City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Your U.S. Vice Senator actually called a special meeting two quarters ago. How overwhelmed is the public? Well, since that is our first item, right? It's our public hearing. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to stop you. We were with you, weren't we? Yeah, I was. Okay, you can see we're all here. Council Member DeRoy. I'm here. Council Member Gallagher. I'm here. Council Member LaValle. I'm here. Council Member LaValle. I'm here. Council Member LaValle. I'm here. Okay. So, this is, I want to warn everybody that comments you're doing right is listed on your handout. You're going to do a three-minute time period process. I believe that was specifically added so that I could open the floor for the public hearing for the Decision Platinum Final Budget for the first four years, 2026-2027. The floor is open, so I pretend I'm in public, and so... Because it looks... I'll say, if you don't mind if I just say the floor is open for the moment, in case someone wanted to ask a question. And there's no... I'll close it within a few minutes, so... Yes, if you would like to proceed with this. Okay. So, the second item is the discussion and consideration of adopting the fiscal year 26-27 budget. Nothing changed between the tentative budget and the final budget. We did adopt the tentative budget in June at a total of $151,414,495. We have several items that have been discussed in several budget meetings. We have presentations. We have internal discussions. There are 16 full-time affordable life personnel added. Only one will be automatic. The other five will be if they do grant funding. In total, $63 million in capital and capital improvements budgeted, including some items for pretty much every department, got some sort of capital improvement plan. There's the parks and rec programs, the kids park, those types of things that we discussed. There was a cost of living, a cost of wage adjustment for employees, and then the implementation of the competition study, which actually occurred since we are already in the new fiscal year. But that is really all I have to talk about unless you have some questions on the budget itself. And if anything that you have thought of since the other times that we have discussed the budget and since the temperature reduction. Yes. I've heard of one that caused you a heartburn. Anybody else? Well, it always causes me a heartburn when we spend money. We're spending money. But it's my job. It's my job. It's my job. It's my job. It's my job. The whole entire budget process worked pretty smoothly. I feel like we had some good discussion with the departments and looking at their proposals, and we kind of had a good budget foundation. And then having a few days where we got to present to council on what was in the budget and allowing you to have your questions during that time, I think was a great opportunity for you to review everything and for us to be able to respond and give the answers to any questions you have. Okay. If there's nothing more, I will close the floor to the public. And I ask that you consider the adoption of Resolution No. 3406 to be a welcome vote. And I move to adopt Resolution No. 3406, adopting Decisions for the 25th Year, 2026-2027 Planning Budget as presented, and establishing Decisions for the 25th Year, 2026-2027 of expenditure limitation at 151 million, 414,497. Yes. And I will second that. OK. Council member, yes. Yes. Council member, no. Yes. Council member, no. Yes. Council member, no. Yes. Council member, no. Yes. Council member, no. Yes. Council member, no. Yes. Council member, no. I will read the resolution and choose the record. Resolution number 349.6, a resolution the Mayor and City Council received properly. The Overpoint County of Arizona adopting the final register for fiscal year 2026-2027 and establishing an expenditure limitation. That's what I do for a living. Are you a painter? I am. Okay, we do have an attorney on the front desk. Is that one way or the other? I don't know. Good evening. It's 6 o'clock. I'm calling the meeting to order, at this point. I'm going to change to the last call. Council Member DeVos? Yep. Council Member Lowe? Yep. Council Member Maher? Present. Council Member Malden? Present. Council Member Malden? Yes. Vice-Chairman O'Connor? Yes. Council Member Malden? Yes. Council Member Malden? Yes. Vice-Chairman O'Connor? Yes. Keep you all here to the close, please. that we're going to continue to work on. This is just one mission that we have. One mission that we have. Thank you. Okay. Next is a recently cool release. The public monitor has proposed a test over a new type of interaction that we've already brought up during the summer. If we list the specific model of cooperation, this is going to be larger. As a reminder, if you wish to speak to the person on a matter which is not listed on your agenda, you must submit the request to speak form to the city clerk or the city manager by the end of this brief summary of the point of order. Thank you so much for your time and I look forward to your time. So, I'll start. The city held the fantastic Family's 4th of July event at the Howard Peace Park. The event provided free food, games, and a pay-per-act salute by the VFW. And I'm going to get a spot over there. And it was capped off by another amazing fireworks show. Many thanks go to city staff and the local county for working so hard to make each event a success. Pastor was also there. in the heat, greeting visitors, and serving our guests hot dogs on Monday. Then on the 9th of July, Council attended the Grand Opening of the Spirit of Strength, the Keep, and Full Time, which is a business immediately adjacent to the office in Old Town. And this new service mode offers weddings, attire, and accessories. So check it out. And then on Wednesday, the 13th of July, Council attended a public workshop for the Old Town Master Plan. The consulting firm North Design provided an update on the progress and data gathered to date, and asked questions of the audience, and submitted audience engagement exercises to collect more data. The next morning at 6 in the morning after this workshop, I was driving through Old Town and noticed Council Member Mosley walking through Old Town, and she had noted the comments from the Old Town Public Workshop on her notepad and was already investigating all the items. So I just wanted to highlight this great example of a council member listening to And then, just finally, in parallel to the public workshop for the Old Town Master Plan, there's a survey that's open until the 31st of July, and you really, really need your input. The easiest thing is just to Google Old Town Master Plan Survey. That's all I think. On the 16th of July, Council attended the Muslim Children's Worship at Westside Children's Home, which was certainly an offbeat place to have a children's retreat. It was certainly interesting. They had great, dispersed pastors, including Pastor Jacobine, for working in So those are a correlation to the little sign by the class to show that the deceased has not actually touched the casket on display. I'm not aware that any deceased has touched the casket at all on any of the other campuses. But it was painted by the crow. I have to shout out to the crow. It is from the first floor building. And I really get to meet that girl at the master. And this is my public record. I was essentially running a blog about three weeks ago. So let's put together the story of the time I was at Fish Park this year, and how it was related. The only, to add to this, today I did go to a ribbon-cutting farm. Very large, it's non-profit. It's just located at the turn to this main just over the corner. But it's on Paul Street, number one, South Paul Street. You can go there and you can find your shop there. And everything in there is free. Mostly what I received were clothes of various sizes. for kids and adults, anything that's in their base that can be taken home for free. And I wasn't aware of their presence, so my only comment at the ceremony this morning this afternoon was just to, you know, try to get the word out, because I didn't know how that would be until today. And the idea that public health is a thing, I bet that we can continue to find out more about it. Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, I have a briefing item for you tonight. Cottonwood's fire department building will block the school's wires. It will be held on Saturday, July 25th, from 3 a.m. to noon at the Cottonwood Walmart. Please come and help us supply Cottonwood or Creek's fire safety systems with the crews that they need to succeed. Also, join us for our health and school program at the Padlet Youth Center, located inside the Recreation Center. This year's program schedule will be Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 2.30 to 5.30 p.m. and Wednesdays from 1.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Ask your child at school for transportation details and additional information. To register or use program fees, please go to register.padletaz.gov. Okay. I'm skipping over a call to the public because I have received no requests to speak. So that means moving on into the same agenda. The following items are considered to be routine and non-controversial by the Council and will be approved by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Councilmember or a citizen so requests. In this case, the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda. We're going to use questions, participation, and a little bit of content. And we're now going to accept the motion to approve. How much emotion can you apparently consent to gender as it is written? A second. All in favor? Aye. Okay, moving into new business. We announced our presentation of the 20 points of experience on the Registry of Self-Administration Report on High-Ground Public Affairs. I'm Murat Asif. I'm the Lead Director of Strategic Initiatives. I'm here tonight to introduce the representative of High-Ground Public Affairs, Senior Government Affairs Executive, Jessica Graziano. and what's around the corner and what could expect. I just want to remind everyone that this is our first year with High Ground, not just the first year with High Ground, but to the best of my knowledge, our first year doing the legislative affairs for the state. I was always asking myself, you know, what's the value here? when he does that, which is crazy, and you're both interested in it. But really, the real value was in the relationships. They have tremendous established relationships and established credibility project, I was able to facilitate a meeting with the Arizona Department of Housing. And it wasn't just a meeting with staff, it was a meeting with the state director of data. I don't know if that's safe to say that's how we were able, but I can say for sure it didn't hurt. We also were able to, I thought it was helpful, you could help us facilitate a meeting with ADOT. I had a few requests, and I had written a letter to ADOT, I was able to help us facilitate that meeting, discuss the community needs and why it's important to us, why transit was important to us, and that resulted in a good time to change and in return. So, again, the way to go see our staff, who was the state director, and actually, we had that meeting. So, that's where I think those relationships played off, and that's what actually happened when you type in 151.5 right now. So, I'm going to say that that was my little best thing. the 2020-2021 Council, it's a project we've been working on, highlighting the 2026 legislative session. I'll not speak to every word on the slide, but this one is kind of impressive. The 23-hour session adjourned officially on June 13th in the early morning hours. We're looking to turn right south. I haven't worked on that for a lot of the time until about June 13th. So over the 17 days of session, our record number 2030 bills were introduced. Of those, 164 were students of law, and about 150 were students of law. So that is a record setting here of bills introduced through the legislature, and hopefully we don't need to go to the Senate in the near future. Specifically, you've seen some of these numbers before, but Specifically for the city of Baltimore, we have 294 bills. The city supported 8 of those, and it comes 12 of those bills. What it means to practice there, because I worked directly with Arlene and Steph with the city, to determine which field would impact the top part of the road the most. And so we were able to do that. And the first thing that we were able to do was either moving directly with the state or district road in which the field is, or sending an email or sending a text message as to whether any of our concerns were, you know, a problem. advocating for a pass-through to college legislation. And a couple of these concerns really ask us about veterans as well, and we've been trying to address this with other veteran communities as well. So, that is that. And you see these numbers again on the website in your monthly reports that we share. So this is just a highlight of some of the goals and the status. On this one, the high school 2950, this was an improvement area in Mississippi County. That was a goal that is conducive for a lot of communities to form tourism districts and that communities would be right to go and join in with their communities. That was a goal that got a lot of good support and we ultimately signed by Governor Hobbs so that, again, And it's just a tool that you can use in your toolbox when you're promoting for tourism, if you want. Thank you. This is another one. I don't know if you've seen all these books before. On this one specifically, it says, Bill, Tim, Wendy, with respect to everything, Bill, that we're going to have, you know, two cities to be able to use a food truck. So that was defeated. And another one on this one, it was a big one that we spent a lot of time on, and didn't get defeated until the ending hours of the session, which were the 1431 Municipalities and Communities of Design Prohibition. Those were primarily about communities being able to implement a set of mapping standards for municipal events in their community. And a lot of folks were... One of the things that was a little bit more specific related to how they're calling things is that for both of our teachers, that's how we did that. Because it was actually three of our students came to us and included, you know, we have people in Texas where some communities just have a single point of entry. And so that is not only doing this, but there's a higher amount of information with the church. please let them into any type of situation if you want to. The work of the streets is important. I also expect them to go out. You need to have a certain building that you really want for your streets to go. Please help to get down and get your kids to get down. So there's other types of things that were included in that bill. And I saw one recently, just recently. What is it? What is it? What is it? And I think that's a really good point. I think that's a really good point. I think that's a really good point. I think that's a really good point. There's a caveat to that, yes, that there is a ballot referral, which I said to you again, but we're doing what they're saying to do. So they were trying to do it successfully, and they weren't able to, but there was already a ballot referral, but the voters were actually voting, and that's what they're saying just this weekend. Here's another, just these are all birds that didn't, these are all birds that are dead. But the Angel Sea, the continuing goal for the Senate Bill 1431 was hospitals from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. That was the same one, so we were able to defeat that one as well. OCR 2016 was an important one that we were able to defeat. That was one of those restrictions of ability to have an issue increases. I'm sure updates or extensions or repairs that need to be made, things like that, we can still talk with each other. And if there's another thing I'm seeing around local governments, it would be to self-determine, and so we would get a certificate back by that time. really good to the legislative referrals. So, there were 10 between the 2005 legislative session and the 2006 legislative session. There were 10, though, that have been referred by the legislature to the bill. That doesn't mean you need to do any referrals, but citizens may have referred to the bill. So, there, in November, again, going back to the very long time when we were concluding in the general election in November, But specifically, I wanted to talk to ACR 21, that's the full-time student, and that girl who referred to the audience in the 2020 class, that was one of the freshmen. This class that they are in, I can't quite what that means, is a class their city's ability to accommodate food tax at 2 percent. If a city already averages the city's food tax at 2 percent, that's 3 percent greater. That would be good enough for them, and they would be able to stay if it does not already have that. 2% or greater at 2%. So, there is a 3-day time-of-life in November, and there looks like a bill you'll have to do in November to pay for your 2 tax, and your 3 tax will be taxed at 2%. So, it can be seen that there's an existence now. If it doesn't happen again, it will be painful, however, there will be no authority changes in the future. Does that answer your question, Yvonne? So, we know that we're going to be able to get the power, but I don't think we're going to be able to actually move forward with any of that data. I'm trying to follow up the legislative agency, legislative and agency meetings. Typically, when you're doing an organization-wide representation of the state legislature, they're always looking to see what kind of policy they're going to set to them. And sometimes that's what you do. You can sometimes do it by, if you have specific legislation that you're advocating for, that if you're granting the university that assignment, it doesn't get passed, you can kind We can also, kind of, follow up with you about those kind of things like that. But just kind of to touch base on what you said, we didn't want to hear that, just like when legislators, we didn't want to hear that because we didn't want to hear that because we didn't want to hear that. We did this throughout the year. We were sort of, we got into a lot of problems during that session. However, when we spoke with them, we spoke with them on specific issues of legislation that we worked on. I'm here to talk to you and tell you what's going on. On those meetings, we're doing a rebranding workflow. And on those meetings, this is the group that met with Anna that day. She, you know, she's like, ah, 2002, but I don't know. Like, when this is coming up, can you talk to me and let me know when this is coming up? But this was something that I did in September 14th, and I was going to be coming in the house. It's something I did with Dr. Dana that day as well. So building those relationships and maintaining those relationships and being able to give them information because they're going to be experts on all the legislation that's coming before them. So providing them the information is a benefit, I think, that you can't necessarily quantify by You know, this thing has happened, but that happened at the relationship is important. And then we spoke to a meeting with Director Kopp with the Department of Transportation, and we never did a relationship with Director Kopp. And, you know, we were able to do a virtual meeting with her. We were trying to get a young person meeting, actually, and she was very open to that and was hoping that we would be able to do that. It just didn't work out. And we were able to put a stop to our criticism with the letter and the appeal letter, and with the signature of the Department of Health. And, you know, we worked through that organization to talk to Dr. Dylan Williams. To me, again, we were able to have a personal meeting. It was the first day that we worked with communities. that we took this all to meetings in the future. But again, fortunately, there's a lot more than 11 projects that were awarded. So, while we're at that next year and talking about the learning value, I saw the learning value team project. So, I think it's important to note that there were 37 projects across the state that were in the learning programs that were auditioned to be part of the learning process in the first year. What can we do to help our first year and the next year with the next stage of the next lesson? We're continuing to plan and we're going to run some distribution plans underneath the first lesson activities. We're going to anticipate that happening, so kind of contract that back soon and move forward. Well, we're starting to prepare for the upcoming, certainly, the general election. So, we're going to start with the U.S. state. As a part of the opposition on this, we're going to the ballot makers. We're going to share that information with staff who can then share it with you, so that you know what's happening, and we're looking forward to having that information soon. We're going to have the three pollings ahead of the 2027, it's hard to say. It might be starting to happen in the next 27. based on this session's outcomes and those some community needs. As you know, I already discussed on how we can get your district to do legislation that is up and popular in your city, leading without you, where we can have a story about what's going on. But we're looking at building a legislative process to get it up to the end of November, beginning with December. And I encourage you, as I say most of the time, move without you, without conversations in December. know about what they're doing. So there's a lot of colonies in the 577 section, and I think there was a colony solution with cottonwood. And for this morning, we're going to be talking a little bit about everything that we do. So I think coming up at the end of the podcast, we're going to be looking at some things that we do and some things we don't. And we're going to have a few other things that we're going to have. I'm going to show you what we're going to have here. It's terrible. We're going to have both new and old. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's terrible. there's a good opportunity to chat with their officers as well. I want to say that I'm not better at representation as well, but you know, I'm not the kind of person to chat with them too. So I'm extremely honored and I'm very grateful to work with each of you this session. I'm sure I'm not alone in working with you. Thank you so much for your questions and for having me. I really appreciate this one. For one of the events we are in this event, it was going to happen in April, but I do realize that just in October that last but it's just that the more that they want to be done, the more that they want to be done, the more that they want to be done. So, to me, for the trust that we've had, it's been a great opportunity to learn the relationship. I'm happy to have any questions on that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You know, we're not going to take away from this, but I know that I don't have the opportunity to jump into the web, but I do know that while I'm at the same stage as you, thanks for loving and doing all of the work that you do and the time that you put your time and energy into it. that represent a relationship, a relationship with the people. So I think, if you have a relationship, a certain future, a relationship, you know, face that as well. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I think that's really good. I think that's really good. I think that's really good. to answer more than one question at a time. 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Depending on today's world, that's when you determine that the representation is not the same, that the special effects aren't the same. Depending on the outcome of the demonstration, you're going to have to determine kind of the period upon which they can register their names to. Obviously, it's not any of the way forward today, and the few I anticipate that we'll still see So, again, I feel that we're both trying to have those affordable accounting opportunities and what that looks like. Some things that can be developed really closely, one of which is that folks have, they're going to be able to communicate with each other. So, they're not going to have these crazy commutes where, you know, nothing is accessible. However, we also want to make sure that nothing is accessible, and it's safe, and it meets the other kind of norms and designs that cities and towns have for the safety of their residents. I think rather, I always think the things that I was looking for earlier, to be able to see more of these opportunities and get kind to them. I think it doesn't matter who I talk to, that will be a part of the issue for me, so I have to get that move forward. Communication is always an issue, you know, I have folks who are always looking to, um, make introductions, what that means, and how that works towards, you know, We need to do some localizing and providing local city services. And, you know, we really want to protect the local authority and the local system working. And so that will be kind of helping think about how we're going to address that. What is your attitude towards government, your activities? You know, occasionally there is a government meeting, but sometimes, you know, you have a case study. I have a case study of a government. I need to have a go at a case study. I guess my basic question is, do they understand that government is a problem? What do you think? How do you do it? How do you understand that? You know, what's your IQ? Can you give me what your IQ is? You know, I'll tell you something here. That's where we come into play. We release the IQ across the planet. The services, the services that are providing, they're providing that I think people expect that, that if you turn around and you turn around and talk about it, they expect to be able to drive down the road without power. They expect to be so tired to be able to respond quickly and efficiently when you need them. And so that's, that's a part of the conversation that we have. There's not a lot of things, you know, that we can just report. And we're doing really well, but it's beautiful and we're learning a whole lot more. You know, it takes too long for a police to help us survive in an emergency, and that's another one of the things that we've already addressed, is helping the communities of Illinois to be able to affect I think that there is work for us. There is a lot of work for us. There's a lot of conversations that we're having. We're having a lot of meetings. We're having a lot of conversations. We're having a lot of, I'm just surprised that, you know, legislature has been glad to sit down with the legislature. You know, it's a beautiful way to get us to this point. So that's, you know, to get us to such a halfway point. I know that it was a really great time realizing, you know, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, you know, I do want to comment. One of the things, I've only seen the progress, the good progress, the progress. But one of the things, he's always, he always has the attitude that there's no problem, it's insoluble, you can fix this. And he always has the business plan of the task to fix it. And, yeah, it's really interesting to, to be able to listen to directions from them. And that's why I think our grant, I think it's one of the very valuable assets of my grant is to be able to, you know, hear people be thinking of using the dysregulation, thinking of dysregulation, and it's really important. They're just standing with all of us. They just want to be able to say something about the region. But what sort of the narrow focus that some people get at the legislature, they've only got this one thing, and they just want this one thing in their community, and they don't care about anybody else or anything else. You know, it's really important that somebody has such a broad background to bring to the people here of the state legislation, you know, and to be able to just kind of make it happen. And I'll pass your time right along, because it was important to have that conversation with them. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Any other comments or questions? Thank you all for bringing the content to us. We're glad to see you. Happy to be a part of it. I would always love to be a part of it. I would always love to be a part of it. I would always love to be a part of it. I would always love to be a part of it. I would always love to be a part of it. I would always love to be a part of it. I would always love to be a part of it. I would always love to be a part of it. The next thing that we're going to be doing is we're going to have to tell you that we're going to have to tell you that we're going to have to tell you that we're going to have to tell you that we're going to have to tell you not looking on for questions. I want to tell you the kind of question that I have for you today. The question is, do you know anything? I don't know anything. The question is, do you know anything? The question is, do you know anything? The question is, do you know anything? The question is, do you know anything? Okay. Okay. Please breathe.