Good evening.

Wow.

Welcome everybody.

It's not uh every day I see uh almost a full house here.

So welcome to our Eloy City Council meeting.

It is Monday, January 22nd, 2024, and I'd like to call this meeting to order.

Miss Mary, can we get a roll call, please?

Councilmember Seton.

Here.

Vice Mayor Curtis.

Here.

Councilmember Wanawapa Rodriguez.

Here.

Mayor Powell.

Here.

Councilmember Snyder.

Here.

Councilmember Garcia?

Present.

Councilmember Triangle called in Mayor.

Thank you.

Next, we're gonna stand for the invocation by Pastor Brown.

If we can remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance, too.

Well God, we come before you with gratitude.

We thank you for being a God of love who's with us now and in this very room.

You never leave us or forsake us.

Your grace has brought us safe thus far.

Your grace will lead us home.

We thank you for making each of us in this room, every person we meet, every citizen of this city, for being in made in your image, and we give dignity and infinite worth to everyone.

We thank you for calling for the calling you have given every one of us to be good stewards of your creation.

I thank you tonight, God, for these are your servants, our mayor, our city manager, our city staff, and our city council members.

I give thanks for the way of service they have chosen to take up on your behalf for all of us here.

We all come to this room tonight as complex human beings carrying burdens, carrying joy and hope, trusting that you alone can hold us together.

Oh God, in your love and peace, help us, Lord, and trust you more, more than our fears and our wounds and even our accomplishments.

May we lean on your everlasting arms tonight.

God, in your word, you make it clear of our your expectations for us who sit in places of authority.

In Psalm 72, we hear the prayer for the kings.

Endow the king with your justice, O God, the royal son with your righteousness.

May He judge your people in righteousness, your afflicted ones with justice.

May He crushed the oppressor, for the King will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help.

Through the Prophet Jeremiah in chapter 22, you remind us that your blessing came on the kings who defend the rights of the poor and the needy because isn't it the way that it means to know you declares the Lord.

And we also pray that you would glorify tonight the decisions of the city council.

We pray that you would have the eyes open to see how our lives and our connected and how we are common and and good and it's being upheld.

Therefore, please remember the most vulnerable among us.

We pray that your kingdom will come here in Eloy as it is in heaven through the power of working in each other and through your servants.

Defend the cause of God through his governing body tonight.

We thank you again for this council, our mayor, our city staff, our first responders, and all those who work to make this place we call home such a wonderful city.

We pray this in your name.

Amen.

Amen.

And to which liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

All right, next we're gonna go to public appearances.

People who are wishing to address council, they do so by signing on this uh form that was presented to me.

Um we have three minutes to speak at the time.

Mary, do we got a timer set?

Anyone else want to sign up?

Ready?

Oh, uh Betty Peterson.

If you could please come up and state your name, address for the record, please.

Yeah, well, yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

I am Betty Peterson and I live at 5440 West Crossy Drive and Robeson Ranch.

I've been here in Eloy, a community that I love for 16 years.

I would like to speak to the prospect of the tiny homes through what I see in the store at Heart of Eloy.

Um, community outreach of Ripes and Ranch is a charity that I started in 2011.

The heart of Eloy is Core Store.

Um I can speak to the people that we've seen and how that has changed over the last 16 years.

What I am seeing is wonderful families and those that are single and working and busy.

I'm also seeing many, many that we have not seen until after COVID.

People that are really down and out, people that need help, people that are asking me through emails and phone calls and everything else, because my cell phones on every card that I give out, which I am happy to do.

And so I've noticed since COVID, we are helping more and more people, about 20% of the people that come into Heart of Eloy.

Um, we are giving clothing.

We are helping their children with clothing, we are doing shoes and just about anything else that is required.

Um, we're happy to do that because we have donations, of course, from roofs and range where I live.

We have donations also from Mission Royale and Casa Grande.

So it's just that is a joy to me, but I see the increase.

I see that people don't have the money to buy homes.

I see that families who are working really hard, husband and wife, our partners working really hard, and they can't afford a place to live.

So my concern is what do we do about that?

I mean, even if you're making 30 or 40,000 and you don't hear the job payment for a home to get into a home.

So Ralph Ela is an amazing person.

I've known him all the 60 years that I've lived here.

Everything that he touches and does is just amazing, and I know his heart is always in the right place.

Um, that matters too.

So I just wanted to give you a capsule of what I'm seeing in store these last three years.

And some of them that come in have uh problems, you know, drugs, alcohol, whatever, but that doesn't matter because we need to look at those people too and try to bring him their walk to society and be productive.

So that's where I'm at with the Tony Holmes.

I'm sure that we'll have more questions as we go along, and I will pay attention to see what's happening because there isn't a day that goes by you a store, we're open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 to 2 that someone doesn't come in and need and need something.

I outfitted just recently three girls with coats, shoes, and jeans at Santa Cruz High School.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

Next, we're gonna go to a scheduled uh public appearances by the Eloy Team of Commerce uh doing their quality second quarter report.

Andrew.

Thank you, thank you.

Um thank you, Mary.

Just before we start, uh wanted to announce that the federal DOT has announced 95 million dollars to the federal for the I 10.

So they're giving that money to Hill River to start the I-10 project, so which is gonna be a good thing for us.

Um my board of directors, uh, Richard Rosales, Dr.

Terry Aklin, Susan Stevenson, and Angel Rivas.

Um that's the executive team, the board of directors as a whole.

We have Bill Pittman, Ralph Varella, Ed Brown, Kristen Grammondo, Dan Snyder, Jermaine Isgueda.

Uh ex-official is uh councilwoman Sylvia G.

Rodriguez.

Uh take a look at the uh I try to make the slideshow just a little slideshow, not a whole bunch of slides.

So it's only three slides.

Uh so quarter two, we started quarter two in September.

So all these numbers are from September to till last week.

So we gained 10 new members as of that quarter time.

Uh we're at 162 members, we're at 90% retention rate, and then also this year we're celebrating our 75th uh birthday of being a chamber.

The events that we we do have and we are involved in are the annual dinner, the the chamber open house that's gonna be coming up this uh this year.

We did that two years ago, that's where we take uh people around the empty buildings on Main Street and this in the in Eloy to see if if that fits for their restaurant or business or vice versa.

Um we're doing a business and health expo this year.

We haven't done one.

This will be our first annual.

Our golf tournament this year will be our 30th anniversary.

Our we're planning the single day mile.

We attend the treat or the trick or treat in the park with the city of Eloy.

Uh again, luncheons, uh, farmers market, chamber mixtures.

We attend the Eloy Police Safety Fair, ribbon cuttings, small business marketing, spotlight on a business every month.

Um, we plan the Memorial Day and we partake with uh East City of Eloy and Penelope Spencer Council on Veterans Day.

So what happened during last quarter, which was our glow quarter, we call it.

Um, we had 6,800 estimated attendance, 4,000 of those visitors of the 6,000 were four or Arizona visitors, uh 30 vendors, 19 sponsors.

So you look at the tax rate for you see in restaurant and bar, September, October, November, how it dramatically jumps up.

So also for retail and hotel.

We're not saying that the glow is the only thing why it happened, but we it takes part of it.

You know, it's a huge part of it.

Um then we got that numbers from the Department of Revenue in Phoenix.

Uh then what we did this last quarter was we helped foster kids get school supplies.

Um we helped, I believe over 20 29 kids that are in foster care.

Um donations to the high school girls team for helping us out at the GLOW.

Uh, we did donations to the Eloy PD for their Christmas program, donations to Civil Air Patrol, Arizona Rangers, and we donated a whole bunch of popsicles to Taltic School.

On to the visitor center and museum.

We have two uh volunteers that have been a volunteer for the museum and well, actually to the Sunland Visitor Center combined over 52 years.

So they've been there for a long time, and we we thank them every day for being there for us.

Uh we do have one ambassador, which is that's in a paid position.

We're gonna be start hiring through the AARP program.

We can hire more people on there.

Uh, we're looking to probably hire at least four more people.

So second the quarter two report reported six five hundred and sixty-six visitors visit the Sunlight Visitor Center and Museum, which is a good amount of number of people who visiting the location.

Um this past, I believe two weeks ago.

APS has gifted 25,000 to the Eloy Chamber and the City of Eloy to use for the 75th anniversary.

Um again, we don't know where we're at yet.

So we all that money, the money hasn't even came in yet, so we were just we're gonna wait and see what's gonna happen.

Um our Facebook has hit 77,233 uh impressions.

So people who visit our Facebook, people who are checked videos, that's how we get the number.

Eloy Glow Facebook is at 32,037.

We have four hundred and seven phone calls, ten visitor packet requests, people who mainly from the east coast are asking what's going on here, what what can we send back to them?

And office visits, we had two hundred and sixty-three office visits.

So we we've been in a busy chamber.

It is getting busier for us.

Any questions?

Nope.

So we want to thank uh the our chamber champions because without them we'll it will be hard for us to operate, so we think APS advances next are energy, Cypress Creek Renewables, and Savion.

And we're gonna show a video that we did, and yes, Mayor, you're you're all over the video.

So um but we want to thank everybody.

This video's gonna be our promo for next year.

Or this year actually.

Did I do my hair?

You did great.

Okay, just want to make sure.

It's just your voice.

We don't see pictures of you, so this is I got a face for radio, so I get paid.

No.

Yes, welcome to this year's Eli Glow.

We wanna thank everybody who took their their heart and soul into this event.

Thank you for an amazing turnout this year.

Can we get a round of applause?

We had father from everywhere from everybody come to our community.

We've had visitors from around the state come to our community.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you.

Well, does anybody have any questions for Andrew?

Thank you, sir, appreciate it.

All right, next we're gonna have an unscheduled um appearance.

Um the night of the glow, there was two events.

Uh one was the glow of course, and the other one was a support of troops auction.

And I ran to both of them and uh and had a good time at both places.

And um one of uh we got there uh me and Andy got there the the second part of it.

And um great turnout.

Great turnout.

Uh this is like my third or th I think my third time going.

Uh I wasn't able to um bid on anything because all the good stuff was already gone.

Uh one of that uh Rocky Point uh night.

So but there was uh anonymous uh bidder who purchased a painting called Old Glory, if I'm not mistaken, that's the name of it.

Um and they wanted to donate it or present it to the city council um with the painter, the artist, uh because it was it was it was uh painted by artists from Ropes and Ranch.

And uh correct me if I'm wrong, you guys.

I mean somebody helped me over here.

Um so far, so good.

But um there was anonymous uh buyer and they wanted uh artists to sign the back of it and I thought it was a great idea that we have it presented here at our city hall.

Um first they said my office, I said, Well this is go see the city hall, you know, so everybody could see the talent that's out there.

So I have uh a group from Support Art Troops, uh that's here.

Uh the um director, executive director, yes.

And some members and artists as well.

You come on up and we this talk about it.

We kind of laid it out, and then we all took our freshes and our hands and put it together and donated it out to the SOT.

Um be a great group project for us all to do.

Did you want to say some words?

Well, I was just gonna say uh it was an uh donor and uh we do have it off our fundraising event in November of every year.

And you are there to donation.

So if I can I got the reporter in America.

Come on, Mike.

I think I can see why you guys were talking so we can have a little bit of a we move in closer to the you two move over.

Gotta move over.

Gotta get a bigger camera, wide angle that's I meant to bring my my veil camera back and got so.

Uh veterans' causes.

Um we've done this year we uh at at our auction we raised uh a record amount of money, and uh we are gonna donate over fifty thousand dollars this year to veteran organizations.

So uh anyway, so that's that's what we do.

So you guys even uh donate shoes at the HOHP stand down right over there in Casperant the McCartney Transitional House.

Well I've seen many of you guys over there helping out our veterans, and so thank you guys for everything that you guys do for the veterans in our area.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

Next we're gonna go to uh council member announcements.

Anybody on the council I'll start on this side?

Andy said that no?

I do.

Yeah.

I've got a couple things.

Uh I last uh I guess it was Thursday, Wednesday or Thursday.

I uh went up to the uh the Phoenix to the uh uh Capitol.

And the League of Cities and Towns sponsored a legislative day where uh the the focus of it was uh transportation, really.

They had the director of ADOT there, uh Jennifer uh Toth, and she talked a little bit about the 25 year plan for transportation.

The only problem with the 25 year plan is funding.

There's a big gap, and so there was some discussion about uh being able to accomplish some of those things without uh the funding.

But some of the things that were talked about was uh the everybody has probably heard on the news that there's a deficit in the budget for this year.

And so there's talk about c what they call callbacks.

We're taking some of the money that's been appropriate for some of the projects uh this year, and maybe pulling those back and not spending the money.

Well the comment was made that apparently the I-10, the I-17 projects are off the table.

Those will be funded.

And it was good news I think what Andrew said tonight that the feds now have come through with their money and the state has put money aside so that's good thing I mean things will happen.

So that's good to hear.

The bad news was for Maricopa because the governor is proposing that they all the money for 347 be pulled back.

And that that's a brainer a tough one.

But uh it was interesting because after that some of the uh legislatures I think it was like seven of them came over and the uh most of them uh were on the Republican side obviously because the legislature is put is uh led by Republicans in both the the House and the Senate but they were saying that to them that transportation was uh a no-go that they were not going to pull back anything on transportation or K-12.

So I recognize they have make some cuts but those two things to at least uh representative cook made statement that was a no-go the other thing that came out was all the legislatures were pretty much uh in agreement that uh they were not going to uh fill the deficit on the backs of cities and towns so the funding the cities and towns that they're traditionally used to getting is off the table that was not going to be uh affected so it means the monies will still be coming as usual and that includes the food tax I know there was some discussion last year about the food tax you know the comment was made there's no bills being proposed and the governor's not in favor of it so the food tax thing is safe so wherever Brian's at so don't worry about that one and and so apparently uh as far as funding for the uh cities everything's pretty pretty safe there uh there were two bills that were I guess presented by the uh league that were of concern one of them had to do with zoning for housing and legislature there's a couple there's a bill to look at taking some of the decision of cities and towns away from them as far as being able to zone what kind of housing they have in what areas and it was a lot of discussion particularly uh I think it was a valid one from Apache Junction talking about uh one of the most photographed areas in the state past other than the Grand Canyon is the superstition mountains and so the last thing they wanted was to have high rise buildings or uh three-story four story apartment buildings blocking that view and so there's a lot of pushback from cities and towns on the legislature saying you know stay out of our business let us control our zoning in our local towns so that was one of the the bills that uh was up I guess a lot of uh discussion another one had to do with funding there's a bill uh being proposed that any funding uh city or town proposes whether it be a fee uh a new tax uh that had to require a two-thirds vote of council today it's a majority but there's a bill being proposed that uh mirrors uh proposition what's it eight or proposition uh eight I think it was from California from years ago and so there's concern that that's really gonna put a a bottleneck in it trying to change taxes or change fees in cities and towns so that's another one that that came up but I think uh it was a good good meeting I was glad to see seven legislatures come over uh a nice discussion among them they were concerned they were all were were responsive and uh tried to answer questions so uh I think uh stay tuned the other one I went to was last Friday was Pennell Partnership and the uh topic there was partnership between business and cities and so Maricopa Superior and Apache Junction were part of the panel and Maricopa and Global Water talked about the partnership they had between the two of them and how they've they kind of collaborated to be able to do water treatment plant that Global Water will put together but yet the city would run it and so it was an idea of the getting the funding and they kind of collaborated together to make that happen.

There's uh how the um community and the uh local businesses are working together to get funding, get to get grants, some of the uh basic uh money for the grants uh to make things happen, and also Apache Junction was there talking about how Apache Junction, Mesa, and Gilbert uh work with the Gateway Airport because they're all on the board of Gateway Airport, and they're essentially owners of the Gateway Airport as well as uh Phoenix.

Uh so it was interesting hearing them talk about how they're getting things done by engaging local businesses, is one of the things maybe we don't have here at Lane.

We probably have to start looking in the future.

I start to think about what about the Union Pacific, engaging Union Pacific.

What about the National Egyptian now at Goldblond?

So as we start getting Steam businesses come into town, bigger businesses, we probably need to start looking at engaging them and working with them to do some things we'd like to do in the city.

Okay.

That's long-winded, but that's it.

Well, thank you for for being at the legislative day.

Uh we'll sponsored by uh CAG with Central Arizona Government's campo, which is Sun Corridor Metropolitan Organization, also NACOG, which is Northern Arizona, um Council of Governors.

And uh I wasn't there, I was at a work uh conference, and so I would have normally I would have chaired it, but um I'm glad somebody was there representing and I heard it was uh over a hundred people showed up from uh different municipalities and stuff.

Uh to echo what you you're saying um to go with your Panel Partnership.

I'm actually scheduled to be on their next panel on February 16th with Gold Bond.

So I'll be there with with Gold Bond.

Uh I don't know where the location's at yet, but uh nobody's Signal Peak.

Okay, so the college, so I'll be there with Gold Bond, um National Gymson, and we'll be talking about the relationships that we've we've had.

So uh just want to announce that.

Also, um in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce, my state of the city address will be come up on February 26th.

That's a Monday.

And so I will encourage I encourage everybody to go.

It's what time is it, Andrew?

Is it at lunchtime?

So uh it's on a Monday this year.

Um remember we have it on a Thursday or Friday, but this year we have it on a Monday.

Um, and so it'll be at Robeson Ranch.

And so if you um want to hear my last state of the city address, you know, it's uh might have some surprises, who knows?

Um, but uh I encourage everybody on council, it's gonna be on Monday the 26th at lunchtime, 11 o'clock, I believe it is.

I think 11 to 12 is the lunch, and then at 12 o'clock is the the speaking.

So I encourage everybody to do that.

Um last Sunday there was a tragic accident that occurred um just north of here and our city limits where um four people passed away in a in a hot air balloon accident that really just shook our community.

Um there was 13 with that, included the operator who is well known in this area, um, where eight skydivers were jumping out of the um hot air balloon, and um due to whatever the investigations going on.

Um we want to keep our skydiving family in our prayers.

Um everybody who's um affiliated with them.

It was it was tough um going over there to the scene and um just tough feeling questions from reporters about something like this.

Um and so first thing I did when I heard I I I text or call Sarah and uh to see what's going on.

Of course, she was busy as it is, and then so but you know, she she has first hand information because she's her feet's on the ground over there, and um, so we just want to keep everybody and everybody that's been affected, and and uh just say a little prayer for them, you know, just keep their family and you know their their families that are hurting right now.

So investigation's still going on by the NTSB, FAA, City of uh Eloy Police Department, and so um it's being ran overseen by the NTSB, but um we don't know any answers right now.

It was just uh an accident that occurred early Sunday morning, and so um, yeah, just tragic for our community.

So um that's it for me.

Thank you all.

Um David Yeah, yeah, thank you, Mayor.

Vice Mayor members of council.

I was a couple of things on the manager's update for tonight, uh mostly reminders in that we on the 29th on Saturday on Monday.

I'm sorry, Monday, the 29th, we'll have a work session at 5 p.m.

to receive an update on the water situation for Eloy, where we are with our water status and our application to ADWR to modify our application we put in a couple years ago.

And then following that on Saturday, February 3rd, we'll be having our budget workshop here in City Hall at the community room from 9 to 1 p.m.

And then starting in 2024, our PNZ meetings are gonna have a bit of a change.

We will be doing audio recordings.

So all planning and zoning meetings will be recorded by audio, and then we will post those audio recordings on the website.

So those that were not able to attend can log on to the website and listen to those meetings should they want to.

And finally, this is good news too.

Um, you know, as we continue to grow as a city and get bigger and be part of more organizations and get our reach out there.

We were very gracious to host GPAC, Greater Phoenix Economic Council last week Friday.

They were here along with some of our partners from Florence in Coolidge to talk about the opportunities that they can do for Pennell County.

Uh James Smith with the county was here to introduce them.

Uh really excited because this is a big big thing for us.

We're um you the county has purchased a membership with GPAC, and they're gonna be able to provide us with a lot of economic research, economic development opportunities, and again provide more um eyes on Pennell County, not just Eloy, but our other neighbors as well.

So looking forward to that relationship and growing and fostering that and bringing that to light and more business here.

Uh defer to McKinsey Lecher, our assistant city manager, he was there as well.

Anything you have to add on that meeting on Friday?

Yeah, just kind of to echo on what Dave said.

It's it's gonna be a huge benefit and asset to us because for a lot of the communities in Penal County, we have small but mighty economic development team.

So here for the city of Eloy, it's a team of basically one, Jeff Fairman, who's our economic development specialist.

And so having the opportunity to really tap into that knowledge base that they have and the analysts that they have on their team at GPEC is gonna be a huge resource.

So besides that, that's pretty much all I had.

It was a great meeting.

So yeah.

Thank you.

That's all I have.

Thank you.

Any questions for David?

All right, here and then it's gonna go to consider agenda.

All items listed with the NASDAQ are considered to be a routine matter, and will be enacted by a one motion and one roll call vote of the council.

There'll be no separate discussion of these items unless the council members will request in which event the items will be removed from the consent agenda and considering its normal sequence on the agenda.

We have three items.

Does anybody want to discuss any of these items as presented?

Hearing none, do everyone must approve consent agenda items A, B and C is written.

So I'll move.

Thank you.

Do I hear a second?

Second.

Second.

Andy.

Miss Mary.

Councilmember Seton.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Curtis.

Yes.

Councilmember Wannuato Rodriguez.

Yes.

Mayor Powell.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

The motion passed unanimously, Mayor.

Thank you.

Next one over to business.

Item A.

Council consider and take action on case number CUP 2022-038.

Dan.

Oh, David, do you want to start off?

Sure.

I'll take for I'll take it for Dan.

Yeah, so what we have up for consideration tonight is a CUP for the utility scare scale solar generation facility, battery energy, storage facility, and solar facilities with an entire square mile of land within the city of Eloy.

We have uh representatives from Advantage Kit Solar and Storage Project here to present to you.

I don't know if Dan has any comments that he wants to want to throw any comments.

No, good.

Okay.

This is like his first rule.

I know we also meet the rules right there.

Yeah.

Um today.

This already was seen before the planning and zoning commission, approved unanimously and now presented to city council for consideration and final inaction for the CUP.

Uh this has been an ongoing project.

We had to wait a little while.

The project needed some annexation to occur so that they could piece together the properties that they wanted for their entire project.

Once the annexation had been completed, then uh advanced us moved forward with putting together the entirety of the project and presenting it before the city council.

Of course, they they had to wait a little while until we worked out our new revised ordinance on the utility scale solar generation, but it so far turned out very well.

And I'll defer to you gentlemen who are here to take it from here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And uh thank you, council.

Uh wanna kind of echo the sentiments there of uh you know thanking staff and planning and zoning for the past couple of years, uh working together on this project and look forward to presenting tonight uh the kit solar and storage project.

Uh so I'm gonna lead off with a little bit of background on Avantis as a company, and then I'll turn it over to my colleague uh David Lundgren here uh who heads our permitting uh to talk about the project specifically.

Uh my name is Kevin Johnson, I'm a development manager with Avantis.

Uh if you could, Mary, next slide, please.

Thank you.

Uh so Avantis has been around for 15 years now.

We were founded in 2009, uh, which is uh a good bit of time in the solar industry.

Uh, and we're very proud of developing over 2,000 megawatts or two gigawatts of utility scale solar projects in that time, including multiple record breaking projects.

I'll touch on a few of those here.

So in 2011, we began developing one of the nation's at the time largest solar clusters, 800 megawatts.

Uh, and again, at that point in time, that was a very, very large project.

In 2016, uh, we brought online the first project uh that is actually is cheaper than fossil fuels.

Um in 2019, we developed one of the largest solar projects on tribal land in Nevada.

And in 2023, just last year, we developed and sold uh the nation's largest permitted solar and storage project.

That project alone is two gigawatts or two thousand megawatts.

Next slide, please.

And in addition to having a lot of history and expertise in house, we also have one of the largest development portfolios in the western U.S.

So we have over 80 utility scale projects under development.

And once built out, that entire portfolio would bring low cost, reliable, clean, renewable energy to tens of millions of people across the western United States.

Uh and we're we're very excited to be developing projects like Kit.

Next slide, please.

And while we have a lot of projects, I mentioned over 80 projects.

We're we're very keenly attuned to the fact that each project is located in a specific community.

That community is unique, has its own uh you know culture, fabric identity, and being a good neighbor uh is something that we take very seriously.

So since 2021, we've been involved in several of the events that the Chamber of Commerce uh mentioned earlier, including the Cinco de Mayo event, Eloy Glow, the farmers markets, the golf tournaments, and you know, we're looking for opportunities to continue to stay involved in the community.

It's very very important to us to be a good good neighbor.

Um I'll turn it over to Dave.

Thanks, Kevin.

And thank you, council.

Uh, my name is Dave Lundgren.

As Kevin mentioned, I lead the permitting for our team in the Western US.

Um just that um so here's just a quick project overview of what we have in front of you.

Uh it's a hundred megawatt project with a hundred megawatt by four hour battery.

Um it is located on 645.7 acres and is surrounded by to the north Milligan Road to the West Tweedy to the South Phillips and to the east 11 mile corner.

Um we're gonna be interconnecting into the APS Milligan substation, which is that blue circle on the figure.

Uh, we have a very short uh transmission line or agenda that goes from our project area to deliver the energy to the regional grid at the Milligan substation.

From a scheduling standpoint, we're anticipating giving notice of proceed to our contractor in March of 2025 and looking at about a 12 to 18 month uh construction window to complete all construction of the project with commercial operation in May of 2026.

From an economic standpoint, um, our project would bring approximately six million dollars in tax revenues during the construction period, and then over and up to excuse me, up to 28 million dollars in local county and state tax revenues over the operational life of the project.

And from a job standpoint, um, we're looking at about 300 construction jobs at peak and up to five OM permanent jobs over that 35 year period.

Uh next slide.

Thanks.

And so here's some more detail on the overall um project schedule and development milestones.

Um we've we've initiated permitting, we've have interconnection requests and large generator uh interconnection agreements with APS.

Um as well as working to select an EPC uh engineer PR procure construct uh outfit to complete final design and then ultimately be the overseer of the construction.

Um again, as I mentioned, we're looking to start construction in March of 2025 and uh have an in-service date of February of 2026 with substantial completion in January and then commercial full operation in May of 2026.

Uh next slide.

Uh this is the conceptual site layout um that we've included in the CUP application.

Um this really has the full constraints of what our site uh can handle, and as we move forward with further design and selecting that final contractor, um the the full layout and the different elements will be identified and and designed and engineered at that point.

Uh okay, and you can go to the next one.

Thank you.

So um just some highlights of the conformance with the general plan.

Um this section uh as mentioned was annexed from Pennell County into the city in December of 2022, and it has a transitional zoning designation of R1-54, and the code of ordinance uh permits solar as an approved use in that R1-54 with an approved conditional use permit, which is why we're here today.

Um, and then as designed and permitted, the project would be in compliance with the approval of this conditional use permit.

Next slide, thank you.

And then compliance with section 21-3-1.39.

Um, this is where specific codes and elements were identified for the solar overlay.

Uh so our project is meeting and exceeding the minimum project size.

Uh the city code has 160 acres.

This is 645.7.

Um, we have a minimum project width of 1300 lineal feet.

Uh we're meeting the setback of 75 feet and the max lot coverage of 5%, and then also the maximum building height of 15 feet.

So, again, um we're meeting the development standards that were established as part of the solar overlay, and the project would be in compliance with approval of the COP.

I have several slides that go into each element of the code.

Um, there's probably about six.

I'm happy to go through all of those if you guys would like me to, or I can stop now, answer any questions that folks have.

It's part of your presentation, whatever you want to you feel comfortable doing.

This is super dry and really boring for everybody here.

So I'm I'm more than willing to pass on this.

Okay.

Uh, and and can answer any questions folks have.

Well, thank you.

Anybody on the council have any questions?

I have one, but it's just information.

I remember during the uh planning and zoning process, there was a lot of discussion about the uh lot coverage, the 5% and uh the batteries.

And I'm just curious in your layout, because I was looking at your layout uh the battery consumption of that lot in which you have a feel how much of that lot should be the batteries or just it doesn't really matter.

I mean you're within the specifications.

I was just more curious of after the discussion on the overlay and what that percentage should be, how it's working out in your in your particular case.

Yeah, I don't have the exact specifications, and I can more than happy to follow up afterwards, but typically the the lot size for the substation and the battery is about five acres is what we're be looking at.

That that worked out you're comfortable with that and wasn't the big issue.

Okay, yep.

Because I know that it was a little contentious in some areas of how much that the acreage should be, and I've just curious how as you planned one, how it's worked out.

Yeah, I I think you know we really appreciate working with staff and having the opportunity to comment uh during that entire process and you know from our perspective, um, we feel that the final ordinance that came in um is something that we can live with and and work with.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Anybody in the public have any questions?

You're none.

He's kind of still mind about battery storage.

That's not my question in the Sarah, go ahead.

Um I'm not sure how you guys feel about this, but I just wanted to say give um John Blaming some props and staff for and planning and zoning committee for working so hard on the ordinance because when I was reviewing this, um, understanding and knowing the ordinances and knowing that you know all these things adhere to the ordinance that we already you know all agreed on and worked with you guys on and did so much work on it really made it easy for me to understand.

So let's let John know he did a great job.

Yeah, yeah, definitely.

That was uh some uh back and forth during planning and zoning.

So all right.

Hearing nothing else.

Uh do I hear we don't have to read by title, right?

We have to just approve.

Nope.

Okay.

Do I hear a motion to approve case number CUP 2022-308 as presented?

Make a motion we approve.

Thank you.

Do I hear a second?

Second.

Thank you.

Can I get a roll call, please?

Councilmember Wan Awatho Rodriguez.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

No.

Councilmember Seton.

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Curtis.

Yes.

Mayor Powell.

Yes.

Motion pass five to one.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, guys.

All right.

Next, we're gonna go to item B presentation by Wilson Engineers on the update to water and wastewater master plan of the Lebmall Corner uh sewer line extension.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, members of the council.

Um this is the team that has been working with us to uh update the wastewater master plan and the water master plan.

The previous master plans were from 2005.

They were made with some assumptions that as we went through them we'll we found that they were no longer no longer applicable to what was happening back then.

And so and so really the the master plans are a tool to help the growth to plan for the growth to direct the growth where we want to have that.

And so we we entered into contract uh with Wilson Engineers uh to provide updates to those master plans that we can use as planning documents for our our development moving forward.

Um they have uh summary of master plans here that they will present, and then once we have the final drafts, we will bring those to council for approval and adoption uh probably by the end of February.

Um with no further ado, I'll introduce Mr.

Alan Palmquist from the from the Wilson Engineers team.

Thank you so much.

Mayor to Vice Mayor, Council members.

Well, she pulls that up.

Uh yeah, so we've been working with Matt quite a bit.

Uh and it's actually been a great pleasure.

He's been great to work with, and uh, we're happy to present this.

Now there's a lot of slides here.

We did provide hard copies.

We'll get through this as quickly as possible, and um and just present some of the highlights of some of the results of this master planning effort.

That's fine.

Is it able to make it full screen by any chance?

Doesn't work that way.

Okay.

That's fine.

We can work with us perfect.

Thank you so much.

You ready?

Thanks, Mary.

Thank you.

Um, so this is an agenda that we uh put together in our conversation with Matt.

Uh, we're just gonna quickly just go through these individually.

Um, first and foremost, uh next slide.

Okay.

Um again.

Uh so we work through the development area.

Uh we use the uh current city limits within the city of Eloy, uh, use that as a basis for this uh entire master planning effort and uh made sure it was the most current, which you include there.

They've been broken down in different development areas, and that's advantageous because we need to understand where the highest development activity is going to be occurring within the city, and so we had to split it up and working with Matt, he was it we were able to uh work through that.

Next slide.

And so, what we did is we then utilized the latest uh general plan approved by uh the city and incorporated into the city limits, and so we can identify what areas are slated for possible development and what types of development are gonna be included in there.

Uh, and you can see all the different areas uh that are going to be included as part of this master planning effort.

This is just a summary of those planning areas by uh gross acreage and and the different uh how many dwelling units.

Uh the takeaway here is the total number uh housing units, which is 38,115 on the bottom right hand side.

Uh peaking factors, these again come from uh the previous master planning effort.

These uh help us generate what we're what we do uh with the other land use areas.

And so, what we do here next is identify okay, what is in the existing water system?

How we have to identify where we are now, and then how do we project that into the future?

So we looked at your existing water system.

Uh there's a lot of great information, so we just included it here with including uh existing water models and piping systems and your pump stations.

Uh, this is just a schematic of the existing water system with the various uh parts and pieces I just talked about, and so we build on this existing system uh as we expand the uh expand the area.

And so when you see the existing system here, you can see the different pipelines and the different facilities, you know, within uh city Eloy, uh, which all stretch out to the far northwest there, uh, as well as the central areas that you see there, and see the different pipelines that we had to work with as part of this expansion effort, and you can see the various areas that we need to expand into.

Uh, and so that was the challenge that we had in front of us.

Next slide.

And so we did reach back out to the development areas again.

Where are we going to be developing?

How are we going to develop?

You know, that's a uh that's a very important factor as we look through this.

Next slide.

And so how much people uh uh how much water use there is per development type, whether it's residential, commercial, industrial.

So we've included those factors in here.

So we have a land use, we have a and then we have a unit area, and then we can get into overall water use, and that's a summary of the water demands right there with the total demands uh from a uh ADWR perspective, you always look at it from an average day demand.

Uh so keep that in mind when you have those conversations.

Uh, from an overall perspective, your pipes and systems are max stay or peak hour.

So just keep that in mind.

Uh, and then we look into how do we go into the expansion in these areas in the future.

Right now, the city's existing system is zone two and zone one.

To the southeast, we included zone zero because of that's a potential development area, and so we had to create a new pressure zone for that.

You can see the different pressures that are anticipated on the high side and the low side for each of those zones.

Uh, very good pressures, very good planning effort right there.

Future water system, uh, and so then we project that into a large water model, then where these pipes and pumps are gonna be located within the system based off the various demands on the various land uses, and this is what we've come up with, uh, which includes all the new uh pump stations and reservoirs and other items associated with that.

Uh, you you probably spend 15 minutes on this alone.

Next slide.

And so this is a future schematic of that what that water system is.

The takeaway here is you have three zones, the two large or the three large rectangles in the middle there, which correlate to those three pressure zones, and then how all the parts and pieces feed into that.

Again, this is a phased approach.

This is build out, this is many years in the future, and again, uh, this is just kind of a planning factor that you need to do in order to come into how you're gonna phase this out as you develop.

And so the future water system pressures again.

Does everything work?

Does it meet the uh the minimum pressure requirements for the city?

And we've verified that.

And then same thing on the velocity, how fast the water is moving through the pipe.

You want to make sure it's not exceeding uh certain criteria, and then the fire flow.

Do you have fire flow capabilities with the system in the future?

Very good water model, a couple little areas of uh slight concern, but you know, we're working through that with Matt.

But otherwise, a very good system, the existing system actually is performing very well in the model.

Booster pump station sizing, we don't necessarily need to get into that, but that's how we get the water into the system.

And then the storage, you know, there's a certain amount of storage that you need, so you're not always turning on and off your pumps very quickly.

That's how we size these uh large reservoirs that you see.

And then how do you phase that?

You don't want to build it all at once, and again, that blue line that you see there is a is a projection of possible development.

You can see the years on the bottom of the graphic there.

And so this is just an assumption at this point, and it can always be updated in the future.

And again, this is just another table summarizing you know how many wells are potentially going to be needed based off of 750 GPM 58 wells.

And that's the development of those wells based off of that projection.

And again, this is very high level.

Please keep that in mind.

And then really the takeaway here is water supply.

How do you supply water?

This is a graphic that kind of combines the reclaimed water that's coming out of wastewater treatment plant and being able to utilize that in the ground and then pull that out of the wells.

DWR is very big into this.

Uh being able to interact with that, because then you're not using your long-term storage or you're utilizing your long-term storage credits, and you're not pulling different uh water volumes out of your uh overall DWR lawment.

You see a water balance here associated with that.

Uh the water demands are 60.33 MGD.

Uh the recharge credits, we did take that into account because you want to put every drop of water back into the ground, which is about 15.63.

Water water supply sources.

You can see there where your existing assured water supply is at 48,545.

I believe I was discussed earlier, so that we did plug that in.

All in all, it seems that you have with those water resources and recharging that you're able to meet your needs with a little bit extra associated with that, but that's down the road.

But all in all, uh, what it does show is you do need that existing assured water supply to meet your needs for the overall general plan.

That's the takeaway.

Really, from a wastewater system, uh, just looking at the different existing collection system there.

Again, very similar process to look and see where we can do to make upgrades.

Continue on there.

Uh peaking factors, again, these are how we size uh different pipelines and things like that.

Wastewater generation, all in all, at the very end of the day, you're looking at uh 16 MGD uh wastewater treatment plant in the future, and you see the future drainage basins, how everything flows into the tremoma plant there, and then the future collection collection system, which then takes those basins and actually puts it at the treatment plant.

What infrastructure is needed behind the scenes to get the sewer pipes and things, just real quick.

The uh sewer project that we're currently working with Matt on is actually tied very close and adjacent to that little green box in the middle there.

Uh, and so we're actually projecting to uh extend that sewer collection system per this plan so you can then set yourselves up for the future and being able to convey those wastewater flows into the wastewater treatment plant.

These are summaries of the list station sizing as a result of this master planning effort.

And then, of course, as you grow, you do need more wastewater capacity, and this just again tries to encumber that.

So, with that, very quickly, a lot of information, but all in all, very good system, and it does hit you up for uh in the future.

Okay, so as we grow, yeah, the with the wastewater treatment facility.

When do we need to start planning for expansion of our plant?

And so that was a question that was brought up earlier, and so we're working through some of those details associated with that, and again, it's gonna be very dependent upon when the developers are gonna come in and need to provide you know expanded service.

Is it's getting close.

And so typically when you look at uh uh ADEQ, you need to expand your facilities through the engineering process when it's 80% capacity, and when that's at 90%, you need to be in construction, but then you need to do an assessment of your development, and then you does it meet those percentages, or do you need to provide an expansion to service those folks uh associated with that?

So we're working through some of those details to answer some of those questions.

It's getting close.

How close would you say?

Um within the next five to ten years.

Okay, yes.

So we should start planning budgeting everything now.

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

Anybody on council have any questions?

No.

Anybody in the public or staff?

No.

Well, thank you.

We appreciate that.

Yeah, appreciate it.

Thank you.

So we have no action on that one.

That was a presentation.

Uh, we'll go to item C adoption of resolution number 241567.

Approving case number GPA 2023-039.

Dan.

Hey, hey, how are you doing, Dan?

Good evening, everyone.

Welcome.

Dan Seimer, community development director.

Uh good evening, mayor members of the council.

Case before you is a general plan amendment.

Do you change a general plan from community commercial to the high density residential?

And is to accommodate the next item, which is item D, is to rezone the property from neighborhood commercial to uh high density residential.

The request is to accommodate 20 um tiny home facilities in our downtown area.

And staff has looked at the proposal and made a recommendation to the planning commissioner for approval.

And the planning commission has made a recommendation to yourselves for approval.

If you have any questions, I'll take them now or hand it off to the applicant for their presentation.

All right.

No.

Danny have a question.

Yep, go ahead.

Just to clarify, this is for the zoning change tonight, not necessarily for approval of the project or could clarify that.

I would want to be sure as we vote what we're actually voting on.

Chair mayor uh councilman Schneider.

The action I is a two-item one.

The first one is a general plan amendment.

And that is necessary to in order to hear your next item, which is item D, and that's the rezoning.

The subsequent to that, I mean, afterwards, it goes through an administrative site plan approval process and then subsequent billing permits.

All right.

Thank you.

Hello again.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council.

My name is Brian Underwood, and I'm with the Planning Center.

We're a planning and landscape architecture consulting firm in Tucson.

And I'll just take a moment until Mary gets uh the presentation pulled up there.

All right.

Okay, thank you.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right.

Well, I will try to keep uh my presentation as brief as possible because I know a lot of you uh have already seen it either at our uh study session that we had back in September or at the planning and zoning commission meeting that uh I believe Councilmember Snyder had attended there.

So uh good to see you again.

Um so I wanted to just touch briefly on you know some of the key points as to why this site is is such an ideal location for um the tiny home project that that uh we're presenting here this evening.

And and really it comes down to you know it being in the heart of Eloy.

And you know, our our first speaker this evening kind of um you know hit it off by talking about you know the proximity of of what this this property is close to.

And you know, clearly, as you can see in the image there, it's surrounded by you know existing neighborhood.

There's there's housing around it, there's um some multifamily housing to the north, there's single family homes to the east, and then you have uh Main Street where that angled parking is there in the in the aerial image.

But you know, to to take a finer grain look at this, you know, it's really it's close to a lot of things.

Um the heart of Eloy Thrift Store is is less than a you know a quarter mile away.

In addition to you know, restaurants, the bank, the post office, um, you know, shops everywhere from the Eloy OK store to family dollars.

So uh, you know, from from a you know community standpoint, this this site sits right in the heart of Eloy and uh is has great you know um potential because of the the walking or the walkability for it, and um, you know, that's great because not all these tenants that will be living here will have their own vehicles, and so um it's really important that they're able to get around you know on on foot and get to the things that they need in their daily activities.

Um the other thing is that you know this site is uh you know, it's it by developing it with housing, it would help you know take a vacant property that's right here on on the uh you know, right on right off of Main Street and develop it with with uh you know needed housing.

And um, you know, it has a tremendous team behind it, and and we'll also have that daily oversight from Panal Hispanic Council given that they're right across the street, and and really this this site and this project stands as as uh you know a legacy project for Panel Hispanic Council, something that they can be proud of uh for decades to come.

So we're really excited to to be uh discussing it here with you this evening.

So to give you all uh a little bit of uh background on where we went from when we met with you back on September 18th.

Uh so we took about six weeks after that meeting and got our ducks in a row for um finalizing our our uh resubmital of our application and also getting our neighborhood meeting uh advertised to everyone within 500 feet of of this site, as well as um posting it in in the local newspaper and then going around as well to some of the you know the the surrounding businesses and and homeowners there and and uh making sure that they got the word.

And so we had our our uh nov November 1st neighborhood meeting, and uh the input at that meeting was generally positive.

We had about a handful of of surrounding property owners attend that, and uh mayor was also in attendance there, so thank you, Mr.

Mayor, for for uh attending our neighborhood meeting.

And then in November, we resubmitted our entire uh general plan minor general plan amendment and rezoning application package and had some coordination with staff back and forth just to make sure we got all our eyes dotted and T's crossed.

Uh but we were we were successful in in uh getting that application through staff.

It's been great working with them throughout this process, and uh we had our our uh planning and zoning commission meeting last month on December 20th, and we had zero opposition at that meeting and a unanimous recommendation of approval.

So you know, and on another positive note here, I I just wanted to uh piggyback on on what the community service community planning director had said um in that you know the next step in this process is taking this conceptual site plan and um taking it through the site plan process.

And so uh I'm happy to say that Mary Ann uh Mary Ann Beerling with Compass Affordable Housing, who's overseeing this project and is is the project manager, is poised to begin that site plan process and uh and also a lot combination process to combine it's actually two parcels.

There's a little sliver over on the west hand side over on the left hand side over on the west that will be combined with the with a larger parcel there.

And the thing I want to emphasize here on on this on this slide as well before I move on, is just the goal of building a small community here, and you know, one that gives people an opportunity to have their own private home and yard, um, you know, especially during a time where you know housing affordability is is quite a concern, and um, you know, this this will be for folks as uh our first speaker had mentioned this evening, where uh you know they are low-income individuals that are from Eloy that need this housing and wouldn't otherwise be able perhaps to uh to get their own quality stable housing.

And I know that several of you, if not all of you, I think have uh been up to ideal trade institutes uh factory and you've seen firsthand that the quality of of the homes that will be going in here.

Um and and this is just uh just a plan view look at at those unit plans.

And again, just wanted to emphasize that it is all high quality interiors, um, you know, nice finishes, nice um nice materials that are in there, uh, high quality appliances, and it really just is something that you know if if you're moving into this, you can feel proud of that that you have your your own nice high-quality home.

And I know as I mentioned that uh, you know, all of you have been up there to Ideal Trade Institute's um, you know, factory there.

So I won't get into too much of this, but I will say that um you know, on the school schedule that the the current class that's starting in January is going to be the class that uh is going to be building these these homes.

So um, you know, six month time frame on on building the homes, and uh we hope that as we move through that site plan process and the lock combination that it'll be in lockstep, and we'll be ready to get going there as as soon as uh we have that approval.

And I'd just like to leave you all uh before opening it up to to questions.

I wanted to leave you all with an image of you know the high quality community that that we are trying to that we aim to bring to Eloy uh with your support this evening.

And uh I can assure you that this team is committed to seeing it through and uh and seeing it be a success here in in Eloy uh for years to come.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Did you say the the class when is the next class start that's gonna build them?

So the the class uh that will be building these is a January class that we'll be kicking off here later this month.

So how long will it take to I guess uh six months?

I don't know if they'll be building all 20 of them in this yep, all 20 in this class.

Oh wow, yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Any other questions from council?

No, okay.

Well, thank you.

Thank you.

All right, next we're gonna have to read by title only for uh adopt our resolution number 24-1567.

Do I hear a motion to read by title?

Mayor, I'll make a motion to read by title only.

All right, do I hear a second?

Second.

All in favor can I do or all in favor say aye?

Aye.

Opposed?

Hearing none.

Mayor.

A resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of Eloy, Arizona, approving a minor general plan amendment to the land use map on Panawh County Assessors parcel numbers 405-03-066 and 405-03-068, consisting of approximately 0.87 plus minus acres from community commercial to high density residential.

The subject parcels are located at the northwest corner of 4th Street and Stewart Boulevard and a portion of section six, township 8 South, Range 8 East, Gila and Salt River Baseline, and Meridian, Panaw County, Arizona, providing for several ability and establishing an effective date.

Thank you.

Do I hear a motion to approve resolution number 24-1567?

Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve uh adoption of ordinance number 24-954.

Wrong one.

Wrong one.

Adoption of resolution number 24-1567.

There you go.

All right.

Do I have that?

Second.

Can I get a roll call, please?

Vice Mayor Curtis.

Yes.

Councilmember Wanowatha Rodriguez.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider?

Yes.

Mayor Powell?

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Sutton.

Yes.

The motion passed unanimously, Mayor.

Thank you.

Next we're going to go to item D, adoption of ordinance number 24-954.

Approving case number RZ 2023-040.

Dan.

Mayor said council.

This is a continuation of the previous item.

It is necessary for this development to happen.

It is a rezone from neighborhood commercial C1 to high density residential R3.

As I indicated earlier, this was presented to the Planning Commission staff recommended approval and the planning commission recommends to you as approval.

Also the applicant's presentation covered the entire project that we just heard, so I have nothing else to add to it.

If you have any questions on me, and I'm sure the applicant they're here for your questions.

All right, thank you.

Anyone have any questions regarding this project that we just discussed earlier?

No.

Anybody in the public?

No.

All right.

So do I hear a motion to read by title only for ordinance number 24-954?

So moved.

Thank you to our second.

Second.

Thank you.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Hear none.

An ordinance of the mayor and city council of the city of Eloy, Arizona, approving a rezoning request by the planning center on behalf of Panau Hispanic Council to rezone Panaw County Assessor Parcel Numbers.

APN 405-0306 and 405-03-068, consisting of approximately 0.87 plus or minus acres from neighborhood commercial C1 with a downtown core overlay, DCO, to multiple family residential R3, 10-24 dwelling units per acre with a downtown core overlay, DCO.

The subject parcels are located at the northwest corner of 4th Street and Stewart Boulevard and a portion of Section 6, Township 8 South, Range 8 East, Gila and Salt River River Base Baseline, and Meridian, Panaw County, Arizona, providing for several ability and establishing an effective date.

Thank you.

Do I hear a motion to adopt ordinance number 24-954 as presented?

Mayor, I'll make a motion to adopt ordinance number 24-954.

Thank you.

Do I hear a second?

Second.

Roll call, please.

Council Member Snyder.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Sutton.

Yes.

Mayor Powell?

Yes.

Councilmember Wanawatho Rodriguez?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Curtis.

Yes.

The motion passed unanimously, Mayor.

All right.

Congratulations, guys.

All right.

Well, that is going to conclude our regularly scheduled meeting.

Next, we need to go into executive session.

I know you guys don't want to stay for that.

Um, but we want to conclude today's meeting.

But first, we need to see who's gonna go in our meeting with us.

David, do you have an idea?

Uh yes, Mayor.

It'll be myself, Assistant City Manager, McKenzie Letcher, and that will be it.

Uh Mary, Steve?

Mary, Mary, oh, Mary Myers, City Clerk, and Steve Cooper, our city attorney.

I thought that that was like I thought that that was you know standard.

What about Dan?

Does he need to be in there at all?

No, Dan's too new to you know, he's he's got some background, but um the assistant city manager McKenzie Letcher, he he works exclusively on the RFP along with our economic development specialist Jeff Furman.

So he's he's the guy that's gonna be talking to you guys.

All right.

So uh think about an hour.

Don't you think?

Yeah.

All right.

So um we want to make a motion to well, I'll make a motion we'll go on executive session for one hour with the following staff members, David McKenzie, Mary, and Steve.

Um for one hour.

Do I hear uh that's my motion?

Do I hear a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Hearing none.

All right, we're in executive session.

Good night, everybody.

Drive safe.