They want to have this way.

Oh, yeah.

Is that what we want to do?

I think we want that screen.

We have to find out the walls called it.

Oh, you're doing the sword.

Yeah.

Smart stuff.

Yeah, it's good.

Stick towards that.

So there's no great button.

I don't know.

It's kind of my next one.

Ladies and gentlemen, looks like we're having a few operating difficulties.

Please bear with us.

Thank you.

Mayor, thank you.

We're we're ready.

I'd like to call this meeting to order and welcome everybody to the Eloy City Council meeting.

It is Monday, February tenth.

The time is approximately six PM.

May I have a roll poll, please?

Councilminister.

Councilmember Borasca.

Here.

Councilmember Curtis.

Here.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Here.

Council Councilmember Snyder.

Here.

Councilmember Garcia?

Present.

Councilmember Galindo.

Here.

Mayor Sutton.

Here.

Thank you.

I would like to please stand uh for the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence.

The pledge, the moment of silence, and the pledge will be led by Vice Mayor Tarango.

Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic, which is one nation under God invisible with liberty and justice for all.

So Mary, on behalf of the council, we'd like to thank you for all the service you gave to this city.

And we wish you all the best in retirement.

It is not goodbye, it is just see you later.

And with that, I would like to introduce our new city clerk, Miss Celine Kidwell.

We're excited that she has decided to join us here in Eloy, and we look forward to working with you, Celine.

Thank you very much.

Now we'll go on to item number five, public appearances.

And public appearance is limited to three minutes, and the council cannot answer you back, but we appreciate any input you might give us.

So with that, I have a Mr.

Sean Hill.

Sean Hill with uh Sky of Arizona.

Thank you for your time.

Appreciate it.

Um I wanted to address you today is uh I know the airport uh master plan is coming up, and there's a statement in there that I think that we probably shouldn't have.

And it lists skydiving as a threat to the airport.

I fundamentally disagree with uh this notion because since nineteen ninety-one we've been operating the skydiving center here, and the traffic pattern on that has not ever been impacted by our operations.

Um there's no no other operations that would or would not be able to come in here and operate on a daily basis um unimpeded.

Uh the prime example of this, there's a misconception that uh helicopter operations um and skydiving don't mix.

It's a common notion, and it's it's a false one.

And I think we've uh actually proved that over the last several years having uh uh metabac actually located on our property, it's kind of Arizona that has operated unimpeded um since they've been here.

Um the other issue in the master plan that I would like to address is instrument approach.

Uh I think it can have a very negative impact on our community.

Um again, being here since 1991, I've seen how the air traffic and and that has uh taken place at both the Coolidge Airport and the Casagran Airport, the Eloy Airport, uh, and many of the surrounding airport with flight training.

And I 100% agree that flight training is a key essential part to what we do.

However, all these other airports are getting a negative benefit, in my opinion, because most of these flight schools are coming up from the valley where their airspace and airports are becoming very congested.

It's very difficult for them to get the training done, so now they have encroached into both Coolidge and Casagran significantly, which is in my opinion, uh direct relations to instrument approaches.

Um we're involved with uh Frank Frescetto.

I think many of you may know him.

He was on the advisory board.

Um for me, he's actually been helping to reach out and and be involved with uh the flight schools to try to make more awareness of the skydiving operations.

Um but in those meetings we've become aware of incidents and issues that they're actually having at the Casagran Airport with converging approaches.

Uh that is potentially going to be a uh significant impact and significant hazard to that community.

So I was strongly urge that that if it gets through if we we address that issue and and shoot down trying to put an instrument approach into our airport.

It's just gonna bring a lot of traffic with no economic benefit, but just a lot of nuisance of noise that will have effect.

And I can I could talk for a long time, but I know I'm limited.

Um but I can assure you that my standpoint I've taken on my drop zone owner, skydiving center owner hat off and looking to the community and what I think would be the best for the community and its neighbors, and I'd be happy to discuss any of this with any of you at any point in time.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir, for addressing this council.

With that, we'll head over to item number six.

Council member announcements.

I'll start on my left-hand side first.

Um, I don't have any announcements.

I just wanted to show my appreciation to the mayor for uh gathering us all together on Friday in a venue and an atmosphere that was calm and low-key, and just a very comfortable place to be able to start our journey into the budget process, which is probably our biggest task.

So thank you for planning that and getting us out of our comfort zones and guiding it to be.

Yeah, last Friday, uh, council member Galindo uh Curtis and myself attended the Pit Our Partnership, was up at the Central Arizona College, and it was a mayor's forum where there are four mayors and three of the mayors were new.

Morana, Casa Grande, and Florence.

So it's kind of interesting uh hearing their discussion of one of the questions to them was what was your campaign like and what did you learn running for mayor?

What was different?

It was pretty interesting hearing their comment back.

Uh and the job now that they're into it and they're finding out about all the activities of a mayor, the job is probably they thought it was big, but I think it's a little bigger than they thought it was because their time constraints is a lot more than they thought.

Uh, but that was pretty interesting.

But in talking to them and their feedback, the thing that jumped out at me was they are all pretty uh focused on community engagement.

Uh, and there's a lot of things going on in our communities, and they're trying very hard to get the community to participate in those activities to make decisions that make sense for the community.

So all four of them that were on the panel were emphasizing that they're working to try to get better community engagement, uh, whether it be attending meetings like this or planning and sorting meetings or so forth, but they were very uh emphatic about uh getting more community engagement.

The other thing that struck me was they were all concerned about the growth of the communities because you take Casa Grand, Florence, Marana, uh they're all growing uh quite quickly, and they were concerned about most of the people that in our communities are not working in their communities, and so they're commuting.

So uh maybe they're live in Florence, but they work in Phoenix or live in Apache Junction and live in uh Maricopa, but work in uh so there's a big effort to try to uh get the housing so that people will maybe get the jobs and get the housing so people will stay in the community and and work there.

That was a big emphasis on that.

And the infrastructures, yes, I have it.

They're all growing very quickly, and of course, we all know that the roads get clogged pretty quickly, particularly when you have winter visitors and so forth.

So we take Florence.

Uh it was pretty interesting.

They said they have the trouble they have is uh people come in Florence and they leave.

So the mayor with joy calling said he won a created two-lane road in and one-lane road out, and wow, that was pretty cute.

Wait a second.

But anyway, I found it was very very interesting uh listening to the new mayors and uh their uh perspective and where they're headed in the future.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Oh my god, good.

Okay.

We'll go on to mayor announcements, and I always have a couple of pages full.

On Wednesday, the 29th, myself along with uh city manager, Mr.

Malamitz.

We met with the Eloy and Toltec school leaders to discuss issues in a way of partnering to benefit the children of Eloy.

It was a great meeting.

We got a lot of fruit out of that meeting, and we hope to take it another step further at each meeting.

Also on Wednesday the 29th, I attended the Maricopa State of the City Add.

It was nice to chat with fellow mayors and leaders in an informal setting and learn about our neighboring cities, and they really did a good job over there in Maricopa.

On Thursday the 30th, Councilmember Snyder and Vod Roska and myself attended a meeting with the state legislators at the Arizona League of Cities location in Phoenix.

We had a chance to interact with legislators and let them know our needs and concerns.

There's a lot of legislation out there that needs our voice.

Some of it is good, and some of it unfortunately is not good.

So we were there to voice and really fight for what we need here in Eloy.

Then on Saturday the 30th, along with Vice Mayor Tarango and Councilmember Vod Roska, we attended the Panell County 150th anniversary celebration in Florence.

The canal the Panell County Board of Supervisors presented in attendance were Senator TJ Schope, Representatives Martinez and Lopez, and representatives from Congressman Siscomani's office.

This was a fun afternoon, and thanks to our vice mayor, we were able to put Eloy pins into their time capsule.

Save the day, she did.

Then on Wednesday the 5th, we hosted the Arizona Secretary, the Secretary of State, Adrian Fontez here in City Hall.

We covered many topics, including elections and business in Arizona.

We also had a QA with the Secretary of State that was really good.

And we were very happy to host him here in our in our small city.

So with that, now we'll go over to City Manager announcements.

Mr.

Mallowitz.

Thank you, Mayor.

Vice Mayor members of council.

Just a couple of announcements on my agenda.

First off, uh want to reiterate Councilwoman Galindo's comments about the budget retreat.

Thank you, and thank you the rest of council and mayor.

We had a really great time on Friday, just going through the budget, trying to figure out what's good, what's bad, and what we want to do moving forward in Eloy.

So looking forward to this being the kickoff and gave staff a lot of great direction and discussion during that time, and we look forward to moving forward and presenting you all with a budget that you'll be happy with, and the citizens of this community will see the fruitions of that budget.

So thank you again on that.

Um next, I wanted to excuse me, announce that Officer Guterres is graduating the PD Academy in Gilbert.

His graduation will be this uh this Thursday, the 13th.

So we'll look forward to having another bright young officer joining our ranks and hitting the streets to patrol Eloy.

And then next, we had an agreement while we were doing our budget retreat.

The employees here were doing an employee appreciation event.

They're having the salsa super bowl.

So several of our employees participated in a salsa contest to see who would win.

Uh Anthony Balganario won.

He got a 25 dollar gift card, but everybody won because they had a great time.

The bosses weren't there.

We were with you all doing our budget retreat.

Uh but yeah, lots of salsa, good food.

They played games, they had uh this is a really cool tic-tac game.

They also did cornhole challenges.

So overall, 45 employees, about 45 showed up and had a great time dismingling with each other and celebrating the day with no bosses around.

So that was good for them.

We're really happy.

And like uh has been reiterated.

We continue to look for these engaging moments where we can show our appreciation to our employees and really have those you know, lighthearted moments where we can all come together and just be a good city family.

And finally, on my agenda is just a reminder that Monday we will be closed in observance of president's day.

So this coming Monday, city offices will be closed in observance of presidents' day.

We'll have it posted on the doors for the public to see.

And mayor and members of council, that is all that I have on my announcements.

But I want to move next to opening it up to our assistant city manager McKinsey Letcher.

He has a couple of questions that he wants to run by and get some opinions from council members.

Thank you.

Sweet, thank you, Dave.

And you guys are probably sick of hearing from me after talking your heads off last Friday, so appreciate you bearing with me again.

Uh, but it's the season of the community outreach program, it's coming up again on us.

Um, so we wanted to just get your feedback on how you wanted to handle that this year.

So, first and foremost, we have coming up from fiscal year 2024, their year-end report.

So, similar to what Andrew did a couple months back, we have slated coming up in the next couple meetings, close to about six presentations.

So, we wanted to touch base and see are you guys okay with them coming to a regular council meeting, or do you prefer that to start with a work session?

How would you guys want to handle that?

Because you're probably looking at close to about an hour.

That would be an hour total, right?

Okay, I think I think we can suffer through that.

I really do know in open forum, yeah.

No, right down a regular council.

Yeah, right through regular council.

Five o'clock before council.

Is that that work for everybody?

Does that work for you?

We'll just put a special notice out at 5 p.m.

before the count they can come up and make their presentation.

Because I really look forward to the presentations.

I think we all learn a lot here on council from you know what everybody's doing.

So okay, so five o'clock a work session.

That's what I'm getting.

Perfect.

Okay.

Secondly, so last year we started a new process with it where we had a review group or a committee, depending on what lingo you want to use for it.

We had three council members on it last time, so kind of wanted to see from the diasp right now.

Is there any volunteers of three members that would want to attend and participate in this year's?

Jose.

Okay.

Yeah.

Sarah.

Mike?

Okay.

Sweet.

Thank you guys for stepping up on that.

Absolutely.

And then the last format, and you guys, you mayor, you might already mention this basically, but in the previous iteration of this, we tried to advocate to potentially have the uh public presentations take place at the review group.

Is it council's wish to instead for the next this upcoming fiscal year to have the presentations for the um applicants be at the council meeting?

Do we want that to be in a public setting and not at the review group?

Personally, I'd like it at a public setting, but with a time limit, you know, like a five-minute time limit this way, you know, somebody we would not sit in here for six hours.

I won't hold them fast to the time limit, but you know, we'll have to move it along.

Opinion from council.

Five minutes.

Five minutes per yeah.

And then no committee, then just do that.

Uh so the review group will still meet and we'll go over the applications and then we'll do it similar to last year where we'll come with a recommendation of funding, but we'll still allow them to take place with their presentations so the public can hear it if there's residents that want to see what's going on, or yeah.

But five minutes might be a little tight.

You know, I'd advocate probably somewhere around 10.

Okay, that's fine.

And then okay, that's fine.

Perfect.

And that is all I had, so thank you.

Unless there's any questions or Dave.

We just got one last thing under the manager's announcement, and that is a presentation from Mr.

Brian Wright on the financial statement for quarter ending December 30th, 2024.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayorman's members of the council.

Um did you want to do the lecture.

There we go.

Okay, I'll just uh kind of make a brief uh overview of the uh quarterly report ending uh December 31st uh 2024.

Um just to kind of start off, uh give a little financial uh little update where the city's at in the general fund at the end of December.

Um revenues were over expenditures.

We had a positive variance of about 354,000.

Uh a lot of this uh positive variance came from um revenues increasing with our service fees within our business license and investment earnings um along with our state share revenues.

Um so we actually in the general fund things are uh on a positive uptick, and we are um exceeding expectations with our revenue.

When we look at the um with the revenue with the city sales tax, um city sales tax is actually below expectations right now, about 354,000.

The reason why is when we did the the budget and we kind of looked it out, we construction revenue and that category has come, you know, it's kind of slowed down a little bit this last uh few months.

So in that revenue category, it's bringing down what our projections for the target would be.

But in other categories like retail sales, manufacturing, when it comes to the real estate and services, those categories are all exceeding expectations.

So overall, not not worried about the where it's being below.

Um there's a slide I'll just bring up here in a moment that that kind of validates where we're at as a as a whole, because there's about eight categories that we look at when it comes to city sales tax.

Construction sales tax is just um when you see you'll you'll see it below those expectations and collections from like prior years.

Um state share revenues, they are exceeding expectations are by about 219,000.

So that category revenue categories up, and that's due to the uh our population increasing from uh the 17,042 to 18,528.

So that collection right there uh from the population is increased our uh um collections over budget, but within the enterprise funds, water, sewer sanitation, all those funds are showing positive variance right now.

Um just these these next couple slides, everything is just some graphs of what I talked about, the city sales tax comparison.

But the one I just wanted to mention, just so council can understand a little more in the public.

If you kind of look at the the actual of 2425, you'll see that uh you know, our projections when it comes to um construction, how slow it's our collection and decline is happened from the previous previous years, it's around about 1.1 million.

And a lot of that is due to the uh, you know, you take uh national gypsum or gold bond facility really winding down.

So the the expectations have dropped with it.

So but it if you notice like our retail sales tax category, it's above where we were last year at this time.

So there are certain categories doing a little stronger than than others, but overall things are things are looking really good in with our local taxes.

The rest of this is going through as you look at it, um, just kind of all the other revenue funds, special revenue funds, enterprise funds, where we're at.

Um, and then we get into our expenses.

Um we're doing well.

There's a lot of um expenses that uh departments are spending appropriately.

Um they're to the budget authority.

No, there's no one that's exceeding those right now.

Um, or looking at when we're looking at the force cask at the through the end of the year.

And then the last few pages as we get into it is our all of our capital projects, and these are um either indicating they're done by um they're completed near completed, but just haven't been paid, they're in progress or they're on hold.

Um, and there's no progress on.

So it will give you uh a little oversight on that of each project that we have on capital-wise.

So um just kind of short and sweet um with it, but uh if you have any questions, I'll be gladly entertain those at this time.

Thank you, sir.

Any questions on council for Brian?

Well, thank you again.

Thank you.

And thank you for all you put in at the uh budget retreat, too.

That was really good.

Thank you.

And next we have City of Eloy, Chief of Police, adopt a school program presentation.

Chief Benales, how are you, sir?

Good sir.

Good sir, Mr.

Mayor.

Good evening, uh, Mr.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members, assistant city manager, city manager, city attorney, and welcome our new um city clerk, Celine, um, and also members of the community and uh I see some members from the police department as well.

So thank you for having me.

I'm here to talk about the adoptive school program, and I think I gave the presentation to you.

Um what do I need to get that?

Yeah.

No, okay.

I could bring my iPad over here.

I'll just tell you offhand then what's that um it'd probably be a lot faster if I just talk about it.

Um yeah, it's it's a real simple program.

It's called the Adopt a School Program with the police department, and the goal of the adopt a school program is to create relationships with our local schools, enhance those relationships um with mostly our primary, intermediate schools, and also to make visits to our high schools as well.

Um, this is a program that I created with the Corona Police Department of Southern California when I was a lieutenant back in 2014.

And I'm proud to say that program is still going strong in the city of Corona.

We had approximately a little over 30 schools there.

Um, and that program is it's just been awesome.

You know, and I have to say, officers, um, two things officers don't like the way things are, and officers don't like change.

Um, so it was a tough thing to sell to the officers that hey, this is a great program and to get in the schools.

And when they started, I heard every complaint that you know we're too busy handling calls, chasing bad guys, and we don't have time to go to schools and play with little kids and hang out.

And uh after about a month into the program, they loved it.

Uh schools really embraced it.

A lot of schools even offered office space to some of the officers where they could go eat lunch, spend time, and before you knew it, um, outside of our public schools, officers were adopting private schools as well in their own time um to adopt while they're on duty.

So this program is what the way we work is officers on day shift Monday through Friday will be assigned um a school within the city, and during their shift throughout the week, they were would be expected to at least visit their school at least twice a week um to stop by the school, and that's this is this 15 to 20 minute engagements where they come and say good hi to the school staff, they get to load the kids at recess, they go to school events, they talk to parents, they they try to go during drop-off times, pickup times, and just spend time at the schools and being more present.

Um, number one, it creates those relationships and and uh better relationships, enhances those relationships, but also it gives a presence.

It's good to see that police car out in front of the school as well.

That marked black and white does make a difference to give a sense of security to not only the students but staff and the parents as well.

Um and with the great thing about it, and Brian Wright, who just gave an uh our report on our budget, would be happy to hear it costs nothing, Brian.

Costs nothing to the city other than other than an investment of time of our officers and to go to the schools, but the return of investment is huge.

It's it's creating those relationships with our schools and our staff and our parents to know that the police department is engaged in what they're doing, and we care about um this the safety of the students.

So with that program, um what we'll get a list of a schools.

I really reached out to the superintendents who are ready on board, they're happy to see this uh partnership and engagement with the police department.

Um and the officers, the email went out today with the officers, um, and the sergeant will be facilitating their program, and then we will also have tangible evidence to show uh the visits that they're making and also offer reports, whether it be on a quarterly or a semi-annual basis about what how many visits we're making to the schools and how much time that's that's uh taking.

But like I said, no cost to the police department and no cost to the school district.

Um, but the returns are not gonna be monetary but are gonna be um realized and in the increased um and enhanced relationships that we have with our students and our kids in the community and the schools itself.

So I'm opening any questions that you guys may have about the adopt school program.

Uh Chief, is real OASIS included in the program?

Yes, sir.

They are any other questions on council.

I just want to tell you how excited I am about this program.

I know that the community relations part with the police department in the community.

Often children are not included in that factor.

You can get so much information about what's going on from the community at schools.

And it's so rewarding.

I know I've I've been in youth development for about 40 years now.

And you know, it's it's been the highlight of my work life is being able to mold young people to get them to understand that you know the this time in their life is gonna have an effect for the rest of their life.

Um, I did want to ask are you I know that this is from what I read, it's more of having a police officer presence on campus.

Is there gonna be an opportunity for them to be able to do some education on maybe bullying or um maybe on internet safety and other programs?

And if there's not, I have a connection for you that will help you get into their schools to do that kind of programming.

Yes, there's definitely that opportunity.

I just want to get them in there to get their feet wet and to see what the needs are at every specific school.

Every school kind of has their own culture and uh specific needs.

So once they go in there and take the time to assess those needs and talk to administration and teachers, and they'll kind of get our idea of what those needs are.

But yeah, I'm more than happy to look at any of the resources you have the offer that we can take to the schools to uh enhance their program.

All right, Chief.

I would like to say, first of all, when it comes to community policing, thank you for being so innovative and thinking outside the box and having offices at the school with children.

Let's face it, kids like cops, man.

They look up to cops, cops are like superheroes to kids.

So getting that relationship early on, I think is a big help, and thank you for all you're doing in that arena.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Sir, I'd like to add my two cents in.

We've met my campus net with Chief Manales and assistant fire chief, my yes, uh, early in the school year for threat assessment, and it turned out really well since that time.

We've had uh probably CR officers in there once a month, and they may go in a few more.

It's been working well now, and it helps us because they'll point out something we're doing wrong for us teachers.

Now the kids think I'm always in trouble, of course, but hey, that's a good thing.

But it has started to work out, and we and it's been a while since we've had them in there regularly for educational purposes.

I've always invited them into my classroom, and I've always invited them to come have lunch at our cafeteria.

As long as they give us a call ahead of time to make sure we have enough food, you know, because they don't always make a whole extra.

Yes.

Okay, thank you.

No, we're definitely looking forward to it.

And uh, once they get in there, um, it's amazing that they the investment once they start making those investments.

The they had they really get a heart and adopt their school and really get more involved and go far uh beyond what we expect of them.

So that's what I anticipate happening here as well.

Okay, thank you, council members and chief.

Thank you.

Anybody else have anything before we let the chief go?

Just one quick comment.

Thank you for including Villa Oasis, Santa Cruz, and Toltec.

Of course.

All right, thank you very much.

Thank you, Chief.

Okay, with that, we're gonna move on to item number seven, the consent agenda.

All 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.

So let's say council member, so requests, in which the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda.

And tonight's lengthy consent agenda consists of one item, which will be the approval of minutes to have a motion to approve.

So we have a second.

Second.

May have a roll call, please, Celine.

Councilmember Alaska.

Councilmember Velasca.

Yes, Councilmember Curtis?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Torango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you.

Okay, so now we'll move on to item number eight.

Business and possible discussion and/or action on the following.

Adoption of resolution 25-1612 declaring a public record, a certain document filed with the city clerk and entitled Eloy Municipal Airport Master Plan.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh, for consideration tonight is the requested adoption from staff of resolution number 25-1612, which establishes a public record for the document titled Eloy Municipal Airport Master Plan, dated December 2024.

This request aims to create a public record filed with the city clerk so that it can be referenced in an ordinance related to the information associated with the Eloy Municipal Airport Master Plan.

With the creation of the public record, the city clerk would not need to publish the multi-page document in the local newspaper, which is quite lengthy.

299 pages to be exact.

And the city council approves the resolution accepting it.

The resolution will refer to this public record by reference, and which it provides notification to the public that an additional record associated with the resolution is available to be viewed at the city clerk's office upon request.

Thank you, sir.

Any comments from council?

Go ahead.

Um, do we need to do our comments on the actual item before this one or no council member?

Uh this is just to establish that it's a record that's not being published in the paper and it's available for review upon request.

Yep.

And this is could be modified in a future date, or what what's this once it's approved?

Let's say we approve it tonight.

What happens at that point?

Approved this agenda item.

Yes.

Approving this agenda item just has it as a public document.

It just foregoes us having to print the public printed in the paper.

I think you're referencing the if there's amendments to the document in the next agenda item.

Is that what you're talking about?

Yeah, I'm thinking if if we approve this item AMB tonight, is this become official then?

Or there was a statement from the uh call to the public about uh some warding.

Is it possible to review that or is it stuck in stone?

And that's kind of where I'm where I'm at.

In the second agenda item, yes.

If council desires that we make amendments to the master plan and in the second item, then we would make a master plan, and then that would supersede this response that would be the document that would be for public.

Okay, yeah.

All right.

All right, do I have a motion to read by title adoption of resolution 25-1612?

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

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries.

The second one will have a roll call vote.

Resolution number 25, 1612, a resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of Eloy, Pinell County, Arizona, declaring as a public record that certain document filed with the city clerk entitled Eloy Municipal Airport Master Plan dated December 2024.

Do I have a motion to approve resolution 25-1612 as presented?

I'll make a motion to adopt resolution number 25-1612.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Now, may I have a roll call, please, Celine?

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Golindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Varasca.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Torango.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you.

All right, the moment we've Councilmember Snyder.

Yes.

Okay, it carries.

Okay, item B.

Adoption of Resolution 25-1608, accepting the proposed Eloy Master Airport Master Airport Plan to serve as a strategic roadmap to ensure the airport's growth, operational efficiency, and alignment with the city's economic and environmental goals for the coming decade.

Okay.

Now we can have that as comments.

We were just looking at before.

Yeah, go ahead.

Now's the point to have that discussion if we want to have.

Correct.

Yes.

Thank thank you, Councilmember.

Um, well, for consideration tonight is it approval of a proposed Eloy Master Plan.

It's meant to serve as our strategic blueprint for guiding future development, driving economic growth, expanding operational capacity, and advancing sustainability initiatives, both at the airports around the airport and within our city in general.

This uh plan, if voted and approved, will ensure that the airport remains a vital regional hub while positioning the city for federal funding and community benefits.

And as you can see in the agenda packet, there's quite a lengthy write-up, but to help whittle that down a little bit better.

We have our consultant with Kaufman and Associates, Matt Quick.

He's been interstrumental in helping us get this across the finish line and has worked tirelessly since April when we really kicked this thing off, right?

Longer than that, September of 23.

Oh, there we go.

Yep.

All right.

Welcome, sir.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and members of the council.

My name is Matt Quick with Kaufman Associates.

As uh David had mentioned, um, I represent Kaufman Associates, and we've been involved with updating the airport master plan uh for the better part of I guess 18 months now from when we started back in uh September of 2023.

I've got a brief presentation that I would like to share with you all this evening, and then certainly be available to help answer any questions or listen to any comments that you guys may have.

So uh bear with me here and let me pull this up and get started here.

And again, just a little bit of uh background on Kaufman Associates.

Um, we're an airport planning and consulting company.

I'm located just right up the road in uh Phoenix, Arizona.

We've been in existence now for 45 years.

Uh we've been fortunate enough to come alongside the city of Eloy for the last several years to provide airport planning and environmental support to the airport.

So we're an aviation airport only uh consulting firm.

So just a little bit of uh background uh before I get into some of the high level overview of the master plan.

I thought it would be helpful just to describe uh overall purpose of what the master plan is and what it does for the city being the airport sponsor.

Uh the airport master plan to document that the Federal Aviation Administration recommends that airport sponsors update every seven to ten years on average.

The last master plan for the Eloy municipal airport was uh completed back in 2013.

So this is certainly a timely reassessment of what's happening at the airport, what's happening in the uh regional and national aviation system and how that could impact uh what happens at the airport for the years to come.

Uh the master plan is a 20-year planning document.

Like I had mentioned, it's usually updated though every 10 years or so.

Uh it provides a roadmap for what the airport could look like over the course of the next several years.

A lot of that's going to be dictated by aviation demand.

Uh as a part of this master plan, we did a forecast update that looked at two main demand segments that occur at the Eloy Municipal Airport.

One of those is the number of annual aircraft operations, and the second one being the number of base aircraft that are at the airport.

So the master plan takes a look at that.

I'll go into detail in a minute on that.

Another important component of the master plan is it provides the city with a list of projects that may come to fruition, some of them may not, but each year the uh city coordinates with the Federal Aviation Administration or the FAA, as well as the Arizona Department of Transportation's Aeronautics Group to come up with what's called an airport capital improvement program or an ASIP.

And this master plan lists a lot of projects over the course of the next 20 years, 20 plus years for that matter, but it allows the city to go back in on an annual basis and look at those projects, see what's happening at the airport.

There may be the need to bump some of those projects up.

There may be the need to push some of those projects off.

All of it depends upon what's happening demand-wise at the airport, if there's any new safety regulations that are out there that the city should address to make sure the airport's operating in a safe and efficient manner.

And as well as if there's any uh, for example, maintenance projects, making sure that the runway and the taxiway and the aircraft parking apron system are adequate to um maintain the types of aircraft that are operating at the airport.

So that's uh kind of in a nutshell what the airport master plan does.

Another component of it is uh public outreach and awareness.

I had mentioned that we started this master plan back in September of 2023.

Uh we assembled a planning advisory committee, which was a group of stakeholders and tenants uh that with an interest in what's happening at the airport.

And then we also conducted three public information workshops throughout the course of the study process.

Uh this is a little bit about the master plan process.

We broke it into three phases.

Uh, like I had mentioned, we kicked off with our planning advisory committee meeting number one back in September of 2023.

Uh the phase one dealt with the inventory and the forecasts, uh, the importance of those forecasts.

Well, there's two components of a master plan that are actually approved by the FAA.

One of those is the forecast.

So after we conducted that first round of meetings, we submitted the forecast to the FAA.

They in turn approved those forecasts for planning purposes, and then we moved into the other components or the other phases of the master plan phase two was the facility requirements and the alternatives development.

And this again took that forecast demand and translated that into facility needs that the airport and the city could look at over the course of the next several years to make sure it's accommodating the type of aviation demand that's projected at the airport, and then coming up with uh various alternatives to meet that demand.

And then from that particular phase, we moved into the final phase of the study where we took those alternatives.

We had several different iterations of those.

We listened to the planning advisory committee.

We took input from the public during the public information workshop and we formulated a recommended development concept that kind of lays out again that roadmap for the potential growth and development of the facility moving forward.

We came up with a detailed capital improvement program that the city can use for years to come as far as projects that would be needed to accommodate that development concept.

And then we also prepared uh what's called the airport layout plan drawing set or the ALP drawing set.

That's the second piece of the master plan process that gets approved by the FAA, and we're in the process right now of coordinating that ALP set with the FAA and would expect for them to review and take action on that over the course of the next couple months to wrap up the study process.

It's important to note that anything on this master plan, even if it's approved tonight, if the airport layout plan drawing set gets approved by the FAA, it does not hold the city being the sponsor to any of the projects.

A lot of these projects are demand-driven, they're safety driven.

So there's going to be justification that's going to be required for each particular project, and there's going to be an environmental process to go through to make sure that those projects are cleared environmentally so the airport and the city can accept a federal and state grant funding assistance to help build those projects.

Um during the beginning phases of the master plan, Eloy Master Plan.airport study.net.

It contains all the information that we prepared to date on the master plan.

We held the four planning advisory committee meetings.

We had three public workshops along the way.

I was here last month to make a presentation to the planning and zoning commission, and then before you all this evening to uh make the final presentation on the master plan process.

And again, the key outcomes of the study.

I had mentioned some of these already.

The aviation demand forecasts were one component that was prepared in the first phase of the study and has since been approved by the FAA.

One of the things, you know, we're not just looking at total operations, total number of based aircraft.

We're also interested in the type of aircraft that operate at the airport.

That's that critical design aircraft that's mentioned in the second bullet point.

The importance of that is that all the safety and design standards relate to that specific aircraft.

And uh, we would foresee aircraft.

I don't want to get too technical here, but um a couple slides over here.

This gets into the critical aircraft determination.

The existing airport reference code would fall into this Bravo 2 category, and that's based upon the speed of an aircraft as it comes into land as well as the wing span, the uh the width of an aircraft's wingspan.

So we would project that to remain into that B-2 category both now and in the future.

If you look at the previous master plan that was completed in 2013, very similar in terms of the uh the layout of that and the design standards that follow suit.

So just wanted to make mention of the critical design aircraft and what we would foresee uh operating at the future.

This is a picture of what we would consider to be the future critical aircraft.

It's a small uh corporate business jet citation encore to be specific.

Um, but that would be uh the transition to that type of aircraft or that family of aircraft moving forward over the course of again the next 20 year, which is the planning cycle for this master plan.

Um I'd mentioned the recommended development concept.

Uh, the airport layout plan is in the process of being coordinated with the FA right now for conditional approval, and then that capital improvement program, and I'm going to touch on these briefly as we move forward.

I'd mentioned the aviation demand forecasts.

This occurred during the first phase of the study process.

Again, looking at uh the baseline, which was 2023, and then we forecasted the five, 10, and 20 year planning periods, uh, 2028, 2033, and 2043 respectively.

When we started this master plan in 2023, the airport had 42 based aircraft, and it was estimated to have approximately 30,000 annual aircraft operations.

An aircraft operation can be defined as an aircraft that takes off at the airport or an aircraft that comes in to land at the airport, whether it's a fixed-wing aircraft or a helicopter.

The airport does not have a control tower, so we don't have specific numbers on that, but we have been able to utilize some of the forecasts that have been put out there by the FAA as well as some of our methodology that we use from our perspective to come up with that 30,000 annual operations.

Over the course of the next five, 10 and 20 years, we would project increases in activity at the airport based aircraft growing to upwards of approximately 66 aircraft over the next 20 years, and then annual aircraft operations increasing to just over 43,000 operations during the 20-year time frame.

Again, these numbers, these forecasts were coordinated with the FAA after we had the second planning advisory committee meeting back in December of 2023, and they were approved conditionally in the spring of last year.

Actually, I take that back in August of last year, August 8th of 2024 is when we received official approval by the FAA.

I've already talked about this slide.

Just as important at looking at overall activity and operations is paying attention to the critical design aircraft.

We used this analysis to help determine the facility needs from a safety and design standpoint as we move during the study process.

Kind of jumping into the final phase of the study, this is the recommended development concept.

This is really allows the airport and the city to look at what the airport could position itself as being over the course of the next 20 years.

There's a lot of pieces to this, so I don't want to go into great detail, but would be happy to help answer any questions.

But when you look at this development concept and compare it to the 2013 master plan, there's actually a lot of similarities.

Possibly not justification right now, but it's something that the city should pay attention to moving forward.

We do show the potential extension on both ends of the runway.

Currently, the runway is 3,900 feet long.

And with this recommended development concept, it would extend the runway up to 5,500 feet.

And that would accommodate that critical aircraft that we have projected, that small to mid-size corporate business jet in the future.

We also took a look at the airfield system.

Obviously, safety is of utmost importance.

So we looked at making sure the airfield met safety and design standards, gets into some of the layout of the runway system in relationship to the taxiways and the aircraft parking apron and various separation standards.

So we highlighted a couple things as it relates to that.

I think it's also just when looking at this, a lot of that red that you see, that's all future pavement.

You can see the ends of each runway extended.

You can also see kind of on the southeast side of the airport, there's quite a bit of red there.

That would signify additional aircraft parking apron space that could accommodate future hangar development over the course of the next several years.

And even in the midfield area of the airport where there's currently some hangars and some aircraft parking, we show the redevelopment of some of that area to try to gain additional aircraft parking apron space and just to better utilize the efficiency and maximize that particular area, especially given the fact that that's there right now.

There's facilities that accommodate that area, and knowing that some of that area to the southeast is going to require some additional utility infrastructure before it ever gets to a point to be able to accommodate that hangar development.

So this is just a high-level snapshot of the recommended development concept.

As we move forward, this is in chapter six of the master plan.

This kind of starts laying out those development projects that tie themselves to the recommended plan.

We split this into three phases.

The short term is the first five years, the intermediate term is the six to ten year time frame, and then the long term is the 11 to 20 year time frame.

These projects that are listed here, a lot of these are maintenance related, just making sure that the airport and the city it continues to accommodate the existing uh pavement at the airport, maintaining it so it can continue to be utilized.

There was also some safety enhancements to the west side of the airfield.

There's currently a perimeter fence over in that location that obstructs what's called the Part 77 imaginary surfaces.

So the relocation, that fencing would help to clear that imaginary surface penetration, getting into kind of the technical details of some of the lingos that we have to look at from a master planning perspective.

But those are some of the highlights for the short term.

I also want to point out one project.

It's listed as number 11 in here.

It's the installation of an automated weather observation system or an AWAS.

That's on-site weather that would be provided at the airport.

Again, that would be a certain enhancement to pilots that utilize the facility to be able to get real-time weather information whether they're taking off or landing from the facility.

You see a lot of airports in the area that have that on-site weather.

Eloy currently does not, but it's something that we would recommend as a part of the master plan.

This is a list of projects in the short term.

You can see at the very bottom, the uh the estimated cost is almost $7 million.

Some of that is tied to the local match that would be needed to accommodate many of these projects.

I think it's important to note that a large majority of the projects that we have identified are eligible for FAA and ADOT Aeronautics state grant funding assistance.

Whenever the uh airport receives a federal grant from the FAA, that total project 91.06% of that total project cost is funded through the FAA, and then the remaining uh eight and a half percent roughly is split between ADOT Aeronautics and the city of Eloy.

That was the case for this master plan.

This master plan was funded at 91.06% by the FA, and then in the state match uh brought that up to the city share being about 4.5%.

Uh and that would be very similar to a lot of the projects are listed in this CIP.

The intermediate term program again continues to show the potential development of the airfield, starting to focus more on that southeast area to be able to accommodate landside demand, uh, whether it would be some more uh aircraft parking apron space to accommodate future hangar development as demand would dictate.

It also looks to start securing some of those approach zones uh in the path of the runway system to help set the stage for the potential for a runway extension in the future.

So this would be that six to ten year time frame.

And again, we put a cost to that of approximately $13 million.

Um, about four, about five million dollars of that is federal share.

The reason that the percentages are skewed a little bit, especially in this particular planning horizon, is because we introduce the construction of hangars.

Uh hangars typically are not funded through the FA or ADOT.

They're considered a revenue generating project.

So a lot of times the airport sponsor would need to be the one to help uh construct those hangar facilities.

We show those as you know in this capital improvement program, but that would not preclude the um ability for the city to enter into a uh lease with a private developer that would come in and build those hangars so the city wouldn't have to take on that cost.

So that's something to keep in mind and kind of the flexibility that this master plan provides.

Uh the long-term project here or the long-term program, these projects are highlighted in red.

Uh this is where we, you know, we're this is 10 plus years out where we would potentially see the need for runway extension as uh as the justification and demand would dictate.

Uh the continued development of landside facilities in the southeast side of the airport, uh, those would be some of the main things, some navigational aids, enhancement to the uh precision approach path indicators uh or the PAPI system, which is an aid for pilots as they come in to land at the airport.

Those types of projects are identified in the uh 10 plus year time frame of the master plan.

And again, the total project cost for the 10-year time frame is about three 13.8 million.

And then you can see again the numbers are skewed a little bit because we continue to show some hangar development in there that could um uh be either the cost of the city or it could uh they could incur those costs through a private developer that would be looking to build hangers at the airport.

So all that being said, the the total capital improvement program project cost is about 33 and a half million dollars identified in projects over the next 20 plus years, and then you can see the split uh between the federal, state, and local share accordingly.

And again, the reason for that higher local share is just because of the hangar development that we have included.

Um I just wanted to bring this particular um slide to your attention.

I mentioned the airport layout plan drawing set or the ALP.

This is a very technical set of drawings that are coordinated with the FAA.

We're in the process of coordinating the ALP with the FAA right now.

Uh the importance of the ALP is any project that the city wants to try to pursue grant funding assistance for, whether it's through the FAA or ADOT, needs to show up on this ALP drawing.

So a lot of those projects that I just covered at a high level in the short intermediate and long-term programs are identified on this ALP, which again sets up the uh the city for being at least eligible for those projects, but knowing that there's got to be justification and demand for those on a case-by-case basis moving forward.

Just real briefly, the next steps as it relates to the master plan.

Obviously, we're coming.

I'm coming before you this evening to seek approval or adoption of the master plan at the local level.

Uh we are submitting the airport layout plan drawing set to the FAA, would estimate a couple months in terms of them reviewing that, and then ultimately uh conditionally approving that ALP, and that will allow the airport and the city to move forward with uh a roadmap, if you will, for the airport.

And then once that gets approved, we will prepare the final master plan report, which is currently in draft format right now, subject to any uh last-minute revisions that are needed.

And then really the the whole intent of the master plan is to be a living document that the airport and the city can continue to look at as it can coordinates on an annual basis with the FA and ADOT moving forward to help position itself from a funding standpoint, local city budget-wise, as well as through grant opportunities with the FA and ADOT.

So that's my presentation this evening.

I appreciate uh you guys listening, and I would be happy to help answer any questions or comments.

Thank you.

Do we have any questions from council?

Council wouldn't satisfy.

Go ahead.

Um great job, Matt.

What a beast.

299 pages.

Wow.

Um I think it it turned out really good.

I like everything you've done.

Um, there was a couple of points, small things.

Um, I think Sean kind of sort of addressed them a little bit as well that I wanted to bring up.

Um the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threat.

I believe it's page 18.

So we have as a threat, skydiving operations that can lead to airspace complexities.

Um the airspace can get complex, but I think I don't like that seeing that as a threat because in fact the airspace complexities that do exist surrounding any airport or business on the airport are being really well managed on a daily basis by the skydiving operation.

In fact, they have a full-time staff doing that.

Um I think it it just listed as a threat seems like uh something that flags attention to it in a negative manner, when I think it actually is a positive for the airport.

And in fact, we have military partners under the opportunities section, but all of the existing military partners of the airport right now are contingent with the skydiving operations.

So it's sort of a mismatch there.

Um I was wondering if we could move that point to another section and kind of list it as a positive, like skydiving operations that that have air space complexities are being well managed by the existing um skydiving operation or something along those lines, so we could put it as in a in a strength position more than a weakness, because I I feel that that's what it is.

Um, and you know, feel free to comment back anyone on that.

And then the second point that Mr.

Hill had about the instrument approaches.

I'm not as familiar with this topic, but I do know that some of the other airports I I jump and work a lot at Morana Airport and uh you know I'm at Cassagran and Buckeye and some of these other places that have both both skydiving operations and um flight schools.

And it does create a lot of noise because there's a lot of takeoffs and landings in flight schools.

Um instrument approaches brings flight schools, if that is a truism, then that could be a little bit of a difficulty for the community to manage because we've got Toltec directly to the south, a lot of houses right there, and Robeson Ranch directly to the west.

So if we're adding more takeoffs and landings on a daily basis, it could be an issue.

So I think that could be something that could be looked at.

I don't know if the CIP items that you've mentioned are contingent on instrument approaches, but if they're not, I'd say we should take that out if it's possible.

Um it's something I flagged with David a while back.

Um, but unfortunately, I admit I didn't read the details of all 299 pages for coming here, and I truly apologize for that.

So I didn't catch that bid.

Very good.

Um I I can respond to that, Mr.

Mayor and Councilman McCurtis.

Absolutely.

Uh, as it relates to the first comment related to the strength, weaknesses, opportunities or threats or the SWOT analysis.

So that was an exercise that we went through in the first planning advisory committee, and the compilation of those various bullet points we have are just a result of the discussion that we had during that meeting.

So that was just to memorialize the discussion that we had as a part of the planning advisory committee.

Um, as it relates to the um instrument approach procedures, there's nothing in the capital improvement program that's tied to the instrument approach procedures.

What we have planned is what would be considered a non-precision approach, like a global positioning system, GPS approach, pretty common approaches that you see as some of the uh regional airports here in the area.

Um nothing would be ground-based, it would all be satellite-based.

Um, there's really no change to the development concept one way or the other.

A lot of times instrument approach procedures and what how detailed they get will help to dictate the uh the size of safety areas.

So whether you have a not lower than one mile instrument approach procedure, which is what we're uh recommending as a part of the master plan, or just a visual approach that occurs right now, those RPZs or those runway protection zones would remain in the same condition today as they would be to accommodate a non-precision approach.

I do think it's important to note, and you know, there may not be um the implementation of an instrument approach in the future, but one thing to keep in mind is it does help protect the airport with non-precision approaches, even if they don't occur from a planning and zoning standpoint, it helps the city in terms of being able to implement those proper uh techniques, if you will, to protect the approach system to the airport, which benefits you know all airport users for that matter.

So just something to consider uh regardless of whether an instrument approach procedure is implemented at the airport or not moving forward.

And when would that so that that's sort of like a potential for the future that you're recommending one day if needed?

Is that that's correct?

Okay, yeah, it's nothing that would be set in stone.

The airport sponsor would have to be the one to initiate that conversation with the FAA and to determine whether an instrument approach could even be something to be implemented at this airport down the road.

I that sounds reasonable.

And then on the you know, the the discussion that we had in our first meeting about the SWAT, I think you know that was brainstorming, but what now seeing it in writing is like an official document.

I just think if we could make that switch, then that would be a positive for the community, just with so much of the local economy being tied into the airport and the skydiving business.

Okay.

Yeah, I'll be happy to coordinate with uh city staff on that moving forward.

Thank you.

No, what do you want it to switch, Sarah?

I think I think those guys have it, but basically, in in the threat section on page 18, the first point uh about skydiving operations, we want to reword that as not a threat as you know, including it as that operations are being well managed by the existing skydiving operation.

So it's it's kind of an opportunity because right now they're coordinating with the helicopter um, you know, life flight business, they're coordinating with any other businesses that are coming onto the airport.

So there's already a staff managing airport complexities where at existing small airports, there's not really anyone doing that.

You could change, excuse me, you change that to something like a future consideration must include or uh consider as opposed to calling it a threat.

You know, uh it tones it down, but yet it brings the brings to the forefront that it it still has to be looked at because uh as we move forward in the future.

It was just a thought.

Yeah, I think it's gonna be an important consideration with any airport growth, but to call it a threat puts a negative spin on it, and that's what I'm trying to avoid in what I'm saying.

So when I when I go to get the motion, I'll take remove threat from uh page 18 and reword to well managed.

Is that uh suffice?

Okay, if I involve the comments, come on up.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

And Sarah covered most of the the topics that I was gonna talk about.

But but Sean, I'm sorry, Sean.

Did you just want to introduce yourself for the record?

Yes, Sean Hill, sorry, where he didn't with Skydive Arizona.

Um I I feel that by putting skydiving is targeting a specific operator, and whether they're mentioning my name or the only one, so it's pretty as much associated that way.

I think there's complexities with any operation that comes to an airport or a city that need to be addressed.

And want to make sure it's clear that the federal grant assurances make sure that not one operator is discriminated against.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Anyone else?

Is it possible?

We um we literally moved here a month ago.

No, you were supposed to fill out at the public.

What public things are we literally rendered that this meeting on Friday?

I mean, Mayor.

I I have a question.

Is that okay?

If not, that's fine.

It's up to you, Mayor, if you would like to have her speak.

If you do, would you please come to the podium?

Yeah, well, I'm going to allow it against my bet of judgment because you know, we had the public speaking period in the beginning, and I take it you're not familiar with how a city council works and whatnot.

Most people aren't.

I I get that too.

So if you please approach the podium.

You're gonna be limited to the three minutes, though, like in the beginning.

Okay.

Just state your name in the city where you live.

That's all you gotta do.

Thank you.

And thank you, everybody, for letting me speak.

Uh my name is Monica Vaklavic, and we live in Toltec.

So when we closed on our home, we did our due diligence.

We love Skydive Arizona.

We love to sit on our patio, watch everyone jumping.

Our concern as we found out about the full new report on Friday.

So I've read almost all of the pages.

I have a couple of concerns that I just understand this isn't completely set in stone, but I saw that there was the environmental impact.

I see nothing about any noise uh studies, future or otherwise.

Um we are literally at the end of the runway that could potentially grow into our home area.

And there is a large section there that talks about potential military use from regular daytime hours with a small break.

And then from 6 until 10 p.m.

We work from home.

We would get no break from any of these larger planes.

I am not opposed to having some growth.

I am not opposed to uh working with people, but I do think that at the time that this study is being done, the new homes that were being built were not there.

And so that's something that needs to be taken into consideration.

Um that's a huge concern for us.

I have others, but I'm gonna keep it short.

So I just thank you for your time.

Those are the big ones that I wanted to bring up.

Thank you.

Thank you for addressing the council.

Mayor.

Well, I was patiently waiting for uh a chance to speak, but that was my concern too, and I wanted to address it with our consultant because as myself proclaimed returning newbie.

I am going to age myself in and explain that I was part of the discussion with the last master plan.

I know, and thank you for page 12 where you specifically lay out what this plan is and what this plan is not, because that kind of helped me as I did not read the entire report, but I just kind of skimmed through it.

But my concern was the expansion, and I know the expansion is so many years off.

It's it's way off and stuff.

But one of the problems was acquiring the land for the expansion uh that we had before.

There's a lot of people in Eloy that are holding on to land because they think they're gonna make a million dollars if they just hold on to it.

And that was our that was an issue, and that was a problem with the last time with the um master plan for the airport.

Have you addressed those issues?

And I and I see now that you know there is concern about you know acquiring the land that it's gonna take to expand the airport.

Has has were those people invited into the discussions and the public uh discussions and so I'll be happy to address that the best I can again, Mr.

Mayor, Councilman Golindo.

Um we had three public information workshops during the course of the master plan.

I know the city advertised those as appropriate during the various milestones.

Um, you know, there's been comments about land acquisition, about noise.

Um this is not a noise study.

A master plan is not a noise study.

I just I want to be clear with that, but I also want to be sensitive to knowing that there are adjacent land uses near the airport, and I know the city, and as we go through this master planning process, we strive to set the airport up to be as compatible as it can be with uh adjacent land uses.

Um I think when you look at the master plan process, uh we did spend some time in chapter five of the of the master plan evaluating noise at a high level uh from a master planning perspective.

Um there's an exhibit in chapter five in the environmental overview.

Uh we took a look at the noise contours based upon the existing condition of approximately 30,000 operations, which was the baseline.

And then we also did a future noise contour run, uh, the 20-year at approximately 43,000 operations.

Uh I can tell you, and again, noise is relative.

We have to follow the standards.

So we're looking at it from an FAA perspective and what's considered the significant threshold of noise, which is that 65 day-night noise or DNL contour.

Those contours remain on airport property uh during the course of the planning period, even with the extension and the land acquisition would be needed to accommodate those runway extensions.

But again, that's that's down the road as a part of just as an example.

Say the airport did position itself to be able to extend the runway someday.

If there was the justification there and the demand there, there's going to likely be an environmental assessment or an EA that's gonna be needed for a project of that magnitude because a runway extension is a it's a high profile large order of magnitude project.

So there's going to be a specific environmental assessment that would be done that would go into great detail on the impacts of that extension to you know neighboring residential or or incompatible land uses, if you will, with the airport environment.

So that would be looked black on a project-by-project basis.

The master plan does not do that.

Uh we we generalize the noise based upon the recommended development concept and the forecast operations, but we don't get into the specifics because it's not a requirement of the Federal Aviation Administration for a master plan.

So I hope that answers your question a little bit.

Uh but that's that's where we're at with the master plan process in relationship to those particular uh segments.

So I did notice that you know when you were doing the future plan and stuff, and you mapped out the extension.

There's like farming area there.

Is that still existent?

I know farming is kind of dwindling down in the area.

I mean, was and on the other side of the extension, I didn't see any kind of development business, any kind of uh potential for uh any kind of economic benefit to the city, but I did notice that I believe on the left side there's there was like farming area that would potentially extend into the area of development for the airport runway.

Yeah, so we identified uh 14 NEPA categories that are important to any particular project and again.

This would go into more detail, whether it's an environmental assessment or a categorical exclusion, but we didn't plan out areas outside of airport property except for those particular aviation interests with the airport.

So, like a runway extension, yeah, we would have to extend the existing property line of the airport to be able to accommodate such an extension, but we're not proposing you know industrial commercial land development outside of that area.

We're just looking at what would it take to build the extension, what would it take to accommodate the safety areas that would be tied to that particular runway extension?

That's what we're looking at from an aviation perspective.

Okay, thank you.

That was what I was asking.

Councilmember Galendo, the property, the farming property that you're referencing to the South Umasa Airport, that 288 acres is owned by the city.

So we currently have a contract with um Conway Farms to farm that for the next five years.

And he I've told him that you know, as we progress with airport development and runway potential runway extension projects, that that would go away.

That was why the city purchased it.

The city particularly purchased it so that we could expand the runways, we could do the airport master planning.

Um the properties to the north area that is privately owned.

Uh, one of the property owners has recently uh sold, and I've been in contact with that new owner, and they're very much interested in getting that property into the air park master plan so it can be developed as like commercial, light industrial.

And then uh lastly, our community development director Dan Seimer has on his capital improvement plan, the air park master plan.

So that's a complement to the airport master plan, the air park plan will start looking at what we're going to do around the airport, including that potential runway expansion, and then how all that looks, you know, commercial, industrial, um light industrial, residential, where that goes and what land we would need to acquire would then be part of that air park master plan that you guys will see.

Oh, eight months or so from now or less.

Year, a year, a year.

Well, this one took uh a year and a half almost because I remember we were approaching the FAA in June of 23 to get approval for this.

So uh that was a big big uh checkbox for us.

So well, thank you for that.

Like I say, I'm catching up.

I I took a quite a long hiatus, but I am catching up.

So thank you for that.

Yeah, thank you for your comments.

Okay, back to council.

Any more questions, comments?

And sir, it's been a year and a half.

I thank you for all the work you guys put in on this.

We appreciate it.

Thank you guys.

All right, so we're gonna try we're gonna try to run this this way.

Do I hear a motion to read by title adoption of resolution 25-1608 with amendments to be made by staff to page 18?

I still move.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries.

Selene.

Councilmember Galindo.

Oh, sorry.

My apologies.

Resolution number 25 1608.

A resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of Eloy, Penau County, Arizona, approving and adopting the updated city of Eloy Municipal Airport, Master Plan, and Airport Layout Plan.

Do we have a motion to approve resolution 25-1608?

I move that we approve with recommendations from the council added.

Do we have a second?

Second.

Mayor, Mayor, Council members.

Before you vote on that, could you state what the specific amendments are going to be so that everybody knows what they're voting for?

Let me run that again.

Do I have a motion to approve resolution 25-1608 with the amendments to page 18 by staff?

To remove the threat, the word threat.

All right, we'll try this again.

Oh yeah, what do you have?

Mayor, Council members.

Um, it's on page 53 of your materials.

And the the question that we have for staff is that they're not going to really know exactly what your intent is.

I can make a couple suggestions to you, which you don't have to follow, or you can do something yourself.

And as far as a disclaimer, um, I know the Hill family.

I've done legal work from over the years.

The 19 years that I've been coming here, I have not been involved whatsoever in any matter involving the Hill family in the city of Eloy.

When I took over as city attorney, I made that clear to the city, made it clear to the Hill family.

They they do they do cuss at me from time to time or the 19 years on it, but my suggestion might be something along the lines, and I'm basing this on what I'm hearing, that where it says on it, as I said, it's page 53.

It is item I-8, where it has threats.

The first one that you wanted to remove said skydiving operations that can lead to airspace complexities.

You could either delete that in its entirety, or you could just delete the word skydiving, where it would just read operations that can lead to airplane air airspace complexities.

If you wanted to add skydiving as an opportunity in the section above it, you could have some language to the effect of skydiving operations, which complement air park development, military and public uses.

So on page 53 I8, we could just remove the word skydive.

That's uh that that's a the the council could the council could remove it in its entirety, or you could just remove the word skydive.

Okay, I think we'll go with that.

It seems to be the uh easiest one for verbiage that may or that being just removing skydive, removing it in its entirety.

I believe just removing the word skydiving would eliminate the problem.

Okay, okay.

I refer to my skydiving expert.

Okay, we'll roll this again.

Do I have a motion to approve resolution 25-1608 with an amendment on page 53 I8 to remove the word skydive?

I still move.

Do I have a second?

Second.

May I have a roll call, please, Celine?

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Vodraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

I want to thank you all for that exercise.

Okay, now we're going to go to item C conduct a public hearing and consider the adoption of ordinance 25-985.

Approving the amendment to the zoning map case number RZPAD 24 2024-006 Southwest Crossing.

An application to request rezone approximately 122 acres at the southwest corner of Houser Road and North Australia Road from General Industrial I2 to General Industrial I2 with a planned area of development, a PAD overlay.

Mr.

Simon, look if you got that see your walk up there.

Let me open this public hearing.

Mayor members of the council, Dan Seimer, Director of Community Development.

The case before you is the mayor's indicated is a request to rezone the exit the approximately 122-acre property from I1, excuse me, I2 to I2 PAD.

The purpose of the PAD amendment is has a few uh items to it.

It is to allow the use uh to be added for data systems and processing uh situation uh usually served as a data center, but it's a more complicated verb and the description because it includes all forms of data processing.

In addition, the amendments do include a request to increase the height from 56 feet to 80 feet.

That 80 feet does include all mechanical equipment and its height.

Uh in addition, the setback along the Santa Rosa Canal where there's a planned trail, it will be reduced to accommodate that planned trail.

It will be coming up a straya road to houser and cross at that point.

That's mainly because of the difficulties of crossing the uh the canal at the same time of the railroad and where it appears to continue filing the canal, and it's a more appropriate location anyway, because it'll re-remerge with the canal further east on housing road.

The planning commission did recommend approval subject to the attached stipulations, and staff is recommending approval.

Staff did provide a memo to the council.

There was a small typo in stipulation six that said 10 a.m.

to 12 a.m.

which was supposed to see a 10 p.m.

to 12 a.m.

That modification has been incorporated in the ordinance that is before you.

And at this time I'll be happy to answer any questions or hand it over to the applicant.

Go get them then.

Go get it there.

Yep.

The timing really I hit that 10 p.m.

to 12 a.m.

S two-hour window.

Why doesn't that go from like 10 p.m.

till 8 a.m.?

You could that is the mayor members of council?

That is a mere example.

It starts the center starts off with EG.

In other words, if the example of the uh generator had a 16-hour run time, it could start at 8 and go to 10.

So if you look at the example and uses the Latin term EG as an example, it is not a stipulation in itself.

So it could start at 1 a.m.

Potentially.

Now is this just a one-time run on the generator during installation for a for uh a load test, speed test, or endurance test, or is this isn't a constant thing, right?

Typically not, but I will ask you to defer that question to the applicant.

I certainly will.

Is the applicant here?

Applicants here, would you like to hand it over for their presentation?

Yes, that would be nice.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello, just state your name and who you representing.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor and Council members.

Um my name is Carolyn Oberholzer.

I'm with the firm of Bergen Frank Smolly and Overholster at 4343 East Camelback in Phoenix.

Very nice to be here before you this evening on behalf of Brian Rhodes and um this 122-acre property that he is currently farming.

Um he is working with the Ryan companies who are also here this evening to develop um this industrial use here and have requested this PAD for the reasons that Dan explained, which is to add to specify this use on this already zoned I2 industrial site as well as to um adjust the height for this project.

One of the nuances in advancements in data center development is that the types of equipment that is utilized to support AI and the every evolving advancements in this industry.

They require an extra interior building space.

These are fundamentally two-story buildings, but because of the height that's required to stack them within those two stories, we need that additional height.

And these generators that support these developments, that stipulation is with regard to maintaining the compliance with the applicable warranty.

So that is there are certain requirements to keep the generators compliant with the warranties that they run periodically for that continuous period of time.

So this was just a for example of how that time period might work.

I have a brief presentation to give to support, or you guys can, of course, interrupt me at any moment.

But this is the property, and it is, as you can see, an agricultural production.

There is also a well site that's been conveyed to the irrigation district at that far southeast corner.

I'll talk about that in a minute.

But that is necessary to support the current farming use on the property.

When that farming use is terminated, that well will be available for convey to the city.

So this map on the left is your general plan map.

The star is our property, and as you can see, it's kind of smack dab into this middle of this very expansive industrial corridor that you guys have that lies between the railroad and Frontier Street and the I-10 freeway.

And much of that land within that corridor is already zoned I2 or I-1.

The map on the right shows you the proposed zoning, which would just be to add the PAD overlay onto the I2 that already is there to support the extra use and the building height to 80 feet.

So data center uses are very common in most of the municipalities within the state.

They're going to become more so just because of the demand on data, and we need to store it, and it's stored in a warehouse.

So that's fundamentally what this is.

But as I mentioned, the advancements in the technology require that these systems be cooled by various techniques in the past.

It had been water cooled, they were very high water users.

That is a thing of the past.

They're trending towards very low water uses, and they generate the need for a lot of power.

And so they have a tremendous economic impact when they enter a community and they are operational.

And at this, um we had a well-renowned economic impact analyst and economists to do a study on okay, just uh conservatively, assume that this site is operating at 60% of a 40, 400 megawatt um project.

What would that yield in terms of economic benefits to the city?

And uh annually, because of the power consumption, that ranges from between five and six million dollars a year.

That does not touch on the property tax changes, the one-time construction sales tax impact, which is several million dollars, um, impact fees, and the revenues created from the secondary sources like the jobs and the people that have the jobs and spend the money in the community.

Um these projects are not huge job generators, there's about a hundred jobs give or take associated with a facility of this size, but they're very high-paying jobs.

Um, and then you know, when you compare that to it is in agricultural production, it has very favorable if you're the property owner tax treatment.

Um, so historically, this property pays about $5,500 total in the tax bill to the county, which I know you guys know, you don't get all of the $5,500 of that, you get a fraction of it.

So the increase in annual taxes not only benefit the city but greatly benefit the fire district, the school district, because they are their tax rate is a higher portion of that property tax.

Um, this is again just a summary.

The bold on the right-hand side in that column shows you the one development standard that we're seeking modification to again to support the additional building height that is necessary from this high-tech equipment.

This is a conceptual site plan that shows how the buildings will typically lay out.

They're run usually between about 250 to 275,000 square feet of building area each.

There will be a substation there to support them, and that is shown generally on the east side of this because we're dealing with a triangle.

Um, this property is somewhat constrained with a railroad on the right, a canal to the bottom.

You know, we do have two roads, but it is not a site that enjoys a tremendous amount of access.

So this type of a user is a very low traffic user.

Um and it it really does not need anything in terms of city services on a significant basis after it's developed, but it is uh the site is a perfect site for it because of how the buildings can lay out, have having adjacencies to those roads and protections from the surrounding uses.

With uh there's no directly adjacent property.

Um that being said, as Dan mentioned, we are increasing landscape buffers and setbacks to make sure that the perimeter of the project is attractive.

Um there's a 10-foot uh community trail easement that's provided along both Hauser and Estrella, um, with the emphasis being on houser as the major east-west corridor through the city.

Um so that was prioritized in some of the design guidelines that are in the PAD that restrict certain activity to houser road and and um building orientation is to be prioritized on houser road versus generators and back of house type of items.

And this gives you just from a scale standpoint some examples of what these two-story buildings look like.

This is not meant to be representative of architecture.

Um, everything that goes into this project will come in to the city through the site plan review process.

The extra design guidelines that are imposed on this site through the PAD will be evaluated at that time and imposed on the site design as well as the city's otherwise applicable design requirements.

But um, they are not massive in terms of you know many stories in appearance.

They are these are all examples of two-story buildings.

And again, this is just a snapshot of some of those design guidelines that we pulled from the PAD to help to enhance the way that it looks and the buildings look, so it's not just tilt up and long runs of building with no architecture relief, no distinction in colors.

Um we have office uh appearance at the entrances, there are glazing limitations and requirements, and so um those these items have been developed with staff as we've worked our way through the review process, and they are all a part of the PAD.

And as I mentioned, the back of house type of operations are not permitted on houser road.

Loading doors, bays are not uh to be houser-facing.

And then water is always a big topic.

Um, so I wanted to end on this uh and just detail you know some of the ways that you can measure the water consumption.

Um, the farm that's there today can use up to five acre feet uh a year of water, and I don't speak in acre feet.

So we translated this to gallons per day, which is much more familiar to me, milk jug.

Um, and so the that translates to 162 and change gallons, million gallons per year on a daily basis on an average daily basis, 446,000 and change.

We have a stipulation in our project that limits the total maximum average per day consumption on this site to 250,000 gallons per day.

That's more, very likely more than we're going to need or use.

But that number was taken utilizing assumptions on light industrial uses.

You know, this is the most intense zoning category in the city that we have.

So by imposing a use restriction in terms of maximum water, we are that is a benefit to the city where you will have predictability on this property on your maximum demand for water.

So what that translates to just with that maximum, if we were to use that amount, is a 45% reduction right there in the amount of water that is used on the site.

Um if you want to look at that in terms of you know what is that delta in terms of homes, because that's what we equate households and water demand to, um, that's about 441 homes, fewer, that delta between how much would be used in the farming use, and then up to this maximum stipulation.

And again, as I mentioned, the free on cooling and the new advancements in the technology all demand low water consumption.

So all that to say it's a net positive to the city from a water portfolio perspective, and that's not even encounting for when it does come out of agricultural production, the city will be able to acquire the well site from the district to convert that to municipal use.

So, with that, um I appreciate your time.

I'm happy to answer any questions.

And again, thank you.

And thanks to staff.

Um we did a lot of work, and I think that the set of stipulations that they've compiled and that the planning commission recommended with the correction that Dan mentioned tonight, going a long way to secure um guardrails so that you have predictability and ensure very quality level of development in Eloy at this great location.

So happy to answer your questions.

Okay, anybody on council?

What questions?

Of course.

Well, thank you so much for bringing this presentation and for answering questions that I have.

I really appreciate the fact that you are looking at building a uh facility that is welcoming and appealing.

You know, Houser Road is one of the gateway roads into Eloy, and that's one of the concerns that I have.

I also have concerns about um its image from the freeway.

You know, I I saw the beautiful landscaping and and I have gone in and the Phoenix metropolitan area and looked at some of their data centers and stuff.

But you know, the thing about Eloy is as you mentioned, it is a triangle that you know vision comes from all corners of it.

And so really would like you to take interest in what uh the vision is going to be from the freeway, because you know that's that's another important image that people get when they're you know deciding whether they want to visit Eloy or not, is they look at the vision or they look at the view coming into the town from the freeway because it's pretty much how you get in and get out of Eloy if you're visiting.

And so it do you have like an overall one of what I saw in Phoenix was there's a a beautiful opening into the facility, you know, but they have really high freeways, like their freeways are probably as high as the buildings are, so there's no reason to like notice that there are potentially three-story buildings that are a really high buildings.

So I you know, as I saw the yes, please, thank you for doing that.

I I would like to see like just a conscientious effort into making the backside of the facility more appealing, you know, because we like I said, it is one of the entrances into Eloy Houser Road is.

Yes, and Mayor and Council members, um, there's the architectural requirements that are uh applicable to this, don't just they don't start and stop at Hauser in Australia, they apply to all of the sides, um, as well as this being adjacent to the CAP um staff uh you know also asked uh you know imposed conditions that we uh agree with that would also prioritize that adjacent um view, which happens to also be the freeway view.

So that is going to be protected from both a landscaping standpoint and the architectural requirements will still apply to that site, even though it's the rear of the project.

Thank you for that.

Thank you, Joanne.

Anyone else on council have anything they want to chime in, say?

Well, I will.

First of all, thank you for looking to invest in Eloy.

We certainly welcome the business.

There's no doubt about that.

We want to be a partner, a good partner with you.

However, your location really is a prime spot here in Eloy.

And your building will be on display, defining our community to some extent.

As people come into Eloy, whether on the highway or they come down frontier, they're gonna see this building and they're going to gauge us by how well that building looks.

If you want to see an example of what we don't want it to look like, just go up on Sun Land Gin.

Yeah, you could see that as exactly what we don't want.

And I believe council will agree with me that we're looking for a structure that is pleasing and modern, something with texture and architectural detail instead of a just a tilt-up building, something with some depth and some color because it's going to define us as we go as we move forward and we fill in those nice little purple areas you see.

Yes.

Right?

You agree with that?

So, yeah, I think that's uh the council agrees pretty much on that fact that we want some, we want the best looking thing we can have sitting there because we want to make it look good, us look good, you look good, and be a great partner.

All right, so do we have any more comments from council?

Oh, you go ahead.

Thank you, Mayor.

Did we address the the time issue?

I know it's an example, but I want to make sure that generators aren't running at midnight, one o'clock, three o'clock in the morning when neighbors it's gonna be quiet out there to begin with at that time, but I don't want houses that are to the north of there to be able to hear a whole bank of generators running at two o'clock in the morning.

And mayor, vice mayor.

Um, there are stipulations that specify limitations on the sound levels that can occur that can emanate from the property.

Um, and the most stringent one is that houser perimeter.

Um so there has been taken by staff to create tailored noise standards that will prevent that noise intrusion that you're mentioning.

And and again, that's something that we get the benefit of by using this PAD.

Is this sets the standard differently for the architecture than on other projects, as well as noise limitations that don't otherwise apply on other projects?

So that has um accounted for in the stipulations.

Yes.

Anyone else?

anybody public?

This is a public hearing.

All right, and I also would like to say thank you for clearing up the water consumption issues.

I know a lot of people had that, and I am happy with the new technologies.

I know they cost a whole lot more to implement that new tech.

I'll whether it's free on ammonia or whatever you're gonna use, it costs a lot more, and the environment thanks you for that as well.

So, nothing else.

I'm going to close this public hearing.

Thank you.

Do I hear a motion to read by title?

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries.

Celine.

Ordinance number 25985.

Case number RZPAD 2024 006, Southwest Crossing.

An ordinance of the mayor and the city council of the city of Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona, approving a rezoning of approximately 122 acres of land from general industry, excuse me, industrial I-2 to general industry industrial I-2 with the planned area development overlay to allow for data processing and hosting services, use on the property and associated uses, and increase the building height from 50 seat 56 feet to 80 feet.

This is a tongue twister.

Located at the southeast corner of West Houser Road and North Estrella Road, providing for several ability and establishing an effective date.

Do I have a motion to approve as read?

So moved to make a motion.

We approve uh 25-1611 as read.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Roll call, please.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Vodraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you.

Okay, brings us to item D.

Adoption of resolution number 251611.

Declaring as public record for a certain document filed with the city clerk entitled RZPAD 2024-006.

Southwest Crossing, a planned development.

Okay.

Dan.

There he is.

He did that twice to me tonight.

Mayor members of the council.

This is a resolution to adopt the development plan.

Uh that's uh related to the previous ordinance as a public record.

This is so that we don't have to publish the 102 pages, 105 pages, or remember correctly, in the paper, along with the ordinance.

Thank you, Mr.

Simon.

Do I hear a motion to read by title?

Adoption of resolution 25 dash 1611.

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Hearing none, motion carries.

Celine.

Resolution number 25-1611.

A resolution of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Eloy, Penell County, Arizona, declaring as a public record that certain document filed with the city clerk entitled RZPAD 2024-006 Southwest Crossing and a Planned Area Development.

Do I have a motion to approve resolution 25-1611 as presented?

Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve resolution number 25-1611.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Thank you.

May I have a roll call, please, Celine?

Councilmember de Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember Vorasca?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you.

I would like to thank everybody who came out here tonight for this extended meeting.

And you all have a safe trip home, okay?

Thank you all.

Adjourn.