City Council - Regular Meeting

Okay, we will call this meeting to order. This is the City of Buckeye regular council meeting for July 7th, 2026. We'll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance, actually the invocation. Yes, there you are. All right. So we'll leave with the invocation and then the Pledge of Allegiance by Vice Mayor. Would you all please stand?

Okay, thank you both. Can we have the roll call, please?

Present. Thank you very much. Item number two is comments from the public. Members of the audience may comment on any non-agenda item of interest. We have no speaker request cards. Okay, great. Item number three is awards presentations and proclamations. There are none scheduled for tonight, so we'll move on to item four, consent agenda items and new business. Approval of items on the consent agenda. All items with an asterisk are considered to be routine matters to be enacted by one motion and vote of the city council. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a council member requests. This section may include the approval of minutes from previous meetings. Council, for the consent agenda, what is your pleasure?

Mr. Mayor, I make a motion that we approve consent agenda items 4A as in Adam through 4U as in Union. Second.

I have a motion for approval of the consent agenda and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? And the consent agenda passes unanimous. Thank you. On to item number five, public hearings, non-consent and new business 5A council to hold a public hearing, take action on ordinance number 17-26, extending and increasing the incorporate limits of the city of Buckeye by annexing approximately 49.617 acres. located approximately 1,350 feet south of the southwest corner of Lower Buckeye Road and 269th. And Mr. Ken Galicka.

Okay, questions from council. I'm not seeing any. Ken, I got one question for you. Well, actually two. Can you talk just a little bit about that the stipulation that we're talking about for the potential airport development and exactly here and what the intent is for this. And I think a bigger picture is to make sure that we get this whole thing, this whole community master plan complete. But we're not sure what this looks like and you're gonna talk a little bit about that.

k in and then at the same time it gets the the larger project from the east working for the west open she essentially should be outside of this purple also this purple area there's no restrictions they can go tomorrow well if they got approvals for site plans and everything they could go tomorrow uh... that was that question and then you'd made a comment for uh... that lighter industrial that it would not be people working outside drilling. What exactly do you think happens at these industrial sites? They work inside buildings. Inside buildings. Yes. All right. Not outside drilling and whatnot

Okay. I just wanted to clarify that because that was a, that was a that I had not heard before.

Okay, and the way this is set up, we have four different items, each one voted on individually, and each one has to have a public hearing. Okay. All right, any other questions from council? Okay, so council on agenda item, well, actually, We'll open up a public hearing on agenda item 5A and ask are there any speaker request cards on agenda item 5A? No speaker request cards. We will close the public hearing. Council, what's your pleasure on agenda item 5A?

Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve agenda item 5A as an item. Second.

I have a motion for approval for agenda item 5A and a second. All in favor say aye.

And opposed? And 5A passes. Agenda item 5B, we will open up a public hearing. Do we have any speaker request cards for agenda item 5B?

No speaker request cards. So we will close the public hearing. Council, what is your pleasure on agenda item 5B?

Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion on agenda item 5B to approve it.

Second. I have a motion for approval on agenda item 5B and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? 5B passes unanimous. Agenda item 5C, we will open a public hearing. Ms. Clerk, do we have any speaker request cards for agenda item 5C? Okay, we will close the public hearing. Council, what's your pleasure on 5C?

Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we approve agenda item 5C as in Charles.

Second. I have a motion for approval of 5C and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? 5C passes. 5D, we will open up a public hearing for agenda item 5D. Summer, are there any speaker request cards for agenda item 5D?

No speaker request cards. We'll close the public hearing. Agenda item 5D. Council, what is your pleasure?

Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve agenda item 5D. I move to approve ordinance number 18-26 with the conditions A as in Adam through J as in John. John, presented by staff.

Is that a point of order or a motion? Well, we've got them.

Yeah. We're going to have to look at the replay. I got the motion. Is that correct? We've done so many. On 5D? Yes, sir. The agenda item 5D is in David. And you seconded it. So we have a motion for approval on 5D and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. and opposed and 5D passes. Okay. Done. A big sigh, deep breaths. Thank you for all of the work, Mr. Garrett and your team. Appreciate you guys taking this through the process. And there was just a mountain of staff time that was associated with it. Tosca, thank you for, there's probably a lot of sleepless nights dealing with this specific

Okay, council, any questions on 5E? I'm not seeing any. Just to comment, this is really exciting to get this thing underway. Cannot wait for the design to be done and us going to construction and the library opened up and providing that service to the residents up in Festival. We hardly hear anything about that or a grocery store in Festival. Yes. We're excited too. Yeah, in the last couple weeks, we're hitting on all cylinders there. That's all I have. Would you like to make a motion?

Second okay. I have a motion for approval of agenda item 5e and a second all in favor say aye aye And opposed 5e passes unanimous, thank you. Thank you Okay agenda item 5f council to take action on resolution number 7 2-2 6 approving the inter to go intergovernmental agreement for exchange of real property and joint escrow instructions between Buckeye Union High School District number 201 in the city of Buckeye and And I won't read all of that here. I know you're going to do a, that's a long, I think that's the longest intro that we've had in a while. But Susie, you're going to take us through

Thank you, Dr. Beebe. Before you split, can I ask you a question? Sure. I jokingly tell people the property that you guys have owned up in that area along, closer to I-10, y'all had won in a poker game in like the 70s or something like that.

Right. But I think I understand that property no longer works for a high school site, and that's part of the reason that this works out so well for you guys.

Okay, appreciate that. Thank you, Dr. Beebe.

Okay. For Agenda Item 5F, Council, any questions? Councilman Huston? No. Oh, no? No. Okay. Any other?

So what are we going to do? What are the plans for the parcel up at the landing?

So at first it was, we were looking at a B2 school. So all that's changed. We don't have that in the back yet. That's what you're saying.

So when we first discussed this, it was, we were going to be talking to a D2 college, hoping that they would be part of that negotiation about this property.

Okay. So I've got a lot of feedback on that particular, the 620 property. My constituents does not like it. I know you said that we're going to be running, taking Monroe straight, but we don't have any timeframe. We don't know when we're going to ever do it. I mean, there's no planning on running Watson through all the way through. So that's, I mean, it's almost, you know, you just throw it up and let's just hope it sticks somewhere. It's almost like, well, let's just say something to get this passed. Most downtowns don't have a bus barn coming through them. We're trying to clean up downtown,

Right. I don't see Monroe going through the next 20 years. I mean, we gotta acquire land. I mean, we got a circle K coming up there now on the way, we have to buy that or either stop at the building that we have a church there that needs to be, I'm quite sure they're not gonna wanna leave that church. It's been there since, I mean, I've been in Buckeye my whole life and it's been there since I've been there. I don't see it going through anytime soon. So with that being said, that is the gateway into downtown and the constituents in the community does not need to see any more eyesores entering

OK. Any other questions or comments from council? Yeah. Councilman Beard.

Okay, any other comments or questions from council? Okay, go ahead.

OK, council, for agenda item 5F, what's your pleasure?

Okay, we have a motion for a continuation on 5F and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. And opposed say nay. Nay.

To continue. This is a motion to continue.

Okay. Do we have another motion for agenda item 5F?

Mr. Mayor, I make a motion that we approve agenda item 5F as in Frank.

Roll call vote. We need a second on it first. Second. Okay. We have a motion for approval and a second. Let's do the roll call vote.

Okay. Thank you. 5F passes agenda item 5G. Council is your pleasure.

Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we approve agenda item 5G as in George. Second.

I have a motion for approval on 5G and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. And opposed?

Councilman Berry, did you have a vote on 5G?

Nay. OK. Okay. Good? Okay, good. All right. Thank you, Susie. Item number six, comments from Mayor and Council. Any comments from the Council? I'm not seeing any onto item number seven, City Manager's Report and Summary of Current Events.

Thank you, sir. Item number eight's proposals for future agenda items. Any from council? I'm seeing none. Item number nine with nothing else on the agenda, we are adjourned.