Councilmember Curtis, I was just thinking of you.

Yeah, I'm here.

Okay, thank you.

Mayor, when you're ready, uh, Councilmember Curtis is on the line.

Hi, Sarah.

All right.

Good evening.

Welcome to the Eloy City Council meeting.

It is Monday, July 28th.

The time is approximately 6 p.m.

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

Councilmember Vadraska.

Here.

Councilmember Curtis.

Here.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Here.

Councilmember Schneider.

Here.

Councilmember Garcia.

Present.

Councilmember Galindo.

Here.

Mayor Sutton.

Here.

Thank you.

Now I'd like everyone to kindly raise for a moment of silence and the pledge of allegiance that will be led off by Vice Mayor Tarango.

Legislature to the flag of the United States of America.

One nation.

Indivisible.

Liberty.

Okay, at this time we're going to call for public appearances.

Mr.

Hill, I believe I see your name.

Thank you.

With that, worrying the sir.

Thank you for addressing the council.

Okay, next up is Mayor Announcements.

And your mayor was under the weather, so he only has two pages of announcements.

Instead of his usual four.

On Wednesday the 24th, David Malowitz and I met with representatives for the Southern Arizona director for the governor's office.

We discussed many different ways who partner with the governor's office, including computers for learning program.

This is where they take the old computers from the governor's office and other city or state offices, and they're going to allow people to package them up and take them to the schools to repurpose them, especially in underserved populations like ours.

So to be free computers, we're working with them.

I'm looking for a whole truckload if I can.

You know me.

So if that's it, that's a really positive things, and we are really looking forward to that.

And today, along with Assistant City Manager McKenzie Lecture Brian Wright, Dan Simon and Barisa Medina, we met with Laurie Urban, the State Director of Arizona Rural Development, and Alyssa Stanley, who is the deputy state director.

Discuss was the many grants available to the city of Eloy.

Some we didn't even know were available to us.

So we're planning to do quarterly meetings with them to keep keep appris of what's what's available.

Because you have to know it.

You got to be in it to win it.

And just a reminder, we will be having our Eloy Listens workshops this week.

So please register for that.

Come on out and be part of a solution.

The last one we had down here in City Hall, some of you attended, and it really was.

It was a lot of fun.

That was just a great day out.

So with that, we're gonna council member announcements on my right.

Council member announcements on my left.

Mayor.

Go ahead.

This past week I had the pleasure to attend the 42nd annual Nalayal Conference in Georgia.

They had several different speakers.

We talked about the future of public education on housing that included doing some of the infill around with city-owned property.

We discussed the state of the media today, of course, land use, and several other things.

Some of us were invited to attend a day ahead of time, which we uh talked about homeless and housing on that day.

And because I was invited to attend that, they paid about 30 to 40% of the trip, which is really nice.

You know, anytime we don't have to pay something, it's helpful.

While in Atlanta, I did take my first Waymo trip.

So enjoyed that.

And how was that?

That was really funny by itself.

It just drove by itself.

It would not take any suggestions from me.

That's all I got today.

Thank you, sir.

Joya.

Yes, so um I was able to meet with uh a representative from the governor's office supporting constituents, along with Councilmember Vidak Vedroska and Councilmember Curtis.

And uh she was very impressed with our city.

Uh we gave her a tour of the city.

We also she was also taking on a tour of the airport, which she was very impressed with of all that the airport had to offer for this community.

We also suggested that she contact Councilmember Curtis if the governor ever wants to land her plane at the Eloy Airport.

Uh that she could do that.

Uh she also uh reached out after the meeting to me and um gave me the information to get a proclamation for the fiestas for uh from the governor's office, as well as like a application to have the governor or someone from the governor's office attend the fiestas.

So that that was it was a good visit.

I I was really impressed with with how impressed she was with us.

Um I was not able to attend the meeting with the uh Arizona Complete Health, but I understand it was a good meeting, and we look forward to working with them to get some grant funding uh for some projects that are needed uh to support the health and well-being of the city of Eloy.

Um tried to attend, but I was on my way up to Holly Lake, and the Wi-Fi just wasn't help wasn't my friend that day.

Um, and then uh but that was a good thing.

And I and I did hear from um from I want to say Jennifer Waco Waco from uh MW or WM, and they are going to uh participate in the Fiesta's parade, as well as sponsor, be a sponsor for the Lions Club golf tournament.

So I sent her all that information as well.

So that's it for me.

And I'm sure the member of the governor's office was really impressed with you guys.

That the three of you, I mean, you're great ambassadors for this city, and this time to get the proclamation put together.

So that's all good stuff.

Thank you.

Now we'll go over to City Manager announcements.

Mr.

Lecture.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor, members of council.

So instead of two pages, I only have two items, so it's gonna be a lot shorter.

Um, but to kind of reiterate what the mayor was stating.

So the Eloy General Plan process is gonna be continuing this week with the Eloy Listens workshops.

Uh Wednesday, July 30th, it'll take place at City Hall at 6 p.m.

Thursday, July 31st, it will be at the Eloy Senior Center off of Toltec at 6 p.m.

And then the August 2nd on Saturday will be at Robeson Ranch Golf Club at 10 a.m.

And it's important for the community to be involved in this process.

Uh the general plan updates usually only take place every 10 years.

So just definitely make sure you take your time and go to one of these events and have your voice be heard.

Um, it's important.

And then also there is a virtual version that's gonna be available of the workshop that's gonna be online throughout the uh basically the entire month of August, and you'll be able to find that at www.publicinput.com slash Eloy General Plan.

And then the only other item I have today is the Fantastic Friday.

So that's going to be kicking off.

It's going to be a free drop-in recreation program for kids ages five through twelve.

This is our standard program that we do every year.

Takes place August 2025 through April 2026.

And it's going to be the first and third Fridays from 10 a.m.

to 1 p.m.

at the Troy Thomas Community Center.

The biggest thing with this is before you drop your kids off, make sure that you do register.

You need to turn in that registration to the community services department prior to dropping your kids off, and the space is very limited.

So make sure if you're going to get going with that program that you get your uh information in on that.

But that is all the information I have today.

Thank you, Mayor.

For the virtual stuff, that's the that's going to be they can access that from our website also.

Yes, correct.

Yep.

Thank you, sir.

And next I'm showing a financial update.

Mr.

Brian Wright.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, members of the council.

Um, I'll just give you a brief uh financial update.

The ending June 30th of 2024-25 fiscal year.

Um could I get the uh published?

Um the fiscal year we're just it just ended on June 30th, but we still have a lot of end of the year updates that we have to do when it comes to some of our um revenues and and everything, but just to give you a good uh perspective of where we ended up.

Um I'll go through this um for you, the council, but also for the members of the public.

Um just uh kind of give over a quick overview of this and not to um belabor a lot of the this stuff.

Um we're just gonna start looking at uh this page, uh just giving you the financial update.

We ended the the general fund right now is into the year of about 4.5 million dollar positive revenue over expenses.

This is comes from a little bit higher collection and permits.

Um plan reviews came in and exceptionally high.

Our state share revenues were exceeding budget expectation, and our interest revenue um really exceeded the expectations this year.

We also had a lot of unfilled vacancies throughout the year.

Um that resulted with salary savings and benefits um and operational expenses.

Uh, they were about 92 percent um of budget to actual.

So there were some budget savings on that throughout that 4.5 million that we have there, we still have end of the year uh transfers we have to make between water and wastewater funds to them to support some of the capital projects that uh happen that were part of the budget.

So that will kind of come down, but it's probably gonna be around that four million dollar mark on it for the the fiscal year.

Um local sales taxes, uh talking a little bit about that.

We we've collected about uh a little over 8.4 million in local sales tax.

That's actually it's actually below about 720,000 uh below expectations.

Construction sales tax the last four or five months of the year really started to slow down.

Um that's normal right now, kind of with the housing that we just didn't have some of that, and also exceptional health care and and gold bond were coming to a close on some of our big construction projects.

So, you know, but when we looked at our tax categories, you know, with the retail restaurant and bar tax or hotel motel manufacturing, those are all were meeting the expectations on what we were looking at.

But uh one of the categories that really you know was looking pretty good at the the it was retail sales tax.

That was about um 700,000 um what we collected for the quarter compared to about 620 uh last year.

So quarterly, we are up in that that category on it for our retail sales.

What are we selling to make us that money?

Actually, a lot of our retail sales, mayor, uh members of the council, believe it or not, really comes from a lot of the online sales that we get.

Um, you know, they call that wayfare, the wayfare tax.

No matter if if you go on Amazon right now, you buy something, the sales tax happens to where you place it, not to where it is um shipped to.

It's where it's placed.

Um state share revenue.

Uh those those uh lines within the budget, uh, those came in about uh 427,000 above expectations or 5.64%.

So that the reason those are up above because when we did our budget, we get the final numbers at the end of the year.

Our population did go up a little bit from the when we were doing the uh budget.

So we knew we were gonna be above in those projections.

So and then water, wastewater sanitation, all those funds uh those revenues are exceeding expectations on it.

All of them had positive variances moving into the end of the fiscal year.

Um these next category uh several pages just kind of show the general fund and it breaks out the on the quarterly basis.

You'll see our construction, you know, has dropped off, or actually it's it's above what it was in April and May, but uh once we get to the next couple slides, you'll see the the difference.

But you'll see retails climbing every single month.

Our restaurant bars are are holding steady.

Each of the categories is showing a steady progression as each month is going up.

But this is the one that uh kind of shows look at construction sales tax back in 22, 23.

You know, we are close to about nine little close to 900,000, and boom, we're down to about 350,000 that we collected.

That's due to the the major projects that we had going on over the last several years.

So is it a concern?

No, because we knew that was gonna come to an end.

But the categories of if you look at the green bar restaurants and bars, retail, they're all kind of exceeding the last year's uh totals on a um a quarterly basis for that time.

And these are just more the the numbers we were just talking about more, but just in the spreadsheet, so you can take a look at it given comparisons on a quarterly basis by category, and then we just jump into the special revenue funds and all the other funds that we have revenue wise, nothing's really jumping out to to report everything was meeting expectations when it comes to our special revenue funds, and then on the department basis for the general fund.

Um I gave a little bit of a forecast at the end of the year, but uh every fund will be below the um adopted budget that uh was set by Mayor and Council for the 2425 fiscal year.

Um we do have uh some of the where we're getting a lot of our savings was we from our contingency funds that we've set aside we didn't use, so those contingency funds are rolled into that 4.5 million.

And then as we go through projecting our fund balance, um we're looking at probably around about 37 million in the general fund.

As you know, moving into this year's budget, we are going to use a chunk of that for infrastructure projects, so that will be uh dropping on that.

And then jumping into our capital projects, the last three pages is just where did our capital projects end up?

Have they been completed?

Um, are they completed?

But looking at uh, you know, just waiting on invoicing a lot of our projects within PD, we had a couple that were our rollover projects, the training facility, technology upgrades.

We we talked about that during the budget.

Um about 60% of all the public works projects were completed or just waiting on invoicing.

Um, but we did have several that are um that they didn't start this year, and some of those are due to the kind of the ones that were going with Vergy, the wells, and some of the other ones.

So those projects are being addressed this year, or they'll be looked at, we're waiting for the WIF of funding to from the rate increase that goes in in November 1st for water and wastewater to accomplish those.

So we've addressed those in the the capital budget, but the other ones for community services, community development and administration, everything pretty much was uh completed, or they're rolling over into this fiscal year.

So I mean, but I'm happy to report.

I think the general fund uh this fiscal year the city ended on a very positive note.

Um we ended strong fiscally, but we did accomplish, you know, we do have some capital projects outstanding, but I mean overall I think that we ended uh 2425 in a strong way right now.

We're doing the the audit, so we're doing all the uh preliminary closing all the month of July and September or July and August, and then they come back at the end of September to do the uh the final audit.

Thank you, sir.

Does anybody have any questions?

Go ahead.

I don't mean to put a damper on our evening, but with the election that's coming up in August.

Um when do we if that is successful for Santan Valley?

When do we expect that to start affecting um our state shared revenue?

If the Santan Valley passes, it wouldn't be anything until the fall in fiscal year, so it'd be the 26-27 year that uh there would be some of the decline in state shared revenue and the Penelop half cent sales tax.

So we would know as we're moving into our budget cycle where things are looking at not to put a damper on anything, I hope it doesn't pass, but that's me.

I secretly I don't either, but um, yes, that's that I just wondered.

Right.

I just wondered when we would.

Yeah, it would be the fall, it wouldn't be nothing this fiscal year, it would be looking at the following year.

Okay, thank you.

Now, how about that waifare tax?

Wasn't that uh in jeopardy of going away?

Or is that been no that there was no uh mention of the waifare tax on it?

They were trying to at the state level, the state level was trying to really mess with a lot of our taxes at how it is.

But you know, if you there was talk about a preliminary, but then everything died off on that.

Because I faithfully contribute to that way.

So do I at our house.

Okay, anybody on council have questions?

Any go ahead, Dan?

Yeah, Brian.

I have several.

Could you go back to the very first page where you had the uh head counts for the uh and maybe give us an update on just where we stand relative to uh personnel and uh this one right here?

Yes.

I see here we've got public safety down uh four officers, battery public works is so those current or those uh to be updated?

Those were as of June 30th, so those were the positions that as of June 30th.

Currently, um, I believe their dispatch is there's two vacancies on dispatch now.

I mean, so some of these are all changed on it.

You still have vacancies in PD, you still have um the rec leader, you still have a cheap bill and official pretty much all of those are still vacant on it right now.

And furthermore, the four million dollars in a general fund, uh what will happen with that?

Is that could we use that money to pull some things forward, or did you, or did that put in was that put into capital projects for next year?

What actually happens with that extra four million dollars?

Uh Mr.

Mayor, Councilman Schneider, that that four million is rolled into our fund balance, and then we're using our fund balance, you know, if it's part of it to do infrastructure projects in this fiscal year, like our sewer line that's going from the plant to 11 mile corners to 36-inch main that VARG is managing and in the construction's gonna begin.

So it's going a lot of our infrastructure projects as we move forward, based upon what's in our uh fund balance, we might bring forward to council some more one-time projects in future fiscal years, you know.

A project could be, you know, if it's a one-time expense, we'll use that fund balance for that.

But in this year's budget, we're using that what we anticipated before this four million dollars positive.

So it's it's rolled into capital projects moving on from this point on.

I guess that was my point.

Is my thought was if we uh exceeded the budget and we had that money, why not uh there's some areas where we're really hurting for some money to do some capital projects?

Why not bring some of that forward and use some of that money because it's a one-time expenditure?

And I was just curious if that thought was was uh the other thing I was questioning uh had a question on was the uh the project capital projects which didn't get finished this year and got pushed into next year.

Did they replace something that was scheduled next year got pushed further out because what is it just adding to more projects next year because if you're pushing things out to you know you got a three-year capital project schedule, you're just pushing things further down the road.

What happens with those ones that got moved moved over?

Some of the um Mr.

Mayor um Councilman Snyder, some of the projects.

So the grant is that part of that four million dollars then?

No, but that's in addition to, in addition to one last question.

The uh board reside tax was pretty interesting.

The fact is still increasing, but yet we reduced the uh percentage.

So it seems like we've recovered from that reduction of one percent uh with uh no ill effects.

Anybody else in council for questions?

No, Mr.

Wright, thank you so much.

Okay, moving on to item number seven, which is consent agenda.

All items listed with an asterisk are considered to be routine manners 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 the council members so request, in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda.

At this time, are there any council members wishing to remove any items from the consent agenda?

Mayor, this is uh council member Curtis on the phone.

I'd like to uh remove item D from the consent agenda.

Okay, Councilmember Curtis, I'm removing item D at this time.

Yeah, Mr.

Mayor, uh items B and C, I'd like some uh further information on those before we approve them.

Okay, and B and C will get some further information on those.

So at this time I'm gonna look for a motion to approve item A on the consent agenda as written.

Mayor, I make a motion that we approve item A on the consent agenda.

Do I have a second?

Second roll call, madam clerk.

Councilmember Vondraska?

Yes, Councilmember Curtis.

Yes, Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider?

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, for item B.

Mr.

Ben Alis, would you kindly step forward?

And Mr.

Mayor, maybe I can help.

And what brought this up, Chief?

Is I was the question I had asked the uh finance director before on head counts.

How many officers you were down for officers, and I guess my concern is down for officers and supporting these two projects, B and C.

Maybe just give us a little feel good on that.

We have four um uh lateral officers in the background investigation process at this point, and we also have one new cadet in the academy, which uh I believe he graduates here in a couple weeks from the Gilbert Academy.

So once we get that staffing levels up, we will um evaluate uh participation in that task force, and if the IGA is signed by Gim, we will assess at that time if it's worth uh putting somebody in that task force.

Okay, thank you.

That was my concern.

We just the staffing levels and just and since you already have an officer, one of them that doesn't really affect anything, it's just reapproval.

Okay.

Uh less anybody else have any move we uh accept item B.

We'll start with one second.

One of the B C do B and C together?

Mayor and Council members, you can as long as there's not a dissenting on the on there, and in that case we'd go back and split them up.

Okay.

Uh I make a motion that we approve items uh B and C on the consent agenda.

Second roll call, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes, Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Vladraska.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you, Chief.

Absolutely, sir.

Okay, now that item D was pulled, let's uh let's drill down and take a look at that.

Mr.

Sarma, would you kindly mayor?

I've um just got a question with um the uh state the the section six of the contract and the scope of um work.

Basically, in that section is um goals, policies, plan, and map development, and there's sort of a drill down point um about skydive Arizona and the the verbiage on that I think might have been something, you know, pulled from a previous time.

I'm not sure, but the verbiage doesn't make a whole lot of sense um and it sort of um gives the wrong impression.

It it it talks about planning for the potential relocation of skydiving operations, which um is not something I support, and I'm sure that's the same reason why Mr.

Hell was here, even though I couldn't hear everything he said on the phone.

Um but I did get a chance to talk with McKenzie and Dan earlier, and I think they've got an updated um verbiage that they want to sub in there, so maybe they could discuss that.

Thank you, Councilwoman Curtis.

And just for the record, I can't hear anything that's being said on the podium.

Yeah, we check in that microphone, Sarah.

No.

No.

Is it on?

No.

Now I can hear them.

You can hear them.

I heard him say, is it on it's not working very well to say the least.

But yes, the the item that the councilwoman current has brought up is was intended to talk about scenario analysis.

Whenever we do general plan amendments, we always do scenario analysis of what ifs.

Um there was no intention on any uh movement of the skydive operation as we go up and around the airport.

That is our intent on that.

But with that said, um we did talk about making the tweaks of the verge verbiage for us.

Um we like to change that to believe it's item six or D.

I don't remember exactly what it is.

But skydiver is on uh own significant land around the airport at the northeast corner of the airport, and currently manages several airpark functions, including runway traffic in the airport tie downs.

As future development progresses, it is important to recognize existing skylight operations while planning for a long-term vision that supports the evolving needs of the airport.

Excuse me.

Thank you, Mr.

Simon.

Anybody have any questions on council?

Okay, so at this time I'm gonna look for a motion on what I'm about to say.

All right.

So it is recommended that the service contract be approved in the incorpor incorporation and revisions to the scope of service for the Eloy Air Park specific area master plans specifically in phase six, section six point one, the existing language pertaining to skydive Arizona shall be removed and replaced with the following.

Skydive Arizona owns significant land around the airport and at the northeast corner of the air park and currently manages several airport functions, including runway traffic and airport tie-downs.

As future development progresses, it is important to recognize the existing skydive operations while planning for long-term vision that supports the evolving needs and opportunities of the airport.

Do I have a motion to put that in as red Mayor?

Oh I move the motion as red.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Valdraska.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yeah.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton?

Yes.

Thank you all.

Thank you, Dan.

Away to go, Mr.

Hill.

Okay, now we're off consent agenda.

We go to item number eight.

Business and possible discussion and action on the following.

A discussion and possible action to authorize the city of Eloy to accept and execute a donation agreement with Pennell County to transfer real property ownership located at 707 West Third Place, Eloy, Arizona.

Go ahead, Matt.

Thank you, sir.

This isn't a good start.

As we've gotten like four items pulled off the agenda, the mics aren't working.

Dave's gone for a week and this is a bit free stuff.

I like free stuff.

No, yeah.

Hopefully some good news with this one.

Once we get the PowerPoint up, because at the end of the day it's a picture's worth a thousand words.

Uh ultimately what this is is Penell County.

We've been leasing some space from Penal County over the last ten years.

Uh it's located at 707 West Third Place.

Uh currently, right now we use it as kind of a storage location for some additional public works equipment, but also we're using it currently right now, I believe, for some waste management containers.

Um but ultimately we had a discussion with the Panel County team, um, asked them if they'd be willing to donate this property to us uh because of kind of the easement restrictions and the high intensity power lines and stuff they have in the area.

It has very limited ability for it to be developable.

So the city is going to retain that property, uh continue to store some equipment on it, uh, but ultimately they're gonna donate it to us uh free of charge.

There's not gonna be a cost associated with it, and then we won't be leasing it anymore.

So uh staff is recommending that you accept this agreement and then we take that property into the city's hands.

Is there any questions?

I thought there was a PowerPoint.

There was a picture of that.

Okay.

All right, any questions for uh Mr.

Lecture?

Mac that's all the picture I saw looked like it was pretty much of a dumping ground.

Is that going to be cleaned up or I mean could can we do something with that?

Absolutely.

Yeah, so there is the chance after we get that land donated to us, there's the possibility that we would have a CIP project to you know upgrade uh the location.

Yeah.

Because right now it is.

It's that we use it for additional public works equipment and just kind of the leftovers, you know, pretty much Mayor.

Oh, go ahead.

So um it seems like a lot of the pictures I saw have a lot of the uh waste management dumpsters and stuff.

Are they using that for their county project or is those are they using that for Eloy projects?

I believe that's for storage for Eloy, yeah.

It's Eloy based.

Yeah.

Um you showed some pictures and stuff, and I kind of tried to look at um kind of where they were located and stuff.

Are they visible off the highway or any main road coming into Eloy or passing through Eloy?

The container specifically.

No, the properties.

Oh no, no.

This is located over by what Treckle Park.

Yeah.

So it's about yeah, there's nothing near it.

What somebody mentioned brought up.

Um have they ever dumped any hazardous waste in that lot at all?

Have we do we know the history there just to make sure we're not getting a site that is potentially um contaminated and going to cost us a lot to clean it up?

Umorango, yeah, no, we so we actually did have a site assessment that was done on the property, so there is no contamination on the property.

We don't foresee that there's gonna be any significant cost with us utilizing that facility.

So nope, everything is squared away on that end.

Anyone else have anything for for Mac?

Like I said, free land, we'll take that.

And I saw the pictures and possibly later on upgrading the uh that little facility building on there might really be good for us.

And I want to say thank you, Steve.

I understand you were instrumental in getting some of this done.

I want to say thank you for putting it out there for us and getting it at the right price.

Mayor, council members, thank you.

But basically, the discussions are with city staff and that the negotiation, you know, the negotiation was basically done at the administrative level city manager, assistant city manager.

Um, because I've lived here so long.

This probably was an old state highway department site that wound up with the county when they used to periodically space their maintenance areas in the area, and it got to the county, and then it got to us, and then when we looked at it, we saw the power line.

And uh because I do a lot of real estate law and everything.

I know that there's an easement.

Usually with you look at the power lines there, it's probably about a hundred feet either way that you can't build on.

And so basically, that with our setback requirements made it pretty clear that um that basically that you know that you couldn't really build a permanent structure on there, but you could certainly store things out there.

And I was aware of the fact that the county has a statute which provides that they can make economic development gifts to various municipalities to help and along those, and so basically it made sense to approach them about it, and they decided basically that that was a that would be a good thing to do.

And I think they also realized the fact that with those power lines there, their ability one, they had no re use for it, number two, that the ability to sell it was was non-existent.

Well, thank you.

Thank you for your help with that.

Okay, at this time I'm looking for a motion to approve item A discuss.

Oh there's no picture.

Oh, there's a picture now.

There it is.

I'll make a motion to approve item A.

A second.

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

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Vadraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yeah.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you.

All right, that leads us to item B.

Discussion and consideration of accepting the right-of-way dedications by the residents of West Houser Road for the Houser Road Waterline Extension Project and authorizing the mayor to sign acceptance and the city clerk or their designees to record the dedications.

Mr.

Rencher, he always gets up there without me saying them.

I read ahead.

I know it's coming.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Good evening, members of the council.

Uh, these next two items are Madam Councilmember Curtis.

Can you hear me okay?

Yes, I can.

Thanks.

Okay, perfect.

Thank you.

These next two items are are related.

The first one is the dedication of the right-of-way uh from the property owners along Houser Road.

As we discussed before, that was one of the the steps that we needed to move forward with this project.

Uh we have since received all of the dedications of right-away along Houser Road for those properties, and that's what the first item is just for the council to uh to accept those and and have those recorded as public right-of-way.

The next item following is is for the construction of phase one, as we discussed previously.

We we decided at the direction of council to break the houser water line project up into two phases, with phase one being the extension along Houser Road, phase two would be the the uh properties on the north of of that block.

Phase two would be the uh properties on the north of that block, uh Ms.

Shu and her husband and Mr.

Yoder and his and and his family as well for those two.

Those we are still looking at possible alternatives.

We've had some other recent developments with the property right in the right in the middle of the two has has approached the city to request water service for that.

So we are looking at different options, and we will bring those separate those those options to you for discussion and for direction when we come to phase two.

Phase one we have built into this fiscal year at 450,000.

Uh the next phase is phase two.

We have that built in for 300,000 for next year.

Oh so this is what we yeah, we already I remember doing this.

We already have this money set aside.

Anyone on a council have any questions for Mr.

Rentcher?

Okay, seeing none, we're gonna go one at a time on this, even though they are they are put together.

We're gonna go one at a time.

So at this time I'm looking for a motion to approve item B, which is a discussion and consideration accepting the right-of-way dedications by the residents of Westhouser Road in the House of Road Borderline Extension Project, and authorized the mayor to sign acceptance and the city clerk of their designee and record the dedications.

Do I have a motion to approve?

Mayor, I'll make a motion we approve is read.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

This seems like a long time in coming, but yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Vadraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yeah.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Okay, and that could that's gonna bring us now to item C, which is the phase one of that project.

So I'm gonna look for a motion to approve the discussion and consideration of accepting a personals submitted by Ellison Mills based on a cooperative purchase and contract with Pennell County contract number 23828 ROQ for the amount not to exceed 450,000 dollars for construction of phase one of the Houser War Houser Road Waterline Project and authorizing the mayor to sign necessary contract documents.

So I have a motion to approve item C.

Mayor, I'll make a motion.

We approve item C as read.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Vadraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yeah.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, sir.

Okay, now for item D.

We are going to go into executive session for this for item D.

You're welcome to wait here, but I can't tell you how long it'll be.

So with that, I will now call for a motion to enter into executive session pursuant to Arizona Revised Statute Section 38-341.03 A3 and 4 to discuss and consult with the city attorney, acting city managers, and city staff regarding the legal advice concerning the National Rural Water Association PFAS cost recovery program, whether to retain law firm Napoleon Schinnek and to represent the city of Eloy in a PFAS cost recovery litigation, including the consideration of the city's position regarding potential litigation and settlement discussions.

This executive session is closed to the public.

Discussions required by Arizona law.

Do I have a motion?

We're going to go into executive session.

That'll be all of council.

All right.

Mayor.

For how much time?

How long?

As needed.

As needed.

I don't think it'll be that long, but I don't want to throw a time on it in case we get uh wrapped up back there.

So do I have a motion to go into enter executive session?

Mayor I make a motion we go into executive session.

Second.

Oh second.

Roll call, madam clerk.

Councilmember Valdraska.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Um thank you.

Councilmember, excuse me, Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider?

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

So I want to thank everybody for coming tonight.

And I want to wish you all a safe journey home.

And I hope to see you all at one of the Eloy Talks sessions wherever they may be.

Thank you all.

We are temporarily adjourned.

Councilmember Curtis.

They're making their way in shortly.

Okay.

Huh?

No one wanted to stay for the meeting.

Oh I have to shoot.

It's still riveting.

Thank you, Matt, for all of that.

Really?

Thank you very much.

Just white.

Why do they always so many coyotes?

That's okay.

I don't want to get rid of it.

Oh, you're once right over here.

She is.

Hey, Sarah, are you there?

Yeah, I'm here.

All right.

Excellent.

Okay.

I'm going to call this meeting back in session.

And under section number eight, item D, the discussion and consideration of authorizing the City of Eloy to file suit as a plaintiff in the National Rural Rewater Association PFAS cost recovery program to retain the law firm of Napoleon Schinnek to represent the City of Eloy in the PFAS cost recovery litigation.

Authorizing the mayor or his designee to sign the necessary agreements to complete the necessary litigation and pleadings on this form.

So as leading leaving executive session, I'm looking for a motion from council to direct city staff to increase testing and tracking and provide that info to council for discussion at a further meeting.

Do I have a motion?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember.

Councilmember Valdrasca?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

All right.

Now that brings us to the best part of the meeting, item number 10, which is the adjournment.

So moved.

Well, first I'd like to say, hey Sarah, thank you so much for calling in and taking time out of your time away.

And uh so do I have uh all in favor of adjournment say aye?

Aye.

Any opposed say nay?

Meeting adjourned.

Thank you all.