Council - Regular Meeting

Okay, I will open this City Council regular meeting August 12th, 2026. The time is 530. Welcome to all the members of the public that are here. I'll invite you to stand with us for a moment of silence and join in the Pledge of 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. OK. Reminder to all council members to put on your microphone. Madam Clerk, will you please do roll call?

Mayor Kidman?

Here.

Vice Mayor Farrow? Here. Councillor Hettinger?

Here.

Councillor Roundtree? Here. Councillor Cogen?

Here.

Councillor Preller?

Here.

And Councillor Hammond?

She just hopped on.

Here. Thank you.

I understand that we may have some of our remote council members need to leave us. If you do, just go ahead and interrupt us so we can mark the time when you're leaving, OK? Item number three, the consent agenda. Three items, or four items on the consent agenda. Do I have a motion for the consent agenda, Councillor Preller?

Sure, Mr. Mayor. I move to approve items three, one, two, three, and four of the consent agenda.

Second.

A motion from Councillor Preller and a second from Councillor Kojen. Any comments or questions? All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Thank you. We have no... Community recognition for this meeting, item number four. And for item number five, we do not have any blue cards from citizens, from the citizens. Item number six, reports and announcements. Under mayor's report, I just had two meetings that I wanted to share a little bit about since our last regular council meeting. One of them was the water team, which meets the last Monday of every month, which is mainly focused, of course, on the second straw water project and the upgrades to our water treatment plant and anything associated with that. It was a good meeting. We had everybody there on the screen from our outside counsel to our Washington, D.C. people, our team manager and even our EPA representative in San Francisco was on there. And if the Congress would get their act together, our project would move much quicker. And so our team has been doing really well at all the multiple layers that are necessary for every step of this monster project, doing a great job on their part if just the Congress would do their part on the Great American Outdoor Act and the other parts that they could do. But we do still have good communication with the agencies. The other meeting was the Page Attainment meeting, which is part of education forward Arizona I have not reported on this before but I've attended several of these meetings we usually have it every month or or two months it's a combined effort between at this this particular meeting there was the page Unified School District superintendent Anderson his head of curriculum representative from the Park Service we had a couple of people from our own library Coconino Community College had two people there. There were chapter representatives from a couple of the nearby chapters from the reservation and our Northern Arizona facilitator for this education forward. It's mainly a community-wide focused effort to try to improve the reading skills of our school-aged children, specifically third grade. And They've come up with an overall good plan that has to do with displays even in businesses around the community. The logo for the effort is called Reading is Key, and they've had one of the Page High School students, Lucy Byrum, she's made a really nice logo display for all these efforts. It involves trying to get books into the hands of kids, but most of all trying to get parents to read with their kids 20 minutes a day because the books by themselves are powerless. And so there's a lot of different efforts trying to open the eyes of parents, get these books using the mobile the mobile library that sometimes comes around in Northern Arizona and connecting our library with the chapter houses and space in their chapter houses for this effort trying to, anyways, there's goals and it seems to be a process that is starting to take good shape and we should see some results and some action very soon. That was all that I had on those two meetings. The next item, 6.2, is the city manager current event summary. Anything from our city manager?

Thank you, Mayor. Not too much. Quick report, if you noticed, I was on Zoom last meeting. That was at the city manager's conference. I appreciate council letting me go to that. It was a very valuable conference, especially me being the new city manager. The biggest benefit was making all the contacts with other city managers throughout the state and some of the resources they have there. I learned a lot. realized a lot of the other cities are dealing with the same issues we have so there's a lot of room for group work and networking there so we don't have to think we're sometimes in page with our location we think we're alone but we're really not as alone as we think we are so and then we've got I think several council members and myself and some others are going to League of Cities next week so should be a good conference for their maybe hit on some of the state legislators and let them know some of our needs with the water and other needs we have here so other than that business as usual we're starting to work through some of our projects and council priorities so we'll be looking at maybe ways to help better report that to council either written or through council reports in the near future so If you have any preferences of how you want to see those maybe come to me individually and we'll start working on it but we're looking to see how to Get that information to council and also online to the public. So as we get these projects go and we can have updates Hopefully online to where people can see real-time where we're at on all these big projects when the priorities we have going Okay anything else Thank you. All right.

Thank you Item number seven, boards and commissions. Any council members attend board meetings since our last? Councillor Farrell.

I attended a couple of them. So the airport advisory board met August 10th and It was only really, we had the airport director's report. We talked about the construction and how FAA inspection, they found some items they're working on, how National Aviation Day is coming. Then CONTOUR briefed on their on-time rating, which was interesting. It was 83% on time, three cancellations in July. There was some discussion, transparency, talking about why they had ticket prices and bag fee increases. I thought that was good that our airport director talked to CONTOUR to get them to come out. I had further discussions with Laura on that later that I hope that we need to find a timely way to inform the public when there's going to be price increases and baggage fees and not have that as a surprise when they first show up there. They talk about the main item they had in new business was hangar land lease review on how the current lease is written up for all the airport hangars now. The board had extensive conversation about security risk, about you know, what's proper and what should be on the airport. And it sounds, it appears that that and staff and team are working hard towards developing a solid lease program and then how to communicate that. And that's good because it's not something that can be done overnight. It's going to be something that's been grandfathered in for a while. So it's going to be a hard work for the airport liaison board as well as staff on that. The other meeting I attended for you, for the paid utility, I've always been scared to attend those meetings. And it was obvious last night. They do have good pizza there. That was good. I will tell you that's an impressive meeting to attend. Banks attended it last night, as well as Cody. And it was good that Cody Woods was there and is engaging in learning the process. What's impressive about that board is how hard they're working and how murky and muddy the waters are in the utility world and what our utility department has to deal with. It's phenomenal. They went over the airport They're working on funding. There's a study cost. They're hoping to get $4.2 million for the continued environmental design and study costs. We already have $3.5 million already funded. But as your earlier comment, the mystery of this mud murky thing is congress because you have a lame duck congress and you have others decisions and the bills are kind of held up and they're in recess right now so nothing's happening so it's a lot of work by bob holmes our consultant in dc um eli crane came up with a really good idea because under the goa The Great American Outdoor Act, which is going to get the majority of the funding, and that funding is what's going to support. And if I do this wrong, Chuck, you'll back me up, right? So the North Rim is reported to need $2 billion to bring it back up, and our measly $50 million is... small in it, but Eli Crane is attempting to link the two together so that we can get easier funding on attaching ourselves to that $2 billion of the GOA, and that would be a good process to help. We do need, and my recommendation for next council is to make sure you get back to D.C., back to the EPA, back to the departments. I think what was reported and how we've seen it is the last trip you and Brian Hill took was so successful we got indoors and that visit has opened up these funding processes that we would not have got. They want to have a shovel ready estimated completion in 2028 to get to that goal would require a lot of work. I know this is a lengthy discussion, but it was really informative to watch the group gel and discuss it. And so how do we support? And the tall pole in that tent is Brian Hill. who's done a marvelous job, doing a great job. And then the final item that I'll report on that is that board recognized the hard work that their staff does to include linemen, admin, and other folks, and they approved a performance stipend awards last night to reward their hard workers. And in the time of uncertainty of how the utility, how do we buy it? How do we keep our costs down and how to do that? As presented, they're working hard and they're putting a lot of demand on their workers. And then the stipends came in as a and there's no secret. I'm a fan of those. So it was really good to see that in effect in that in that they're doing that for their people.

And that's it. All right. Thank you. Councillor Hedinger.

Thank you, Mayor. The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board met last Monday. A couple of weeks from them, the Recreation and Parks and Trails teams have been hard at work. We've had a lot of great programs going on. Soccer starts for youth soon. There's also a pickleball tournament coming up this weekend. Powell days is coming up on August 22nd. So you can find more information about that on the city's website or Instagram. Parks and Trails also let us know that the bathrooms are now open at John C. Page Park. And as of last Monday, that had been going really well, no problems. So I know that's been a big request. So excited to see some restroom facilities become available there. The board had a couple items of discussion. The first one was our city manager brought an overview of the parks and rec budget items that were approved in this year's budget. And overall, it aligned really well with the board's priorities. They were really disappointed to see that the accessible park had been cut from the budget. And I think that's something just overall, the board had been talking about it for a long time. They had been discussing that as a budget priority. It seems to kind of come separate from the budget as more of a parks and rec board recommendation versus staff's recommendation. So the board was really disappointed to see that happen and just wanted to express to council how important think it is to get accessible equipment in our city we don't have any right now so that's going to be a big priority for them and trying to figure out how they can do a better job of and myself included as their liaison a better job of bringing that to the city council so it doesn't feel like it's getting added onto the budget last minute the other two items they discussed again thank you frank for bringing the middle school feasibility plan to the board for review and also the urban trail master plan for their review they looked over our city manager's plan for approaching both of those and the board expressed support for that so excited to see those move forward all righty thank you very much item number seven two economic development advisory board appointment

Yes, I am looking for a motion.

Mayor, I move to appoint Paul Meehan to the Economic Development Advisory Board with the term ending June 30th, 2028. Second. A motion from.

Sorry, what? Yeah, Councillor Farrow and a second from which one did you write down? Councillor Preller. All in favor say aye. Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Thank you. On to new business, item number 81, TSA Airport Tenant Lease Amendment Extension. Turn this over to you, Lor.

Thank you, Mayor. Hello, everyone. Hello, Mayor, Council. Thank you. My apologies for not being able to be there in person, but I did want to introduce this item and be available for any questions. So this is our TSA. It is their office lease they have in the terminal. It is technically an extension or renewal so that they can continue to stay at the airport. This lease is a little unique because it doesn't originate from the city. The GSA, which is the General Services Administration, they act as the landlords. They handle all of the leases for any sort of federal government entity. And so they create the leases. and they hand those leases to us for approval. They do look at our consolidated fee schedule. They do use that as a guide, but they don't match it exactly. Our TSA space is a little odd in that they have one room in the terminal downstairs, which is one rate on the fee schedule. They have a portion of a space in a room upstairs in the terminal, which is a different rate. And then they have a final space in the maintenance hangar, which is a different rate. So instead of going straight with all of those rates, they made a hybrid. of those rates and that is how they came to the amount that they would like our lease to be. It is a staff recommendation that we approve the lease so the TSA can continue to be in the terminal, but I'm happy to answer any questions you have.

Any comments or questions from Council? One from Councillor Henninger.

Thank you, Mayor. So do we need to make any updates to our consolidated fee schedule, or can we just approve this tonight and go by the contract?

Oh, we miss our city attorney on that one.

Sorry, and I'm not in the room, so I can't even see everyone's faces.

Well, I would think, Mayor, that without Josh being here, that He would have already noticed as he's reviewed this document. So I don't think it would have any effect on the fee schedule, or he would have brought that up. And he can slap me later if any correction. But I think it would be OK to move forward. He did review this agenda as it moved forward and reviewed all the attachments to it.

OK. Awesome. Thank you.

Any other comments or questions? And I will call for a motion. Anybody? Councillor Farrell.

Move to approve lease amendment number one. So to lease number GS-09P, as in Papa, LAZ00882.

I have a motion from Councillor Farrell and a second from Councillor Cogent. Any other comments or questions? All in favor, say aye. Aye.

Aye.

aye any opposed thank you item number eight two we have two presentations for council tonight for potential purchase a portion of assessor's parcel number eight zero two two zero zero five a we will start with the group from shandeen uh michael thomas and holden and um This is just a presentation and question and answer for the presenters. Without our city attorney here, we will let council chew on everything we hear today and have a time to meet in executive session with the city attorney on our next meeting over this.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Councilman. Thank you for taking the time and having us here tonight. We're here to talk about Shundean. This is a project that you already know about, or many of you know about. We've had support from this council before, so we appreciate that. This is a piece, not only do we want to talk about our project, we want to talk about the 40 acres that we hope to acquire from the city. Start with who we are. I'm Holden Roethlisberger. I'm born and raised in Arizona. I have been working in high-end luxury construction for the last 15 years, the last three of which here in Page. My family and I moved up here a little over three years ago. Through that 15 years, I have built quite a vast network of trades partners, vendors, other associates involved in construction. More specifically, those partners are, I feel, the right partners to deliver on a project of this caliber, specifically the craftsmanship.

Good evening City Council members. I am honored to be here today. My name is Michael Bennett. I am a Page born and raised native, current resident of Page. 30 years ago at Desert View Elementary School here in Page, I learned that that I need to work hard, climb the educational ladder, gain knowledge, gain understanding, gain a skill set, and return to my community to help improve and upgrade and enhance the lives of all those over whom I have any kind of stewardship. I can say right now that I am on that pursuit. I am on that ladder, but I have a long ways to go. I do believe I've made some progress in this endeavor. I am a State of Arizona Barred Attorney. I am a Navajo Nation Barred Attorney. I am the contracted public defender for the City of Page. I am a small business owner here in Page, a solo practitioner law office. I contract with local businesses and individuals for legal services spanning an array of legal disciplines. I am a church volunteer. I'm a community volunteer. And also, I'm an aspiring disc golf professional. Now, while that last item I noted doesn't have any real communal benefit, I know something that does and can. Chandine. Chandine Resort, if allowed to burgeon within its full scope and vision, will undoubtedly elevate the lives of community members, those who stop in this beautiful area of the world as a resting place, and hopefully to attract those who choose Page as a destination.

Good evening, councillors, mayor. Thank you so much for allowing us to present tonight and share our vision and our dream with you. My name is Tomas Hunt. I actually moved to Page 20 years ago, and I've been here. I never left after those 20 years when I first moved here. My wife was born and raised in Page. My kids go to school here in Page, and we don't plan to move anytime soon, if not ever. And so we love the area. 15 years ago, I started doing cultural presentations and dancing, sharing our culture and our history with people from all over the world. They come here to see the beauty, they come here to learn of our culture, and they come here with an open mind and with so much vision of the beauty that surrounds us. And so 10 years ago, I started my own business and I started doing cultural presentations and shows for visitors again. In the last five years, I've been going to cultural tourism conferences and shows and marketing the city of Page for what it is and learning the market. And this is a continuation of learning this market. I started as a young boy here in Page doing dances, shows, sharing art and culture. And then from there, I grew it into an actual business. And from here, we continue to build on that into Shandin Resort in a way that most people only dream of. And it's going to be beautiful. And we're looking forward to it. And so thank you again for having us tonight.

Thank you, Tomas. Thank you, Michael. Our vision, many of you know. And I won't belabor the point, but I would like to reiterate. Shundeen is set on the east side of a mesa, a beautiful rock formation that protects it from the wind and it gives it a view to the east and the sunlight, which is what Shundeen means. The location is the project. Shundeen was selected meticulously for this location, for its natural beauty, and for the ability to house a project of this caliber. To state again, this is a 50 key luxury resort. It's not a big box resort. The design is very intentional, very thoughtful, very methodical. The idea is to enhance Page and all of its wonderful beauty without taking away from it. The buildings will blend into Page using sustainable materials, using wonderful architecture. We have a rendering here of a casita. Now, we're not finalized on our design, but this gives you a really good idea of what I mean by blending into the landscape. Like Tomas had mentioned, we know this market. We know the operators in the market. We know the people who are crafting art and the rich art that is here in this place. We know our tour operators. We're friends with many of them, and they will be our partners. During construction alone, we anticipate 200 plus jobs. Those jobs will not only help build this resort, but it'll also bring in revenue to the city. Those people who work here who aren't local, they will come and stay in our hotels. They will stay in our Airbnbs. They will eat at our restaurants. They will support our local community. And that's great. And we're really excited about that. But more importantly, at completion, When we're permanent and we're open, we see no less than 78 permanent, well-paying jobs for people in Page and for the surrounding area. Like I mentioned, we're all from Page. We know people here. We have a network here. We intend to hire locally. We know we will be able to hire locally due to our family connections and our friends. People from Page, people from southern Utah, as well as people that come off the reservation will enjoy working at Shundeen. And of course, there's the economic benefit. Shundeen stands to be significantly an economic driver for the city of Page in tax revenue, bed sales, and so on. And that brings us to the reason we're here, specifically today. You can see on the screen where the black line in the small display is, that is the 23 acres that we hold in contract today. The hash line, or easier to see maybe, is the cloud line on the larger display, that is our site. The land we hope to acquire is 40 acres that would just continue inside of our current lot. This land is currently sitting idle, and we think that there's a better use for it. And we believe that our way will be the right way. We want to use a restrained approach to develop it for economic benefit. without overbearing on the land. And if I may take a moment, we're not the only group that is after this land. And I want to make our position very clear. Our intention is not to hinder the success of any other developer trying to develop in Page and specifically not in this region. We hope to be successful alongside them and be great neighbors. What we're asking for today is not the whole chunk of land, a small portion that ultimately continues our vision, allowing us to see the full success and the full ability for our resort to be a success. Obviously, we're not asking for your vote today. We don't need you to decide anything right now today. We are just hoping and asking for your confidence. We want to be a partner to Paige. We want Paige to be a partner to us. And we are asking for you to let us be the stewards of this land. Thank you.

Thank you.

Let's see if we've got our other people back up on here.

Any comments or questions from those that I can see? I'm just waiting for the, no questions as yet. I'm not seeing it on my screen yet. Anything for right now? Thank you very much.

Thank you, thank you.

One moment on the other. Okay, our other presentation will be from Tannarina, and we've got Banks, and Bernd, and Matt, and did I say it all right?

You did. Thank you, Mayor, Council. Thank you again for having us. I'm going to just kick us off real quick. What our presentation is on this evening is not necessarily Tannarina at large. If we feel we want to go back and refresh of what Tannarina is, we're happy to do that, but we want to be mindful of your time. We're going to kick off and let Bernd Kuhlman and Matt Luck speak on the behalf of what the concept is, why we feel this is necessary, and ultimately how these two properties are connected, both the Tenerana South Track and what will hopefully become the Tenerana North Track. And then we're going to get into the more specific details of the request and talk through some of our constraints and then farthermore get specific with how we feel the presentation tonight can be talked through to compromise on anything that we feel is needed.

Thank you very much for allowing us to present this project here today, or the expansion of this project. You probably all remember the Tanarena concept and what it all entails. Now, sometime about three months ago or so, I think I mentioned to Frank that we would like to have an additional piece of land that's right in the viewshed of Tanarena. And Frank then told me that of course it was the preference of the city to see it developed. So I was raking my brain trying to figure out how we could do both. How we could develop it in a substantial form and yet keep the land rather pure. And I want to hark back a little bit to 2003, I think it was, when I was introducing Amangiri to the chairman of Aman Resorts at the time. And I took him around the property at Amangiri to introduce him to various sites. And I remember I was on a site up in the saddle overlooking the lake, and I said to him, well, how about this one, full view of the lake? And he said, Bernd, I'm not that interested in the lake. There's lots of lakes around, but there is not that many rocks like this part of the country has to offer. I realized that this guy who had never been here before, he immediately realized the power of the rocks around in this area in Utah, but of course also in Arizona. So a little bit later in 2006, When I first came around the Tanarina property, I was reminded of that. And at that time, I actually just sort of walked into the land and didn't expect that much until I realized that with every 50 yards I moved forward, the land would unravel and there would be all these fantastic rock formations that would manifest themselves. So that's the first time when I really realized that this is a fantastic property. Unfortunately, there was a wrinkle. It was the smokestacks of the coal-burning power plant behind it, and so I felt that that was not really suitable for an extreme high-end resort where pristine landscape and unobstructed view shades are very, very important in order to get those rates that we would expect. Now, fast forward, I think it was 2002, World View came around. You may remember that. Some of you may remember that they were going to send this balloon up into the outer space, and they wanted a place to launch these balloons from, and they looked at the Page Airport for a hotel. And so they consulted with me on that, and I told them that I would help them, and at that time, I was reintroduced to this fantastic piece of land, and I decided that I would go forward on that. And so, in a sense, it's the rocks that drive this project, for us at least. It's the proximity to the rocks, it's the architecture we're gonna build into the rocks at Tandarena, And then when Frank mentioned that the city had an interest in seeing that 80 acres across the street developed, I realized there was a way to do this. And I remember the conversation that our capital partner, Alex Wieck, and his wife Carrie had when I introduced them to Frank, and they mentioned that all through their hotels in Chile, in Uruguay, in Milan, Italy, They have a great component of art that was very important to them. And then Frank said that that would actually also be something that Page would appreciate, having something of substantial art. So as I was thinking about that, and I was looking at this 80 acres, and I noticed this fabulous rock in the middle, big monolithic rock structure. I realized that this was a great opportunity. That's when I went to talk to Matt here about this, and I said, well, how about we do some land art that would be iconic, that would be recognized by the art enthusiasts all around the world when they come to a page, and they would realize that this is an amazing experience. So this is where it was born. It's an homage. to the rocks. Rather than just looking at them and looking at what nature did with the rocks, we would go where others, of course, have gone to. Think about the, what is it called, the Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona. which is built into the rocks and has become a huge attraction for visitors to Sedona. Or look at something that was built even further back in Ethiopia. It's the Church of St. George, I believe it's called, built into the rocks down, and it's an amazing monument. So I see this particular rock formation as very suitable to carve out a chamber a large chamber in it which would be about 50 feet wide or diameter but 40 feet high and it would be a place of contemplation but of course also a place for events and to complement it we figured that Page needs a great restaurant, and so we figured that we could build a 4,000-square-foot restaurant that's just north of the rock formation, and by the way, that rock formation, we called it Mazcarroca. which is sort of an abbreviation of the Spanish expression of mas que solamente una roca, more than just a rock, hinting that there is more living in this rock than just what it looks like. And the restaurant, by the way, is going to be an Italian restaurant, excellent Italian cuisine. It's going to be called Pioche Cibo, which is Italian for more than just food. So I see both of those components being a very important destination for visitors to Page. And I could even go a little bit further and tell you that we also have a viewing station planned on the Mesa. And the viewing station will be focused around a telescope. And the telescope is about 800 feet away from the rock, will be focused on an opening in the rock, which is about two feet in diameter, and it goes about 15 feet deep. And when you look through the telescope, you'll see a neon sign in the back, and it'll say maybe life is good, or something like that. But the key is that when you step up to the viewing platform, you draw a number, one to seven. And if the number that you draw coincides with the number of the message you read inside that opening, you get free access to the great chamber below. So that it sort of makes the art dynamic and creates anticipation, suspense, and surprise, of course. That's what, in my mind, art is all about. It's not to take itself too seriously, but to bring in a component that's light, that's ethereal, and that makes the whole thing not only interesting to look at, but actually to experience. But of course, the mascarocca is not the only thing that we envision there. We also need, for Tanarena, we need staff housing. And so I envision around the Mazgarok rock formation a very lush, lushly landscaped village that will be very intensively landscaped. It will look like an oasis from Tanarena, and it will give us an opportunity to house about 60 of our staff members. So that's sort of the vision in a nutshell. And I hope you understand where I'm going with this. And I very much hope that you will give us an opportunity to do this great art installation and leave Page with a new kind of iconic destination that people will come and visit from all over the world. And I'm going to leave the word to Banks now, who is going to be talking about less ethereal items, areas of this project. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Just for the record, Councillor Hammond did have to leave us. She left about 6.10. Any comments or questions from remaining council members from the presenters?

I think he's got more questions. He's still got more.

Oh, never mind. Barron just done, but not Banks. Okay.

Thank you. I'll try to keep it short. I've tried to catch as many folks up on this as possible just to get the knowledge to you. Essentially what we're asking for, and bear with me with the acreage, we will have a surveyor out on the property at some point to get this a lot tighter in terms of the acreage. We're getting some discrepancies between Coconino County and the City of Pages maps, and also even the the archive record too, getting a little bit of a discrepancy. So we're after approximately 72 acres of land. That 72 acres is what's remained C2 directly north of the Tenerena site. The remaining acres that we're after, the 248, we're a bit more flexible on, but we also wanna make it very apparent what we're trying to do and what we're trying to accomplish with the 248 acres. So one really important piece of this As you look up here at this map, the northeast corner has a high transmission power line that runs through it, and it basically makes a triangle out of the lot. So as you travel east towards the city limits, and I'm going to pull up a better exhibit here in just a second, as you travel east towards the city limits, a similar situation happens where Basically, if we didn't take the entire parcel, the property would be somewhat landlocked and could be landlocked from utility infrastructure, access off of 98, et cetera. So staff had requested that we make our request. Tell council exactly what you would like. And this ultimately is what we would like. The reason that we're asking for the entire parcel is so it's unified and the city doesn't have a small parcel to deal with later. So when I say we're flexible, there are certain areas of this track that we are flexible. both to the east and the far west, and also even to the north, we are flexible. This is the exact track that we're after. So it's measuring in C2 94 acres minus the contract that's currently on the property, which is gonna drag us down to around that 72 acre mark. Ultimately, that's what's important for us. We'd like to close on that as quickly as possible. We essentially recognize we have to go through a negotiation, satisfy a number of constraints, ensure that we are going to be good stewards of our word and develop the track. But we would like to fast track that process of closing so that we can marry this schedule up with our current Ten Arena schedule. I think most of you know how long it takes to develop. I mean, it takes years and years and years. This project's no different. This is going to be a 2030 open, and that's basically four years from now. And that is a sprint in order to get something like this done. So time's not necessarily on our side, and we'd like to move quickly. The flexibility we have is on the remaining acres that are not zoned C2. That is something that we need time because we need to work with Sylvia and her staff and Frank and really the entire city of Page to be able to get some portion of it rezoned We're also concerned about the easement that the United States has for that transmission line. There's some concerns there that we're going to have to work through. So although we'd love to get that property under contract, we're not here to say that we're going to be able to close on that immediately because we feel there's a number of prerequisites to do it. That green dotted line to the north side of the track, that's the transmission line that I'm referring to. And I want to point out that transmission line. If we were to say to cut the east side of the property off, it would ultimately be a pretty small track that's encumbered by that power line. So again, we don't want to put the city of Page in a situation where they just have a piece of land that's somewhat on an island. We would like to avoid that just as much as I'm sure you would. And quite frankly, it works well for us because we love the preservation of the desert landscape that's there. And that's important to Tenerife. Um, I'm going to let Barrett and Matt, if you guys want to describe any more of this, if you feel you need to, um, otherwise we can be good. I think it'd be great. So this is the actual focal piece right here.

So now, yeah, I think, um, thank you for having us. Um, I don't want to talk to, I mean, it's hard to follow Barrett and Banks, obviously it's like the Beatles and the wrong stones. Um, I've developed the, um, The thing about Tonnerena, and it's subtle and it may not be apparent in the development, is that we've gone to great lengths to develop a resort and a property where the buildings are barely visible from the highway, and they aren't even really visible to each other. And there's a lot of reasons for that. And I think that we're trying to design and build an experience for people. And an experience isn't really about buildings, and it's not really about windows and key count and things like that. An experience has to do with the entire atmosphere. And I wrote something that I would love to share with you. It takes about 60 seconds. I thought I needed to write it down. I'm not a great orator. But it was meaningful to me, and I think it may offer some insight into how we want to approach all of our projects, but especially the project here in Page. Like the millions of people who planned their first trip here to Page, I too was drawn by the vivacious energy of the place, the light, the shadows, the stone, the water, the sky, and by the culture of the American Southwest.

I think he's blocking the mic there. Okay.

I can start again.

Okay.

Yeah, it did go softer.

Thank you. Like the millions of people who planned their first trip to Page, I too was drawn by the vivacious energy of the place, the light and the shadows, the stone, the water, the sky, and by the culture of the American Southwest. But what we all actually found here is a generous community that shares in the love of its home, whose livelihood is bound together with its extraordinary landscape. This is truly a place that cannot be possessed. Rather, it possesses. The actual worth of this land was settled long before anyone thought to appraise it. Its real value cannot be measured in profit margins, rates of return, in what it costs, what it earns, It is not a commodity. It belongs to everyone who has stood or will stand upon it. Regrettably, all building is inherently destructive, and it's an imposition upon nature. I don't say this to condemn building. I say it to draw a distinction. Building takes from a place, but the best architecture, one that gives more than it takes, created in service to the landscape and its community, can atone for that loss. replacing what is taken with something worthy. Your generosity of spirit is what we're asking to join. The land was here long before any of us, and it will be here long after. And in the end, each of us is measured by how we leave it. That's our promise, not just a project, but an act of care for a place that deserves it. Thank you very much.

Okay, so I just want to draw your attention to the connectivity between the two. Just a quick refresher of Tanarena. $150 million project, 250 to 300 jobs, $9.1 million in total global impact from a tax revenue standpoint, and a $45 million total regional impact in terms of spending. What we intend to add with that with the track of land to the north, would be $15 to $20 million in capitalization, 25 to 30 permanent jobs, and $150,000 to $250,000 more in direct sales tax and property taxes, to the Coconino County and the City of Page, and 5,000 to 10,000 visitors per year. Now, we think that number is conservative, but we want to be careful with how many people experience that property at a time. That's a pretty low number per day if you do the math. Again, the full track, 271 acres, 23 of that acres is currently under contract by another party. The request there is 248. 72 of that is what we're really desiring to have, which is the C2. Again, the remaining track, we are flexible. We want to work through the entitlements correctly, and there's just a number of things that we're going to have to clean up outside of that. Current land price, where we would put the current value, of course, this is gonna be subject to an appraisal, but I think our property appraised at 17,535 an acre. And the other track, appraised roughly 21,000 an acre. So it could increase some from there, but that's just to give you some context of where we think it'll be priced per acre. One thing we are willing to commit to in a big way is that we don't need a long leash here. We don't need a lot of time and we're willing to keep our contract with some pretty strict terms and some encouragement for us to develop or we're going to be out some money. You currently have a repurchase right, and I believe every land contract that goes out of the city of Page, we're willing to increase the incentives on our side to ensure that we develop to make sure that the city is not in a position where they they have to buy that back. Or if they do, they're going to buy it back at a discount. So we'll be creative with the term sheet. But all that all that to say, we want to be very intentional with we want this to move forward. that we'd like it to move forward quickly. Our current timeline, March of 26, we got a very favorable vote from this dais, which we certainly appreciate. After our referendum period, we immediately went forward with our conceptual, architectural, and engineering on the entire site. June of 2026, we worked through our planning and zoning with Sylvia and her staff, and then came before this dais at the end of June to confirm our new entitlements for Tannerina. Now, for some of you that know this business know that's a very difficult process. We did it as expeditiously as we possibly could have. I think we hit a record here. We haven't confirmed that, but we think this is the fastest this has been done in the city of Page. The reason I want to highlight that is that we're not flying out here every week because we just absolutely love Page and want to spend time here. We're here to work. We're here to provide a development, and we We, quite frankly, want to see this happen in a very unique way. The contract constraints. To close escrow, you must meet a number of constraints, as you might know. We have cleared those on August 3rd. We cleared the final comment with Attorney Josh Smith on August 3rd. And we are set up to close with Pioneer Title. Our projected grading start. is in April of 2027. Now, completion is summer of 2030. One thing I want to point out is this timeline's been our same timeline from the beginning. And I was really excited with our staff. On June 24th of this year, we scheduled the P&Z confirmation of zoning almost a year out. on our schedule, and we hit it on the date. So we're very intentional whenever we bring these timelines in front of you. The process, obviously, is going to be a boundary, ALTA survey, independent appraisal, title and legal review, negotiation, and then return to council to vote at some point. The last thing that I'd like to add is It takes a village of people to move a project like this. Our partners and our staff are so excited to come out to Page. It's so fun to be out here. And especially this week, so many different nationalities represented. I think Barrett spoke all six languages this week.

Yeah, every day.

So that was pretty fun to experience. And we thank you for your time, sincerely. And we'll take any questions you might have.

Any questions from council members for the presenters at this time? Councillor Farrow.

Mine's more of a comment. I would thank both parties to as they come forward of thinking of the beauty the people the art and what we in council have been strategic driving towards making this and to use your words a destination place and you both are are pushing that idea forward, consistent with what we in council have identified as an opportunity and the land beauty, we see the same thing. And it's comforting to hear the presentations and in your comments, your presentation, you're talking about maintaining that beauty, the rocks and all the good stuff. And for me, it's nice to hear. And thank you for your presentations.

Thank you. Any other, oh, Councillor Hettinger.

Thank you, Mayor. And just to make sure I understand this correctly, I have a couple of things that I would like more information on. And is that appropriate for tonight? I'm not necessarily asking for answers on them now, but information that we could get before we, or when we have our next discussion.

You'd like information for staff to get ready for us for the next time?

Yeah.

Yeah, go ahead.

Okay, so the first one is, if we're looking at 73 acres of commercial property, I would love to understand, I think this is probably a question for you to get back to us, but the breakdown of sales tax generated versus property tax. just if we're looking at selling that much commercial property i'd love to understand ongoing what the city could expect since property tax primarily would go to the county and then frank for staff i have safety concerns about breaking up a single project or development onto the south and north of that highway. So I would love if staff could just do a review of whether those safety concerns are valid or like a more professional staff analysis on any concerns there.

Okay. Any questions from Frank for Kenna's requests?

Yes, one clarification is I assume that's probably centered around traffic and safety with the highway.

Yes. Yeah. So my concerns would be, you know, sometimes we have tourists that try and walk to Horseshoe Bend. So concerns with people trying to go from the resort over to any land or installations on the other side of the highway or just traffic going traffic speeds there with possible pedestrians.

I'm sure we can get you more information on that. So I think I understand. Thank you.

Councilor Roundtree?

Yes, so I had the same questions in regards to sales tax and property tax, so I won't repeat that. But I just want to say that I also am interested in a breakdown of that and the safety concerns. I want to go on record as stating that I've lived in Page for a lot of years. My husband before Page was even here, family, and to know the family's been involved in tourism for as many years as they had and that they saw the vision of what Page was all about. And both of these developers represent the vision that we wanted to see happen in PAGE. So I'm appreciative of Council. I'm appreciative of staff and of these developers seeing that vision and the work that we've done to bring projects like this together. And so in stating that, I want to see both of these developers extremely successful. So I don't know what we have to do to negotiate or how we look at the both of these proposals, but I want to encourage staff to come up with creative ideas on how to help both of these developers meet the needs of the visions of what they're wanting to happen for their projects, because I'm excited and truly want us to do everything we can to help these individuals be successful at what they're proposing.

i would agree with that of course any questions frank from from you for clarification uh yes uh i fully understand counselor around trees requests so um yeah but just to maybe general questions to make sure we hit everything i'm going over sylvia's uh staff report where we talk about maybe some council considerations. So it sounds to me like I'm getting feedback from council that it's a desire to work with both applicants to maybe see how we can, I don't know how right now, but try and get both projects to move forward as Councilor Roundtree suggested. And that leads into maybe explore alternate property configurations. We'll of course get any sort of a, Economic impact with the breakdown of sales tax versus property tax such as counselor head injure said I'm just trying to make sure we And I think that's it and maybe so Of course, we'll talk to the attorney I don't know if we need to get into next steps at this point because I think that direction would be for trying to work with both of these for right now would lead to the next meeting and more discussion there. So Councilor Roundtree, is that a new hand?

Oh, it's the same hand. And I just want to reiterate the safety because that was also what I was like, how do you have such a major development like that on both sides of the highway and that's a major highway we already know the accidents that occur in that area people looking because of the beauty and concentrating on both sides of the roads so um so yeah i want an evaluation of how that's going to affect safety sure and just to reassure that i do have that in the notes and we will need to

Because right now, the way the current contracts are, there's development on both sides of the highway. So we need to have those conversations with ADOT. So that's a very good point from both council members. So we'll make sure to discuss with ADOT and both parties maybe some strategies of what we're looking for, at least at the conceptual level now, as far as safety goes.

OK. Councilor Cogent. That's their highway, and so it's going to be their doing a traffic station. It's not going to be up to staff to make them decisions and stuff. So it's going to have to be strong coordination.

I'll talk to Jeremy and see what we need to do with studies as far as what ADOT would be looking for and some of the criteria and goals they would want us to achieve with those studies and bring that back.

Councilor Peller? CHRIS JERRAM, I just want to finish that.

That's exactly what I was asking for, Frank, is wanting to know how that's going to affect ADOT and the area to bring back that kind of information. Because I know the city could not be able to control much, but I do want other entities to give us information.

Understood. Councillor Preller. I think the Tanneryna folks in one of their slides had a dashed line going down from the overlook. I'm pretty sure that represented the zip line. You could just have one going across the highway and we don't have to worry about Ada. It's a lot more exciting than any sort of crosswalk. On a more serious note, is this something that we might want to loop in our boards on? I'm thinking like economic development.

Personally, I don't think so. The entities are already well along the way beyond what the EDAP board would be considering, in my opinion. I don't see the need. OK. Any other comments or questions? Thank you both groups for bringing this to us tonight. We will have to get with Attorney Smith when he's in town and see what we can do after staff pulls some stuff together for us. Thank you. On to item number 83. Special event liquor license application for Grand Circle Arts Alliance. It's actually two liquor licenses. I am looking for a motion. Councillor Preller.

Move to approve item 8.3, the special event liquor license for Grand Circle Arts Alliance. Second.

A motion from Councillor Preller, a second from Councillor Farrell. Any questions? Comments? All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Thank you. item number eight four special event liquor license application for glen canyon conservancy councillor preller uh all right i moved to approve item eight for the special event liquor license for the glen canyon conservancy i might need to clear a conflict on that one okay second we have a motion from councillor preller a second from councillor farrow and councillor cogen will be what's it called recusing himself on this one Any comments or questions? All in favor of the remaining five council members, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Thank you. That is the completion of our meeting for today. I will adjourn the regular city council meeting. It is 6.37. And our next regular meeting, Wednesday, August 26 at 5.30.