The Avondale City Council met on October 15, 2025, to introduce new employees, recognize a professional achievement, proclaim National Police Canine Day, hear a public comment, and discuss the Family Bridge Housing program. The meeting included a vote on budget transfers for the housing project.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and public for which you stands one nation under God and visible with liberty and justice for a moral thank you. Marcella, can we do roll call, please? Councilmember Condi. Here. Councilmember Garcia. Here. Councilmember Solario. Councilmember Weiss. Here. Councilmember White. Present. Vice Mayor Nielsen. Here. Mayor Panena. Here. Thank you so much. Ron, next item, please. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council. First, we're going to have our employee presentations and announcements. First up will be Anisa from our own office for our senior management analyst who is going to introduce one of our interns. Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Councilmembers. I'm excited to introduce tonight Basil Bayes Ribba Carey. He's our newest Marvin Andrews, Jean Morris Fellow with the city. Bayes is in the second year of his master's public administration program at Arizona State University with a concentration in public finance. He is a double devil with a bachelor's in psychology from ASU. During his undergraduate years, Bayes was able to engage with the community through uh his service with several nonprofit organizations, including Seed Philanthropy and the Assistance League of Phoenix, building his commitment to public service. Most recently, Bayes served as a management intern for the Center of Urban Innovation at ESU and is also a budget and finance intern at Meracopa County. So we're very excited to have these join us this year. Bayes, welcome aboard, and thank you for joining Avondale. Is there anything that you've uh encountered while you've been here this short time that you'd like to share? Yes, and it's been a uh amazing team, and that's been the best part. Will you join a uh a heck of a group? I don't know if it's uh would it be a fraternity or what a cohort uh what I don't know how to to define it, but I hear nothing but great thing uh things about uh the fellows and how you still stay connected even after uh you you know put your time into wherever you're being hosted, and so thank you for joining us and we appreciate you. Thank you. Mr. Mayor Council up next we have our engineering department, uh Kim Moon, your engineering director, your city engineer, uh, to make a uh new employee introduction. Hi, good evening, Mayor Vice Mayor and Council. I'm excited to introduce and welcome Eric Carrosco, who has joined our team as an associate engineer. His first day of work was last week on Monday, August 18th. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Northern Arizona University, and he actually just received his engineering and training certificate and designation, so congratulations on that. He brings a diverse range of experience, including work in SRP electric plan design, cell tower infrastructure, geotechnical field testing, and construction inspection. In addition to his engineering background, he also has experience as a high school science teacher. Eric will be doing civil engineering plan review for Liz Kahn. We've got Liz in the back with us, as we often do in his workstation is near Viennet, Raoul and Carlos. So if you get a chance, please be sure to stop by and say hello. Welcome aboard, Eric. Uh, you were a former uh teacher. So tell me how does that correlate with this new position? How can you use the the tools if you will?