Note: The meeting transcript begins with a call to order for October 6, 2025, but the official meeting date provided is October 15, 2025. This summary uses the latter date as instructed.
The meeting included proclamations for Community Planning Month, Fire Prevention Week, Code Compliance Month, and Domestic Violence Awareness Month, along with the presentation of Property All-Star Curb Appeal Awards. The council held a public hearing on proposed land use assumptions and infrastructure improvement plan for wastewater development fees, and received a capital improvement program update on transportation projects. Two members of the public addressed the council.
I would like to call to order the regular city council meeting of October 6, 2025. Would you please all stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God with liberty and justice for all the thank you. Marcella, can we have roll call, please? Councilmember Condi. Here. Councilmember Garcia. Here. Councilmember Solario. Councilmember Weiss. Here. Councilmember White. Present. Vice Mayor Nielsen. Here. Mayor Peneva. Here. Thank you. Ron, next item, please. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council. Up first is Jody Novak, our Development Services Director to present uh the proclamation for Community Planning Month. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members. Uh National Community Planning Month has been around for many years and it celebrates the city planning profession, its importance to growing cities and managing the pattern of development, as you see all the growth and development happening within our own community of Avondale. I want to say a congratulations to our planning division team for the professional management of the development projects that you see coming to fruition. Josh, Cole, Monica, Martin, and Zach, our planning division manager who's our Deputy Director of Planning, Catherine can't be here this evening. And also a congratulations to our chairman of our planning commission, Larry White, and our Vice Chairman Alex McBurney, who are here as well standing behind me. And as uh we go forward and celebrating all the great things going on as we build Avondale, um, I will turn this over to Councilmember Conde to read the proclamation. Thank you. Thank you, Jodie. The proclamation for community planning month, whereas change is constant and affects all cities, towns, suburbs, counties, rural areas, and other places, and whereas planners can help navigate this change with data-driven insight and expertise that provide better choices for how people work and live. And whereas community planning provides an opportunity for all residents to be meaningful, involved in making choices that determine the future of their community, and whereas the full benefits of planning require public elected and appointed officials who understand support and demand excellence in planning and plan implementation, and whereas the American Planning Association endorses National Community Planning Month as an opportunity to highlight how planning is essential to every community and how planners are uniquely positioned to identify solutions to communities' most difficult housing, transportation, and land use questions. And whereas the celebration of National Community Planning Month gives us the opportunity to publicly recognize the participation and dedication of appointed planning commission members who have contributed their time and expertise to the improvement of the City of Avondale. And whereas we recognize the many valuable contributions made by the local government planning and development professionals of the City of Avondale and extend our heartfelt thanks to the continued commitment to public service by these professionals. Now, therefore, on behalf of the Avondale City Council, the City of Avondale, Arizona, hereby proclaims the month of October 2025 as community planning month in conjunction with the celebration of National Community Planning Month. Thank you so much to your team. And again, as you mentioned earlier, it's uh economic development that residents typically see as things start to erect out of the ground. Um, but there is such a uh an important role that is played behind the scenes often through your department uh that allows for our ideas and for economics economic development's ideas to actually come to fruition. So thank you for the important role you all play in our city, and more importantly, thank you to all of you for being a part of Avondale. We really appreciate you. Thank you so much. Ron, next item. Thank you. And really quickly, will we be taking photos with all of yes? If we could, if people could stick around uh after we finish the uh proclamations, we will um take pictures uh for council and the group being recognized. Thank you. Thank you. Up next, Mr. Mayor and Council is uh the proclamation for fire prevention week going to be presented by Fire Chief Larry Rooney.