This meeting was called to order at approximately 6:01 PM, though the agenda listed a 5:30 PM start. The council addressed a consent agenda, several discussion items, and held public hearings on multiple solar energy projects. All council members were present. Key actions included approval of a lease renewal with the Chamber of Commerce, a generator purchase, and three solar-related land use approvals.
Well, let's feel the end. Sorry. Mayor at six o'clock. Good evening. Welcome to tonight's Eloy City Council meeting. It is Monday, October 28th, 2024. Time's approximately six oh one. I call this meeting to order. Miss Mary, can I get a roll call, please? Councilmember Seton. Here. Councilmember Wanna Wapo Rodriguez. Here. Vice Mayor Curtis. Here. Mayor Powell. Here. Councilmember Snyder. Here. Councilmember Garcia. Present. Councilmember Taranko. Here. Thank you. Next, if we can all stand for a moment of silence and continue standing for the Pledge of Allegiance by Vice Mayor Sarah Curtis. Thank you. Liberty and Justice are like. Next we're gonna go to oh wait. Yeah. Uh City Council member meeting City Council member announcements. Sir on my right side, Andy. Absolutely, thank you, Mayor. On October sixteenth and seventeenth, Mayor Powell, Mackenzie Lecture, and David Malowitz attended the Rural Transportation Summit in Prescott, Arizona. While we were there, our mayor received an award for being a champion of transportation. Mayor Powell has fought tirelessly for four years to bring over twelve million dollars to the city of Eloy for transportation and road improvements. And that's a job well done. Also, while we were at the summit, the breakout sessions were fantastic. We all learned a lot there. Last year some of us went to the National League of Cities Conference, Council members and myself. And while we were there, all the breakout sessions, all they talked about was grant money, grant money, grant money, grant money, and how much everybody was getting. During one of the breakout sessions, we learned that many states provide the match funding to the city or towns. Thus this grant money didn't really cost them anything. But that's not the case in Arizona. In Arizona, if we want to pursue a federal grant, we have to come up with the match. Whether it's a fifty-fifty match or an eighty-twenty match, we have to come up with that. So that's why Grants were very selective on what we can or want to do here because it actually cost us money with the other cities and towns, it doesn't. So we're gonna work the best we can to see what we can do to get hold of this money. There's a lot of money being given away out there, and we're not getting it. Also, during this week, I met with some local builders that were a bit confused about a bit confused for lack of a better term about things going on in the city and how they can uh get jobs done. So I just had to direct them to the proper people within the city.