Town Council - Regular Meeting

Thursday, April 2, 2026

The Prescott Valley Town Council discussed the adoption of the 2024 International Fire Code with amendments, a public safety power shutoff presentation by APS, and updates on retail and commercial development. They also considered the potential sale of the Addis Avenue right-of-way and received an update on street bond projects.

About this meeting

Government Body
Town Council
Meeting Type
Town Council
Location
Prescott Valley, AZ
Meeting Date
April 2, 2026

Transcript

37 sections (from 92 segments)

0:00 – 0:58Speaker 1

Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Valley study session April 2nd, 2026. Clerk, please call the role.

0:56 – 1:20Speaker 1

Council member Lopez, present. Council member Kio, present. Council member Brin. Council member Greer, here. Council member Schumacher, present. Vice Mayor Searcher, here. Mayor Paul Gooden, here. We have a quorum. Thank you, ma'am. First item up 2A. CAMA adoption 2024 international fire code. Welcome sir or welcome ma'am.

1:18 – 2:02Speaker 1

Hi Stacy Bristo, development services director, uh mayor, vice mayor, council, uh town manager and community members. I just want to do a quick introduction. First I just want to say thanks to Daryl and the CathMA staff. Um they have amazing uh partnerships with us. They're expeditious in everything that they send to us with plan review and everything else and including this code adoption. So just really grateful for that partnership. So I wanted to say thank you there. And also, in case anyone's not aware, huge congratulations. They are nationally accredited now. That is a huge lift. It's a really big deal. My former consultant hat, not everybody can pull that off or does or chooses to do so. So, I just think it's pretty amazing. So, um that means you're pretty stellar at this point. So, just wanted to say um that's amazing. And with that, he is here to present the 2024 code update. Thank you.

2:01Speaker 1

Thank you, ma'am. Welcome, sir.

2:02 – 4:00Speaker 1

Uh good afternoon, mayor, vice mayor, council, city manager. My name is Daryl Turpac. I'm the fire marshal for CAFMA and today we're going to talk about the 2024 code adoption. Uh so basically why do we update? Uh currently we're in the 18 code. So we're about 6 years in. Uh they made some uh big changes in the 24 code with electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, uh CO hazards, uh 3D printing, and uh so basically with with all the new technology out there, the code is finally catching up to that technology. So that's why uh we're here today. Uh so a lot of significant changes like I said with uh uh batteries we have storage systems uh we have the electric scooters we have uh lithium ion storage so uh with our code we're adopting a code uh in its entirety and have created some amendments to to match our areas. Uh so that's one of the main reasons. Uh so basically continuing you can see there's carbon uh monoxide issues uh that are in the code inflatable amusement parks and then cultivation planting. Those are all new parts in that code. Um so basically for us our local amendments, one of the big changes for us is additional access and egress roads. I know you guys are all aware that we've had egress issues uh throughout the county. So basically what we're doing here is I amended the code and we're going to uh make it mandatory that we have two ways in and two ways out. No more emergency access. I want in andout traffic for both the citizens and the fire department. Uh same thing is with the one and two family homes. Once we hit 30 homes, a second road will be built. Those are going to be some of the main changes that we made. Uh additionally, uh as you guys know, we have 5,000 foot uh requirement for fire sprinklers. In the last code, uh you could add 4,900 feet to your house every year and not require sprinklers. So, I took that out because I I thought that

3:59 – 4:43Speaker 1

was a little bit ridiculous. So, once we hit that 5,000 5,000 foot mark, it's going to require sprinklers. And that is all I have for you. There's very well done, sir. Beautiful picture. Council. So, council, any questions? You had mentioned um for uh egress. Yes. um will that like with Viewpoint for instance, will that um will they need to get another um exit point now or So basically any anything that's currently standing as long as there's no additions to that community, I can't go back in retro, but any new communities that I can I can force that in.

4:42 – 5:14Speaker 1

Thank you very much, sir. Appreciate your service. Thank you. You guys have a good day. Next up, public safety power shut off presentation. Welcome, sir. Hello, mayor, vice mayor, town council. Joel Schaefer, emergency manager for town of Presca Valley. Uh, as you know, wildfire is one of our biggest risk we face here, and APS is doing some amazing things with tools to prevent that risk. So, without taking up too much of their thunder, I wanted to introduce Robbie Hoo from APS to discuss that. Welcome, sir.

5:12 – 7:11Speaker 1

Welcome. Thank you, mayor, members of the council, town staff. Uh, I'll run over real quick APS's policy when we get into uh, fire mitigation. We actually look at that from January through December. It seems like it's years now, not season. Uh, veg management, we do our DSAP program where we're going through our structures, clearing all the vegetation around it, uh, which is the DAP program. hazardous trees. We've really focused pretty heavy on that in a lot of the areas around our territory of uh removing secondary removing trees that will cause issues uh and getting those where they need to be. Grid hardening is probably one of our biggest things we've been engaged with and that's the technology we're putting on our systems uh from weather cameras or weather devices uh pan tilt zoom cameras, pano cameras and the relationship with emergency management teams have been amazing as well as our uh fire teams and again I very thankful for the town. We appreciate Joel. there's only two within Yavapai County emergency managers and having that relationship is extremely important. Uh so again a lot of investment in our technology that are on our systems when we talk public safety power shut off that is our last tool in our toolbox. Uh obviously our priority is safety for our teams that are out there, safety for our community and safety for the responders as they're taking care of whatever event has taken place. that is our top focus. Um, with that, we have changed our red flag protocols to specific areas along with PSPS. It won't be an entire run of wire we're talking about. It's specific targeted uh locations. If we do go into

7:09 – 7:48Speaker 1

public safety power shut off, that'll be affected. Uh, same with Red Flag. We take spec specific areas as weather impact is there. So again, that's a very high level look. And any questions? We have questions for Mr. Gold. Go ahead, sir. U when a power is shut off or disconnected because of uh conditions, um I believe when you when you basically pull the plug or or pull the switch, uh you you get a line surge behind that. Is that correct? when we deenergize.

7:46 – 8:28Speaker 1

Yeah. If you drop if you drop if you disconnect power, uh isn't there a like an oscillation or a follow on uh spike that comes through comes in that that could spike uh the uh computers and stuff like that. So that'll actually typically come on a re-energize when we go back into power. We actually have individuals stationed at our devices to bring that power up in sections. And that reduces the surges. Correct. We call it cold load pickup. Okay. So, um there is something being done about that then. Oh, absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Appreciate all you guys do at APS and DAR.

8:28Speaker 1

Thank you. See you in the back. Thank you.

8:32 – 10:32Speaker 1

Next up, update on potential retail and commercial development. Jamie. Good afternoon, Mayor Council. Uh, I wanted to go through uh some of our economic development updates as we're moving right along here in Prescat Valley. So, what's going on in Prescat Valley? So, that last one where you saw the question mark, if you're wondering what that is, it's Freddy's Frozen Custard. And that's been announced. And believe it or not, they're already starting getting ready to bring construction into that building. So, here's my recent industry expansions. Dignity Health, uh, Arizona Archery. Um, they are a local company that have been here for over 35 years. They're consolidating their businesses and building 100,000 square foot facility to house all their multiple businesses that they have throughout the valley right now. Um, so that'll be great. And they're about to add 50 jobs once they get that process up and running. Superior Industries is always in uh a state of flux of hiring new people. They're trying to uh design new manufacturing lines and they're also looking for additional space near that facility and elsewhere. Um PVMX, I know you're all wondering. Uh hopefully we will know today, but they're in signature process on the contract for that. So, uh my other ones are Print Pack and Granite Mountain Design. As you know, I'm going after the, uh semiconductor industry. Granite Mountain Design is a perfect example. They build all the cabinets for uh Intel, TSMC, and everything right here in Prescuit Valley. So, they're always looking for new second and third tier suppliers as

10:30 – 12:10Speaker 1

well. Industry and manufacturing. So, that was that. Uh Arizona Tech Week, we have that coming up. Uh our date is April 10th, and we're going to do a presentation in the afternoon. We're going to have some lunch and then we're going to take uh the people that come uh to PBR to take them to the rodeo. Um which is a which is a great investment simply for the reason that this we're getting tech technological technological companies from all over the state and the world that are going to be here for that whole week. It's our chance to get them to come visit us so we don't have to drive down to Phoenix to go see them. It's our chance to get them here. Now, it could be a little bumpy this first round because this is their first time ever doing this and there's over uh 500 uh I believe sessions that are going on throughout the valley in the state. So, we'll see how it goes. But, uh I'm really excited about this cuz we can finally start to get some of the technical companies up here that are low power, low water use. And so, here's Oh, whoops. Sorry, Stacy. Um, I first of all, I want to introduce Stacy Bristo. She's a development services director and her team is fantastic. I couldn't do what I do without them. And that's basically what that is. They are fantastic. Anytime I bring a project or we talk about a project, we have clear understanding in our path of where we're going with that project, which helps her streamline as well. Did you have any questions from my part? Yes, sir.

12:09 – 12:24Speaker 1

Jamie, I just wanted to ask in your professional opinion, you know, we we hear things here and there, but has economic development in the town been negatively impacted by the opposition to certain projects, specifically those that have gone to referendum.

12:22 – 13:12Speaker 1

Well, yeah, they have. Um, simply because once Amazon shut, it hit the it hit the rails with all the site selection guys. And that's not an easy thing to deal with because that word spreads fast with the site selection guys cuz the site selection guys are the ones that are bringing the large companies in. And when they say, "Wow, they're referendum." We're not the only one though. If you look statewide, many communities are doing referendums uh from Morirana to Gilbert to uh Apache Junction, etc. So, it's it's statewide and I think they realize that. So, I think what we need to do is just keep pressing on and keep trying to attract them, get them up here, get them visiting, get them learning about Prescuit Valley, and I think we can weather through it.

13:10 – 13:49Speaker 1

Council, as far as Amazon goes though, they're they're working on um getting the space for their parking at their current location and expanding there. That is correct. Well, it's not necessarily an expansion. They're retooling that building to make it more efficient um hopefully. And then they're moving the the parking uh which Stacy can also address from the fairgrounds up to their facility so it's all consolidated. Okay. And it's at the fairgrounds that is um possibly under contract today. Yes. Okay. And we'll hear more soon. Yeah. Soon. Okay. With that, let me introduce Stacy.

13:48 – 14:10Speaker 1

Yeah. Jamie, I just want to mention I appreciate your work. You guys do a great job. I did hear today or just literally an hour ago that things went very well with the motorsports group. You did? Nothing official yet, but things did I was texting him as I pulled up. So, I did hear that it went very very well. So, okay. Good news. Fantastic. Thank you, Stacy.

14:08 – 16:07Speaker 1

Hi, Stacy Bristo again, development services director, mayor, vice mayor, council, uh, town staff, and community members. So, we're the behind the scenes that helps e economic economic development. I can say that five times fast. So we're the ones behind the scenes. So this is what happens to make the other things happen. So these are just some stats from 2025. When you look at the applications accepted, those are all types of applications, building, planning, engineering, etc. Um an interesting thing about this uh data sheet in 2024, um these rates were just about 3% higher. So very slight change from year to year. And then this is a snapshot in time for the first quarter this year. You'll notice we were slightly behind January, February, and then March things were picking up and so we're sort of on that same trajectory. So, just wanted to give you a snapshot of what that looked like. One of the favorite things I'd love to talk about, I did have 12 slides and everybody told me I could have one. So, I'm only giving you um the sort of the key service enhancements. Um one thing I want to point out is we actually have a service enhancement action plan that has over 70 items on there. We are over halfway through accomplishing all of the items within that plan. So, we're really excited about that. um some heavy lifts. You know, we look at code updates and that looks like one line and one item, but a code update, as you know, can take us six months to go through. Often those kinds of things are done outside um plan um outside with consultants. So, we were able to do all of that with our talented staff in-house, which saves a lot of money. Um so, that was really excellent. So, a lot of really good things on here. I won't, you know, dive too much into it, but um I think we're on track. There's a lot of good stuff. I'll be there to ask answer questions if you want to jump into any of these details. And then the one I wanted to point out was the long range planning um effort. So we have a three-year strategic long range planning plan. I know we're planners. We like to plan. It's very clear. But there's a lot of items. So over the next three years, we're actually looking to do this inhouse. Um typically these types of efforts going forward would be

16:04 – 17:02Speaker 1

about $1.7 million if we used outside consultants to get these projects done. Um it's an ambitious plan. Um my staff are still here. That's good. Um they weren't scared off by this. Um but it's really exciting. This is really creative fun stuff that we get to work on. Whether it's um you know updating um you know different things for the community benefits or it's zoning code updates or um highway 69 corridor master plan or an art ordinance or redevelopment zones or opportunity zones. There's just so many things that we can look at and do um to build our future better and create those legacy projects um that make sense um you know through transparency, through thoughtful planning. um you know through alignment with the vision of the town. So really excited about it. There will be more to come on this. Um we just got the plan put together and um we're going to be starting this as of about July one. So that's when you'll start seeing some of these things roll out and more to come with you on that. And with that, that's all I have. If you have any questions for me,

16:58 – 17:16Speaker 1

council, we have questions for staff. Seeing none, ma'am, great job. You and your team kill it every time. Next up, proposal for Addis Avenue rightway. and welcome back.

17:14 – 18:25Speaker 1

I'll just stay here for a while. Stacy Bristol Development Services again, mayor, vice mayor, council, community members, and town staff. So, I just want to share like a little bit of a story first before we jump into the opportunity at Attis. Sort of the how and the why we got here. There is a history that surrounds this property that many may not be familiar with. There is a history of code complaints that are ongoing, some code challenges, um maintenance challenges for public works. There's also a desire from the locals um of needing parking and looking at maybe smart appropriate growth that can support their businesses. There have been historical conversations um with a lot of the businesses, tenants and owners in that area about shared parking, about purchasing the property, but nothing has happened and this is the time we have to do something. We want to solve these challenges. So for us and staff, this is very exciting. We're looking at doing a very thoughtful and creative uh quality of life approach that makes um fiscal sense. We applied seven different methodologies when we were considering this type of project to bring forward to you. We looked at input considerations doing a community meeting and staff. We looked at data, historical information. If you ever want to know the history of this, Ivan has tons of information. He could stand up here for an hour. It was about this tall worth of data that of course I read every word.

18:24Speaker 1

If you would like that halfhour presentation, I

18:27 – 20:26Speaker 1

Sir, what do you think the answer to that is? But I do want to thank I'm I'm grateful that um Ivan has that historical knowledge and has that historical information because that's helps us to move forward with smart data. Um obviously looking at capacity, we're looking at what are the must haves, what are the safety impacts, all of those kinds of things, what's efficient and effective and of course alignment with our culture and our needs and our vision for the town. So that's just a little bit of history. So the purpose today um the study session just for council to consider um the existing right-of-way area in this town track for potential sale. Um we will share identifying desired uses associated functions um and then gain some initial feedback from you as to if we want to move forward with a sale or not sale. Um the development looking at this um we're going to talk about uh the findings of the community meeting. We'll talk about how we identify allowed uses with the current zoning. Um, and just to re-emphasize, and I know Chris will reemphasize it again, we're not looking to reszone anything. We're not changing any zoning. This is the current zoning that has a lot of great allowed uses already. So, we're going to be looking at that. Um, we're going to provide scale study site development concept plan. And then we'll talk about if we were to move forward this potential draft conditions that would be placed on whoever was um the recipient of um of the bid. And just some of the benefits, there are many and again I tried to keep it to one slide but um looking at this um existing and future potential development, there would be additional parking which was one of the main things that came out from the community um session that we held for the businesses reducing the complaints and code violations and the parking on unpaid services and some of the challenges that we have in the rightway and then potentially activating an open space so residents and community members can come together and have an outdoor area to meet, gather or have lunch. Other things would be job creation, sales tax revenues, um reduced expens expenses for maintenance, reduced liability, less um resource allocation um for the with the potential improvements. So just a couple things

20:24Speaker 1

and with that I am going to pass it along to my amazing planner Chris and he'll go from there. You go Chris. Welcome Mr. Nlock.

20:32 – 22:31Speaker 1

Thank you mayor, vice mayor, council, staff, and community members. Um, just to give you a context of where we're at, uh, we're just south of State Route 89A, um, on Viewpoint and Addis intersection, just west of Viewpoint, uh, behind Old Roberts Market. Um, the area we're talking about today is existing rightway, just over an acre, and also, uh, just a little piece of track that the town owns. As well, as Stacy mentioned, there was a community uh, meeting. they did uh notice the business owners and property owners out there to kind of gain initial feedback of kind of what's happening out there, what the needs and what the wants are currently out there. Um so some findings out there were that uh the restaurants currently uh they're parking in the rightway and that's where their customers park because they don't have any parking on site. They're pretty much built out on their current site. Um the restaurant and the market are also using it for delivery. So they have trucks coming in with food and things like that. Um and then we also heard type of uses that were desired. uh heard no bar, restaurant and just uses to support and enhance the property value out there. Uh the current zoning is CGPD, commercial general uh planned area development. Um that is a list of just permitted uses. Um so no reszone will be needed like Stacy had said. Um some uses that could go out there would be like um shoe store, plant nursery, bookstore, flower shop, clothing store. Um, and some service could be like a barber shop or beauty shop where you get your hair and nails done or uh any professional business offices out there. So, this is a con an amazing concept plan that uh I wish I could take credit for, but uh our principal planner John Jacobson did. Uh we're very lucky to have his skills in house. Um something like this usually you would have to outsource and have to pay for. So, we're very lucky to get this for free. So, I appreciate him and just want to thank him for this. Um so, we were able to kind of all put our heads together. So, it was kind of exciting to get creative in this space and work and see what we want to see in the town and what the community residents might want to see. So, listening to the community meeting,

22:28 – 24:16Speaker 1

um we uh actually overparked the site. Uh about 29 spaces would be required on this site the site. Uh we did provide 49. Um and just also to the east that little square there is actually a loading zone as well. So, it could duplicate for a loading zone or parking depending on the time of day. Um, as Stacy said, we did put in a little activated open space in between the two buildings. Uh, maybe a chance for a mural, sculpture, art, uh, somewhere where you can enjoy the outdoors, maybe have a cup of coffee, and just truly enjoy what one of Prescal's greatest assets is, and that's just the outdoors and the climate we have here. Um, we also did uh add a sidewalk basically from viewpoint all the way up at us to kind of connect it to that residential development over there so we could kind of get that foot traffic over in here as well as added internal sidewalks to allow for internal uh circulation for the other businesses as well. This is a just kind of a broad high level overview of the potential conditions we're looking at. It was reviewed by the various uh staff in the town. Um, I'll just hit on a few. Traffic and circulation. Everything does and will continue to be approved by our town engineer and traffic engineer. So, just to hit that, um, the infrastructure, um, there potentially is some things that have to be moved on site so that whoever does, if we were to take this process forward, um, does get the property, we'll have to work with our utilities and public works department to kind of move those around and get them where they need to be. And then also uh the shared parking agreement that will have to come through us and be approved by the director Stacy and the town engineer as well. And of course we are requiring that little pocket plaza in there because we think there's huge value in that. And with that I'll just turn it back over to Stacy. That's just my time with you guys. Thank you.

24:14 – 25:44Speaker 1

Thank you. So just to recap. So um looking at it sort of two sides. Benefits if sold. Sort of drawbacks if not sold. benefits are the job, sales tax, revenue, activated open space, supporting the business needs, additional parking, resource allocation. Um, so a lot of a lot of good business, a lot of good benefits. Um, if it's not sold where it is today, um, there is going to be a cost to maintain that rightway. Um, there's going to be a cost to doing those improvements. So there's a fiscal element to that for the council. We'll have to look at that during the budget cycle. Um, there's continued complaints and code violations. There will have to be enforcement of that and that will be hard because that's an area that has been maybe not necessarily adhered to for very long. So, we're that's going to be another hurdle that we'd have to cross. Um, and then of course liability for allowing parking in the right of way. So, just things to think about on both sides and next steps. So, if it is sold, there would be an auction process, a public process. Um, Ivan can answer more questions as to what that look like, what that looks like, but it would be a very significant process to go through. There would be vetting of the applications. There's an award of sale. Um, and then of course, just like any other project that we work within the town, a pre-application conference meeting, initial plan review. we'd have to go through the whole process, you know, site plan review, all of those good things that we would normally do before um just like in any other project. And then if we don't sell, then it would be, you know, public works looking have to what does that improvement look like, code enforcement, having to deal with a code complaint. So, um that's where we are today. So, um we are very excited about this and hopefully we were creative to bring this forward to you and we look for your feedback and input. Thank you.

25:42 – 26:24Speaker 1

Thank you, ma'am. It is exciting. Good job with staff trying to be proactive and figure something out with this property. I mean, anyone that's been here for a long time has realized that's been a children's bus stop for schools. It creates chaos throughout parking, semi-truckss parked there for a while. Um, and since we posted this, I had, uh, three people interested in learning more about the process, having different ideas of what they want to do to hopefully get involved in the purchase process. So, um, that's awesome. Look forward to it. Council, we have other questions for Stacy. I have Have you pulled any of the neighbors around that property to see what their feelings are about these changes?

26:22 – 26:55Speaker 1

So, yes, we held a community meeting. I believe it was on one of the slides for that Chris mentioned. So, yes, we had a community meeting. We had nine members of the community show up. One property owner, no, two property owners and then members um for the local businesses. They all didn't show up, but we sent a letter. Um, we also did a follow-up letter with our phone number to say, you know, if you weren't able to attend the meeting, this is the date and time of the council meeting. Also, you can contact us directly if you want to ask about what's happening there. Um, and if we go through the public process, there'll be another large notification um, as well. Thank you. Sure.

26:54 – 27:24Speaker 1

So, I think it's clear just kind of go through the process towards an auction and see what that looks like. And then, as you all mentioned in the report, we get to finally decide what is going to go there and you've made it clear on the stipulations, what needs to happen. people are going to add sidewalks and just basically improve that area from just being a empty dirt lot. So, thank you ma'am. Thank you. Moving on. Item 2E, street bond project update. Mr. Murphy, welcome sir.

27:25 – 29:24Speaker 1

Good afternoon, council. Um, mayor, vice mayor, members of the council. Uh, as you may remember, we came here a couple months ago and gave a broad overview and kind of ideas that we could projects that we could go forward with the street bond. Today, there are five ones that we've settled on as our as our top five priorities. We'll go through those quickly. Uh, number one, this was identified as number one in safety action plan as well, is correcting the negative offset left turns on Glastford Hill Road. So the construction project right now on the north half north of Longlook that's being taken part that's being taken care of as part of that project. We're talking about the intersection south. So that would be Center Court Florentine Veterans and Lakes Shore Drive. It would turn that negative offset so that that one on the left there to the positive offset. That gives left turn left turning vehicles a better view of opposing traffic and kind of helps with both capacity and safety. Uh some of the intersections might require signal modifications, longer signal mast arms and additional signal faces. Uh the project estimate we had there was for 4 million for the design construction of that project. Our second rig project, this was not in our safety action plan uh totally uh but there were portions of it that were marked out. This would be widening Florentine Road from just east of Windong to Navajo Drive to a three-lane section to include that center lane and sidewalk on both sides of the road. There are some rideaway constraints in there where that 50 ft is the absolute minimum that we could work with where we would get the three lanes, the sidewalk, but no bike lanes. So depending on the project's assessment as we look forward, if there is a a need or desire for that, there would be rightaway acquisition, but right now we can fit the minimum into this entire section to provide

29:21 – 31:20Speaker 1

pedestrian access and that center lane. The project estimate was about 5 million for this and that includes a lot of undergrounding of of drainage on the south side. Third project, it was ranked eight out of eight in our safety action plan and that was including the widening of viewpoint drive from Roundup to SR898. This project as presented to be funded by the street bond would look at the complete widening of the roadway as well as adding multi-use path on the south or west side and then sidewalk on the opposing side. uh the actual construction would likely only be the pedestrian improvements at this time. Another project that we brought up back in November was the lack of east west connectivity in the north side of town. This the image shows Santa Fe Loop Road. That's as it's given in our general plan. Right now, it's just a couple squiggles on a map. And it's been that way since, you could go back to the 1980 comprehensive plan, and it's basically the same idea. Um, what we're looking for here is to have a consultant come in and do a design concept report that gives us a lot of the information and kind of where we can move forward. As part of the design concept report, there's usually a 15% design that will lead us in the right direction should we move forward in the future. The last project on here for the street bond discussion is the Lakeshore Navajo intersection and our safety action plan. It recommends a roundabout. There are some constraints with you the drainage and the bridge through there. It also recommends the two flashing crosswalks uh that we see in other places around town at the two existing multi-use multi-use paths. and as well as extending those red arrows are extending

31:18 – 31:38Speaker 1

the Navajo multi-use path to the intersection to connect with the rest of the pipeline. Uh this one's kind of up in the air on what would happen. So that would require a project assessment and kind of more input and detail before we get into that design construction phase. And if you have any questions,

31:36 – 32:13Speaker 1

good job, sir. I cannot say how excited I am about number two improving Florentine to get that east west connection. I've said it for many many years that we needed to have that with safety with the number of people that walk over in that area. So, and that would finalize basically what Florentine is to go all the way down Sunset. So, that's terrific to hear and all these other projects are leading us in the right direction as well. Um, appreciate your time on that. Council, we have questions for Parker. Um, is is there I know it's early on into this, but is there any u state money for example available to help us with any of this

32:11 – 33:22Speaker 1

for these projects? I'm not aware council member Fryin of state money that would be able to be put towards this. But if we look at back if I go back to the viewpoint one so viewpoint drive this project is north of Roundup. Right now we are applied and I believe we won the transportation alternatives grant from AOT for the multi-use path to connect from Manley to this point and then this project would take it up all the way 80 89A. So there are we are looking at funding other funding sources as we look at this and for these ones I'm just not sure a lot of these fit into a lot of those grant monies. Um, again, these are projects that were identified in the safety action plan that we could apply for that safe streets for all. Uh, these ones didn't make it into our application last year, which we didn't win. And the ones that were going for is the Lakeshore Drive and Lake Valley area. Same application we put in last year, we're going going to put in for this year. Um, so moving forward, if these don't get funded, we could always go back to the safe streets for all because these are identified in that safety action plan and get those monies from the federal safety action plan grant money.

33:19 – 34:04Speaker 1

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. If I could add to that, um, we'll continue as we flush out these projects. Um, so, you know, the bulk of the funding is going to come from a town bond that we would issue that's, uh, we're basically paying off the previous bond that we have. So, it's a continuation of investing in our infrastructure, but we've been very successful with our legislative delegation here uh in Yapai County uh at bringing having millions of dollars brought back to our community from the legislature. And so, we'll continue to work with our legislators uh with specific projects and ask in future fiscal years. Council and

34:01 – 34:37Speaker 1

the the viewpoint MUP path that's um already out for design. Correct. We're getting um plans for that. I I know like I said we did win that transportation alternatives grant which I think is coming before you at the end of the month. Um, I don't think that we had the design or anything ready yet, but that is in the works to extend that from Manley to this point and then this would carry all the way up to 89A. Thank you, sir. Great job, folks. Have a great night.

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