Remarks by Jim Garing
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Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Senator, a couple things. I'm really uneasy about the idea of voting machine fraud. And I'm wondering what is being done about preventing that in the future. And, you know, there was an incident recently, if I understood it correctly, where Maricopa employees were inserting flash drives in voting machines after hours, and that makes me really uneasy. So that's a concern.
All right. Thank you. I got a couple more that are probably pretty brief. On the railroad you mentioned, the railroad extension, is that a right-of-way issue or is there a right-of-way there for it?
All right, thank you. And let me leave you with this. I'm a graduate mechanical engineer, four-year degree. And among the things I had to learn back in the 60s was I had to learn to run a horizontal lathe and a vertical milling machine and weld with gas and weld with inert gas. as a undergraduate at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. And their motto is learn by doing. So it's not totally lost, I don't think. Thank you.
Thank you, Mayor. Senator, it occurred to me to relate an experience I had in my early years as a water engineer. The State of California Department of Health Services suddenly reduced the maximum allowable concentration of nitrates in drinking water from 90 to 45 milligrams per liter. Part of the solution was that the municipalities did blending, which we do here in Prescott to the best of our ability, but also the Department of Health Services allowed temporary waivers for the various municipalities to be able to gradually spend the money required to meet that standard. So something to…
I'm good with it, thank you. I'm seconding it.
Oh, thank you, Mayor. I guess what I would say to the public is that my sense is that the council as a whole is acutely aware of your concerns about traffic, noise, event frequency, and that sort of thing, but that the master plan is not the correct way to address those in full and that the lease process is. Thank you.
Oh, thank you, Mayor. Yeah, I would recommend approving the master plan, but I do think that that approval needs to be contingent in, well, not the approval of the master plan, but expenditures of major master plan items should be contingent upon approval of the lease first.
Approval of the lease. And then the other thing is I'm wondering about a sunset date. I've heard several. I've heard 25, 20, and 10. And the 10 sounds kind of attractive to me because it comes from somebody who seems to know what he's doing. So I would think maybe we could attach a 10-year sunset date.
COUNCILMAN GERING. I'M JUST BARELY HERE.
Thank you, Mayor. Yes, I have some concerns. I'm wondering why the neighbors don't think the new sound system is any better. It should be better, and the reports I'm getting, it's not. So that needs to be looked into. I'm wondering about the ADA audit. We didn't get an ADA audit that I know of, nor did we get accessible routes to all amenities, as far as I can tell. And we need that. Whether it needs to be part of the master plan or not, I don't know, but we do need that.
Okay, let me continue because I have a number of comments. So on the environmental side, Gwen has promised that we're not going to discharge water into Miller Creek that exceeds state surface water quality standards. And I'm going to ask, do we have an idea of the footprint of the process that's going to fix that?
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Yeah, my preference would be to at least require... acknowledging that overflow parking is required and it needs to be legally entitled and the rodeo has to have shuttle service for it. You know, I did find out something today that surprised me. I've long thought that we were talking about 123 maximum competitors, but I was told there's as many as 900 competitors come through there. I'm curious why GH2 didn't look at that traffic flow and how it's handled and where those guys park. They don't all arrive at the same time. They don't all leave at the same time, as far as I could tell. And I…
Did I get a point of clarification? I thought we were talking about having more public input later. We're not? We're going to close it and keep it out now?
I move adoption of ordinance number 2026-1962, approving city contract number 2027-065 and adoption of resolution number 2026-2008. Second. Please vote.
Mayor I move approval of item 9A on the regular agenda resolution number 2026-2005.
Mayor, first let me ask Sarah, can this be done in one motion?
All right, Mayor, I could make a motion. I move approval of regular agenda item B, including adoption of ordinance number 2026-1960, resolution 2026-2006, and resolution 2026-2007. Second. Please vote.
Oh, thank you, Mayor. This is for Tim. I have a lot of experience with HTPE and I'm confident in what it'll do for us, but I don't have any experience with Hobass pipe. I'm curious about the city's experience with it.
All right, thank you. And by the way, I'm glad to hear we're giving more consideration to a trenchless solution to the effluent main.
And then last but not least, there was some confusion on the part of the public and myself, actually, about the division of duties between the CMAR contract and Kenley Horn. But that's been straightened out by Public Works, I believe. And, Gwen, I don't know if that's been sent to the public or they have available that to them. And that would be the answers to, I think, Michael's questions.
If there's no reason not to, I think it could be helpful for public relations.
I just have one for Tim. If there are disagreements with the initial designs prepared by Kimley Horn, the time to discuss those is when we get to review them, is that right? That is correct. All right, thank you. Mm-hmm.
I can, Mayor. I move approval of city contract number 2027-044. Second. Please vote.
Thank you, Mayor. First for Brian, at our last water issue subcommittee meeting, you presented our status on the remaining water budget for this cycle. And as I recall, we have almost 23 acre feet of water left for non-residential uses. And reading the table in the first three months of that period, non-residential uses have only consumed about two acre feet. So we have quite a bit of water left, if I recall. Yeah, your numbers sound accurate to what I remember from that meeting. Okay, thank you. And then the other thing is, if I understood your presentation correctly, they are practicing or…