The Avondale City Council held a regular meeting on October 15, 2025, that featured employee introductions, award recognitions, a proclamation for National Public Works Week, the graduation of 14 residents from the Citizens Water Academy, a presentation by Read Better Be Better on civic leadership, and a discussion and vote on a second amendment to an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) with Maricopa County for homeless services. The meeting also included updates on heat relief efforts and councilmember reports on community events.
City Council meeting. At this time, I'd like to call to order the regular city council meeting of May 19, 2025. Would you all please join me with a Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence? Under the feature and Justice Earl. Thank you. Chris, if you could do a roll call. Councilmember Condi. Here. Councilmember Garcia. Here. Councilmember Solorio. Councilmember White. Here. Vice Mayor Nielsen. Here. Mayor Pineta. Here. And Councilmember Weiss has an excused absence tonight. Yes, thank you. Ron, next item, please. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Up uh next is we have our employee announcements. I believe we're going to start with the judge. Here he comes. We say all rise. Thank you, Ron. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members. Uh Brill and I are honored to be here today with two of our newest employees. As you know, we don't have too many vacancies at the court, or very often do we have vacancies at the court. Uh, but we had a promotion recently, and then someone did leave, so we had uh two new hires. First, I want to interview or excuse me, introduce Gregory Leppert. Uh Greg started with us on April 14th, uh, so been there a little over a month now. He came from the post office uh where he had been there for a few years. And then Joanna Malon Romero uh joined us the week later on April 21st, and she came from the Tallison Police Department where she was a dispatcher. Both of them have told me multiple times they're in better positions now. So well, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for joining the Avondale team, and tonight we have so many folks coming tonight. Usually we have you say something or unless there's something that you'd like to share, get off your chest. We'd love to hear. Okay, well, thank you again for being here, and I'm glad to hear that the positions have been filled. Thank you so much. Mr. Mayor and Council, up next we'll have uh Jodi, our director of development services, present her new employees. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council. Um, I have two new employees I'd like to introduce to you this evening. Um, Carrie Schrove. She is our new building permit technician, too, that serves in our front counter permanent center with our permit technician team. She had worked with City of Avondale for a little bit as a contractor, helping us during our transition as we were filling positions and managing workload. She previously worked with a firm that we consult with called Shun Scota, but she was very excited to work in public government.