City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome. I call to order the Lake Havasu City Council regular meeting on Tuesday, September 8th, 2026 at 530 p.m. We'll have an invocation from Pastor Dale Ray with Lakeview Community Church, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led with the Havasu Vibers Baseball. Pastor.

Out of the book of Lamentations, we read these words. It is of the Lord's good mercies that we're not consumed because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. Precious Heavenly Fathers, we bow our heads. We ask your blessing upon our meeting tonight. I ask Lord that you would bless our mayor, our council members, guide and direct them in the decisions that need to be made. I thank you for the citizens that are here tonight. I thank you for giving us such a beautiful place to call home. I pray Lord that you would guard and keep all of our departments, police, fire, all of those who serve our city, keep them safe from harm. May we each as citizens contribute back. May this place truly be blessed in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.

And then if the Vipers want to come to the podium.

My name's Corey. I'm the coach, and I just want to thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Without him, I wouldn't be standing here in front of you, having the opportunity to help grow the boys in not only sport but life. I want to thank Chris at the City Hall. Without her help, this wouldn't be possible as well, as well as our many sponsors, our board. and all the families that help support these guys. I just want to say a quick prayer real quick. Father God, we come to you today for a heart of appreciation and gratitude for these young boys. I know this costs a lot of money, but let them grow in you in a way that they can strive to put you first and have a heart for gratitude for all that the families and this community does for them. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 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.

Thank you. Thank you for being here. All right, item four on our agenda is the roll call. Ms. Williams, if you please call the roll.

Council members, Nancy Campbell. Here. Jenny Koch. Here. Jim Dolan.

Here.

Cameron Moses.

Here.

Michelle Lin. Here. Vice Mayor David Diaz.

Here.

Mayor Kalashie.

Here.

Thank you.

Thank you. Item five on the agenda is our call to the public. This is where citizens have the opportunity to address the City Council on items within the jurisdiction of Lake Havasu City. Your comments are limited to three minutes or less. We don't have THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A TWO-WAY CONVERSATION DURING CALL TO THE PUBLIC SO WE CAN JUST LISTEN INTENTLY DURING THIS PORTION OF THE MEETING. IF YOU ARE HERE FOR ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEARINGS THAT WILL COME AFTER THIS, WE DO ENCOURAGE YOU TO WAIT UNTIL THAT ITEM SO THAT WE CAN HAVE A TWO-WAY CONVERSATION DURING THE DISCUSSION. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR CALL TO THE PUBLIC, AND WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYONE SIGN UP FOR CALL TO THE PUBLIC, BUT IF YOU'D LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL DURING CALL TO THE PUBLIC, PLEASE MAKE WAY TO THE PODIUM AND STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.

Good evening, Mayor and members of council. My name is Greg Frosley. I think I've lived here 28 and a half years now. I took the opportunity to watch the second bridge council presentation where staff was asking council to approve a nearly $40 million GMP contract. And I thought the presentation was just awful. Staff was asking you folks to approve $40 million worth of work. And they only offered a couple of slides of information and none of those even depicted an accurate picture of what the bridge was gonna look like. But what you were shown was a picture of a cartoonish intersection that the geometry didn't even make sense to me. So I hope it doesn't get built that way. But what was clear to me was that nobody on the staff was prepared for such an important presentation. And during the discussion about the utilities, the city manager and the project manager were providing contradictory information. Is the $5.55 million worth of water and wastewater money in the project or not? I still don't know if it's included in the GMP or if it's not in the GMP. Let's see, my guess is that it is not included in the GMP and the true cost is closer to $47 million. But if the city manager is correct and it's not included in the GMP, that means that other contractors will be awarded work for installing utilities independent of the grid construction. I've made a FOIA request to the city for the plans to see for myself, but I have not received those yet. Regardless of that, this is a terrible situation to have multiple contractors in there and different contracts. And it reminds me of another recently failed project in the commons. The commons project is quite a bit smaller when compared to this project, and I think we can all agree that it did not go very well. During the presentation, someone had addressed some concerns regarding the qualifications of the staff to administer this project of this magnitude. AND I THINK THAT WAS SMART. I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT SOME SIMILARITIES WITH THE PROJECT, WITH THIS PROJECT AND THE FAILED COMMONS PROJECT, THE MUCH SMALLER FAILED COMMONS PROJECT, MIND YOU. THE SIMILARITIES ARE THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME CITY MANAGER, YOU HAVE THE SAME GUY PRETENDING TO BE A PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR AND YOU HAVE THE SAME PROJECT MANAGER. Yet you're all expecting different results. We all know what the definition of insanity is, correct? So based on the GMP and the construction schedule, the contractor will be billing for more than $2 million per month. And with this team in place, I believe we are doomed. Based on the last presentation, with all of the confusion and contrary information, the city is clearly in over their heads with this project. And my fear is that this will be yet another failed project by our underwhelming and inept city manager.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Rosley. Would anyone else like to address the city council during call to the public? Seeing none, we'll go ahead and close call to the public. Moving on to our consent agenda, would any of the council members like to remove any of the items for separate discussion? If not, do we have a motion? Yes.

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

Second. We have a motion from Council Member Koch and a second from Vice Mayor Diaz. We are ready to vote.

Motion carries seven to zero.

Thank you. Item seven is correspondence, communications, petitions, announcements, and the city manager report. Item 7.1 is the fiscal year 25-26 fourth quarter contracted agency report for Haven Family Resource Center. Chief Sterling included this in our packet, and it's available for those at home online at lhcaz.gov. Item 7.2 is to announce vacancies on Lake Havasu City boards, committees, and commissions. Ms. Williams?

Mayor and City Council, this item is to announce vacancies on the Kavasu City Board committees and commissions. The following is a listing of the current vacancies. Board of Adjustment, two regular members, three alternate members, and the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, one member. Interested can pick up a packet at City Hall and they're also available on the city's website at www.lhcaz.gov. Thank you.

Thank you. Then item 7.3 is our city manager's report.

Good evening, Mr. Knudson. Good evening, Mayor. Good evening, members of council. Lots to share this evening. Starting off with, we have a very special recognition. And at this time, I'd like to ask Chief Palafas, Captain Williams, and members of the Lake Havasu City Fire Department to come forward as we recognize Asha Roger with a Citizen Accommodation Award for her quick thinking, willingness to step in and assist, and the important role she played alongside her Engine 5 crew during a recent rescue. Chief, I'll turn it over to you to tell us more about Asha's actions on her way out.

Thank you, City Manager. Honorable Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council, and Lake Havasu residents, I'd like to call up Asha, Roger, and family, please. And that's a little awkward, I'd be facing this way to present, but I'll present it in kind of both ways. A little back story on this is every day we respond to emergencies here in Lake Havasu City, fire and police. But it is amazing what I love about our community is the individuals here and especially the young individuals here that they have great families that raise great kids. THAT BASICALLY WILL STEP UP IN THE TIME OF NEED. THIS RECOGNITION CITIZEN'S ACCOMMODATION IS GOING TO ASHA ROGER FOR OUR APPRECIATION FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE DURING A SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATION IN THE BRIDGEWATER CHANNEL ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 11, 2026. What she did is what she saw the individual that went into the channel and basically our first responders on engine five basically accommodated Asha to say, hey, where did it go? Asha brought the individuals on the boat and was at the helm the whole time. found where the individual was, was able to rescue that individual out of the water. ASHA underneath the command of our engine five captain was cool, calm, and collective, and basically was just locked in and got them to the dock, got them to the ambulance, and basically assisted us in rescuing another citizen here in Lake Havasu, and it was a quick response. And this is just a recognition of OF PUTTING YOURSELF ABOVE OTHERS AND WE APPRECIATE IT. AND THIS IS WHAT I LOVE ABOUT MY JOB AND OBVIOUSLY THE PD, TOO, IS RECOGNIZING INDIVIDUALS FOR HELPING OTHER INDIVIDUALS. AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS A GREAT CITY. SO ON BEHALF OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE CITY, HERE IS A PLAQUE BASICALLY SAYING THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH A GREAT CITIZEN. And thank you for your parents for raising such a great daughter. So on behalf, congratulations and thank you again. Keep up the good work.

Thank you, Chief. Thank you, Captain. And thank you, Asha, for being there when it mattered the most. Thank you. And I have a pretty exciting update to share about our very own Dr. Bobbi Kimmelton, who serves as our HR director here at Lake Havasu City, recognizing our continued leadership and service to our veterans. Bobbi recently attended the annual meeting of the National Honor Society of Women Legionnaires, an invitation-only organization recognizing women veterans who serve in leadership positions within the American Legion. Bobby also had the honor of planning this year's Kentucky Derby-themed banquet, which brought together more than 130 Legionnaires and guests. Bobby said that picture was not going to get around. But you look great, Bobby. You also served as the Department of Arizona membership chair, and Arizona achieved more than 100% membership and ranked first in the nation earning recognition at the National Convention with a National Commander's Challenge Coin and membership plaque. And to top it all off, Bobbie was appointed to the National American Legion Veterans Employment and Education Commission, where she will help advance important issues affecting veterans across this country. Bobbie, these are some incredible accomplishments, and we're very, very proud to have you representing Lake Havasu City and Arizona on a national level. Well done. Thank you, Bobbie. Attention, Toby Cotter, city manager in Ballhead City. The Golden Shovel returns to Lake Havasu. Congratulations to the Lake Havasu Knights for bringing home the Golden Shovel. And for those that may not be familiar with the Golden Shovel, it is the traveling trophy awarded to the winner of the longstanding football rivalry between Lake Havasu High School and Mojave High School. Adding a little extra pride and bragging rights whenever the two teams meet. And this year the Knights brought home in a big way with a 53 to nothing score. Congratulations to the players, coaches, families, students, and everyone who came out to support the Knights. It's always great to see our community rally behind our local students and show that Havasu pride. So congratulations, Havasu Knights. And we're very excited to share the first military tribute banners are officially up at Wheeler Park. proudly honoring Lake Havasu City residents who are currently serving in the United States Armed Forces. The special program is a partnership between Lake Havasu City and the Military Moms Organization and provides our community with a meaningful and visible way to recognize the hometown heroes who serve our country. Applications are currently being accepted. Please visit the city's website if you want to be part of the banner program. And we're very proud to recognize these service members and very grateful for their service and sacrifice to our country. And thank you to Cindy Ritter, who does everything, all the blood, sweat, and tears behind the Military Moms Organization and is the champion behind this program. So thank you, Cindy, for what you're doing for the community. September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and Mayor Sheehy has officially proclaimed September as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month here in Lake Havasu City. In recognition, the London Bridge was illuminated in teal on September 4th, helping raise awareness and show support for those impacted by ovarian cancer. This recognition provides an opportunity to honor survivors, support their current facing ovarian cancer, remember those who we lost, and bring together awareness to this very important cause. The Havasu All Abilities Resource Fair was held over the weekend on September 5th, connecting individuals and families with valuable resources, services, and community support. The event was hosted by Building Bridges AMBUX of Lake Havasu City, a nonprofit dedicated to creating mobility and independence for people with disabilities through adaptive Amtrikes, scholarships for therapists, and community service projects. Led by chapter president Samantha Zazadil, the event was supported by a 12-member resource fair committee, including nine members of Building Bridges AMBUX. Mayor Kalashihi Yu, joined by Yu Councilmember Nancy Campbell and Yu Councilmember Michelle Lin, who also serves as the Building Bridges AMBUX board, serves on the board, right, Michelle, or Councilmember Lin, and also part of the Resource Fair Committee, presented a proclamation recognizing Havasu All Abilities Resource Fair Day. The proclamation celebrated individuals of all abilities and recognized the organizations, all the volunteers, the families, and the community partners working to create a more inclusive and supportive community. And I'd like to thank River Scene Magazine for the use of a couple of their photographs. We are excited now to announce the dates for our next household hazardous waste event. So mark your calendars. The event will take place on December 12th. So 12-12, it'll take place at 8 a.m. It'll go till noon. And like it's been held the last several times, we'll be at Fire Station 2, which is located on Kiowa Boulevard. You just need to be a Havasu resident, and everything you drop off within the parameters of the event is dropped off free of charge. So there's lots of eligible items that are listed here. More information is on the city's website, or please contact your public services at 505-7410 for more information. But again, that's coming up on December 12th. And we are very excited to celebrate a major milestone with a second bridge groundbreaking ceremony that's going to take place on October 13th. And that's going to take place at 8.30 AM. The ceremony will officially mark the beginning of construction on the significant infrastructure project and recognize the collaboration, the planning, and all the efforts that have helped bring the second bridge project to this exciting stage. Community members, the public is invited to join us. We'll have council, city leadership, project partners, and all the guests. that were part of the funding and the project and so forth. We wanted to recognize everybody that was involved. And as we commence with construction, real close to that date. So October 13th, please plan on joining us. And lastly, as a final reminder, Lake Havasu's annual 9-11 Memorial Ceremony will take place this Friday, September 11th at 8.15 at London Bridge Beach Park. This year's ceremony holds special significance as we commemorate the 25th anniversary of September 11th. We're honored to once again partner with the 9-11 Memorial Committee for this meaningful community tradition. So we'll see you on Friday for this special event. And with that, Mayor and Council, that concludes my report for this evening. Thank you, Mr. Knudson.

All right, we'll move on to item eight, which is our public hearings. During each of the next public hearings, there will be an opportunity for citizens to engage on the items. We'll open the public hearing and get citizen feedback. But first, we'll start with item 8.1, which is resolution number 26-3945, approving abandonment of the northerly five feet of the existing 10 foot wide public utility and drainage easement along the southerly property line of 910 Kiowa Avenue. Track 2277, block five, lot one.

mr gilbert here councilmember campbell please mr gilbert yes yeah councilmember campbell that recused herself sorry oh i'm sorry i didn't hear that yeah um thank you mr mayor it's not normal that we cover these in public hearings uh in fact this first one doesn't have been here so hopefully i cover everything Good evening mayor, city council members, viewing public. The property owner of 19 Kiowa Avenue is requesting to remove a portion of the public utility and drainage easement on the southerly property line to create additional developable lot area. This snip of the required surveyor sealed drawing shows the location, the extent of the requested five foot width abandonment. REDUCING THE REMAINING EASEMENT ALONG THIS SIDE OF THE PROPERTY LINE FROM 10 FEET TO 5 FEET. ALL OUTSIDE UTILITIES PARTICIPATE IN THE REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF THE ABANDONMENT OF THE EXISTING EASEMENT. A CONDITION OF APPROVAL IS INCLUDED STATING THAT A FRONTIER CABLE IS FOUND WITHIN THE ABANDONMENT AREA MUST BE RELOCATED AT THE OWNER APPLICANT'S EXPENSE. CABLE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE ABANDONMENT AREA MUST BE PROTECTED AND PLACED DURING ANY CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES. AND THEN, OF COURSE, UP ON THE SCREEN THERE'S ANOTHER standard comment from City Water. Mr. Mayor, that concludes my staff report on this. I'll be happy answering questions you may have.

Are there any questions from members of the council? All right, this is a public hearing. Would anyone like to address the city council on this item? Seeing no, we'll close the public hearing and bring it back to council for a possible motion.

All right, Vice Mayor Diaz. I move to adopt resolution number 26-3945, abandoning the northerly five feet of the existing 10 foot wide public utility and drainage easement on the southerly property line of track 2277 block five, lot one. I move. Yeah, that's it.

Second.

We have a motion from Vice Mayor Diaz and we have a second from Council Member Dolan. Any additional discussion? Seeing none, we're ready to vote.

Motion carries with six council members voting aye and one council member recusal.

Thank you. Item 8.2 is discussion and possible action to comply with Arizona Open Meeting Law following an executive session that we had before our regular meeting this evening for negotiations of the lease of 631 London Bridge Road in Lake Havasu City. The city council met with city attorney for advisement on a lease for the property at 631 London Bridge Road. This is a public hearing. Would anyone like to address the City Council on this item? Ms. Toye, is that on? Is it the green light on? If you could just hit the center button for us. Thank you.

Thank you. Yes, I was curious as to whether or not the lease will continue for the Yacht Club or if you're changing it.

Yes, so we'll give direction this evening to the council and then any changes to the lease will come back before the city council at the public hearing.

Okay. Isn't that now, the public hearing for it is now?

No, this is on the executive session that we had. So we received input from our attorney and gave feedback and the attorney will go back and negotiate a lease. And then that will come back before council.

So then there's still negotiations going on?

That's correct.

Okay, and will it be renewed or not renewed?

Yeah, it's too soon to answer that question, but the attorney will make the negotiations and stay tuned for more information.

What information are you allowed to share?

What I've already shared.

Which was nothing.

That we had the meeting and we gave direction and that we will come back after it's fully negotiated. And you'll be able to read the document at that time and the action of the council.

The lease was amended in 1999 until 2026. So it's not as simple the same process again that where they just get it reamended.

Mr. You're going to have to just wait, wait and see. Yeah, I've shared what I can share.

The question is, a couple of years ago, you guys increased the rent for your leases. And is that one of the reasons why you have to negotiate?

You're going to just have to wait, Ms. Toye, and we'll share more information when we have a lease in front of us.

Okay, thank you.

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 possible motion.

Mayor.

Council Member Koch. Motion. Please.

Move to direct the staff to proceed as discussed in executive session.

Second. We have a motion from Council Member Koch, a second from Council Member Moses. Any additional discussion? Seeing none, we're ready to vote.

Motion carries seven to zero.

Thank you. Item 8.3, Partnership for Economic Development Update. We'd like to welcome Mr. Gray or Ms. Pender? Yes, okay.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm Lisa Pender-White. I am the Chairwoman of the Partnership for Economic Development. I'd like to share a few comments on our fiscal year, 26-27, and our budget this year's areas of focus for the PED.

Yeah, Ms. Pender, can you bring them? Thank you.

THE PED HAS CONSISTENTLY INVESTED IN THIS COMMUNITY. LAST YEAR ALONE, WE CONTRIBUTED OVER $250,000 IN PROJECTS INCLUDING THE MAIN STREET COMMONS CONCESSION BUILDING, A NEW TOWN AUDIO SYSTEM, AND THE USS ARIZONA PROJECT. THIS YEAR, PED PLANS ON AN INVESTMENT ADDITIONAL OF $100,000 INTO DEVELOPMENTS THAT... SORRY, DIDN'T BRING MY GLASSES. $100,000 into developments that will continue to elevate Lake Havasu City. Over the past five years, PED's primary focus has been downtown. A vibrant downtown matters for all of the community, but it's especially critical for tourism-driven economy. Downtown has built real momentum over the last couple of years with new restaurants, wine bars, and entertainment venues like Lady Lee's. The investment in the completion of the Main Street Commons will keep that momentum going. In my personal experience, the investment and development into a strong downtown district is essential to helping create more economic development for our community. This coming fiscal year, PED is turning its attention to the growth on the north side corridor. In 2019, PED played a pivotal role in the future of the shops at Lake Havasu, accepting a donation of 200,000 square feet of vacant retail space to keep the property from falling into bankruptcy. The rezoning and planning development to see to general commercial with the approval of every existing on-site property owner. That rezoning was essential to attracting two key buyers and operators who reimagined the space. Today, the shops of Lake Havasu reflects that transformation. Healthcare investments from Convergence Health, mile markers, distribution from trademark fulfillment, and entertainment and hospitality from Buffalo Wild Wings and Altitude, along with a new baseball training center. With DL Ranch off to a strong start, promising over 900 affordable homes and a new 600-acre state land purchase by Apex West, Adjacent to the shops at Lake Havasu, PED's focus is now coordinating with developers on a unified plan to maximize the potential of this corridor. Thank you for your continued support.

Thank you.

Can we go to the next slide? Thank you. Oh, perfect. Let me mess that up. okay good evening mayor and council members thank you for the time this evening tonight i'd like to focus on attraction sharing some of the positive momentum we're seeing in the north side of our community and our upcoming presence at icsc I'd also give a brief update on Nomadic and First Friday moving forward, and then would be happy to answer questions after the presentation. Next slide. This map illustrates the north side development and the relationship between the two projects. The red line marks the jurisdictional boundary, Mojave County to the west, Lake Havasu City to the east. On the Mojave County side, Apex West has a mix of planned residential, 60 plus acres of M2 light industrial, commercial, and potential even more retail commercial development. A collector street network ties it together. connecting London Bridge Road and Highway 95 through this internal connector thoroughfares that you see in blue. This is key to establishing business districts. Maybe another way to look at it is this might be an emerging downtown for the north side and the rooftops that are being built in this corridor. On the Lake Havasu city side, the shops at Lake Havasu is an established commercial anchor and continues to strengthen year over year. Traffic, visitor counts, and market share have all been trending in the right direction. And the tenant mix of Walmart, Dillard's, JCPenney's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Convergence Health, Altitude, and others reflect the steady depth of investment this node continues to attract over the last half decade. Center Boulevard and Retail Center Boulevard Both have existing ADOT signals on Highway 95 and will connect to London Bridge Road, positioning them to serve as the primary connectors between Apex West rooftops and the shop's commercial base without the city needing to invest a new signalized infrastructure to make the connection work. And with Highway 95 already carrying over 20,000 plus vehicles per day past this corridor, the traffic base to support a larger, more dynamic business hub is already here. Our job now is to help these two developments plan together so that the connection gets built the right way to optimize both projects, new and existing. Beyond that connection, current developers are also looking at adding new retail and commercial sites. You can see on the back of the shops of Havasu over 165,000 square feet shown here outside of the original shops at Lake Havasu footprint. That has real advantages because these sites sit outside the original agreement among the first group of retailers meaning any retailer can locate here, opening the door to larger pads of 10 to 15 acres that can accommodate bigger retail formats we simply don't have in our community today. A roadway planned along the back of the property would serve this new development while also drawing traffic into and through the existing shops footprint. Further building out this north side corridor as a true collection area of businesses and services for the growing area. Apex West is currently underway with land planning of the 624 acres. And PED is actively working to bring investors and end users to the table to help realize this additional commercial expansion. We'll be sharing more detailed site maps with potential end users in the coming weeks at ICSE Western in San Diego. And look forward to keeping Council updated as this collaboration of developers moves forward. PED attends ICSC, the International Council of Shopping Centers, in both Las Vegas and San Diego. These conventions give us direct access to restaurants, QSRs, entertainment operators, hotel and hospitality groups, developers, EV charging companies, and flex commercial and industrial spec developers. Incredibly key, since we're low on that right now. We've seen increased interest across the board over the past couple of years. At these shows, PED supports all 22 shopping centers and commercial centers in Lake Havasu City, large and small, along with the remaining vacant commercial land with high traffic counts. At the last show in May in Las Vegas, There was a lot of things that were keyed in. Developers were interested on these few topics. Updates the second bridge. We will be highlighting that at the booth in two weeks. That is a huge deal. FalconEye's timeline for their retail village on the island. and the new 624 acre state land acquisition on the north side. Developers also asked about the status of the north side opportunity zones and which zones are expected to be renewed. So we have a lot of good news to tell in the coming weeks. I'm gonna touch a little bit on nomadic. Nomadic just completed its third year of operation this past April. We've had some significant wins along the way. Last year we helped onboard Thompson Family Plumbing, welcoming them from Hesperia, California. John and Devin started their Lake Havasu City Plumbing Company by hiring and training 11 employees at Nomadic before moving to their own commercial building. Alongside stories like that, we've seen smaller but equally meaningful wins for the more than 71 active members who called Nomadic home now. Nomadic is also very well visited space in its own right. According to our Placer AI cell phone data, Nomadic drew over 11,000 unique visitors last year, and we donated 39 times to nonprofits, and community groups actively working to make Lake Havasu City better. On the facility side, last year we completed two additional offices above the photo studio and PED is now considering changes to the flex area to accommodate the growing demand for the space. And finally, we're always proud of what our members are building and for the past four months you've likely seen an increase in construction trucks around Nomadic. That's RES Construction from Denver, Colorado. They're currently based in Nomadic while they procure materials and assets ahead of the fall start on building a 350-acre solar farm in Golden Shores. And then the last update I would like to give is First Friday. First Friday's eighth season kicked off last Friday. What started as a small event on Hotel Way has grown into one of the most impactful event series in downtown Lake Havasu. First Friday was built for the people who live and work here with art, music, food, and culture as its driving themes. All in the service of a vibrant, walkable downtown for both our community and its visitors. First Friday exists because downtown isn't a collection of buildings, it's a habit. I just said that in the newspaper, but it's important I keep saying it again. People either have a reason to go to downtown or they don't. When they don't, storefronts empty out and no amount of investment in sidewalks or streetlights reverses that on its own. What actually works is giving people a reason to show up consistently until showing up becomes normal. That's our goal. That's what we've been working at this entire time. Eight to nine times a year, September through May six to nine in the evening, we direct people to downtown Lake Havasu to explore and support the businesses, the shops, the restaurants, the bars, the artists, and the musicians that are already there. The dense core runs along McCulloch with the artists and vintage village lining the sidewalks near Main Street Commons. On a given evening, more than 75 local artisans makers of pop-up boutiques, and more than 55 merchants now participate in this program. A fair question comes up sometimes, why does Economic Development Organization run an arts festival? PED's work is business retention, recruitment, and redevelopment. And the first Friday is all three of these. It's retention because a downtown merchant with eight or nine guaranteed high traffic evenings has a materially better chance of surviving a slow summer. It's recruitment because when a prospective business or developer asks what downtown Lake Havasu is, we can show them instead of describing it. By showing them, it's far greater than any brochure a PED can actually make. And then finally, It's recruitment. I lost my place and I apologize. And it's redevelopment because vacancy is what kills a district, and foot traffic is what fills it back in. And none of this would be possible without our volunteers and partners. Go Lake Havasu has been with us since the second year, and they are far more than a title sponsor. College Street and Mud Shark are the lifeblood of our event. They donate craft beer. We turn it into sales. That funds the next first Friday. We love our partner Nautical with their bus and boy did we miss it last Friday because we didn't have a third selling station and we had long lines. And then finally we have to appreciate you guys for Parks and Rec and I have to CALL OUT COUNCILMEMBER LYNN. THAT WAS HER IDEA, TO GET THE PARKS AND REC INVOLVED. AND IT IS AN ABSOLUTE HIT WITH PARENTS. THEY ARE LITERALLY, KIDS ARE RUNNING AROUND THERE. WE'VE HAD TO MAKE A SPACE BECAUSE THERE'S MORE PLACE FOR KIDS TO PLAY. AND THAT HAS BEEN AWESOME. AND THEN FINALLY, WE HAVE TO THANK THE ARTISTS AND THE RESTAURANTS ON MAIN STREET WHO PARTICIPATE and make our growing downtown vibrant. We sure didn't build it alone, but we're excited to be a part of it. And with that, that's my presentation, and we would take any questions that you have.

Thank you, Mr. Gray. Are there questions from members of the council? Council Member Lin?

At the ICSW, when you guys go there, what do you guys actually present? I've never been at one of those, but is there a PowerPoint? What are you presenting? How are you attracting the people that show up to that and what we're offering here?

Yeah, it's a great question. So one of the things that we do is we always have a booth and we're always highlighting new information, especially at ICS Western that happens whether it's in Palm Springs or San Diego. We're a very known commodity, so people can oftentimes walk right past us. That's one of the reasons we'll put up boards with new developments all the time. It's one of the reasons we'll be highlighting the second bridge. It starts conversations. And then we're getting a lot better at having sites that are available for QSRs, for restaurants, anything along that. We take a whole digital platform and then obviously we're manning booths, but then we're also actively going after people that we've talked to in the past that we somewhat meet their metrics to talk about the different growing portions of our city.

When you're there, like I said, I've never been to one of these events. When you're there, can you explain the type of vendors or people that show up at there? Are they restaurants? We always hear, why don't we have an Olive Garden? Why don't we have a Red Lobster? Are they showing up there and coming to us?

Oftentimes they are. We just had a QSR that was in one of the quarterly reports that approached us. And that's where we met. We're still having those conversations ongoing as they're looking for a site here in the city. So often it happens that way. And then it happens the other way where we make an appointment, we go talk to them. That's a lot more humbling When they say your town doesn't have enough people, it's too remote, we don't like this, they do have a lot of information on our city, but we do actively go after and recruit people.

Thank you.

And QSR, quick service restaurant?

Yeah, quick service restaurant, yes.

Thank you, James, for the presentation. So when someone says that, we're too remote and you guys are out on an island by yourself, what's your response? What do you tell them? I'm just curious, I hear that.

Yeah, so one of the things that we talk about is for, if you're talking about like hospitality, food, hotel, we talk about, yes, we are remote for operational stuff, which that's a real thing, right? Like you start driving to Phoenix 15 times in two months and you'll realize we are remote for operations. What we do tell them is the 1.7 million visitors is what makes our population unique. It's what makes our grocery numbers fly off the charts. If you take our grocery store numbers compared to a city of 60,000, it's not even close, but that's because we have almost 2 million people coming here that is augmenting those sales. So we have a little bit of a different story in that. And so we just, we tell that story.

You know, and I would, I mean, I, I know we have some great family owned local restaurateurs here that do a great job, but I would, I would also highlight the success of In-N-Out Burger. I mean, they, they usually don't come to a quote unquote remote place because their beef is fresh every day, but that place is standing room only 24 seven every day, every time it's open. So, The other thing that concerns me, and maybe you have an answer for this, like we have an empty building like, what's the one, it used to be called Pick and Save, now what is it called?

Big Lots.

Big Lots, just sitting there. What do we do to go, not wait for them to come to us, but we go to them and say, we've got this great piece of property, it's got great parking, you should bring your retail or your market here or whatever. Do we do that? We do that, yeah.

Yeah, we absolutely go through probably four or five different... Most retailers are represented by a firm. You're not going straight to the firm. They have a representation in Arizona. And quite honestly, that model has hurt Lake Havasu quite a bit. And I'm gonna tell you why. Over the last decade, Arizona has been an inbound state. So Lake Havasu has grown up. We've seen a lot of growth. I mean, our TPT tax is up 85% since 2017, but so is everyone else's. And if you start looking at the magnitude of growth in Phoenix, it has hurt because we have to go through the very same channels that they're building 15 restaurants to talk about our one restaurant. And that has hurt. We do not have the same attention that we did just a couple years ago because of the absolute growth factor of Phoenix. There's no other way to tell you. I have a couple more questions.

The ICSC show, What do you think is changing? Is it the development on the north side and the DL Ranch and the APX, is that what they're now, all of a sudden they're showing some interest?

I think it's a couple things. For one, it's momentum of the community, right? go back to oh nine we struggled to get someone to spend a million dollars and we're now selling five million dollar homes our developments are gaining in the scope and size and it's gotten national attention and our service job community continues to grow as the population rises. So our numbers are going up. That has definitely got the attention of people.

And then the last one I have is because someone asked me. So the PED's income, I know when the city gives you $500,000 annually, paid quarterly based on performance and so forth, What is your other sources of income you have besides that $500,000?

Yeah, so our total budget this year is $780,000. And so we have an income stream through First Friday. Now, at the end of the day, like last year, we bought... I want to say like almost $50,000 worth of barriers and stages. So First Friday lost a lot of money, but that is First Friday's money that they've been making. So we segregate these in different accounts. So when we talk about First Friday money, that is First Friday money, meaning there's a sponsorship, there's a beer sale, there's a donation, and then there's a glass wall. There is effort from PED. PED has two employees. We both work on that eight or nine times a year. And then Nomadic has the same thing. Waldorf works on its own money, and so it receives revenue from the 71 active members pay into the space. We have, just like you would run any commercial building, we have savings accounts that we're saving for for a future day and nomadic rides on its own ticket.

The lastly is the, you have 70, can you go back to the slide that has the nomadic, yeah, active members, okay. What percentage of these are, I know when I was sitting in the audience, I used to hear that Nomadic was being built to be a business incubator for startups.

Yeah. I would say that it's probably in the 10 to 15%. But more importantly, there's probably 20 that are in the under 150,000 gross yearly, which is still like... When you start a business, you start to create an income stream. You create a job, and then you're trying to create a customer base to really create a business. We have so many in that area where they're just getting going. They've created revenue. It's paying for itself. Now they're figuring out how they get more clients and build and hire. And so it's not... To your question and your point, which I think is legit, there's less than you would think of like, hey, we're just going to kind of throw seed money at the startup and hope that it's coming. One of the things that I would say that's more emblematic of our community is companies start companies. This is a huge thing, and they are far more When they start going out and creating a new service, they already have an income stream. They already are very savvy about business. They have lines of finance. And so that's a huge thing in our community. So to go back and say we're just going to look for these entrepreneurs that are just startup, yeah, there are some, but there's not as many as you would think. i wish you good luck in san diego because if you have good luck we have good luck so yeah thank you and and i i would add this at any time uh council members want to come sit for nine hours and start talking and selling i mean it's i don't like to sell so i might take you up on that okay All right, any other questions?

Chancellor Campbell?

Here, I do. First, I want to say, Lisa and James, you guys did a great job with the presentation. Thank you so much for coming here. I know sometimes you're like, well, you get your report in our packet, but it's so nice to hear from both of you and showing up. I appreciate the redirection of the north side. You and I have had a lot of conversations in regards to this. And the Opportunity Zone 2.0, most people in the community do not know what is coming our way if we do it right. And with that, with the 40 corridor being an industrial hub, this is what Havasu has been needing and wanting. What kind of connect, like I'm working with administrators right now to create a vision and a plan that incorporates Lake Havasu City, the county and the 40 corridor, of course. I see the growth out there. I'm helping to build the growth out there, which is nice, not DL Ranch, but like Pilot just got done out there. I mean, it's moving. And I think this is what we've been waiting for for a long time. What kind of communication and connections are you having to make sure that Lake Havasu is at the table to help with the long term vision that, yes, I've been told before, well, that's in the county, that means nothing to us. Well, the intention was heads and beds bring us revenues. And if we have industry on the Highway 40 corridor with the Opportunity Zone 2.0 advantages, what are you doing and what is PED doing to make this a top priority and a vision that's all connected with all Tri-City?

Yeah, I mean, there's a couple of things to answer. First of all, I mean, we are PED included and fought for the track for the shops at Lake Havasu back in 2018. It was so successful it was thrown out as being renewed as an opportunity zone because of how much money has encroached on that. It's no longer representative of what an opportunity zone does. So what? Two, the PED has, at a board level, has had many conversations of putting more money about trying to get inventory and some amount of planning from Lake Havasu all the way to I-40. And I'm gonna tell you why. One of the things that, when I showed that map, and I made part of the map dark and part of the map light for city and county, is for your economy, you have benefits. And so do they, it works both ways, but essentially you're not putting in, you're not expending water, you're not doing roads, you're not doing services, but people that live out there are certainly participating in your economy. So your economy grows in ways that you're not having to support them. So by our looking at that corridor ahead, and even just simply having an infrastructure and a land inventory at this point, and starting with just, I would start internally with Havasu people going out, and then of course have the county involved, but those are the conversations that's happening at the board level that's like, they see the opportunity and they say, well, what assets and what dollars do we have to go in there and what does that look like? So that not just for us to understand that, but for investors and developers and other people that come along, because that's literally what you're doing is you have to lay down the roadmap and the work and then when it finally looks good enough, they're willing to which is exactly what we're trying to get them to see. I hope that answers your question.

It does, and I have seen that you're already starting it. Recently, it was a pass to me, there was a design for the fields on the north side. And they said that the PED did that. Was that correct information that you guys did, kind of a visual of what could possibly happen out there?

Yeah, I mean that started with assisting the school district in some land planning for their Buena Vista project of putting potentially ball fields there. They were interested in LIHTC housing at the time. And so what we did is we created internally, we took all the softball, baseball, soccer schedules, created an AI model, but far inferior to what you guys are getting a field assessment, but we were able to get schedules and then figure out how many fields you could run and then started putting it on multiple places. And I think you guys are already doing that. But that's one of the reasons we created an alternative site, just to say, what are the advantages when you're doing fields? Because like anything else, you have a fixed amount of dollars. And so you're going to just be like a developer. You're going to spend that dollar wherever that gets you the most bang for your buck. And so that was just one of the things that we did in planning for that. That's not certainly something that, that was just something that we were working with behind the scenes.

Well, when it comes to that conversation, I still think I'm an economic development push. And I do believe with the new ball field, the event that they have that event center out there that they just a batting cage event that they had at the shops of Havasu, plus the hospital and potential new hospital. I'm all for having a lot of amenities around a field if possible, because that just brings us revenue. and it makes it a lot easier so thank you for being a partner for that let's continue the conversations and thank you for all your work thank you any other council members have any questions or comments

I WOULD JUST LIKE TO CONGRATULATE YOU AND YOUR BOARD FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO AND BEING SUCH A GREAT PARTNER. WE RELY ON YOU TO DO OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WE APPRECIATE THAT. JUST BY WAY OF HISTORY BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST ENTERING THE CONVERSATION NOW, WE HAVE A CONTRACT FOR SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH THE PARTNERSHIP ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO DO OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. The industry led 1% food and beverage tax for restaurants and 3% bed tax for hotels to do economic development and the for tourism promotion. At the time, that was 25% of those funds were to go to the PED and 75% of those funds were to go like Havasu. That since changed when we updated the contracts about seven or eight years ago, where now it's a fixed amount with areas in the contract of what our expectations are. As I believe Councilmember Campbell had mentioned, you provide a quarterly report to the council that we receive each quarter that's very in-depth on the work that you're doing to fulfill that obligation. But we use those taxes that the industry were pushing to pay our contract for services, and then the excess money goes to offset things within the general fund. But it's just good to know where all that's coming from so that people understand where the mindset was behind it for the conversation that we're having today. This is a public hearing. Would anyone like to address the City Council on this item?

Good evening, Mayor, City Council. After listening to the amazing Jim Gray's presentation and Linda Pender White, Lisa, sorry Lisa. I do have a really weird question that occurred to me. I know you guys said that the state is responsible for creating a shared youth pass along the highway, but I'm wondering if you can't involve the PED with something like that because obviously having citizens throughout the whole city being able to get to that area, an industrial hub, that you would want them to be able to get there safely. And if the only route right now is on London Bridge Road, technically, safely, without going through washes, that maybe, you know, we need to increase, again, the shared youth passes, youth shared use path. Because we need to be able, people need to be able to do that. And riding e-bikes, they need to be e-bike friendly. I know there's a lot of people who do not like e-bikes. That's really odd. But I happen to appreciate all e-bike riders, even though I can't ride an e-bike. And I really believe that they do need to be able to go to work. economic development, like that whole point of growing the north side, you don't have a safe path for the people who walk or the people who ride e-bikes. So I just want to know if that's a possibility to include the Partnership for Economic Development into that thought process.

Sure, yeah, they're involved in all of those conversations with us when we're talking about expansion and movability, how do we get folks throughout the community, they would be involved. So I think we talked to the last council meeting is maybe what you're referencing. It's partners from the state, the city, the planning organization, economic development would be involved, tourism would be involved, but all of the partners.

I believe last meeting you just said that I needed to contact the state, so.

Yeah, I don't know what the conversation was, but if that was a possibility, yeah, Ms. Toye, in the future, everyone will be on the table.

And Bonnie, I think you could ride a trike, e-bike. I have no idea.

I have not ridden an e-bike. The idea of falling doesn't sit well. Not on a trike? I'll walk it. If there was a path, I will walk the whole path, the whole city.

Would anyone else like to address the City Council on this item? All right, seeing none, we'll close the public hearing. Thank you again, Mr. Gray and Ms. Pender, we appreciate it. And Mr. Durham, I believe you're on the board as well. Thank you so much for being here. All right, we'll move on to the next item on our agenda. Item 8.4, Ordinance Number 26-1384, Amending Lake Havasu City Code, Title 14, Zoning Development Code, Sections 14.03.02, Table 13.1 and 14.03.02.

zero three e six and fourteen zero six zero three relating to accessory residential care homes mr gilbert thank you mayor uh the track changes document for this case is included in the city council agenda packet uh the first slide is very important i want to go over this briefly on each of the items um the reason if you just go we're just waiting for our screens to upload real quick

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Thank you. There we go. Thank you. The reason for this action, Arizona State Senate Bill 1473, was passed by the legislature and signed by the governor on April 7, 2026. And the bill becomes law on September 12, 2026. What does this new law do? It prohibits cities and counties from adopting, enforcing, or maintaining any law that prevents state-licensed accessory residential care homes from allowing 10 or less unrelated residents under care in any such facility included under definition contained specifically within Arizona revised statutes, ARS 36-401. And that's very important statute to remember for the rest of the presentation. What this new law does not do, all the various types of facilities that are not included under the categories defined in ARS 36-401, such as sober living drug rehab homes, which are under ARS 36-2061, continues to be limited to the current development code restriction of six unrelated residents. How can we verify any of this? The bill requires any operation qualifying under ARS 36-401 and thus entitled to the new limit to have a license issued by the State Department of Health Services. And we do have access to their database. Powers the city will still retain, building fire and zoning codes are still fully applicable as long as they do not have the effect of reducing a particular home licensed by the Department of Health Services to less than 10 residents. Of course, if the department licenses them for 10, we can't reduce it below 10 unless they license it for less. Staff is proposing these amendments to the development code using a minimalist approach to avoid confusion, promote understanding for parties operating in the residential care home universe, and to not overcomplicate what the law was written to do. The proposed amendments are the minimum needed to comply with the new state law. And there are a total of four amendments needed to achieve this compliance, as shown on the slide I have up here. And as the mayor read an introduction to this item, The first amendment is to the use table itself where it's addition to place accessory residential care homes as an accessory use in any zone that permits residential uses. The second one is to modify again the use tables cross reference code section under the use specific standards column for accessory residential care home to add assisted living homes as defined by ARS 36-401, which permits up to 10 residents for this use. The third major change, Modification of the definition of accessory residential care home to add 10 or fewer residents for assisted living homes as defined by ARS 36-401. Again, I want to point out that's the important statute and why on initial review it looked broader than it is, but it's targeted only to those facilities under that definition. So it's very specific, doesn't cover a lot of these types of facilities. Modification of the definition of family is the fourth one. defer to the state of arizona federal law regulations regarding occupancy limits and adds a cross reference to the definition of accessory residential care home the planning commission unanimously recommended approval of the proposed amendments at its meeting on august 19th mayor this completes my staff report available answering questions that the council may have

Thank you, Mr. Gober. Are there questions from members of the council for Mr. Gober? Mr. Mayor. Yeah, Council Member Lynn.

I'm gonna try at this question cuz I had somebody ask me, okay, if currently there's a residential care home and they're allowed to have six residents currently, that's what it was until this changed to ten, correct? If this home technically could have held ten people in it, but they weren't doing that because we couldn't do it. What do they have to do to come back to the city, or can they just add former residents?

The first step would be, they would have to show us proof that they're licensed by the State Department of Health. for ten individuals. Our understanding is that the state vets these at their end and they issue the license. And part of the bill states that no city shall make any law that reduces the number below ten or whatever the state license for it could be eight. So we're assuming that there's inspections going on on the state level that they before they even come to us. So when they come to us, we wanna see the state license, what they're licensed for, and then we apply our building fire and planning codes. And we've been visiting recently with a lot of these perspective, there's been a real boom in interest in the last month or two. And we're meeting with them in pre-application meetings to give them all the information they need to know. to move forward with their application. Because there are some significant fire and life safety aspects to these.

I just want to clarify. So if they're already acting as a residential home, and they have six residents in it, but they could put in 10, do they still have to go back through an application process?

They would need to prove to us that they're licensed for 10 through the state.

And if they are, then they don't have to do the application process?

If they're licensed for 10 through the state, they would have to get a license from the city, and they would have to make sure that they're compliant with our building and fire codes.

If I may, Mr. Gover, Councilman Merlin, are you asking if they currently operate as a six residence, they can still continue to do that just as if they wanted to change and add the benefit of additional residence to come into compliance? That's correct.

Okay.

So they could continue to operate as six with no changes in operation, nothing, but should they want to take advantage of this bill and go to 10, then would have to come into compliance with the new life and safety requirements.

Okay, what is that life and safety? I'm sorry, I'm writing it down because I have to go back to somebody who asked about this.

So yeah, the fire requirements and And some of the other safety requirements.

They don't have to get re-licensed or anything at the city, do they? Because they're already licensed as a... Yeah, there's no licensing at the city.

Oh, we are requiring that they all get a city business license because we have to be able to track them for the regular fire inspection purposes.

Yeah, they already have all that.

They're just... Then they should be fine.

I think the person that came to me, they originally could put up to 10 residents. But because of this... state thing, they could only put six. They're ready to put four more in. So they, I'm assuming, would have done the fire and all that already for the six. That wouldn't change their building, right?

We would ask them to come meet. Jeff has some additional comments.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. So going to 10 residents is gonna require a change of use, we call it. So there's gonna be regulations. Residential property is considered an R3 occupancy for five or fewer. When you get over five, it's a change of use to an R4 occupancy, which drives some accessibility changes and some fire sprinkler requirements.

It might change what they already have in there?

Yes, exactly.

Okay. All right, I'll let her know. Thank you.

Thank you. Vice Mayor Diaz? And how are we, I would assume the state is, because some people are going to do this and they're going to get the licensing and insurance. They're going to get all the fires and life and stuff safe, all taken care of. And they're probably getting some subsidies by the number of beds they put in there. Is the state checking for fraud on this thing? Because the reason this is so popular is because it's racked with fraud. It's been all over the country. So I know we're not going to be inspecting them and making sure, hey, you're licensed for 10 beds, but there's no one at your place, and you're getting all this money from the state. So is the state going to be doing that?

Mayor, Vice Mayor, yes. Because it's licensed by the state, that would be something that the state would then do inspections on or investigations of, not the city. That would be the state.

The city's not doing, okay, good. All right, thank you.

Any other questions or comments from members of the council? All right, 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 additional discussion or possible motion. Council Member Koch? Motion. Please.

I move to adopt Ordinance Number 26-1384, amending Lake Havasu City Code Sections 14.03.02, Table 3-1, 14.03.03E6 and 14.06.03, relating to accessory residential care homes. Second.

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

Motion carries seven to zero.

Thank you. Item 8.5 is resolution number 26-3946, designating the island multi-use path as Dean Barlow Legacy Loop in honor of Dean Alan Barlow. Mr. Foggin.

Mayor, Council, it is an absolute pleasure to be here to introduce this item. We did receive an application to name the island multi-use path after Mr. Dean Barlow. Bridget Stevens had submitted an application. That application was reviewed by our naming committee. First, I want to make sure and thank the committee for their WE HAVE REVIEWED THE APPLICATION, EVERYTHING WAS IN ORDER, THE PROPER REFERENCES WERE PROVIDED, AND SO WE'VE MOVED IT ON TO COUNCIL FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. TONIGHT I'M HAPPY TO WELCOME BRIDGET, WHO SUBMITTED THE APPLICATION, AND SHE WILL TAKE OVER FROM HERE.

THANK YOU, MR. FONTGEN. GOOD EVENING, MS. STEPHENS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.

Thank you. Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, city councilwomen, city councilmen, city clerk, our city manager, and our city attorney. That was 11 weeks ago when I gave another presentation, a call to the public. on the many reasons why I thought that we should name something after Dean Barlow, who was a 30 year plus resident of Havasu. I have written down my thoughts and don't worry, it's just really big font so I don't have to wear my glasses. So I'm not gonna be up here all night, so. I'm here tonight as I submitted an application to the city to name the island multi-use path in honor and memory of Dean Barlow to Legacy Loop, a legacy built by his hands and from his heart. Dean possessed the rare combination of the heart of a volunteer and the spirit of a philanthropist. He didn't simply see a need and write a check. He didn't simply lend a hand and walk away. He gave everything he had to give, his time, his talent, his resources, his leadership, his hard work, and above all, his heart with everything that he did. The heart of a volunteer asks, what can I do? And the philanthropist asks, what can I make possible? Dean asked both, and then he asked more. His service could be found quiet hours spent in his garage using his own hands to make the balusters for Puma Wash. One of the things that I've discovered in the last couple of years is that a lot of people don't know that Dean made all those balusters for Puma Wash in our garage. that was something he did on his own and he also spent time constructing improving and beautifying the city he loved and it could be found also in his generosity which was extraordinary dean believed in hard sciences and he knew that we were facing a health care shortage and a crisis coming up So he personally donated $100,000 to Mojave Community College and $100,000 to ASU for hard sciences only, for only local students. And that was scholarship fund he was very proud of. He also donated $50,000 to WAVE and JTAD. And I think we all know that HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, IF NOT A MILLION, TO THE HUMANE SOCIETY OVER HIS 30 YEARS HERE. AND HIS LAST DONATION WAS UPON HIS PASSING WHERE HE HAD ME GIVE THEM $200,000. SO WITH HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND DOLLARS IN ADDITIONAL GIFTS, I THINK COMBINED, SCOTT TAYLOR CORRECTED ME 11 WEEKS AGO WHEN I SAID HE DONATED AT LEAST A MILLION. SCOTT SAID IT WAS, WELL, TWO OR MORE. He's right, because I've kind of been going through boxes in the house, and some of that was at PAX Records, but anyway. Dean made dreams possible, he strengthened organizations, and he made our community better because he cared enough to invest in our future. He gave from the hands, but it began with the heart, and when his generosity was given, it was given with humility, compassion, and love, and it became something greater than a gift, it became a legacy. But Dean's legacy was never about the dollar amount. It was about showing up. It was about rolling up his sleeves. It was getting his hands dirty, believing in young people, supporting education, making dreams possible, and believing in the greater cause, and helping the community become something better. Dean gave because he cared. Dean worked because he believed one person could make a difference. And Dean served his community. It wasn't a place where he simply lived. It was his home. Lake Havasu City was truly his home. His fingerprints remain on places he helped build. His generosity lives on in opportunities he created. His example continues to inspire those he touched. Dean gave from his hands and he gave from his means and he gave from his heart. He helped build a better community, not only with what he had, but with who he was. And perhaps that's the greatest legacy, a city made better by a man who cared enough to give it his hands, his heart, a lifetime service. And a community made better because he was here. Jasmine, a first grader at Smoketree Elementary years ago that Dean tutored, said it best. She drew this lovely picture of her and Dean at school and then she wrote, thank you Mr. Barlow for teaching me. I love you because you're awesome. So I cannot agree with Jasmine more and I framed that and that hangs with my grandchildren's art. I want to thank you for your attention to this matter, and I strongly believe that the path should be named in honor of Dean, but more importantly, what he gave to the community, which he loves so much, and to inspire future generations and to love their community and find joy in serving Lake Havasu, and I'd like that to be a legacy loop to inspire people. Just two more things off the top of my head. is how can you not love a man who had bell ringing for the Salvation Army on his bucket list? Which apparently was on my bucket list. So he signed me right up for that too. And one of the things that he always did after he had his coffee and he read the morning paper is he would say, I'm going to go run some errands. And then he would return home and I'd ask him, how was your day? What'd you do? And he'd say, not much. so then before we went to bed he'd say can you write these checks can you make sure this is on the calendar and okay not much usually equated to a great deal of things so i respectfully request that we name the island path legacy loop in memory of dean barlow thank you thank you miss stevens thank you for the presentation

Not only did Mr. Barlow do lots of amazing things, he also was a two-term council member. I had the opportunity to serve with him for a couple of years before he phased off the council. But the island loop or pedestrian path also was inspired by Mr. Barlow. and the Keep Havasu Beautiful. He's very, very involved in that. And so what you're seeing with some tree canopies along the northern part of that area, and as it continues around, were actually done by him and the Keep Havasu Beautiful committee as well. Does any council members have any comments? Public hearing? Yeah, customer .

I just wanna say something. I love the legacy word in that as well. Cuz we talk about McCulloch and what he did, but there's a Havasu core. And there's three ladies right there that are a part of it. the people that have built this city that have done so much, and he is just, I was thinking back of my childhood, and Rotary, and all those different things, and he's just, he's one of those people, and you know, we've had, so to be able to honor him this way, I think is amazing, but Havasu's built this by those people, and so I'm glad we get the opportunity to To think of him, and I'm not running around that, maybe I'll get an e-bike or something. But no, I just want to say this is this core of Havasu, and so it's just awesome to put him in that group of those legacy people that built this city. And like I said, those three ladies are also in that group too, so thank you guys.

Council Member Campbell? Mayor, I just want to say thank you for your speech. Thank you for letting me get to know him even more. I didn't know him as well, but Thank you for taking the time to write that, taking the time to do the application, and thank you for letting him be part of our Lake Havasu City's legacy. And it'll be an honor to ride my e-bike around that. On her track.

Vice Mayor Diaz? Bridget, I want to just thank you for the long conversations we've had in person, on the phone, and your commitment and your passion. It does them justice, so thank you very much.

Any other comments? All right, this is a public hearing. Would anyone like to address the City Council on this item? If so, yeah, just make your way to the podium and state your name. Yeah. No, no, for those at home, Evie, we need you on the microphone. I'm so sorry, yes. Yeah. Yeah, no, I'm sorry.

Amen.

Good evening, Mayor, City Council, City Manager, City Attorney, and City Clerk. My name is Evie Sestaro, and I have been a proud resident of Lake Havasu City since 1973. Over the years, I have had the privilege of meeting community leaders, philanthropists, local icons, and trailblazers. Dean Vallow was certainly among this group. Dean was one of those guys who wanted to help the city prosper and grow. He belonged to many organizations, sat on boards, and was a member of the city council. He was seeing need and tried to make it happen. He was very generous, not only with his time, but also financially. I sat on various boards and Dean would attend to see how he could help. He was genuine. I was so happy he received the well-deserved Citizen of the Year Award for all his hard work in this community that he loved. Being a fundraiser in Lake Havasu City, you meet the people who make a difference. I was fortunate to call him a friend. Lake Havasu City was blessed the day Dean Barlow made this his home. He was a gentle giant with a big heart, caring ways and a warm smile. His greatest joy was when he represented our city at different events as the Lord Mayor. As a pioneer in my love for Lake Havasu City, I'm asking you to consider naming the island path Legacy Loop in honor of Dean Barlow, gone but not forgotten. Lake Havasu City lost a friend. He was loved by so many. Please let his legacy live on in the city he called home and loved. Thank you.

Thank you so much, Evie. OK.

So that's my steal.

Would anyone else like to address the council on this item? All right, seeing none, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing and bring it back to council for any discussion or possible motion. Yeah, Council Member Koch?

Motion.

Please.

It was also an honor to work with Bridget on this and helping with the name. So it's an honor to serve with Dean and this is a great way to recognize him. So I move to adopt resolution number 3946 as Dean Barlow Legacy Loop in honor of Dean Allen Barlow and authorize city staff to take the appropriate actions to accomplish this action.

Second. We have a motion from Council Member Koch, a second from Council Member Campbell. Is there any additional discussion? Seeing none, we're ready to vote.

Motion carries seven to zero.

Congratulations. Thank you so much. Congratulations again. All right, we will move on to our next item. Item 8.6 is a discussion update on the Lake Havasu Municipal Airport. Mr. Foggin,

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Congratulations, Bridget. We were asked to introduce our Interims Airport Manager tonight. I am proud to actually do that. The company that we've been working with is a company known as AMCG. They specialize in airport policy practices and also interim airport management. And I want to actually thank Dr. Kimmelton who, when we received the resignation of our airport manager, Of course, we were scrambling. The airport's extremely busy, a large number of projects going on. And having an airport manager being able to share professional insights and manage projects was extremely important. And Dr. Kimmelton helped us do some research. We found AMCG. They came highly recommended. And so we were fortunate to be able to engage them. They've supplied an interim airport manager. His name is David Ruppel. Dave started with us several weeks ago, and he's actually joining us tonight to introduce himself virtually. He's going to walk through a little bit about himself and his first impressions and things that he's working on

at the airport so with that um i will turn it over to dave thank you mr foggin and welcome mr rupal well thank you very much and you have access to the uh presentation and uh mayor and city council we do yes okay uh well good evening i'm dave rupal uh i'm your interim airport manager um Just a little bit about myself. I've got about 20 more than 20 years now of leadership experience with airports, both commercial airports and general aviation type airports. and also a lot of experience with just management in general with about 23 years in the Navy as well as a naval aviator. AMCG, the aviation management consulting group has been around for about 25 years and has Worked with a number of airports around the country. You can see some of the statistics there. They do a lot of management and development work with airports and aviation businesses and fixed base operators like Velocity on our airport. So they have a lot of experience with this kind of thing, and they also even work with the airport cooperative research program to develop guidebooks on airports and how management should be done. If you're familiar with ACRP, they have guidebooks on just about every subject that you can think of related to airports, and they offer those free of charge on their website if you want to be able to look up any information on how a report should be operated. Next slide there. So interim management services, our goal is to be able to come in and you're kind of a situation where you no longer have a manager and you still have a very busy airport to run to assess how the airport's looking and what kind of needs you have and look at ways that we can continue to move things forward during the time that we're there. and continue to improve the compliance requirements, help the airport meet those if they're not already doing that, help them complete their professional management documents if they don't have those, work with the FAA to make sure that the airport is compliant overall. So you can see the list of the kinds of things that we look into when we're providing interim management services. Some of the specific things that I've worked on in the few weeks that I've been here, we've closed out the runway safety area project. And if you're not familiar with that project, it was basically a project to install rocks the size of a potato, I guess, very uniform shape and size. And once they're compressed in place, they provide a surface that a small aircraft can run across without being damaged if they had to in an emergency. But probably more importantly, it helps to control the dust and the things that can be blown up by helicopters and other aircraft moving through the area in addition to reducing the amount of weeds and the wildlife attractant that's in an area so this is the first phase of that project overall i think there are three phases to it they did a great job on it and we're just going through the final close out with the faa and a dot on the grants. We've also been working on the Taxiway Charlie issue. I know that's been a hot button issue with having to close that for safety concerns. We've worked with Public Works, with the airport's engineer, And with the FAA to come up with a solution, at least to be able to to fix the major safety issues on it and be able to reopen that that taxiway will continue to work through that. But I think we have a great solution to it. And it's something that both the engineer and and the FAA are on board with supporting. We're also working on hiring an operations specialist to fill out the staff for the airport. That position.

Dave, you're starting to break up on us.

I'm sorry?

You're breaking up a little bit. Can you repeat that little section?

Sure, you bet. So we have been working on hiring an operations specialist to round out the airport staff. We've had about 13 applicants for the position and we're working on the final two applicants tomorrow. We'll be doing an interview with them. and hopefully have a new operations specialist on board here fairly soon. In addition to that, I've been working on the professional management documents, the minimum standards, the lease policy rules and regulations, looking at the work that's already been done on those and trying to help finalize those documents, standardizing leases, standardizing commercial use permits, and helping to move forward the appraisal project that was already scheduled to occur, starting the data collection on that probably in the next couple of months. There's also been some discussion with a local group called Hangar 24 Airplanes about a static display show for the airport, which I think would be a great opportunity just to showcase some of the things that go on in aviation and some of these really amazing aircraft that That people at the airport have worked on and can show those that had a static display. So we'll continue to work on that. I've also been working with the city to look at the possibility for commercial service at the airport either a part 139. type development or something called Part 135, 380. Part 139 is commercial air service similar to what United or Delta or one of those airlines provides. And Part 135 is someplace in between charter type services and the traditional commercial service. So I think there's a lot of opportunities and the airport's in great shape and I think really could provide those kind of services as well. And then also developing hangers. There never seemed to be enough hangers at the airport. And I think the project that's been proposed is a good project there. Just to wrap things up, our job, my job is to bridge the gap until you have a new airport manager in place, keep things moving forward while we're doing that, and continue to communicate well with both the tenants and the local community about the value of the airport. What questions can I answer?

Yeah, thank you Mr. Rubel. Are there questions from members of the Council?

Mr. Mayor.

Council Member Lynn.

I have a couple questions. Sir, are you in Lake Havasu?

I'm not right now. I'm in Texas actually. So the way the project is set up, I come out for a week, a month, and they're on site for that week. And then the rest of the month, I provide the services that I can through remote access.

So currently, do we have anybody physically at the airport representing your management company?

Not from AMCG. We have the airport staff that's there and we communicate regularly. We have a weekly phone meeting and any other problems that come up, they're welcome to call me whenever they need to.

How often have you been here?

All right, so far I've been there for seven work days. That was the way the project was set up. I spent a full seven days there just to try to get up to speed on the assessment for the airport and get to know the people who are involved in running the airport.

Okay, and then I have a question. Can you go back a couple slides?

Who's doing that?

Right there maybe? Hold on. Maybe forward one. Oh, I'm missing it on here.

I guess I'm missing it on here.

Did I hear correctly that you guys are directing or looking at helping us to hire staff for our airport? Did I see that on one of the slides that you're hiring staff for us?

No, we won't hire staff for you, but one of the things that we do is to help you look through those applications. If you've gone through your hiring process and you have people that you think would be a good fit for your airport, we will review those applications as well and try to give you at least our input on the applicants that you receive.

Jeff, maybe you can help me out on this. Maybe somebody can help me out. So have we had an operation specialist or is that a new position out there?

You had a manager.

I'm sorry, Dave, I'll take it. Mayor, councilwoman, Lynn. Yes, this is just a vacant position we've had and we're just looking to fill it.

So that operation specialist is different than a manager or the same?

Different. Have we ever had an operation specialist out there? Yes, well, we had an operation, what we termed as an operation management person. We changed that to an operation specialist.

Okay, and then I guess my final question, well, final question, I might have more. Who is actually at the airport on our staff running the airport like today?

So Dave, as Dave indicated, he's basically taking questions, answering calls, answering emails, as you would expect the manager to do. If we have staff on site Monday through Friday, taking calls, answering questions, and then between Bill Young and myself, if there's any additional needed help, we're filling in. So like if I went out to the airport, who is actually on staff at the airport? So you're going to have our reception, well, our admin specialist one, Jenna Capel. You're going to have Daryl Capel. WHO IS BASICALLY OUT ON THE FIELD DOING MAINTENANCE AND ON ALL THE MAINTENANCE ITEMS. WE ALSO HAVE JULIE DAVIS WHO IS ALSO HELPING. SHE'S HANDLING THE LEASES AND ALL OF THAT ASPECT. SO THERE'S THREE EMPLOYEES THAT ARE AT THE AIRPORT. And then, like I said, when Dave is here in the chair, if not, he's taking calls and doing email and what you would expect the manager to do.

So if we get a phone call from a military call or something, who takes that call?

That would go to Dave.

And he answers it? It doesn't go to voicemail or anything? Somebody answers?

Correct.

Okay. I guess I did not understand and I'm thankful for this presentation that we weren't actually having an actual management interim position that was actually going to be here at least temporarily, permanently. But I appreciate the presentation and the information.

Yeah, the contract that the council approved, I believe, either last meeting or the meeting before, indicated and outlined what the role was and how often they would be on site. Vice Mayor Diaz? Mr. Retto?

Ruppel. Ruppel? Mr. Ruppel? Yes. Thank you, Vice Mayor Diaz here. On the action items, so one of the things I asked staff to do when we had the presentation, I think it was the day after they signed the, contract with your company was to evaluate that taxiway C because we were getting a lot of complaints that it was closed. It was hurting operations and it and we did not have to be closed by the FAA said that did not have to be closed. So what is it open now? Are we still? I thought we had got it. I presented the email to all the council members over a month ago that from the FAA saying that that does not have to be closed. So where are we at with the runway taxiway C right now?

So the way the AC or the regulations are written, you can interpret the type of cracking that there is out there on taxiway C in a number of different ways. And I think the The previous airport manager had erred on the side of safety, and while the FAA said that it didn't have to be closed, they don't really make those determinations for the airport. So if the airport wants to err on the side of safety and take a more extreme position than they might take, or than they might recommend, they would still support that. So they were not aware of the problem to begin with, but I've had discussions with the FAA specifically about this and they're comfortable with the solution that we proposed, which is to seal up the main cracks. The concern with the cracking is that the cracks are large enough that a small airplane could get diverted by You know, rolling over them at the wrong angle, it could be picked up and cause that airplane to divert. So, fixing that problem, I think, is the is the prudent thing to do to be able to reopen the taxiway. And we've been working with public works and with. uh the airport's engineer and the faa to figure out the best solution for that there's a product called mastic that you use for larger cracks like that and and that's something that the faa supports and has asked for us to continue with that okay and then any of the issues we've been having at the airport because i've heard this and i want to need to verification causing us to lose military um action out there where they're

screwing up the military aircraft, which cost us money when they don't fuel here. We lose money when they don't.

Sure. You know, I can't tell you that the military has decided to go someplace else or not decided to go someplace else, but I have seen a lot of military aircraft out there when I was there. And I think that the biggest concerns that I heard from the FBO had to do with a debt that comes out, and there's actually two debts, one that comes out in October and another one in January, that they utilize that space on Taxiway Charlie for. uh so i think it's been a it's been a problem not having that space open uh yeah but it hasn't been it hasn't uh impacted those major debts that are coming later in the year and i think that we can have the the cracking filled quickly enough that that it shouldn't uh be an issue for these two debts okay can you go back to the action item slide please that's here in the control room uh

Doug, can you bring the presentation back up?

Thank you. Thank you. So going back to what Councilwoman Lin was saying about operations specialists. So we had an airport, I'm sure we had an operations manager who left, I think it's in July he left, resigned. EXPLAIN TO ME, AND MAYBE MR. FOGG, IF YOU COULD HELP WITH THIS ALSO, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OPERATIONS MANAGER AND OPERATIONS SPECIALIST? I WANT TO GET A CLEAR DEFINITION OF WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO DIFFERENTLY THAN WE HAVE BEFORE.

I'LL TAKE THIS, DAVE, VICE MAYOR. THE OPERATION SPECIALIST, THERE'S REALLY NOT A LOT OF DIFFERENCE. THERE WASN'T REALLY ANY MANAGEMENT. WE DON'T HAVE A VERY BIG We just don't have a big team. And so what we're looking for is people that are taking care of the operational side of the airport. And the feeling was that the airport manager said, because we don't have a huge staff, can take care of the staff that we have there, and there was really no reason to have that title for that position. So the specialist, the operations specialist, the only difference is that they don't have, they're not managing anybody, but really the manager in that position didn't have really any management experience.

responsibility anyway so and then and then when it comes to the this might be a multiple multi-person answers here lease policy development standardized lease development rules and regulation development and the commercial so when we had this when we had the audit done that we had companies that did the audit for us the leases were all over the map and there was a lot of confusion so how do we clean that up if someone has a lease and it says it's good it starts on this date and ends on this date are we just going to wipe all those clean and become Standardize I mean how does that work if someone signed a lease?

I'm trying to wrap my head around I actually think that's probably best for Dave to answer. I will say from The city side what you're describing is exactly the problem There was you know one person walks in with a lease the next person walks in with a different lease and Right now, the length of time for leases are like 30 days. You own your own hangar. You're leasing your hangar for 30 days. And at the end of 30 days, which is a huge investment, those hangars, those private hangars are hundreds of thousands of dollars. AND YOU'RE BASICALLY BUYING IT WITH A LEASE FOR A 30-DAY NET. AND SO TRYING TO GET THESE LEASES LINED BACK UP WITH THE RIGHT LENGTH OF TIME IS REALLY GOING TO BE IMPORTANT FOR THE CITY, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE IMPORTANT FOR ALL THE AIRPORT USERS AS WELL. DAVE, I GUESS AS THE EXPERT, I'LL LET YOU WEIGH IN ON THAT.

You know, I think you covered it very well there, Ron. I think the important thing is to try to come up with a policy and a standardized lease that protects the city, protects the airport. And then when you look at when do you put those into effect, you'd look at the end of whatever the previous lease was. That's an opportunity to put a new lease into effect without Hopefully negatively impacting anybody involved, so you're not taking away somebody's current lease. I think the other piece that's a bit of a concern is just the length of these leases is is short by comparison to the standard business practices at other airports. And I think what you'd normally see for for private hangers, privately owned hangers. would be probably something more in the 20 to 25 year range. That's what the FAA looks at as a normal normalized lease length for a private hanger. And then if you're looking at city-owned hangers, then 30 days may be something that makes more sense if it's a city-owned hanger. Being able to look at the different situations, standardize most of the language in the lease so that you're not, you don't have one lease that says you've got to turn the hanger back over at this particular time. You've got another lease that doesn't say anything about it. Just trying to standardize those things so that everybody is under the same requirements and that those requirements for the specific type of hanger that they have are similar to what the rest of the industry is using.

Right, and making sure we're building the type of hangers that people want is a good point. And I'm really excited, and a lot of citizens are interested. And Mr. Mayor and I have had conversations about the part 139 and the part 135.38. That's important, and if we can make something work and it's good for the city, that'll be great. With that said, I think earlier on your presentation you talked about getting input from airport users and citizens and people working at the airport. So I'm looking to bring back. We had an airport advisory council. We used to have that, and I want to bring that back. I believe I have the buy-in from the mayor on that, and we're going to talk about getting that on a future agenda item. We could talk about that and having the council vote as a whole and then see if that happens. But we'd like to bring back that airport advisory council. Anything you could help us on that as far as, where you deal with other municipal airports, they do something like that, we'd love to hear your input as part of your program.

Okay.

Thank you.

Yeah, I think those can be very useful tools. It just depends on how they're set up.

Yes, thank you. Council Member Dolan?

Mr. Mayor? I wanna welcome Mr. Ruppel. We're definitely glad to have you. I love the action items that we're working on and that you guys with your years of experience are here to help us with. A little nervous with over the last my eight years on council, we've seen four different airport managers. So I really like this approach. I think we have a company that has years and years of experience. Handling these kind of issues and then we can get set up for our new airport manager when we're ready I think we definitely need a lot of help You know, it's gonna be hard. It's hard to get people to come to an airport our size with this experience You know, especially because we have a lot to tackle. So I also think that This is definitely a staffing issue as well. I was on the airport advisory for six years. I'm welcome to bring it back, have the discussion. But I think we need to kind of be realistic. There's not a lot we as council can do. This is a staff management. We need good managers in there. We need people that communicate professionally. I'm a little nervous about bringing the advisory board back if it's filling the wrong need. I think the users out there want to be heard and want their voice to be heard. They want to know, what are the rules? What are we going to do? Let's be a part of the solution. And I don't know if a board that's an advisory to the council, is that necessarily a way of doing it with open meeting laws and all that? I think we definitely, if that's what we're going to do, great. But I think we definitely need a user group out there that the airport management is listening to and they can bring up their issues too. And as we go through and solve a lot of these things, we're gonna need that professional communication to them and have them in the room and have their input. So yeah, I think they just wanna be heard and Like I said, I don't know exactly what we as staff can do other than like, and that's what I would also like to maybe add to the action items. Is there something that we as council can do? But I think a lot of this is staff led. We need a management on site boots on the ground. And I do even like this setup. I know you're not here all the time, but to have a system in place and to be conquering everything on this list, And setting us up for the success in the future. So just wanna welcome you. Like I said, having been on the airport advisory board and been a user out there too. I think we've come a long way since I've been here in eight years. We've been through, like I said, four different managers. We've been through different FBO operators. And I think everybody's just a little burnt out on every area. And I think we just need to get Like I said, we definitely need to get a group of people in a room with the users and here's some of the frustrations. There's a lot of history here with different FBOs and different managers over the years and how we've used stuff. And I think that's just understanding that history and like I said, letting those users know this is exactly what we're working on, these action items. We are gonna be talking about leases and some people may like it and other people, if they have one of those really good leases and we change the way it is, Change has to happen cuz we have to stay modern on this. So just wanna welcome you and I look forward to what we have coming.

Thank you very much.

you for the presentation and i'm interested to hear how you've incorporated the user groups and can somebody i haven't heard anything i heard that we were going away from the advisory council which i think is a lot like parks and rec is what i'm assuming and we went into a user group and then i heard there was complications there and so that there was things said and did that wasn't that should probably agendized and ran more orderly. I don't know if that's true. I have heard zero updates other than this and all the different managers coming to talk to us occasionally. I'm looking forward to the new direction. Again, thank you for coming. I appreciate you coming out today and discussing your action items. They look great to me, but I would really love to hear more how we can bring some sort of a user group, some sort of an advisory council back because this airport is so valuable to lake havasu city and the partners of economic development can even understand the importance of the north side the opportunity zone the highway 40 opportunity zone potential growth there if we have a strong airport and i really appreciate the users and what they have to say because they're the ones they're the legacy of our community been here for decades they have history that no new manager would know and so somehow or another i would love to uh see that come back i know we've had it for decades i don't know why it disappeared but as at the time a new council person, I really miss not hearing from them because I did reach out to them and had lots of conversations. So I agree with Vice Mayor Diaz that whatever we can do to get an advisory group back together, I am completely supportive.

Thank you, Council Member Campbell. Just for information, this council took away that. So it was in the code and we voted to remove the airport advisory council. So that was the discussion that Vice Mayor had mentioned that we've been talking about what type of a user group. But the council is the one that took it away based on some of the users at the airport at that time. But that doesn't mean that a new iteration can't come to be so that we have everyone's voices heard.

And we make mistakes, we all do up here. And what I did notice is we were supposed to have user group that we were gonna have meetings and we were gonna be brought up to date on that. And that doesn't seem to be happening. So something's gonna have to happen, cuz I think we need to reconsider. But thank you so much, appreciate that.

Any other comments or questions for Mr. Ruppel or Mr. Foggin? All right, this is a public hearing. Would anyone like to address the City Council on this item?

Hello. My name is Linda Rick. I live at 1688 East Persimmon, Lake Havasu City. And before I... I came to give you a perspective of what it's like to be an airport bum for the last six years on the north side of town. And I know many times I've talked to council members and they really don't even know what's going on at the airport. And I'm going to help you a little bit. And... Before I do that, I want to thank Mr. Ruppel for this presentation because it's realistic and it's straightforward and I really like that. The comment made about the user groups versus an advisory board is a little alarming because I'm really very active actually at the Aquatic Center too. And a user of the aquatic center doesn't quite seem the same to me as the user of an airport. We've got highly experienced. We've got people that are licensed, people that have credentials, people that have worked in the FAA, people that have been internationals. And most of them, yes, many of them are retired, but that makes them even more experienced, even though they need to be caught up with current regulations.

So thank you, Mr. Ruppel.

First of all, I'd like to say I've been involved with our airport since I moved here in 2020. Immediately got on one of the waiting lists, and I am leased at airport shade for, they call them shade ports. And I'm a member with my pilot husband of EAA, the Experimental Aircraft Association, and a membership co-chair of the International Organization of Women's Pilots. These groups both have chapters at our airport, and they meet monthly. And I invite you to meet us, especially the women's group. They're just hot. And also, Mr. Ripple, the women's group does air races and poker rounds, and they'd be more than happy to help you with that static display. Okay. So when I came here, Airport Director Damien was working on some master plans and we had many regular meetings to share and get input. So I think we got kind of spoiled maybe because we had a lot of interaction, even the FAA was in and out of those meetings. And during that time, I want to thank you, Dave Diaz, because you had a veterans exhibit at the terminal. And that was really helpful to get the community out to the airport. Also during that time, we had to resurface the runway, shutting the airport down for an extended period of time. And at that time, we all remembered its importance, because when providing services to this community, it became very challenging for FedEx, Amazon, part-time doctors, some local businesses, etc., So then Rob became director and seemed to be working on FAA issues and had a few meetings. I don't know what happened to the master plans and the airport advisory board disappeared. Then Kip came and he had one meeting to introduce himself. After discovering that our office manager, which had been changed by Rob Kane to, I think, administrative assistant. I'm not really sure, but I know he intended to elevate that person's position because of their knowledge and their usefulness. So after I discovered that person was gone and we didn't know that it happened and why and where, I went to the coffee with the mayor And Kalshi, he helped me with a request for an airport, we call them airport talks. So moving to today, basically we only know, now I'm talking about those of us hanging out at the airport, pilots or volunteers or other staff. To date, basically, we only know that we've lost an office manager that was the only constant over those years, helping us with anything. And recently, an operations manager, which unfortunately ended up being part of front page news here for a few weeks. We are, and we don't want to be at the mercy of newspaper, you know, to get information. It was fairly accurate about what your attempts were. And with, you know, Mr. Ruppel, I was glad to hear that. So I had been asked to get a petition to get personnel back, and I feel like that is way too confidential of a situation for me to deal with. And since I attend most meetings at the airport or anything about the airport, I get asked to share information. I've been asked so many times about getting the airport advisory board back, so here I am. and i did talk to one gentleman dr scott who was on the advisory board i think jim you're familiar with dr scott about 12 years ago so he wasn't really familiar with why the advisory board had been dissolved also there's another gentleman tom williams i don't know if you remember tom he was pilot that was helpful with, and I guess you have a position on the advisory board for some people just for input. And he's interested in seeing it be returned. I've been wondering if it's not the directors that were the problem, but the directions, if any, that have been given by the city council or staff and or staff. You know, you got to look at both sides of it. And at this point, I just feel we all need organized help. So please consider reinstating the Airport Advisory Board. I do have formal petitions, but I'm certainly not interested in going that route if I don't have to. And then one more comment. If you're actually at the airport, and you are trying to get a hold of somebody, you can go in the office. The new gal who's been there a month or two, Jenna, she has to call a lot of times Julie, who's working at this office here in town, to help her answer questions because she's never worked at an airport before. And then Daryl? I know that he's a real helpful maintenance handyman type guy, but I'm not sure his job description allows him to address some of the issues that are coming in the door. So thank you.

Thank you, Linda, for sharing your perspective. We appreciate it. Would anyone else like to address the City Council on this item? All right, seeing them, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing. I mean, just for a clarification of the airport advisory board, again, the council changed the code to remove that. It doesn't mean that we can't have additional discussions at the time. There was, I think, Councilmember Dolan had mentioned you were the liaison for all those years. I mentioned that it was actually prohibiting conversation because of the open meeting laws and some of the requirements that they were able to have. And there was nothing for the way that it was. I'm just going off of my memory when we had this discussion a couple of years ago. It was sort of hindering the conversation instead of moving the conversation forward. That's my recollection, but.

Yeah, they report to the council. So if we as a council member is gonna make a decision up here, do we wanna redo the runway? Do we wanna do? apply for this grant, where a lot of them are yes, we definitely wanna do that. The one issue we did have in those years was hot fueling. Should we allow hot fueling? Well, the problem was it was already happening out at the airport and our city code did not allow it. And so with us, none of us really knowing what hot fueling is, that's a perfect example of what you would take to the advisory board cuz you have all those aviation experts and they know a lot about it. And yeah, no, this happens all the time and they fill us in and then they recommend it to us. And then it comes up before council. There's also some of the meetings, hey, can we talk about the hangers, the way this person uses this hanger, or this gate code doesn't work, or those are things that we as council, we're not gonna vote seven to zero. Yes, let's get those gates fixed, let's paint the terminal yellow, let's do this. Those are staff issues and not a council issue. So the one thing is being, just like with all of us, Three of us at most can talk about an item before it comes before a council or we break state law and we can get in a lot of trouble. That's basically the same thing that anybody talking about at the airport advisory board would be on as well. If you guys are talking about an item and there's three or four people, you just broke state law and you're not allowed to do that. So it limits us having those meetings, you know, some of those informal meetings. Yeah, you can, you know, put up. public posting that we're meeting and talking about it but like I said it's really what does council vote on the 30,000 foot what do we want to do not hey I want to change this gate I want to do this I want to do that a lot of the day-to-day operations that is all staff led and other than us saying yes I think we want a really good airport manager there's only certain things we can do at that level so that's just some of the things to consider

Yeah, I mean, I think that it's obviously more opportunities for us to engage users of our spaces is a really great thing. And I believe Mr. Ruppel can look at alternatives or options and bring it forward for us to discuss at a future meeting for the council to decide what avenue is the best avenue for that.

Yeah, and I would just say one thing. I agree and I agree to disagree on some things, but I think it's no different than we have a parks and rec board. It's exactly the same thing. And we give them, if they get on that, we're gonna appoint these members of this council, like we do all our other committees, and then we give them the rules and regulations of what they can and can't do. So I don't think we should, I mean, it's no different than the Parks and Rec Board. The Parks and Rec Board is not giving the city council items that we're going to be voting on, like planning and zoning. Vice Mayor Dase, we don't have to debate that today.

I'm just saying. I think we'll get some options that will come back from Mr. Ruppel and then we'll have a discussion and we'll decide what the best way is for a pathway that the users at the airport feel heard, have an opportunity to voice their concerns or voice their opinions and the way that they use the facility and for staff to bring action on those items. So we'll figure that out. Customer Campbell, did you have anything to?

All I wanted to add to that is we are talking about hangers. We are talking about very expensive infrastructure, master plans and other things that I would love to hear what the user groups would, how they feel. Because like she said, they have expertise at different levels and you have, if I remember correctly, the advisory council had like so many pilots, so many different recommendations of qualifications, which I think is really important in the long run when I'm voting to expand. get new terminals or not a terminal, excuse me, but hangers or other things. I really do want to hear from the everyday, and I think we understand that. So I'm looking forward to the discussion, the direction, and further conversation. Thank you much.

Thank you. Any final comments from members of the council? All right, do you have any final thoughts, Mr. Foggin or Mr. Ruppel?

Dave?

Nothing to add, but thank you very much for your time.

I appreciate it. That wraps up our presentation.

Okay, thank you so much, and welcome, Mr. Ruppel. We're glad to have you here. Thank you. We'll move on to the next item, which is item 8.7. I'm going to have Vice Mayor Diaz introduce it for us. I don't know.

Our discussion cooperative purchase of pipe inspection and pipe rehabilitation services for the channel force main line crossing assessment project through pro pipe services LAC. Mr. Yarbrough.

Good evening honorable mayor, vice mayor, members of the council. It's my honor and privilege to be here with you guys this evening to serve our community and speak on behalf of the Public Works Wastewater Division. Presented before you this evening, we're seeking authorization or approval to procure pro-pipe services for the channel crossing assessment and rehabilitation project. I'll preface my presentation with this. One of my first PowerPoint presentations from 2012 was 56 slides on composting wastewater biosolids, and I promise not to do that to you guys tonight. So with that, sorry.

There we go.

This is the contents of the presentation. We'll go over and talk a little bit about the project location, specifically the force main vertical deflection and some of the challenges that that presents. The project overview and historical information, inspection techniques, liner installations, and then of course we'll have opportunity for questions at the end. However, if at any point a question comes up, feel free to stop me and we'd be happy to answer it. I also want to point out that we have Rusty Johnson joining us virtually. He is with ProPipe. So if we have any specific questions as to their processes, he'd be happy to chime in. So thank you for joining. This is an overview of the channel force main project location. As you guys know, this particular force main provides conveyance from our Willow Wash lift station, Willow Wash London Bridge lift station across the channel over to the island treatment plant. It conveys approximately one to one and a half million gallons of wastewater flow each and every day, depending upon the time of season and the number of residents that we're serving. This just gives, so believe it or not, this is an as-built plan that we pulled out of some archives. Gives you a depiction of the vertical deflection as it crosses the channel. So you can see the elevation difference from the mainland side to the island side. I believe it's about 40 feet of elevation change from one side to the other. The Channel Force Main, is constructed of 16-inch ductile iron pipe. Again, it conveys approximately one to one and a half million gallons of wastewater per day from the London Bridge Willow Wash lift station to our island treatment plant. It is the single point of wastewater conveyance from the mainland to the island. This line is approximately 40 years old, and due to the depth and the location, it is difficult to maintain and or repair. Okay. So these highlight some of the inspection techniques that are used for a number of different tasks, depending upon what we're looking to accomplish. Obviously CCTV inspection or closed circuit television inspection is the most common that's used in the industry. Good for locating deficiencies in the pipe if you've got obstructions in the pipe. or if you've got some sort of pipe deterioration or compromise, this is typically the most common method of inspection that's used. For this particular project, we've identified, working with Rusty's team, a couple other options as well, ICAST laser scanning, ovality scanning for corrosion and deflection. And if I can just touch on that, Certainly, like I say, if you guys have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them or Rusty can chime in. But this technology is used to deliver precise three-dimensional assessment, structural integrity inside sewer and drain pipes. When combined with pan and tilt mainline cameras, this ecosystem transforms standard closed-circuit CCTV video into actionable geometric data. which we think is very important for that particular conveyance line seems how it is the only point of connection between the mainland and the island treatment plant. And then if we move on to the AMP probe or accurate mapping tool, and this inspection tool is used to generate precise 3D data of wastewater network. This is an autonomous pipe mapping system designed to measure the exact geometry and location of underground pipeline assets. And I believe we can play a short video here.

2026. Time, 9.03. Surveyed by E. Vasquez.

We don't have to watch the full four minutes, but this will give you an idea of what the CCTV inspection looks like.

City, Castle Rock. Street, Paint Pony Sur. Pipe segment reference SWCL 882. Upstream MH, SWSP 74. Downstream MH, SWSP 73. Direction, downstream. Pipe hues, stormwater pipe. Material, reinforced concrete pipe. Shape, circular. Height, 30. Length surveyed, 207.9. Access point manned.

So obviously what they're doing here, there's NASCO standards, their national standards that guide or govern inspections, and that's the data that they're collecting or providing with right now. And obviously you can see this is a clean pipe. As we talked about before, I'll narrate here for just a moment, but you can see individual joints, you could obviously see any obstructions, if there were any large anomalies in the pipe, or if you had some sort of large pipe compromise, this tool's really good for determining that type of stuff. We'll get to a point here I think there's some sort of maybe pipe deflection or perhaps a joint that isn't sealed. And then after that, we can move on unless you guys want to watch it. obviously we're expecting and i believe this is post liner and i don't i might be wrong on that i was going to say i thought this might be post liner installation but anyway obviously um our line you can you can see there's a material ceiling ring hanging at clock position 12 to 6 5 okay good if i move on yeah thank you date august 29 2026. time Liner installations. So after we do the inspection, that will help guide us in what type of options are available to us for rehabilitating that pipe. And the hope is that we'll be able to line it. and specifically with like a felt or a fiberglass type resin liner. Just to touch on liners real briefly here, liners have been successfully installed in wastewater applications for 55 years, starting with the inventions of cured in place pipe technology in 1971. Standard sewer pipe liners such as cured in place pipe typically last 50 to 60 years. The trenches repair method creates a seamless new pipe inside the old one matching the lifespan of a brand new replacement pipes. I think that's important to point out. The liner installation will consist of an estimated 450 linear feet of proprietary steam cured felt material approximately half inches thick. ADVANTAGES TO LINING INCLUDE DECREASED FRICTION LOSSES AS LIQUID IS PUMPED THROUGH THE PIPES, GREATER CORROSION RESISTANCE TO WASTEWATER ATMOSPHERE, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, RENEWED ASSET LIFE. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CARED OR WHAT. THERE'S A SMALL VIDEO THERE ABOUT LINER INSTALLATION. IF YOU WANT TO WATCH IT, GREAT. IF NOT, WE CAN SKIP OVER IT. Is it as exciting as the last one? Yeah. That's a tough act to follow, I know. Yeah, we can move forward. If we, okay, perfect. Okay, and so here's what a pipe that has had a liner installed in it looks like. So you've obviously got the existing pipe, which is reflected on the top there, and then the CIPP liner on the inside. With that, I'll do my best to answer any questions you might have. Thank you, Mr. Yarborough. Are there any questions from members of the council?

I have a question. So just prepping for the, I don't know, sometimes when we mess with things, they stop working the way we should have just left them alone, but especially plumbing. But is there any risk or anything with us cleaning this out? Because it's sewer, so we got to get in there and get it clean and to be able to have it work. Is there an issue with it being down and then going back into use and then we figure out what we're putting in that could tilt that scale in the wrong direction if something could happen?

There's certainly always, sorry. mayor councilman dolan there's certainly always some risk involved no matter what you do we're doing our best to buy down all of that risk up front or a majority of that risk up front a couple of the things that i didn't touch on that are probably important to point out we're looking at installing an isolation valve prior to the inspection so that we can have greater control between the span on the island side and so that we don't have any chance of flow back feeding the line towards the lift station or the channel there. To your question, in an ideal situation, we'll be able to we'll isolate that location, right? And we'll go in and we'll dewater it, or Rusty's team will go in and dewater it, because obviously we're going to have liquids fall out in the channel crossing itself. And then we'll proceed with the three types of inspections that we covered.

Any additional 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?

seeing them we'll go ahead and close the public hearing bring it back to council for any discussion or possible motion mayor councilman motion please i move to approve the cooperative purchase of pipe inspection and pipe rehabilitation services for the channel force mainline crossing assessment project through pro pipe services llc in the amount of 259 thousand and thirty five dollars plus applicable taxes second

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

Motion carries seven to zero.

Great, thank you. Thank you.

All right. Next item is item 8.8. It's change order number one for the Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Filter Upgrade Project with Schofield Civil Construction. Mr. Hart.

Honorable Mayor and City Council, it's always a pleasure to come before you and talk about a capital improvement project. And this one in particular is a wastewater project. So this project here is the Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Filter Upgrade Project. And this item before you is change order number one for that project. Just as a reminder, the island wastewater treatment plant is out on the island. It is one of our, it is the oldest wastewater treatment plant. This is the existing sand filter, which is where the current project is. It's right next to the beautiful flow equalization basin that we finished a couple of years ago. On that project, we are repairing the basin walls or replacing the traveling bridge system. We are just finished removing the sand from the filters as we're going to replenish that. And then the bridge system there, as you can see, has been removed and that project currently is just on hold until we get the subcontractor back to do and begin the concrete repairs on the basin itself. Next to this project is what's called the secondary basin and in that basin we have three pumps and as you can see in the lower right there is a cap that the three pumps are resting on that is showing a decay and it is showing deterioration And it is coming to a point where it needs to be addressed. Since we have a contractor that is qualified on site to be able to do this work, it only made sense to use that as cost savings to go ahead and bring it in as a change order, potentially be done during this downtime as we're waiting. And that's why I'm here tonight, one of the reasons why. So city council as a reminder, we awarded the construction contract to Schofield Civil Construction back in October 28th of 2025. After a long material delay, which we've been seeing up to four months, but in this particular case, we saw close to nine to ten months of material delay for the specialized equipment that it was. We began construction with beginning the rehab of chipping, removing the concrete as well as AS I ALREADY SHOWED, THE VARIOUS PIECES OF EQUIPMENT AND SAND. THIS CHANGED GENERAL ROUND DEALS WITH THREE ITEMS. FIRST, ACQUAWORLD ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT UPGRADES. SO AS WE GOT INTO THIS AND REALIZED THE FILTER, THE AGE OF THE FILTER AND THE NEWER EQUIPMENT GOING IN, THERE WERE SOME ELECTRICAL UPGRADES THAT WE NEEDED TO DO THAT WILL BE REQUIRED. THE TORSION FILTER 480V DISTRIBUTION PANEL WILL BE PART OF THE CHANGE ORDER. THIS IS KIND OF ONE BIT ITEM HERE. THESE TWO ARE COMBINED. And that will help us with the overall panel electrical that we have going on in the area. And then the effluent pump cap repair, which is to $292,637.78, which will help repair that cap and put those pumps back on a solid foundation. So with that, I would recommend approval of change order number one in the amount of $473,237.14. and I can answer any questions if you have any.

Thank you, Mr. Hart. Are there questions from members of the council for Mr. Hart? All right, this is a public hearing. Would anyone like to address the city council on this item? Seeing no, we'll close the public hearing, bring it back to council for any discussion or possible motion.

Mayor?

Yeah, Council Member Campbell?

I motion. I move to approve change order number one for the Island WWTP filter upgrade project from Sheinfeld Civil Construction in the amount of $473,237.14. Second. We have a motion from Councilmember Campbell, a second from Councilmember Dolan.

Is there any additional discussion? Seeing none, we're ready to vote.

Motion carries 7-0.

Thank you. Item 8.9 is bid for the North Havasu Additional Tank Rebid Project to Excel AZ LLC. Mr. Hart.

Honorable Mayor, Honorable Mayor and City Council. Again, it's good to come before you with another capital improvement project on the water side. So this is our North Havasu Additional Tank and Distribution Line Rebid Project. Construction and Recommendation of Construction Award. The important word here is rebid. We actually went out originally with a construction plans and specs advertising and received two bids back which were what we felt at that time high. So we came back, tried to do some value engineering, make sure that we communicated clearly the various bid items that we were concerned there was some confusion. as well as took out a few other things and went back out to bid. As just a reminder, this is the North Tank Reservoir site, which you can see this arrow is pointing to the existing 2 million gallon reservoir. This is at the south end of the airport. The North Tank Reservoir site currently has a booster station and the 2 million gallon reservoir tank and we're going to be building this proposed 750,000 gallon water tank with some distribution lines that connect it to the booster station as well as the main line to be able to pump it out and help with some circulation out there. So the purpose of this project consists of demolishing the existing pavement and a manhole, removal of the existing fence, site grading, because we're going to have to expand the current site to incorporate the new tank, and then it'll be construction of the one 750,000 gallon potable water well distilled tank and the interconnecting piping. THE PROJECT SCHEDULE IS ESTIMATED TO TAKE TEN MONTHS. IF THE CITY COUNCIL WERE TO AWARD THIS PROJECT, WE ANTICIPATE STARTING NOVEMBER OF 2026, IF NOT SOONER, WITH ANTICIPATED COMPLETION IN AUGUST OF 2027. The construction budget for this is $2,900,000, and that's utilizing the current budget and some unencumbered funds from some other parks where we had successful bids and some savings. The engineer's estimate was $3.1 million and $42,025. We did receive six bids, which was exciting to go to a bid opening and have that many bids on it, as well as our non-mandatory pre-bid meeting was well attended. The lowest bid was XL AZ LLC, and they bid $2,822,835. And with that, we did our due diligence. They are a reputable company. They have a great sub for their steel welded tank, and we would recommend construction contract be awarded to XL AZ LLC. If you have any questions, I'd be willing to answer that.

Thank you, Mr. Hart. Are there any questions from members of the council for Mr. Hart on this item? This is a public hearing. Would anyone like to address the City Council on this item?

Yes, I have a question because I think it was the last meeting that Mr. Young had presented the pest control and how he was able to piecemeal the pest control. Contracts and I was wondering after reading the different unit prices and everything on This item whether or not something similar could have been done to lower the cost for this item because what a couple of the different items that were Lower with one company versus another company like the site grading one company it was saying They were telling you they would do it for $95,000, and another company is saying $300,000. Well, actually, the one you're hiring is saying $335,000. So I just thought I'd ask that.

Yeah, no, great question. So yeah, that was the pest and weed management from the previous item. So we were able to do that because they're two different things. But in a case like this, we had six bids, which is super exciting. It gave us the opportunity. This was a rebid, so we're actually saving money because we took it back to rebid. But we couldn't break the project up and have multiple contractors come based off of what their bid is. If we did that in the beginning, with the scope and said, hey, we're looking for someone to do site work, and we're looking for someone to do the building of a tank, and we're looking for someone to do this, then we could do it in that case, but not taking the whole, so this is the apparent low bidder is who we're considering to hire tonight.

At the commons, when you did that, you did different things, because the commons, you had the city do the grading, and then you had another company do something else, and then another company do something else.

All by contract, so we offered those scope of works by contract and then we were able to add alternates on there. And we were able to say we don't wanna do the bathrooms or the concession stand now. We feel we can do that in a more economical way later, which we were able to do.

So is that something that could be considered on this kind of a project? Not this one, obviously.

In the future.

But in the future.

Yeah, it just depends. But the way this was scoped out, this particular one is not able to do that. So when it makes sense, we do it, which you saw last week and you saw with Main Street Commons. And so when it makes financial sense, we do that.

CHIME IN WITH YOU A LITTLE BIT ON THAT. IT'S REALLY HARD FOR ONE CONTRACTOR TO ALLOW SEVERAL DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT AT THE END GAME THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT GOES WRONG WITH IT. SO A LOT OF TIMES THEY WANT THEIR OWN GRADER, THEY WANT THEIR OWN SITE INSPECTORS, THEY WANT THEIR OWN PROJECT MANAGERS. SO ON THIS CASE IT'S JUST THE TOTAL SCOPE OF THE WORK. a job like this to have one person go out and have their subcontractors and their people to do it. With the pest control, that's different. Two separate companies not overlapping each other's work. It's like one person trying to build a house and then later holding everybody that touched the house responsible. One contractor gets the blame for everything underneath.

Thank you.

You're welcome. Still would look good on a trike.

Okay.

Anyone else like to address the City Council on this item? Seeing none, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing, bring it back to council for any discussion or possible motion. Motion.

Yeah, Vice Mayor Diaz. I move to award the bid for the North Havasu Additional Tank Rebid Project to XLAZ LLC in the amount of $2,822,835. Second.

We have a motion from Vice Mayor Diaz. We have a second from Council Member Campbell. We are ready to vote.

Motion carries seven to zero.

Thank you. All right, our final public hearing of the evening, item 8.10, is a presentation update on the Lake Havasu City streets and maintenance program. Good evening, Mr. Young.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Before I start this presentation, I have to give props to my admin. They're often times the quiet ones behind the scenes handling everything and They put a great deal of work in helping me put this presentation together, so I appreciate them. And I wanted to say I'm thankful I didn't have to go right after Bridget, because she so eloquently described Dean Bartlow, and that would have been a rough one. With that, let's get started. Oh, here's an executive summary of the last 10 years. We have 432.7 miles. We've maintained 653.44 of those miles with $37.1 million in the last 10 years. Coming up with a 64.3 PCI, which I think is extremely good and I will show you as we go along. So to help everyone understand our order of priorities, this is our roadway network list as it is prioritized. Principal or major arterials are your major roadways, such as the highway, Lake Havasu Avenue, McCulloch Boulevard. Your minor arterials are your Kiowas and Palo Verdes. Your major collectors would be something like Daytona. Minor collector might be some of your cut-throughs like Hound, Lower Rainbow, that kind of thing. Your residential roadways are your, just what they are. They have the cars on them that are inside the houses on them with the licensed drivers. Most in the hundreds as far as being driven on with vehicles. your major or principal arterials in our city. I don't have the numbers for the highway. However, McCulloch usually averaged around 10,000 vehicles a day on the upper loop and down through Main Street. Lake Havasu Avenue, around 13,000 vehicles a day. Oklahoma, around 11,000 vehicles a day. Those are why these streets get taken care of a little more aggressively than, say, your residential and your alleyways at the end of the list there. Anybody up there care to give me a guess in the month of March of this year, how many vehicles went through the intersection at McCulloch and Lake Havasu Avenue? 55,452, okay. Anyone else? Well, it shocked me. 963,000. Almost a million vehicles through that intersection.

You want to push it a little more?

Actually, I want to stop here a little bit. That lower right-hand corner of the screen. Each jump, that's a weekend. Almost an additional 3,000 vehicles going through that intersection every weekend. People that don't say that this isn't a tourist town, I can prove them wrong every time. May through July, three months, almost 2.5 million vehicles through that same intersection. You don't think about these things until you start doing the numbers. Those kind of vehicles or major arterials or major collectors need to be taken care of, and that's what we've been doing. Right here, we'll show you the 10 years worth of maintenance. We average, I simplified this and did it just in basic miles. We average about 65 miles a year of taking care of that. That's about 15% of our network. In the 10 years, I would like you to look at the screen to your left. This is a good show of how things spend. That is our mill and fill overlay, 26.61, 4% of what we do. If you look to the screen to the right, that costed us $18,058,000. If you take the crack fill back on the left, we did 341.32 miles at a cost almost just over half of what we did for the overlay. It's a big difference. And I know people don't like chip seal, but it's an affordable, workable maintenance item that lets us allows us to stay where we're at in the 64 high fair range. If you look at this chart, it's basically telling you the same thing. The upper is the amount of miles we completed, down is what we spent. You can see at the end of the last four or five years, we went drastically up, but still did about the same miles. There's our benchmarking for 11 cities, including us. The average of those 11 cities is a PCI of 66. We sit at a 64. Four of the five of those top ones have passed voter approved taxes to help with their streets. The only one that did not is Paradise Valley. and they have 150 miles in their road network. And I could not find out when they last did their roadways. To put a little more meat to that, our road system has an average age of 25 plus years, and yet we still sit at a 64 BCI. These are the things we do. The black line shows what happens to a street when it's paved and left. As we get into a street, most especially these past few years, we have sealed a street within the year that we've repaved it. And I believe that is helping quite a bit. We have always made the practice of trying to do it within the first three years. After that, you can seal again. You're most likely gonna start crack filling within that five to 10 year. And somewhere in the 10 to 15 year, sometimes longer, we start to chip seal. We can chip seal about twice before we have to do the more aggressive mill and fill, which is also maintenance. And that brings it back up at the 30-year mark to keep going another few years with proper maintenance, more than another few years. We've all seen this a couple times. This is a vehicle that has been helping us get our stacks where we need them. This is probably one of my favorite, not my favorite, just one, my favorite comes at the very end, slide. Seems to be a lot of confusion and misinformation out there. So look at the lower end, slide on your left, see where our averages are for all of our roadways. Minor arterial, major collector, local collector, residential, alley. Alleys see the least amount of attention because they hold the least amount of vehicles. If you look up along the top there, second from last, sections. These are how our PCI is. Every roadway is broken down into sections. We have over 2,300 sections. So when a water main breaks, It's not a whole street that gets ruined. It might be a section or part of a section. It's not the whole system. Take a look at the lower right-hand corner. Those are our averages. And I can tell you that we have 80.08% in the high fare to very good range of our streets. That is really good, in my opinion, for a road network of 25 years plus. That's our map. The fare is rated between 56 and 70. These points are not a high school report card. This is a payment condition index report. 64 is a respectable number. These are the things that we get to maintain our asphalt with, hot mix. We start off with a fog seal usually of some type, which is our cheapest material. Crack fill falls right in with that. Then we move up to a better, more rubberized seal and or chip seal. which goes into the surface seal area. And from there up into the overlays, these are all fully burdened costs. And this is how we project what we're going to do, when we're going to do it, and with what. It's always the right treatment on the right road at the right time. This is another area that shows that a little better. It kind of has the PCI range in the back, and it helps us decide what treatment we need to do on that roadway. With that, I will show you my favorite slide. Questions? And yes, why does the chicken cross the road? With that, I'll take any questions.

Thank you, Mr. Young. Great presentation. Are there questions, comments, Council Member Campbell?

Thank you for this. I love the data, I love the information, and I love the direction that we have been going in the last five or six years. I think that did help with our overall PCI number. I know that we're doing PCI as human-based. Now we have this technology that you can continue to do, and I love that. If I remember correctly, you said that we did 37.1 million in the last 10 years, correct? Yes. But if I remember correctly, in the last five years, we put in 20 million, including from the general fund, into that. So the previous five years, we really did like half of that.

We were averaging about somewhere around probably 2.3 million a year.

Well, this was based on overall, because I think it was substantially more than the mill and fills that we've done. So I appreciate this data. I do believe it has gotten better because of the work that we've done in the last few years, five years or so, and I appreciate that. But the other part on the residential part that I do find different than it was 10 years ago, is the commercial traffic. What used to be a residential road was, like you said, the vehicles that lived on that street drove there and back a few times a day, maybe at most. If we just look at the heavy traffic of commercial vehicles, every Amazon vehicle, it's mind-blowing and the number of U-turns they're doing. So I do think that we have to start treating them different than we have in the previous 25 years because the way that traffic that we're using them today is completely different than it was 20 years ago.

Absolutely. It keeps moving in the direction that you're saying.

Yes.

The quicker we get, the busier we get.

Right. I'm not going to say any more than that because I think we are absolutely on the right direction. I've seen huge improvements in the way you guys are maintaining the roads. Even the high density, I think it's, no, high volume chips. Some people got questions about that. Those are not mill and fills. Those are chips. But it seems like it's a good product. So I love that you're continuing to learn. We are going to learn more here pretty soon. I appreciate that. And thank you for all you do. I know your job is very tough, and I appreciate that.

Mr. Moses? Great presentation. I appreciate you, Bill. And I saw the slide. We increased what we've been spending the last five years, but we're doing less lane miles. Is that just cost of products?

Anytime your products rise, your mileage goes down as far as what you can get done with the budget.

Are we doing more mill and fill?

The last five years, we have done a lot more mill and fill.

Awesome. All right. Well, thank you. Appreciate your work.

Mr. Mayor Diaz?

I want to say it was a great presentation, great PowerPoint. You're right. You should give your admin props. That was a great job.

I'll hold back. It takes a whole team.

It was a great visual, too. It was good stuff. Thank you.

Mr. Mayor?

Mr. Mayor Dolan?

I want to thank our staff. This is kind of a little bit of a roller coaster up here. I'm glad you're getting the compliments you deserve because we've some hurling coming from up here and in the political world of we're not spending enough this we're not doing that our staff's lying to us about reports and they're not showing us this and they're whole keeping stuff from us oh no you guys do a great job thank you so much so i thank you guys for being on the roller coaster and thank you for presenting us with numbers and showing us exactly what we're doing um i'm kind of sick and tired of the shoot from the tip that we're kind of getting from up here. So I'm glad you had good things to say because it was the end of the world during the election and we needed to fire all our staff because we didn't have a plan. It's ridiculous, but thank you guys for everything you do. I know you guys aren't perfect. We're a group of 400 people running this city. It's not us. We're not the ones. We just get to come up here and question you guys and hope that you guys are doing the right decision and raise the levels. So like I said, you guys have been the brunt of that and I do appreciate it and I do appreciate these numbers. And I hope the people at home get off Facebook and don't believe people that's telling them all these made up stuff and they see where we're spending our money. And if they want to come to the meeting, ask questions, be a part of the solution. Just don't sit behind the keyboard and listen to people that claim to be experts on this area. So thank you guys.

Thank you. Anyone else like to address the, ask any questions before we open the public hearing? All right, this is a public hearing. Would anyone like to address the city council on this item? Seeing none, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing. Thank you, Mr. Young, for the presentation and for the information you provided this evening. All right, item nine, our current events. Are there any council committee reports? All right, future meetings. Item 10, our next meeting is on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026 at 5.30 p.m. It's a regular meeting. And then on Tuesday, October 13th, 2026 at 5.30 p.m., we will also have a regular meeting. Item 11, are there any future discussion items? All right, item 12, we are adjourned. Thank you for being here. Be kind. We'll see you next time.