The Bullhead City Council met on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, at 5:30 PM in City Council Chambers. The meeting included a presentation on swim lesson statistics, a public comment period with speakers addressing surveillance, water allocation, and community events, a manager's report covering transit improvements and right-turn lane projects, and unanimous approval of all action items including condominium plats, code amendments, and a land transaction.
Good evening. Today is Tuesday, September first, twenty twenty six. We are here for a regular city council meeting. May I have a roll call, please? All council members are present. Thank you. Tonight our invocation will be done by Pastor Stephen Brown from Praise Chapel. If you wish to join us, please stand. Father God, we come before you in these council chambers to meet and discuss the items on today's agenda. Your word says to just to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with you. So I ask you to bless our leaders with wisdom, our city with peace and prosperity, protect those who serve our community. Lord, I ask you to draw us by your spirit, guide our thoughts and words and decisions as we commit this meeting into your hands. More children in this age group die from drowning than any other cause. Children five to fourteen drowning is the number two leading cause of unintentional deaths right behind motor vehicle collisions. All ages, the CDC estimates that 4,000 fatalities of unintentional drownings occur each year. That's roughly 11 children in our country dying every day from drowning. There's also approximately 8,000 non-fatal drowning incidences that require emergency room department visits each year. For the summer of 2026, our club tonight, we paid for 649 swim lessons for a total of 12,980 dollars, which brings our total over the 25 years to 224,000 and over 11,000 swim lessons. Thank you. Yes. Kudos to our lifeguards. You guys, you help save those children's lives, and we appreciate everything you do. Oh, you guys do the instruction as well. All right. Gilbert, did you want to say anything? Come on up. Um, I'm Gilbert Herrera, I'm the aquatic supervisor. Um, our goal isn't to bring as many kids into the program as we want. Like we don't want to go out there and grab every single child. We want to focus on the quality of the program that we're offering to our kids. We want them to take away something that they didn't know before. Um, it's not just for them, it's for their parents as well. And that can't be done without our instructors, and it can't be done without a programs, the morning bonus program. So big round of applause to the city and this wonderful group as well. Okay, all right. Moving on, we're gonna do open call to the public. Call to the public is open for citizens wishing to address the council on issues within the jurisdiction of the city, but not listed on tonight's agenda. Please state your name clearly for the meeting record, and all comments will be limited to three minutes per individual. If you're speaking on behalf of a group present at the meeting, your limit will be five minutes. Please notify Vice Mayor so that he can set the time accordingly. If your comments relate to an item on tonight's agenda, please wait until that item has been called for discussion to address the council. At the conclusion of call to the public, individual members of the council may respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the council. May I ask staff to review a matter or have that item put on a future agenda. However, members of the council cannot discuss or take action on a matter that's not already on the agenda. A maximum of 30 minutes will be allocated for call to the public. Mr. Lee, I see you're approaching. Thank you. Stephen Lee, Bullhead City. I think we really, as everybody listening, everybody hearing my voice, really needs to pay attention to what's happening in government at all levels.