Mayor Sutton had six o'clock.

At six o'clock, Mayor.

Good evening and welcome to tonight's Eloy City Council meeting.

It is Monday, January thirteenth.

The time is six PM.

And Mary, may I get a roll call, please?

Almost forgot.

It's a long time.

Councilmember Councilmember Bodraska?

Here.

Councilmember Curtis?

Here.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Here.

Mayor Sutton?

Here.

Councilmember Snyder?

Here.

Councilmember Garcia?

Present.

Councilmember Galindo.

Here.

Thank you.

We'd like to stand for a moment of silence and Councilmember Garcia will lead us in the pledge when he is ready.

Do we have any public appearances?

All right.

Okay, Mr.

Wisnowski.

Kindly come up and state your name and where you live?

My name is Bill Wisnowski.

I live at five four four five West Corral Drive in Illinois.

This past week I was watching a documentary on the uh Maui Hawaii wildfire fire that happened in uh August of twenty twenty three, and also in light of the current fire wildfires in California right now, brought a lot of questions to mind.

So uh very quickly that an emergency situation can turn into a disaster.

Uh as the sign in front of our fire uh station states, fire won't wait.

Plan your escape.

So I have a bunch of questions I'm gonna read off.

I am not expecting an answer from anybody at this point.

Just something for you people for everyone to think about.

Uh does a city have a written emergency response plan?

And if it does, when was it last updated?

When was the last city emergency response drill?

These are things that should happen at least once a year.

How many of you know what the incident command system is?

What city officials or employees are incident command systems uh trained?

Where are possible incident command centers and emergency shelters for the city?

Do these locations have proper backup for power?

HVAC communications and communications are including phone, internet, radio.

And what impact is public uh what impact is there on public safety when the city's internet goes down?

Uh is the city uh part of the emergency uh priority phone system.

What city members are assigned to the key ICCS positions?

Incident commander, operations lead, planning lead, logistics lead, finance and administration lead.

Does the city have commitments from an emergency contacts for the city cities uh emergency response plan with the following organizations the electric companies, APS ED4, Water, City and Pikachu, railroad, neighboring communities, county, and state.

I know that there's a lot of information I just threw out there.

What I would hope is that the city uh that the mayor and the council, along with the city manager, chief of police, and chief of fire, will sit down and have and go through these items and figure out what you need to do for the city.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you for addressing the council.

Next up, we have community outreach funding update from the Eloy Chamber of Commerce.

Good evening.

Here we go.

Good evening, Council, Mayor, Mary, City Managers.

Um, thank you guys for having us.

Um my name is Andrew Rodriguez, the executive director of the Eloy Chamber of Commerce, also the Sunland Visitor Center in the museum.

Um, this is an update from the chamber and also the Sunland Visitor Center at this time.

Um we usually do uh two two to three updates throughout the year um to give you guys where we're at on the chamber and the visitor center.

Uh so where we're at at the our board of directors, what we have is uh our director, our president is Dr.

Terry Acklin, um Ed Brown's our vice president, Susan Stevenson's our treasurer, Richard Rosales is our secretary, our who sits on our board is Bill Pittman, Ralph Arella, Kristen Gramando, Stacey Ortega, Stacey Garmazzo, Jermaine Prescotta, Angel Rivas, and ex officio is assistant city manager McKenzie Ledger, myself is the executive director, and Angela Mead is our operations manager for the chamber.

Um so when I did this slide, my computer is a lot bigger, so it didn't fit the whole thing on there, so I'll try to read the part where it says the ELO Chamber of Commerce shall provide a community leadership and be the voice of business while encouraging growth by promoting the interests of business through advocacy and networking and education.

Our ultimate goal is to make our city a place where people want to live.

So our report to you guys is that this past year, which is our we call physical years, so it's not done yet.

So we're at 23 members new members as of right now.

So we're at 1840, correct 185 members, which were at 98% retention rate.

Which we we celebrated our 75th anniversary as well.

Um so on the side right there on the on our my left side is all the events that we plan to do for the 2025 year, which is the award dinner, the open house for the chamber, the business and health expo, which I'll talk about that in a minute, the golf tournament, the single demo event.

We we take part of the trunk retreat with the city, uh, our luncheons, our farmers market, um, the business mixers, the we take part of the healing police safety fair, ribbon cutting, small business events, uh, marketing, uh spotlights on events, um businesses, which we're gonna be doing videos on.

We're gonna be doing uh a spotlight on a business every month that we're gonna be doing videos on them.

So we'll be on our um social media pages.

Uh we partake in uh Memorial Day.

We we host the Memorial Day at the cemetery, we partake in the Veterans Day, we host the state of the city, and we do food truck Saturdays at the park, and that's gonna start again in February all the way to July.

I got with the Coolidge Chamber and Florence Chamber.

So we're putting one big business expo together.

So they're getting their members of those those two chambers in our chamber, and we're gonna be hosting one big business expo once a year, and we're gonna be moving it to every single city.

So I'm gonna be hosting it the first year since uh since we brought it up that hey, let's do it.

It was Angela's idea.

Let's let's get it going.

She's my my uh my membership coordinator back there.

So she's like, let's get this going.

So we got it together.

Let's just get it, you know.

Let's do it.

We're we're gonna host it at Robson.

We're we're looking at probably about a hundred businesses that's gonna be involved.

The next year will be in Coolidge, the following year it'll be in Florence, then it'll come back to Eloy.

So that helps us network with different businesses.

Businesses can actually work with each other, and then that helps the business to business sales.

Um, so with the chamber directory, we passed out 2,000 copies of that.

The activity guide, we're looking at close to 6,000 copies of that's been passed out.

So in the re the sale of if you look at the numbers of 2023, we had 77,233 chamber Facebook people who have been to our Facebook page and saw the number, it's all that whatever they were looking at.

We had 407 phone calls, 10 people called in for visitor packets, 263 people went into the office for various reasons.

So last year, that number skyrocket.

So we had 164,509 people went into our Facebook page.

Um phone calls to the chamber was 834 visits to the chamber was 918, and visitor packets was at 65, and so that was at the end of the year as of December.

So we did pretty we stay busy at the office, it's me and Angela there.

And again, we want to thank our chamber champions for keeping they're keeping us busy, keeping us going, uh, exceptional health, which we can't wait till our doors are open here at the here in Eloy, APS, Advances, Next Era, Cypress Creek Renewables, and Savion.

Um for the Sunland Visitor Center.

Um we have two volunteers, which if you guys don't know, they've been there to combine over 50 years combined there at the Sunland Visitor Center.

And we have one part-time, which we got a grant from AARP, so ARP pays their salary, so that helps us out.

So I keeps the doors open Monday through Friday for us.

Um the state of Arizona Tourism Department has been to the site already three times, and they gave us high remarks there for us.

Um as of today, well, as of a week ago, we had 14,863 people who have been to the visitor center museum.

So it's been and it's still real busy there.

So with that one with the chamber and sunlight visitor center, I'll take any questions.

Anyone from council have any questions, statements?

Anything to add?

So you say that you have your office hours here, your office openings, but do you have office hours and are they posted for both the chamber and the visitor center?

The visitor center is only as open from 10 to 1.

Every day?

Yeah, 10 to 1, and our office is open from 9 to 3.

Unless we have like Angela, if she has meetings with the members, or I have meetings, then we shut down the office.

And are they posted?

Yes.

They're posted online, we're posted on our website, and then they're they're on the door.

And in this booklet that you have, are they also posted there?

What booklet?

The directory?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right.

Well, first of all, I'd like to say I'm really excited for the expo.

Bringing all the towns together, putting them all under one roof, and I'm sure you're gonna make sure Eloy looks the best.

Oh, yeah.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

And the food truck Saturdays.

I'm pretty excited about that and getting the message out there for that because those warm Saturday nights is nothing better than sitting in a pocket and something to eat like that.

It's very community.

I like that.

All right.

I'm good.

Everybody good.

Wrong way.

When Cindy was running the visitor center, she would give us updates.

I think she did it monthly, but I would be okay with quarterlies.

As to where our visitors are coming from, how many are coming from?

Uh she broke it down by state and by country.

It'd be kind of nice to see who's coming by.

We don't collect that that way that she did it.

We don't collect uh by state and everything like that.

Since we took it over, we don't collect it that way.

We just collect if they're in state or out of state.

Because she did it very detailed because she was there at site.

We're not there at site.

So she asked them exactly where they're from.

And in the form that she used when she gave it to us, it just says in state or out state.

So at this time, we we just use out state or in-state.

We just use what the state of Arizona gives us.

So that's where that's where we just use outstate or in-state.

Okay.

Go ahead, sir.

Andrew, I have a question for you on Main Street.

Uh we've had three businesses, smaller businesses moved in.

One of them was the ice cream shop and uh uh Nagamanios just recently, and then there was the uh up further by the car washers, you see, uh not a second hand uh department uh merchandise store.

We're buying product and reselling it.

Do you remember that?

Those stores all seem to have gone within six months.

Any feedback from them on what the issue was or rents, volume, any comments or what the problem with on Main Street and the sustainability?

Well, the the ice cream store is doing very well.

Yeah, the new ice cream store, yes.

The new ice cream store is doing very well.

Um it's slow at times, she says that you know that's it's a given for the ice cream store, but she she does have food there also, but she doesn't promote it as much.

But so we're working on that with her.

Um, so the ones that are have been closed, they they express that there's not enough people in town that for them to keep open and get going.

So, but same time too is like a lot of the um business owners that we try to get them to take a class about business 101, and then it's always free.

We offer that to them for free at CAC.

And the small business administration does that for them for free.

They don't feel that they should take it.

Yeah.

So when we offer them those free classes, though free, those everything's free for them, and they don't want to take it for they can help them to understand accounting and you know other stuff that avenues that way.

So I mean, we try to do whatever we can to be there for them to seek other ways.

I mean, even one of them needed a small business loan, but they didn't want to do the paperwork.

So I mean, we we gave them the company where they all get the loan, but they they wanted us to do the paperwork under the chamber.

So we're like, no, we can't do that.

Yeah, it's a shame because once they they it's happened, now somebody else looking to come in sees that and kind of scares them away.

And that's why I was curious what the maybe some of the feedback was.

Thank you.

Everybody good.

Well, Andrew, thank you for your hard work and Angela.

Thank you for keeping Andrew in line.

We all we all appreciate that.

I have one more, Mayor.

Uh oh.

There you go.

One more.

I have the glow.

There we go.

So Eloy Glow 2024.

That's a beautiful picture.

It really is.

All right.

So we're gonna start off with the entertainment uh event featured two local entertainment acts on the main stage, two rowing entertainers who interacted with the public, a kid zone who took over the whole baseball field with jumpers, grupo control who was our headliner, who's the international group.

The the GLOW who had 12 balloons on the foot on the football field, and that picture speaks volumes right there.

Um vendors in attendance.

Uh this year's Glow had the biggest turnout by far.

We had 46 vendors and about 5,560 paid attendees.

And we had Chick-fil-A.

We invited them to attend, and they came out.

So hopefully next year we'll have a Chick-fil-A truck selling Chick-fil-A out there.

So we're getting a lot of feedback from a lot of uh corporate companies that want to actually attend our events, and actually become members now.

And actually become members now.

Thanks to Angela.

Engaging the audience, uh Eloy Glow was featured on ABC 15 Sonora Living.

They did a segment on the Glow.

The Eloy Glow was in was also seen on Arizona Republic, the Arizona Daily Star, Panel Now, Pet Eloy Enterprise, Cash Grand Dispatch, KOLD TV 13 News, the K Gun 9 News, also the Facebook uh the Eloy Glow Facebook page jump from October and November, 26,000 people seeing that in that time of in two months.

It jumped up.

And that picture right there was from Sarah and them, and we thank them for that.

And then I have to give a shout out to Joe Rivas from he lives in Robeson.

He was like, every time you use that picture, you gotta give me a shout out.

So he goes, or Al he's gonna charge me, so uh shout out to Joe.

He's watching.

Um Eloy, the Eloy Chamber and the Eloy Glow gives back.

So every year we chose we choose a a school, I mean, uh a kid organization to get back some of the money that we raise at the GLO.

We don't keep the money and put it in our bank and that's it.

So the so this back this year we chose Santa Cruz High School JAG program, the Civil Air Patrol and the Junior High, who at the end of the day they helped us at the Glow.

So the JAG program helped us with cr uh crowd control and also maintenance.

They cleaned up the they cleaned up the school, they picked up the trash and everything.

The Civil Air Patrol, if you guys were at the GLOW, they're the ones holding the balloons down.

So they were out there, and then it was so much balloons they had to call Glendale Silver Air Patrol to come down and help them also.

So we had two units out there from them, and the junior high, of course, for letting us use the grounds out there.

And but we gave them each a check for the for their out their help and support, and that was at our December mixer.

And then the city funds that we requested in 2024, the Eloy Glow requested five thousand dollars, three uh police officers and a tent rental.

So the Eloy Glow used the whole $5,000, and we used the funds for entertainment, and we placed the banner of a city logo on the main stage.

Um we use the three police officers for the event, and we're happy to report that for the third year in a row with the knock on wood, there was no issues at the event, not one single issue at all.

Um, not a medical issue, not uh physical issue, nothing.

You know, and Eloy PD did a phenomenal job at our event.

So uh we have kudos to the chief and his staff because I mean we had we had a very good turnout.

Um the rental of the tent, we had up to a thousand dollars.

We spent 780 dollars.

Um we turned in all the paperwork into McKenzie and the staff, and so we had well, of course, there was left over, so we did spend up to a thousand dollars.

Um again, I had to throw that other picture in there.

That was a good picture.

And it and this is a little picture I had to put in there because people were scared to go on the football field because they're like, Can we get up in close and personal?

And we're like, me and Angela had to tell people you can actually go up to the balloons, you can do you know, you go up there, you just can't get in the basket.

So people were like, Oh, okay, okay.

So this picture says it all.

Um the date next year, November 8th, 2025, Eloy Junior High School.

Um, we're gonna we're already locked it in.

Miss James already said we're ready good for that date at the junior high.

My board already locked it in for us, so we're ready to go for November 8th.

Um, thank you guys.

Um again, any questions, concerns, please.

I'm here.

Anybody left?

Anyone right?

All right.

Thank you.

Hey, thank you.

Thank you, Angela.

All right, with that, we'll head over to council member announcements.

Anybody on my left have any announcements?

Back to work, isn't it?

Yeah.

I would just have one, I don't know, a complainter necessarily, but if we look at the packet this uh week, 800 pages.

And I know it's it's very we see this on Thursday, and so some of the issues, maybe some of the uh items that are there for the first time is very difficult to really prepare yourself to vote on some of those things when you're going through that many pages.

I would suggest that in the future we have some of these uh items coming forward that have a lot of pages that maybe we have a work session prior to that meeting so we can go through some of those things without taking up time with the council being to do it, and yeah.

So uh just I think before the first of the year was one uh meeting in late November was 400 some pages, there's another one was 200 some pages.

That's a lot of uh reading and trying to comprehend what's happening without some forewarning or some previous uh information what the subject's about.

So, particularly what's if something shows up on the consent agenda.

Okay, thank you.

Duly noted.

Thank you, Dan.

On my right.

Go ahead, sir.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, it has been a while since we last met.

I do have a few items.

I'll try to make it quick.

Um Thursday and Friday, December 12th and 13th, along with the mayor and uh councilmember Galindo.

I attended the uh League of Arizona Cities and Towns newly elected officials training program.

I found it very informative and highly recommended to any new council members to attend.

Um December 14th.

Um Eloy 75th anniversary was a fun and entertaining day and an event.

I'm sure it was enjoyed by all that attended.

Great kudos to all the um city employees that did a great job and setting that up in a hopefully uh we don't disappoint on our next uh next year's program.

Uh I also had on here, one moment.

Uh on what date was this?

Oh, yeah, January 3rd.

There was a community yard sale that the uh city hosted at the um Main Street Park.

I happen to be there.

I um I'm involved with the club at Robeson Ranch uh Genealogy Club, and um we're looking to supplement our um club uh income, and we had a fantastic time.

Great turnout.

Uh Paul and your staff, thank you.

Um I hope they keep this on the agenda.

Uh the mayor attended, actually bought a few items, and it was good.

And um I can see that growing and being more successful.

Uh thank you again.

And the last thing was a personal thing.

Uh this past Saturday, I happened to give uh blood to the American Red Cross.

Um, I try to do that as often as I can, and I encourage everyone, if you're able to, to try to do that as often as you can as well.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, sir.

And just to recap, yes, the newly elected officials conference that we attended was fantastic.

It was time well spent.

Learned a lot about open meeting laws and do's and don'ts of being an elected official.

And then we got back on December 13th.

We came down here for the CDLU dinner and awards that were held here at City Hall.

I would just like to say congrats to all the award winners for all the hard work they did for our community and all the CDLU people we have on this council.

December 14 was a big day in Eloy.

It started off at 10 a.m.

with Reets Across America, hosted by the Penel Hispanic Center in the cemetery.

We put wreaths at Veterans Graves, and it was just a very somber, very humbling event.

Then we went at 11 a.m.

to the Veterans Center for a ribbon cutting, the Penal Hispanic Center is generally host is general generously hosting the Veterans Center in their building on Main Street.

Main Street is exactly where Eloy wants to honor their veterans, front and center, right down the street from the Veterans Park, also located on Men's Main Street.

Thank you, Panel Hispanic Center, and everybody that attended.

Later on that same day at 2 p.m.

We had vendors and food trucks.

Then at 3 30, we had a ceiling of our own time capsule and internment in front of City Hall with a dig up date of 25 years from now.

We hope we can all be there to enjoy that celebration.

And anybody in this room who comes to that celebration, if I'm there, I will buy lunch on that day.

The rest of the festivities kicked off around 6 p.m.

with 150 cupcakes given out in Santa Elves and Reindeer skydiving into Main Street.

The tree lighting, the most amazing drone show ever in Eloy's history, took place right out here by our Main Street.

The light parade, followed by fireworks and float judging.

There was so many moving parts to this celebration.

But our fearless teams, led by Paul Anchondo, backed up by Chad Price at the helm, hold it all off.

Thank you, all city staff who had a hand in making this all work.

It was a long day, but our city could not have looked better.

It really couldn't.

That was just amazing.

Start to finish.

And the fact that everything went off without a hitch is just it just speaks volumes.

On December 16th, McKenzie Lecture, myself, along with Angela from the Eloy Chamber.

We toured the Baya Delta Pine facility on Frontier Street.

They've been doing seed research at that location since the 80s.

It is a high-tech operation that contributes to the growth of cotton nationwide.

A good Eloy partner for many years.

I never knew what was behind those fences.

We went in there and Mac, do you agree?

I was I was totally flawed, but they have laboratories back there and all kinds of stuff.

Very high tech.

Then on December 17th, community developed Dan Sima, along with assistant manager McKenzie Letter and myself attended a conference hosted by the land advisors group in Phoenix.

Many of the big name developers were there, along with top industry analysts.

Topics discussed with trends in the housing market and possible directions going forward, but nobody really knows.

On December 20, we had our employee appreciation luncheon at Robeson Ranch.

The city truly appreciates their employees.

Some of the best I have ever worked with.

This was certainly a busy holiday season.

All right.

That put aside, we're going to move along to consent agenda.

Oh, city manager.

Look at that.

I gotta get better glasses, I think.

Thank you, Mayor.

Members of council, a few things on the manager's announcement for tonight.

Um, if you've been driving around near Main Street, you've probably seen the traffic control signs regarding our pavement preservation project.

A notice has gone out on social media and it's on our on our website with what's happening.

Uh, we'll begin repaving mill and fill projects.

It'll start on Santa Cruz and then it's going to go to Sunshine and finally commence on Main Street.

So for the next couple of weeks, things are gonna get a little hairy with construction barrels and whatnot.

That's a good thing.

We love seeing that in our city.

We'll have brand new roads to drive on when that's completed.

So if you haven't um pulled it up, you know, this is available online or on our webs website social media, take a look for the public that's out there.

Next, we have a holiday coming up.

Martin Luther King Day is next week, Monday.

So, as such, city offices will be closed.

Well, we do have the Martin Luther King Youth March on Thursday, the 16th at 9 a.m.

downtown Main Street, same place we have it every year, so that'll be fun.

That's uh sponsored by our community services department, Paul Inchondo and his team.

Additionally, we uh this is the if you've been paying attention, Governor Hobbs did our state of the city, state of the state today, and the legislative session has started.

So all of our representatives are on the up in the capital doing their thing.

If you haven't had time, please reach out to the League of Arizona Cities and Towns.

They are still looking for league committee members.

So if you're interested in any one of those, we can help facilitate that.

Reach out to me or Tori and we'll get you in touch with those folks.

Uh, and then as a reminder, seller of our organization, such as CAG Central Arizona governments scheduling their legislative days.

So CAG has reached out, they need confirmation as soon as possible regarding their legislative day.

If you're interested in that again, reach out to Tori or I, and we can get that taken care of.

Um, but also just keep that on your radar as this uh legislative session is going on.

Different organizations that we're part of will be sending out emails for uh participation in these times at the Capitol.

We love to have you, I'm sure.

And then the last two items.

Uh we have a planning and zoning meeting, excuse me, this Wednesday at 6 p.m.

Uh to piggyback on council member Snyder's uh uh comments earlier.

We will be reviewing the draft master plan.

So all these months we've been working on the airport draft master plan it's a 10-year update that has been finalized, so that'll be the first iteration where we're gonna present that to the public.

Uh answer questions, the consultants will be here, Matt Quick with Kaufman Associates and whatnot.

So please come to that.

If you can't make that, we'll have that live stream so you can sit at home with some popcorn and watch that too.

Uh following that meeting, it will come before city council.

So that uh believe the next the first or second meeting in February, second meeting in February, that's when that's scheduled to come.

So uh keep an eye out for that.

If you have a minute, that'll help keep things updated.

So because that's a big document too.

That's about a 400-page master planning document.

So anybody that wants to stay abreast on that.

And then lastly, for planning and zoning, as you recall, last year council approved a consolidations of boards and commissions into a larger planning and zoning commission.

At the end of last year, we sent out call to action to members of both the current planning and zoning and members that were on those commissions or boards that were dissolving and forming into the bigger one.

Uh, we received uh three letters back from current members that wanted to serve on the newly formed planning and zoning, which means we do not have a full board.

So at this point, we're gonna move forward with advertising to the public to submit uh the um applications to be on a board.

As soon as we have enough persons from the public who have submitted those applications, including the current planning and zoning members that have shown interest in serving, we'll be compiling that together and bringing it before city council.

Um community development director Dan Simon and I are working on that, and as soon as we can get that up and running and over to you guys, we will.

The plan is hopefully to have this newly foreign planning and zoning commission in order by I'm looking for Dan.

Where did he go?

March, right?

March, March 15th, yes.

That's when that's our goal.

So any audience members, uh those listening online and council members, please spread the word to go online and click on that application and start filling those out for us.

And yeah.

David, I have a question on the uh new members.

Uh when if I'm not mistaken, the membership of that new board will have certain skill sets for certain members.

Yes.

The members that you're short on.

Do you know what skill sets you're missing?

That you're gonna be advertising.

Mayor members of council, Dan Seimer Community Development Director.

Uh, we actually the skill sets that we're looking for is for general planning concerns, one for airport, the airport, one for economic development and revitalization, one for housing and three, yes.

Um, and just before the meeting started, we did get the IE fourth.

So we do have a fourth of that.

So out of that, we probably can fill at least the airpark one and uh the definitely it'll be up to the existing members of the planning commission how they would like to fulfill their roles.

They all have unique specialties uh that are there.

So we'll we'll be asking those type of questions when we start getting forward.

I have one other question for David.

Uh since we're in the middle of January, and we probably will have a retreat coming up.

Could you have some dates that we can kind of like pencil in the kind of yep?

We've got so we don't get hit with the week before or something like that.

You know, yeah, we were able to acquire that set date last week, so I'll be sending out something tomorrow to council members regarding the retreat date.

You have a date now?

Yeah, yes.

Can I have it?

Friday, February 7th.

Friday, February 7th.

Okay, thank you.

You're welcome.

That's the mayor, members of council, that concludes my updates.

Unless there's a further questions.

Sure.

Yeah, so uh as far as the roads that uh sunshine boulevard and Santa Cruz.

I know that has have you been working with the schools to make sure that drop off and pickups are there's an alternative route while the construction is going on because I know that's highly congested early in the morning and in the afternoons.

Um also uh my concern is with especially with Sunshine Boulevard, they're the older part of Eloy, so they we don't have like alleys or anything.

Is there gonna be like an alternative route for us to be able to get out of our homes?

Because you know, we have to go around the easements to be able to get out.

So is there gonna be some kind of assistance to be able to help with those?

I know my neighbor who lives on the corner of Sunshine in 9th has agreed to allow me to park next to her house on 9th Street so that I can get out and then probably go down Myers and be able to get out of Eloy or get around because I'm sure Main Street is going to be under construction as well, right?

Mr.

Mayor, Madam Vice Mayor and Madam Councilman and Golano, yes.

We are aware of those concerns.

We have been reaching out to the school through us and through our contractor as well.

Uh our contractor knows that there are people that live on those streets, they are residentials, they will make accommodations for the for the people for the residents to get to come in and out of their properties.

Okay, because I got the letter on my door, but there was an uh uh there was no like an alternative to this is how we suggest you park.

Um there was my neighbor, I know is concerned about the dates.

Both my neighbors on both sides were like, well, what are the days that we we need to make sure that we have an alternative route outside of our driveways?

Understood.

And we can we can certainly work with the contractor to provide alternate access routes, and and when we when we get the updates from exactly which days the contractor will be working on which streets will make those updates to our website as well.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, sir.

All right, anybody else questions?

Anything?

Okay, now we'll move on to consent agenda.

Items listed with an asterisk are considered to be routine matters and will be enacted by one motion and one roll call vote of the council.

There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a council member so request, in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda.

Does any council members like to pull any items off the agenda at this time?

Ms.

Mayor, I can pull item Cody else.

Okay, this time I'm gonna request a roll call for a vote of all items on the consent agenda except for item C item A, B, D, and E.

That's I'm asking for a motion.

You make another motion?

Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda items A, B, B, and E.

I need a second.

I'll second that.

Roll call.

Councilmember Rojaska.

Yes, Councilmember Curtis, yes, Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Oh, do you mind you entering your mic?

Try it again, uh Vice Mayor.

Yes.

Thank you.

Mayor Sutton?

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider?

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

The motion passed unanimously, Mayor.

Thank you.

Brian.

Did you want me to present this or do you have questions regarding this?

More questions.

The background on just what's the scope of it, or how's it done?

There was an audit of Sora.

So Aldridge's consulting, they do our sales tax audit for the cities for local sales taxes.

So they could if audit our restaurant bar tax, construction tax, anything to do with our local taxes.

Since we don't have a tax department, a lot of towns, cities, and towns, they contract with uh a few companies, one Alridge uh consulting.

There's a um, and they go in and they do our sales tax audits for those municipalities.

So they go in and in this case, they'll pull all of our building permits and they'll look to see if the contractors are paying the appropriate taxes to the local jurisdiction in case in this case the city of Eloy.

They request all their their information for it that they should be presenting to the department of revenue, and then that they act as the a tax auditor or sales tax auditor for the department of revenue.

But they're on behalf of the city doing our audits versus doing a state audit for the for the state of Arizona.

Okay, so this in a way is a way a check to see if people businesses are actually paying their sales taxes if required or that's that's where I was confused.

I didn't know exactly what was basically.

This is this is one that when we when if we suspect the business that we're not um as we look through our monthly uh database that we get from uh the the state we can we can have the um Cynthia Alridge do a sales tax on it on that that vendor and then because we notice that they're not paying appropriate taxes and we're not receiving the appropriate tax, so they do the work for us, and then um for that that matters since we don't have uh local tax department and the same thing happened if they would uh from a state, I think we get tax data.

You see that uh taxes are being paid by a business, but that business does not does not have a city business license.

Is that checked as well?

No, if it's like a business license, what the business license does is just like if they are that helps us for one, if they have the appropriate tax sales TPT as they call it, transaction privilege tax number.

So they would we would use that and then we would supply that information to our tax auditor if we notice that that business is not paying any taxes to us, but we see them conducting business in our city.

They then send a letter out on behalf of the state of Arizona to the business to ask them questions, supply them the tax auditor with the appropriate information, how they're reporting it.

If they find they're not reporting the right jurisdiction, they send them a bill saying this is how much you owe to the appropriate uh jurisdiction in taxes based upon their their receipts that they've provided.

But the reverse does that does not happen then.

Um when it comes to the local business with business license, no.

I mean, we don't it doesn't go about that way because with a business license, we don't ask for collection of money on it.

I was just checking if this is a a method to determine whether people have business licenses.

Yeah, it shouldn't.

Okay, that's no that was my go ahead.

So um what about like vendors and food trucks?

And does the city require them to have like a city permit or a city license to show that they're uh collecting revenue?

Are they running as a business or is they are they exempt?

Um council member or mayor mayor Sutton, Councilmember Glenda, when it comes to food trucks, yes, they should be getting a business license, and during that time um before we issue a business license, if they don't have a TPT, we won't issue them business license until they have everything appropriate.

Um now between the finance department and community development, um we're there we're doing a little more stricter guidelines with it because with uh in the city code they have things with uh you have to have a CUP to get a business license for mobile.

So there's a stricter process now than it was in the the past.

Um but we do if we notice a business of mobile that is um operating and we see that they haven't been paying us anything, we turn it over to Cynthia.

Cynthia then contacts the vendor for the the sales tax audit.

And who is Cynthia?

Cynthia is with all reg consulting.

Okay.

So the city does issue business license.

We do issue business license, but if a business does not supply us with all the information, a business license is not issued to them, and we let them know they need to go with appropriate steps, get go to the department of revenue, get a transaction privilege tax, and once they get that come back for the appropriate license.

Okay, thank you.

Anyone else?

Okay, at this time I'm looking for a motion to approve item C from the consent agenda.

Mr.

Mayor, make a motion we approve item C.

Second.

Second roll call, please, Mary.

Mayor Sutton?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Bodraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder.

Yes.

The motion passed unanimously, Mayor.

Thank you.

Okay, business discussion and action items.

Item A authorize the mayor to execute a professional service agreement contract with Logan Simpson to provide services for a comprehensive update to the general plan for the amount not to exceed 435,648 dollars.

Mr.

Steiner, take it away.

Thank you, Mayor members of the council, Dan Seimer, community development.

The case before you hear or item before you hear, and actually I just notice I put the wrong number in this here, but all right.

So the item for you is for the contract amount.

The contract is the amount that the mayor mentioned.

I didn't correct that in the in the presentation.

But we are doing a request for a approval of professional service contract for the amount stated in the city council report.

If you remember back in June of this year, we fulfilled a uh series of requests for qualifications, and one of those was awarded to Logan Simpson.

And that was for on-call planning services.

And as part of that discussion, if you may remember, the question was what would happen if we have a contract that is greater than the amount that was specified in the on-call contract.

And after discussing with the representatives of Logan Simpson and how best to approach the update to the general plan, uh it was felt that we would come to you with a separate contract for this specific item.

So what is the general plan?

The general plan is a community-driven plan.

It's a document that forms the bedrock for all cities and towns for which the foundation creates a former roots to which the community's ambitions, desires, and aspirations and expectations of our property owners, residents, and businesses.

It's the primary policy document of the city.

It's a citizen-driven plan.

And this is as you can see in the pyramid of schemes here, is the bedrock of that plan.

Every item that we bring before you somehow is tied back to this plan.

Every policy decision that the council makes, every budget, we do read, we go by everything, master plan.

So as you can see here, the general plan is the base of those plans.

Then comes your specific plans, your master strategic plans.

Council strategic plans are in that too, and your codes and ordinances and implementations.

So what is what makes up the general plan?

It's a series of elements.

The general plan on the on the left-hand column are your mandatory items, your land use circulation, open space, growth, and so on.

These are required by the state.

So every 10 years we're required by the state to adopt a new general plan.

And after you reach 10,000 persons in your city, you're required to have that ratified by the voters.

We have a few uh additional elements that are very popular among plans, which is recreation, housing, economic vitality, and public services.

As many communities have gone throughout the general plan update process, they have found that these items are essential to making forward their general plan because we're doing them every day.

So why now?

Why the goals, as I mentioned, is our the goals and policies make our foundation.

These are the bedrock coming up to the foundation of the BRIC.

It's been 15 years since we've updated our general plan.

We did do a reapproval in 2020, and many of the facets and uh functions and concepts and objectives of the plan actually go back to 2020 2001, so 2001.

So it's actually really been 24 years since we've updated our plan.

And if we remember last year, well, we were in our budget retreats and strategic meetings for this council strategic plan.

One of the items I said is I mentioned is why are we going over general plan policies in a strategic plan document?

Well, having known some of that answer, I went and dug deeper, and that's because our general plan doesn't address many things, and most of where we're going and growing as a community.

For example, we have five land uh land use policies, one of them actually addresses with land use.

Three of them, two of them are on aggregates, one of them is on uh underground storage of gas, and one of them is on creating design standards that says we should apply.

So really it only has one land use policy in the entire document.

So it becomes very, very needed.

So as I said, is you as we uh go forward, we're looking at our overall comprehensive plan update because our plan really hasn't been updated.

It's just been maps have been changed, some wording has been tweaked, but it's become a very apparent, especially through last year's process that we need a solid foundation moving forward.

And why are we doing now too?

The the schedule that Logan Simpson has put together and we've worked on together, uh, allows us to get forward before the voters in November 2026.

So I was looking at the timeline.

This is a very general time frame.

There are many, many parts to this uh plan and program that are moving.

It's very multifaceted, but it starts in two weeks.

We're gonna have our kickoff meeting, assuming the contract's approved, and it ends near June.

Now we will be doing a considerable amount of outreach, an outline that's in your in your packet.

And with the council appro uh approval and then voter ratification in November.

Now, once the council approves it to go on to the ballot, staff has to step a step away.

It becomes a ballot measure, and it becomes the politicians and the community to get voter ratification.

What that happens, there's two parts of that that can't happen to voters can deny it, have worked in the community where it happened three times in a row.

Very unlikely, but it does happen.

Uh, our we're gonna do everything we can to make this a community driven plan.

We're gonna be starting off with the vision.

Uh if you look at our current vision, it says we hope to do this.

I've never re read a general plan that says we hope to do something, and says we are going to do something.

This is what our community wants to be.

So we're gonna start off with a strong uh visioning process, going into plan development, doing a variety of outreach as in all those subject areas that I presented to you, and finally the drafting of the plan and final adoption.

I have with uh uh here today was Sandra from Logan Simpson.

If we have any questions you would like, we're happy to answer them.

Thank you, then thank you very much.

Does anybody on my left have any questions?

Okay, um according to that the last slide.

One of the questions because I read where uh there was the price that uh you are asking the subcontractors for does not include uh the elections part of ratifying this and and taking it out to the voters.

It says it on that timeline, it said that you were looking at taking it to the voters in 2025.

26.

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought I saw 2025.

It's a typo.

Okay.

And I have no questions because my concern was was it gonna be a special election if it was gonna be in 2025?

No, 2026.

I apologize for the type of okay.

I don't please the the item though is the budget for that is separate in the 2026-27 already in our future CIP project.

Yeah, so but if it was gonna be in 2025, it was gonna be a special election, which was gonna be an added cost.

That's correct.

Thank you.

Quick question regarding the election.

Typically, it's gonna be a regular election year cycle.

If we don't need that general, do we still want to hold that in, or is do we have to hold that in November rather than August or June or July?

We have to hold it at a minimum of four months after the four-month holding period.

So we do have to do that.

Ideally, you want it on your general election.

Uh your turnout is better, and most every community is different, but you it the communities I've worked at, you're taking a significant risk in a special election.

Yep.

Anybody?

All right, just as a point of interest on this, because I saw that number, that 435,000 change number, and this may have just dropped right open.

It really did.

So I did some digging.

I went back and I looked at one of our neighboring cities.

And in 2009, they paid 270,000 for their plan.

So we're talking so many years later, only uh up of 165,000.

So I do I do think that's in one.

I do think that's kind of in line.

Because I first saw that number, and I I just, you know, puckered.

I think I could say that I worked in other communities where you hitting close to a million.

Oof.

Okay, we'll keep it here then.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

At this time, I'm going to mayor.

Sorry.

Um, we want to bring to attention one other item on this.

Uh was brought to our attention earlier today by councilmember Vodraska that there was a slight adjustment we had to make in the contract for professional services.

Item 3.2 on page one was incorrect in what would happen should there be any change orders.

So should this price go above the specified price?

Anything up to $20,000 can be approved through my authority.

Anything over $20,000 and one dollar, we would then have to package as an amendment and take it to city council for approval.

But if in the case that there are any amendments up to the $20,000, it would be written up as an amendment to the contract, come to the city manager.

I'm out obviously work with the community development director and make sure that's all in order, and then I could sign that.

But again, anything over will come to you guys.

There is a discrepancy in the amount.

So we made the change in the amount.

Logan Simpson was really great, got the new contract put together for us, and that's here tonight for signature.

Thank you, David.

Good find there, uh Councilmember.

Good find.

All right, with that, I'm gonna look for a motion to approve item A.

Mayor make a motion we approve item A.

Second.

I'll second that.

Oh, thank you.

Mayor Rocole, please.

Okay.

Councilmember Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Vojasca?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

The motion pass unanimously, Mayor.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Mile as well, right there.

Okay, item B.

Item B is request by applicant to continue case number RZPAD 2024, there 006, Southwest Crossing to the February 10th, 2025 City Council meeting.

The applicant is a request to rezone approximately 122 acres located at the southwest corner of West Houser Road and North Australa Road from General Industrial I2 to General Industrial I2 with a planned area development overlay.

Mr.

Seima.

Yes, Mayor members of Council.

Uh recommendation.

So the continuance was requested to allow for for the planning commission to review this case on this Wednesday.

And since then we have come to a resolution on the conditions of approval and work through those.

Staff is recommending approval to that, but although that does mandate a moving of the council to you to February, because the planning commission must provide a recommendation to the council.

Thank you, sir.

Is that it?

Okay.

Looking for a motion for approving item B.

Mayor.

I'll make a motion to continue item B.

Do we have a second, please?

I'll second.

Thank you.

Mayor.

Okay.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Councilmember Glindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Bojaska?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

The motion pass unanimously, Mayor.

Thank you, Mary.

Next up is item C adoption of resolution number 251609 declaring a public record that certain document filed with the city clerk and entitled first amendment to the Picasso View 1 development plan to solar up to Pablano Sola.

It's a mouthful.

Go on now.

Mayor members of the council.

The item before you is as the mayor has read is a request to create public record of what are the 800 pages that the councilman referred to.

I believe this one's 147 to be exact.

Uh so that we do not have to publish all pages in the paper.

This document will be available at the clerk's office virtually immediately once it's been signed off.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Anybody on council have any comments?

Hearing none.

Do I hear a motion to read by title adoption of resolution?

25 16 to 09.

So moved.

And second.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed say nay.

Hearing nothing.

Motion carries.

You ready?

Mm-hmm.

A resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of Eloy, Panao County, Arizona, declaring as a public record that certain document filed with the city clerk entitled first amendment to the Pikachu View One Development Plan.

Do we have a motion to approve resolution 25 days 1609 as presented?

I'll make a motion to approve it as read, please.

I have a second.

Second.

Roll call, please.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

No.

Councilmember Bojasca?

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder.

Yes.

The motion pass six to one, Mayor.

Thank you, Mary.

Next on to item D.

We're going to conduct a public hearing and consider the adoption of ordinance 25 983 approving amendment for zoning map case.

RZPAD 2006-37.

I'm going to open this public hearing.

Mayor members of council.

This is one of two cases on your agenda tonight.

They're both interrelated.

This is the Poblano Solar Project.

Is there a request for a PAD amendment to allow the solar gen solar utility generation for utility facility generation uses and allowed use in the PADs?

Staff has recommended approval, as has the planning commission unanimously in accordance with the stipulations that were provided.

If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer that, or I'll pass it off to applicant for their presentation.

Any council members have any questions?

Is this land you know will be leased or purchased for this uh the mayor married counsel?

I'll let the applicant address that.

The reason I asked the question is we in this uh pad uh now have proved or are approving with this maybe uh quite a few solar projects.

Uh I'm not aware of any of them being started yet.

And so my question is if we change the zoning to accommodate this.

If for some reason these uh projects do not move forward, is there a chance that applicants gonna come back and ask us to change the zoning back because they want to farm it again?

And that's I'm just we've had a lot of projects here, and they're probably not all gonna go.

And just curious about what happens to that land uh after we made this zoning change.

Certainly, uh mayor members of council is a great question.

Um we have the two facilities up north that have been constructed.

Uh just as of last week, Kit Solar, which is out just north of Milligan, South of Milligan, and west of Sunshine Boulevard has submitted for their permitting applications.

We expect the largest of the facilities called Saw Teeth to come in later in March.

Uh all of these have been except three have been done through conditional, or three of them were done through conditional use permits.

The rest have been done through PAD amendments.

Each of those PAD amendments, when I work with the applicant and worded them, that the solar use is an allowed use in addition to those uses that are already on the property.

So they, if they do not develop, they still have all rights underneath them.

As it pertains to the conditional uses, some of those have a two-year time frame, or they got to come back to council.

Uh one was extended already for a three-year time frame, total of three years.

Uh don't know the status of that one yet.

But um all the uses will revert back or have the option to revert back to their original zoning.

Go ahead, sir.

Dan, um at the December 18th uh P Z meeting.

Um, was there any public consensus?

Were there um anyone from the public show up?

And if they did, what are their objections or people in favor?

No, there was no public uh objections to at the December 18th hearing.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anybody else have questions for Mr.

Sima?

No, would the applicant like to get up and uh give us a little something?

Yes, uh good evening.

Uh Mayor Sutton, Council members.

My name is Andrew Yancey.

I'm an attorney at Bergen Frank Smolly and Oberholster.

We're at 4343 East Camelback Road in Phoenix for your records.

I'm pleased to be before you tonight, uh, representing Long Road Development for their proposed Poblano Solar Project.

It's on about 938 acres of vacant private land in Eloy.

I want to make sure to thank uh staff, in particular Mr.

Simer, for their hard work on this project and their recommendation of approval.

Um just briefly, as you know, there's significant demand for electricity in Arizona right now, is needed to support the overall growth, but in particular, the high-tech and manufacturing jobs that are coming into the state at this time.

Uh in fact, just last week I heard an APS executive say that they need to increase their generation by 50% over the next seven years to keep pace with their demand.

Um this project is one of many that would help contribute to that and and fill that need.

One of the good things about the solar project is it's not going to strain the water or wastewater services or add a lot of traffic trips to the roads.

Um also it's just a good way to make beneficial use of this private land that doesn't really have much other development value at this time.

So with the growing demand for solar, I know Eloy has enacted its own solar ordinance, uh, set its own requirements for uh location, uh setbacks, buffering, decommissioning, roadway improvements, and dedications.

We're going to meet all of those Eloy specific requirements under the zoning ordinance.

Um I've got just a few slides to walk through, give you some specifics about this particular project, and then of course I'd be happy to take any questions.

Got it.

Uh so first of all, the applicant here is Long Road, they're a national renewable energy developer.

They got projects all across the country, but they've got a lot of experience here in Arizona.

The projects in operation Arizona today generate enough electricity to power about half a million Arizona households.

They have several other large-scale projects that are under construction right now.

Um they like to be a partner in the communities where they have projects, so they're really looking forward to becoming part of the Eloy community as well.

Uh this is just a map to give you an idea of where we are.

The blue outline is the project.

Uh it's about the project's about three miles from downtown Eloy.

It's vacant, it does not have any water rights, it doesn't have sewer services.

There are some 230 kilovolt transmission lines going through this area.

That makes it very attractive for the utility uses.

Uh, you can also see most of the surrounding area is vacant here.

There's a landfill just up Toltec.

Uh, there's another project, is one uh Mr.

Simer mentioned.

I know many of you voted on late last year.

The Sawtooth project is immediately to our southeast.

We'll actually border that on a portion.

There are a few existing residences within the Arizona city area of unincorporated county land on our west, and I'll touch on that again here in just a moment.

So as far as the zoning goes, as uh Mr.

Seimer noted, there are two different PADs on the property today.

The majority of it is covered by the Pikachu View 1 PAD.

That's got about 800 acres of our property in it.

The other one's called the Eloy Valley PAD, that's got about 120 acres segment.

So both PADs were approved back in 2006, had a mix of residential and some neighborhood commercial zoning.

Our proposals to amend both PADs to have solar as an interim use within the project site while maintaining the underlying zoning.

And that's I think what uh Mr.

Simers noting in response to Councilmember Snyder's uh question that that underlying zoning does remain on the property even with the added solar use.

Now, Long Road's looking to do about 175 megawatts of solar with photovoltaic panels and also battery energy storage system of up to 200 megawatts.

Those panels, they're the ones that are on single access tracking racks.

They track with the sun throughout the day to maximize the amount of sun they're getting.

Again, the project will comply with all of the buffers and protections in the Eloy Zoning Ordinance.

Also, as part of that, it's going to result in some roadway dedications and improvements on Toltec Buttes on Milligan, on Alsdorf, and on Tolsac Highway.

So this right here is just a very high level conceptual site plan.

The gray shaded areas, that's where the solar panels are planned to go.

You can also see there's a conceptual layout for where the battery storage, the substation, and the OM yard will go.

Those are down close to those transmission lines that are on Milligan Road.

And because we do have the uh existing residences in the unincorporated Arizona City area to our west, um, we want to just note what we're doing around there.

We're gonna maintain a hundred foot overall setback on any of our property bordering that that Arizona City land.

We're also going to increase the landscape buffer to 30 feet to provide extra screening along that area.

Um you can also see Overfield Road provides a little bit of additional separation for those homes that are just west of Overfield.

We also removed a portion of the project that is in the initial footprint because it's a commercial zone corner down at the bottom.

We wanted to leave that as a buffer and for potential future commercial development.

Okay, uh, just a couple more things before I uh wrap up and take questions.

Um, this project does provide a few um additional local benefits using this currently vacant land.

We're estimating about 300 construction jobs over about an 18 to 24 month period.

Uh, there could be up to four, I'm sorry, four or five full-time workers during operation.

Also, uh, if it built out to its maximum capacity, we're estimating about 20 million dollars in uh local property tax revenue over the 30-year life of the project.

In addition, we did have an open house a few months ago.

Uh, several landowners in the area attended.

There was also one homeowner from the Arizona City area that came.

He's seen our sign out on Overfield, uh, came and asked some questions.

No one has expressed opposition to this project at this time in in writing or in person at our neighborhood meeting or at the PNZ commission hearing.

We do have two letters of support from uh neighboring landowners as well.

So that uh wraps up my presentation.

Thank you for your time and attention.

We respectfully request that you vote to approve these uh two PAD amendments this evening, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

On my left.

I have a few.

So um I understand.

Trust me, I am totally supportive of renewable energy.

I believe Arizona should be using solar energy.

We have the resources.

My concern is that my position is to represent the city of Eloy and its development and its future.

Um, one of the things that uh gets in the way of development is that we don't have enough housing, we don't have enough single housing, we don't have the population.

So giving up a lot of property for a solar panel that's not really going to increase the population, increase the economic value and the potential for more revenue to come into the city of Eloy by businesses, by home, by property taxes, concerns me.

So that's one of my concerns.

I understand this is private land, and if the owners are okay with you know what they want to do with their private land, I understand that, but my concern is with what is this going to do with the future development of the city of Eloy?

And is it going to hamper any growth or any uh opportunities that the city could have to expand and grow and build itself economically?

Um my second concern is that um when I was on the council before, uh I did a lot of uh touring of alternative resource sites with APS, and APS was very gracious of taking us on tours and stuff.

One of one of the the issues that that was going on at the time was that California had did such an excellent job looking for alternative resources for energy that they had way too much energy.

There was so much energy that was being produced out of California that they were literally giving it to Arizona and Utah and all the other states.

The long road is their contract with just building these solar panels, or do they have a plan as to who's gonna use this energy once it's developed?

Where is this energy gonna go?

Is it gonna be used to help the city of Eloy?

Is it gonna be used to provide energy throughout the state?

There's there's a lot of concerns that I have about having too much solar available um here, and the county seems to be doing a really good job of farming a lot of its land out to solar energy.

So my concern is with the city needing more growth and development in home and population and in businesses.

Giving up a lot of property to build a solar farm concerns me.

Thank you, Councilmember Galindo.

I'm gonna try to address all your questions if I miss anything.

Please please bring me back to it.

Um so uh first of all, understand your concern about giving up land that could otherwise be developed for for houses, for uh some of those commercial uses.

I I think where where we're looking here is farther away from the existing growth pattern.

There aren't the services that reach this property now that you would need to build those types of uses.

Um I believe isn't in the staff report, but the the water service, I believe, cuts off at sunshine, um, and in the sewer service cuts off, I think it's at least a thousand feet away.

So that makes it much more expensive to develop that land for for that type of use, and that's a detriment to it.

Um it is about three miles away, I believe, from from downtown Eloy.

So there's there's still a lot of growth pattern to occur before development would get out there.

And that is where the private landowners come in.

If if there was a higher price market for residential or commercial, I wouldn't be here for the solar case right now.

One of the good things that Eloy has done in their ordinance is create this situation where the underlying zoning remains.

Um typical solar project lifespans about 30 years.

That's because that's about the life of the panels.

Um the zoning remains at that time to come in and be able to develop it.

I think the hope is that it would be able to develop something at that time.

But you know, right now you're just looking at vacant land that's that's not producing anything in terms of uh you know revenue or or jobs.

Um I I know you know the the longer term you know, job prospects on the solar projects aren't as good as if you have you know a big manufacturer command or something like that.

But at the same time, that this property would be producing nothing if we didn't do something with it now.

So it's a way to make a beneficial use of the property until the growth pattern makes its way out to there.

And um you did note uh property taxes.

Um there are property taxes associated with the solar, it increases the category of the property um from you know the the vacant or this isn't farm, so this isn't agland, so it increases it to a higher category that has a higher rate.

But there's also the the fixtures, the personal property that attaches to it.

The panels and in particular the the battery components are very valuable.

So that generates a lot of tax revenue, and there's a a statutory formula the states put together as to to how to measure that and how to depreciate it.

Um you also talked about uh you know APS and some of the the broader grid questions.

So uh the way that this is structured is long road will need to work with a utility to sell the power to the utility.

That goes through a public bidding process.

And both SRP and APS right now have uh very active bidding processes because they need a lot of power coming in.

I I noted what the APS executive said, about a 50% increase in seven years.

I've heard SRP say they need to double in the next 10 years.

So there is a lot of demand for for power coming in, and again, it's a lot of those high-tech jobs are are what's driving that as well as the overall growth pattern.

Um so long road will will work with APS um and hopefully be selected to be one of their providers, and at that time they'll enter a contract with APS.

Long Road will construct, own, and operate the project.

Um I I know not all developers do that, but that's Long Road's typical model that they like to stick with it.

They are operating other projects in Arizona today.

So they stay around, they're they become a community partner.

But as soon as the electricity hits the grid, it's APSs.

And so uh, you know, it at that point the there's a lot of science as to where electrons go.

I'm not gonna pretend to to know all that, but A APS has its service areas.

Uh a lot of Penal County is within APS's service area.

So um some of that would go to Eloy.

I I think being able to track where the specific like electrons from our project go, it it this that's not really something we can do, but APS does serve uh this area in a lot of Penell County.

Uh hopefully I I hit everything.

If you got any any follow-ups, I'm happy to try to help.

And you said that I didn't go to this public hearing that you had.

Um, but you said the landowners are they gonna sell the property to you, or are they just are they going to lease the property to you while this project is being functioned on their land?

Thank you.

The the landowners um for the land within the project site are going to sell the property to Long Road.

There were some adjacent landowners uh who came out to our neighborhood meeting um to to ask questions, and frankly, several of them were trying to figure out how they could also sell their property into the solar project.

We're of course already along in the in this process, and we can't pick up any more, but that was the general tenor.

You good?

Thank you.

Yes, ma'am.

Yeah.

David, I have a question for you.

I remember several years ago when we were looking at our uh water allocation and getting support for uh some of the uh people who had taken out uh development agreements that hadn't really done anything with them uh to try to get uh some of those people to help support Eloy and paying for the cost of the ADWR.

It seems to me that just uh east of Arizona City was a big land developer done that agreed to do that.

Is this uh in the same area?

Yes, it is.

It's part of the Landmark area, yes.

Not all of it, but a portion of this is within that Linmark footprint, yes.

I'm sorry.

Are these still interested?

Still interested in in developing uh as as um he's he said no.

The the cost analysis just does not cut it.

Uh the closest water and sewer connection point.

I was just looking that up, is actually right here at Aldsdorf.

Um it ends right at the um Grande Valley estates.

So in order to run water sewer, you're looking at a mile plus, and at that point, it given current market conditions for housing, it just doesn't pencil out.

Yeah, that's that was one of the reasons that drove the creation of the ordinance.

We wanted to protect the north of the 10 because we have better connections there, closer to it's easier to um pencil it.

The stuff south of the 10 just did what was mentioned is it just becomes highly unfeasible at this point in time, unfortunately.

So I think the other thing too for Calm and Glindo's uh because uh information or maybe uh put her D's, there is a stipulation, I think, in our pad of what the total land use will be, and these projects are still under that land use.

So uh we did have some foresight when we did this of trying to limit how much it was going to be.

So you know, I don't know if you're aware of that or not, but I think it was a what 17% or 16%, something like that.

16, and we're butting right up next to it.

We're button up to it, but we're still under it.

Yeah, yep.

Um I Dan and I were talking about that last week.

We'll put a communication out to council that showcases a map that he's worked on, and 199 acres is left, I believe, is what the number is after approval of all these current projects.

Yes, the with this project approval and there's one more that's 300 acres, there's 199 acres on all are accounted for.

Thank you, Mrs.

Sima.

Okay.

Go ahead, Vice Mayor.

Thank you, Mayor.

So I this is more of a city question, um, because this solar project butts up directly across the street and up against several homes in Arizona City.

But this question is is there anything in our policies codes that would completely um negate us making agreements with Arizona Water Company or Arizona City sanitation and providing those services to that area of our city.

Uh Councilmember Turingo know there isn't anything in the code specific that would prevent us from entering into an agreement with a third uh third-party water provider.

Uh unfortunately, though, given our current status with Arizona Department of Water Resources in our modified designation ofsured water supply, it would not look good should the city of Eli enter into a third-party agreement, which would basically have to give up our water to them.

Arizona City doesn't have the water to give, so we would have to give up paper water to them for them to be able to service this area.

And that would look bad to ADWR because they would not good stewards of our water at this point.

So yeah, it's it's that's been brought up actually.

It's it's a good question because it's been brought up a couple of times in some other areas around the city.

So I did investigate that and look into that.

And it's just unfortunately until we can um secure our our solidifier designation, it would not be in good faith to do that and not a good course of action.

Um to piggyback on that, I have spoken with our water trainer water team, and we are preparing to do a presentation in February uh during a work session or regular council to provide you all with an update of where we are with that.

You know, what's going on, what's happened in the past year, um, and what we're doing in 2025 to keep that charge and momentum moving forward with with the state.

So the short answer is no, that it could happen if we were good with ADWR, because I mean, if you take that into account, we have water and sewer much closer to that area than if you're gonna come off of our lines off out of the city of Edelway.

It could.

It's it's all situational on what's going on and okay.

Because I mean I see the potential because Arizona City continues to build homes left and right when we're struggling to get anybody to come in here and build a home.

Um right.

Yeah, we're we're in an interesting situation.

We got Arizona water over there, we got Arizona water to the north of us up near the our border with Casagran, and then we got global water to the east of us.

So we're kind of stuck in this this middle area between the two water providers.

But um, you know, we're we're working with them and having communications openly.

Yeah, like I said, I having lived out there for several years, right across the street is all those services.

So that was my question, and again, just a comment.

I don't like that right across the street on Overfilled to the west is a lot of residences, and in Cavayo States is full of residents.

Um that's my only comment.

Thank you.

Any more comments from down here?

Go ahead.

Um, I've got some mixed feelings about this uh for similar reasons.

Um anything east of Toltec Buttes, no issues.

I think that's a great place for solar.

Um the stuff that's west of it.

I feel that it was a bit of an oversight for that to be an allowable area on the solar zoning ordinance map because it's so close to residences, um, especially the furthest west section that's directly abutting against you know, a neighborhood to the north and a neighborhood to the west.

It's just uh, you know, I I know those people didn't necessarily come to the public hearing, but did they really know?

You know, I'm sure you guys did your followed your due diligence to reach out to them.

I'm not blaming you or anything, but people just don't pay attention to that kind of stuff.

And and I think that if they were all knew that if they all knew that there was a potential for there to be solar and what it really looked like to live right next to a solar development, because I've driven around and seen the houses that are right next to the solar developments that we've all approved, and I don't feel good about that for the houses that are directly next door.

I know you've got some buffering, and and that's cool, but none of the ones that we've approved so far that we see around.

Does that landscaping really look good?

Does it um actually provide a true buffer with the flatness of the landscape of that area?

Does it actually feel like it's now made their lives better as residences?

Um the other sort of big picture thing, which I is not your fault.

I I feel bad because I think you know you guys have a good project here, but it's we've got so much other space for solar that's east of Toll Tech Buttes that we could have, and we're already almost at our max of what we want to approve.

That putting it next to this residence just doesn't seem necessary.

It seems unfair and in terms of a big picture thing.

So I don't know if you have any comments on that.

Sure, council member Curtis.

Uh thank you for the the comments.

Um like you noted, we we do have some buffer built in, and and the way it'd work is there's uh a hundred-foot setback to any any panels whatsoever.

That that's a hundred feet.

The 30-foot landscape buffer isn't required here.

That's what the city actually requires along select major arterials.

I think there's four or five of them called out in the zoning ordinance, and and Toltec is is one of them.

So we need to do the 30-foot landscape buffer on Tolstec.

We said let's take that same sort of you know, maximum landscape screening that the city has put in this ordinance, and let's apply it over here.

So the way it'll work is there'll be 30 feet of landscape buffer and then 70 feet of just kind of open open desert, uh, like it is.

We aren't necessarily going to be you know trimming any of the vegetation there.

I I've been out there on overfield road.

Uh some of those you know, shrubs are up, you know, eight, eight, ten feet high.

The panels um tilt throughout the day.

Uh at resting, they're about eight feet high.

When they get to their their max, they're they're more about 12 feet high.

That of course is you know much lower than a two-story home.

They could go there under the residential zoning they have that could get much closer to the property boundary.

Um, and we did also want to, you know, uh try to minimize the area that abutted those residents.

I it's kind of hard to see on this down in that bottom corner.

We initially had that as part of our project.

We we removed it in order to give some more separation in in that portion from overfield, and because that is a commercially zoned piece of property, we wanted to leave it for potential future commercial development.

Uh with regards to uh contact with people in Arizona City.

Um, you know, we we did all the required noticing.

There is a sign right there on Overfield Road.

Um, I looked through there's there's 31 separate addresses that had letters sent to them that have Arizona City in the address that that more than covers the ones who are actually abutting our property.

The gentleman who did come to our neighborhood meeting, um, he said that he lived slightly north of the project along Overfield, that he walks overfield every day, and that he was talking to his neighbors, and they said, Hey, there's that sign they're having a neighborhood meeting, who's gonna go down?

Um, and so you know, he he told us that he was asking all the questions that he had that he heard from his neighbors, and he was gonna take that back and report to them.

Um we haven't heard from him since then.

We haven't heard from anyone else in Arizona City.

We've actually noticed this this project an extra time because our planning and zoning commission hearing got uh it continued because the city didn't hold it on the initial data supposed to, so an extra set of letters went out, giving people an opportunity.

Um so we haven't had anyone come to us and and ask, you know, for anything uh specific to be done to screen them differently.

We would you know always entertain those discussions.

Um this is the the zoning stage right now.

We do still have to get a site plan approved if anyone came to us in the meantime and and wanted to work through it.

We we'd work through the specifics of the site plan with with staff and those neighbors to try to find a way to accommodate them.

So um I uh we we're we're willing to work on this issue.

We just haven't had anybody come to us and ask for anything different.

You're good, sir.

Mike, you got anything?

I'm good.

Okay, I have one thing uh as far as steps in this project.

Concerning the bez.

Has fire been notified and have they given their blessings to this.

Excuse me, Mr.

Mayor, I'm sorry, I'm missed part of that question.

Has fire been notified?

Yeah.

Concerning the Bez.

Yes, uh Mayor Sutton.

Uh we have met with uh the fire chief, Mr.

Jarvis.

Um it it's an initial meeting that's something long road does on on all this projects.

They want to make sure they're working with local fire.

There's gonna be training involved, uh make sure to walk them through where everything is, how how to access things, um as you know your fire department is accustomed to these types of projects coming through.

Uh we'll continue to meet with them throughout the process.

Now I know these systems are all monitored and controlled.

Who does the monitoring control and where does that take place on the SCADA sort of spectrum?

So the question is when the um the the batteries are operating and they have their own.

The batteries, the panels, the switches, the breakers.

Who monitors and where does that take place?

Uh yeah, Mayor Sutton, that's a that's a very good question.

If you allow me a second to confer with my colleagues, because I'm not sure if that's the utility or or us, but let me well if you all know if you own those panels, you'd be the first set of breakers is definitely yours.

I I I I believe that's accurate.

Yeah, I believe that's accurate.

Hello, Mayor Sign, Council members.

My name is Alyssa Menzel.

I'm the project developer with Long Red Energy.

Hi Alyssa.

Uh addresses 125 High Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Um to answer your question, we have a remote operations facility.

It's a world-class facility built in 2021 where we operate all of our projects nationwide.

That's located in Maine.

Um so I know it seems far from here, but it's a pretty astonishing room with computer screens all over, monitoring all of our projects, and that is staff 24-7.

So in case of any incident, um, they would be the first ones to know.

And then as Andrew mentioned, we would also be closely monitoring the project with APS.

Okay, thank you.

So it's up in Maine, that's what I was looking for.

Thank you.

Great.

Sadly.

The question came up around the residences, and I know some solar farms or areas have gone in.

Some of the complaints I've heard back is noise uh from the battery areas.

Where might the batteries be located on this particular property and relative to where the residents would be because so they don't get that hum?

Yeah, council member Snyder, thank you for the question.

Um right here is our conceptual site plan.

Uh the Arizona City residents are are all the way over on the west side of this graphic.

This orange area is is where we believe the the best would go.

We want it to be close to Milligan there because that's where the power lines are.

I don't have an exact measurement, but it it's a pretty good way away from the residents.

Okay, anybody on council have anything else?

All right.

So with that, I'm going to close this public meeting.

Do I hear a motion to read by title only?

Item D.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

We need a motion, Mayor.

A motion and we guess I got it by the same.

As I said, do I hear a motion to read by title only?

I'll make a Mr.

Mayor, I'll make a motion.

Can I uh make one uh suggestion in response to Councilmember Curtis's go ahead.

Uh Councilmember Curtis, I know you're noting concerns about the residents there.

Um we can increase that building setback to 200 feet and make that part of the stipulations so that would the the landscape buffer would be in 30 feet wide along the perimeter there, but we could back the panels up uh instead of being 100 feet away, make them 200 feet away if that would give you additional comfort.

So right now in the diagram that's on the map, that okay, that that red zone is 100 feet.

Is that is that what that is?

Is that to scale?

I yeah, so I believe we set up the um conceptual site plan to be to scale, of course it's much larger to see.

So if you did make that change, would you have to go back to planning and zoning?

Would we just expect in good faith that you would do that?

Councilmember Glendo, of course, an excellent question.

Um I think what we would propose adding a uh stipulation um that any portion of the project bordering an existing residential lot would be set back 200 feet from uh the property boundary.

And I had a question for Councilmember Curtis.

Is it is it the aesthetics of it being so close to a residential area?

That causes you concerned.

Um aesthetics is one aspect of it.

Um just living so close to a power generation facility is got unknowns that we just don't completely understand yet.

I'm not saying it's bad, I'm not saying it's good, it's just um it doesn't feel like what they signed up for.

Um, if that whole section got taken out, I think it would feel a little better.

It's still I still don't like the really like anything east of Toltec Butes personally.

All right.

Again, I hold on, hold on.

Let me reopen this public meeting.

Yeah, Councilmember Curtis is you know, going over to Toltec Abuse obviously is is a much larger uh piece of land.

Um we of course want to make this uh attractive for the utility to to want to purchase.

They do have a lot of folks trying to get in their queue.

The the more uh power they can get the the more likely they are to want to buy into the project.

And again, um j just for for reference, I think it's generally considered that uh the the panels are are less of an issue than than the battery a lot of times.

The National Fire Protection Association is recommended that batteries be set back one hundred feet from property boundaries, even from properties with existing residences on them.

So what we're talking about here are are the panels, which are uh I think generally considered to be less concerning than the the batteries.

They they don't emit any noises, all all they do is they they track with um with the sun throughout the day, and we'd be taking those panels back now double what's recommended for for the batteries have you explored um you know using the parcels south of Milligan, south of your facility that's on the east side of Toltec Butte.

Like I I know those are different owners that it's a big deal to reconfigure this, but we're not I'm not against the project.

I just it's very close to residences, and it it that part doesn't sit right with me.

Um councilman Curtis, I think you you hit the nail on the head on the rationale.

We we have it is actually two different owners, but they're like related through uh a series of trusts and LLCs.

Any uh uh other property in the area would be a whole different ownership group.

That that's a whole different case.

So these are these are the owners that we've worked with.

They're actually owners that uh long road work with on uh another project in in Maricopa County and they had a good experience and and wanted to work with them again.

Okay, anybody from council have anything else to add or question?

You go right ahead.

Thank you, Mayor.

One more thing.

So talking to residents in North Toltec who have a project directly across the street from them, several of um residents up there have expressed to me over the years that they're not happy that that occurred.

So I'll just leave it at that.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

And it is open.

Mr.

Wisnowski, please come to the podium.

My question is if we can't develop the area because we don't have water in that area.

What is our fire control for the batteries and whatnot if we don't have water in that area?

That's a good question.

Mayor?

I know that uh Mr.

Wisnowski.

Sorry.

Uh I can quick answer that.

I know that uh Chief Weddle in the past has spoken that in this instance they'll do the best that they can, but ultimately they'll let it burn.

Well they'll let it burn.

Yeah, water's not a good thing from those batteries, from what I understand.

Keep it from spreading.

Go ahead.

Okay, I I may sound ignorant with this question, but um I as well as like council member Curtis.

I'm really concerned about the aesthetics of it too.

I drive past 11 mile corner road quite frequently, and quite it's just not appealing.

It's just it it fe I feel like it's taken the land and it's just made it so industrial.

And like I said, I may sound ignorant, but is there a plan to like maybe put greenery around it, maybe bushes, maybe look making it not look so industrial?

Is there a way to make those kind of accommodations?

Uh yes, council member uh Galindo.

There are um this is based on the solar ordinance that that Eloy uh approve.

There are certain setbacks required, but there's also certain landscape buffers that are required.

So along all of the um uh residential boundaries, there's a 10-foot landscape buffer requirement along um Tolsteck Highway.

There, there's a 30-foot landscape buffer requirement.

So that in and that's irrigated landscaping, so it's gonna be green, it's it's gonna be nice.

Um Mr.

Mayor and Council members, with the discussion we're having right now.

Um I I think that we can uh find a way to uh maybe tweak around the edges of this project, have some sort of aesthetic improvements that would be uh palatable.

So I think what I'd like to ask at this time is that we continue this hearing to a future date so that we can come back with maybe some more specific conditions on on setback landscaping um and try to address concerns specifically raised by council members Curtis and Galendo about um some of that uh perimeter and and edge treatment.

Yeah, if we do that, could you also please verify the setback of uh hundreds feet on uh uh can't see the road there now?

The 100 feet on the west side, and also what is the ramifications to the developer here if it were 200 feet just to have as a those answers because I we're kicking around tonight, but I think there's there's more to it than just that.

I council member Snyder, I I agree, and that's why I think taking a continuance is the best approach so we can put together um you know something that's not back of the napkin and and bring it to you okay.

At this time I'll take your request to table this to a further date.

And Mayor Sutton, I would just like to clarify that that request will also go to the um second PAD amendment related to this project that I I believe it is um item is the Eli Valley PAD was I believe is item F on your item F agenda this evening.

Okay, so at this time we're gonna while we're still in public hearing, we're gonna table item D and item F for now.

Does anybody have any objections to that?

Close public hearing.

Yeah, I'll do that.

All right.

So at this time I'll close the public hearing, and I'd like to make a motion that we table item D and item F to a date further out.

Mr.

Mayor, make a motion that we table items E and F.

D F.

DNF.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Mayor, can I get a roll call, please?

Councilmember Curtis?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Councilmember Rodraska.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

No.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

The motion pass six to one, Mayor.

The table.

Okay, well back up now to item E.

Adoption of Resolution Number 25 16 1610 declaring as a public record for that certain document filed with the city clerk entitled Eloy Valley Planned Area Development.

Second amendment, Poblano Sola.

Mayor Members of Council.

Due to the continuance request that has just been approved.

I do recommend that the council continue this item as well so that we, if there's any modifications that need to be made to the plan that affects this document that they're addressed at that time.

So moved.

Second.

Second.

Maybe please.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

No.

Councilmember Snyder?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis?

Yes.

Councilmember Bojaska.

Yes.

Motion pass six to one, Mayor.

Thank you, Mary.

Thank you all.

Thank you for coming out and participating in the process.

I know this wasn't as easy as we thought it would be going in.

All right.

So thank you for all for your patience on that.

See you again.

We'll see you again.

All right.

Last item is item G.

Appointment of two council members to serve as non-voting ex officio members to the building code board of appeals and parks and rec and library advisory board and three council members to serve as voting members on the Eloy Cemetery Committee.

All with terms expiring on November 30, 2026.

So first, I guess I will take a nomination for somebody to serve on building code board of appeals, and we'll take a vote on that.

Mayor, I'll make a nomination that Joanne Galindal serve on the board of appeals.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Councilmember Rojaska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton?

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider?

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Motion pass unanimously, Mayor.

Thank you, May.

All right.

At this time I will look for a nomination for one council member to serve on the parks, recreation and library.

Mayor, I'd like to nominate councilmember Jose Garcia for the Parks Recreation and Library Advisory Board.

Very good.

Do I have a do I have a motion to approve?

Second.

Huh?

Yes, second.

Oh, you motioned, yeah.

I'm second.

I'll second that.

Okay.

That's good.

Yes, I can.

Okay.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder.

Yes.

Councilmember Bodrasca?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

I'm thinking.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

The motion passed unanimously.

Thank you, Mary.

All right, now we're going to need three council members to serve as voting members for the cemetery committee.

I'm looking for a motion for the first one.

Mayor.

I nominate Councilmember Jose Garcia for this cemetery committee.

Do I have a second?

Do I have a second for Mr.

Garcia?

I'll second.

May I have a roll call for Jose Garcia on the cemetery board?

Councilmember Rodrasca.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton?

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider?

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

The motion pass unanimously, Mayor.

Thank you, Mayor.

All right.

We need another one for the cemetery committee.

Do I have a motion for anybody?

And the Jeopardy music will start about now.

I'll make a motion to uh nominate uh councilmember Vadraska.

Second.

Okay.

Here we are.

We have a motion and a second for Councilmember Vodraska for the Cemetery Committee.

Mary, can I have a roll call?

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Councilmember Snyder?

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Councilmember Curtis?

Yes.

Councilmember Podraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

The motion pass unanimously.

All right, let's keep it going.

Our roll.

We need one more.

Mayor, I'll make a motion to nominate Vice Mayor Michelle Tarango for the Cemetery Board.

Well second it.

All right, can we get a roll call for Vice Mayor Tarango, please for the Cemetery Board?

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider?

Yes.

Councilmember Bojasca.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

The motion passed unanimously, Mayor.

Thank you, Mary.

I'd like to thank everybody for their uh attention tonight.

This is this was a long meeting.

This was two hours.

So I want to thank everybody for their input and their attention.

Does anybody want council have anything before we close out at this time?

I adjourn the meeting.

I'm sorry.

I was close.

I had it in my hands.

Very close.

I just wanted to uh let the council and the community know that the um homeless point and time count will be conducted at the end of the month.

I will send out a schedule.

I know Eloy is gonna be having a uh homeless count.

This is really important for the cities to make sure that our homeless are accounted, are put on our senses, and that we have an accurate count.

Um we do need volunteers.

If anybody is willing to go out and uh volunteer to survey uh some of the homeless encampments around the city of Eloy, or you know, around the Penau County, uh contact Kara, Suzanne Paiyan and Cara, and she will be happily give you the information to become a volunteer.

Thank you for that, it's important stuff.

Everybody needs to be counted.

All right, last but not least, all right, meeting adjourned.