This meeting began with a special session to introduce new city employees and recognize police promotions and life-saving awards, followed by a regular meeting that included a public hearing on zoning code amendments, a consent agenda, and a council current events roundtable. The meeting took place on the evening of October 22, 2025.
The meeting was adjourned at the conclusion of the roundtable.
23 special meeting to order. Marcella, do you mind doing roll call, please? Councilmember Conde. Councilmember Malone. Councilmember Nielsen. Here. Councilmember Solario. Councilmember White. Here. Vice Mayor Paneda. Mayor Weiss. Here. Welcome back, everyone. Ron's wearing a sharp new suit. Look at that. Speaking of Ron, Ron, item number two, please. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We have first a presentation by Jody Novak, our director of development services, introducing two new employees, or one. One new employee, and going to talk about the second. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm going to introduce first Cole Hunger. We're very pleased to have him join our planning division team here as a planner. Cole joined our department this past June. He came from the city of Casagrande, where he worked in the planning development department as an intern following getting his master's degree at Arizona State University recently. He had originally done his bachelor's degree in San Antonio and uh Trinity University, made his way back to Arizona. He's highly motivated. He's very eager to learn a lot of stuff about planning and development and working with our team and uh grow his career with Avondale. So we're very happy to have him on board. Um and he's moved up to downtown Phoenix, so he's getting closer to the West Side. Welcome, Cole. Jody said you moved back to Phoenix. Did you grow up here? Where'd you grow up? Uh Phoenix, Scottsdale. Welcome back. Um, and Sylvia Willem Marcore is another new planner. Unfortunately, she's not able to be here this evening, but I'll do a quick introduction for her. Her photographs on the screen. Sylvia also joined our team just this past July, um, where she had worked previously for a private development firm learning how to do zoning case application submittals for a developer. Um she as well has a bachelor's and a master's degree in urban planning, both received from Arizona State University. Um she is local and lives here in the West Valley. She as well is an eager learner, and she's really wanting to contribute to a lot of building, growth, and development in Avondale. So we welcome her joining our team too. And you're happy with the new talent? Yes, very much so. Yeah, we have a good a good team and a good group so far. There's a lot of learning and training that's occurring. Thanks, Jody. Yeah, thank you very much.