City Council - Regular Meeting

I'd like to call the regular meeting to order for September 14th, 2026. Can I get a motion and a second to excuse Council Member Beckles?

Okay, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Unanimous? All right, great to go. Now, please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance and Invocation. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Almighty Father, I ask that you provide wisdom to all of those, this council, so we may make wise decisions for our community. I also ask that you help heal this nation which suffers from a lack of civility so that we can come together as a nation and work towards a more civil society for the bet

Sir, before you start, the Council will listen to comments and take any of the following actions. Respond to criticism, request that the staff investigate and report on the matter, request that the matter be scheduled on a future agenda. Each speaker is limited to three minutes. There'll be, I guess, a light somewhere. You got it? All right. When you get to 30 seconds, sir, you're on. Just tell us whether you're a Goodyear resident. You have to give an address.

Thank you. City attorney, city manager, I know you've already had the discussion with the chief. Can you give him back? You mentioned some legal issues in there. I know we have talked about this before. Can you draft something and make sure that gentleman gets it? A response? Okay. We're good? All right. Thank you. Anything else? Okay, thank you. All right, well, City Clerk, please read the consent agenda items one through five by title only.

Thank you. Any speaker cards? No, Mayor. Okay. Thank you. Anybody in the audience like to speak on the issue? Anybody want to take anything off the agenda? Can I get a motion? Remember, we're going to say visually here now, since we don't have the thing in front. We got a motion? Did you get that? You got the motion and the second?

Correct, thank you. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Ayes have it, thank you. All right, let's see. We have two, oops, we have to go to the work session. That's it, right? Going right to the work session. All right, for the discussion only, no action can be taken. We have two work session items tonight. I would like to remind Council that staff will be pausing every so often to answer any questions. First item is the update on the Fire Resource Management Building. Could you go ahead and please introduce yourself for the audience?

So at the beginning you said that this was outside of the five-year CIP, so it's not on the plan. Correct. And so what you're asking for essentially is will we fund it?

Okay. All right, thank you. Anything else? Go ahead, Vice Mayor.

Well, I also wanted to piggyback on comments that our Vice Mayor Hampton made regarding the construction and then going on, expanding into public works. I mean, the bond is for public safety. I don't think we have any bond for the public works facility, do we? OK. And if we are contemplating that as an option, we would discuss that at the budget hearing.

All right. Because I'm thinking funding sources are separate.

Thank you. Did you have something to add?

Great discussion. You know, when you bring that back, we have a five-year CIP already funded. So when you come back to us, either we're going to have some extra cash that we can throw into that five-year CIP, or we've got to move some things around inside that. I mean, that's the mechanics when it comes to budget time to get this funded. But I think if you've got the design out there, it doesn't make any sense to let it sit around and not build a thing. So we need to find the way to make that, at least in my humble opinion, make that happen. Yeah. Okay, thank you. All right, next up, let's see

Okay. Who's up? I'll just go around this way. How's that? Go ahead.

Laura, anything? Go ahead. And then I'll come to you. Thank you.

All right, let's go to slide four, if you don't mind. We've got the potable and non-potable water. And then I didn't realize those three columns below were actually a definition when I got my packet. The potable water is obviously the most expensive one. And you put that on another slide. You didn't necessarily put a cost for the non-potable water. But one of the things I wanted to share with anybody interested in the public, and surprisingly, people are interested in water discussions, is the fact that there is a value to non-potable water. So besides for using it for irrigation, it gives us

Okay, I know it's, is the park itself more than 14 acres or does the 14 acres include the water? It's not clear.

OK, I'll get back to that one. The next one is slide 14. And this is the Bullard Wash Park 2. This is sort of a tucked away, hidden thing. It's listed as an amenity for walking and biking. Certainly, it's an amenity for the multifamily that has gone up there. They have a view of water. But can you tell me what that water is used for?

The whole entire. The green space. Okay. So that itself is 31 acres of water that also evaporates. And the Rio Paseo water evaporates also. Okay. I had no idea that we had this much open water. I knew we had it at the ballpark. I know we were discussing it GRC. So it was a little bit of a revelation to find out that we we had this much. It's a great presentation, by the way. It's just a lot to scroll through. So I'm now at slide 24. I think that anything that is a Goodyear amenity that is on potable water, definitely support looking at alternatives for that because the cost of that is the high

You know, great discussion with council. The only thing I want to add is that, you know, drop saved is one we don't have to pump. So when you're putting plants or anything around out to the parks, look for the ones that use less water. You know, they still keep it green, but use less water and the type of shrubs that maybe don't grow as fast. So you don't have to spend as much money trimming them. So that's kind of where my sign is, is from a cost standpoint when it comes to the parks. So with that, thank you. And with that, I'm going to go to any comments from the council.

So that's it. Thank you. Anything from council? Any comments? We all good? How about the manager?

All right. Oh, I like that final remarks there. Those are perfect. With that, meeting adjourned.