The meeting covered a Parks and Recreation presentation, public comments on infrastructure and code enforcement, a consent agenda, a discussion on transferring ADA minivans for WeRide services, a public hearing on rezoning for a fire station, and a judicial advisory board recommendation for reappointment of the presiding judge.
Thank you for your interest in the Avondale City Council meeting. I'd like to call the regular meeting of Monday, July 1st, 2024 to order. Would you all please stand for a pledge of allegiance? And I would ask you to keep in your thoughts and prayers all those who are going to be affected by hurricanes in the next week. I pledge allegiance to the fly of the United States of America. Thank you, everyone. Marcel, just to confirm, we're gonna be doing the voice hold spine again. That is correct, Mayor. And it sounds like we've added some new speakers or something because my voice sounds booming right now. Booming. Marcella, item number one. Roll call, please. Councilmember Condi. Here. Councilmember Malone. Here. Councilmember Nielsen. Councilmember Solario. Here. Councilmember White. Here. Vice Mayor Panetta. Here. Mayor Weiss. Here. Ron, item number two, please. Thank you, Mr. Mayor Council. We are going to have a presentation by Stacy, our recreation supervisor with Parks and Rec. Corey did want to for me to send his condolences or to sadness. He got promoted, so he doesn't think he has to attend these anymore or something like that. No, no. I told him I was going to poke him while I was here, but he uh has a pre-planned vacation, so he does he is very sad he uh doesn't get to be here tonight. But Stacy will do a fantastic job. Hello, assistant director, how are you? You got jokes. Mayor, vice mayor, council, good evening. I am here to celebrate National Parks and Recreation Parks and Rec month. Um but before we hop into that, we're gonna start with our parks and recreation updates. We're gonna give a little bit about what we've been doing with recreation um since January. First off, we're gonna go into an events recap. So the last time I was standing in front of you, I was kind of just recapping all the events that we have had thus far. Um and this one is a little bit more stats-driven. So you'll see here for each of the events, you'll see the participants that we had, the survey ratings, and then the surveys that we did receive. So we started off the year with Trace Rios in February, and we had about 10,800 participants with a survey rating of 4.9 out of five. We then had our family camp out in March with 226 participants that were registered and attended the event at a 4.7 out of 5 star rating. Hoot and Hustle was our partnership with Agua Fria High School, and that was the run on Western. We had 167 runners for that event, which that was our first time doing it, so that's a great number. And we had a 4.6 out of five star rating. And then we hopped on into our extravaganza, and we took um we had three days in March that we did this at three different locations, and we had about two thousand people participate, and we had a three out of five star rating for that one.