I'd like to call the regular meeting of Monday, August 26th to order.

Would you all please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and a Moment of Reflection?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice wrong.

Thank you, everyone.

Marcella, do you mind doing roll call, please?

Councilmember Conde.

Here.

Councilmember Malone.

Here.

Councilmember Nielsen.

Here.

Councilmember Solario.

Councilmember White.

Here.

Vice Mayor Paneda.

Here.

Mayor Weiss.

Here.

Ron, item number well.

Mr.

City Manager, item number two, please.

Thank you, Ms.

Mayor.

Council.

I get the uh honor, the privilege of introducing our first new employee tonight.

I think most of you have met her by now, but we have Katie Gregory.

She has joined the City of Avondale as our newest assistant city manager.

She comes to us with more than uh three decades in local.

I didn't write this, by the way.

I would never put those numbers in there.

Um but it was written, so I'm reading it.

Uh and 10 years of executive level management.

Katie's background includes strategic planning, public finance, economic and community development, and general administrative services.

She began her career as a parks and recreation professional and has maintained her passion for connecting with the community, improving the quality of life.

Katie has a master's in public administration from ASU?

Yay, yay, ASU.

And has spent most of our last 25 years serving the West Valley in the cities of Glendale and Peoria.

Her innovative approach to problem solving and her commitment to excellence have consistently driven positive outcomes in the community she has served, making her an invaluable addition to the city's leadership team.

Katie is married to Mike, a retired parks and recreation professional, and has three children.

I love this part.

Embracing their independence and walking slowly into adulthood.

I don't know a single teenager who walks slowly into adulthood, but I love it.

Um she spends most of her downtime driving her kids to and fro sporting events and school events or hanging out at home with the three pups, Orville, Wilbur, and Amelia Earhart.

Katie.

Thank you, Ron.

And I just want to say my interview process, I actually forgot one of my children.

So I'm very happy that this here actually has all three of my kids in there.

I would they ask me which one I would actually get rid of, and I I don't know.

But um I have an idea, but I don't know.

Um I'm very excited to be here.

Um council, I'm I'm very pleased to have been selected uh to be here with Avondale.

I am looking forward to a great opportunity.

I see this this community as something that is just right on the verge of a lot of greatness.

Um, and I'm here to help with that, steer it in whatever direction council um asks us to go, and I'm very excited to um work with this amazing uh group of staff that I've had the pleasure of meeting with over the last month.

So thank you and um look forward to talking with you as we go on.

Did you want to share something more with us?

I'm not gonna share that, Mayor, and it's not true.

If anybody has a question, just ask me later on, I'll tell you all about it.

Um two good reasons not to share.

You've been with us now for how long?

A month?

A little bit longer, six weeks?

Um, I think as you found out or you've learned over the last month, this is probably much different than the other cities that you've worked for and worked with.

So we're excited to have you here.

You know, um Jirlene had been with us for a long time.

Shirlene is an incredible woman, incredible leader, and uh we have no doubt that uh you'll fit right into this family.

So thank you for being here.

Thank you for accepting the job.

Thank you.

I appreciate that, Mayor.

And I will not share it with anyone, I promise.

It's nothing bad, folks.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Up next is our presiding judge Craig Jennings and our court administrator Brill Ruiz Ortega to introduce the next group of reports.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council.

I'm honored to be here tonight with a brill and Shree didn't come down.

Shri, one of our supervisors is also here.

But we have two new court employees, um, both court clerk ones.

Uh we don't uh have vacancies very often at the court, you may know.

Uh, but these were created one because of the new employee that we were uh granted by the city council to run the uh photo enforcement program.

They had created one of these two vacancies, and then we had somebody that was with us for a while who had her first child and decided to stay home with the child.

So we can't blame her for that.

But first I want to introduce Andrea Sanchez, not Andrea, Andrea.

Okay.

Sanchez, she uh joins us, she joined us on July 22nd of this year.

And then also we have Juliana Ramirez who joined us two weeks later on August 5th of this year.

Ladies, Vice Mayor, Council members.

Thank you for having me.

And I'm really excited to be here.

So where did you come from?

I came from Independence High School.

I'm not a student.

I worked.

Thanks for clarifying.

Okay, yes, I came from uh working at a high school as an attendance assistant.

Okay, perfect.

Yeah.

We're glad you're here.

Thank you.

Tell us about you.

Um basically in the same boat as her.

I came from Imagine uh uh Avondale down the streets, and I was also a paraprofessional in the special education department.

So we're so glad you're here.

You've got a great team you're working with.

Yes, yes, I do.

So thank you for the opportunity, and I'm excited to grow with in the city as well.

Enjoy.

Thanks, Chief.

Thanks, Greg.

Next up, we have Renee, our director of uh budget and finance.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council.

I have the pleasure of introducing to you, Naeli Caranza.

She started with the city on July 22nd as a finance specialist.

So she assists um with the administration of the finance and budget department and with employee travel for the city.

Naily previously worked in um some temp contracts with uh through health care and construction, and she worked for the Arizona Department of Education for the ESA program.

Naily has a bachelor of administration degree from uh ASU.

And she's an Avondale resident and is aspiring to improve her tennis game by year end.

At one of our tennis courts.

Yep, festival fields.

Don't listen to him, don't listen to him.

Even though ASU's football team is horrible, their public administration program is excellent.

So congratulations.

Good meeting you.

I lived in Avondale for over 10 years.

So'd you go to go to high school here?

Yeah, I went to our for you.

Okay, good.

Owls.

Owl Pride, awesome.

A rate at school.

Good seeing you.

Renee, Renee, where'd you go to school?

Kofa High School.

No, college.

I know you're from Yuma.

I know from Yuma.

Arizona University.

Okay.

The Arizona University.

Is that what you want to say?

All right.

That's awesome.

All right, up next, we have our Mr.

Man Council.

Up next is uh our director of human resources, Andy.

We'll be happy to introduce his two newest employees.

Andy, are they from Maricopa County?

They are not.

Tonight's my pleasure to introduce uh James Corless and Greg Lockmott, who have recently joined the human resources department.

So James joined the City of Avondale as risk manager on June 24th of this year.

Prior to joining Avondale, James spent 25 years with UPS holding a variety of positions before retiring in 2023.

During his time with UPS, James served as district case management supervisor, where he was responsible for overseeing risk management and workers' compensation programs for the Southwest region of the U.S.

James received his bachelor's degree in history and political science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

And in his free time uh in his free time, James is an amateur race car driver with the National Auto Sports Association.

Um he also enjoys traveling with his wife and golf.

And this is James.

So tell us more about the racing.

How much time do I have?

Three minutes?

Um we're gonna need more time.

I'd be happy to.

Well, what kind of what kind of cars you race?

What kind of uh I race uh 350 Z car.

Okay.

In uh class B.

Which is obviously short track.

It's uh circuit.

Okay.

Driving.

Uh we go to Arizona Motorsports Park, podium club, uh couple other uh tracks, one in Denver and one in uh well they call it San Diego, but it's and you're the risk manager and not the safety officer, right?

That is correct.

Okay, I just want to make sure I get that out of the way right now.

My professional life and my personal life not be judged side by side.

Thanks for being here.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Appreciate it, Mayor.

He strikes a great balance of the two.

Uh Greg Lockamont and joined the city of Avondale as safety officer on July 8th.

Uh Greg relocated from Kennewick, Washington, where he was where he worked as safety training coordinator for the city of PASCO.

Prior to that, Greg worked in the fire service for the state of Oregon and the city of Pendleton, where he rose to the rank of assistant fire chief.

In his free time, Greg enjoys hiking, boating, and used to like snow skiing.

Uh Greg and his family spend the majority of their weekends at the ball fields.

Both his daughter and son play competitive softball and baseball.

So please welcome Greg.

So Greg, you moved from the Northwest to Phoenix in June.

Right?

May?

July.

Not getting any better.

So your first impressions were?

Um, my first day of work was 117 degrees.

So uh my wife and kids were still back home.

And so I thought, oh no, I may have made a mistake.

Uh but uh they they've uh they've been down here and uh they're loving and enjoying it so far.

So it'll cool off the next 30 days.

So we're glad that you're here.

Welcome aboard.

Next up, Mayor, we have Lieutenant uh Lopez um from the Office of Public Safety to introduce his new employee.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council.

I'm introducing Jill Kruger, our new policy and procedure analyst.

Jill comes to us from the South Holland Police Department in Illinois.

Uh she started with South Holland back in 2001, worked 23 years and retired as a commander.

During her time, she worked on creating policies and procedures, which is now why we hired her for the Office of Public Safety.

She and her husband left the minus 10 degree weather to come do outdoor activities here in 110 degree weather.

So we welcome her.

She's gonna be a great asset.

It's Joel.

Cub fan or socks fan.

Cubs fan.

Awesome.

I grew up in Oklahoma.

So I grew up in Bridgeport, which is shocking because we became Cubs fans out in Bridgeport.

So we got a lot of slack for that.

At least we're not Sox fans this year, right?

Excuse me?

At least we're not Sox fans this year.

That's right.

Welcome aboard.

Glad to have you.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Mr.

Mayor Council.

Next up we have our public works director, Kirk Bainey, introducing his group of new employees.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council.

And please introduce some new employees at the public works department.

I don't have a video for you this evening, but I've got a yeah.

But I got a couple of pictures, and I've got three folks here in person today.

So first I want to introduce Christopher Rurellis on the screen above.

He joined the city in June as a wastewater collections operator.

His responsibility is assist with cleaning and maintaining our wastewater lift stations, our sewer lines, performing our sewer pipe inspections, other closed circuit television inspection program.

Christopher previously worked with the Arizona Department of Transportation, doing the same type of work cleaning the storm drains for the city's freeway or city's freeway system, and also doing some roadway repair work.

The next person on the screen is Anthony Arona.

Anthony rejoined the city just this month as a water distribution operator.

He has six years of experience in the water distribution field, including some time with the city of Phoenix.

He worked here at Avondale from 2020 to 2023, left us for a little while, but came back, and we're certainly glad to have him back on our team outside of work.

Anthony is a sports buff.

He enjoys playing basketball, fishing, and hunting.

So that's the folks that are on the pictures.

Today in person, we have first off Willie Hall.

Willie joined the city of Avondale in June as a wastewater collections operator.

This is a new career for Willie.

However, he has several years of experience operating construction equipment, and he possesses a commercial driver's license with a tanker endorsement, which is really a key license for our wastewater collection operators.

He's excited for this opportunity and uh the new career here that he's embarked on.

Next is Ryan Garrett.

Ryan joined the city of Avondale in June as an environmental technician.

Ryan's new to Arizona, and he comes to us with over three years of experience at the San Jose Water Company in California, which is one of the largest uh water systems in the United States.

He has a grade two water distribution certification and a Class A commercial driver's license.

Ryan's in Ryan is the second of our two new environmental technicians that we've recently hired who are responsible for regularly sampling our city's water to make sure that we stay in compliance with state and federal regulations.

Outside of work, Ryan enjoys cars, computers, gaming, and using his ATV to explore the network of off-road trails in Arizona.

And then finally, our third person is Jasmine Allercon.

And Jasmine joined the public works department just a few weeks ago as our customer service representative.

Jasmine is originally from New Mexico and moved to Arizona in 2014.

She has over a decade of customer service experience with a significant portion of her career in the financial credit union and banking industry.

Jasmine most recently worked in the human resour at human resources at a Valley Concrete Supplier, so HR people just forget I said that.

It was during her work at the financial in the financial industry that she discovered a passion for making positive impacts on people's lives, and she was actually actively involved in a committee called the Ragnum Act of Kindness Committee at one of her employers.

She's quickly learning the tasks for a new position here at Public Works and learning the importance of the daily operations to keep the city running smoothly.

She's genuinely excited to be here and eager to collaborate with those to share a commitment to growth and well-being of Avondale.

Please welcome our new members of our team.

Thank you for doing it.

Thank you.

Ron, item B, please.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Now we're gonna have a presentation by our city engineer uh Kim Moon and Rick Carr, our CIP division manager on our wayfinding master plan amendment.

Um basically an update to direction council gave us several months ago.

Hi, good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members.

I'm Kim Moon, City Engineer.

On the agenda this evening, item number B2 is for a presentation update on a gateway monument sign for the Wayfinding Master Plan.

In 2015, the Avondale Wayfinding System Master Plan was developed with sign types, potential locations, and sign designs.

Included in the master plan are gateway monuments.

Four of the six monuments originally identified have been installed to date.

The remaining two have some utility conflicts and are being modified.

In June 2023, the council requested an updated design and new locations to be identified.

This evening, Rick Carr, the city's CIP division manager and project manager for this project is here to provide a presentation on updated design and additional locations.

We also have here tonight representative from J2 Engineering and Environmental Design.

So with that, Rick.

Thank you.

Thank you, Kim.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members.

Adam Hawkins is here from J2, as Kim indicated.

As background, again, Kim went over a little bit the 2015 Wayfinding Master Plan.

We developed uh system.

Um, included our citywide brand identity, aspiring, achieving, and accelerating slogan, uh, had three unique themes to Avondale, cotton, racing, and education.

Um the monuments are funded from general fund, uh, and as Kim indicated, four have been completed.

Um, and we got feedback from um the council in June of 2023 about uh a new design.

So shown here are four of the completed monuments, the southwest corner of Dysart and Indian School, the southwest corner of 107th and Indian School, the northwest corner of 99th and McDowell, and the southwest corner of Avondale and I-10.

We have an image of the design, which is 12 feet high and three feet wide, shown in the middle of the map, um, which has our logo, color, and cotton theme.

And then there's a photo to the side of the map, which shows the installed sign at 99th and McDowell.

Um per council's comments in June of 23.

Um, we wanted to add welcome to to the sign.

We wanted to re-evaluate the size, and we wanted to consider natural materials.

So the first step for our new design, we started with looking at other local monuments to determine design precedence for features that make a good monument, like size, materials, character, lettering size, and font, and distinctive elements.

So here are some signs, monument signs that J2 has designed locally, and our sign is highlighted there with the red circle and shows a height comparison.

We also looked at city monuments nationally for design precedents as well for those same features.

The news proposed design vertical versions are shown here.

They are internally lit, um, have welcome to Avondale, are 27 feet high on uh the vertical aluminum element on the um right side of the image, our applied graphics or eternally lit graphics.

And then they have elements unique to Avondale, like our spirit bird, planted animals from the base Meridian Wildlife Area.

And here's a horizontal version of the new proposed design.

Again, internally lit welcome to Avondale.

This one is 18 feet tall.

The horizontal elements is at seven to eight feet high above sidewalks or landscape.

And is 18 foot six wide, provided right of way is available for this type of sign.

The elements that are unique to Avondale are the same as vertical, but this one has also included the Australian.

So here is the updated president's analysis showing our new designs compared to those other local signs.

We then studied 13 potential new locations and determined the five proposed locations shown here.

These locations are shown in red as the new locations, and the blue triangles are installed monuments already.

Here's an example of the proposed vertical monument design and its location just west of Burger King Drive at the northwest corner of 99th Avenue and Van Buren Street.

Then we have a proposed horizontal design and its location at the southwest corner of 107th Avenue and Buckeye Road.

And then the proposed horizontal design and its location at the southwest corner of 107th and Broadway Road.

And last, the proposed location of a horizontal monument design at the southeast corner of Dysart and Thomas Road.

Our current FY25 CIP has funding for one monument to be installed this fiscal year, then one monument per each fiscal year going forward.

This conclude concludes my presentation, and I'm ready for any questions that you may have.

Thank you.

Rick, do you mind going back to the vertical and horizontal design so they're fresh in people's minds?

Max, can I start with you?

Any comments or questions?

Thank you, Rick, for the presentation.

And I appreciate being able to see the difference.

I noticed there weren't a lot of other cities that had the welcome to tag on their signs.

Did we see any other in the study, or maybe the vendor would know maybe Adam could share with us if welcome to is a part of those signage?

Um I know that we there is a welcome to good year sign, so that is one, but Adam?

Typically no.

So Curtis.

Rick and group, I just want to thank you.

We've all been here in Avondale for a long time, and I can remember years ago.

Coming back on Thomas and 107th with an old piece of plywood up there that had some colors painted on it with a big A on it.

That got demolished, which I was grateful for.

These really look great.

You've done a good job in pulling this together.

And I appreciate all that.

This so the people know where Avondale starts, where they're coming to, and what they can expect.

So I I appreciate that.

The designs are great.

And like I say, it's something that's a little bit warming as they come into here, they'll know exactly where Avondale is, and I think that's what we all want.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

Curtis, thank you for that.

Council Marshalario.

Rick, thank you for the presentation.

Thank you, Kim.

I like all of them.

I think they all look very nice.

They're very sharp.

I like the natural features to it.

I like the dragonflies.

I like it all.

Thank you.

Tina?

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Rick.

Um I love the size.

You know, that was one thing that we talked about as how small the ones that we currently have, and that we wanted to kind of beef it up, and you guys definitely did a great job at doing that.

Um, can you go back to the locations, the proposed locations of some of the of the signs?

I know that we talked about it was mentioned when we were discussing signage is to have something like on Indian School in 99th or Thomason 99th.

I guess kind of where the location council member Curtis had mentioned there was previously one.

Was that something that we were we would be able to consider adding to those areas?

Councilmember uh mayor, vice mayor, yes.

Uh we certainly could consider those locations uh at 9 uh 9th and uh Indian school.

Um I think that's the park side development.

They're putting in a wayfinding sign on the corner.

Okay.

So we could we could do an analyze another monument too.

Okay.

Okay.

And then um, I just want to just say great job on the designs.

It look they look really nice, the vertical and the horizontal.

And um thank you for the presentation.

Great job.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Gina.

Customer Malone.

Thank you for the presentation.

I like all of them.

They look great.

The aesthetics is great.

I do have a quick question.

The welcome to Avondale.

Um, how sturdy is the welcome to and what's the what's the life um the life of uh that type of sign?

I know that down on Western we had um a monument that was out there and then the lettering was taken off.

So I just want to know how um how long would the lettering last?

And if uh any of those letters fell off, how do we replace them?

Do we have a plan in place uh if that were to happen?

Um yes, council member, vice mayor, mayor.

Um they are sort of a standard pan channel uh sign like you would see, uh, much like what the signings like we have on the boulevard garage.

Um so um they will be durable enough to to last unless uh unless they get damaged by wind or an object or you know, vandalism.

Um and we can certainly um they will be up there secure, but they'll be able to be replaced.

So they're usually typically on a rail, you know.

If we need to, we can so would we already have a replacement plan in Playlace um for this if that that were to happen?

If the lettering were to fall off, um do we have a replacement um like a fund for that?

Because I know what happened down on um Western Avenue with A.

B.

Cernas, if they all fell off, someone stole them.

I don't know what happened.

We had to replace that monument differently.

So I just want to make sure that we have a plan in place um when we put this out there that we're um they stay aesthetically um appeasing to our uh community.

Mayor, vice mayor, council person malone, yes, absolutely.

We have our sign budget within the engineering department, and this will be one of those sign types that maybe we maintain going into the future.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Thank you for the presentation.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Vice Mayor.

Thank you, and thank you for the presentation as well.

Um, you know, I guess it kind of was um I could hear across the dais here the site difference.

I'm sorry, the scale difference between what we have and what we're going to.

And um I think that that's uh pretty impressive.

I think it does the job in terms of uh providing that visual uh for representation of where you are, welcome to Avondale, those sorts of things.

And I think you mentioned it, but just to double check, did you say these were lit or not lit?

Yes.

Very uh on this one, for example, and on the vertical, the welcome to Avondale will for sure definitely be internally lit.

And then on the vertical, some of the elements of the graphic will be internally lit too.

Okay.

Well, again, I'm just really uh happy with the scale and the improvement uh on size.

It I think it's gonna make a big difference and uh as mentioned by many of the other council members, um, aesthetically appealing, and I really appreciate it.

So thank you.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Thank you.

Rick, can you go forward on your when you get to the installation part, what the schedule looks like?

There we go.

First question is when when we look at Indian School and 99th Avenue with the big development on the southwest corner.

They're gonna put up their wayfinding signs, their signs that reflect their community.

Is there a way to incorporate some of the design elements with this?

Instead of putting up another sign that may would stand next to it.

Is there a way to incorporate our designs with theirs and just kind of do one sign?

Uh well, mayor, vice mayor, council member, that wayfinding sign will be an Avondale wayfinding sign.

Okay.

So that'll be the prior presentation where we have the blade signs and the Avondale logo and the purple and the green with some that that sign will be an Avondale wayfinding sign.

Okay.

Secondly, is there an issue with a wayfinding sign?

You mentioned earlier in your presentation that uh right-of-ways, some uh some things that get in the way of us putting up a wayfinding sign at 99th Avenue in Thomas.

So if I'm head heading west on Thomas from the 101 and I cross 99th Avenue on the north side, the northwest corner.

Is there um have we tried to put a wayfinding sign there before?

Um, that's the south side of that same development.

Not the same development, but that's long stretch of residential.

Yeah, mayor, vice mayor, council member.

Um I can't recall specifically, so I'll we'll have to take a look at that, but yeah, we can certainly entertainment.

It's right across from Holy Cross.

I just it's it's a location.

Yeah, it's for me because Phoenix is there.

It'd be nice to have a wayfinding sign there.

I think that's what Councilmember Condi was looking at also.

Um I look at the budget one way.

What is the cost for one of these wayfinding signs?

Um made a cost is ranging from 80,000 to 120,000.

Okay.

I would ask, and I and I know why we put it in the general fund the way we do.

But I would ask going forward that council consider if there is extra funds available to speed up the process that you speed up the process on this.

Not all seven signs in one year.

But just as we go forward, if we have the ability to do that, let's go ahead and look at doing that.

Ms.

Mr.

Mayor to clarify, we'll put that in next year's strategic plan budgeting process.

But also know we do these signs, we do the wayfinding signs, and then we also look for monument sign opportunities.

For example, we're doing the one at DICERT and uh MC eighty five this year.

We're hoping to do one on um DICERT up at the college, uh possibly next year.

So we also look for these larger locations for monument signs.

So even though we're only do we currently have that one budgeted, we're having additional signage added to the city.

Correct.

Anybody else?

Thanks, I appreciate that.

Great.

Thank you.

Marshal, item three under number three is unscheduled public appearances.

Do we have anybody who has indicated online or follow cards?

Thank you, Mayor.

I have not received any requests to speak.

Item number four is consent agenda.

Correct?

I'm sorry, items.

Item four three, yeah, four.

It shows on my screen item three.

That's why I was just Oh, that is our mistake.

It is item four, thank you.

No, you're fine.

Um, are there any counselors who wish to have an item removed from consent agenda for separate consideration?

Yes.

Councilmember White?

Yes, can we move um item C, please?

Item C.

Can I get a motion on the consent agenda minus item C, please?

My motion.

I have a motion from Councilmember Malone, a second from Councilmember Shelorio.

Marcel, are we doing voice votes?

Thank you, Mayor.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Thank you, Council.

It passes unanimously.

Councilmember White.

Yes, thank you so much, Mayor.

Um, the safe streets and roads for all grants acceptance.

I was um wondering if we could take a look at that.

I know sometimes we get a lot of feedback on the roads and um how things are going here in um Avondale.

And I just was really excited.

I want to thank um City Manager Corbin.

I want to thank our staff.

I also want to thank um our engineering department for what we're gonna be doing.

This is how we plan out um the future of Avondale, and we've gotten a grant of over um, I guess a half a million dollars.

Let me let them take over.

They got it from here.

Yes, uh Mayor, Vice Mayor, Councilmember White.

Um this item is for a presentation on the resolution for acceptance of a grant from the U.S.

Department of Transportation.

Um this resolution is I said that already.

Uh the safe streets and roads for all grant is also known as the SS4A grant.

This funding helps communities development develop plans, policies, and improvements for safer people, roads, and vehicles, appropriate vehicle speeds, and improved post-crash care.

The SS4A program funds two different types of grants.

The first type is a planning and demonstration grant for comprehensive safety action plans, including supplemental safety planning demonstration activities to to create an action plan or AP.

The second type of grant is an implementation grant to implement strategies or projects identified in an existing action plan.

The City of Avondale submitted an application in July of 2023 for the first type of grant, the planning and demonstration grant, specifically for a action safety action and demonstration plan.

The grant has been awarded to Avondale with federal funds in the amount of $560,000 in a city match of 140,000.

Per the grant application, the first phase is for a consultant to assist the city with the auction plan or the AP component.

Uh after the action plan is finalized, the second phase can commence for implementation of a few minor demonstration projects from the AP.

So with that, I'm gonna turn it over and and uh let Raj talk a little bit about a slide that he's prepared uh with this grant information.

Go ahead, Raj.

Um good evening, uh Mayor, White Mayor and Council members.

Um this grant um is actually um like uh Kim mentioned to create an action plan for the city uh to identify um um uh heat map.

What I mean is that to identify uh uh accident prone areas in the city to uh mitigate and make the uh the the streets safer for our citizens.

So we applied this this uh grant in July 2023, and uh we are currently going through the um uh the agreement process with the USDOD.

Um action plan to make um uh to bring down the the number of uh severe and the fatal accidents to zero.

Um we have also got some money for through the process to demonstrate um uh some minor um uh projects through the outcomes of this study.

So we are looking forward for this to receive this grant funding from USDOD.

Well, I just I'm so grateful that we were able to do that.

Raj, were you a part of the process to submit the grant or yes?

I was part of the grant writing process.

And if there are any findings, would you have to go back and seek another grant for implementation?

We are going to after after the action plan is completed.

Uh if there are uh major projects um uh found in the process, we may go after the implementation branch.

Yeah, I really appreciate the assertiveness and saying we are going to because it just makes sense for us to kind of thread the needle and then pull it all the way through.

I know we get a lot of feedback from our community about the roads, traffic being stuck in congestion and being able to move throughout Avondale.

So we just want to make sure people know that we're getting federal assistance to do that, and we got the right people on team already.

Thank you so much, Mayor.

I'd like to go ahead and move the council a motion to adopt resolution 1084-0824, accepting grant funding from the U.S.

Department of Transportation for the Safe Streets and Roads for All program in the amount of 560,000 B to be authorized and directed, direct staff to take all steps necessary to cause the execution of the agreement and to carry out the purpose and intent of this resolution and C authorized mayor and council.

I'm sorry, Mayor, City Manager, City Attorney, and City Clerk to execute the necessary documents.

Do I have a second?

Oh, sorry.

I have a motion from Councilmember White, a second from Councilmember Nielsen, Marsella.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Rosh, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Kim, thank you.

Ron Item 5A, please.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Council.

Up next, we have a presentation from Josh, our code compliance manager on mobile food vendors.

I asked Ron to bring this up.

We're gonna discuss this a couple months ago and it got delayed.

I asked Rod to bring this up just because I don't remember the last time this council talked about this issue.

I'm having a hard time remember when council talked about this issue at all.

And as you see more and more food trucks, you see more and more ways where Avondale residents are choosing to dine and how that process works.

I thought it made sense to get an update uh from staff and see if council has any input on looking to modernize our ordinances on this or just keep them the same way.

So thank you.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members.

My name is Raja Perez, the co-compliance manager for the Office of Public Safety.

And this evening I'll be discussing with you mobile food vendors and the co-compliance process and how we address concerns.

For a mobile food vendor, a mobile food vendor is defined in our ordinance as establishment readily movable that dispenses food or beverages from any vehicle.

Now, just to be specific on the word vehicle, we take that definition from the ARS chapter 28 that the vehicle must be permitted to operate on a public highway.

So your food trucks, your food trailers, even your common passenger vehicle would still qualify and fit into that definition.

Vehicles that would not would be your push carts, any type of bicycles or unlicensed golf carts would not qualify under that definition of a vehicle.

In October of 2022, our chapter 13 of our city code received an update that no longer requires a mobile food vendor to have an Avondale business license issued to them in order to operate within our city.

There are specific districts that mobile food vendors can operate in.

These listed here as far as commercial office district, neighborhood community district, community commercial district, freeway commercial district, a commerce park, and general industrial.

Mobile food vendors can operate in city parks as long as they have an issue permit from the uh parks and recs department.

Also, mobile food vendors cannot operate within a residential zone or any areas within a 250 foot radius of a residential zone.

So for example, if they were operating in an approved location, they still would have to meet that 250 foot requirement distance from a residential area.

There are some specific prohibits that the vendors have to follow.

Some of those are they cannot park and operate from unpaved surfaces, all their access areas for customers and parking for customers also has to be paved.

They cannot sell or park anywhere where street parking is not permitted, and they can also not sell within a city right-of-way.

They cannot provide canopies, tables, or chairs, and cannot utilize displaying freestanding signs or portable restrooms unless they have an approved special event permit issued.

There are additional requirements that the Maricopa County Environmental Services does require for mobile food vendors to have.

Those are permits and certificates issued by their division to operate and sell.

In regards to our process and how we address, co-compliance does respond to all service requests, and we proactively make contact with mobile food vendors when we find them operating in non-improved areas.

On weekends, the Avondale Police Department will also assist when those concerns are made through their non-emergency line.

When we find those in violation, our co-compliance officers will first educate the vendors.

We have a brochure that we will provide.

The brochures available in both English and Spanish.

And after educating and giving the information, we will request that they just voluntarily leave the area.

When we receive concerns from mobile food vendors that are operating in an approved location, additional steps co-compliance officers will take.

We'll contact with the property owners or the property managers and just let them know that there's a mobile food vendor operating.

And if they are fine with it, if they get permission, they can make contact with them, or if they don't, the same.

We'll ask them to make contact with those mobile food vendors, they have the opportunity to ask them to leave the area if that's what they choose.

We will also monitor those locations ongoing just to verify that the mobile food vendors are no longer returning to those specific areas that are not approved.

We will sometimes receive requests from areas within Avondale where we have county islands.

When we do get those requests, we do collaborate with the American County Co-compliance division and we'll communicate those concerns.

And also with our sister cities too, we will make sure we bridge those communications with our residents when they have those concerns with those locations.

Then our coach officers are available for them if they have any questions as well.

Some additional steps that we take when we have to address with co uh mobile food vendors operating in areas is for example, we have one specific location where we may have addressed one mobile food vendor, and then the following week there's a different one.

When we see that kind of a pattern on a specific property, we will then reach out to those property owners and just try to work with them and we will get them in contact with the Avendale Police Department to have them complete an authority to trespass.

And through that process, we will also ask that they install a no trespassing sign, which is also required that will assist the police department in enforcing no trespassing on those locations and again act as a deterrent to prevent further uh mobile food vendors from occurring in those specific areas.

Through our process of addressing mobile food vendors, if there are instances where we have a mobile food vendor that chose not to comply, or property owners not wanting to comply with our verbal warnings, or even if we issued a notice of violation, we would address those with court action and all violations of the Avondale zoning ordinance are deemed uh guilty of a misdemeanor.

These are some statistics to date that we have.

So vendor concerns is the request type that we utilize through Abbey Wise to address mobile food vendors.

For our current year, we've received nine vendor concerns through AV WISE and co-compliance officers have initiated five proactive cases where we've viewed violations, and we to date for this year, we've only issued one notice of violation.

In 2023, we had 11 vendor concerns submitted, and we opened seven cases proactive with no notices of violation.

And in 2022, we had 12 vendor concerns with no notice of violation.

Also, to date, we have not had to issue a civil citation to any mobile food vendors.

And I hope with these numbers, it just shows that with our co-compliance staff, they are excellent with customer service and educating with mobile food vendors and gaining that cooperative and voluntary compliance for them to leave the areas if that's the issue.

And that concludes my presentation.

Thank you for your time and I'm open to any questions that you may have.

If you guys don't mind, let me take the lead on this a little bit and then get feedback from council.

Joshua, when we talk about the law changing in 2022, the ordinance, what was the previous ordinance?

Do you remember?

I would have to research that that previous one, but the specific change was because they're not considered a fixed location, they are not required to have a business license.

Was that a because I don't remember that?

Was that a council initiated change?

That was that was a resolution that was passed for channel.

Mr.

Mayor and Council, yeah.

Council changed that at our request because the licenses require background checks, and we do not have the capabilities to do background checks on all the number because it wouldn't just be this group of people, it would be other types of businesses as well.

So we defined a business as having a fixed location to need a business license.

Um people were assuming that we were vetting all the people with the business license, and because we weren't and and not capable of getting it, sometimes they were done with their business before we ever finished the background check.

So let me tell you a couple of my concerns and would love to hear from council.

There was an article in uh AZ Family Today and KTAR.

Maricopa County officials say more than a dozen recent illnesses reported are connected to unpermitted street food vendors.

Okay.

I think it's up to government to be proactive on issues and not reactive.

And we can drive just east of the Avondale boundaries on Thomas Road and see what happens on a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

We don't have that issue here.

And I and I'm the first to say that.

But I think for me, there has to be more than relying on Maricopa County to vet people who have food trucks.

My idea of a food truck is the picture that you have there, the cartoon that you have there.

It's a it's a truck that is either remodeled or purposely built to prepare, cook, distribute food within a certain health guideline that is set aside by Maricopa County.

It's it's to your point.

It's not a it's not a gentleman or a woman riding a pedal cart selling food out of a refrigerated box.

It's not a person in a minivan or a pickup truck with a cooler selling breakfast, burritos, or breakfast sandwiches somewhere on a street corner.

Those are the things that concern me.

Those type of vendors concern me.

The second part that concerns me has to do with economic development, and I'll give you an example.

If I drive through the Home Depot parking lot anywhere from noon to five o'clock, any given day of the week, I will see one or more vendors parked in that parking lot selling food out of their push cart, out of the rule cart, whatever that is.

When there's restaurants that have gone through the permitting process through the city of Avondale, have gone through all our rules and requirements, and someone is 200 feet away undercutting their business.

I find that unfair.

So I I'd like us to firm up the rules on what we consider a mobile food vendor and go from there.

I think the other part is when I look at Maricopa County's definition of a food vendor, mobile food vendor, there's three different categories.

I don't know if we have to get that far in depth, and I'd rather have staff do that work than have council do it.

I think you're the experts more than we are.

But I think we have to punch up those designations from what we have now.

There are places in Arizona and places in the Southwest where cities designate a certain area for food trucks.

And they may do some minor improvements to a lot.

They may put gravel down, they may put in portable lights, they may do something and say, okay, three days a week, we're going to allow food vendors to come here and sell.

And this is going to go beyond my tenure here.

It is.

And I know how bad they are.

I know how easy they start.

Even under the best circumstances, those fires start with the best of cleaning and everything else.

Residential kitchens are not designed to produce commercial food.

They're just not.

I would like to see us do more along with that.

And I'm not looking to penalize anyone who's doing that.

I think if you have the ability to be successful at a home-based business selling food or drinks or whatever you're selling, it may behoove the city of Aventill to get in contact with you and say, listen, maybe the next step, work with a small business advisor, maybe the next step is for you to open up a business in Avondale.

But we can't have you do what you're doing here.

We can't have, you can't advertise on social media, prep have a commercial operation in a residential area, and then have people show up at your house to the tune of 50 to 100 people a day picking up food.

I don't think that's right.

So those are my concerns on this more from the health and safety aspect than it is from the revenue.

I don't really care about the revenue part of it, the sales tax.

I don't care about that.

But when I read stories about Maricopa County now trying to catch up and now starting to penalize unlicensed food vendors, to me, that's what they're sorry to our friends in Maricopa County, that's a failure of government not to be proactive.

So I kind of want to go down the line.

Mr.

Mayor, though, if I can, I need to clarify a couple things so that I can more direct the conversation.

Uh first is we're not able to enforce the permitting of food stuff that's Maricopa County.

So we can't um require the food license, we can't inspect for their food license and then enforce anything on their food license.

Are we talking mobile vendors or commercial kitchens and residential?

Either, and uh, I would argue that the kitchen in a in a residential area is not on the agenda tonight.

Okay.

It's not something that we came prepared to talk about.

I don't know that that would uh be necessarily Josh's purview, but we'd have to work that out.

Uh a couple other things.

Um state law prohibits us from prohibiting locations other than in residential areas.

We'll work with a legal team to come up with that.

So your examples you gave of being in a commercial district, we may or may not be able to even limit.

So the state law has uh several years ago preempted cities from fully limiting uh mobile vendors.

Um I mean we can get direction from council and come back uh with the possibility, but I just want to lower expectations that our authority to to do some of the things you are suggesting is limited.

And then the current law already separates um the things you said you didn't like.

So out of the uh uh the carts and those kinds of things are already not considered a mobile vendor, so they wouldn't be a permitted use anyway.

So the biggest thing that it sounds like um we'd have to come back if if all of council wants is the locations.

And I and I'm just the way I understand it, and again, I I'm not the attorneys, we'll have to come back to you, is that we're not permitted other than residential to ban them from commercial areas.

Landowners can uh trespass them, which Josh referred to, reaching out to them.

An example I was given was uh the parking lot of Arby's and QT.

You know, they're selling breakfast food right there next to Arby's undercutting Arby's, but until they the landowners uh tell us they don't want them there, we can't evict them from there.

So again, we'll take direction and we'll come back to council, but I just wanted to make sure that there may be some limitations uh by state law on what we can and and the county rules of what we can enforce and what and what we can pass.

But uh stay tuned.

And I and I appreciate that.

I I think what I think more what I'm getting at is uh again being more proactive on because when I look at where the law, what the law is written, and and we while we ban, well, what we don't ban is we consider a mobile food cart anything that can be driven on a freeway.

Okay.

And someone selling breakfast sandwiches out of their van at 6 o'clock in the morning, to me is not a mobile food vendor.

That's someone preparing those foods in their kitchen and then putting them out there for sale.

I don't think that benefits the city at all.

The the the bill that passed the legislature this year and the the governor signed was the cottage food bill, which dealt with things along lines of cakes, cookies, things along that line, fundraisers.

I'm not talking about touching that at all.

And that was part of HB 2509.

I'm not looking at touching that right now.

I think that bill, and I'm I don't have I don't have information on the bill that you're referring to from years ago.

The bill that I'm looking at and the bill that I've researched over the last week allows a certain flexibility from cities, but also to work with Maricopa County or the county that's involved.

I guess I'm looking for a solution to a potential problem that may not exist.

And I'll be the first one to say it may not exist yet.

But it exists out there.

And I'd like to see council take action.

Now, if the council in the future says, you know what, we're going to get information back from staff and we're not going to do anything about that, that's fine.

But as long as we looked at the issue and said, okay, we're comfortable with where we're at right now and where the future takes us.

But I'd like to get some input from council.

Ron, I appreciate your input.

I really do.

Max, any thoughts?

Uh can I go last?

Yes.

I just uh the thoughts just on locations.

I noted a couple down here.

If if an HOA wanted to have a food truck come in there, do they have to get a special permit from for that HOA to do that or bring them in?

Yes, Mayor Varse Mayor, Councilmember Nielsen, yes, they would have they have to have the opportunity to submit a special event application with our Parks Rex department to be able to have a mobile food vendor, you know, attend an event.

And of course, with those, they would include a site plan and they can show where they can have tables and chairs.

But those circumstances would be allowed with a special event permit.

Okay.

The second one would again the same type of thing about schools, if you know.

I remember during COVID, the schools Littleton brought in a couple of those at different places to take school would be the same type of thing.

Yes, Councilman Reese.

Um and again, the same thing with businesses.

You know, if a business wanted to host an event out in their parking lot, such or anything like that, they would be able to submit a special event permit that wouldn't with those site plans and approvals, they would be able to have those types of food trucks with the process.

And I guess just the third one here comes with the new park wherever it might be, the city park back here.

There's supposed to be a driveway or a gravel, whatever for food trucks.

Can you ever have too many food trucks?

I mean, if that place was set up for five and you got ten, how do you determine who comes, who can't, who does, or you rotate around there's and they they that's where they would go through our parks and recs department.

They do have a park vendor uh permit and a process.

And for example, they are doing a program with one of the parks at Mountain View where they're allowing to have a mobile food vendor attend at certain uh days of the week.

And they communicate that with our my division.

That way we're aware of it.

But yes, that is a process and application that they can apply for through the parks and recs department to be able to attend city parks, city events, and things like that.

Thank you.

That's all I've got, Mayor.

Those are great questions.

I appreciate that.

Gloria, any comments?

Tina, any thoughts?

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Josh, for the presentation.

Well, full disclosure, I love food trucks.

I love when cities have food trucks gather, they come, it gives you a great selection, whether it's you know, vegan food, hot dogs, Mexican food.

And I thought that when we built festival fields, that was something that we had planned on doing and festival fields.

Like in the back, we had an area, and that's something that we I've never seen us do.

Um I think having food trucks safely and doing things the right way is important because for one, it's a great gathering place for our community.

Um it's very popular.

Surrounding cities do it.

Again, I just want us to do it safely, and I want to make sure that um that we support some of these local vendors, uh, these food truck vendors, because they can't afford to set up a brick and mortar.

And I feel like it's a great starting place, you know, for us to develop relationship with them so that they can maybe eventually transition to some place within our city.

So I'm all for these food truck vendors, just making sure that we provide a place for them, a safe place for them to gather.

I get it that it has to be paved and um we have to go through the process, but you know, anything that we can do to support them, again, for me it's a great place for the community to gather to have all the food trucks together.

I guess now we have to figure out where that might be.

Um but we had this discussion when we built festival fields.

That was one of the places we were gonna do it.

Agreed.

Councilmember Malone.

Yes.

Thank you for the presentation, Josh.

Um my one question is what uh councilman Nielsen said.

So when uh school or school district or an organization wants to bring out uh food vendors, they have to go through the city to get uh uh license to get to get that done.

It's not a license, it would be council member, it would be a special event permit, and that's where they would submit that with our parks and recs department.

Again, with with those special event permits approvals, they could operate within those residential zones, and we would again they would be in compliance with that special event permit and approval.

Is that happening now?

Yes, we do get we do get um organizations that do submit for special events, and they would let us know if they have food mobile food trucks and things like that.

So no, we that is a process that goes through our department as well where I would get those notifications and advise my staff to let them know that we have approval for anything that goes on.

Can we get a count of how many um how many organizations actually do that at a later date?

Um, please.

Um also Mr.

Mayor, uh Councilmember uh Malone, um the special event permits are not just because it's a food truck.

We have a whole list of qualifications, it's a large event.

So they don't need a permit if it's legally allowed to be wherever it needs to be, but often they need those permits because of the event.

It's not allowed on city property without a permit.

So if you're gonna do it at the aquatic center or one of our parks, we actually highly encourage it.

We love to partner with them, and that's why you would need a special permit for city property.

So it's it's many reasons you might need that special event permit, but just be in a food truck alone is not a reason for the permit.

Thank you for the clarification.

The second thing uh the mayor had um mentioned is somebody selling uh burritos out of their car um at QT.

I'm going to tell you I'm a soccer mom, a football mom, and all kinds of uh organizations that I dealt with with my children.

And a lot of the times I know uh we're fundraising, right?

So we're doing that as a fundraiser to help funds, whether it's a football team, a soccer team, or or at one time I even went to uh the Loy La Jolla parking lot to um to buy burritos for uh f from the fire department because they were doing uh fundraiser for their for their organization.

So I we gotta really pay attention.

And and I I agree with you.

And the new law that was signed by Governor Hobbes this year specifically calls out those type of situations where you're preparing those foods at home to sell them in a situation like you're talking about.

The the issue that I'm talking about has nothing to do with fundraising.

It because I think you're right.

I think it's fundraising.

If you're if you're doing something where a church is getting together and they're saying a member of our congregation, right?

A member of our congregation has passed away, and we're gonna have something at someone's home and help raise funds for the funeral.

Absolutely.

So you can't really I mean, I think this would be for a later discussion because it there's a very fine line, and um we could get ourselves we we just need more information.

Thank you for the presentation, and I'll leave it there.

Vice Mayor?

Oh, thank you.

Um, no, go for it.

Thank you so much, Vice Mayor.

Thank you so much, Mayor.

Um, I thought somebody was gonna grab it.

Thank you guys for grabbing everything else I wanted to say.

But there's one thing I have to say that I'm totally busted on the second time of day.

But the do you need a peddler's permit or special permit to have an ice cream truck?

Uh Councilmember White, I in checking with finance department, the ice cream trucks wouldn't fall under the peddler's permit.

Um my understanding is as far as because it's not a fixed location and they're constantly moving.

Anytime we do get a request when it in regards to ice cream trucks, we would prefer those to the police department because they are moving.

They're not at a fixed location, they're not parked and staging in any specific area.

So again, we would just refer that to the police department to verify and review.

No comment.

Great presentation, Josh.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for the presentation and um keeping in line with the the food trucks.

Uh, first uh two one's a question and the other is a comment.

But first, the question first is that I see that they um that there's some information being shared on Aviwise in regards to um I forgot what what it's worded, but the request site, yeah.

Yes, um I'm assuming somebody calls in and says there's a truck down there selling food or whatever.

What what typically do you see as being the a complaint, uh a major complaint?

Um anything we we we will take anything that's submitted through AviWise or if it's called in.

Uh typically what we will gather is you know there's an individual selling food.

We would go out first and just see if the location they are selling is an approved location.

If it is an approved location, and again, that's where we would take that extra step and just making contact with that property owner or manager on site just to advise them, and if they had any concerns, we would let them know that they can they have the right to tell them to leave if that's it, they choose to.

Um however, if it is a violation we find that location is not approved, that's where we will make that contact initially with that mobile food vendor, and then we monitor the area afterwards just to make sure that compliance is being met.

Okay, thank you.

Um and then the next would be uh I appreciate the education piece that's provided, regardless of what happens with the um with the outcome.

And so with that being said, I think one thing that I would like to see moving forward is and it kind of falls in line with something that uh councilwoman Connie said is maybe adding a list of the approved areas that the city is providing, whether it be festival fields.

I know we even talk about here across the street from the pool, having a large sidewalk that would go across.

And so um in addition to providing that education piece is also offering an option, an alternative of do you know that on these nights or do you know that you can um you know sell your your your goods out of your food truck at these specific locations?

I think at some point we do we have that already?

We used to have it on Sundays at uh yeah, so maybe it's in addition to just Sundays.

Maybe it's you know, we the city um allows for the service to be provided, you know, whatever days and whatever times.

But I think that would be helpful too because as we're telling them and educating them on why they shouldn't be there or what they need to be there, we can then turn it around and say, but on a positive note, you can go on these nights or on these days or these locations, and they you'll find them there after that because after all, the community does benefit from their service.

So I think in addition to the education piece, I would really love to be able to provide them something that sh demonstrates where they're able to sell their their goods.

So that's my comments.

Thank you.

No comments.

Mr.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, though, I want to add a couple things to that.

Um we do not have a standing location that someone could just come set up.

They would have to go through the special event permit process, or we're hosting, or we partner with another organization to host.

So we can put them in contacts, or we can give them the information to parks and rec and get on our distribution list.

So when we're gonna do an event, we send it out to vendors so that they can know that they can join that program, whether it's a festival fields or friendship park or or the aquatic center or eventually Civic Center Park, um, we can give them that information.

But just to clarify, there's no city park that they can just show up at and set up.

Now, currently uh they can go to any commercial district area that the owner would let them set up, and they wouldn't need a permission from the city of Avondale.

But you would need to go through a permitting process to set up at any park.

You wouldn't just be able to show up on a Sunday and and set up.

Yeah, no, and uh yeah, in addition to that permit, um I just I'm to clarify, I'm just that the city is uh provides the opportunity.

Yeah, we'll provide them our contact information for for Dominic's in the audience there.

We'll we'll make sure we have the ability to provide them that and better yet to get on our vendor list so that when we are doing an event or we are partner with another uh group to set these kinds of things up, that we actually can reach out to them.

Yeah, I just I just see that as a good give and take, you know, the education piece, but also the fact that because I will tell you, working with many um business owners who own food trucks, not all municipalities are as kind to to them.

And so that's where where I'm coming from on this is that we're providing them option opportunities to become a vendor, what have you, that just kind of flips uh what could be a negative uh you know interaction.

I'm just trying to prevent that.

No, I thank you that for that uh Vice Mayor Panetta or with the Flyer that we do provide, we do have the specific districts on that flyer, and that's part of the process of our education is letting them know about those specific districts.

And also we do have our phone number on our flyer too, and we let them if they ever had any questions about a specific location, they could always contact our office, and we'd be more than happy to provide that customer service and information to them moving forward.

So let me give you another example here.

When we talked about building the volleyball courts, one of the things that I brought up, one of the things that council nodded their head about was when the weather's nicer and the weekends are happening, we might have music out there, we might have food trucks.

That city owned land where the I take that back.

I don't want to assume.

If I drive behind New Penny and I've got apartments to my right and the volleyball courts to my left, and on a Friday and Saturday night where it's really nice, we've got people out there playing volleyball.

If we wanted a food, if we wanted to invite food trucks out there and they're parking on the street or on the area that backs up to the sports center, because there was a wide concrete pad, and I think we were told at the uh ribbon cutting that hey, we can back up food trucks here.

If they're parked on the street, is that legal or illegal?

Uh Mayor, if it would depend on the nearby residential too, they would still need to be have that 250-foot distance requirement, even if it was on the street.

So you see what I'm getting at?

Yeah, the other thing we would consider, but again, that would we would want them to cooperate.

So, Mr.

Mayor, what we would recommend is getting a special permit from us.

We're talking about hosting um tournaments and working with folks.

We would permit that.

So we would find a way to block off an area, we would we would, especially if it became a regular Friday night event or a regular Sunday afternoon event.

We are our parks department is all we're we're working towards that, and we would actually invite them, get them on a list and bring as many out as we as we could.

So again, with the special permit, we can find exceptions to some of those otherwise uh restrictions and allow them to gather where we want them, which is at our volleyball courts.

For a mobile food vendor, they have to go through the state and go through a process to register their business to register what they're doing, and there's certain criteria because they are a food vendor that the state requires.

Their next step is the county, and the county has their steps that they go through.

Are there any other businesses in the city of Avondale that need to be permitted either at a state or county level that the city looks at and says we go in and inspect to make sure that it's safe and they're following certain codes, certain city codes.

And I've just uh you because Ron, you and I have talked about this.

Again, I don't want to punish food trucks.

I I want them to be what they're doing.

I want them to be successful in what they're doing.

I'm just trying to head off what just happened and what happens quite a bit across the country.

And maybe it's not an issue with us, and maybe I'm way ahead of my skis on this.

I'm just trying to make sure that we're proactive in what we're doing and not reactive.

Mr.

Mayor, I appreciate that you're trying to keep our public safe from health crises, but that what you're talking about inspecting that causes the health issues is the health department.

We don't have that staff trained in that area.

Um we permit things um for events.

We might we look at our fire team looks at to make sure it's safe.

Um our building team looks to make sure that it's not going to be dangerous for construction.

But just the person that stops at the uh Home Depot parking lot and sets up shop with their permission.

Um, we don't inspect their to make sure they're wearing gloves or the temperature of their food or making sure they're using safe practices.

We don't have a health department inspector here at the city of Avondale.

Would we check to see if they had Americobac County food permit?

We would, and if they didn't, we would report them to Maricopa County.

Correct, Josh?

No, and that you you touched on that in your presentation.

Yes, yes.

Okay.

So I I look forward.

I think it's going to be in the next few months, probably, but I think kind of kind of punching up some of these things and kind of see where council wants to go on this, I think is important.

Ronica, it looks like you're going to say something.

Okay.

Thank you, Josh.

I appreciate it.

Really do.

Very much for your time.

Ron, next item, please.

Mr.

Mayor Council, something just as exciting as our food vendor uh policy there is our pavement management program update.

And looks like we get Harold and some other Kirk's sitting back on this one.

He's gonna he's gonna enjoy the show.

We have Harold, our assistant director of public works, and Gustavo Garcia, our pavement program manager.

Sorry, I don't want to touch the screen.

Are we good?

No.

Well, as they uh put that up, uh good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council.

Um Harold C Wances is the director of public works, and here with me uh to tag along on this presentation is Gustavo Garcia.

Uh, he is our pavement uh program manager with with uh the public works department.

Okay.

You know, Mr.

Mayor, our our staff are usually nervous presenting to you folks.

Usually we like to add to the stress um by you know making uh uh little steps, make them wait a little bit longer and see how much they actually sweat now.

I was waiting, he was getting ready to start.

Okay.

Um here we're to here to present the our pavement preservation program update.

Uh council received an update uh to the private preservation program in January of 2023.

Uh so we're here to provide a new update.

Uh in this update, we're going to discuss why the city of Avondale conducts the pavement preservation program and why it's important for the city.

What is our approach to the pavement preservation program from planning and how do we communicate and work with our residents?

What the results were for fiscal year 24, what the current plan for fiscal year 25 will bring, and what the future will look like for pavement preservation here within the city.

With that, I'm gonna hand it over to Gustavo to talk a little bit about why we conduct pavement preservation within the city.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members, I'd like to read a quote to you from the Federal Highway Administration.

It is a timely man is a timely application of carefully selected surface treatments to maintain or extend a payments effective surface life.

Payment preservation does not include new re new or reconstructive payments or any activity that significantly increase the structural capacity capacity of an existing payment.

This quote aligns with our program in implementing cost effective treatments and applying those treatments to the right roads at the right time and extending their lifespan.

This this allows us to have a positive impact in our program.

Types of treatment.

On the left-hand side here, we have a list of treatments.

On the right hand side, we have three photos.

The photo on the left hand side of that of the photos is a crack seal.

The photo in the center is seal coating.

And the photo on the right is actually a surface treatment that was completed.

All these photos, by the way, were taken here in the spring here in the city of Avondale as we're finishing up our program.

The list of treatments is uh arranged by cost and by cost and robustness.

This list allows us to select the correct treatment, the most appropriate treatment, based on the asphalt condition.

It is our goal to apply the most cost-effective treatment to the right road at the right time.

This allows us to have a successful program and allows us to have a positive impact on our program.

The key point on this is to have several treatments here.

That's the key point of having a successful program, being able to allow us to apply the right treatment or the appropriate treatment to the different conditions, different conditions of asphalt that's out there that we have right now.

Applying the right treatment to the right program to the right road at the right time.

This uh features two graphs here.

The left graph is a newly constructed road that has a 30-year lifespan.

You can clearly see by the year 15, it declines the condition of the asphalt start declining rapidly.

Between 15 and 17, you move from fair to poor.

At this time, your recut your rehab treatments are very costly and they're very minimal.

The appropriate appropriate time and the optimal time to put a rehab treatment is at the top of the curve.

The right-hand graft here indicates a road, a fairly new road that has a payment that it is under a payment program.

The orange curve indicates of when we should apply the initial first treatment.

That's year between year two and three.

The following blue curves are the maintenance cycles.

The first one is a short one, a year to two years.

That's a fog seal.

The next two are seal coats.

They're going to be a lifespan of about two to three years.

The fourth one, you can see it has a flatter line curve.

That was more a robust treatment.

It's going to be like a slurry, a micro.

The key point here is by applying a maintenance program to your asphalt, you can keep it and maintain it from good to very good by spending minimal amount of money.

This is this model is a successful model of a payment preservation program.

That's our goal here.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members, I now turn it over to Harold.

So within public works, we want to make sure that we're being cost-effective with our treatments and how we're applying it to our roadway network.

And so, how do we apply that uh to our current program?

We use uh our current roadway condition assessment that was conducted by IMS Consulting at the end of calendar year 2022 as our baseline.

That condition assessment report uh indicates and shows us the condition of the roadway at that point in time in 2022.

So we use that currently today as our baseline to help guide us in what roads we need to be treating today and into here the near future.

Not only do we utilize uh data uh for to help us uh guide the direction we need to go, we also use city staff and their feedback.

Our city uh staff are on the road every single day.

They know the conditions of the road, they know when something changes, and they provide that information back to our pavement management uh uh pavement program manager Gustavo, so for us to be able to identify and be able to treat as quickly as we can.

And we also receive a lot of information and feedback from the community from our residents.

Again, our residents drive, they probably drive the same road every day, three or four times a day, and so they know when something happens to their road, when it changes, when the condition when if there's any new stress, any new cracks, any potholes.

We want to make sure we're taking that information because the condition assessment that we have is a point in time, and so the road may change and will change, it may deteriorate.

You know, there could be more rain events, there could be heavier traffic because of development.

So we want to make sure we're keeping up to speed not only with the information, the baseline information that we have, but also feedback from our community.

So, how do we apply that into our planning?

Our goal is to minimize the impact to the community as much as possible.

Unfortunately, road work will be an inconvenience uh to some extent to to all of our residents and obviously to each one of us here driving on the roadways.

For our neighborhood roads for this past fiscal year, we started to use full road section closures in our neighborhood.

The first map that you see is a map of Crystal Park estates.

This work was just recently done this past fiscal year.

You see two different colors on the roads, a blue or purple and a yellow segment.

Each one of these represents a full street segment closure on separate or different days.

So this what this does is for us is it allows our contractors to work more quickly within that particular area and only disrupt the residents of uh that are directly affected by this road for about 10 to 12 hours in one single day.

If we did have street closures, it would affect those residents twice for about that same amount of time for about 10 to 12 hours.

So one of our goals is to ensure that residents have access to their homes, whether that's a short walk, uh short distance to their homes, but we also try to perform the work during the day.

So hopefully they're at work or they're at school, so we're minimizing that impact starting uh later in the morning and try to finish as uh early in the evening as we can.

So hopefully it's a very minimal impact to our community.

Also, we are very strategic with these closures.

We try to ensure that uh there is access for public safety if there is an emergency.

So we want to ensure that there is access for our public safety uh organizations as well.

In the areas where full section road closure is just not feasible, we will move to a half-street closure.

Again, we're not trying to box in our community, we're trying to ensure there is an exit and entry point into the community at all times.

As we move to our collector and arterial roads, uh we perform three different types of operations either lane closure, moving operations, or work at night.

So lane closures will cause some additional traffic on our arterial roads in our in our collectors, but again, we do not close the entire street at any given time.

Moving operations, there's only a few types of treatments where this is applicable, such as crack seal for crack sealing the streets, it doesn't require us to uh fully close a lane for a long period of time, it's just for a short period of time, and our contractors can continue to move uh through that street.

Uh night work.

Uh we also want to see uh in order to minimize uh traffic, we will also consider night work as well.

Unfortunately, that does come with some additional noise at night.

So if your home does bud up against your backyard but is uh is next to an arterial road, you will hear some noise, but again, that's part of that trade-off.

Do we have more traffic or do we have some noise?

So we try to look at every scenario differently and independently to try to come up with the best solution.

Additionally, we work closely with our uh our engineering department.

They uh approve all of the traffic control permits, so we ensure that we receive their feedback as well with any type of closures that we are trying to perform.

So I talked about what do we use in order to make our our our plan.

How do we implement that plan when it comes to our residents?

So lastly, how do we communicate that to our residents?

Um how?

We use social very uh various methods and we work real closely with our marketing public relations team to create all of our uh pamphlets and information that we give uh to the community.

So first we uh post on social media, next door, Facebook, Instagram, our marketing public relations team uh put those posts up for us.

So they do a great job in trying to provide that information to the community.

All of our project schedules are on Avondale Connect, so a resident can be able to go to our Avon Dale Connect website and be able to see all the road work that's being conducted.

We also are marketing uh and public relations teams conducts press releases.

The little clip you see on your right where it says slow down, that was uh uh media or a press release that was uh uh put in the West Valley View uh this past May.

We also provide residential door hangers and road signs to the affected homes that were the where there will be a closure, and uh we also provide a project information phone line on there as well.

And that just goes straight to Gustavo's uh office number so that if there are any questions, he responds to each one of to every single one of them.

And lastly, boots on the ground, Gustavo's out uh on the streets uh when those projects are occurring.

So if there ever is a resident that may have a concern or a contractor uh gets stopped by one of our residents and has questions, they reach out to Gustavo and he gets there as quickly as he can to answer any questions that the resident might have.

Continuing with our communication.

I talked a little bit about who do we communicate, but I want to go into a little more detail.

Of course, our residents, we provide all the information to our residents.

We reach out to our HOA HOA managers as well to ensure that they're receiving the information and then they disseminate that information through their newsletters or however it is that they may communicate to their community, so we ensure that we're working and providing that communication to them as well.

We also provide our information to our school districts.

We want to make sure that if we are impacting any of their logistics, picking up children to and from school and their home to uh identify if they need to change where their bus uh pickup will be, uh, if there is any changes needed from there.

Our business community, if uh there is a road closure or lane closures uh that might affect them, we want to ensure that they are aware of what's happening.

The United States Postal Service, we want to make sure mail is uh still delivered in a timely manner.

And we also uh communicate with uh internal city operations, our public safety teams, fire and police.

We work with them closely, letting them know where these closures may happen just in case if they receive a call for emergency services, they know that there might be a closure in that area and how to be able to work around that.

Additionally, we work with our engineering department and internally with the public works, our CIP group that also may be performing other work throughout the city, and we're trying not to impact the community as much.

And when do we communicate?

Each one of the uh communication communication methods have different timelines on when we when we send out the communications.

Project schedules on our Avondale Connect website.

We try to push it out about one to two weeks prior to the start of work.

Our residential door hangers, two to three days before work starts.

That's strategic.

We don't want to give it too early nor too late.

Too early, you might forget.

You might put that flyer away, you might throw it away and not remember when that might happen.

Too early or too late, uh, we might not give that resident enough time to make accommodations for what they need.

So we figure two to three business days is when we would we like to give out those residential door hangers.

Social media, same thought process, top of mind, two to three business days before the work actually happens, so that's top of mind for our residents.

And with our school district and business communities, we try to give at least three to four weeks of notice so that if there is anything in our plans that we may have missed or may not have thought of, they can give us that feedback and we can make adjustments as needed.

So applying how we conduct our work.

This was this is the 24 fiscal year 24 results.

As I mentioned earlier, we are using the IMS consulting plan that was developed in 2022 as our baseline.

For fiscal year 24, it called for just a little over 33 lane miles to be treated.

They were all neighborhood roads, and at a budget of three million dollars that was approved by council during the budget process, but only utilizing one single treatment type.

The results for fiscal year 24.

Uh the pavement preservation program was moved from the engineering services to public works in January of this year, 2024.

We hired Gustavo as our pavement program manager.

And he had four and a half months to complete those 33 lane miles.

And we did complete those 33 lane miles, but at a total cost of just over a million dollars.

And the biggest difference is the various treatment types that we selected versus the one treatment type that the consultant report provided for us.

With that savings, we were able to conduct some additional work.

Again, time was of the essence.

We just wanted to make sure we were able to do something that we were able to complete within the fiscal year.

So we uh moved forward and resurfaced the Jimmy Johnson Drive, Indian Springs Road, right in front of the Phoenix Raceway at a cost of 700,000 $700,000.

So just shy of an additional 10 lane miles that we included into the program.

And that was strategic, as you will see here in the next couple of slides.

We wanted to make sure that Avenue Boulevard was nice, new, pretty from I-10 all the way down to the racetrack, except for the small piece of Maricopa County roadway that is part of uh Maricopa County's roadway, but the ones that we control, we wanted to make sure there was nice, new looking looking nice from I-10 all the way to the racetrack.

So that brought the total to one just a little over 1.7 million dollars, bringing it up to just shy of 43 lane miles completed in fiscal year 24.

Four, fiscal year 25.

The original plan, as I mentioned earlier, uh called for about just shy of 47 lane miles at a cost of three million dollars, uh, which was approved by council through the budget process.

Uh again, we're taking um a different approach in regards to the different treatments that are required for each one of these neighborhoods.

And we're gonna we're adding several neighborhoods, but I want to highlight three specifically.

We're adding Glenarm Farms, Westwind, and Rio Vista as part of the program for fiscal year 25.

So those neighborhoods will be treated this year.

So that will bring our total lane miles to just shy of 70 lane miles that we will complete.

We'll we're utilizing the three million dollar uh three million dollars that were approved for fiscal year 25, and we're using some of that savings from last fiscal year as carryovers to complete this work.

Additionally, you've seen probably some work being done on Avondale Boulevard recently.

You've seen uh and we're gonna be resurfacing Avenue Boulevard from I-10 all the way down to Broadway to the intersection, uh, except for Lower Buckeye and Avondale, where that's a brand new road, so we're not gonna touch that, but that's nice and new, but the rest is going to be resurfaced.

Um we are also bringing our sidewalk ramps into ADA compliance.

I think you've seen some of that work just right out here on Avenue Boulevard outside our civic center.

Uh, we're also adding uh a bike lane buffer uh onto Avondale Boulevard to give some additional space for our bikers and provide some safety for them.

Uh and that's approved, uh $2 million funding through the CIP that was also approved by council uh during the budget process.

With all that said, what is the future look like for our pavement program?

Public works recently awarded a contract to a new vendor uh to provide ongoing pavement conditioned assessment and to also provide a pavement management software.

We're utilizing the CAP dollars that were already approved by council with some of those savings that we are seeing to pay for this new uh uh for for the uh for the software and also for the ongoing assessments.

Um this fiscal year we will complete a citywide new assessment, so another new baseline for us.

Um and we will use that to create a new five to ten year plan that we will come back to uh to city leadership, to finance and budget, and to council to present on what that new program will look like moving forward.

Additionally, we will also do yearly evaluations of our roadway network uh in segments.

We haven't figured out exactly if we'll do it in thirds or in quartiles.

We're still working through that plan, but every year there will be an assessment of a piece of some part of the city to ensure that we're keeping up with our roadway network and it's in good condition.

Oh, and one thing I wanted to say, uh go back a couple of slides.

Um this past fiscal year in 24, uh we affected we closed the street to about over 2,000 homes.

Um we got just over 20, uh I believe it was 20 inquiries.

One was a a complaint, but overall 20 inquiries in regards to those closures, most of them just wanting to know information when does it when is it going to happen, how long is it gonna take?

But for the most part, we didn't receive uh that much negative feedback when it came to the full road closures with that, which I thought that was a success.

With that said, I will answer any questions and Gustavo as well.

Tina, any questions?

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Gustavo, thank you, Harold, for for your presentation.

Um I did have a couple questions in regards to the door hangers.

I know that um the front part that you showed us was in English.

Is the reverse side in Spanish?

Yes, uh Mayor Vice Mayor and Council, yes, it is uh both English and Spanish, yes.

Great, thank you.

Um one thing I I just want to add to see you know if there's something we can do.

Oftentimes when we do have um these closures and we have cones up, we have tape up.

I feel like we can maybe do a little better job of removing those because as I drive around, I see hey, I know this was paved, you know, a few months ago, and some of those things are still there.

Is that something we can kind of try to work on?

Uh Mayor Vice Mayor and Council Barbara Conde, yes, we work real closely with our contractors to ensure that the uh traffic uh the traffic control setup is done properly and as well removed in a timely manner as well.

If we ever do see a contractor does not remove it in a timely manner, we ensure either we reach out to them.

If it's a single cone or something, we'll make sure we remove it ourselves too.

But yes, we will make sure that they are removed in a timely manner.

And did we do we had a cool pavement project, didn't we have something like that recently?

Mayor, vice mayor and councilman conde.

Yes, we did have a cool pavement test site, yes.

Okay.

And can you remind me what the results and the data was with from that?

Um what I was mayor, vice mayor, councilmark conde, um the test results were inconclusive.

Okay.

In regards to what we believe it could have done for the community, meaning reducing heat uh in the area.

So the results were inconclusive.

The uh Arizona State University came out and conducted the study uh and the results came back as inconclusive.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Good job.

So Tina, we're not the only city.

Phoenix stopped their cool pavement program a year ago, just the same reasons.

So uh Councilmember Malone.

Thank you for the presentation.

I do have a quick question.

The ADA compliance.

Is there a slide on that?

Uh I don't, Mayor, Vice Mayor and uh Councilmember Malone.

I don't have a slide specifically on ADA compliance.

I just have uh that we are uh all the ramps on Avenue Boulevard as we're resurfacing.

We are uh updating those ramps to ADA to today's ADA standards.

How how much of the city is ADA compliance and how many how much of the city is non-ADA compliant?

Uh Mayor Vice Mayor, Councilmember Malone.

A study was conducted by the engineering department, I want to say about a year or so ago, and I think there is a report out, and I don't have that information in regards to that, I believe.

Uh Mr.

Mayor, Councilman, we can get to that information.

We we have done that study, which is why any time we do a significant reconstruction on a road, we do update our ADA ramps.

But we'll get you that that number.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Thank you again for the presentation.

Thank you, Councilmember Max.

I uh really appreciate the presentation, Gustavo and Harold.

Anything where the wheels go around, I'm really excited about it, and so I'm really happy about how the pavements being treated.

I'm happy we're no longer doing that project from ASU, the cool treatment didn't work out.

Um I am a resident whose experience kind of to go park on the other street.

You can't get to your driveway.

So you've done a great job.

I've gotten the door hanger, it made sense.

I had enough time to kind of move my car.

So I do appreciate that.

I think the only concern that I really was thinking about is uh well, it's really not a concern, it's a commendation.

You had enough wherewithal and sense to go ahead and do Jimmy Johnson drive in one of the areas where we get to show off and highlight the city the most.

So I just want to commend you for finding an alternative way to kind of still use that and highlight Avondale Boulevard all the way down right into the front of the Phoenix Raceway.

So great job, uh, great wherewithal.

I appreciate the spending plan.

I know that uh Mr.

Corpin likes to save money.

Um so it looks like we're able to do that here as well.

Thank you.

Great job, gentlemen.

Thank you, Councilwin.

Curtis.

Harold, thank you so much.

I do want to appreciate you and the staff.

We had our street done, I think about eight, ten months ago.

And my wife says, you know, it's gonna be forever to get it done, and I think it was done in about three or four days.

You really surprised her.

I guess the question I really have is with all the roads that we have out there.

Some are older, some are newer, and that first graph that you put on there.

I don't remember half the life at 40% after 10 years or 12 years or something like that.

You said something about software, and my mind goes to software and input of this information.

Well, this soft, this yeah, that thing right there.

Will this be able to at least uh you know look into the future and say, okay, we put this in in 2000?

It should be done again in 2022 or 2025.

At least it gives you a base, and then if there's some problems with what the community comes up with, you know, you got a spot check and whatever.

But I'm assuming that that's what that software is all about, so that in the future we will know you know what needs to be done ahead of time and we can do the planning.

Is that uh the purpose of the thing there?

Uh mayor, vice mayor, council member Neil.

So that is correct.

Uh the software will uh allow us to be nimble in regards to when and how we should be treating our our roadways.

Um not to get too complex into the software, but um yes, we do we do put the condition uh percentage or number that will receive the score.

And then based off that score, we can apply different treatments to it as it comes to second year, third year, or fourth year.

Um, as if the road unfortunately does deteriorate after time.

It's just part of uh it's part of what it does.

So, yes, we are able to add this specific treatment, and once we do add a treatment, that score goes up to which then kind of resets as you see here on the blue curvatures here.

It resets the condition of that road or the score of that road.

We're able to monitor it, and after it gets to a specific point in time, reapply another treatment on it, cost effective treatment to ensure that it stays at optimal levels.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

That's good.

Thank you, Curtis.

Thank you for your presentation, both of you.

Um I just had a question out of curiosity.

When you're looking at the different ways to treat pavement, um, the seal coat and the crack seal, what's the difference?

Or does it just depend on the street itself?

Is there a longer life with one or the other?

Because I had looked into like the crack seal and how they did that.

Um is that where they like it says it's pressurized on the bottom and they let it cure?

Uh Mayor, Vice Mayor, Councilmember Solaria.

Yeah, crack seal is basically if they give it a very hot liquid that basically just fills in the crack.

That's why it just seals it in.

Um so there's no pressure, it's just applied and it just falls right into the crack.

When it comes to the other seals, I'll let Gustavo talk, he's a subject matter expert on that.

So I'll let him kind of discuss that a little bit.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, Councilmember Salone.

Sorabio.

Solario.

Um the crack seal is probably the most effective uh treatment you can do.

Um if you don't have any budget, that's probably the one you want to pick all the time.

Because the cracks don't apply that to.

For the main reason, like you said, it seals up the crack from the bottom up and lets the water not get in there.

That's your first uh part of deterioration is when the water gets into the subgrade, you start getting raveling, you start getting potholes, you start getting different different uh deteriorations on it.

So the crackstool is probably the most important one.

That should be applied all the time.

And the new road is applied right away, probably your first, second year.

You want to put that on there just to fill up all the cracks to make sure that no water gets in there and penetrates in there.

Your seal coats depend on the variation of deterioration you have in it.

You might have some cracks, you might have some block cracking, you might have some severe longitude cracking, depending on what it is.

That'll depend on that'll determine on what kind of treatments you're gonna put onto it.

So, but the the main code, the main purpose of the crack so is one of the biggest ones you want to put in.

And then after that, can you go ahead and you start?

The program will look at it, and then I'll go look at it.

The team will look at it and we'll determine on what we're gonna do if we're gonna put a SIL code and if we're gonna go put in uh uh slurry or a micro.

It all depends on what the deterioration part of it and what the that uh paybid index number is.

If it's a low one, you definitely want to put something else more than just a crack so like we did on Jimmy Johnson.

We put a capsule, we put a chipsil in first, and then we put a micro on it for aesthetics and writability.

So there's a lot of variables that go into determining what treatment we're gonna put into it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Thank you.

My mine's more of just a comment in regards to the the professionalism that we have in this department.

You mentioned subject matter expert.

I mean, if you look at uh the budget and the amount of money that was saved, um, and even that just looking at prevention, looking at maintenance and when as it says here to apply the the right treatment at the right time.

You know, it looks like the department as a department, you are coming out ahead on that, and as a as policy makers, it's it's not only important for us to convey the message that roads are important to us as a result of working with the community, but more importantly, being able to um you know be cost conscious, and so by implementing some of these treatments early, utilizing the software.

I think that's we're definitely on the right track.

And even more impressive is the fact that over 2,000 streets, uh 20, what do you say, 12 inquiries or something to that effect with one complaint?

Uh you know, progress often brings pain, um, but at the same point, it sounds like everything kind of went pretty smoothly uh in the grand scheme of things.

So I appreciate this looking at a long-term view.

More importantly, I really appreciate the fact that we are looking we're being cost-conscious here.

So thank you.

Ditto.

Thanks, guys.

Of course.

Thank you.

Council updates.

Councilmember Conde.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I just want to take this time um to recognize and to congratulate um council member Malone.

So this weekend, she received the President's Volunteer Service Award.

Um, and the service honors individuals whose service positively impacts communities in every corner of the nation and inspires those around them to take action too.

Um, so she was presented this award this Saturday, and I just wanted to say thank you, Councilmember Malone, for all that you do and how you impact.

I love that communities in every corner of the nation.

So, congratulations.

Thank you.

Any comments on that?

Um I was very surprised.

It's a lifetime award.

That's awarded from the president.

I got a letter um from the president and um a medal of honor, uh, a medal from the president of the United States.

It was done through CNN and Dorne Maxon, and there was several of us leaders.

Well, one of the leaders was also uh Buckeye's mayor, so he was um there along with about 10 to 15 of us that um got either a lifetime achievement award or a gold uh medal award.

And where was it presented?

It was presented out in Buckeye.

Okay, yeah.

Wow.

So you were nominated then.

Yeah, I was nominated, and um, yeah, I got the lifetime achievement award.

So it's I was I was very surprised.

Yeah, that's awesome.

Yeah, thank you.

All right, maybe you want to top that.

Who's going to state conference?

Yeah.

Um state conference starts tomorrow.

We'll see you there.

Who's going from council?

Okay.

We'll see you there.

There will be an update on prop 479 uh without getting too much into it and violating state law.

Uh, we had a meeting last week, it was great, it was a round table.

You'll start seeing more polling dating come out.

You'll start I'm getting a little look from Nicole.

Um, you'll start seeing more data come out from separate companies not affiliated with the city of Avondale.

So thank you.

Uh can I get a motion to adjourn?

Into executive session.

To adjourn to intern to executive session.

Yep.

I have a motion from Councilmember Malone, a second from Councilmember Solario.

Marcella, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Thank you.

For those who are listening online, the meeting is over.

Council are going into executive session and will not be back out.

Thank you.

Have a good night.