No, that's the one that was tarot and mobile tech.

It is small.

Oh, yes.

Because I'd be afraid to have a treatment back.

It is a six oh three.

When you're ready, Mayor.

Good evening, and welcome to the Eloy City Council meeting.

Today is Tuesday, May twenty seventh, twenty twenty five.

The time is six PM.

Madam Clerk, may I I have a roll call, please.

Councilmember Baldraska.

Here.

Councilmember Curtis.

Here.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Here.

Councilmember Schneider.

Here.

Councilmember Garcia.

Present.

Council Member Galindo.

Here.

Mayor Sutton.

Here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Maybe we all rise for a moment of silence and the Pledge of Allegiance that will be led by Councilmember Vod Roska.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

So that brings us to item number six.

Reports and announcements.

And it wouldn't be a council meeting without your mayor having a few pages of reports and announcements.

Eloy PD immediately responded in force along with units from Sheriff's Department and DPS.

Our Delta One drone was deployed, and all ingress and egress points were immediately sealed.

The school was placed into lockdown as per procedure.

When it was apparent there was no physical threats from the perimeter, and parents were already arriving to pick up their children.

The school was quickly evacuated and searched.

No devices were discovered.

And I also like to commend the school staff for their professionalism on the stress.

Unlike PD, school staff are not used to dealing with a stress like that.

And they handled it with pure professionalism.

They did really good.

And I and I want to commend them all for that.

That's a testament to their staff.

And our community is grateful.

On Tuesday the 13th, I attended the Scampo meeting in Coolidge discuss was electric vehicle tax and safe routes to school and the Panell Regional Transportation Authority tax refund status.

I know this is riveting.

On Thursday the 16th, I was a guest speaker at the Arizona City Chamber luncheon.

It was held at the Arizona City Community Center and Library, a new facility in Arizona City.

It is really nice.

On Thursday, the 19th, I attended the ATAC meeting, discussed was road funding and where it originates and what could be done to obtain funding, which is very important to me.

Later that same day, we had a very long and informative budget meeting here at City Hall.

Thank you, Brian Wright, for the hard work of you and your staff.

It was very informative and it moved along as quickly as it could, and we thank you for that.

On Wednesday the 24th, we debuted our newly expanded planning and zoning commission.

Thank you to all the returning members of Planning and Zoning and the new members as well for coming out to support their city.

On Friday, City Manager Mallowitz and Assistant City Manager McKenzie, you know, I went to the summer kickoff party at the Eloy Pool.

It was well attended with games and free snow cones and swag bags for the attendees.

The kids were having a blast.

Thank you, Chad.

Job well done.

It was that was really a nice event.

It was just put together perfectly.

And the kids were having a ball.

And lastly, today I made my radio debut on Eloy's own K U E R Q 106.1 FM.

I discussed Eloy happenings and the vision and the future of Eloy.

Big thanks and shout out to Chris and the crew at the station.

I might make this a bi-monthly thing.

Go up there and do uh do a radio show.

Why not, right?

So that's it from your mayor.

Anybody on my left.

Yep, thank you, Mayor.

Um, first off, uh, I did not I missed the ceremony for the Eloy Memorial uh celebration, Memorial Day celebration at the cemetery.

I for some reason wrote the wrong time on my calendar, and I got there just as everybody was leaving.

But I did hear nothing but praise and wonderful compliments about how wonderful the cemetery looked.

So congratulations and kudos to community services.

Um I've had I had everybody I talked to said this place is just beautiful, so well kept, and they really felt like they were honoring their loved ones by being able to have them in a place and visit with them in a place that was so beautiful.

So thank you for that.

Uh, congratulations to the Eloy Tarangos.

I understood that Vice Mayor Tarango and Officer Turango did a beautiful job with their speeches.

Like I said, I wasn't there, I was late, but I got a lot of feedback when I did get there.

Um, secondly, I thought I was gonna be a little late today, but it turns out I wasn't because um, as part of the sparrow campaign, we presented a check to Aaron Purse with the Hundred Club of 2,697 and 28 cents.

Uh this funding came from the uh first responders ball that was held.

Um the 100 club does wonderful things for our first responders when they're in need.

Uh one of the things that brought me to the sparrow campaign and uh motivates me to continue to work with them to be so successful, is that uh Violet has always said that when people are in need, first responders are the first ones to be there for them.

But someone needs to be there when first responders are in need, and the 100th club does that.

So I'm really honored to be part of this organization.

Also, uh, some of the dates.

The third annual steps of love uh event will be on September 20th at 6 p.m.

at Santa Cruz High School.

On October 11th is the 10th annual two thousand twenty-five Heroes Against Hunger's 5K.

So we're gonna try to do it up really good because it's the 10th annual.

Um November 20th will be the 2025 Eloy School Hunger Awareness Bill Day.

So keep your calendars open for those days.

Um know that uh any event that the Sparrow campaign does really supports our community, really supports our county and our state, and it's all good work.

So thank you for that, Mayor.

Mr.

Mayor, you mentioned you uh tenante skip coming.

Is there anything uh you could share with us to the uh road tax?

That's always been a hot topic.

Uh that money is what happened to it.

So just anything you may be able to share with us.

Yes, not all the road tax was given back.

There's still a few million.

I don't know the exact amounts.

I don't have them offhand, but uh some of the applications were given back, some were rewarded, but there's still quite a few millions in that pot, which will probably come to Pennell County, we hope for the roads.

Okay.

I don't think they know the exact destination of that money once it's all said and done.

Thank you.

Um just wanted to say um thank you for the uh chamber of commerce hosting uh yesterday's um Memorial Day event at the uh cemetery.

It was a wonderful and beautiful event.

Um beautiful day.

Uh the weather held up.

Um Vice Mayor, wonderful speech.

Her uh stepson um Tino also had a beautiful speech.

It was um a very um heartwarming and um um lovely day, and I'm glad I was able to make it along with several other of the um members of the the council.

Okay, so y'all know where I was yesterday.

Um, thank you.

Um and council member Curtis also did what she does best by jumping into um the Memorial Day service.

It was great.

Um, no, thank you.

I had the the honor of giving the closing remarks.

Um my stepson did give was the um guest speaker, and um, like I said, I gave the closing remarks thanks to um Mayor Sutton being out due to his birthday.

So again, happy belated birthday, Mayor Sutton.

Um, but yes, it was beautiful.

The park is beautiful.

Um, I always tell my family we have family buried up in Phoenix, and that used to be one of the most beautiful cemeteries.

I I was um preferential to that one, but I told my family and I've told them several times over the last few years that um Eloy's is much nicer, and so I complain hard to Phoenix because of that one up there, but um no uh city staff did a wonderful job.

They always do a great um job out at that cemetery.

Um it's it's great that those of us who have family members can rest assured that they're well taken care of.

Thank you.

Thank you guys.

And it's often discussed here that the cemetery is quite an expense to this city, but it's one I think that is 100% worth it.

Okay, so with that, we'll go over to City Manager announcements.

Thank you, Mayor.

Vice Mayor members of council, just a few things on my agenda.

Start off with Waste Connections RAD is officially over at the end of this week, May 30th, their contract expires.

So brown cans are being collected today and tomorrow.

So just reminder to residents and those in the audience to leave those out at the curb so they can pick them up and take them away.

Waste management, well, now WM, as formerly known as waste manager, will start their official date on 6-1.

So we'll have that transition beginning next week.

Billing though will not take effect until August.

So everybody's bill, the new rates are not be reflective until the August bill.

So just keep in mind that as well.

Second up is PD Corporal promotions tomorrow, Wednesday at noon, where we'll be recognizing officers Jose Gomez and Brian Holmes in their promotions to corporal position.

We'll also be recognizing Trisha Wilcox.

She's been promoted to the new newly established support services supervisor that council approved a little while back.

So excited to have that new position at the recommendation of Chief Benales.

I know he's looking forward to it as well.

And they've already started implementing some really great changes over there to streamline processes.

And on June 7th, next week's Saturday, we got our community yard sale, 6 a.m.

to noon.

So we're hoping to get a good crowd for that to sell some good wares.

And as uh council member Galindo noted, um, with the with everything going on last week Friday, the pool is open.

So the kids are gonna be happy pools open.

Um Chad's beard's probably gonna get a little grayer this year again, so just expect that.

Uh that is my announcements.

Uh so I'll move right into the other two agenda items under city manager's announcements, and that is a presentation by Ed Farrell and Mr.

Dick Williams on the Vergy project update of what's going on.

And Matt will introduce that, followed by a presentation by WM to update you on what's going on with the trash collection in transition services.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor, members of the council.

Uh it's my pleasure to introduce two of the the Vergy team representatives who work with us on the phase one projects, which were the solar improvement projects, um, the solar efficiency projects that are water and wastewater plants.

Uh this these projects are our projects that we have on our on our capital improvement plan.

These were the projects that were identified in the letter of interest back that council approved a few months ago, and and they're here to to give an uh an introduction and a deeper explanation of what these projects are, what they entail, and then just know that we'll be bringing the council uh a contract with Vergy for the construction management services on on June 9th.

So we have uh Mr.

Ed Farrow and Mr.

Dick Williams from Verjee.

Turn the slide.

Just click on it.

Just click on it.

Okay.

Good evening, Mayor, members of the council and city management.

Thank you for having us here tonight.

Before we start, we want to just uh acknowledge all the time that's been put into this project, and it's wouldn't happen if it wasn't a team effort.

If it wasn't for people like Christina and Jeremy and Danny and Cookie and Matt and David McKinsey and your finance director, Brian Wright, projects like this wouldn't happen.

It takes a whole team on both sides of the of the plate to make it happen and become fruition.

So, as Matt said, tonight we're here to present to you phase two of a project that we're working on and have been working on since last September.

Tonight's agenda will consist of uh the road travel with Eloy, improvements and benefits, financial results, next steps, and then we can go to questions and comments.

Okay.

So as Matt said, we did a phase one project, which started in February of 2021.

That consisted of upgrading your uh turbo blowers at your wastewater treatment plants to energy fish and blowers.

We did some underground plumbing that were leaking into your diffusers into your lagoons.

And we also did some parking shade structures with solar on top of it, along with some sand separators at your well site, along with another parking shade structure there uh next to the well site that's right next to your baseball field park.

That can that project was uh last from November 2022 through March 23, with the project completed in March of 23.

That same year, we gave your council and staff a tour of the completed project that we did so they could get their eyes on the site and see the real the real at the real project.

The phase two feasibility study study started last July and concluded in October of 2024, and we signed a letter of intent with your council in November of 2024, and we'll share in this presentation what that feasibility is going to turned out to be and what the project is consisting of.

The engineering bidding contract development went through from November 24th through April 25th last month, and we went through city administration reviews along with biweekly meetings with your public work staff since November up to up until today, which leads us here tonight to present to the council what we've come up with and uh hopefully to get authorization from the council to proceed with this phase two project.

Improvement value number one is a screening machine.

You've had a broken screening machine at your wastewater treatment plant for a number of months now, and it's created a lot of havoc on your staff.

They're having to work overtime and uh put in special time hours to clean this screening machine off manually with their own rakes and their own class.

So we're gonna replace that screening machine along with the pipe that has had two leaks in it in the last six months.

And you see in that picture on the right, that's duct tape there that's holding that pipe together.

So we're gonna make sure we're gonna get those two replaced and they're operating the right way.

The good news we bring tonight is this screening machine we were told was gonna take about nine to ten months to be delivered.

So we went on ahead and ordered that screen machine back in February, knowing that it was gonna take a while to come in, hoping to start construction on that in September, October.

Well, the screening machine's here, and it's in Houston, and it's getting ready to be shipped out here.

So we're gonna be able to start implementation on that screening machine about the third week of June.

We understand that that's a very urgent item, and we're gonna do everything we can to get this improvement value done for you ASAP.

Improvement value number two is we're going to construct a new sewer line starting at your wastewater treatment plant, going down Houser Road, down 11 mile corner road, will be which will be the first phase of a project that's going to improve your sewer lines, going from 12 inch lines to 24 from anywhere to anywhere from any to from 24 inch to 36 inch lines.

It's the first phase of a project that's going to lead you to allow to start your residential development that you've been that you've had in planning for the last few years.

Improvement value number three is a belt filter press at the wastewater treatment plant.

The picture you see on the left is a belt filter press that has been sitting in storage with a tarp over it, and we are gonna take that belt filter press and we're gonna install it there at your wastewater treatment plant inside of an enclosed building that will have cooling in it, which will enable this belt filter press to have a lot longer lifestyle span than just sitting in the hot sun like uh like it has in the past.

Improvement value number three is renovation of your blue tank on house or road.

That tank has about 13 feet of sand in it.

We're gonna take that all completely empty that tank out with all that sand, and we're gonna sandblast the whole interior of the tank and the exterior of the tank and completely renovate it for you and bring it back into uh modernization uh upgrades.

You see what the top of that uh uh lid looks like on the top of your water tank.

We're gonna renovate that whole entire thing for you, make it look brand new.

And the last improvement value is staying at the uh uh blue tank site.

We're gonna install 70 kilowatts of solar there at the at the water treatment plant, and it's gonna be on top of parking shade structures again.

Huge value for Arizona when you can create shade, right?

And it's it's it's it's making your public works department excited because it's another place where they can store equipment or any type of materials, and it doesn't have to stay stored in the hot sun.

So with that, I'll hand it over to my colleague Dick Williams.

Thank you, Edward.

It's a pleasure to be back in front of the council tonight, and uh we appreciate that.

This is a high-level summary of the project.

Um, we as Edward said, over the last you know, five months or so, we've gone through and did all the design and engineering to bid the project out.

The bids were just received last week.

We're still going through vetting all that.

Um, but it looks like it's gonna come in around uh 12,400,000 to fund the project, is gonna be funded through ARPA, which is the American Rescue uh Plan Act.

Um, you have 3.8 million uh that's going to be utilized from federal funding with that.

The um IRA, which is the inflation reduction act, that was an act that was passed in 2022, which you got some funding for that for phase one.

And um, you're going to be able to get that here for the the solar we're putting in here, about 360,000.

So altogether, that's a little over $4 million of federal funding to help fund the project.

Uh the rest of the project would be funded, you know, uh through your uh normal fund sources through general fund.

Overall, if you look at this project and you look at this as being a proactive initiative to address items that really need to be improved and replaced, it's actually going to save over $22 million over the next 30-year period, as opposed to just being reactive and just putting band-aids on things and getting them replaced.

So the 30-year positive cash flow from the time that you pay this uh project off over that 30-year period, the city will be 14 million dollars further ahead than what they would be had they not implemented these projects.

So the next steps that we have for this project is obviously tonight we wanted to present this because we've been working really hard, and as Edward said, you know, it really does take a team to get these things done.

I've been doing this for 45 years, and I can honestly say that the team here at Eloy is a really good team.

You guys are very blessed to have the team that you have, and they all pitched in and helped from even from day one with phase one.

So we're we feel very fortunate to work with you and to be you know your partner on these projects.

Um the next uh step that we I guess your next council meeting is June 9th, where would which would be when this would be back up for approval?

After that, we would do the kickoff uh meeting, which that would be with you know Matt Rentcher and his staff.

Um, you know, we obviously have to do uh uh construction trailer and place all these different things in different locations to get ready to do the project.

But as Edward said, we did get delivery on the screening machine a lot faster.

Thank God we ordered it way back in February.

Um, and now we're able to get that.

That'll be our first priority to get that installed right away.

Um the the long lead time things we are going to order um between June and August, and then we would start construction um in June, and then we uh we'll have all this completed by July of next year of 2026, and then we would begin our guarantee, which would start on August of uh 26.

So that's kind of the game plan.

Um, what is this gonna do for the city of Eloy?

Well, it's gonna help you proactively manage these assets that you have by proactive management.

Whenever you proactively address something instead of reactively, you actually save three dollars for every dollar because you're not having to fix things on an emergency basis, you're not having to you know do things you know around the the backway or whatever.

So it really is a good thing for the Eli to implement this because there are projects that have been needed now for you know quite some time.

Um the grants, you know, anytime you can get money of like four million dollars, that's a big thing to help you fund this project.

That's a nice way to help uh you know fund these projects, which we're also blessed to have that.

The energy efficiency, um, this will help your water operations there at the blue tank to be energy efficient, just like we applied to all the rest of your facilities.

Um, it's gonna help improve the wastewater operations um so everything will operate more efficiently, and also most importantly for the future, it's gonna future-proof your your weight water and wastewater so that as you grow with developments, whether it's residential developments or business developments, you'll have the infrastructure to support that.

Lastly, the the uh the shade protection for the you know, you know, those anything that you buy these days is very expensive.

And if you have to store them out in the sun and the sun bakes it, uh you know, I'm from Michigan.

I spent most of my career in Michigan, and you know, I haven't really experienced heat until I came out here in the summer.

I mean, this is real heat out here, but it dries out everything and the it shortens the life span of your equipment.

So being able to park things underneath shade is really a real benefit.

So that will help.

And then it will also continue this the city council and the city's uh commitment towards fiscal and environmental responsibility.

We're very excited to do this project as the government market lead government market leader for uh Vergy.

I want you to know that you have our personal commitment that we'll do an awesome job here on phase two.

And once again, I like to thank David Malowitz and all his team for all the support they gave us over the last several months of putting this together.

So if there's any questions, we'd open it up to questions at this time.

I'll start off with a quick question.

Probably for Ed.

How did that screen break?

That's that's a match.

We just had some Mr.

Mayor, we for that we just had some um some items that came into the wastewater treatment plant that shouldn't have been there, and probably a big rock came through and and ended up breaking the screen out.

And my second question is the sand in the blue water tank, is that just sediment from over the years?

It's partly that, it's partly from when we had the the issues with well three, it was bringing up a lot of sand, and well three is is the the closest well to our our pump station number two, so that's where a lot of it comes from as well.

Thank you.

Anyone on my left?

Go ahead, sir.

Uh I think there's good stuff.

I guess uh having come from a previous company that was involved in proactive maintenance on the side.

Uh question, are we unique?

Uh Eloy, the fact that you're doing this, have this been done a lot of other places.

And reason I'm asking that question.

It would seem to me that this is great material to present at maybe the league conference or something like that that other companies could follow this lead, and and uh some good stuff here for people at uh to market.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, that's an excellent point.

And we actually would like to do that with Eloy's support that once we finish this project to be able to do this.

I've done these types of pro like I've been with Vergy now for this is going on my fifth year, but I did these all the time when in my former company up in Michigan for 41 years.

I worked for Honeywell, and we did all these types of projects all the time.

And uh so we came down here and um now we've been doing them here.

We this is our uh this will be our fourth wastewater treatment plant project, but this is really getting into the you know the the meat and potatoes of of a wastewater operation when you start talking screening machines and belt filter press.

I mean, those are where the basically the it's the heart of the system, and you got to keep you got to take care of that heart for it to work well, and then what you're also looking at here is you know, trying to get the growth, and so you need to have the capacity and equipment that's working.

So both of those things together is makes an awesome opportunity for the city.

If I could just elaborate on that by some um council member, we're already putting a bug in the league's ear about the phase one project that we've done and the phase two project that we're working on with the hopes of if not making a presentation at at least a breakout session in this summer's league conference, we can at least get in the 26s.

Great.

That's where I was headed.

Yeah, thank you.

Um I just had a quick question about the solar panels.

Will the energy generated from the solar panels be used to support the wastewater plant?

And yes.

If you look at that slide, you see that red circle.

Those are like four pump motors that are there that are like 75 horsepower motors, and so right now you're buying that power from the utility company, and then these panels will basically offset most of that, so you won't have to buy that power from the utility company.

Mayor, thank you.

Um, I'm not sure if this is a Matt question or Brian question.

It's a about finance, the 12.4 million.

Um do we have any contingency dollars baked in there for any overruns or anything like that?

Or um if you get a lot of things, we will have Mr.

Mayor, Councilmember Vedrosco, we will have contingency built into our into our contract.

Okay, thank you with some of this funding.

Um, the the ARPA funding and the inflation reduction act.

Is this money that the city already has, or are we counting on the federal government with the change in um the leadership out there to give still give us this money?

Mr.

Mayor, Madam Vice Mayor, we already have that, it's already in our bank account.

Okay, thank you.

And then um the broken screening machine.

How long has that been broken?

Four months.

Okay, so not very long.

Not very long.

It's it hasn't, it's not like it's been years and years since it's been broken.

Once we realized that this was broken in our inspections, we immediately started the process of of identifying a replacement to get it manufactured so we could have it that so we could minimize the downtime.

Okay, and then the belt filter press sitting under tarps.

How long has that been sitting there not being used?

That one's been a little bit longer.

Uh we received delivery of that two years ago.

Okay, thank you.

That's all the questions I have.

And are we doing anything to make sure rocks don't get back in the new?

Okay, anything else from council.

That's my fault.

Okay.

Okay.

Well, thank you guys.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mayor.

Council.

Um Mr.

Mayor, sorry for the delay.

Uh, this next presentation that we have is is from the the WM team.

Uh we have them here with us.

They've been working with us on the transition from our current service provider to uh WM to begin next week.

Um they've they have a presentation.

We've we've been working with them since council decided to award the contract to WM for the Solid Race Saw and Hawing Services.

My team and the WM team have been working very, very well together.

Uh we have Miss Jennifer Wargo, she's the communications director for the Four Corners area.

Uh she has a presentation of of talking about some of what we have and some of what the next steps are and and some of what we've accomplished so far.

Um so without further ado, I'll turn that over to Miss Ms.

Bargo.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor, members of council and city management.

Um delighted to have the opportunity to come and talk to you about what we've been doing from a communications perspective.

And we have our most of our team here.

Uh let's see if I can here we have.

Uh Clark Landrum is the public sector rep who has been working very closely with the city on the contract.

He's unfortunately out of the country right now, but we have Carrie Hook, who's our senior district manager.

She oversees all of our operations in southern and central Arizona.

We have Armando Carrillo, who's the district manager who's going to be overseeing our new Casa Grande site when that opens next week, and managing all of the operations specifically for the city of Eloy.

And then I think you probably all know Carlos Arenas, who is the project manager who's been working hand in hand with the city staff, just trying to make sure all the details are attended to and that nothing gets missed.

So and there are a lot of other people behind the scenes, but these are the key players.

So uh as Matt mentioned, we've been working very closely with the city staff to try and communicate very clearly out to the residents.

And that started with a bill insert in April.

It was a short one, but it you know gave the information that we felt comfortable at the time, and then a longer one in May with typical FAQs trying to anticipate what residents would be interested in knowing.

So hopefully you guys also saw those in your utility bills.

Um the carts were delivered in May, and I think they've all been delivered to all the residents and businesses now.

And those cards were all delivered.

Uh oh, we have a little video.

I don't know.

We don't have going good.

How are you?

What's you doing here?

Uh we're delivering new cans for waste management.

Uh we got our regular trash and our service, and we're providing all the documents that they need to read about our great service that we're gonna be taking over for this new development.

And then we scan each can to make sure we get it to the right customer.

That's a bird's eye view of how the the cards are delivered.

Um, so as you mentioned, we did uh have uh cart tags on each of the cards, one for trash, one for recycling, letting people know where to place their cards, what's appropriate in your cards, and of course what's acceptable in recycling, and just reassuring folks that for the most part, very little is changing on what they'll see on the day today.

Of course, they'll have a different colored cart, but what they can put in it should remain the same and same service days.

We also created some social media posts, which you may have seen on the city's Facebook page.

They've been pushing these out again, just trying to keep the key information on the radar for everybody.

And then hopefully you all receive this at your home.

We mailed out a trifle brochure, should have arrived in the last week or two with the service details, including, of course, what's recyclable, and then um uh a link to the new website that we created.

So this isn't live, this is a screenshot, so it won't be quite as dynamic.

But we created a dedicated page on WM.com for ELIRE residents, and you can see it has like four tabs.

I would call it with the trash recycling, bulk pickup, and roll off scheduling information.

And each one talks about you know, basically the questions that most residents would ask when will my trash or recycling be picked up?

How do I prepare it?

When do I put it out?

What if I have a problem?

If there's heaven forbid a miss pickup, who do I call?

If I need a new container, who do I call?

So all that information is available to them.

Trash, same thing on recycling, very similar information, but of course, also with the list of what's recyclable and a warning about contamination.

We'd like to keep all the contamination out of the recycling carts.

Um bulk trash will remain the same third Thursday of the month, it just has to be scheduled in advance.

They can either schedule it through the WM website or they can call the city staff.

Either one works just fine.

We also have the bulk the additional bulk pickup for an added fee available.

And then scheduling a roll-off, and this also captures the additional resources that we have on the website.

So, you know, again, just the list of what's recyclable.

We'd like to be really clear with that, some safety tips, uh, the map with the um trash and recycling pickup schedule.

So all of that is available on the web page.

And uh starting June 1st, when the contract goes live, residents will also be able to go onto the website and put in their address and get their um resident specific information in terms of what their pickup schedule is.

So if they couldn't find it here, they'll be able to do that, but you can't do that until June 1st when the contract's actually active in the system.

So a couple more days, and they'll be able to do bulk pickup online as well.

So, in addition to pushing out these different communications, our team has been out and about trying to do in-person outreach.

Uh the team went to ropes and ranch, had some discussions there with the folks about what their interests were, were their concerns.

Uh, we're at the Cinco de Mayo event, which I heard was cloudy but well attended and very fun.

Um, also uh sponsor the chamber golf tournament, and we're sponsoring again this year the Eloic Low event this fall.

We sponsored that last year.

And then uh we're also open to any kind of outreach opportunities, including school outreach.

This is Armando pictured here, his famous trash truck dance.

He loves and go taking trucks to the schools and talking to kids with age appropriate information, just safety around trucks or what's recyclable or what's appropriate for that uh age group.

And then, of course, we're cutting the ribbon on our new facility in Casa Grande this Thursday.

We'd love to have you all there at 8 a.m.

Um we're very excited, and we will be uh servicing the city of Eloy from this new site.

So we're very excited about it.

Are there any questions?

Absolutely.

First of all, the recycle card, kudos to that.

Because it was always a gray area, especially for new residents who came to Eloy.

Well, what can I put in?

What can I not?

So kudos to that and having it on the website.

That's uh that's a wonderful thing.

Now I'm speaking for ropes and ranch here when I say they had smaller cans for the villas, and I know two people there who are handicapped for lack of a better term, and they had the smaller carts.

Are they available through phone call?

Can they get those?

Yes, I'd like to answer this.

So we we work with uh Christina, and we were gonna wait until we did all of the deliveries, and then we were gonna swap them out.

Yes, okay, great.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

All right.

Anybody on my right?

Go ahead.

So in um my neighborhood, which is a Toltec neighborhood, some of the streets right now, they only pick up on one side of the street.

So everybody who lives on the side that they don't pick up on brings our cart across the street.

Um, and it says on the cart just to put it in front of your house.

So I'm just assuming now they're going down both sides of the street, which everyone is really excited about if that's happening.

Well, that is good information for us with modeling here.

Yeah, and I can see why emergency services on one side of the other.

I think it's because in the past there wasn't very many houses, but that's changed now.

So I think everyone would be happy if it went on both sides.

So it if they just if it's okay just to put our carts in front of our houses, but you know, I've been asked that question, I didn't know the answer.

Excuse me, Mayor.

If we could have you please come up to the podium so we can make sure that you're recorded, that would be really helpful.

Oh, okay.

Thank you.

Sorry about that.

Yes, and if it's not a safety concern, we can definitely do both sides of the street.

So we'll look into that.

Um you have the specific address, maybe or Lisa.

All right.

I can confirm with Christina afterwards, but I think in the past it was a density issue, and I I don't know if that's so much the case anymore.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Curtis.

Anybody on my left?

I do.

Uh I didn't think about it earlier, but um council member Curtis reminded me.

If a resident has a specific issue to themselves, do we contact you, Armando?

Or who do we call?

Because I know when they brought out my trash cans, they left them on the road and my house does not face the road.

It's like two lots in.

Carlos, yeah, okay.

Yes, you could reach out to the city and then Christina would reach out to me and we will take care of that.

Okay, great.

And then the next one's for David.

Can we get that uh website link on our city page?

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Yep, that'll we'll put it on the main page to push it out for the initial month, and then we'll have it in with our um sanitation links also.

One more question.

I think this is for David.

Um, so I've been also asked this question, it sounds a little stupid, but it was about question.

Um, some people are saying what happens if um they a don't put out their brown carts this week, and they don't so they don't get taken away.

And I said, well, make sure to put them out, but that got me thinking that there might be some people who don't put their brown carts out just because they don't realize I'll address that um Mr.

Mayor Madam Councilmember.

Uh we are we put another post up on the social media site today to remind everybody to put their brown couns out so that they can be serviced and then collected by our current service provider.

If they don't, then what we'll do in in in the case of Robson Ranch, there are some seasonal residents who have already left.

They will come back, they and and when they come back, we will uh they will call our department, they will call our staff and and we will make a note of that, and then we'll go by and pick up the cans and then keep them in an in a location for uh waste connections to come by and pick those up.

It would probably be the same thing with the residents who forget to leave their cans out.

Oh, that number that they call, or in this case it could also be other people that are out of town.

Um, what's the number to call?

It's uh 520466 3082.

520463082.

Great, thank you.

My pleasure.

Just regarding the brown cans.

I've seen where they're driving and dumping, they're putting all the cans over there off date and sunshine.

That's a dusty mess over there.

So you might we might ask we'll reach out to them for dust control.

Okay, thank you.

But it's a dirty mess.

It they're running big large trucks over that dirt lot, and it's a lot of dust over there.

Understood.

We'll we'll we'll make sure that we address that.

If there's nothing further from council, thank you guys.

Thank you for very much.

Okay, that brings us to item number seven, 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 unless a council member requests and which event that item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda.

Does any council member like anything removed?

Mayor, I'd like to have the item D just for uh couple questions.

Okay, so do I have a motion to approve consent agendas items A, B, and C at this time?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

May I have a roll call, Madam Clerk?

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember Varasca?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, item D.

Matt, a couple questions.

Uh this pump being replaced.

Uh say Sulserbingham.

Is this a direct replacement for the pump at fail?

This is uh, and I was just curious if since we have uh Vergy involved with our waste treatment and our activities, have you consolidated or have they been involved in what size pump or what brand pump we put in this time?

Mr.

Mayor, Councilmember Snyder, no, this is a like for life replacement.

So we're just replacing with the same existing size that we have, same brand, just to make it consistent with everything else that we have across through our other lift stations.

Was there any capacity of that pump?

I mean, are we doing anything that might be uh stretching the capacity of that pump in the future?

I'm just thinking how how old are those pumps now?

Are we just putting a one for one in it?

Should we be looking maybe upgrading the pumps at all?

The pumps that we have in there now are are enough to um meet the needs right now.

They they also have an additional um additional capacity for for additional growth we could use without without going to the next size pump up.

Okay, thank you.

That's just I just wanted to be sure that as we're increasing things, let's just keep an eye on where we're headed and we thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh Matt, I have a question.

Um, there were two quotations uh from Phoenix Pump Sync um.

One was for the uh relate uh replacement of and and a new pump at the Sunland Gin lift station, and then the second quotation was for uh parts and labor and repair of the pump at the Toltec lift station.

I saw that on that second quotation there was a note uh saying that it also included the install price of the pump at the Sunland Gin, but in looking in the detail, I didn't see a line item on there to um actually call out the actual cost of that installation.

I was wondering if you had that information because I looked at the two quotes.

New pump was 31,700 change, and then the second quote for the labor cost repair was almost the same amount, 31,931 dollars.

And just wondering what the cost of the install and the new pump since both of those quotes are pretty similar.

Why aren't we just putting in a new pump instead of repairing?

Understood.

Mr.

Mayor, Councilmember Vedroska.

The the the installation cost is included in the new pump.

Excuse me.

That 31,708 includes the install price.

Yes.

And the reason why we're doing it a replacement for that one, it's it's beyond repair.

And so we need to get a brand new pump.

Well, to replace it or to repair it would be almost as much as to buy a brand new pump.

Okay.

But we're repairing the the pump at the Toltec lift station, correct?

That's that second.

Because that one is still repairable.

But the cost to repair it is almost the same cost as the um install and purchase of a new pump.

Okay, I see your point, and I see the concern.

Um if if I may restate the question, why are we buying a new pump when the cost to repair the pump at the lit at the tall tech lift station is almost as much as a new pump for the Sun of Gin?

Is that correct?

That's correct.

Okay.

Yes, and in this one with the Toll Tech lift station pump, um, the new pump is actually quite a bit more expensive because it's a it's a larger pump.

Okay, thank you.

Anyone else on council?

Okay, at this time I'm gonna look for a motion to approve agenda item D.

Mr.

Mayor, I'll make a motion we approve item D.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Roll call, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember Vadraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you, Mayor Matt.

That was very clear.

Okay, that brings us to item number eight.

Business possible discussion and or action on the following.

Item A.

Discuss discussion and consideration of approving an encroachment permit agreement between the City of Eloy and 301 AK 8ME LLC for the installation of an underground electrical infrastructure within the city right away to support the Kit Solar Utility Scale Solar Installation near the intersection of 11 mile corner road and Milligan Road authorizing the mayor to execute necessary agreements.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

This item is being brought to you, similar to some that have been brought forward the most recent one in 2001.

This is for the Kitt Solar Project and their infrastructure to allow for a permanent installation and permanent crossing and 11-mile corner road.

We have the agreement reviewed by and approved by the city attorney.

Thank you, Matt.

Does anybody have any questions for Mr.

Kevin Johnson?

Go ahead, sir.

I'm back.

This is for a solar project.

And of course, these solar projects are in line with SRP APS or whatever stuff.

What happens to this uh agreement if the they don't get that connection or this project does not take place?

Is this uh agreement could uh contingent upon that or if uh that this agreement stays in place uh no matter what happens to that uh solar form?

It's my understanding that this and that this agreement is contingent on the successful completion of the project.

If the project were not to move forward, then then I believe the agreement would be no and void.

Mr.

Cooper could probably elaborate on that further mayor, council members.

Um as your city engineer pointed out and public works director that basically that this is a license and it becomes operative when they get on our right-of-way.

And the thought process for doing this is basically you're using city property and that there should be a fee for that service because that's basically a use of property that belongs to the public.

So if we approve this agreement and nothing happens, they're not gonna be writing you a check.

But once they basically start and get in the encroachment area, they're gonna pay us and they're gonna pay us even if they lose contract, and they'll have to pay us until they remove the improvements from the encroach, you know, from from our right-of-ways.

I think that cleared it up.

So this is not uh a right-of-way approval.

This is a license to use our right-of-way approval uh right-away, is that correct?

Yes, that the the right-of-way in this case is the public right-of-way that the city has for these roadways.

And um, as a point of reference, you've already approved one of these for another for another solar vendor out in that area, and this one follows that same format and has the same charges involved.

Yeah, being a license clears it up in my mind.

Thank you.

Go ahead, sir.

Thank you, Mayor.

Just uh informational um question.

Uh in that right-of-way that's existing now.

Um, are there any um utilities in in infrastructure currently in there?

We do have electrical lines, we have gas lines, and we have some other um utilities, gas solar and on like we mentioned in from the previous agreement.

Okay, so there is still um room for growth and there's still capable.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, that sounds good.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you.

Okay, at this time, I'd like to get a motion to approve item A, which is discussion and consideration of approving of approving an encroachment permit between the City of Eloy and 301 AKME L L C.

Do I have a motion to approve A?

I make a motion to approve uh item A.

Do I have a second?

No second.

Madam Clerk, may I have a roll call, please?

Councilmember of Oraska.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

No.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you.

Okay.

That moves us now to item B.

Adopt resolution number two five-1615, appointing Brian Wright, Finance Director as the designated authorizing agent to submit the annual expenditure limitation report as the Chief Fiscal Officer for the City of Eloy for the year 252.

Hello, Mr.

Wright.

You're getting used to that podium, right?

Last week, this week you my feet are a little I'm my legs are in better shape than last week, yeah.

So um, yeah, Mr.

Mayor, members of the council.

Um tonight's just more of a housekeeping item each year uh per Arizona revised statutes of city or county.

Um they need to present uh to the auditor general the name of the individual that would be submitted in the annual expenditure limitation report to them.

So um this is just a housekeeping item that we do once a year.

We send this report and upload it to the auditor general.

So thank you.

Any questions?

Okay, do we hear a motion to read by title adoption of resolution two five-1615?

Mayor, I'll make a motion to read by title only, resolution number 25-1615.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries, Madam Clerk.

Resolution number 25 16 15.

A resolution of the City of Illoy, Arizona, Mayor and City Council of the City of Eloy designating the chief fiscal officer for officially submitting the fiscal year 2025-2026 expenditure limitation report to the Arizona Auditor General.

Do I have a motion to approve resolution 25-1615 as presented?

As read.

Do I have a second?

Second.

May I have a roll call, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember of Audrasca.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

On to item C, adoption of resolution number two five-1617, authorizing the notice of intent to increase rates and charges for water system.

Yes, uh, Mr.

Mayor, members of the council.

This item and the next one are pertaining to the same thing, but the first item, which is um resolution 251617.

This is uh a doc authorizing the notice of intent to increase rates and charges for the water system.

So if you remember back on April 28th, uh Dan Jackson came, presented the um scenarios to the mayor and council for the water and wastewater.

Um at that time, you know, council said you know, yeah, you know, they they did uh they would support maybe that that number two, but you know that was just the initial step.

The the step that uh we must take now is to adopt a notice of intent in the adopting of the notice of intent does not mean we're increasing rates at all.

It's just by law, we have to do a notice of intent.

It starts the process where we have to post this for 60 days on August 11th.

Dan Jackson would come back, do a presentation during the public hearing at that time.

Uh the public's allowed to speak on it.

A copy of the rate study will be put uh in the city's clerk's office.

We'll also have one, you know, at the library in case somebody wanted to view it.

But at the after the public hearing, then we would bring um you know uh if council wishes it will be an agenda item that night to adopt you know one of the rates, uh the scenarios.

So really uh the notice of intent that is for you tonight for that resolution is nothing more than just the start of the clock that we have to meet per the Arizona revised statutes for the the timing of this.

So that's what resolution uh 251617 is before you tonight.

Thank you, sir.

Do I have any uh questions or comments from Mr.

Wright?

That was easy.

Okay, do I have a motion to read by title only adoption of resolution 25-1617?

So moved.

All second all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed motion carries?

Resolution number 25, 1617, a resolution of the mayor and council of the city of Eloy, Arizona, constituting a notice of intention to increase rates and charges of the potable water system for the city.

Do we have a motion to approve resolution number two five one six one seven as presented?

Mayor, I make a motion that we approve resolution twenty five one six one seven as presented.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Roll call, madam clerk.

Councilmember Varasca.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider?

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you.

Okay, now on to item D, adoption of resolution number 251616.

Authorizing another of intent to increase rates and charges for waste water systems.

Mr.

Wright.

Yes, Ms.

Mayor, members of the council.

Uh, this is now the uh wastewater portion of the notice intent.

Uh again, this is not increasing rates just posting it, meeting the guidelines set forth in Arizona revised statute uh with a public hearing date set for August 11th, 2025.

Any questions for Mr.

Wright from council?

Okay.

Do I hear a motion to read by title only adoption of resolution 2516 16?

So moved.

Do I have a do I have a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed say nay?

Motion carries.

Resolution number 25 1616, a resolution of the mayor and council of the city of Eloy, Arizona, constituting a notice of intention to increase rates and charges of the wastewater system for the city.

Do we have a motion to approve resolution 251616 as presented?

Mayor, I'll make a motion to adopt resolution number two five one six one six as presented.

Do I have a second?

Second.

May I have a roll call, Madam Clerk?

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Torango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Barraska.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

See that brings us to the end, but we're not over yet.

Because we're going to shift into reverse for one quick second and go back to the question about the funds left in the taxes, the tax road tax.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um, yes, Councilman Snyder, the the RTA, the Pennell Regional Transportation Authority has to date refunded approximately 35 million dollars of the more than 80 million collected from the regional sales tax.

274 refund requests have been submitted and 224 approvals have been issued.

So 35 million dollars of the I think it was around 88 million dollars that we collected has already been refunded.

Goodbye.

And of course, it was going to be refunded back to the businesses who paid it.

But then there was some discussion about the remaining money.

And how was that going to the county?

Was that gonna go in the state general uh account?

And that's why I was asking the question.

Has that been resolved now that definitely will come back to the county?

Yes.

So what'll happen is that's why the Penal Regional Transportation Authority did not disband when this judgment had been done.

Is to stay in they had to stay in um uh stay resolved, stay as a board so that whatever monies remained after the disbursement period would go back to the Pennell County RTA for them to disperse towards the project funds that it was originally intended to go towards.

So whatever's left, then they'll go through a reprioritization process where you look at these projects and determine which ones will get funding with that remaining money.

And the whole time that money is there, it is still earning interest when it was the 80 million.

I believe it went up to 85 million, so it's a big chunk of change.

All right, are you good on that?

Okay.

Well, this brings us to our fave report.

Do we have a motion to adjourn?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, say nay.

Thank you, everyone, for coming.

Have a safe trip home.