Note: The meeting date is provided as 2025-10-15, but the transcript references the "2024 Citizens Leadership Academy" and events occurring in September–December 2024 (e.g., academy starting September 25, 2024). This discrepancy is noted; the summary below uses the given date but reflects the content as presented.
The meeting included employee recognitions, the swearing-in of new staff, recognition of outgoing board and commission members, a presentation on the 2024 Citizens Leadership Academy graduates, and approval of the consent agenda with one item pulled for discussion (Item 4C regarding ARPA-funded affordable housing). The meeting adjourned to executive session.
Thank you. Marcella, if you wouldn't mind doing roll call, please. Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Condi. Councilmember Garcia. Here. Councilmember Solario. Councilmember Malone. Councilmember White. Here. Mayor Pineda. Here. And Vice Mayor Nielsen has an excused absence tonight. Thank you. Ron, next item, please. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Do something abnormal. Actually, Chief Man and Mayor Council up next is the uh on the agenda is uh employee announcements. And there's a little side note that I think uh I hope uh some people missed. Um but uh once in a while I get the privilege of recognizing outstanding work by one of my employees, one of my uh uh great co-workers, one of the people that I'm very happy to have in my office. So uh the uh county attorney, Maricopa County Attorney's Office sent us a letter of appreciation in recognition of some things that uh uh deputy city manager Nanagay had done. So if if uh you don't mind mayor, I'd like to read the letter. Of course, please do. So mister Mr. Corbin, I'd like to express my sincere appreciation for Deputy City Manager Dell Nanagay's invaluable assistance to Lieutenant John Dorsey of the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. Lieutenant Dorsey works for me in our investigation division, has been tasked with developing a comprehensive records management system for our division. During the process, he partnered with ASU through the Capstone Project and is working with several computer engineering students to develop a system. They are also researching different systems to get an idea of how modeling systems function. Lieutenant Dorsey contacted Mr. Nanegay during the process, who he knew from Tempe PD and asked to review Avondel PD's Spillman Records Writing System. Mr. Nanagay graciously agreed and met Lieutenant Dorsey and the student on October 23rd in your civic center, even though this was Mr. Nanagay's scheduled day off. He did an outstanding job for presenting your Spillman system, patiently answering everyone's question, and provided his contact information in case of case of future questions. Deputy City Manager Del Nanagay is a model of professionalism, and the students spoke very positively about his expertise and consideration. We could not be more impressed with the leadership, competence, and courtesy of your organization. Please contact me at the Maricopa's County's office if we can ever be assistance to you and your organization, best regards. So I just wanted to recognize uh Dell for his professionalism and outstanding work he does. Without telling anyone, without asking, without um any fanfare. I thought maybe it's time to provide a little fanfare for Dell. So Dale, thank you. Thank you. All right, next up I'm gonna turn it over to um oh, my office, uh Anisa. Hello, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members. Um I have the honor of introducing our new management analyst, Whitney Castro today. Uh Whitney Castro was born and raised in Yuma, Arizona. She lived in Springfield, Illinois for a couple years and has been back in Arizona for nine years. Uh prior to being at the city, she worked at Bunger Still, local metal building manufacturer as a marketing manager for eight years. Uh she has a 12-year-old son who loves play uh playing competitive flag football and has two dogs.