All right.

Good evening, everybody.

I'd like to welcome you to tonight's work session here at the Eloy City Council Chambers.

It is Monday, January 29th, 2024.

The time is approximately 501.

I call this meeting to order.

Mary, can I get a roll call, please?

Councilmember Seton.

Here.

Vice Mayor Curtis.

Here Councilmember Wanowatha Rodriguez.

Here.

Mayor Powell.

Here.

Councilmember Schneider.

Here.

Councilmember Garcia.

Present.

Councilmember Taranko.

Here.

If we can all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

One nation under individuals and justice.

All right.

Any unscheduled public appearances tonight?

Probably no.

Thank you.

And if anybody has any questions or during the presentation, I'll allow that as well too.

Next we'll go to item five discussion of City Council Water Resource and Infrastructure Development Update.

David Farton.

I'm the clerk for tonight.

I'm Mr.

Mary Myers.

David Myers.

Okay.

Um, let's jump right into this.

Uh thank you all, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of council for meeting on a work session tonight to go over our current water situation and where we're at.

We have been working diligently over the last two years, year and a half, two years with our water attorney, Mr.

Michael Pierce, who's in the audience with Gaming June Burnham to help with our modified designation of assured water application that we submitted to ADWR to revise an original 6,000 acre feet back to our 48,545 acre feet that we've held for for many many years.

So we've been working with development community, we've been working with landowners to try to put together a package that would suffice ADWR's requirements to keep our 48,500 acre feet to continue to move forward with our growth.

Um as you know, everybody's looking for water as they grow in Arizona.

So we had held a meeting similar to what you're gonna hear tonight back in September with the development and landowner community to go over exactly what we're gonna be going over tonight.

Just to talk to them, get their opinion.

It was going to help us to formulate a better response back.

We've also have an agreement that Mr.

Pierce has helped draw, which is a CAGRD, Central Arizona Replenishment and Groundwater District agreement that focuses around getting water for development.

You remember we did those DAs about 20, 25 years ago, back in the early 2000s, mid-2000s.

A number of those have since expired without any progress happening on those.

We've got a number of them that are still active right now that will be expiring either within the year or within five years or a little bit more than five years.

So we're we'll get we'll touch base on some of that later here in the agenda.

But uh this agreement was again to resolidify our position with the landowners in the development community that that would help us understand better where development is, how we can get water to it, how much water is going to be part of these projects, and also build in a factor that would so show some type of cost sharing so that the city didn't bear the entire brunt of having to pay for the water expansion, the water lines, the additional upsizing, etc.

So that has a component within that agreement that you saw that was in your packet that does have the developers paying a portion of that and committing to help the city with infrastructure development because as we know we just haven't had that flush of cash to put forth towards infrastructure development.

We've made good strides in the last couple of years.

One of the things I passed out at the beginning of the meeting was that exhibit that shows uh water rate increases both to our water system and our wastewater system over the next five years that will help continue to advance our ability to expand both wet infrastructure well all inf wet infrastructure throughout the city or in areas more directly related to where we anticipate growth or where growth has occurred.

So that's kind of the overarching introduction of what we're gonna be talking about today.

Well our first thing to discuss first is having our attorney, Mr.

Mike Pierce with Gam Engine Burnham come up and basically give you an update of where we are.

You know, what's happened in the two years since we got our MDOS with ADWR and what we're doing right now to continue to work for that forward with that process, and then we'll jump into review development agreements.

And then we'll jump into review development agreements.

We'll talk about a real silver letter that we finally have finalized that we've sent out to some development.

We've got uh one in the works right now.