Council - Regular Meeting

individuals who have been lost to homicide and recognizing the last impact on their families, friends, and communities. And whereas the death of a murdered loved one is a devastating experience that forever changes the lives of immediate and extended family members, friends, coworkers, and neighbors, creating an immeasurable void that can never truly be filled. Whereas every victim of homicide represents more than a statistic. They are sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, spouses, grandparents, children, friends, and valued members of our community whose lives and legacies deserve to be remembered. And whereas the friends and families of murder victims often face overwhelming grief and trauma and rely on counseling, crisis intervention, victim advocacy, professional referrals, and assistance navigating the criminal justice system as they begin the journey toward healing. And whereas the communities of Somerton and Yuma County have experienced the profound effect of homicide, and we recognize that violence impacts not only the lives taken, but also generations of surviving family members and the community as a whole. And whereas the city of Somerton joins the Yuma County Victims Rights Committee, victim service providers, criminal justice professionals, law enforcement, fur responders, community organizations and concerned citizens and remembering those whose lives have been taken by homicide, honoring the courage and resilience of surviving family members and supporting efforts to help families rebuild their lives. And whereas the City of Somerton remains committed to promoting awareness, supporting victims and survivors of crime, preventing violence, and fostering a community where every individual is treated with dignity, compassion, and respect. Now, therefore, I, Gerardo Anaya, Mayor of the City of Somerton, Arizona, on behalf of the Somerton City Council, do hereby proclaim September 25th, 2026 as the National Day of Remembrance of Murder Victims in the City of Somerton, Arizona. and encourage all citizens to join in remembering those whose lives have been taken by homicide, to honor the strength and resilience of surviving family members, to support programs and organizations that provide hope and healing to victims of violent crime, and to reaffirm our commitment to justice, compassion, and safer communities for all.

Thank you. I want to invite Mr. Mark Martinez to come receive the proclamation.

Can I have you in the middle, please? Yeah, over there. I didn't want to say that. OK, one, two, three. One, two, three. Perfect. Thank you.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council, we appreciate, as the Chairman for the Victims' Rights Committee, we appreciate this proclamation from the City of Somerton on this National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims. Homicides have a direct impact on the families. It also affects our first responders that have to arrive on scene and the law enforcement that have to investigate these crimes. And of course, the prosecuting attorneys that prosecute these crimes. We ask that you join us on the 25th. I gave you all invitations just to show support and what we do in support of all these victims of homicide. We hope that the vigil will be a healing process. Not everybody attends, they're not ready yet, but we do open it to everybody to say a few words and we're thankful. So I appreciate your time tonight. Thank you, Mayor, Council.

Thank you. We're gonna move on to consent agenda. There's seven items. Does any member of council wanna remove an item from consent agenda?

Mayor?

Yes.

I wanna remove 6.5, I believe.

Okay. Yeah, we're gonna remove 6.5. Is there a motion?

Make a motion to approve consent agenda as stated.

Second, Mayor. Councilman Roldano. Councilman Castillo. Second by Councilman Roldano. All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay, so item 6.5, we're gonna discuss is approval to select and approve purchase of an extension of ornament package for the city's existing downtown holiday tree for downtown decorations in the amount of 36,000, utilizing CFP number 20-40-01. Councilwoman, yeah.

Good evening, Mayor and Council, James Jones, Parks and Rec Director. As part of our CIP list, Parks and Rec Department was tasked to go out and obtain the next extension for our Christmas tree list. We go through downtown decoration, because that's where we bought the original tree and they are the sole distributor of that tree that we own. We went out and got the price. Andrea, can you pull up the item, please? As you see, we went down, you gave us the budget total of 36,000. As we went there, we got six feet of Christmas tree and the ornaments to fill that Christmas tree for $34,650, which is under the budget amount. If you have any questions, let me know.

Councilwoman Gonzalez.

So during the budget, I mentioned we could bypass the extension this year. I know I was asked what projects we could, I guess, transfer this budgeted amount for. Budget amount is $36,000. We have the community center that needs repairs, and I think we allocated about 65 or 67. I think these, would be more beneficial for the community center as it needs quite a lot of repairs and do the extension next fiscal year.

Any other questions or comments?

I have a comment, ma'am. You know what? I UNDERSTAND COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ'S PERSPECTIVE, BUT I ALSO FEEL THAT WE, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, I THINK IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, WE KIND OF AGREED TO PURCHASE THE TREE IN SECTIONS AND PARTS DUE TO THE ECONOMIC COST OF IT. YOU KNOW, I THINK IF WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS, I THINK IT'S GOING TO PUT US AT $32 32 feet, right? Correct. And I mean, we still have a way to go. I mean, I think the tower is a pride thing for us here in Somerton. I understand that there's a lot of things within our city that needs renovations and things like that. But I think this was our original plan to stick to to adding the sections. So I personally wouldn't wanna deviate from that. I mean, I think every line item has its budget and I would wanna see that course. I mean, because if we look at the community center, I mean, then we gotta look elsewhere too and how do we prioritize? I mean, I think that's, I MEAN, THAT'S ANOTHER CONVERSATION, RIGHT? BUT AT LEAST FOR ME AS COUNCIL, WE AGREE TO DO IT IN SECTIONS. I UNDERSTAND COUNCILWOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE, BUT I MEAN, THAT TREE, I MEAN, 32 FEET, IT'S A PRIDE THING FOR OUR RESIDENTS AND EVERYTHING, AND I WOULD SAY MOVE FORWARD WITH IT.

and i think every year we're going to find something that we could reallocate those 0.8 but you know we we uh when we decided it's been with the third fourth year that this treats it's on one of those other projects that it's responsible um fiscally we didn't buy a hundred thousand dollar tree but we agreed that EVERY YEAR WE'RE GOING TO BUILD ON IT AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE A COMMUNITY EVENT FOR IT AND WE HAVE TO PUT IT ON A PLATFORM IN ORDER TO LOOK BIGGER. SO THIS IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE BUILDING AND I FEEL AND COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ DID MENTION THAT DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS BUT LIKE I ALWAYS SAY IT'S A COMMENT AND IT'S UP TO COUNCIL TO DECIDE AND THAT'S WHY THIS IS HERE.

I'm going to have to. make a comment where I'm the one that was always harping on the city manager for a Christmas tree and comparing our little tree that we used to have and the tree is beautiful. It's huge and I do understand that we do have other priorities that we need to address. The community does use the gym or the community gym So we, I feel, and I also wanna agree with Councilwoman Gonzalez where yes, we were buying this tree in intervals and chunks, but I know that the community center needs a lot of work. And so I think we need to, it's our sole responsibility to make sure what our priorities are at this moment. And so it's within the same department it's under Parks and Rec, we're not moving that money or we're not requesting that money to be moved to another department. And so even though the Christmas tree is very beautiful and it is for our community to cherish and value, but at this moment, it's just very difficult for me to go in another direction of adding value I don't know how many more feet did you say was going to be added, but $36,000 that we have, I'm sure James can utilize that amount for the community center. And so I just wanted to make a note. I am the one that was harping on a new Christmas tree and a bigger one and a more beautiful one. It's already beautiful. And so thank you for that. But I think that right now, those 36,000 can be utilized within the same Parks and Rec department for the community center. But that's my opinion. Thank you.

Any other questions or comments?

Yes, I have a question, Councilmember DeGolden. Mayor? Yes. This is Councilmember Galindo. Maybe I missed something on the last meeting, but may I ask Councilwoman Garcia-Gonzalez, what are the needs of the community center and why are we expressing those right now and not before? What are the needs, do you know the needs?

Well, Mr. Jones can give you that, but we have allocated about $65,000 in this fiscal budget for it because it's in need of repair. I did mention it during the budget meeting I don't remember if you were at the budget meeting where I mentioned that these $36,000 could be used maybe to finish off the repairs completely within this fiscal year for the community center, but Mr. Jones.

Just to clarify, are you asking what is the plans for this year or what needs to be done?

Yeah, because she said there's things to be done. So what are the needs at this point?

I'm going to be honest with you. This year, the plan was to redo the front entryway with the countertop to drop it so it meets ADA needs. We're putting in an automatic door opener. We're going to retile it to match the current tile of the bathroom. And then We're going to go in the kitchen, put a warmer in there with some storage cabinets and some other items. We can't put a kitchen in there because there's no exhaust, but we're going to make it so that people can serve food out of it more readily and try to keep the food out of the gym. That $65,000 should cover that. With the extra money, yeah, we could find more to do, but to move into the gym, to redo the floor in the gym, it'd be over $100,000.

So you're saying that there's no plan. The plan was for the $65,000 to be expended this year and then maybe next year.

Yeah, there'd have to be another phase for the gym floor because like I said, that's over $100,000 to redo the floor. Any other questions or comments?

I have one, the last one. So at this point, there's no hazards that the gym can still be in use. There's no hazards for the community?

Correct. There's no hazard right now. It's just, like she said, it needs to just be updated. Okay, thank you.

And I feel with any item, we can find better things to do. And, you know, it's just opinions. And I like to follow the plans. I always say we start plans. We just saw it right here on Main Street. that the project was sitting on the shelf for seven years. And if we don't keep up with the plans, it's one of those things that we're never going to get it done. And, you know, I feel that We've been very conservative as far as with this project. We didn't buy the whole thing all at once, but it's one of those things that we got to keep at it. And we've allocated those funds from the 0.8. It's one of those things that we said that with the 0.8 fund that we were going to do enhancements like this. And it's something that the community, we have that special event. And for us, for holidays, and I feel that I wouldn't want to deviate from it, and especially that we don't have a plan for the community center. We could say, you know, for anything else, we could allocate those funds if we wanted to, but to me, I'm concerned with just because we don't like a project, putting it on something else that we don't have a plan for, we won't be able to afford anything else with 34, well, maybe 35, You know, like the community center can be also, next year can be, we can fund that or any other enhancements that we need to. Any other questions or comments?

Just for the record, I never said I didn't like the project. I just wanted to say it for the record.

I'll make a motion to approve the sole source purchase of the 26 foot to 32 foot Edirondack Mountain Pine Tree Extension, 8,800 warm white LED lights matching red and gold ornamentation and shipping from downtown decorations in an amount not to exceed 34,650. There's a motion by Vice Mayor, second by Council Member Galindo.

Council Member Galindo, all those in favor?

Aye.

Aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Nay.

Motion carries. We have two presentations. The first one is Greater Yuma Economic Development Corporation regarding the year-end report highlighting the organization's accomplishments in the economic development over the past year.

Good evening, Mayor, Council. Good to see everybody tonight. Bear with me one moment as I pull this up. Okay. Okay. So just forewarning, I do have 21 slides, but I promise I will be very quick and painless with this one. But with that, I always like to start off my presentations by focusing on our strategic plan. And at GYEDC, it's very simple, it's very concise, but it also becomes our North Star for everything that we do. Advanced highway job creation. I've become more globally competitive in all these other areas here, which I'll talk about in further detail. But this allows us to focus on what we're going to do for the year out. And also with that, I always like to talk about my board. It's ever evolving. I believe it's the largest board in all of Yuma County, but we have a very widespread of diverse sectors that represent our community from banking to manufacturing to border logistics to healthcare to education to ag to tribal nations to utilities to public sector and to even Mayor Anaya as well. They oversee everything we do. They ensure that our focus represents our entire region. And I always like to start off with this because it really demonstrates that our organization is being guided by people who care about this entire greater Yuma area, not just one particular community. Within that, my board oversaw a year in which we had a very successful outcomes and metrics. Here are the numbers. You can take them as you like. Within it as well, we like to track where they're coming from. This helps us to understand if our focuses are in the right area, and if not, if we need to redirect them to different markets, locations, or even particular industries. I would say that our focus within food manufacturing, within aerospace defense, within advanced manufacturing and with the logistics seems to be fairly represented within these slides and what we do as an organization. And I also like to talk about the fact that when we talk about jobs, I know a lot of times people are a bit underwhelmed by some of the announcements that come out. And I like to use this perfect example of 50 jobs. Recently, Kimberly Clark made an announcement of a major $100 million plus manufacturing plant in the city of Yuma. And I made the mistake of going online and reading the comments on social media about the announcement. People were very unimpressed by 50 jobs with $100 million. But I'd like to take the snapshot to demonstrate to people that 50 jobs in our community is representative of over 1,100 jobs in the greater Phoenix area. So when we get very jealous or envious of the major announcements in other communities, we have to be understanding of the fact that commensurate to the size of our labor force and the labor force participation, 50 jobs makes a major impact in the greater Yuma area. And so I would hope that as council reviews our announcements and our successes, that you as well can appreciate that it may not be a large number on paper, but it actually has the same impact as a thousand jobs in another community. And there you can see our year end performance metrics. We have a number of different metrics that were measured by my organization with my board. Everyone has a different recipe or formula for success. For me particularly, it's about the wage creation first and foremost. At the end of the day, people need to be able to attain the American dream, buy homes, buy groceries, pay for their kids' needs and health care. And so if we're not raising the wages and the quality of life for every resident that we work on, then we're not doing our jobs. But each of you may have a different representation of what success is from an economic development perspective. But we're also very fortunate that we have over 10 to measure ourselves by. And in particular, that's all great, talking about what we did as a region, but more importantly, what did we do for the city of Somerton with the money that you invested in us? With the help of Jasmine and her leadership as well, we were proud to see a number of different areas of success, in particular, retail leads. We know that Somerton is very focused on commercial development here. You know, you being a phenomenal community nestled between Yuma and San Luis, you have a lot to offer companies. So working with Jasmine, we use over $100,000 that we invest in software to track companies that land on our website that actually find the greater Yuma area and are within the sectors that you're focused on. We then provide those leads to Jasmine and we work with her on targeting their needs and marketing to them directly. Along with that, Somerton Manufacturing made a capital investment over $250,000 this past year. They are within the city of Somerton. And so that portion of investment goes into property taxes. And then we all know as well, the companies that we work with that I just made announcement in the past slide created over 37 jobs for Somerton residents in the past year. And that $24 an hour equating to about $49,000 a year is a very good start for Somerton residents because the median family income in Somerton is about 71,000, which by the way is the highest of all the cities in Yuma County. So a lot to be proud of there. But within each job we're creating, that's actually attaining over 60% of the median family income. So again, raising the wages and the quality of life for community here is what we're working on. And then also putting on multiple workshops for small business groups Here in Somerton, we did one here, particularly in City Hall with my staff and Jasmine. And then we also did another one down in San Luis, the Small Business Administration, Crystal and her staff that serve Somerton and San Luis companies. So trying to do our part to directly benefit Somerton while also working on the more macro level of major company expansions and attraction. And then we also work with Jasmine on putting together multiple business collateral materials that when Jasmine goes out and sells the city of Somerton, she has the right data and she has very sophisticated materials that stand out at different conferences as she promotes Somerton for retail and commercial development. We also do a lot in the grant space. Don't wanna bore you with that. As we've talked about in the past, and Amber came before this council, our SEDS, we actually gonna be having our first comprehensive economic development strategy meeting encompassing Yuma County and La Paz County here at City of Somerton on September 30th. Jasmine and Louie are very kind enough to host the event here. We're gonna be bringing in the Greater Arizona Development Authority, Arizona Finance Authority, Western Arizona Council of Governments, along with the Economic Development Administration, and then my organization to talk about different public infrastructure, financing tools, and other grants that may be available to public bodies to offset costs for wastewater, roadways, and other improvements, so you're not having to come out of pocket. And so we're very proud of the fact that we're gonna have that first event here, and we hope to have a lot more in Somerton as a location. Along with that as well, I'm very proud of the fact that we continue to be able to raise our private investor funds, which are very important because then it allows us to be more self-reliant on our operations and also to not put as much pressure on our public sector in order to basically keep up with your funding as well. But we do hope that you continue with it and hopefully maybe at some point increase. And then along with that, getting eyes on the greater Yuma area. My team does a phenomenal job through a number of different avenues and mediums to bring more attention to Yuma area, Yuma County. And you can see here, whatever metric is most important to you, driving traffic, driving eyes, driving attention to our website, to our community, so people can really understand all the benefits and all the great assets that the greater Yuma County area has to offer. And in particular, Somerton. as I talked about earlier with the retail leads and the other business leads that we provide to Jasmine. and then a number of different initiatives. I'm always very impressed by the fact that I have a staff of five, but they work at a factor of five employees each. And I think this is partly representative here of all the different initiatives we're involved in. We're not necessarily leading all of these. We are involved and we know these all help the greater Yuma region economic development efforts. And Jasmine is at the table on many of these different efforts and definitely helps to contribute and help represent Somerton. Now, for me, second thing, what's most important is where are we going forward? That's what we accomplished in the past. Now, what's our future initiatives? And working with our entire community, we're going to be launching a California Site Selector Initiative. This is the first of its kind in all of Arizona. Arizona Commerce Authority chose our organization as the first entity to launch this. And essentially, they're going to be using their wide book of business, their major resource network to promote the greater Yuma area to california within the sectors that we're focused on and so this is going to be we asked jasmine for a lot of material from somerton so once again being able to get out there the number of different avenues and promote our region is very important because that's the hardest challenge we have as an organization is getting people to know where we're at and look at us on the map Along with that, we're going to be doing more in the space with the Taiwanese momentum happening in Phoenix. As we've been told, this is only the first inning of success for the Arizona area. And so now as companies start to look to support TSMC, Intel, own semiconductor and other semiconductor manufacturing, they all can't be in Phoenix. And at some point in time, they're going to have to look outwards and beyond. And so we believe we're in a position to take advantage of a lot of those tier two, tier three suppliers that need to be near those major companies that are investing billions of dollars in the greater Phoenix area, but don't have to be next to them. So we are planning for a allegiance or alliance with a city in Taiwan. And along with that, working on marketing more into the Taiwan and Asia sector to promote our assets within the semiconductor region. and then continue to work on a number of different binational efforts. Jasmine joined us about a month ago when we signed our MOU with the Mexicali EDC. Since then, we've actually had a strategic planning meeting with them. We have a 90-day action plan, and we're not just gonna basically take a handshake and a signing and leave it there. We're gonna be actionable, and we have a plan to work with them more closely to market our regions collectively. They have so much to offer our area, and we believe that if we can connect with them, we can complement their area, which is well over a million people and over 450 companies, and utilize that to help our area grow as well. And then also as an ag tech space, we are aligned now with the Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture. We are their marketing arm and promotion arm, and we're working to help grow their smart farm concept from development into an actual real life testing center that would be the YPG of ag technology for the world. And so we are excited about where we're going with that. And again, it just demonstrates our alliance with a number of different sectors, not just one in particular in ag tech, obviously being a leading edge in our community. And then this one is a bit more nebulous, but ultimately what we understand is the fact that as we recruit these big companies to our area, they have to bring in executives, they have to bring in talent, but just like city of Somerton, when you have to go out and try to recruit talent as well, you know, up until this point, we have not had a branding materials that are adequate to represent our communities and help you attract talent here, along with our military, with our public sector, with education, with manufacturing, with all of our major employers here. And so we are gonna be working on something that's going to help brand the greater Yuma area, give each of you the collateral. I'm looking at you, Councilwoman Degodillo, as it relates to regional center and trying to recruit talented healthcare professionals here. We don't have anything right now. And so having something that they can go to, a landing place to learn all the great amenities of our community, we think will help with some of that storytelling and recruitment of talent to our area while we build our own talent locally as well. And then working with Jasmine, as we did very closely on preparing the Somerton Kokopaw sites for Opportunity Zone investment and ensuring that we have the right collateral together and also ensuring that we have the right messaging. So as companies start to look to place their capital, their investments in the greater Somerton area, that we are, you're prepared and that we're helping you with our part to get you prepared as well. And then lastly, a very hotly debated topic and conversation. And I don't know where city of Somerton lies on this one, but just want to be clear for each council I go before our position as an organization, we had a very long extended conversation today at our board meeting about this. And you can see right here, it tells the story of what we do and what we're not doing as it relates to data centers. OUR JOB AS AN ORGANIZATION, THE EDICT I'VE BEEN GIVEN BY MY BOARD IS TO STAY NEUTRAL AND PARTIAL, BUT YOU UTILIZE OUR RESOURCES, UTILIZE OUR MISSION AS A DATA REPOSITORY TO GET EACH COUNCIL AND DECISION MAKERS INFORMATION SO THAT YOU CAN DECIDE IF THAT DAY COMES AND DATA CENTERS ARE INTERESTED IN YOUR COMMUNITY THAT YOU HAVE THE RIGHT INFORMATION AND YOU AS A COUNCIL DECIDE ON IF YOU WANT THAT IN YOUR COMMUNITY. BUT I'D LIKE TO PUT THIS ON RECORD FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT GYEC IS NOT RECRUITING. recruiting data centers. We are not directly trying to market to them. Our focus is on our other target industries, but our job as well is to help provide you with the right information if that day comes and give you our economic development guidance with our 75 years experience within my organization. And so with that, as I mentioned, I was gonna be quick and painless, but I would love to entertain any questions or comments you may have for me.

Any questions or comments, Councilwoman?

Thank you for your presentation, Greg. I want to go back to that comment where you said that it was, I don't know how many millions of dollars, but it only produced 50 jobs. Can you reiterate that?

Yeah, so essentially... And how do you feel it's beneficial?

Because 50 jobs, I don't know.

Yeah, so essentially when we have... A lot of our companies don't make announcements to thousands of jobs. Most of them are 50 to 100 jobs. And I believe a lot of the public believes, well, that doesn't make a real impact in our communities. And so I just wanted to demonstrate or illustrate that... 1,000 jobs in Phoenix when an announcement comes out is the equivalent of 50 jobs in our community. And so people need to understand that 50 jobs has the same impact as 1,000 jobs in Phoenix. And so it is a large impact. And that's our focus. I don't really believe that as an organization, bringing in companies that are going to create a thousand jobs is beneficial to our entire area because they're going to have to cannibalize from other industry to do so. And so not that we wouldn't welcome them, but ultimately we understand that our role is more so within that 50 to maybe 200 job space. And so we just want our community members to understand that, you know, each job really does have a major impact in our community. And so that's why I just kind of try to give that illustration in comparison.

Thank you.

Vice Mayor? Hey, Greg. So I saw on your presentation, you said there was 37 jobs here in Somerton. How many of those are they all full-time? Are they part-time? Do you have the breakdown? We don't count part-time.

Yeah, all of our jobs have to be 2,080 hours. And actually, these companies get incentives or benefits from the state level based upon that. So we're utilizing their numbers they provide to the state and to our organization. And then that's what we count as a full-time job or equivalent. Yeah.

Cool. And also I saw that you had 33 retail leads, right? Yes. How many of those are actively considering Somerton?

So we don't actually do retail. So everything we do, once we pass them on to Jasmine, then she carries that discussion. To be very frank, I'm sure a lot of them are just looking at the area. But at least now we know who they are. And Jasmine can go out and directly market to them and showcase Somerton in particular. A lot of times they may not even be considering. when they come to our website, but once she has the information, I know she does a phenomenal job of highlighting what you have to offer, that's when those leads kind of turn in. So there are leads on that front end, but in regards to actual active, that would be a Jasmine question.

Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Thank you, Greg.

All right, thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council, for your continued support. You have a good evening.

ITEM 7.2 DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATION DISCUSSION PROVIDING AN OVERVIEW OF THE CITY OF SURMANTON'S CURRENT GRANT AWARDS, REIMBURSEMENTS AND ONGOING AND PENDING GRANT ACTIVITIES.

Good evening, council, mayor and council. Looks like I get to bore you with the grant stuff. Today's presentation is to go over all the grants and awards that we have been awarded in the past couple of years, as well as all the upcoming items, as well as all of the reimbursements that we have done. Before you is the grant awards reimbursements for Somerton PD as well as Public Works. Public Works is the biggest highlight due to the fact that they have the biggest awards and dollar figure throughout the years. We have Somerton Heights Phase 1 at $626,000, Phase 2 at $466,000. Both are fully completed and fully reimbursed. Phase three was awarded in 2025, and it has been started this fiscal year. The HUD water tank repair and Main Street redevelopment phase one, both awarded in 2024. The Main Street redevelopment has just started. Army Corps Corps wastewater treatment, Upgrades for software about 500,000 and eight Arizona State Parks per Coney field was 314,000. Those are both fully reimbursed State Army Corps of Engineers has just started this year. So therefore the reimbursement will be upcoming. And that's pretty, those are the highlights of the large items for public works. On the PD side, we have two DEMA awards, the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs grants. The big one is is for $1.2 million, was for $1.2 million, and another one for $270,000. Most of them are reimbursed. We have a small amount that did roll over to fiscal year 27, and that will be expended within the fiscal year 27. One is for equipment. It's around about $80,000, and the other is for salaries, which will be expended by the end of September, about $120,000, I believe it is. PD also has small community grounds, the Walmart, Walmart Spark Goods, that's shop with the cop. They also have the Arizona Opioid Settlements funding that we receive and pass through through the county and Arizona plates. Everything on this slide is pretty much fully reimbursed or is actively being drawn down and will be expended over the fiscal year 27. Going to this slide, it's Parks and Recreation, IT Department and Fire Department. Parks and Rec is, the highlight is the WACOG, Congregate Meal Service, the kitchen equipment for the senior center. The WACOG is an annual award and it comes every year we submit as far as an application. And then the senior kitchen equipment was reimbursed through the state as well. The smaller grants for Parks and Rec are Arizona Community Foundation, Campesinos Sin Fronteras, GYWSA Swim Scholarships, and those are all fully reimbursed. IT has an Arizona DOHS cyber grant program that has been awarded in the past few years. This is a non-monetary pass through. Basically, we have come into an agreement with the state in order to get a security cyber software for our city. This is a application that the state pays for and is currently funded through the state. So there's no funding awards, but to be known that if they do not have funding or if they do cut funding, it is the city's requirement to uphold that security software and budget for it as an operations expense. The fire has the ADEQ hazmat equipment, and then they also went out for the firehouse subs hose grant. These were both equipment only grants and were reimbursement. So no cash pass throughs is basically we went out and got the cost for the equipment. They told us where to go. We purchased the equipment. They sent us the equipment and they paid for it through the grants. This is an ongoing current grants. As I stated before, the Army Corps of Engineers, the wastewater award that's project has started this fiscal year. We have the demo rollover, the one that I had stated that is a salary and equipment. The CDBG community block grants, the phase three was awarded and is started. The HUD phase one redevelopment for the main street project has been started. The housing, the water tank repair under HUD, Department of Housing and Urban Development. This project originally was submitted for 2024. We did get awarded. The problem is, is the project tied to this funding system was already completed and was already paid for. Therefore, when we applied and got awarded, we could not ask for the reimbursements. So therefore, we're trying and along with Brandy, she is trying to work with HUD to try to get an evaluation to get another project, which is one of the phases for Somerton Heights because it falls in the same realm. of that type of project to get those fundings switched over. This has been, Randy has been on board for two years now and it's been a two year process due to the fact that we have to work with the federal agency in order to get the program reallocated. WACOG, the meals, again, that's an annually awarded. So that's an ongoing grant. And then of course the opioid settlement grants, this is a project based through the community, through Yuma County and it's settlement based. So there's no tied amount to these settlement amounts, whatever that they pay and however they've determined to pay as far as the national settlement. It goes through the county and then the county makes calculations and how it's dispersed throughout the entities that are doing this program. This is to basically highlight the submitted grants that are pending. We have for the Summerton PD, we have the state apportionments, which is equipment, which is patrol vehicles. This is for the federal fiscal year 2026. And then we have the Arizona state grant for the spade and neuter program. And this was for fiscal year 27. Public Works, we have a federal fiscal year 2026 state appropriations for State Avenue. Both are projects I know that you guys have been updated, but they seem to be running through funding and hopefully, cross our fingers, get a good outcome at the end. in order to get that awarded. Parks and Rec, we have an APS Community Impact Grants. The federal fiscal year, the state reports for the West Somerton Park Aquifer Recharge and Retention Project, which is the pond. And then state parks, pericone, multi-use ADA seating. So these are all pending items and we've submitted and they're moving forward. Future funding opportunities and future projects. Again, these dates are tentative and they're always subject to change due to grant funding cycles and availability. And of course, any type of federal agency, if they have any issues on the federal and budgetary systems can be all the dates can be all tentative and subject to change. CDBG grants open January 2027. CDBG is an allocation and it comes every other year to the city of Somerton. So this is an application process, but it is an appropriation in a sense to, we will be guaranteed to get it. It's not competitive, but it is every other year. And currently it is dedicated to our Somerton Heights Waterline project, CDBG SSP application. This application is being worked on currently and it will be submitted prior to the due date of November 2026. Again, this is a competitive grant. So this can be applied every year and can be applied to shovel ready projects that consist under the CDBG stipulations and scope of work. So we will be submitting another phase of the Somerton Heights through that SSP application. And again, it is a competitive project and it is about a $750,000 cap. Arizona State Parks and Trail, the cycle's open and continuously open. The key here on all of these future funding opportunities is to have shovel ready projects. And that's what we as staff are trying to focus on to get shovel ready projects so that we can start submitting a lot of these funding agencies so that we can move projects forward. State appropriations applications open in March, 2027. And then the shovel-ready projects that we do have right now are Somerton Heights phase four and five, shared use pathway funding, Main Street redevelopment phase two, and then the future water treatment plant are the upcoming projects. Only one of those under the future projects are shovel-ready. And that is the phase four and five of the summer 10 heights, I know pathways are there almost they're probably 90% there. And then the main street redevelopment base to and feature water treatment plan are still in the development phase of trying to get those shovel ready. This is just to highlight overall for Summerton Public Works awarded grants, the total funding, grant funding is 3 million, 3.7 million, and the total local funding used for that 3.7 million is 2.1 million. Those projects are the water tank repair, the Summerton Heights phase one through three, Main Street redevelopment phase one, the Army Corps, the wastewater treatment software, and the Arizona State Parks, the Paracoin Corps. And here are some photos of that grant work, giving you the Arizona State Park, the Pericone Parks. Here's the CDBG Somerton Heights, the phase one. And here is the grants photos for Somerton Heights phase two. And what this project is doing is repairing the asbestos lines. And this has been an ongoing project for several years now. I missed a little bit of phase three. And this is the one that's in progress and is hopefully to be completed by the end of the calendar year. Somerton Parks and Rec grant funding is 194,000 with zero local funds. So everything that they've received is totally reimbursed. And it's the APS grants for special events, the pitch in grants for some baseball equipment, City of Somerton GYWSAs for swim scholarships, the Walmart grants for special events. Again, the WACOG congregate meal, arizona community foundation for the scoreboard and the campesinos for the youth summer camp and here's some grand photos of the senior center for the new equipment for the kitchen equipment somerton police department the total grant funding is 1.6 million with zero local funding it's dima for DEMA grants, equipment, personnel vehicles. We have DEMA grants for some of the detectives' salaries, some of the vehicles that were purchased and some of the equipment that they're now using currently. Walmart Spark Good is Shop with the Cop. Arizona DOHS is Stone Garden. We did not apply for Stone Garden this year due to personnel issues, but that is still on board and we have been awarded in the past. Arizona GOHAS is the breast test device. And then, of course, the plate, Arizona plate for the spay and neuter. And then the opioid funds and the border-related crimes for the Arizona DPS. There's some photos of the new dispatch center, the new vehicle, the trikes, as well as shop with the cops. Arizona, I mean, excuse me, Somerton Fire Department, the total grants is 19,358. That was EDQ hazmat equipment and then the firehouse subgrants. That equipment is already being utilized. Overall, that is pretty much the presentation of where we stand right now. Again, I really, really want to express that it is really important that we move forward as far as this fiscal year to get some shovel-ready projects so that we can start implementing and going out for a lot of these funding agencies in order to help the city grow in infrastructure, grow in other areas that we need. Any questions?

Any questions or comments?

Mayor, if I may?

Go ahead.

Yeah, this is just really a comment because quite honestly, we hired a grants writer a couple of years ago. And so all I see is the ongoing same grants that we've always RECEIVED FOR MANY YEARS EVEN PRIOR TO ACTUALLY HIRING SOMEBODY TO LOOK INTO THE POSSIBILITY OF NEW GRANTS. I HOPE THAT TODAY'S PRESENTATION ALSO SERVES AS A WAKE-UP CALL THAT WE NEED TO START LOOKING FOR DIFFERENT TYPE OF GRANTS.

FOR EXAMPLE, USDA HAS A COMMUNITY FACILITIES GRANT.

THEY PROVIDE THAT GRANT TO RURAL TOWNS AND CITIES UNDER 20,000. I MEAN, IT COULD BE USED IN PUBLIC SAFETY FOR VEHICLES, TRUCKS, DIFFERENT TYPE OF STUFF. SO IT IS IMPRESSIVE THAT WE ARE GETTING THIS GRANT FUNDING, BUT IT'S NOTHING NEW, ESPECIALLY WITH PARKS AND RECS. 198,000 IN GRANTS, BUT THE MAJORITY OF IT COMES FROM WAKE HOG. so i think and it's not a knock on parks and rec i'm just using them as an example overall that grant writer has to step up his step up its game and uh and start looking for additional resources not relying on the same resources that that we've had year in and year out councilman

Thank you for your presentation. I noticed that there was a lot of 2021, 2023, 2022 amounts and information that you gave us. Are those funds on a yearly basis or you're just showing us how much money we got in 2021 and you're barely using it? Or I'm not understanding why, what was the purpose of you telling me that in 2022, DEMA gave us 207,000.

Due to the fact that that's still an open grant. Okay. This, from my understanding, is the first grant presentation you have received going forward. So it was a matter of, We had hired previously to our grant writer that we have on staff now, we had hired an outside source that was just a grant writer. You had the departments administering these grants, therefore they were not only doing their job duties, but also trying to manage a grant. So therefore, some of these grants sat for a few years or weren't reconciled completely, weren't reimbursed 100%. That is one of the reasons why our HUD issue, yeah, we had a grant writer to do that. The problem is, is they, put in for this grant that we were already doing the project and we can't do that and they don't reimburse already started projects and going back to as far as what i had stated at the end of the presentation as far as having shovel ready there are plenty of funding sources as councilman via pando had stated um the problem with our issue is right now we do not have shovel ready projects right And so that's what we are trying to move forward with the previous years of having a grant writer. I'm sure the grant writer was paid to grant write, but had the same issue of shovel ready projects. So we really need to focus and hone in on priorities as far as moving forward with what projects that we wanna do and what is out there. Because yes, there are funding sources everywhere. Brandy gets those funding sources all the time, all the notices. Louie gets the notices all the time. But if we do not have projects that are ready and that fall within those scopes of funding sources, we can't move forward.

And is this a direction that department heads have as far as having projects shovel ready? Is this indicated in this year's budget that we are gearing towards that?

Mayor, one of the things that we're working with department directors is a five-year plan that we wanna bring to you this year so that those things are being in place. But yes, we're doing, for example, pathways. We need right-of-ways before we can finalize. So we're working with that. for the pond and some of the other projects again right away. So we're trying to get all those ready to be able to put a shovel ready project together. So yes, we are working with the department directors. That is one thing that planning is what we're trying to focus on and identifying and bringing that back to you and identifying those projects. One of the things, if I may, Mayor, that I want Shona to do a quick overview is what the grant writer and some of these grants, what it entails that they need to do. So if you could go over that, especially for the government ones and the federal ones.

Sure. So a lot of these government agencies, especially the federal ones, have portals. And these portals have to be set up. which can take anywhere from a week to months to get set up due to the fact of the information that goes back and forth from the agency's assigned person. And that's if we keep the assigned person throughout the whole process. The government shutdown last year didn't help some of these processes because we had a person that we had contacted and it took, You know, five days for them to get back and then they started the process and then all of a sudden months without anything and then. When we find out that that person doesn't even work there anymore and we're we're starting over again all to explain the whole thing. One of these portals like I stated takes anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to upload. to read through to make sure that you have all of the ins and outs. Some of them require environmental reviews and then they go back to engineers so that they have to approve and we have to wait for the approval process on that. Reconciliation, as I stated earlier, reconciliation hasn't been done prior. So coming in on this, in particular in this DEMA grant, and the captain has been the sole source of grant administration for the police department prior to Brandy. When Brandy came in, she had to come in, learn the process of what he was doing, helping him through understanding the financial process of the administration part of it. So what we hired is not only a grant writer, we hired a grant writer on top of a grant administrator. AND A GOOD PORTION OF HER JOB RIGHT NOW IS GRANT ADMINISTRATING DUE TO THE FACT THAT WE DO NOT HAVE SHOVEL READY PROJECTS TO GO FORWARD WITH THE GRANTS.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?

MAYOR, IF I MAY.

VICE MAYOR AND THEN COUNCILMAN BIENFONDO.

THANK YOU.

Sean, I was just going to say thank you very much for the presentation. I do appreciate how you have the dollar signs, the total grants funded, and then the local funds, because I think it does put some perspective on where we'd be if we don't have those funds. You know, funding is always going to be limited here with us. And so I really liked how you set that up for us. It's really... AN EYE OPENER. I AGREE WITH YOU WHEN YOU SAID THE SHOW READY PROJECTS. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE AS COUNCIL WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE READY SO WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE, FULL ADVANTAGE OF OUR GRANT WRITER AND NEXUS AND EVERYONE THAT WE HAVE to get the ball rolling on some of these items. I mean, I'm just thinking about a couple months ago when I think we tabled or something for it to be shoveled ready because of the conceptual plan. And I know it was expensive, but I mean, if we wanna see results, we gotta make sure that everything is ready. And I'm hoping that this right here is a real eye-opener for all of us to, hey, I know we have to spend and we're limited on funding, but without that spending, we won't have those opportunities.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. ONE THING THAT I THERE'S ONE THING HAVING PROJECTS SHOVEL READY AND ANOTHER THING IS MAKING SURE THAT THE PROJECTS THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE SHOVEL READY MAY QUALIFY FOR FUNDING. CASE IN POINT WAS THE HIRING OF A CONSULTANT FOR YMPO. Does anybody have an update on what happened or what's going on with that consultant that we had hired to identify possible projects that may qualify for YMPO funding?

Mayor, if I may? Yes. So we did have the consultant, he did provide information for the various grants, the scope of works, and this is for the pathways, one of the things that was identified, and also for the bridge. all the information, some of the information he was requesting from us to be able to get. So we're trying to finalize those with the information that we need to provide to get those shovel ready. The bridge project, we got the pathway. So it wasn't as fully set as we expected, but we are finishing off those.

Well, yeah, because as this started, if memory serves me right, it was like late part of last year, somewhere around November, December. And here we are eight months into the year, and we still haven't provided the information. in order for him to really get moving on these projects?

No, I guess let me clarify, Councilor Villalpando. He had a family item come up and he did not get back to us for about, correct me if I'm wrong, about three or four months. four months. So he didn't get back till about April, May. We missed the window there. And so we just finished off with him. I wanna say it was July about that. So now we've completed his portion. Now we're moving forward with, and we're fortunate our new community development director is coming from the YMPO is gonna help us identify those things and help move those projects forward. There's about... four or five pathways and the bridge that we're looking at to be submitting for funding for YMPO. And also Mr. Villegas has also provided us additional information on other funding sources. So we'll be putting that together and working on submitting that. And I believe it was November or correct me if I'm wrong. I'm trying to remember the different dates.

Yes, it is November.

sometime in November to be submitting for those fundings.

But again, the project is still not shovel ready at this point in time.

We're finishing off the numbers needed.

Any other questions or comments? One asks, what's the process of identifying grants? Are the directors tasked with it, or is it the grant administrator?

It's kind of priority-based. Again, it goes back to, yes, the directors are. directed to look for funding or find a project. But again, it goes back to the priority of the project. As Louie had stated that we are trying to get a five year plan so that everybody knows what they're doing in the next five years so that we can all be on one page and move forward. And of course, coming back to council and making sure that that is the direction of council as far as the priorities of those projects. So once the director identifies that they have a sheet to fill out as far as, you know, what, why, when, where, how, and how much it you know, how much they think it costs to do kind of that realm of their, and then they submit it to us in finance as far as the grants writer. And then we work together in order to move the process forward because any grant application can only be done by a grant writer because they don't do the ins and outs of the daily projects within the department. So it has to be coordinated process between the director and the grant writer in order to move that forward. Thank you.

Any other questions or comments? So hopefully by next year, we have more shovel ready and we understand what. going on but yeah I see here my question was because there's some departments that I would think that there's funding out there and compared to others that we that we know like where the federal grants are at and and and there's some that you know so so it probably it lies under the department director maybe to identify funding and go to the grants administrator and And when we've hired directors, that's been one of the things that we look at as far as, you know, experience with grants and all that. So hopefully directors are pulling their weight and helping the grants because, yeah, we only have one person.

And yeah, some grants are very- And it is, like I said, it is a coordinated effort. The good thing is we have a process that we can move forward with. The minor setback is we are already behind. So some of these items that we are trying to get funding for are a need basis, not a want basis. So-

And just looking at this, I think directors can see the difference in numbers and the ones that need to step up and without signaling individuals, but we can see who's actually looking out for opportunities.

Any other questions or comments?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Moving on to new business discussion, item 8.1, discussion of possible action to approve resolution number 2026-012.

Good evening, Mayor and Council Members, Fernando Villegas, Community Development Director. Senate Bill 1529 requires municipalities to establish a standard pre-approved plans for single family dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, and accessory dwelling units. The resolution will allow the city manager to sign a intergovernmental agreement with the city of Yuma to develop a set of pre-approved plans as required by Senate Bill 1529. Senate Bill 1529 requires three different options for pre-approved housing plans for each type of building. For example, for single family dwellings, three pre-approved plans that range in size from 800 square feet to 2,000 square feet. And each plan needs to have three different elevations. For a duplex or a triplex, again, three pre-approved plans that range in size 400 square feet to 1,000 square feet per unit. And accessory dwelling units, 80 use. Another set, three pre-approved plans, size 200 square feet, 600 square feet, or 1,000 square feet. The pre-approved plans will be available for construction to property owners or contractors All they need is a site plan for us to issue the building permit, and the permit fees will remain the same. All the municipalities in Yuma County are participating. The cost is based on population, and the City of Somerton contribution is $10,518.20. DECIDES ON THE AGENDA TODAY FOR APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION 2026-012, APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF YUMA FOR THE USE OF PREAPPROVED RESIDENTIAL STANDARD PLANS AS REQUIRED BY SENATE BILL 1529. ANY QUESTIONS FOR STAFF?

ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? IS THERE A MOTION?

SO MOVED, MAYOR.

Motion by Councilman Delgadillo.

Councilman Roldan, second.

Second by Councilman Roldan. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Move to item 8.2, discussion of possible action to approve resolution number 2036-016.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. The resolution before you updates the city authorized officer agents on file with the Arizona State Treasurer's Office for the local government investment pool, the LGIP. The last resolution authorizing the signers was back in 2011 and was adopted in 2011. So there's a major need of updates. This resolution has not been looked at since then, so. Staff is requesting an approval to name city manager Louis Galaviz and finance director Chona Medell as acting as the authorized officer and agent for the city of Somerton.

Any questions or comments? A motion? So motion by Councilman Delgadillo. Second. Second by Vice Mayor Castillo. All those in favor? All right. The opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. We're going to see this third item after the executive session, but we're going to go to summary of current events first.

Mayor, we have Rosanna Douglas, public works director.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Members. Rosanna Douglas, Public Works Director. First thing I have for you is the Main Street redevelopment. They're currently working on curbs, expecting to pour Thursday and Friday. State Avenue curb, the Del Sol West parking lot is expected to be completed by Friday as well. APS and our contractors have been working on the conduit in that areas, what was posted on the social media last week. Roadway grading will begin next week, followed by paving. also i didn't have it on your um email but the compaction testing are done are going to be done this week for the abc and next week for the actual roadway so we'll have those for you as well somerton heights phase three completed the installation of the six inch pbc water line on federal avenue with all tests passing successfully this was part of the projects that chona had discussed in regards to replacing the asbestos line contractors are in the process of removing and replacing two manholes currently The next project I have is County 17 Pathway from Orange Avenue to Cesar Chavez Avenue begins tomorrow with staking the required elevations. This project will run for 30 days and expected to be completed by October 15th. We are currently in the process of requesting proposals for the Main Street parking lot design. This project is to extend on-street parking for Main Street west from Carlisle Avenue to Congress Avenue. Also, head works channel improvements at the wastewater treatment plant. And we are currently working on surveying the north area of the water treatment plant in preparation of submitting an RFP for the block wall design. Also, I'm finalizing RFPs for the crosswalk assessments in, sorry, in Carrie Mullen writing. and street pavement preservation for a five-year plan. And that will prioritize which streets are gonna be worked on for the next five years. So that is all I have, thank you.

Next we have James Jones, Parks and Rec Director.

Good evening again, James Jones, Parks and Rec Director. I have three things. The art festival will be October 1st at Council Park from five to eight. Currently our recreation programs, we have a softball academy going. We didn't get enough participants for the league. So we went to a softball academy and we have currently have signups for T-ball and youth soccer. And then I also want to announce that we are, the park staff is doing their annual receipt for the winter rye. We are starting at Pericone and we'll slowly work through the parks to make sure that we always have a park available for our residents, whether it's ball field or council park in Pericone. We'll be flipped off and we'll start with the retentions also. Thank you.

Next, we have Chief Fernandez, right upon.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, VICE MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. LAST FRIDAY WE CELEBRATED THE SEPTEMBER 11 CEREMONY CELEBRATING THE 25-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRAGEDY. I JUST WANT TO THANK THE STATE OF SOMERTON COUNCIL MEMBERS, COCOA POWER TRIBAL MEMBERS THAT ATTENDED THE CEREMONY. I THINK IT HAS BEEN THE BEST ONE SO FAR THAT WE HAD OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS. AND THANKS FOR STAFF THAT HELPED US SET UP EVERYTHING. and also community members that attended. And also wanted to inform you that we're gonna be starting the co-op program with the Somerton High School. We're gonna be taking three students. They're required to do 40 hours of volunteer work within the fire department. They're gonna be competing against the other high schools in Yuma County. This is the first time that we're doing this program The program has been in existence for years. I myself was a co-op back in 97 when I attended high school. So we're really excited. Once we select, they're going through the process right now of applying through HR. Once we select them and hopefully in the future, we can bring them in here for you guys to introduce the students. So that's something that we're looking forward.

Thank you.

Mayor, that's all we have. Councilman Villalpando.

I don't have anything mayor, thank you.

Councilman Roldan. I don't have nothing mayor, thank you. Councilman Galindo. I don't have anything mayor, thank you. Councilman Gonzalez.

Just want to thank the chief and PD and their staff for the September 11 It was very well attended, like Chief says. It's always nice to be able to see all our staff, your staff, attend and be able to thank them in person for all they do. It was a very good ceremony, thank you.

You too attended the September 11th. Thank you so much for the invitation. It was an honor to be there and just participate. Thank you. I also attended the DCC September event held by Loconsulago yesterday. It was really, I think it had been once years ago, but it was great to participate in there too. So thank you. That's all I have.

Vice Mayor? I have nothing, ma'am. I attended the D.C. September yesterday, and I want to thank staff. We had a booth, so we're promoting our city. So thank you. And that's all I have. Is there a motion to go into executive session?

I make a motion to go into executive session.

It's a motion by Councilman Castillo. Second by Councilman Delgadillo. All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Motion carries. So we're going to take a five-minute break and then go into executive session.

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I'll go talk to the business.

Okay.

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Is there a motion to reconvene into regular council meeting?

So moved.

Second. Motion by Councilman Delgadillo, second by Councilman Castillo. We're going to revisit item 88.3.

I make a motion to allow... To table.

To table the item. So motion by Vice Mayor Castillo.

Second.

Second by Councilwoman Delgadillo. All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Motion carries. My bad.

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