The Bullhead City Council held its regular meeting on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, at 5:30 PM in the City Council Chambers. All six council members were present. The meeting opened with an invocation by Pastor George Lyman and the Pledge of Allegiance. Major agenda items included board appointments, a liquor license public hearing, approval of a $150,000 contract for the Animal Resource Center security system, a $1.28 million Axon body-worn camera system with AI-assisted report writing, a $400,000 budget amendment, rescheduling the August meeting, and setting the process to fill a council vacancy following the resignation of Mayor Steve Diamico.
Immediately following the special meeting, so at your pleasure. Okay. This um Tuesday again, same Tuesday. June 17th, five 540. We'll start our general session. And uh can I have a roll call? All council members are present. Very good. Thank you very much. And we're gonna have an invocation from Pastor George Lyman from Desert Shores Community Baptist Church. Everybody stand. Thank you. Vice Mayor, Council members, shall we pray? Dear God of Heaven, we thank you for allowing us to come together as a committee of people elected, chosen by the people of the city to govern and rule this city, and do it in a manner that shows great respect for things like budgets and being responsible as servants of this community. And I we thank you for you uh allowing them to come point where they could say they have a balanced budget and they're watching the money they spend. And Lord, we thank you for all the the things we see going on in this city to make it a better city. So we pray that you would help each and every one of these members here have wisdom and understanding as they make further decisions. Lord, we pray for uh the person who will be our next mayor, whether it's one of these members or or someone who who you're gonna allow to be in that role, and we would pray they also would be a person who would uh really emulate wisdom and understanding and character and honor. So, Lord, we we pray to you and thank you for all these things. Uh we we thank you for your son Jesus Christ who's given us this wisdom and works through us, and I just thank you for each member here in your name, amen. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republicans. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Any takers. I want to tell you how glad I am that I can talk this time. The last time I was up here when I shared with you about a program we started our church called PALS. I sounded terrible. So thanks for listening to me this time. Uh, we started uh uh earlier this month a program called PALS, Parents of Addicted Loved Ones, and it is a support group with a uh trained facilitator that helps adults who have adult children who have addictions and it helps them to figure out how they can uh navigate through those difficult waters. All of us have had children, and as they grow up, we know that sometimes they get caught up in addictions. It could be gambling, it could be alcohol, it could be drugs. There's so many things that we know that this world can cause problems. So uh earlier this year we worked with this group called PALS, and they actually uh went and trained one of uh a person to be a facilitator. So on Monday nights at uh six o'clock, we have the PALs meeting at Desert Shores Community Baptist Church, 2625, uh land and drive, and we want to invite uh anyone who needs help if just a it's a support group that teaches and educates uh the those adult uh uh parents on how they can deal effectively with some of the the struggles with uh how we help our adult children who are going through difficulties like that. So I want to just let you know thank you for uh letting me share that with you. And if you have any questions, you can call myself, Pastor George Lyman at Desert Shores Community Baptist Church, 928-754-1111. No, we're not getting rid of that number. It's so perfect, anyways. So please uh just thank you for your time. Thank you very much. Next Robin Meeting, Bullhead City, um Vice Mayor Alphon Alonso, Council, City Manager Cotter and staff. On behalf of the Tri-State Military Moms, we want to express our thanks to the city for lining Heroes Highway with the flags in recognition of those who have fought for us and have sacrificed for our freedom. In addition, we give thanks to the city, especially public works, who works tirelessly to maintain the military banners lining the highway 95. And when finished, we will ask public works to install those banners which were removed during construction. And finally, please keep our local men and women who are serving for us in your prayers as dissension is in our world. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Paula Fontes Hemby, and I live in the La Puerta area. And I'm here again to talk about our veterans.