rink. I'm glad Councilor Dykens brought this up. I think it's a cool idea. I wanted to say that all day, and it's going to be in January. Question, are they going to have enough rentals for the skates? Because I don't think there's hardly anybody in this city that has ice skates.

All the companies we've looked at, they come with the skates.

And how many?

I do not ask that question.

This is kind of unique, and you might get bull rushed with that. Second, going back to many people here not having ice skates, there's going to be a lot of rookies on that ice skating rink. Are we going to have paramedics nearby? I would hope so. And Jack's not here. And the company's due up. The new Jack. Tom is the new Jack. No, just serious. I think it's a wonderful idea. I think it's going to be well received. And I honestly think that the companies out here are going to back this. And I'm pretty sure that nothing's going to come out of the city as far as this goes. I'm confident with that. So I'm totally behind this.

I could foresee having enough diamond sponsors where we could also do bounce houses too. Because, I mean, we could do both, I would think. I really do. So, Vice Mayor?

I had a couple questions. It has more to do with the budget and the money and all the things. So, first of all, I'll start with the easy one. Where is the drone show going to be viewed? Like, where do you envision that drone show being?

We were thinking of, was it the college?

So it would stage in the field of Lee Williams High School. So the drones cannot fly over people or vehicles. So they would have to.

So the people would be in the locomotive park area on the other side of the fence.

Correct. And on Beale Street between Grandview and First.

All right, perfect. You had your time, sir.

Whoa, whoa.

So the other question I had was, it says any expenses not offset by sponsorship revenue will have to be paid for from city funds. I think you're gonna get an overwhelming, we are a very generous community. So I feel like we're gonna have some sponsors step up. My question though, and I can't recall, but in the budget, what is the budgeted funds for this event?

We did not have a budgeted funds for this. So any funds that we would need for this would come out of contingency. So that's where we're focusing mainly on the sponsorship. But any funds that are needed would come out of contingency.

OK.

your ballpark figure what you're projecting right now i mean so i think we've got if you go back a slighter to uh... looking at option one we're looking somewhere in the twenty two to thirty five thousand dollar range so you know if we if we got seven diamonds were were fully covered and and i'm hopeful that that's how that's going to go uh...

The other thing, you had mentioned in one of the slides that you're going to have food trucks, a food truck area, city provided. Will those food trucks be charged to be in that area? Will there be a cost to be in that area? I mean, it's another opportunity to generate revenue as they do.

With the food trucks, we would have a designated area for them and they would come. And it would be on them, like if they wanted to sell their food. The only thing the city would be providing would be like snacks, hot cocoa, and like a cake or something.

Okay, so we're not charging the food trucks to come down to the event and participate in the event?

That's the plan. What we've seen... Some of the discussions that we've had is many times the food trucks will charge you to be able to come into it, you know, basically guaranteeing a number of sales and those types of things. So our invite is out there to bring the food trucks in, but we're not looking to pay them. We're not looking them to pay us. We want to invite them here. There is a possible conflict with the food trucks, so we want to make it as inviting as we can to them. I believe the Lake Havasu Balloon Festival is that weekend as well. So having this Thursday night, we're hoping to be far enough ahead of the balloon show that we're not conflicting too much with it.

Okay.

All right. Okay. I do support option one. I mean, if we're going to do it, 75 years only comes around once, right?

Go big or go home.

So I do want to encourage staff for donations. I would like to see little if no money coming out of contingency. That, I hope, is staff's goal. And so I support it. I support it with that in mind.

Manager Walsh, you had mentioned that oftentimes you have to pay food trucks to come in. First Friday, because it's such a success, the Chamber doesn't pay the food trucks to come in, do they?

They pay to participate, and that's why I was hoping to get some traction with... I don't know what the conflict is. Well, the conflict being the other event in Lake Havasu, but I just, I don't know. It's an opportunity for them to be downtown. We already know that it's going to be a heavily attended event. Charging them a nominal fee to participate, I don't think that's unreasonable, so... Whoever's on the planning committee, if you could.

We can definitely explore that.

Explore that. That would be great.

Okay. Any other comments or questions? I just want to add. Yes.

As far as the food trucks, are you going to put a cap on that? Because how much room are you gonna have for it? How many you gonna want and all that stuff? So you take that into consideration as well.

We'll definitely explore that as well. We're still We're still very early in the planning and looking at this We just wanted to get it in front of council make sure we had your blessing before we went too much further with it So still pretty early, you know, these are kind of the the big picture items that we're looking at but Definitely a lot more details to work out with it.

Okay.

Thank you manager Walsh anything else? I Can we have a motion then? It sounds like, anyway, can we have a motion approving item B? I'll go back a page. Approval of the proposed City of Kingman 75th Anniversary Celebration Plan. I'll make the motion. We have a motion. Do we have a second?

I'll second.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Oh, yes.

Do we need to vote on an option along with this motion?

Thank you, Councillor, you're right. We're all assuming this is the recommended option is option one.

Okay, it just wasn't stated, so.

Correct. Right, I think we're all looking at option one. So option one on item 4B. So we have a motion, do we have a second?

I second.

We have a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye.

Can I make one more comment?

Actually, we've already... Well, it's just... I'll clarify.

It's just on the logo. That's the next item. That's next. Oh. I didn't know it was two different ones. All right. Got it now.

Okay. Item 4C, approval of the City of Kingman's 75th anniversary commemorative seal for use on marketing and promotional materials throughout 2027. In recognition of the City of Kingman's 75th anniversary, staff has developed a commemorative seal to be incorporated into appropriate city-related materials during calendar year 2027, including printed publications, marketing materials, email signatures, the city website, social media, and other digital communications. Use of the seal will recognize the anniversary throughout the year and provide consistent branding across city publications and communications. Staff recommends approval. Sarah.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council. In front of you are two different logo designs. Really the only difference is the diamond in the middle. So I'm open for suggestions or if you...

Councillor Savage, you had a question or a comment?

No, just a comment. I really like the right-hand side one because it ties in more with the turquoise as well as the green around the borders and all that. The other one's just got a... I think there's more power in the turquoise-colored one with the blue and all that. So that's my opinion. But I like it.

Any other comments or questions or thoughts? Councillor Saley.

Um... Yeah, my question is, did we work with a graphic artist to create these images or these AI images?

The logo I took, the diamonds were from Canva. Oh, okay.

So you created this?

Yeah, using Canva, of course.

Okay, that makes me feel a lot better. I agree with the, I think the turquoise looks better. The only thing, and I'm sure you've seen this, but that inner circle cuts through the Kingman in kind of an odd way that is distracting. But otherwise, I agree with Councilor Savage on the turquoise, just because... we're known for our turquoise hair.

You do bring up a good point. On the one on the left, that circle disappears and does not cut the K or the N. Yeah. So clarify that.

I can change that. Yeah.

So, yeah. Okay, any other, Councillor Dykens, you acted like you had something? I'm good. Okay.

I was going to say something about...

Good enough. If there's no other comments or questions, can we have a motion then approving item 4C? I think we're all, Sarah, we've given you direction. I think we want the one on the right with the diamond, but cleaning the circle up.

Yes.

That makes sense?

I'll make that motion. Okay.

I'll second. We have a motion to second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Thanks, Sarah. Item five, department reports. 5A, department report regarding detention and retention basins. Jack, good to see you again.

Getting the mayor, vice mayor, members of the council. Amy's gonna come provide technical support, so. All right, good evening. A couple of meetings ago, Vice Mayor had some questions regarding our stormwater basins maintenance. I think it really was predicated on some of the basins that hold water, how long, that sort of thing. And part of that was during the presentation for the adoption of our updated stormwater drainage manual that engineering, Mike Garman, had completed. So I got a couple of slides here. I do want to just cover a couple of educational pieces. So as I'm rambling through the slides, you understand what I'm talking about. And so first one is, I think you guys have a pretty good understanding of how the city comes to adopt new assets into the system. You have a subdivision that comes along. They develop it, roads, sidewalks, this distance. In the past, that included drainage improvements, namely the retention and detention basins that we're talking about. And the city would ultimately adopt those for maintenance. And so at that point, the city owns those forever. I would like to point out that that is the process for new subdivisions. So if you have a large piece of land and it is broken into smaller parcels, that requires a different development trigger than if you buy, say, a block of road that's already platted. You guys are seeing that periodically. A developer will go in and buy all the lots on a block of road, develop that, because that subdivision was platted in the past. It doesn't fall under those same requirements for drainage. So this is specific to new subdivisions. In that instance the city adopts these you guys are aware just so the public's aware as well Other places it's typically an HOA or another governing body that takes those on for maintenance They pay HOA fees and the cities don't necessarily adopt those unless it's a large regional retention or detention basin something that serves a larger area rather than you know a couple streets or a small neighborhood and So the first one is a detention basin. A detention basin brings all that water in, the storm water flows to it, has an outlet. You can see in the picture here, this is one of the detention basins we have in our network. And so it has a small pipe. And what that does is it allows the storm water attenuation to occur and then ultimately drain out at a metered rate so you don't have that high flow going downstream and causing flood impacts. And so typically this will drain out on its own. It drains into a wash or a channel. If you had storm drain, it may drain into a storm drain. The other side is a retention basin. This is deep, so you can't necessarily see all the way around the perimeter. But this retention basin does not have an outlet. It retains that water. It takes that full stormwater attenuation and holds it. And so depending on the soil conditions that we'll talk about a little bit later, depending on what the soil conditions are, that's going to determine how long it's going to hold water. So we actually currently have 31 basins in our inventory that we've accepted for maintenance. That does not include private development. We do have a couple of private subdivisions that we have no right of way in. And it also doesn't include on-site detention or retention. So if you drive down Stockton Hill, you see in front of some of the businesses, you see in the hospital, they have detention retention basins on their site. That's actually their responsibility. So the city does not maintain those. So of those 31, we have 25 retention basins. Those have no outlet. And so those are dependent on what the soil conditions are as to how quickly they're going to perk and that water will dissipate. And then we have six detention areas that actually have a metering point out of those. One thing I didn't point out in the last slide, there are a handful of basins that the city has developed over the years. In the past, there was no requirement for any type of stormwater attenuation, detention, retention. And so an example, if you drive down Railroad at Louise, there's actually a big set of basins right there. The city had constructed that to mitigate some flooding impacts that are downstream of that basin. So some of these have been built by the city. I didn't get an exact number what I have an inventory I say it's probably like three of those the remainder were were accepted through development of subdivisions and accepted by make for maintenance by the city and So in here, I don't have it counted up, but we actually address about 10 of the 25 retention areas. We've installed a dry well, and what that dry well does is it drills down into the soil. Most of those are pretty deep, say 60 to 100 feet. Those were actually installed for water conservation, trying to recover any of the storm water we can and get it into the veto zone, so it ultimately makes its way into the aquifer. So that leaves about 15 of the retention areas that do not have a dry well. And depending on the soil conditions, those basins may hold water. I'm sorry, and that number was wrong. That's actually about 20, because we have 30 in. And so we've got 10 basins that are deployed out into the field right now that were done in a project. So I did plot them on a map. Nothing that you guys are probably super interested in, but I want you to see just kind of how those are dispersed through town. As you can see, most of the old development has very few basins. It's where we've either installed a regional basin or addressed a specific drainage issue, or it could be a new subdivision that had occurred in there. Like the one, there's one outlier. It's the latest phase of Wallach Ranch that actually had to build a basin. So talked a lot about retention basin performance and really how that depends on what the soil conditions are. So some of our soil here is silty, it's very fine, it's very dense soil. It doesn't lend itself well to allowing water to flow through that soil and ultimately dissipate out of the basin. Sometimes we also get into caliche. You guys have probably seen it or heard it. Very hard, very dense, cemented type soil or condition. And so it does not percolate water hardly at all, if any. And so if you have that type of condition in your basin or below it to a point where we can't get to a subsurface condition that allows that water to dissipate, it's going to hold water. I would say many of the basins that we have are actually going to hold that water just because with a retention basin and a detention basin, one of the key differences there, when you do a detention basin, because you're going to outlet into a wash or something, those might be below grade, but sometimes they're not as deep as the other basins. I should have grabbed another picture. I had one from two conditions that would have painted this picture a little better for you. But as you saw with the retention area that had the fence around it, it is very deep. That's two part. One, the developers are trying to conserve the square footage that these basins take up, and so they're actually making them deeper so it doesn't take away from lots that are developable or being able to build a home on. And so the basins are getting deeper, which sometimes actually brings us into some of those soil conditions that don't lend themselves well to percolating out the stormwater. Another thing that can happen, and we've actually gone and dug them out, it has more to do with the capacity of the basin than it does the ability for it to percolate the stormwater. And that is we get silt and runoff. We have a basin that receives stormwater from undeveloped areas, and it brings a lot of silt and deposits into that pond. We actually have to go dig those out periodically and haul that material away and improve the capacity. So I'll talk about what this means for maintenance. Most of our maintenance is weed abatement, trash, just general upkeep on those. There are times that we have to go out and make functional repairs. We have erosion that occurs. We have damage as a result of a single storm event or multiple storm events. We'll go out and repair riprap and clean those types of things up. I mentioned we go clean the basins out when they receive a lot of sediment or debris into them. But generally, it's weed abatement and trash. We talked a little bit about the 20 basins that are remaining. And I'll talk about what our future looks like and what we're going to do to try and address some of these areas that may be holding water. Because those so far have been complaint driven. When we get calls from the public we go deal with them. And that's a problem because it makes it unsightly sometimes. We get additional weed growth. Sometimes we actually get Insect and rodent issues as a result of those holding water for extended periods of time So we do deal with it with requests for service that we receive specific to retention basins holding water But one of the things we'd have to look at the last round of dry wells was just under four hundred thousand dollars You know to address all those basins that address ten of them so you're probably looking in the neighborhood of close to a million dollars to address the existing basins we have That is, I can't remember the exact year that those basins were built, but say approaching 10 years, so those dollar figures may have changed, or likely, because nothing has gotten cheaper. So talk about what we've done to address this problem for future development. You guys recall recently you adopted the stormwater drainage manual, rather. And so that drainage manual does two things. One, the city won't be adopting basins any longer for maintenance. They're going to have to be adopted or continued for maintenance by the contractor HOA or some other body that will continue that maintenance. As well, it established a 36-hour maximum drain time. So when they construct a basin, based on the PERC rate that's established, that basin needs to go from full to empty within 36 hours. And again, this is for new. This doesn't address existing basins that are in our network. This would be any new basins that are built as a result of development.

Can I ask you a question specific to that? Yes, ma'am. has to drain within 36 hours, does it depend on how hard the rain is, how long it rains, what the measurement of the level of the rain is, or just any particular rain?

Mike Garman can correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't matter. When the basin is full to the point it's empty, after the rain event, you know, once the rain has stopped, 36 hours.

So once it's completed, 36 hours.

Correct.

Okay.

Can I add to that, Jack? Yes, sir. Does that include snow in the winter and ice and all that stuff?

I actually don't know that answer. I would assume that includes any type of precipitation.

Precipitation, yeah.

Yeah.

Okay, thank you.

I don't like the white snuff stuff. Don't bring no juju there. All right, so what does our current maintenance program look like as I mentioned our street crew goes out and does. Does some of the maintenance, the dig outs and the repairs we do bring on seasonal staff that go out and do we debatement we run temporary employees for that. And so that's a combined effort in those. Some of it is reactive. We get a call, hey, we have weeds, or we try to stay on a regular maintenance program with those, but in the busy season, we may get a call for weeds. We may get a call that there's erosion. A lot of times these are adjacent to homes, so it starts getting close to block wall footings and things. So some of our maintenance is inspection driven. Some of it is reactive when we get calls from the public request for service. These are prioritized along with all the other work we have, pavement preservation, dirt road, shoulder, sidewalks, any of the efforts that the street department puts in or division puts in for maintenance and repair. This is just another activity within that. And so we talked trash, some weed abatement, erosion control, that sort of thing. future investigations and remedies. So what are we going to do in the future? The first part is we've got to establish which basins are holding water. We know a couple of those are repeat offenders. Some of those have been solved with the addition of the dry wells that were installed in the past and so that has helped those basins actually percolate and not hold water. We had one in particular that had frogs and some animals or things growing in it that really liked water, and so that one in particular is solved, but I don't know unless we go back to the request for service log or we're actually investigating these ourselves and trying to determine which ones are holding water. I would anticipate most, if not all, are going to hold water in excess of that 36-hour just because of the soil conditions. We've accepted those. We own those at this point. And so what we're going to do in streets at this point, we have the inventory, we have a storm event, we'll go check those, we'll wait 36 hours, we'll go check the basins again, and then we can establish which ones, if not all, are holding water, and then come up with a plan for correcting that situation. That brings us to funding. As I mentioned, if we were looking at another 10 plus dry wells, the last one again for 10 dry wells was under $400,000, but still we're looking at roughly 20 of those so we could be in the million dollar range. And so that's another need on top of other stormwater related issues. We have a stormwater master plan and we have other Again, stormwater needs that are out there for corrective measures for flooding and ongoing maintenance and repair that occurs as a result of storms. And so this would be one of those that we'd have to add in to try and pursue grants or other funding mechanisms that would actually fund these and allow us to execute some of those projects. And with that, if you guys have any questions, I would try and answer them.

Thanks, Jack. Yes, Vice Mayor.

I did have another question. Is there any possibility of using the Mojave County Flood District funds to... Go towards this, Manager Walsh.

there are um we have a number of flood control projects that we're we you know have lined out i forget what 10 million worth or so um so and we get just under a million a year right now from flood control so um definitely it's that's where this the funding for these types of things come from is from the those flood control district funds however it's just yeah okay

That was a great report, Jack. I appreciate all the information. It was exactly the talking points that I needed, so I appreciate it.

Great, thank you.

I just got a question. Yes. Mentioning that we're not accepting anymore as far as city taking care of them, and if it ends up moving over to an HOA, et cetera, et cetera, with what the city does currently, What would you think, and this is just a roundabout idea figure, what does it take to keep those clean and taken care of money-wise on an annual basis? Ideally, homeowners are going to know they've got to take care of this and this is what it's going to be. I'm just curious of what the cost is for upkeep or stuff like that.

Yeah, absolutely. I don't know at the homeowner level through the HOA what that would look like. Kingman only has one. I've never discussed any of the costs or had. I haven't talked to them in a while. I'm assuming they still exist. Generally our conversation was related to the trees that were growing adjacent to an arterial were restricting access for vehicles large vehicles buses and things so I don't know the individual cost to a homeowner what that would look like Okay, but for us as the city how much time are we actually putting in and And knowing that we're not going to have to do it anymore What would they expect?

I don't know.

Yeah, I understand your question better now. So I just want to make sure I clarify. The basins that we have in our inventory will stay here. We won't accept any more. So our budget, and I'm working off of memory, so don't hold me to the exact dollar figure. But we spend roughly $250,000 a year in temporary labor. They do other weed abatement efforts, but predominantly we spend most of that effort in the basins just because they tend to grow better, they have more water. Those are one of the most heavily maintenanced areas from our temporary services. That typically includes two crews of three to four people, so a total of six to eight. And we do that through coming into the spring all the way into the fall. And so that does not include staff time for city employees and equipment time for those repair and maintenance activities we provide. do on the basins. So we actually track some of that for a number of reasons. I don't have those exact dollar figures. I could give you the number of hours and then calculate based on an average what that looks like, but easily half a million dollars between temporary labor and what we're spending in staff time and equipment costs.

Thank you. I'm glad we're not taking on any more.

Me too.

Any other questions for Jack? Actually, Jack, just one off the top of my head. Big Green Hole and Pawnee Park, those both have retention. Well, Big Green Hole we know is a retention pond pool, a detention. Detention, correct. And then Pawnee Park, is that also a detention? It is. So, stupid question, because a lot of people use those for recreation also. Soccer, are those parks department or is that your department?

Those are parks. I'm happy to announce that. Mike's been trying to give them up for a while, but actually parks does maintain both of those areas. Interesting.

I would think that they would because of a lot of recreation that goes on in those parks.

Yeah, especially with the green hole. It's Got grass and other features in that. And so kudos to Mike's team for taking care of both of those.

Great. Good job, Mike.

They do a fine job.

We do. Yes. Thank you, Jack. Okay. Thanks. We appreciate that presentation. Have a good evening. Item number six, announcements by mayor, council members, and city manager. Tim?

Thank you, Mayor. Just a few announcements. We have our Citizens Academy for the fall starting up tomorrow night. We do have a full class there, so that's exciting. Andy Devine prayed this Saturday at 10 o'clock. And lastly, it'll be before the next council meeting, so our Flying Fortress ribbon cutting will be on October 5th at 11 o'clock. That's right. Hope to see everybody there.

Okay. Thank you, Tim. Councillor Savage. Councillor Ward. Councilor Saley? Councilor Dikens? Vice Mayor?

Nothing for me.

Okay. Well, Tim, you already mentioned, of course, well, the Mojave County Fair is this weekend. So it is, as we know, oftentimes the months of September and October are pretty busy in the city. A lot of activities going on. The Mojave County Fair starts on Thursday. Ribbon cutting is at 10 a.m. on Thursday morning. And, of course, runs through Sunday. And, of course, in correlation with that is the Pro Rodeo, too. So, being held on the same weekend, which is great to see that. Of course, in correlation with all that, on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. is the 56th Annual Annie Devine Days Parade. So, obviously, City Council, we will have our trailer, our float in that, that we get to ride on and wave to all the people. So... Hope we all can go. And then just finally, and this is something that is under attended, but it is a great event in our city that is happening. The Kingman Concert Band is presenting their fall concert. It is Sunday, September 20th at 2 p.m. at the KHS Auditorium. And the theme of it is sounds that go bump in the night concert. And I know I went to one back in the spring, and it was a great thing to go to attend. And so I just wanted to make sure people knew about that. I have nothing else. Item number seven, council request for future reports and updates. Anything from council?

I have a couple.

Yes, Vice Mayor.

I would like to have a report. There's been a lot of chatter on social media about a lot of things. And I would like to have a presentation on our transparency portal. So I'd like to show the public how they can get in there and they can see expenditures throughout the city. So I'd like that. And I would also like to get an update on the half cent sales tax collection and just a report on how we're spending those monies. And I would like that to be in the second meeting of November, please. That's all I had. Thank you.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. Okay, hearing nothing else, we are adjourned. And thanks once again to everybody for being here in Council Chambers or participating via our YouTube channel.