Hello?

Can you hear us?

Can you hear us, Sarah?

Yes, now I can.

Awesome, thank you.

Thanks, Dan.

I appreciate it.

Good evening.

Welcome to the Eloy City Council meeting.

Today is Monday, June 9th, 2025.

The time is approximately 6 PM.

Madam Clerk, may I have a roll call?

Councilmember Badraska?

Here.

Councilmember Curtis.

Here.

Councilmember Schneider.

Here.

Councilmember Garcia?

Present.

Councilmember Galindo?

Here.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Here.

Mayor Sutton.

Here.

All right, at this time, I'm going to ask everyone to please rise for the moment of silence and the Pledge of Allegiance.

But for our moment of silence today, we would like to keep Apache Junction police officer Gabriel Fasio and his family in our thoughts.

On the morning of June 2nd, Officer Fascio responded to a call and was injured in a gunfight.

Fascio, age 46, passed from his injuries yesterday.

So said, but it is a reminder of the dangers faced by police officers keeping our community safe.

So please keep his thoughts and famil his family in your thoughts and prayers, and tonight's Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Councilwoman Galindo.

And to the Republic for which it's one nation on her God.

Still it's a great step forward for regional services.

Thank you, Dan, to you and your staff for pulling everything together.

That was a tremendous tremendous presentation.

Did really well.

On Friday morning.

Council members and city staff attended the DePenal Partners Breakfast in Robeson Ranch.

The topic was education and the growing need for child care.

Something that's just not hitting Eloy, but it's hitting the entire country.

And it was a very important conversation, and a lot was gathered from that.

And just a reminder, raising kids really is rocket science.

Later Friday, which was also known by many people as D Day.

To support our troops put over 600 flags along the roadways at Robeson Ranch.

These are 10 foot flags.

We put over 600 of them.

At around 4 30 in the afternoon, myself and others have the honor of helping pick up said 600 flags, and we put them into pickup trucks.

Well, unloading the trucks, I noticed there was an Eloy Police Department pickup truck in the line with a bed full of flags.

So I walked over and I asked the officer, I said, Hey, what's going on?

And he goes, Man, it is hot out here, and I couldn't just sit by and not help you guys.

That's the kind of community spirit that we are proud of.

A big shout out to that officer, and thank you for showing us what real service looks like.

He lifted the spirits up of all the volunteers that were there.

He chatted with us for about 10 minutes, got in his truck, and left.

But his impact was so large, he has no idea how large his impact was.

Then on Saturday morning, brought the community yard sale to the park.

It was small, but it was good.

Bargains and treasures were found, and a lot of plants were sold.

This woman sold a lot of potted plants Saturday morning.

Later that day at the park, the Eloy Police Department hosted their family picnic and cookout.

It was a big success.

Great food, great company, and great to see people who work so hard just relaxing and enjoying an afternoon in the park.

That was just just so good.

Finally, on Saturday night, we got to roll the dice at the casino night, hosted by the Eloy Chamber of Commerce at Robeson Ranch.

Council members Galindo, Bob Rosca, and I, along with City staff, were all in, literally.

The event finite benefited the Santa Cruz Visitors Center and was a whole lot of fun.

And I learned I'm much braver with fake money than real money.

And I I got some my strategy needs some work, man.

It just ain't good.

So that's it for mayor announcements.

Do we have any council member announcements on my right?

Yes, I do, uh Mayor.

And if you give me a moment to indulge me, um I thank you.

You've covered about everything that I've been at in the last two weeks as well, but I wanted to take a moment.

Um I'm a newbie to the uh city council, and I just realized it's been six months and it's gone by so quick.

So I just wanted to say a couple moments of reflection.

Um it wasn't, or I should say it was probably everything that I expected, but more.

Um the six months working with my fellow council members, the city staff.

Um, it's been an eye-opener to say the least, and I really have enjoyed it.

I I couldn't uh have asked for a better uh bunch of people to work with.

Um, City Council as well as this uh city staff.

There's uh a lot to be done, and um we're not just kicking things down the road, we're getting those things done, and uh I think that's something that we should all be proud of.

I I am very thankful for the uh uh public and the citizens who elected me.

It gave me this opportunity to uh you know share part of myself with the city as well as uh give back my knowledge, and uh just wanted to say thank you to all of you.

Thank you, council member, and like I said on our radio show, it's an honor to have you here.

We're lucky to have you, sir, without a doubt.

I agree.

Well, um, besides uh um thank you, Councilmember Vado Vidroska.

Um, I I truly appreciate working with you as well.

I I've gotten to know you.

You're you have so much to give to the city, and you're willing to give it.

So thank you for that.

Um I just wanted to thank the parks and rec department because um when I met with city staff, I said that um a lot of the evening programs were on Monday nights, and I'm never available on Monday nights.

But they did uh open up a water aerobics class on Tuesdays and Thursdays and on Saturday mornings, and I signed up and our pool is just gorgeous and refreshing, and you know, the camaraderie was wonderful, and our young staff is just doing an amazing job keeping us older folks active.

So good job to them.

Uh thank you, Bear.

I'd like to echo some of the things you talked about at the uh Pinel Partnership.

Uh the panel was very good.

The panel included the uh CAC, the uh director of CAC, uh big employers like Lucid LG and the mayor of uh Superior was there representing uh uh resolution copper.

And I missed somebody, but anyway, it was very interesting in what uh uh their future needs were in education as far as industry.

They all talked about skill sets and talked about not necessarily needing a college degree, but uh bringing back uh some of the old uh apprenticeship programs, whether it be pipe fitters, electricians, things like that that we're really in need for now and getting uh the trades, I guess, and getting students interested in the trades.

So one of the things they talked about also was uh the energy people talked about the skill sets of uh communication.

Uh they talked about one of the problems they have with uh students today is this too much this and not enough interaction with each other, and they miss that in the when they go to on a job.

Yeah, and so uh how we can get around that.

But uh that was nice discussion.

The other thing they pointed out, what co they asked a question, you know, question was asked, what can we do to help that?

And the comment was get involved and go to the school board meetings.

We said that's one of the things they would really like to see as people to get more involved in school board meetings, what goes on there, and have some input into what uh our future education is going to be.

So I guess I wanted to point that out because I thought that was one of my takeaways.

Thank you.

Yeah, one of the takeaways to your point with the three H's they were talking about at the uh for the college level.

The three H is when somebody comes out like with a or with a trade, they learn a trade.

The three H is a highly trained, highly marketable, and highly paid.

And that's a goal that they're looking for.

And I I think that's a great goal to have as a school to put out a product like that.

Okay, anybody else?

Ms.

the city manager.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor, voice mayor, members of council.

Uh, just a couple of things on my agenda for tonight.

Uh recap real quick on Saturday's Spay and Neuter Clinic.

We held that behind the police station while the barbecue and the community event was going on.

Highly successful.

Over 20 animals were spayed and neuter.

So we're looking forward to continuing this into the next fiscal year.

Police department is in communication with AZ Vet Direct about hosting quarterly clinics beginning in 25-26, pending scheduling and capacity.

So big thank you to AZ Vet Direct for making that time to come down Spay and uh neuter our animals, those were by appointment only.

Also Pennell County Animal Care and Control.

And um, let's see, we had special thank you to Melissa Browning, the office manager and Dr.

Schneider and Deputy Director Christina Rodriguez.

So thank you for all those folks.

Trisha with support services is just rock star.

She's uh knocking it out of the park with this new promotion.

So she helped organize that, keep everybody in order, um, offer restrooms at the police station if anybody needed to, they had water and whatnot there too.

So another great event for Spay and Newton, and we're gonna continue that on, keep that momentum going into this next year and with the vouchers that we've talked about, Vice Mayor.

So there was no charge for those, right?

No, it was a free event.

You just had to have a voucher or register and register with the Pennell County Animal Control beforehand.

Yep.

And uh during the event, Drum and I actually helped walk a lady over, and she was really thankful for that.

She had a little Chihuahua puppy, and just you know, it was a hot day, but it's so it was it was really cool to see that.

I have a question.

Sure.

So um during this, were uh the police department uh tagging and licensing the pets.

Like were they uh no that's uh no, they were at the that the barbecue that was this was just Spain Newter Clinic only.

Yep.

Um anything else on that one?

Well, we're we're gonna keep it up.

PD is one of their top priorities coming in, so we'll we'll keep it going.

Um speaking of keeping it going, as uh council member Glindo mentioned, the Parks and Rec department is knocking it out of the park as well.

They've got a lot of team events that are being planned for this upcoming summer.

Uh so keep a lookout on all that.

Check the website, check the Facebook page.

They're gonna be posting when those events are happening.

So for parents that are out there and have teenagers, make sure to register them.

And then as a reminder, we've got a special meeting, June 26th, 5:30 p.m.

to approve our budget.

So be there at 5:30.

It'll be a quick meeting for those for the new members.

Um, this meeting is usually about 20 minutes.

Register in, approve the budget, and good to go from there.

Lastly, on my updates is related to the general plan.

Uh, you'll see I put everybody's seat with Eloy Talks.

So, one of the programs that we're doing on Saturday, June 21st from 2 to 3:30, right here in City Hall in the Atrium.

It's free, but you must register.

We got this great guy named Peter Kagagama.

I'm probably butchered it, but uh he's he's a distinguished author.

He's wrote a couple of books about loving your city, placemaking, um, what it means to create that synagery and that connection to where you live and how a city just elevates itself and becomes that destination zone.

So, as we continue to look at this general plan update, our folks with Logan Simpson were really instrumental in connecting with Peter and getting him to come out here and do this speech.

Uh, I've personally been involved in a couple in the past myself.

Um Mr.

Speck with walkable city was one of the ones that I've done, and they're phenomenal.

So I encourage the public that's listening that's here today, and all the council members, please you know, register for that, come on out.

We're hoping to get 100 people.

They're just really good events to listen to, hear from somebody that's an expert in the field, has been around the block a few times, no pun intended, to just uh steer that direction in the right path for us to move forward as a city.

And then speaking of general, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I have a question.

Yeah, is there any way you're gonna record this or it'll be on we're gonna do Facebook, so we'll have it on the timeline stamp so we can go back and re-watch.

Yep, that was a question we had as well.

Yeah, because I have a commitment already.

Oh, no worries.

Yeah, we'll have that.

Thank you.

No worries, yeah.

For those listening as well, if you can't make the event, while we encourage you to, um, it'll be on Facebook Live, so you'll be able to go back and check that out.

Uh, lastly, and as far as the general plan is going, we are full steam ahead with this program.

Community workshops are going to be starting in July.

So we're working with our consultant on that process right now, getting ready to release those dates to gather community input and keep moving this this process along.

And that, oh, lastly, as you all know, we wrapped up our transition with WM, formerly waste management last week.

We've got these really great brochures.

Uh, you know, Eloy services, new customer guide.

It's got information about collection services, recycling.

Um, these are gonna be part of the mailings.

Brian's working with them on getting these into our mailing, but we're also gonna have these trifolds are emailed out to residents as well because there's a PDF, but we're gonna have these trifolds all around the city.

We got little holders for library here, public works, everywhere we can get so folks come in doing business, they can grab one of these, take them home, stick it on their fridge.

We're gonna work with our neighbors in ropes and ranch to make sure that those are available as well to the extent that we can with Mr.

Taylor and go from there.

But again, we're still working through some last minute stuff.

Mr.

Rensher and and Christina are still working hard at making sure things are wrapped up on that end, but everything's been going smooth.

I'm sorry, I have a question on those.

Or actually a request on the on the trifles.

Yeah, can we get them in CARA and Panel Hispanic offices?

Sure.

It's usually some of our population I think doesn't come by here very often.

That's a great idea.

Yeah, we'll get those in there.

And with that, Mayor Voice of our members of council, that wraps up my announcements.

The next up is Chief Benales for his monthly update to city council.

Please state your name and where you live.

I don't know if you want to know that.

Good evening, honorable mayor, vice mayor, city council members, a city manager, city attorney, uh, city clerk, and a deputy city clerk.

Um, thank you for having me up here.

I appreciate you guys give me the time to uh address city council with the monthly updates from the PD.

Uh, first of all, I want to thank Captain Jerome for taking the uh grenade the first uh presentation last month because I was out to my daughter's graduation.

So he uh came up with the 32 pages, I believe he said to you guys that he had debrief you.

Um no, we don't have 32 pages, about yeah, two pages, two and a half, something like that.

Um so the purpose of this is just kind of keep you guys informed, keep the community informed to be transparent, uh, to highlight the work of the police department and just continue with that community collaboration and engagement.

Um so the things I want to be talking about today are some of the internal department updates or community engagement activities and some of the notable enforcement activities and key statistics uh from the PD.

Um, and now as I go through some of these uh key events and calls that we've gone on.

I have about three videos to show you very short videos highlighting the use of our drone, which is named Delta One.

Um, so you get the opportunity to see drone.

Hey, got a fan over here, all right.

Um, so when you see hear me refer to Delta One, that is our drone.

Uh first I'll start with some of our internal department updates.

Um, we've already talked about uh I believe talked about recruitment a little bit and getting some new people here to the police department.

We currently have some vacancies and we just had some interviews for lateral officers.

Um, so hopefully we can get some lateral officers here pretty soon after we complete backgrounds, also trying to fill one vacancy a dispatch.

We have a police officer trainee in the academy.

He's due to graduate in August.

And I would like to do open up recruitment as well for police officer trainee.

I just got some encouraging news the other day that there's a couple locals that are interested in being police officers and appear to be really good candidates.

Um, so I would really love to hire somebody from the city of Eloy to be a new police officer with us.

So we're gonna be um exploring that and see if we can get a qualified candidate from the city of Eloy, and then that person will start the academy in the fall.

Another thing is uh talked about promotions.

The mayor mentioned that already with the corporals, that's a great thing.

Um, we've been talking about installation and taking on the flock camera system.

I just want to give you an update on that.

Installation and integration process is ongoing.

Um, we do about half the cameras are installed now.

I think um we're gonna have a total of close to I believe 15 cameras.

Um, so right now we're still working on some of the integration with IT, and then we've been working on training with the officers to use that platform, which is gonna be a great great tool to the police department.

Not only do for the information and data that we're gonna get glean from Eloy, but also the data sharing that we're gonna get with other regional law enforcement communities.

Um, also we have two new vehicles to uh Chevy Tahoes that are in upfit right now.

So thank you to city management and city city manager and the council for supporting us on that with the equipment needs that we have, and also our director of finance Brian W back there uh for allowing us to get some vehicles that are really needed as we come in this heat 110 degrees plus.

It's nice that our officers have a cool office to work in 12 hours a day.

Uh, one of the things that we want to do with one of the vehicles, and I've already communicated with the Eloy Veterans Center is doing a military um veterans tribute wrap on one of our vehicles, um, and then one of the officer vehicles, and which that's gonna be dedicated to our veteran officers to drive.

Now, if a veteran officer is not on duty, that will be open for any officer to use, of course.

But that'll be a great way to connect with the community to take community events and to also have that connection to the uh Eloy Veterans Center.

I talked to um them about that, and they're all for it.

So we're gonna put a plug somewhere on that wrap, where they'd be the right, rear, left rear, or the rear of the vehicle with probably a skew to get more information about the Eloy Veterans Center.

So I think that's be a great way to connect with our veterans in our community.

Um I thank you, Mayor, for uh recognizing Officer Slaughter for helping out at uh Robeson Ranch for getting the flag.

So that's that was a great thing to hear.

Next thing I want to touch on our community engagement.

Um, this is for the month of May.

These reports will that I give uh the first meeting of each month will detail the activity from our prior month.

So this is all for May.

Um, we had the opportunity, officers and myself to go to the Arizona Peace Officer Memorial and also the Panao County Peace Officer Memorial.

And this is really relevant and timely.

Umfortunately, we've had a tragic event in Apache Junction with the with the loss of life with Officer Fasio.

Um, so it's very relevant that we continue to honor those families that are left behind and those officers that are still doing the job.

Also uh May 8th that we had a copy with the cop at Robeson Ranch.

That was an awesome event.

It was great to see everybody show up to that.

We had a great turnout, good coffee, great uh great snacks there as well.

Also, we provided security and attended the Santa Cruz Union High School graduation on May 21st.

We also coordinated with the Arizona Rangers to provide extra security.

So there was a great showing of security to provide you know some stability and sense of security for the event.

So that was awesome.

Also, with that, um, Eloy PD placed an ad in the Eloy Enterprise, congratulating graduating classes of 2025, and it included a safety message also from the PD.

Also, Eloy PD worked in coordination with Penal County Animal Care and Control to host a vaccine clinic, and we did it on April, I'm sorry, May 24th.

And I believe that was already mentioned.

And then lastly, we participated in the Memorial Day Wreath Lane ceremony at Eloy Memorial Park Cemetery.

That was a great event.

Many of you were there, uh, a lot of grid showing from the public.

And I have to give kudos to the Park and Red Community Services, um, director Paul Enchando for having um that uh cemetery in tip top shape.

It was awesome to go out there and it was beautiful.

Um next thing is going to be our notify enforcement activities.

Now I'd like to share a few of the ones from May.

On May 3rd, I'm going to read the caption first, kind of a summary of it, and then I'm going to open this up here.

Hope I can get to it.

And we will show you a video that will kind of detail what we're talking about.

Let's pause.

Okay.

May 3rd, officers responded to a residence to investigate a domestic violence incident and possible arson.

Eloy PD's drone, Delta 1 was successfully deployed to locate and take into custody individuals suspected of setting the fire in an occupied home.

Suspect had fled and hid under a pile of garbage at a nearby residence.

Delta 1 utilized a thermal imaging infrared camera system that detects temperature variation to contact the heat signature of people hiding or behind objects, hiding under or behind objects.

Utilizing Delta One's thermal imaging, the drone pilot was able to direct officers on the ground to where the suspect was hiding, where this and the suspect was taken safely into custody.

So if you watch this video here, you'll see the drone in action.

You see the dog in the backyard there.

Officers on the outside of the fence, and you'll see them starting to move and being directed to where the suspect sat.

They've made contact with them.

Now they're telling him to come to the fence line.

Suspects climbing out of the fence.

They had him at gunpoint.

Now they helped him off the fence into the ground.

So if you see in that, um, the officers obviously could not see on the other side of that fence line other than sticking their heads slightly over the fence.

So it was nice for the drone to be able to walk on in to where they could actually see him.

And plus it helped with the little dog back there, kind of probably showing barking at where they saw the action at.

I'm sorry, May 14th.

The department's drone, again, Delta 1 successfully used again to capture a person suspected of killing his girlfriend's dog.

Suspect also made threats against a former boyfriend and produced a social media video admitting to the killing of the dog with threats also to law enforcement.

On May 14th, detectives located the deceased K9 with an apparent gunshot wound.

Probably cause was established for the arrest, and the suspect was located.

Delta 1 used was used to watch and follow the suspect from his place of employment in the city of Eloy and guided officers to Circle K on Frontier, where he was contacted and taken into custody without incident.

The suspect was armed with two AK-47 rifles, a shotgun, and a handgun.

Suspect was transported to Penau County Detention Center for multiple felony charges.

So we'll watch this.

It'll be the next vehicle.

Next video here, I'm sorry.

Eloy PD is that black truck right behind it, and the drones guiding everybody in right now.

Officers are making contact.

See officers moving in.

Follow him all the way to the gas station.

We were able to get assisting units there to back him up.

So another great use of technology.

Next one on May 19th.

Unknown person called the school, Toltec school, and stated he had placed explosive devices around the school, and he was on his way to the school to begin shooting people.

Officers responded and established a unified command post with school administration and requested manpower support from Panal County Sheriff's Department and Department of Public Safety.

The DPS bomb squad was also requested.

The threat was received toward the end of the day and with school release pending.

Sheriff's Department and DPS assisted in establishing outer perimeter and show of force and assisted EPD officers in moving the students to the bus and parrot pickup areas.

No dangerous devices were located.

Detectives began investigating the source of the threats.

Once the school was cleared and the staff was removed, the school was turned over back to administration.

EV EPD officers again deployed Delta 1 to provide aerial surveillance and command control of the scene.

So here you can see maybe some areas that we would not have covered by officers that we could watch with the drone and direct resources to wherever we needed them.

Just another example of uh of leathering technology.

We don't have all the numbers of officers to put around a big school like that.

So it was nice to have the technology to do so.

And just another way to demonstrate our relationships for our surrounding communities, PCSO and DPS.

We embraced the call from H08 at the beginning of this incident.

And within 15 minutes of the call, this incident, 20 minutes of the call, we had 27 officers on scene.

So I think only five of those were Eloy.

Five or six of us were Eloy, the rest were DPS and PCSO.

And so it kind of comes to demonstrate how having a uh healthy relationship with our surrounding agencies as we help them when they call, when we call, they come help us.

And so it was very reassuring to the school staff, school administration, and parents that if they need help, we will we will come.

So that was awesome to see that.

So just an example if uh also with that that drone, how great those things are.

So moving on.

Lastly is gonna be a snapshot of our activity and some statistics here to kind of give you an idea of of how busy that we do stay.

Month of May, 1,138 calls were handled by communications for police and fire calls.

Police calls equaled 873 calls or 77% of the call load.

Fire accounted for 265 calls or 23% of the call load.

And 690 of the calls received were placed to the 911 line.

A lot of those are non-emergency calls, but a lot of people don't they just figure that's the fastest way to get officers or in law enforcement and response.

So they call 911.

So half of those could probably be non-emergency.

Um, but this goes to show you the the call load that our dispatch center does receive, even in uh little um area of Eloy.

So we do get a lot of calls.

Going down the list here, I have 153 investigations, incidents handled by officers, 137 civil traffic citations were issued, 19 traffic collisions were investigated, and as we relate to records and our support services, our records clerk received 289 public records acts requests.

So we do stay busy.

So with that, that kind of gives you a wrap-up and an idea of the activity from the police department for the month of May.

Um, from everything from internal activities, updates, you know, the crimes that were responding to, and then some of the support stuff that we're doing as well.

So with that, I'm opening any questions that you guys might have.

Well, first of all, thank you for the briefing, and thank you for bringing us into the fold and showing us the Delta One in operation.

It's impressive.

It is it really is.

It's uh it's very impressive.

I think everybody here can agree with that.

And the numbers at the call center are pretty impressive, too.

Yes, that's it.

That's a lot of incoming calls.

Does anybody have any questions on counsel?

Go ahead, sir.

Chief, uh the drone.

How quickly could you get that up in the air?

Your call comes in and you respond.

How quickly is that get up?

Um, there are some variables of that because we only have three or four officers that are drone pilot certified.

So it all depends if they are working.

Um, if they are working, we could probably get it up realistically within 10 to 15 minutes.

Question I had, and a lot of that comes from social media when you had the incident at Toltec School.

As always, the uh the parents.

Uh, just for the public and maybe for my uh uh not satisfaction but uh information.

What's the process when something like that happens?

When do you notify parents because they all want to rush to the school and get their kids and so what is the protocol there?

What happens in something like that?

Yeah, this that's very dependent, and that call is made by the school administration and school district.

That is not a call made by law enforcement.

Um, so we defer that to their protocols as far as when they decide they're gonna make that call.

A lot of times they may confer with us depending on what the what our operation is, and and we suggest that uh but we they will make the call when they're notified parents.

Yep.

Thank you, Chief, for your presentation.

Very good.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

I have a question about the flock.

Yes.

Um, I did notice some of them up there, and just uh wondering if if you're able to divulge when you think those will be operational.

Good good question.

Um it looks like now we should be able to go live sometime by the end of July.

Right now we're just waiting the full integration with IT, um the additional cameras to be installed and put up, and training of our officers to use the system.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Chief.

Um I guess we get that weekly missive from the city manager.

Maybe I didn't notice as much when I worked there, but it seems like we have a lot of collisions.

Do our collision numbers include private property collisions, or is are these all actual private property?

Right now I don't have the numbers in front of me to show differentiated ones on private property or not.

I believe the majority of our on public streets.

It just seems really high for I mean our area.

Yeah, I hear the I hear the radio, you know, a lot of them are very minor.

Yeah, um, some are moderate, and here and there we have a serious one, but a lot of them are just fender benders.

And if you notice uh, and I know you have Vice Mayor, some of our streets are are all at 45 degree angles and vision is kind of hard at some of these intersections.

Um so you see a lot of that.

Yeah, yeah.

And and then I just want to thank you.

Um, especially when it comes to the animal control, and now that I'm I'm very excited to hear that you guys are going to be um working more with um well, I guess Arizona vet direct, but you're gonna look at three times a year to bring that in.

Um I'm very appreciative of it because that's one of my big um issues here in especially Eloy proper and Toltec, because this is you know, obviously, where we have the largest issue when it comes to animals, but I'm glad to hear that and um just thank you.

And I'm glad to hear the flock cameras are gonna be up and running.

Thank you.

Because you can share with county and um all of our other partners that work with flock, so it'll be great.

Yes, we will definitely realize the advantages and benefits of that system since we get up, especially with sharing of the information.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chief.

Thank you.

All right, now we'll move on to item number seven, which is 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 in which events the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda.

Is there any council member would like anything pulled from the consent agenda at this time?

I'd like to pull item B for discussion.

Anyone else?

Okay, this time I'm looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda, except for item B.

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

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

Councilmember.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Vedrasca?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

And Councilmember Snyder.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Terengo.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Okay, it's time for item B.

Thank you.

Uh Dan.

The question I had had to do, nothing against the signs, but the support for the science.

And I was trying to pull up the uh the deviations on the size of the sign and the support for the science.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

Yeah.

Could you maybe can you pull that up by chance?

Councilman, if I may bring up the applicant with me, so I can we had it listed the uh the current uh regulation and what the deviation would be.

Correct.

I'm Jared with Associated Sign Company.

We are the applicant for the exceptional health.

Okay.

Down the corner of Mulligan there and the I-10.

Here to answer any questions you might have.

Okay.

That's not the one I was thinking about, Dan.

It was in the packet.

I was trying to pull the packet here.

Are you talking about this?

PDF doesn't come up.

We're talking about this big one right here, sir.

No, no.

Deviation form.

It was a it was a table that showed what the current uh I have it.

There it is.

We're looking at it right here, sir.

Yes.

Yes.

I was looking at uh on item the second one, not so much in the height, but the pylon sign 385 square feet.

And for uh it seems like we're going from uh a lot of a lot bigger sign with less support for it.

Is that true?

So it's actually just a different kind of support.

These are two poll supports.

Um we've submitted engineering through reverence engineering to show that the sign is compliant with current engineering standards for 20 uh 22 with winds that go up to I believe 115 miles an hour.

So the design of the monument is shown this large 50-foot pylon here shown, is compliant with all current engineering standards and have engineered letters and calculations signed off to show that this design does provide proper safety.

That that was my concern.

It just seemed like there was a big deviation from our current uh ordinance to what uh was being requested.

And uh my concern was okay.

Yeah, the wind, we get the micro bursts, we get uh some of the uh monsoon season winds, and I was just curious at about the uh strength, but you're saying that it's a different type of uh structure, and that's just uh really because it's see if noticed down the difference we're only at 21 percent total as opposed to uh well nine percent as opposed to 21 percent.

That is correct.

If you look at a few of the other monuments in the area, especially the Loves Monument that is kind of right next door.

Um that monument is a single post, and we are proposing dual posts.

So the single post does provide the same amount of stability and structural support as when it comes to engineering.

However, this size sign and the design do require a dual post, and this does reduce the wind load on the both of the top cabinets because it's split between both of those posts.

Like I said, it uh alleviates my concern.

I just saw the big deviation.

I'm thinking, oh bigger sign, and we don't have the support for it at all.

We get the wind, so that's just okay.

So uh sounds like uh you've considered it.

To adjust one additional part is that the sign itself, the sign faces are not made of a um rigid material, it's more of a fabric material, so that way wind does pass through there and is able to light all of that, so it's not a giant sail getting ready to fly off.

I completely understand.

Exactly.

Okay, are you good?

Okay, for consent agenda.

At this time, I'm looking for a motion to approve item B from the consent agenda.

I'll make a motion we approve item B.

Do I have a second?

Okay.

All right, roll call, please.

Council Member Snyder, yes, Councilmember Garcia.

Yes, Councilmember uh Galindo.

Yes, Councilmember Badraska, yes, Vice Mayor Tarango, yes, Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

And Councilmember Curtis.

Yeah.

Thank you guys.

Okay, we'll go to item number eight.

Business and possible discussion and or actions on the following.

First up is a approval of a guaranteed energy service agreement between the city of Eloy and Vergy Energy Services LLC.

Construction for water, sewer waste and cape.

Wastewater capital projects and authorizing the city managers assign necessary documents.

Mr.

Rencher.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor, members of the council.

Good evening.

Uh, this item is being brought to you as a follow-up from the previous meeting, the previous meeting where we had the presentation from Verjee explaining what the projects were.

Uh, we worked with Vergi in the past on several projects, and we've been pleased with their results.

They have the capacity to help us to complete five major projects from our capital projects.

Uh, one of these is is included the the rehabilitation of our pump station number two, which has been uh we've been trying to move that forward um for for several years.

Uh one of the other major projects that we have with this one is the extension of the 11 mile corner sewer line, which will open up our our our community for development for growth and development.

Uh Vargy has has gotten together with some of their subcontractors and they put together bid packages, reviewed the bid packages.

Uh they're bringing a total prize to us with the cons uh with the contract to manage these projects at a cost not to exceed 12.8 million dollars uh to be paid from different funding sources that we have for our capital projects.

Uh these projects are all greatly needed in our community, and and like I said, we we're confident that Verigi can help us to get these projects moving forward and across the finish line and actually built.

Uh, we do have representatives from Verjee here to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you, sir.

Any questions from council?

Go ahead, Mr.

Vodraska.

Matt, thank you.

Um just something I might might have missed or in here, and I couldn't agree with you more that uh these projects are definitely needed.

Uh we can't expect to grow without our infrastructure being in proper order, right?

That's great.

Um I think I missed it, but maybe you can tell me or not.

Um, one of the project items was the repair of of the discharge pipe at the uh wastewater treatment plant, approximately 400,000.

And then there was document documentation below as to what was going to be covered, and I didn't quite see that in there.

I just want to make sure we're not missing that, or is it being covered by another project, or is it being combined within one of those other it's being combined with with the with the other projects for the bar screen?

The bar screen is on the front end of the headworks, the discharge pipe is on the back end of it.

So when we were doing the preliminary analysis, and we we found it, and we we realized that that the discharge pipe was was in worse off condition than what what we initially anticipated.

So we're lumping that in with that project.

Great.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Any questions, comments, concerns?

I see you guys working over here.

I'm actually coex.

All right.

All right.

So at this time, I'm looking to get a motion to approve item A authorizing the city manager to sign necessary documents with Veriji.

Mayor, I make a motion that uh we approve as read.

Second.

Second.

Madam Clerk may have a roll call, please.

Councilmember Vedrasca.

Yes, Councilmember Curtis.

Yeah.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Council Member Snyder.

Yes.

Yes.

You got it?

Yes.

It's not coming out of the way.

Vice.

Oh, sorry.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

That's okay.

Mayor Seton.

Yes.

Thank you very much.

Okay, that moves us to item B, which will be city council consideration and approval of three new job classifications accounting specialist lead street sanitation superintendent and senior planner for inclusion in the city's salary plan as recommended by HR, known compensation and classification review.

These additions with planned organizational growth ought to be intended to support effective service delivery.

Anyone here to present that?

Mr.

Mallowitz, go ahead.

Thank you, Mayor.

Members of council.

Um, I'm stepping in for Miss Sylvia Lopez.

She was absent today to go through her agenda item.

So, as mentioned in the the mayor's description, this is a continuation of our efforts in the city to create a more fair equitable and growing workforce.

As we continue to evaluate positions within departments, we realize that we need different positions, higher level skilled positions to manage the workload that's being done.

Most recently, we approved uh council had approved the new positions for the police department, which have been working out phenomenally.

So, as we continue to delve in with other department heads and work with them on their needs, these three positions uh came about to be added into the salary plan.

The accounting specialist lead, street sanitation superintendent, and the senior planner.

The accounting specialist lead is a position higher level position within finance department to basically provide oversight of the front office clerical staff to assist the finance director, Mr.

Wright with high higher level um budgeting and finance documents, preparation workflow and reports.

The street sanitation superintendent is for the public works under Mr.

Rentcher and his deputy Refucio Gallegos, and this person would be handling the workload of both managing the streets team and the sanitation team.

So within public works, we have the different divisions.

We've got the streets division, you've got the sanitation division, water, wastewater, um, and fleet.

So Mr.

Gallego is the deputy public works director.

He currently oversees all those operations.

And um, so this would help him manage that workload.

I mean, promote somebody to a higher position, taking on two divisions rather than one, and ensuring that all that works conjointly together and creates a more seamless workload for everybody.

I think I did a good job with that, Matt.

Matt's yeah.

Oh man, the last one is a senior planner for Mr Umer in community development.

As you all know, we are just getting hammered with with plans and people wanting to do business here in the city of LA, which is great.

We love it, but we do have a need for that higher technical level skilled positions, and that's that's where the senior planner steps in.

Uh the senior planner at this point isn't eliminating any positions, it's adding a new position that we don't have in the budget.

So within Dan's hierarchy, and now you'd have Mr.

Simer as a community development director.

The senior planner, if approved tonight, would be the next level for succession planning to help out in his absence.

You have a planner, and then you have the permit tax, code enforcement, building officials, etc.

Um, but again, just can't stress enough that this is a need that Mr.

Simer has saw in his department over the last year, plus that he's been with us to be able to step in, take that higher workload that you would expect in the senior planner position.

But also if Dan's absent on vacation, he likes to go to Hawaii quite a bit.

They would be able to step in and take over and and do Dan's job in the interim while he's out.

Um Ms.

Uh Lopez consulted with our our team, HR No Consultants that we've been using for our compensation classification studies and came up with the new job descriptions that were presented in the packet along with the new grade plans for consideration tonight.

And that's it.

I'll I'll be happy to answer any questions that council has at this time.

Thank you, sir.

Any questions from council, Mr.

Vodrotzka?

Thank you, Mayor.

Um I do have a couple questions.

Um, and I do appreciate that you're have some forward thinking here and planning for um needs and expansion.

Um and I think I understood you correctly that these three job titles, if filled, would be reporting directly to the director of their respective uh departments, or is it different in the case of public works?

Different in the case of public works.

That person would report to the deputy public works directory.

Okay, okay.

Um and maybe Dan might be able to answer it if you don't sure.

I'll just put it out there.

Um the senior planner position.

Would that be um helping to alleviate the need for a lot of the outsourcing that is currently happening uh for the review of complex projects?

Because I understand uh you know, there are quite a few projects coming in, and I understand some uh of those projects are being outsourced.

Um just wondering if this position would be one that would be kind of uh alleviating some of that need.

I obviously there's some real complex uh projects that would probably still need um that outsourcing.

Mayor members of the council, councilman for Issues and no.

The most of our outsourcing is currently in our building code review.

Okay, so uh we're you know, we've had a time period where we go up and down with uh our workload and uh filling in these positions, filling in the work that's different.

Is you know, we're getting into a level of complexity that the city hasn't had before, nor has they experienced.

Um we had a couple applications this past month, or two of them actually where I spent over 60 hours apiece on them.

That's that's a lot uh for even an application, and that's all that's mostly because in the past people have gotten away with it.

Um there were things in those applications that uh wouldn't normally be picked up by someone that hasn't had that experience.

And uh fortunately, I've been all over and and I've had you know do five, six thousand acres at a time, so it's not hard for me.

But um it's got to the point where I do have to start outsourcing because it's over the last, especially last couple months.

I have not been able to spend the time needed with the other divisions.

So and we really need to start focusing on those and code enforcement and with the recent loss of our building inspector.

Um really need to actually focus more on what the director job is instead of doing the planning work.

So that answers I do have just a quick follow-up um and I don't know if this is sure or Brian or or yourself.

Um do you guys have any idea how much um your spending on outside contractual services?

The this year, I don't know the the total for last month yet.

Um we budgeted for 120,000 dollars for outside services plus another 50 for um gold bond.

We're probably hit a hundred or probably we'll probably exceed 120,000 this year.

Uh mainly because our our fees went up last year.

We were almost four years behind, not actually longer on updating our fee schedule.

Um we if you take into our general plan and some of the other work that we have, we've done outsourced other types of work that uh either I don't have the special specialization in like historic preservation, I have enough to get us through a certain point, but to do the research and the reports that are necessary, like we just finished a report on the dust bowl.

Um the dust bowl was thrown down for it in the beach saved, but we did do uh I would call a letter report, documents the history of it.

We now have that history for future generations of when that billing comes.

Those type of services have been outsourced.

Um other types of uh professional services, you know, our landscaping.

We have a three land, three or four landscape contractors.

You know, it's not something I do or the code enforcement does, but we have spent more money this year than we have ever have in abatement process and cleaning up the city.

Um I foresee next year, and it's almost like the next item on the agenda.

We have significant needs for these larger projects, but they're up and down.

So it is better to outsource certain things because we may not have that need six months from now, and then we have somebody because I uh honestly I've been concerned about bringing in uh a commercial plan reviewer when we don't have the workload, so it's actually better.

Fair enough.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anyone to my left?

Joy.

Okay, and I shared these with um the city manager because I was looking through these positions, and this might be a question for you for the city manager.

These are all new positions, right?

These are not like reclassifications of someone that that's currently working that uh we need to reclassify to get them up to the competitive level.

You were correct.

These are not reclassifications, these are brand new positions.

Yeah.

And my second question was about the pay range uh as compared to the qualifications, because um specifically, like the um the supervisor position is uh has a minimum qualifications of a GD or five years experience, it prefers college, it prefers these things, but those are the minimum qualifications.

However, the qualifications for the position that we were just talking about requires a lot more education, requires a lot more certification, but the salary range is lower.

So I just kind of it it doesn't seem balanced to me because I I guess in my way of thinking, you know, the more education, the more qualifications, the more certifications that are required for the position, the salary should be higher.

In most cases that is correct, except for with this one position with the streets uh sanitation and supervisor is they're supervising people.

So they're gonna have a lead team of five to six people.

The senior planner position is not supervising anybody.

Um, but I did ask that question to Miss Lopez called her today after you know, receiving it to say, you know what, that she's got a good point, councilwoman.

Um we we're gonna have HR and no consultant look that all over when we do our update next year.

So, as part of our commitment to staying in line with job classifications and pay, every two years we budget in our CIP to go through another sweep and just make sure we're in line.

So, but this was what they had recommended accordingly to our comparators in the in the area that we use.

But yeah, I mean the the quickest easy answer is the one position does supervise individuals, the other one doesn't even know there's more certifications and education required in that one.

That makes sense, thank you.

You're welcome.

So if I understand correctly, this is not an addition, these three positions are not addition to staff.

They are additions to staff.

They are yes, yeah.

I guess that I've been through that before where we have people to uh hit the ceiling, and so we reclassify or come up with a new job position for them to move.

That's not the case here.

No, okay.

Um the other thing I think uh in uh uh council member Galindo's hit a good point about the training required because these are supervisory positions was I read them now, which is uh a step up from anything we have now.

I think it's very you know, that's uh people applying for jobs, they want they want to grow up, but they don't think about what their supervisor jobs really are all about, and they have to make some sub decisions with people or co-workers sometimes.

It's difficult.

So I take it then that these jobs will be open for uh uh interviewing process and open posted the whole thing to the fill them.

Correct.

Should the departments have the budget capacity within their budgets to open them up and have them?

Yes, they'll be open to the current employees to apply for them, and some of them are well qualified and can do them.

So we'll go through the regular process for fair and equity and do that.

Okay, thank you.

Welcome, Michelle.

Thank you.

I just clarification.

Is it that HR now um identified four classifications to be added to the city's official salary plan?

Um is it because street and sanitation superintendent was make put together or I see three different jobs classifications, but it says following the review HR no identified four classifications to be added to the city's official salary plan.

So I thought, did we not add one?

And oh, it's thank you.

Good catch.

It is a typo.

It is supposed to be three.

I just wanted to make sure because I'm like, is some we're gonna get someone else too?

So no, I see right where you're looking at.

Thank you.

Because I'm sure Dan could probably use some more people.

I'm sure Matt could too.

Yeah, I just want to make sure that you know if we need them, we need them, even if our finance director doesn't like to give up money.

But yeah, he's oh wow, yeah.

Yeah, next budget could be an interesting budget, huh?

Good catch, thank you.

And uh good luck on filling these, these are highly specialized positions, and I'm sure they're difficult to fill because these people really, you know, they're just not run of the mill people to get to these positions.

Yeah, yeah.

That goes to those three H's before.

Highly skilled.

I have one more, just kind of a follow-up.

Um so I I brought my my budget book just because I didn't, but I didn't have time to look at it.

So are these three positions in the proposed budget that we will be voting on next week?

No, they are not.

So they're not part of the added positions within this year's budget.

What you're doing is voting on positions to have capacity should they become available.

So a good example would be let's use uh Mr.

Wright and Finance Department.

Say one of his front office staff were to leave and go somewhere.

Now he's got that budget capacity, where perhaps instead of refilling that position, he could restructure and be able to afford through budget cost savings that new accounting lead position.

What you're doing today is allowing that flexibility within this next fiscal year that should these positions be able to be filled by current or new staff, we won't have to come before council and ask for that.

So this was that lump package that we're doing today.

Welcome.

Anyone on the right left?

Okay, at this time I'm looking for a motion to approve three new job classifications, accounting specialist lead, street sanitation superintendent, and senior planner.

Do I have a motion to approve?

Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve the three new job classifications.

Do I have a second second?

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

Uh council member Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Council member Badrasca.

Yes.

Council Member Curtis.

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Mayor Setton.

Yes.

Okay, that brings us to item C authorization for the Mayor to execute an on-call professional service contract with Stantec Consulting Services Inc.

to provide plan review service related to the kit solar scale.

Scale Solar and Battery Storage Facility.

Mr.

Dan.

Thank you, Mayor.

Members of the Council.

The contract before you is for professional services to review the construction documents are also called billing permits that are anticipated to be start submitting in July 1st.

This is a hundred and eighty-one million dollar project.

It covers 630 acres of land for new solar facility on across from the Milligan substation.

So we currently have Stan Tech Engineering and under contract, although all our plan review contracts are capped at $200,000 a year, and they're also capped at a maximum one-time contract.

This is one of those far and few between I mentioned earlier.

That uh as we get more projects of the scale, it isn't uncommon uh that you uh outsource these uh projects, and when we do that, the nice thing is they take the liability of it too.

Now the reason the contract is so much, they want to go expedited review.

So the the normal plan review fees for this project is about 450,000.

Our fee schedule requires expedited review fees to be 200 percent.

So I'm rounding numbers.

Uh the actual plan review fee will be just below a million dollars, uh, and about 700 and some odd thousand will go to this applicant or this person.

We do have intentionally have a gap in there because the rough estimates that they have given me put me at this number.

We will not know those until they submit the final bid prices on the projects.

Uh they originally were coming in at about 300 million.

Uh so they felt comfortable at the 180.

I don't feel comfortable with that because there was such a gap.

So I wanted to have that uh room in there in case those prices can uh rose, and especially if uh tariffs go into place.

Um they will rise.

So this is a one-time contract with Stan Tech Engineering to handle all plan review services for this project.

Just a quick question, Dan.

You know, I'm sure there's a ton of paperwork to review with this project.

Will Stan Tech be doing that at their own location or here?

It will be done at their own location.

All plans will be submitted electronically.

We are not speaking of that, we are almost on 99% electronic now.

And where is their location?

Uh Chandler.

Okay.

On my right, any questions?

On my left.

Okay, this time I'm looking for a motion to authorize the mayor to execute an on core professional contract with Stan Tech Consulting Services Inc.

Do I have a motion to approve?

So moved.

Second.

Second.

Madam Clerk, roll call, please.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Bodrasca.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Mayor Settin.

Yes.

Okay, that brings us to item D.

Adoption of resolution number 25-1620, adopting the tentative budget for the fiscal year 2526 for the city of Eloy for the price of 95,834, 185.

Mr.

Wright.

Yes, Mr.

Mayor, members of the council.

Um, tonight before you is adopting the tenant budget for fiscal year 2526 for 95 million eight hundred and thirty-four thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars.

Um upon adoption of the tenant budget.

Um that kind of sets our maximum limit.

Once the tenant budget is adopted, that sets that within the next two weeks.

We'll publish the budget in the paper.

It'll be in the cast or the dispatch now.

Uh twice.

We'll hold a public hearing on June 26th for the budget, along with a public hearing for the property tax.

And then we will adopt the final budget.

So once we adopt a tentative, that sets the maximum.

Like I said, all we can do is go down in between the tenant budget and the final budget.

Um that needs to be noted.

So it's been a this budget's been really fun.

You know, it's kind of uh very high, it's kind of misleading on it, but it sets the maximum limit, you know, for the state law that we need to follow on it.

So um I'm here to answer any questions with the tentative budget uh that you may have.

Thank you, sir.

Anybody on my left with questions?

Okay.

On my right.

Okay.

Do I hear a motion to read by title adoption of resolution number two five-1620?

Mayor I make a motion that we read by title.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Any opposed to thank you, Sarah.

Any opposed say nay.

Motion carries.

Resolution number 251620.

A resolution of the mayor in the city council of the city of Eloy, Arizona, adopting the tentative budget for the fiscal year 2526.

Do I have a motion to approve resolution 25-1620 as presented?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Roll call, please.

Council Member Rose here.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Pedrasca.

Yes.

Council Member Curtis.

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Turango.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Okay, that moves us to item E.

We will conduct a public hearing on the proposed annexation.

Case number A 2025-001.

Discuss and receive public comment annexing approximately 30.12 acres of land into the corporate limits of Eloy, which is generally located east of the northwest corner of Adams Road and Guano Road with county assessor parcel numbers, which you can look up, including the abutting Guano Road right of way.

I'm going to open this public hearing, and just so council knows there'll be no vote or action taken on this.

This is just a public hearing.

So at this time I will open the public hearing.

Mr.

Simon.

Thank you, Mayor.

Members of the council.

As the mayor indicated that this is a request for annexation.

It is approximately located on Adams Road, uh, west of or excuse me, east of Silent Gin and Southeast, southwest of Frontier Street.

It's approximately 30 acres.

And here's the site that we're at, a little bit closer up view of you of it.

This request came in through a property owner looking to construct a future development.

And when staff started looking at the potential of annexation and the need, uh we talked with the applicant and reach out to the property owner of the as we call it, the uh border patrol site, and work with their representative potentially annexing.

They were agreeable.

So what we actually have here is a five-parcel annexation.

There is a small little strip in the middle that's owned by UP.

Is their acts, which at one point was their access road uh to the railroad back in the 1900s, and it actually bisects the parcel right through the middle.

So there's two parcels on the on the left right hand side, one on the um left-hand side, right through the middle is the bisect, and then the border patrol property.

Uh as it pertains to the border patrol property and that family when we've talked with them, one of the things they've asked us to look at is uh the condition of Adams Road.

It is in the city already.

Uh we have talked with Cookie and Public Works and uh getting that scheduled for maintenance and repaving along with Guadamo, or however you say it, uh that street.

Um we're potentially we'll be able to do that when we do the Sunland Gin uh repaving, and if not next fiscal year, the but it'll definitely be in the CIP within the next two years to get that done.

It is a very poorly um uh conditioned road.

Um the nice benefit of annexing the other properties in addition to um the border patrol, both of them are served by our water services, so they will become part of our actually part of the city.

Furthermore, the what east side of the property is um a new development.

Well be it's a new uh new manufacture, it's called CONCAST.

They manufacture uh pipes and other concrete fixtures.

They're gonna be putting a small building on the property and using most of it as it is and doing a wall around it, so that's a good opportunity for us.

When we do annex the property, we are required to annex it as it is currently in the county.

Uh so as when we look at it, the current general plan designation for a site is general industrial, which is our heaviest and heaviest use in a city.

The current zoning in the county is CI1, RTI 3, I'm sorry.

Um, which is the equivalent of general industrial.

So we'll be annexing both these properties in with that designation.

So what comes up?

What's the next step after this public hearing and then the 30-day waiting period uh after the application was submitted to the recorder's office, which is June 13th?

We'll start getting signatures from the property owners.

We do not require all property owner signatures, we do require at least 50% of the property owners, and we do require um uh at least 51% of the evaluation, and with the agreement of uh the property owner of the border patrol site, we have that.

So after we get those signatures, uh we can take action as quickly as 60 days after the application, which would be June 28th.

The next city council hearing is July 14th.

So we'll be assuming that we have all the signatures at that time, we will proceed with the case before the council for approval of the annexation.

So on that, I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Any questions on the left?

Yeah, any questions on right?

Go ahead, Mr.

Bodraska.

Thank you, Dan.

Um the properties that are adjacent there right now.

There's um some yep there, and then that little triangle to the right.

Are those already in Eloy or are they still counting?

Yes or no.

The little property to the left, or to your right, your left.

I'm dyslexic, by the way.

I've always had this problem.

Um that's already in the city.

These this area here is currently not in the city.

Um we could potentially go to those property owners also and raise the question whether they want to be annexed.

The need to move the project forward and get these other properties, which have been a long time.

So uh we will be approaching them over you know the next year to potentially come in and annex those properties as well.

But they're in the county right now.

Thank you.

Okay, I think that's it for questions.

Anyone from the public want to come up and have a word or a piece or a say at once.

Okay, thank you then.

So at this time, I'm gonna close this public hearing unless anybody has anything to add.

Okay.

This public hearing is closed.

And this brings us to uh we're not gonna do executive session.

Uh item number X.

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.

Adjourn.