City Council - Regular Meeting

Being on Tuesday, May 26th, 2026 at 5.30 p.m. We'll now have an invocation from Pastor Tim Giles with Inspire the Church, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by Rachel Hughes and Carl Cornett with the Lake Havasu Lighthouse Club.

Thank you. It's a privilege to be here with all of you guys, our thoughtful civic leaders. The work you do, our community partners, citizens, for all the work and Everything you do to strengthen and support and serve the city, it really is. You guys deserve a debt of gratitude. Would you pray with me? Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus. And I ask you for grace and wisdom for our city leaders. Lord, give them judgment and discernment. Strengthen them. Father, I thank you that our citizen and our community partners, that we all come together for thoughtful discussion to serve and support our city. Thank you for the blessing you've given us with all these wonderful people. Lord, I pray that your grace covers all of us. In Jesus' name, amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Amen. Good evening. My name is Carl Cornett, and I am the president of the Lake Havasu City Lighthouse Club. I wanna first thank everybody, our mayor, our council members and staff, cuz there's so many of you. I really appreciate it. Next, what I'd like to do is introduce Rachel Hughes. She's gonna come up here and she'll be talking about the lighthouses and what they do and just basic information so everybody gets to know what we do out there. Rachel.

Good evening, Honorable Mayor and City Council. The Lake Havasu Lighthouse Club is a 501c3 nonprofit organization staffed by volunteer residents dedicated to the preservation, repair, and safeguarding of the Lake Havasu Lighthouses. The club was established in 2000 by boaters to help other boaters. Generous donors and sponsors paid for the initial building of the lighthouses. Presently, there are 28 lighthouses on the lake. Replicas from the western U.S. are located on or near the California side, while replicas from the eastern U.S. are located on the Arizona side. The Great Lakes replicas are represented on the islands. The majority of the lighthouses were built from wood or stucco and are constantly exposed to the lighthouses. Wear and tear over 26 years is our main issue. They are in constant need of paint, battery replacement, and concrete repair. The beacons are solar... powered with a life expectancy of 12 years. However, the battery life is only three to five. The sea lights, however, range between $800 and $1,900 each, depending on the distance needed for projection. Vandalism, however, has become a much bigger issue for us and more prevalent due to the location and accessibility of some of our lighthouses. For instance, there are 15 lighthouses located on the island, making them very accessible and regularly visited. Previously, the Lake Havasu Convention and Visitors Bureau claimed that over 30% of our visitors come specifically to see our lighthouses. The majority of these visitors are here merely to sightsee and take pictures, but we're seeing a lot more vandalism occurring, such as graffiti and tagging, even etching names on the windows. Point Gratchit on the island is a perpetual example for us. This unofficial party location is host to many bonfires and constantly in need of cleanup and repair. Our members use a huge magnet constantly to retrieve nails from pallets filling a five gallon bucket. That's how many. Vermillion Lighthouse, also located on the island, has even been used as an obstacle course with tire marks from side by sides climbing up the sides. As a result, we installed bollards and chains to prevent access. Portland Head Lighthouse was probably our most expensive case of vandalism. Located atop Pilot Rock and difficult to get to, vandals climbed Pilot Rock and pushed over the entire top of the lighthouse into the lake. The repair took several months and almost $5,000 to rebuild the cage and reposition the lighthouse. The Lighthouse Club stands alone. We received absolutely no funding from the city, the county, BLM, state, or federal. Our funding for all repairs and supplies comes 100% from donations by our community, visitors, and sales of our books. All of our resources and time are spent on maintenance, lighthouse inspections, and public education. Again, all provided by our members. As I've said earlier, cost to maintain our beloved lighthouses is skyrocketing, and I'm here today not only to bring awareness to you and our residents, but also to ask for some assistance and guidance in securing additional funds to help with ongoing maintenance and repair. Our members perform all of the work using our own boats, tools, and time to ensure the lighthouses are in working condition for the safety of our boaters and would really appreciate any suggestions on helping us prosper. Our membership is 100% volunteer and we've lost many members over the years due to attrition and burnout. If the club goes belly up, what happens to the lighthouses? What happens to this beautiful attraction in our city? Who's going to replace the lights? Who will repair the damage? Who will paint over the graffiti? These are very good questions that we would love to have answers for. We truly appreciate the opportunity to meet with you today and share our love of Lake Havasu Lighthouses and hope you can offer us some type of assistance. We really need your help to keep our lighthouses lit. Thank you very much for your help and consideration.

Yeah, thank you, Rachel.

And we have, I have Jackie here who has some maps for all of you. So we'd be happy to answer any questions if anybody has any questions.

We can't actually take questions right now, but we do appreciate you.

That's fine.

You can actually give them to the city clerk, the maps down here at the end. Yeah, Ms. Williams will get those distributed. Yeah, thank you so much.

We do have a website, so additional information can be found on that. It's www.lh-lighthouseclub.org, and we also have a Facebook page, LHC Lighthouse Club. Thanks again.

Thank you. Thank you so much, and thank you to all the club members that joined us this afternoon as well. Like Havasu City is such a special place because of organizations like yours and others that do really just amazing work that you would not find elsewhere. So thank you for those efforts and thank you for sharing the story. We'll move on to the next item on our agenda, which is the roll call. Ms. Williams, if you'd please call the roll.

Council members Jenny Koch? Here. Nancy Campbell?

Here.

Jim Dolan?

Here.

Cameron Moses?

Here.

Michelle Lin? Vice Mayor David Diaz.

Here.

Mayor Kal Sheehy.

Here.

Thank you.

Thank you. Item five is our consent agenda. Would any of the council members like to remove any items for separate discussion?

Mayor.

Council Member Koch.

Motion. Please. Move to approve the consent agenda as presented.

I do. We have a motion from Council Member Koch. We have a second from Council Member Moses. We are ready to vote.

Motion carries six to zero.

Thank you. Item six is our correspondence, communications, petitions, announcements, and the city manager report. Item 6.1 is to announce the vacancies on Lake Havasu City boards, committees, and commissions. Ms. Williams.

Here in City Council, this item is to announce vacancies on Lake Havasu City Board's committees and commissions. The following is a listing of the current and upcoming vacancies. Board of Adjustment, three upcoming regular members, one current member, and two upcoming alternate members. Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, two upcoming regular members, one upcoming student member. And the Planning and Zoning Commission, one upcoming regular member and two upcoming alternate members anyone interested can pick up a packet at city hall and they're also available on the city's website at lhcaz.gov the deadline to submit applications for the upcoming vacancies is five o'clock on friday this friday may 29th thank you thank you ms williams item 6.2 is our city manager report good evening mr knutson good evening mayor good evening council i hope everyone's having a gorgeous day today

The community gathered just over the weekend on Memorial Day at Wheeler Park for the annual Memorial Day ceremony to honor the brave men and women who gave their lives in service to our country. The well-attended ceremony served as a meaningful tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice and a powerful reminder of the deep gratitude we hold for their courage, dedication, and service to our nation. Mayor Sheehy delivered remarks and presented a proclamation and recognition of Memorial Day. Mostly in attendance, though, I'd like to highlight where Arizona State Representative Leah Biasucci, Morley County Supervisor Sonny Borelli, Vice Mayor David Diaz, Council Members Nancy Campbell, Michelle Lin, and Cameron Moses, and Assistant City Manager Anthony Kozlowski, and many other city staff attended. So many brought the community together in remembrance, reflection, and appreciation for the heroes who gave everything in service of our nation. I'd like to congratulate Councilmember Jenny Koch. You were selected as a 2026 Flynn Brown Fellow through the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership. This prestigious statewide program recognizes leaders dedicated to public service and civic engagement. Jenny, you join a accomplished network of 518 fellows across Arizona, five of which, only five of which, that are from Mojave County. Your continued leadership and commitment to Lake Havasu City are a tremendous asset to our community. I'd just like to recognize Swan Cook, the city staff, who was recently recognized on a national level after her article titled, It's Everyone's Responsibility, A Lifelong Journey in Drowning Prevention. It was featured and published by the National Drowning Prevention Alliance. This outstanding accomplishment reflects SWAN's passion and dedication to promoting water safety, education, and drowning prevention throughout our community. Residents can view the article by visiting ndpa.org and look for it under the Parents tab. Thank you, SWAN, for your continued commitment to educating and protecting our community through aquatics and water safety awareness. I'd like to congratulate another member of our city team, HR Human Resource Manager Kerry Vogt, for recently completing the Public Sector Leadership Certificate Program through the Cornell University Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. Corey was also selected to present at their 2026 Annual Conference and accepted to serve on their research committee which reflects her continued leadership and commitment to professional excellence in public sector human resources. We appreciate you, Cori, for your dedication and continued learning and the valuable expertise that you bring to Lake Havasu City. Public Works Week was recognized May 17th through May 23rd, with the theme this year is Rooted in Service, Powered by the Community. We honor the dedicated employees who help keep Lake Havasu City running each and every day. Energy Vice Mayor David Diaz and I had the opportunity to recognize and thank hardworking staff of the Lake Havasu City Public Works Department for their continued dedication to our community. Thank you, Mr. Fagan. Tim Kellett is here as well too, Deputy Public Works Director, as well as Deputy Public Works Director Bill Young. Thank you for your service to the community. For maintaining streets and infrastructure, providing reliable water and wastewater services, Public Works employees play a vital role in keeping our city safe, strong, and moving forward each and every day. Special recognition was recently held honoring Sue Blanchard for her 36 years of dedicated service to education and the Lake Havasu City community with the proclamation of Sue Blanchard Day that took place on May 14th, 2026. Since beginning her career in 1990, Sue has served in several important roles throughout the school district, positively impacting countless students, staff and families through her dedication, reliability and compassion. The community extends its sincere appreciation and best wishes to you, Sue, on your upcoming retirement. Congratulations. Recently, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and the City Council, we participated in council tours. We spent the day, or the morning, touring Loretta Facility and the Dr. Thilak Fernando Water Quality Lab. These tours provide valuable first-hand insight into city operations, training, capital projects, and the dedicated staff behind each of these projects and activities. From seeing the extensive work and preparation involved at the Academy to witnessing the collaboration and progress taking place at the laboratory project, The tours offered engaging opportunities for discussion, learning, and deeper appreciation for our commitment to Lake Havasu City. Lake Havasu, we celebrated the Junior Sons Youth Basketball Clinic Day as Mayor Sheehy officially proclaimed May 16, 2026 in recognition of the special events and positive impact on our local youth. In partnership with the Phoenix Suns, the Junior Suns Youth Basketball Clinic provided participants with the opportunity to develop basketball skills, teamwork, confidence, and sportsmanship while staying active through recreation. A special thank you to the Lake Havasu City Parks and Recreation Department, all the coaches and volunteers, and families who helped make the event a great success. We'd also like to recognize Lynn's Little China for a generous $1,000 donation in support of the Junior Suns program and local youth athletics. Summer Camp 2026 registration is still open. We have spots available at Nautilus and Smoketree. Currently there are 385 kiddos that are registered for the program and about 90 or about 100 spots are still available. The program offers kids a summer full of fun games, activities, new friendships and unforgettable memories in a safe and engaging environment. Families are encouraged to register soon and take advantage of another exciting summer through Lake Havasu City Parks and Recreation. Just go to our website at lhcaz.gov slash fun to register. And we're also having a kickoff for the new Big Fish, Little Fish program. It'll take place next month at the Aquatic Center. It's designed for children ages five and under, and their parents are guardians. The program offers a fun and relaxing environment for water play, family time, and building confidence in the water. Big Fish, Little Fish will take place every Tuesday in June from 10 a.m. to noon at the Aquatic Center. If you have any questions, there's information on the flyer, or simply give us a call at the Parks and Recreation Department at 453-8686. And lastly, I'm excited to share that Lake Adventist City's new website is now live. The project involved a tremendous amount of work, a lot of work, behind the scenes, and I want to extend a big thank you to Digital Media Coordinator Steve Blake, Community Engagement Officer Jerry Bracamonte, and Assistant City Manager Anthony Kozlowski, and all the staff across all the departments that worked tirelessly to put this website together. It's a lot of information, not a lot of it is related, so we try to do our best to make it as user-friendly as possible. Launching the new website is a major accomplishment, but it also is an ongoing effort as staff continues working every day to improve content, accessibility, communication, and the overall user experience for all of our residents and visitors. So if you see something you like, let us know. If you see something that needs to be corrected, let us know too. And Mayor and Council, with that, that concludes my report for this evening.

Thank you, Mr. Knudson. All right, item seven on our agenda is our public hearings. During each of the next four items, we will have discussion. We'll then open up a public hearing for any public that wants to engage on the conversation. and then we will bring it back to council. At the end of the meeting, we will have a call to the public, which is where citizens have the opportunity to address the City Council on items that are not on the agenda this evening. Starting with item 7.1 is the Transactional Public Sector Agreement for Oracle Cloud Comprehensive Managed Service Provider with Oracle America, Inc. for fiscal year 26-27. Ms. Olson.

Thank you, good evening. This item before you is for council consideration to approve an agreement with Oracle. As you know, our entire financial system that includes HR, procurement, finance, payroll, is an Oracle system. And you may be familiar with Campra Technologies and JAE Enterprises. We have been contracting with them in the past few years to provide the technical assistance needed to staff for this Oracle system. We found some areas where we think thought we could find hopefully find some improvement and get some better help and better assistance and so staff went through the process of evaluating multiple vendors and it was determined that it the Oracle's managed services division was the best option for us to consider in getting the help that we need the Oracle in particular has teams that specialize in local government which is critical it's for them to have on their team people who understand especially on the financial system side, how the different funds operate, how they interact with each other, how the reporting works is really key. And just our entire workflow process in every module is so important. So we are proposing to contract with Oracle Systems for a 13-month period just to get us through the next fiscal year. This would start on May 31st. We will have some overlap with Kampter Technologies just as we transition, finish off some current projects and then transition over those projects over to Oracle or complete them. So there will be a little bit of overlap and probably most importantly, we do believe that there will be some annual savings going with the Oracle system once we've had a year to kind of work with it and look at their new they have a little bit different model for technical assistance and the billing associated with that so we want to make sure that we stay within that budget but we believe we'll be able to save a significant amount of money every year once we're 100% with Oracle and with that I'll be happy to answer any questions

Thank you, Ms. Olson. Are there any questions from members of the council for Ms. Olson on this item? Yeah, Vice Mayor Diaz.

Thank you, Jill. The Camtrap technology is going out of business, you said, are they?

No, we would end our contract with them and we would just switch to Oracle. Those continue.

This is gonna save us quite a bit of money if it works out with Oracle, correct? Yes. Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you very much.

Are there any other questions? All right, this is a public hearing. Would anyone like to address the city council on this item? So just make your way to the podium. Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing, bring it back to council for discussion or possible motion.

Mayor motion.

Council member Moses.

Yeah, I move to approve the transactional public sector agreement and ordering document with Oracle America Inc. The amount of $234,325.06 and authorize the city manager to execute the agreement and related documents on behalf of the city. Second. Second.

We have a motion from Councilmember Moses, a second from Vice Mayor Diaz. Is there any additional discussion? Seeing none, we're ready to vote.

Motion carries six to zero.

Thank you. Thank you. Item 7.2 is the cooperative purchase of VMware server licenses from Sterling Computers Corporation and authorize acceptance of the Broadcom terms and conditions for the city's virtual server licensing and support. Mr. Baskett.

Thank you very much. Good evening, Mayor, Council. For this item, we are requesting authorization to enter into a new agreement with Broadcom so we can purchase our server license renewal with VMware. VMware is actually a subsidiary of Broadcom, which is why we're entering into those terms. But we utilize VMware for server virtualization in our data center. It's a critical piece to what we do. Unlike in other technologies where you might have a computer on your desk and an operating system that runs one to one, we actually have virtual servers. So in our instance, in our data center, we have five computers essentially, call them nodes. And on those five computers, we at any time have anywhere from 100 to 135 virtual servers running just on those five computers. So as you can see, this is a critical piece to what we do. VMware also allows us to manage those. If any of those servers go offline, it allows us to move over to other servers within that environment. It gives statistics so that we can continue to monitor them, add resources, and whatnot. Without that infrastructure, we would be hard pressed to provide the services that we do today. Annual cost for that is $134,400. I'd be happy to give any more explanations or answer any questions.

Thank you. Are there any questions from members of the council for Mr. Bescret? Seeing none, this is a public hearing. Would anyone like to address the city council on this item? Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing, bring it back to council for any discussion or possible motion. Yeah, Vice Mayor Diaz?

Tell me what comes with the three year agreement, what does it entail?

So it's all the licensing, so it's annually what includes that license. So they've set the prices on licensing for the next three years, essentially what that agreement does. We would like to go year to year, but unfortunately Broadcom actually just purchased VMware in the last year, and they're wanting clients to stay. So the shortest term we can get is actually three years of pricing, which is why we're locked in. So that gives us all the licensing. for every single server. It's a very complicated way that they license those servers. It's called cores. But it's really just able to spin up new servers for the size of the environment that we have. Thank you.

Vice Mayor Diaz, is it a motion?

I'll make a motion. I move to approve the cooperative purchase of VMware server license from Sterling Computers Corporation for a three-year period in the amount of $403,200 plus applicable taxes and to accept the terms and conditions with Broadcom Inc.

I'll second. We have a motion from Vice Mayor Diaz, a second from Council Member Moses. Is there any additional discussion? Seeing none, we'll write a vote.

Motion carries six to zero.

Item 7.3 is job order contract task order agreement number one for the Pima Wash number eight drop structures at El Dorado Avenue and Blue Water Drive to Perco Rock Company. Mr. Wolf.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Tonight, we're here for a recommendation for award of a portion of the Pima Wash REACH CIP project. This portion is task order number one for two of the drop structures in that REACH, one at El Dorado and the other one at the Blue Water. Some project highlights for that task order. The project was identified as actually the final one on the list of the 2015 wash management plan. So no more off of that plan. This is it. We're on our new plan now after this. Safety improvements was a big issue on this project. You'll see in some of the photos. Includes some safe pedestrian crossings, getting our pedestrians across along the street. Safety controls for storm water management, making sure the pool or the wash as it washes over the road does have some safety improvements to keep it contained for vehicles that do have to cross. Hopefully they stop and not cross during a high water. And then some energy dissipation. As you know, our washes are continually transporting sediments down towards the lake. And when we slow it down, it drops those sediments out instead of carrying them downstream. The focus is to procure right now the drop structures. There's two. And to further remaining wash reach for later in 2026. It's a 3,000 lineal foot wash reach is the entirety of the project. A big portion of it had presence of owls, burrowing owls. So we're gonna defer that section until later in the fall, probably September. And that's for the nesting season to be over with. And those guidelines are with a national permit for fish and game, for migratory birds is the owls. And then state game and fish for predatory bird protection. So there's two levels of protection for our little feathery friends. Here's a couple that were noted in the wash area. None were found or present in the drop structures at this time. So we did discover and had an owl survey done for the area in keeping with how we do things here. If you look at the right picture there, you'll see where pedestrians get dropped off. It's just not conducive to safe pedestrian crossing from the sidewalk along the wash reach. You can see how things have deteriorated over the years and streets has done what they can with available money they can to keep it contained at least. And you'll see just downstream how this wash is really starting to scour quite a bit. And it's got some high velocities. This is the other crossing at Blue Water, the drop structure. You can, again, see up there where those cones are on the right, what pedestrians are currently expected to get across. So it was in dire need of some improvements as part of that. And then on the left, you'll see a little bit of continued scouring downstream of the structure. To give you an idea, I apologize for that top picture, the perspective kind of got lost. But the bottom picture there, it gives an idea what type of structure we're talking about for drop. We're getting that water from the street level down into the wash level, dissipating that energy. We sent six requests for quotes to the Mojave County job order contract, sent six requests for quotes. Four responded, we received four from Perco Rock, Groundwater Partners, Combs Construction, and Rummel. All four of these were on that job order list. The low bid was found to be Perco Rock. That's how we're basing any award is the lowest bid. Came in about $60,000 under what we had estimated it. And for this phase, the CIP budget for this phase of the drops was $1 million carrying this year. There will be a bit of carry forward in our CIP program coordinated with finance. SO THE AWARD RECOMMENDATION, ALTHOUGH IT'S WRITTEN MORE PRECISELY IN THE SUGGESTED MOTION IN YOUR COUNCIL COMMUNICATION, THE BRIEF IS THE JOC TASK ORDER NUMBER ONE BE AWARDED TO PERCO ROCK IN THE AMOUNT OF $609,083. And I didn't have a questions page, but I'm open for any questions you may have. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Wolf. Are there questions from members of the council for Mr. Wolf? Council Member Campbell? Motion. Are there any other questions or comments before we open the public hearing? All right, this is a public hearing. Would anyone like to address the city council on this item?

I did have a couple of questions as he was speaking. I heard him say this is a bid for two drop structures, but only one is going to be done now and the other one is going to be done in a few months from now because of the wildlife. Will he have to come back and ask for more money for the second one? And This is from 2015 WASH Master Plan. Is there a new WASH Master Plan? And how long is that list?

So we do a WASH Master Plan of, is it 10 years? Is it a timing or is it a number of projects?

It's typically a number of projects. We did stop at 12 as far as a priority list for the 2025 WASH Management Plan. that was adopted in October of 2025. Yes.

Thank you. The first question, Mr. Wolf, about, she understood that we're having two different areas and with the OWL, if you could answer that.

Yes, yes, Mayor. We have a wash reach for the original CIP project, which was about 3,000 feet of wash repair. We saw that there was significant reach along that 3,000 feet that was high bank, usually south bank of the wash, shaded in the afternoons is where we have owls either. nesting or just roosting and hunting from that. Because of that discovery, we decided to wait and push the rest of the reach, some 3,000 feet, into the fall when we could approach the owls at that time after nesting season, but wanted to really approach these safety issues we saw at two crossings, there's actually two drop structures. One at El Dorado where it crosses the Pima and the other one a little bit further upstream at the Blue Water where it crosses the Pima. And as far as, yes, we will be here again when we finish the design for the rest of that reach. where the owls are present we'll double check our survey for any nesting that may have taken place between now and then and then bring back to council probably in the fall for the remaining cip money that's already funded so this isn't a request for new money it's going to be a request later for money that's already set aside thank you you're welcome thank you

Would anyone else like to address the City Council on this item? Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing, bring it back to Council for a discussion or a possible motion. Council Member Campbell?

What's in front of me, it looks like, yeah, it's the last agenda item, so I'll just move on to, should we wait for Kelly to update?

I'm going to suggest a motion.

Yeah, let's do that.

There we are.

Is your screen updated, Council Member Campbell?

Yep.

Okay, perfect.

There's no further discussion, I'll go ahead and motion. I move to award the JOC task order agreement number one to Pima Wash, number eight drop structures to Perco Rock Company in the amount of $609,083. Second.

We have a motion from Councilmember Campbell, a second from Councilmember Moses. Is there any additional discussion? Seeing none, we're ready to vote.

Motion carries six to zero.

Thank you. Then our final public hearing is item 7.4, which is job order contract task order agreement number two for the Walnut Drive drop structure at Daytona Wash crossing to Perco Rock Company. Mr. Wood.

Yes, good evening, Mayor and Council. This is the second task order. We're dealing with drop structures tonight, and this particular one is on the Daytona Wash at Walnut Drive. We're bringing a recommendation to award the project. Project highlights for this standalone drop structure. The project was identified this last year by Streets Division as critically in need of replacement. With potential failure causing a washout on Walnut Drive and potentially having to close it. But we're gonna catch it in time hopefully. This safety improvements also are a big part of this one. We have, you'll see in the photos, will include safe pedestrian crossing improvements. Again, safety controls for storm water management, getting that water across the road with a mix of hopefully vehicles stopping and not crossing the water. And then energy dissipation, slow the water down so it's not scouring our washes and causing other issues downstream. The design actually when it brought to engineering's attention from streets, we went ahead and knew it was gonna need replacement. We designed the project so it would be shovel ready and we're waiting for a funding source. This task order two was also bid to six contractors on the current Mojave County job order contract list. Four contractors submitted pricing proposals. And those bids are in your council communication and exhibits for the bid tab. Here's some existing conditions. I think as soon as you see those, you realize why we're here. Critical need to replace that drop structure. It's minor in nature as far as the drop, but as you move downstream, there's another natural drop that we're going to capture with the length. that we're gonna improve this drop structure. Again, to give you an idea of what we do, here's a good picture. It doesn't show the roadway, but here's a good example of a previously constructed drop structure with the rock, energy dissipation, and each one of these drops. So tonight, there's our four competitive JOC bids, the same four contractors that were I would say fairly competitive to get down here and do some work for us. We had an engineer's estimate of about $453,000 and change. The low bid, again, went to Perco Rock for $371,056. The flood control fund savings here that we had from previous work was to cover this project. So the fund that we found as a source will be the flood control savings realized from this year. Award recommendation again, the JOC task order number two be awarded to Perco Rock in the amount of $371,056. And I'll open it for any questions.

Thank you, Mr. Wolf. In our bid tabulation for Perkle Rockets, we have it as $408,420. Let me get that.

Now, drop structure at Walnut Drive, bid opening is 5.8. I'm showing Perco Rock, their low bid was 6.09, 0.83. I'm sorry, wrong one. I apologize. Sorry, yeah. The Perco Rock corrected bid amount was $371,056.

And that updated, so we have the bid opening date of $408,420. Yeah, I know. Yes, sir, thank you.

we would take the savings but we just want to make sure that yes sir tonight gets the job done i'm sorry yes uh this yes i'm sorry i stand corrected so the low bid is 408 420. okay perfect

The screen we have up is incorrect. The correct number is the $408,420. Correct. Okay.

Are there any additional questions from members of the council?

All right. This is a public hearing. Would anyone like to address the city council on this item? Yeah, please. Just make your way to the podium and state your name for the record.

And been a resident here since 86 the wife and I were married under the line of bridge in 94 And it's my first City Council meeting believe it or not welcome I had a question because I heard somebody say the main criteria for these is the low bid price I'm just curious. It's just a question does the city Set out the engineering specifications is everybody bidding on the same thing Or are they bringing their own engineering proposals to the table are we paying are we bidding apples and apples is what I'm asking

Yes, that's a great question. And yes, we are. We put out the engineering specifications that everyone bids from the same specifications so that it is apples and apples in all. Thank you very much. Yeah, thank you so much. And welcome to your first council meeting. Yes. We're here the second and fourth Tuesday of every month. All right, anyone else like to address the city council on this item?

Mr. Mayor, I just noticed like I went back the previous agenda item and that the bid tabulation on that is the 371-056, but in the actions we have it for 609-083. So I just want to make sure we got, so is that, that was combined for, maybe that's where we got the 371 from?

Mayor, I see on that item two items in front of us like they talked about, which was one, which was the 238 plus the, like we were talking about, there's two items that came to the 600. This here does bother me because where did that JOC documentation, bid documentation come from to get the clarification on the 408 versus what you showed us up here today?

I think that what council member Dolan is saying is the 371 on the item before was the number that was pulled for the slide presentation and then you add that 307 and the 238 that's the 609 so that was correct for the two projects yeah thank you I appreciate that clarification I just misunderstood what he was saying before but okay now I see it I can I feel comfortable moving forward thank you all right would anyone else like to address the city council on this item I see none. Now we'll go ahead and close public hearing. Bring it back to Council for any discussion or possible motion. Vice Mayor Diaz.

I move to award the JOC task orders agreement number two for the Walnut Drive drop structure to Pergo Rock Company in the amount of $408,420. Second.

We have a motion from Vice Mayor Diaz. We have a second from Council Member Moses. Is there any additional discussion? Seeing none, we're ready to vote.

Motion carries six to zero.

Thank you. All right, item eight is the call to the public. This is where citizens have an opportunity to address the city council on items that are not on the agenda this evening. If you would like to, you don't have to sign up and we didn't have anyone sign up. If you'd like to address the city council, just make your way to the podium and state your name for the record.

Good evening again, Mayor and City Council. I just, Bonnie, I wanted to say I read the minutes from a couple meetings ago where I had spoken and made a suggestion about the street on Mesquite and lowering the speed limit between Mesquite and Curio Drive. And I noticed in the minutes it said a coma. And I know that was pretty certain because I wasn't clear because I forgot the name of Curio Drive. And I just wanna stand by that recommendation that from Smoketree to Curio Drive that you would lower the speed limit and make it a whole crossing zone for everybody to cross from the apartments over to LabCorp. But only during business hours. Because after business hours, you know, people aren't crossing the street and they aren't needing to cross the street because that business doesn't have the safe parking area for people to use it safely. None of those doctors office, I mean, they have just that one small parking lot. They don't appear to care very much for their customers. Also, really love the Lighthouse Club. The lighthouses are amazing. I don't know what we can do as a city or how we can do what we can do to help them, but definitely want to encourage the Lighthouse Club all the time. By the way, just in case anyone needs to know, National Lighthouse Day is August 7th. That is a really great day in the year, August 7th. And council committee reports, I know in the last meeting that I was at where the agenda was discussed, I realized that the issue, you guys are all, all of you, are business people. and you have very busy lives you don't have time to always talk to each other and that's why council committee reports are kind of important because the open meeting laws I don't know how any of that is done through if you guys are busy and you can't talk to one person or another person like you're only allowed to talk to so many council people's about each issue well that's what your council meeting reports are for and then half the time you guys don't give them so I just wanted to suggest more reports thanks thank you what I would like to address the city council on call to the public

All right, we'll go ahead and close call to the public. Item nine, our current events. Are there any council committee reports? Yeah, Council Member Campbell.

Mayor, she guilted me into it.

I absolutely do have a report. It's RTAC, which is the Rural Transportation Advocacy Council, where I chair that position, and I appreciate that very much. One thing that came out a couple weeks ago was the federal transportation bill. The draft of it dropped, which is a 1,005 page document. I went through the 65 page summary. And some of the things that the Rural Transportation Advocacy Council has been lobbying for is one, our fair share of federal funding. Number two, there is one item in there, it's called the Protection Act, for all of you guys to know, which is really important that we get behind that one if you want to send letters out. Our tech is redirecting some more letters out to all of our congressmen. senators, etc. And the reasoning for that is they want to take the Protection Act. And that actually allows us to help with pavement preservation, roads and infrastructure. That's mills and fills in all the state of Arizona, where they used to give 50% to rural transportation while they're trying to sweep that into the big state of Maricopa. So I'm gonna continue to lobby on that for us. The other big thing is, our tech board, excuse me, was lobbying to get our fair share of federal funding. What happened to us in 2009 is a new administration came into office and they decided to create equal funding across the board for every state moving forward. So they took our 2000 census and they gave a little bit of money every year, year after year after year to transportation funds. Unfortunately for fast growing states like our own Arizona, we have lost millions and millions of transportation dollars. They're being sweeped to other states, we become a donor state when it comes to transportation and you can take a look at our roads and know that yourself. We had Mag do a study, we went back to 2023, that was our most current data. we found out that just in one year alone, they were sweeping $200 million in transportation funds alone. Multiply that by about 20 to 25 years. So as your advocate and your lobbyist for the rural transportation, we are gonna continue to fight for our fair share. The September 30th is the last day that we have to get this transportation bill in effect. And then it lasts for an additional five years, which is very, very important for us to be lobbying at this time. So I ask if you have any legislators you'd like to write letters, get out there and say, Arizona state legislators fight for our transportation dollars. You should be out there lobbying and fighting for our fair share. And I don't understand why nobody's been doing it up to this point. So I'm very happy with the Rural Transportation Advocacy Council assisting us with that. The other portion of this transportation bill, which I'm extremely excited about, is that they have put funding in place for apprenticeship programs, for public works, contractors, high school grant funding to get kids back to work in the construction fields. At first, I was disappointed, thinking we really need money in infrastructure and roads, but let's be honest. If we get our kids back to work early, that's a good thing. And Lake Havasu City will be launching its very first construction apprenticeship program, paid construction apprenticeship program starting next year. We're really excited about that. We are a pilot program for rural Arizona on that one. And so these are all kind of falling into place. And again, thank you for letting me serve you. I appreciate it. And the chamber retreat today was very exciting. Great things happening with our chamber at this time, too. Thank you.

Thank you.

Are there any other Council Committee reports?

Mayor?

Yeah, Council Member Koch?

Yeah, as I said at the last meeting, that the PED was going to be attending the ICSC in Las Vegas, and they did last week, connecting with developers, retailers, hotel groups, quick service restaurant brands, and entertainment companies interested in investing in Lake Havasu. Primary interest centered on two areas, the emerging north side district encompassing the APX West parcel and the shops at Lake Havasu, and also the continued development opportunities on the island. Thank you.

Thank you. Vice Mayor Diaz?

Last Wednesday we had the first Golak-Havasu meeting where I was the voting member of the committee. And you should have seen the gleam in the city manager's eye when he had to walk out of the room when I had to stay there. But anyway, they are currently searching for a new CEO, and I'll update accordingly when that happens. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. All right, item 10, future meetings. Our next meeting is on Tuesday, June 9th, 2026 at 5.30 p.m. It will be a regular meeting, but we also will have our tentative budget and CIP adoption for consideration. And then on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026 at 5.30 p.m., we'll have a regular meeting, and we also will have our final budget adoption consideration that evening. Item 11, are there any future discussion items? Item 12, we are adjourned. Thank you for being here. Be kind. We'll see you next time.