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Thank you.

Julie, can we get roll call, please?

Councilmember Condi.

Here.

Councilmember Garcia.

Here.

Councilmember Solario.

Here.

Councilmember Weiss.

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Councilmember White.

Vice Mayor Nielsen.

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Mayor Pineda.

Here.

Thank you.

Ron, next item, please.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Council.

First, we have Ted Flora as your acting human, actually, he currently is our human resource assistant director, getting ready to be our acting HR director starting next Monday.

But he's here to uh do the proclamation for Mental Health Awareness Month.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council.

It is my privilege to introduce tonight's proclamation for Mental Health Awareness Month.

May is designated as Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to reduce stigma, build awareness, and encourage open conversations about mental health.

It also serves as a reminder that support, connection, and resources are available to those who may need them.

At this time, I would like to acknowledge an important guest who has joined us this evening, Kathy Via, program director of Southwest Behavioral Health and Health Services.

Southwest Behavioral and Health Services is an excellent community partner to highlight, given the important mental health services they provide to the Avondale community.

They have presence at the Arizona Complete Health Avondale Resource Center and work closely with our neighborhood and family services department to support residents in need.

Mayor, I'll turn it over back to you for acknowledgments or comments and then for the reading of the proclamation.

Thank you so much, Ted, for the presentation, and thank you for being here tonight.

Councilmember Condi.

Oh, sorry.

You go for it.

If you have you have comments to make, I apologize.

I was ready to jump right on to the proclamation.

That's okay, no questions.

Um, just wanted to say thank you on behalf of Southwest Cable and Health Services for recognizing the community mental health.

Um, we want to thank the commitment to our community and for recognizing the importance of mental health as a vital part of overall well-being.

Um, I appreciate the opportunity for community leaders, service priorities, and residents to work together towards solutions that improve the lives of those facing mental health challenges.

So we thank you for your partnership and being able to work together for the community.

Thank you so much.

You know, ironically, and sorry, uh Councilmember Condi, I know we're going to do a proclamation, but just today I had a conversation um with a fellow colleague, and we were talking about you know the end of careers.

And uh this colleague of mine, um, his position within the organization is to have those conversations with other colleagues.

And um, he referenced what he calls his mental health quotient, and he defined that as you know, when you get to the point where showing up every day just zaps everything out of you to where you're no good, maybe that's the time where you start to look at making other decisions and just so just ironic that we're having this conversation.

So thank you.

Uh Councilmember Condi.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you for allowing me to read this important proclamation.

Proclamation for mental health mental health awareness month, whereas May is recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and educate the public about the importance of mental well-being, and whereas for more than 20 years, the substance abuse and mental health services administration has recognized mental health awareness month each May to highlight the vital role mental health plays in overall well-being while providing resources, support, and education to individuals and communities.

And whereas mental health is an essential part of overhealth overall health, and millions of Americans, including one in five adults and one in seven youth experience a mental health challenge annually.

And whereas mental health conditions can deeply affect individuals, families, and communities, they can be treated, managed, and prevented through timely intervention, support, and education.

And whereas the city of Avondale is committed to fostering a supportive environment that prioritizes mental well-being, promotes access to mental health services, and empowers residents to live a fulfilling and healthy life.

And whereas during mental health awareness month, the city recognizes the importance of open dialogue about mental health, offers support to those facing mental health challenges, and encourages individuals in need to seek help from professionals, loved ones, and community resources.

And now, therefore, on behalf of the Avondale City Council and the City of Avondale, Arizona, hereby proclaims the month of May 2026 as mental health awareness month in the city of Avondale.

Thanks.

Is there any members of council that wish to provide any comments on this topic?

Councilmember Garcia.

Thank you, Mayor.

This is so important as a veteran and someone that has dealt with mental health issues in my past and probably today, sometimes depending on the day.

This is really important for us to have the resources in the city for our community.

So thank you guys so much for everything that you do.

You guys save lives, you know, our officers, our firefighters, people on staff, everything that we do here as the city that we have the availability for everyone to have resources.

Thank you guys so much because I know that it's not an easy toll for the people that are working in mental health because you get to we unload on you.

So I just pray that you know when you guys go home that you're able to have somebody to be there for you guys as well.

But thank you.

And really quickly, Ron, if you don't, oh, sorry, not to put you on the spot, but put me on the spot.

These these numbers, these resources, are they available to staff?

Mr.

Mayor and Council, that is to their available to staff and to the community at large.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

I mean, we you see the commercials, you see the messages all the time, but you know, it's uh I can only imagine what a phone call can do for somebody who's in need uh during you know uh a struggle.

And so the more that this information, these resources are available, uh, the better for our community and and staff.

It affects everybody.

So thank you both for being here tonight.

Appreciate it.

Oh, councilmember White.

The importance um uh you brought up an important point, Mayor.

You talked about that transitioning and career posture where it changes uh my other uh career role is in um fitness.

I teach yoga, but a large part of why people come to the mat and take yoga is for healing purposes.

Um, we have to be able to sit with ourselves with some amount of time and be able to manage through that process.

So I just want to remind everybody as we look forward to supporting our community around us when we talk about mental health.

There's some very important things that we need to pay attention to.

It's just not the awareness sometimes isn't enough.

We have to make meaningful connections.

We have to be compassionate.

It's required.

We have to understand that we are coping and others are coping as well, whether we suffer with a mental illness or we're confronted with somebody who's managing through their mental illness.

There's a coping mechanism that's put out there.

And the way we make sure we can envelop our mental health needs and care for all is we have a community and we all care.

So I think when we think about it, connection, combat, compassion, coping, community and care are really vital to ensure that we decrease the negative outcomes of mental illness and acknowledge that they're realistic expectation to have it eradicated might never happen.

We all mentally deal with everything differently.

Um, but we do have to have the appropriate skills in place to resolve those things and create a community where it's okay to say I'm not okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks again.

Appreciate it.

Ron, next item.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor and Council.

Up next, we have a proclamation for National Water Safety Month presented by Britney, your recreation manager.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and members of the council.

My name is Brittany Stravinsky, and I'm a recreation manager for our Parks, our creation and libraries department.

I'm here with you this evening to give you a little update on our current Avondale Aquatics Center and also to share the importance of water safety with our community.

Beginning early last month, we were able to open up to the public for four days a week for our lap swim class for lap swim, as well as on weekends for resident recreational swim from one to 5 p.m.

Coming up this weekend, Memorial Day weekend, we are switching over from our spring schedule to our fall or to our summer schedule schedule, excuse me, which is seven days a week of operation, um, both for lap swim, fitness and for recreation swim.

A couple things to highlight um this upcoming summer are dive-in movies.

We have two this year.

We're going to be seeing Lilo and Stitch, the original one, and also the Teen Beach movie as well.

These are available for our residents of Avondale.

We definitely encourage you to pre-register because it gets a little busy and it's a very popular event at our Aquatic Center.

Some of our programs that we have going on this year are swim lessons, fitness classes, scuba, which is a new program that we have this year, water polos, swim teams, and some CPR classes.

As far as swim lessons go, we were afforded another opportunity to help have swim lessons earlier this year since we were able to open to the public earlier.

So we opened up a little bit earlier in May, which allowed us to add classes here or sorry, we opened earlier in April so that we could have classes added here in the May time.

Also, new this year were some additional rental spaces.

We have our Gila and multi-purpose rooms still available, but we also added pool side Romadas for some smaller parties so that we could accommodate accommodate some smaller guests to 14 people per Ramada.

All this information is in possibilities are only able.

Excuse me.

All of these opportunities are only able to happen because of our amazing team in Green.

We have a total of 60 lifeguard staff this year, and they are gearing up ready to go, especially as the end of the school year approaches.

Next, we wanted to talk about the importance of water safety and share this information with our community.

According to the CDC, drowning is the number one cause of death for children ages one to four.

And the number two cause of unintentional injury death for children ages five to fourteen, going second to motor vehicle accidents.

We wanted to take the time to share what the aquatic center is doing and ask for your support in spreading the awareness of the ABCs of water safety.

So A stands for our adult supervision, making sure that we have constant and dedicated surveillance of all people while they're inside of the pool.

Yes, we have lifeguards on duty, but you as a parent or as a community member, we want to make sure that we're always dedicated to watching our people in the water.

The aquatic center is hosting on weekends water safety cards where children can draw their pictures on them and they give the card to their parent.

So whoever's holding that water safety card is responsible for that child during that time.

It really helps make sure that they're focused and it's not everybody's responsibility.

It's dedicated to one person so that there is truly dedicated surveillance.

B stands for barriers, making sure that things like gates are closed, latched, and sealed, and even toilets at home are sealed as well for if you have little ones going around.

And then C is for our CPR classes, um, as well as learning to swim.

So we have tons of classes that are going on.

And then we do have the Avondale Fire Medical team that's going to be working with us this summer again to provide additional CPR courses for our public.

And that concludes my presentation.

Mayor, I'll pass it back to you for the proclamation.

Thank you so much for the presentation and all the wonderful information for the community.

Vice Mayor Nielsen, I believe you're reading the proclamation.

Thank you.

We'll do.

Whereas swimming and aquatic related activities play a vital role in the maintaining good physical and mental health and enhance the quality of life for all people.

And whereas water safety education is essential to prevent grounding and recreational water-related injuries.

And whereas awareness of the contributions made by the recreational water industry, as represented by the organization involved in the National Water Safety Month Coalition, and developing safe swimming facilities, aquatic programs, home pools and spas and related activities, providing healthy places to recreate, learn, grow, build self-esteem, confidence, and self and sense of self-worth, which contribute to the quality of our life in our community.

And whereas understanding the vital importance of communication of water safety rules and programs to families and individuals of all ages, whether owners of private pools, users of public swimming facilities, or visitors to water parks.

Now, therefore, on behalf of the Avondale City Council, the City of Avondale, Arizona, hereby proclaim May 2026 as National Water Safety Month, and do urge all those in the City of Avondale to support, educate, and promote observance.

Thank you so much.

Ron, next item, please.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor and Council.

Up next, we have Kirk, your public works director for a proclamation for National Public Works Week.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council.

This week is National Public Works Week 2026.

National Public Works Week started as an education campaign in 1960 and received federal recognition in 1962 when President John F.

Kennedy issued a proclamation designating the third week of May as National Public Works Week.

Each year, the American Public Works Association creates a theme for National Public Works Week.

This year's theme is Rooted in Service, Powered by Community.

This year's theme acknowledges that the roots of service run deep in public works.

It's what has propelled public works innovation that has helped our communities evolve into places where people can lead lives of purpose and possibility.

Some work, like building roads and bridges are highly visible, while other public works contributions like maintaining water and sewer systems are sometimes hidden from view.

Together, these efforts from the foundation form the foundation of thriving communities, reminding us that every project, seen or unseen, powers the connection between service and the people it supports.

The public works industry encompasses many areas, including but not limited to streets and transportation, water and wastewater utilities, fleet services, facilities and grounds maintenance, administration, solid waste and recycling, and incorporate city, county, state, and federal programs, as well as the consulting and contracting community.

In Avondale, Public Works Related Services are provided by the Public Works Department as well as members of the facilities, engineering, and parks, recreations, and library departments, and the Capital Projects Division.

I ask that the staff of these departments and divisions stand now to be recognized.

Your public works department employs 128 full-time staff providing support to city services 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.

This week provides an opportunity to recognize, celebrate, and thank the men and women of the public works industry who work hard day and night to make life civilized for all of us.

As you notice, there's many members of the public works team and our partner departments here this evening.

We would be honored, Mayor, if council could read the proclamation that's before you.

Absolutely.

Thank you, Kirk.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

This is exciting.

So I just want to say thank you guys so much for all you do because honestly, out of all the departments, I love all of you, but we can't run a city without the work that you guys do.

So thank you so much for all you do.

Whereas the City of Avondale Public Works professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities, and services that are of vital importance, a sustainable and resilient communities and to public health, high quality of life and well-being of the people of Avondale.

And whereas these infrastructures, facilities, and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public work professionals who all who are engineers, managers, and employees at all levels of government and the private sector, who are responsible for rebuilding, improving and protecting our nation's transportation, water supply, water treatment, and solid waste systems, public buildings and other structures and facilities essential to our citizens.

And whereas it is in the public interest for the residents, civic leaders, and children in Avondale to gain knowledge of and to maintain an ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of public works and the public works programs in their respective communities.

And whereas the year of 2026 marks the 66th annual National Public Works Week, sponsored by the American Public Works Association, be it now.

Now, therefore, on behalf of Avondale City Council and the City of Avondale, Arizona, hereby proclaimed the week of May 17th through the 23rd, 2026 as National Public Works Week.

I urge all residents to join with the representative of the American Public Works Association and the government agencies in activities, events, and ceremonies designated to pay tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, managers, and employees, and to recognize the substantial contributions they make to protecting our national health, safety, and advancing quality of life for all.

Thank you, Kirk.

And please share our gratitude with the entire team.

Bunch of happy faces I saw in that picture.

So thanks again for an early week, early hours.

So thank you again.

Ron, next item, please.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

And if I could just remind those uh from the public works community to stick around for a picture, because I know some of them will try to sneak away.

Um, but if we could have them stick around for pictures of the council, that'd be great.

Uh, Mr.

Mayor Council, the next is the Citizens Water Academy recognition, uh, presented by Eric, your public works assistant director.

Good evening, Mayor Vice Mayor, members of council.

I'm very excited that it's Public Works Week, and I get to immediately talk about a successful event that was hosted by Public Works, and that event is the Citizens Water Academy.

The Water Academy is an annual event held by the Public Works Department where we invite in a group of residents for a deeper look at what makes water flow within the city of Avondale.

The Academy is a series of five sessions over the course of five weeks, five Tuesday nights in a row to learn everything about uh what goes into the water division.

And I'm happy to announce that this year Public Works graduated 22 residents, and here they are.

22 graduates is a new record for the Citizens Water Academy.

And it allows me to say without a doubt that this was the most engaged and active group of participants that Public Works has ever hosted.

And while I had the privilege of being the master of ceremonies, it's really my water division staff that makes this event both wonderful and successful each and every year.

So next I would like to talk about those teams and some of the activities and presentations over the course of the academy.

Night one focused on presentations about water resources, sustainability, and stormwater, with presentations about the water portfolio, the drought and sustainable practices from our water resources and sustainability teams.

And it included an activity from our amazing sustainability officer, where she guided a resident through a tree planting event right at the mosque.

Night two was all about water distribution, metering and locating, water quality and conservation, where those team members provided a variety of presentations and activities to the residents about their divisions.

Shown in the photos, our metering and locating team had one resident locate a long lost valve out in the yard.

And we had a couple more individuals try their hand at blue staking.

Night three revolved around water sampling and wastewater collections.

My amazing environmental technicians guided residents through the process of taking their own sample.

Then later that night, a couple individuals were able to drive our CC TV rover and even try on one of our protective Tyvek suits.

Night four was interesting.

We had one brave volunteer take a mixed liquor suspended solid sample right out of the aeration basin.

And he did a great job.

After that, the academy learned all about the wastewater treatment process and everything that it takes to get water ready to recharge back into the environment from both a tour and a presentation by our water reclamation team.

And of course, no academy would be complete without a trip to the aquaculture center, where residents had the opportunity to learn from our experts and of course to feed the fish.

Finally, on night five, we toured the wetlands, the recharge cells discussed the capital program and utility rates.

You can see a couple of residents releasing fish into Lake Five to do some algae control.

And then we ordered up an amazing Arizona sunset while we were showing off the infrastructure at the recharge cells.

After the tours, we discussed everything that it takes to fund our operations and held a little graduation ceremony as well.

And I could rave about the academy all night.

But instead, we would like to have one of our graduates uh say a few words.

So I'm going to pass this presentation off to Patsy Morose to talk about her water academy experience.

Good evening.

Those five weeks were the most interesting weeks that I've ever experienced.

I had no idea what the water works department does from our water going down the sink, from flushing our toilets, what we put in our trash, what we put in our toilets, how that affects everything.

It was a lot of fun.

They were long nights.

The engagement was a lot of fun.

That just the fact that everyone got to partake.

It wasn't just a certain group of people that got to, you know, go and the same people all the time.

I mean, I had Amber come to my house the other day.

Um she gave a presentation on like how does how to conserve more water because I'm all about saving money.

And so I wanted her to come over so she could help me figure out where I was wasting water, so to speak.

And it was really truly experienced.

I mean, it was a great experience because I didn't realize how many leaks I actually have.

Yeah.

So it was a great learning experience.

I highly recommend it to anyone.

And thank you for being a great MC.

And the Tyvek suit was a lot of fun.

And that concludes my presentation.

If you have any questions for myself or Patsy, we'll answer them now.

Opportunity this um you know behind the scenes if you will experience is just learning about how much goes into this specific department, but more importantly water.

We're all aware of how important water is to your point in regards to conservation, uh what we can do as an organization to make sure that we are as responsible as possible.

It's a finite resource and with everything that you've read or heard and all of you in the audience have read and heard we have to be very cognizant of those of those things.

And so uh for that just appreciative that uh you took the time to do that.

You also said something that I think is important and hopefully you may think of being an ambassador anybody as well would love to be an ambassador to really share more about why it's important to be involved with your city and uh to then go out in the community and share just how much information is available all the committees um uh all the opportunities that are offered here that they may not be aware of so hopefully maybe if nothing else we'll get a couple of ambassadors out of this and you've learned a lot more about um unfortunately some leaks uh that are happening and hopefully that's just uh something small that can be fixed um but are there any other members of council that have any comments okay we'll start at the end council member white thank you so much uh mayor thank you Eric for the presentation I participated in Water Academy and um I'm very happy that you had such a great experience and that all of you participated it is notable that 22 people went all five weeks that is very notable that you had that high participation and I love your smile back there Susie because I know how much you guys do in public works um public works I see all of you out here so I would call all of your names but I don't want to take that much time because you guys all do such an amazing job but the one employee that doesn't get paid in Avondel it's a joke do you guys know who that is it's our bacteria yeah yeah they don't get paid but there's billions of them out here working to keep our water clean so you guys all know that right yeah thank you so much I appreciate you thank you councilman Royce thank you um Eric for the presentation Patsy thank you for coming up and speaking to us I also attended the water academy and you guys made it even a little bit more fun um because we did every single week was a field trip loved it absolutely loved it but to actually touch the water and do things with the water didn't have an opportunity to do that.

So you guys I love it because you're up in your game um but anyway just thank you for attending thank you guys all for taking your time to do this and strongly encourage any resident to attend thank you.

Thank you any other comments if none okay well thank you so much and I see you all have your uh shirts on and if you wouldn't mind posing for a couple of pictures we'd appreciate you coming up here as well and I believe uh all of those that were uh that we shared proclamations for tonight so council would I mind joining me down there for picks

I don't I don't find cooking.

All right, item number three on the agenda is unscheduled public appearances.

Do you have two blue cards?

So at this time, if I could have uh Natasha Edmonds come up, please.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

My name is Natasha Edmonds.

I am here tonight, not just as a resident, but a mother, a parent.

On April 17th, the nightmare we all pray never happens became a reality for one of our own.

We lost 12-year-old Lewis Gaines the fourth, a beautiful soul, a son, and a neighbor just five hundred feet from his front door.

Every morning we send our children out into the city.

We tell them to look both ways.

We tell them to be careful.

But as mothers, we know that all the caution in the world can't protect a child against a road that isn't designed for their safety.

According to ADOT, pedestrian deaths in our state have hit a five-year high.

It's difficult for me.

The day after we had our last meeting, I was watching the national news, and there was a city in Wisconsin, not for sure which city it was.

I think it was uh Milwaukee, passed a resolution to build no more data centers in their city.

The reason that they're doing it is not just for their city.

They're trying to get their their county and the state to also pass this.

In my past, I have worked on catfish farms where they do catfish, where they pull water out of a river, purify it, be go through the catfish, put it back in the same river, and there's no water usage.

So since we're in such a critical uh state of water, I would like to propose for the the council to pass that resolution first.

We also I also found out during this meeting that uh I g assume the city of Avondale is paying water fluence, a company in California, to watch over the HOAs to make sure that we abide with using the amount of water they think we do.

Problem with that is I got a email two weeks after we had a spike in water usage.

The water usage was because two of our sprinkler heads were broken.

They were fixed literally within a few hours uh by two young men that will probably be in the penal system someday in our neighborhood who caused some problems.

But they're over they're looking over this, they're telling us two weeks after it was fixed, it was done.

I have three points.

One, I'd like for the the um the city is is giving away these basically three million gallons of gas.

My two questions.

I was gonna say, although your time expired, yeah, please if you can pray the last one.

Okay, they're very short.

One of them is why can't we pass the law I mentioned?

And then the third one doesn't have anything to water, but the corner of Lichfield and Lower Buckeye needs to have a stoplight.

This evening when I started to leave the housing condition on Lower Buckeye, traffic was back clear up to the river.

And of course, we got a lot of construction coming up from the south.

So that needs to be for safety.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It took more than three minutes.

That's okay.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

At this time, I'd like to pass over to City Manager Ron Corbin to share a few words.

So uh Mr.

Mayor and and she didn't see it on the agenda as well.

I'd like to use the call to the public to recognize a public servant.

Katie Gregory has over 30 years of public service, uh, not only to the state of Arizona, but some other communities where she came from.

Um, she joined us about uh two years ago as our uh assistant city manager after after a national wide search, and she has been nothing but generous and giving back to our community since she's been here.

Um our uh parks bond and our public safety bond pass.

Um that is one of her uh, I think one of her uh big accompl accomplishments here at the city of Avondale.

With that, we can now continue with council's priority of building uh parks, rebuilding our community parks, and making quality of life here great.

So I just want to say um I did not realize tonight was her last meeting.

Um she does have two more weeks, and I invite council in the community to come out June 2nd.

We have a celebration for her.

Uh June what?

June 8th, sorry.

Um I I apologize.

Um, but she won't be here at the next council meeting, so this was my last chance to publicly say thank you uh for her service, and um I wish her the best of luck.

Her title is not bigger where she's going, but it is clearly a promotion, and I'll let her talk to you guys about that offline if she wishes.

But we're very proud of her, and we're very thankful for her.

So, Katie, thank you from the city of Avondale.

Katie, would you like to say any words?

Sure, wherever you feel comfortable.

We'd like to put you on the spot if we could, but thank you, Mayor and Council.

Um, I a few words is what I'd like to say.

And really, those words are thank you for allowing me.

I feel honored and humbled to have been able to be part of this incredible um organization.

Ron, thank you for all of your trust in me and your leadership and to the staff who I've had the honor to get to know and will miss dearly.

Um, I really do hope that Avondale just continues.

While I may be adjacent in my new role, I will say that, and I mentioned this earlier.

The West Valley is where my heart is.

It's where I've kind of grown.

It's where I've been part of the communities for so long that no matter what I'm doing, um, I will always have your best interests in mind when I am looking through various fun activities I get to be involved with in next.

So um again, I appreciate everyone.

Thank you, everyone, for just letting me come and and and uh be part of this big this big family.

So I appreciate it.

Thank you so much for your service, Katie.

And uh, while it's been you know uh a quick ride, it seems like uh, you know, just uh all that what you've done uh in terms of your service to the city uh and the um the skill set experience that you bring, just we really appreciate it.

And um also would like to credit you for and and my wife to a certain degree for helping me to correctly pronounce prescit.

It's not press Scott.

So thank you so much for that.

But you know, to your your next endeavors, um as you mentioned to just be adjacent.

So we will see you in the future.

Thank you.

Congratulations on that retirement.

Okay.

Next item is item number four, the consent agenda.

Are there any members of council who wish to have an item removed for separate consideration?

Seeing none, can I please get a motion?

And a motion from Councilmember White, second from Councilmember Solorio.

Please vote.

Mayor, I just have a quick question for you, not about the items, but um, I just wanted to um thank the city for going through with item um e the widening project that was referred to.

Thank you very much.

Noted thank you.

Okay, we have a vote at this time.

Item passes unanimously seven to zero.

Thank you so much.

Item number five, summary of current events.

Are there any members of council that wish to share anything from the prior week or weeks?

Okay, councilmember White.

Thank you so much.

Um, I had the opportunity to um visit the Westmec location um in Glendale around 99th Avenue.

Very beautiful facility.

Wanted to thank um Kathy Bibb Mays for making that available.

Also spent some time on Mother's Day out in Glendale at Dave and Buster's.

Um last week on the 12th, I got to visit Vida Eterna Church and witness a pre-K graduation.

So I'm sorry I missed our event here.

But then we had the opportunity to attend the Autobonds Healer River Forum on the 13th.

And I rounded out the week last week at Westmarks Economic Development.

And we heard an amazing presentation to kick off the day by our own interim economic development director, Cheryl.

So she just knocked it out the park, did an amazing job, really represented Avendale well.

And when the questions came up about water and the uh the assistant director couldn't answer them, you could.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, Councilmember Garcia.

Um I attended the chamber event what last week.

It was really good, especially to recognize um the panaderia and western.

They do so much for the community.

Um, as well as I graduated from Leadership West.

So thank you guys so much for the opportunity to do that.

It was honestly such a great experience to do that, but to learn from so many different leaders that I probably wouldn't have had the chance or speak to if it wasn't for being able to attend.

So thank you guys so much for allowing me to do that.

Thank you.

Uh Vice Mayor Nilson.

So I think we all had an opportunity to go to West Valley Regional Chamber and had a great time down there meeting different people, seeing what's going on in the valley.

I mean, on the West Side here.

I didn't even know the Audubon Society had that place down there.

It's a really nice place.

It's open for tours, uh schools and other things can go down there and go visit and walk around the area down there.

And then the last thing I had an opportunity to meet with Kaylee Sayos from CAP stakeholders outreach last week and just learn a little bit more of CAP and what's going on with that and hopefully what we can do in the future to work with them on it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilman Garcia.

Sorry, I just want to say thank you so much to our law enforcement officers.

It was police week last week.

It's one of my favorite weeks to see what people do out in the community.

But thank you guys so much for everything you do on keeping us safe.

Well, Councilman Garcia just stole my thunder for two of the items.

So I will share that.

And I I feel so bad right now that I'm not sure of her name.

But last week during our commencement graduation for Stray Mountain Community College, uh, as I was watching the procession of students, our one of our very own security personnel graduated.

And I cannot remember her name for the life of me right now.

But I want to give her a special shout out when I get her name.

I'll make sure that we do that.

But to see a familiar face uh and the fact that she had accomplished um completing her her education uh was great.

And it was just to come face to face with her, uh just made me smile.

So uh once I get her name, I will make sure to uh share that with everybody.

I'll get it from you, Dale, a little bit later.

But uh if there's nothing else, then at this moment, if I can get an adjust a sorry, a motion to adjourn into executive session.

We got a motion from Councilmember Garcia, a second from Councilmember Solario.

Please vote.

Okay, item passes unanimously.

We are now going to adjourn into executive session.

Uh so those of you who are leaving, have a safe drive.

We'll see you at the next meeting.

And thank you for being here tonight.