So I think it's gonna say something says oh calculus at least our time is down here to January.

So you do want to have a lot of sectors and go for one of the other firewalls.

Okay, my office.

Something is a regular sample.

Okay.

Okay.

I don't know.

I don't know if I can just play one minutes and some of the rest of everyone actually.

Oh the water event straight when you say I can yeah we do like I have the info with the office on there.

I can email it all that work, but then we can bring it for an information.

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Oh yeah, here we go right now.

Yeah, we'll take care of the meeting.

Yeah, yeah, we'll get a bunch of strong.

I don't know.

I got to go.

Yes.

Call it in one in all the way to the airline was the spoke uh we think that could be it.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, some pressure can, but we'd probably do this way.

But if it's just kids up there, do it in the last app or speaking together.

Well, you know, he had uh solutions.

I guess they're not here at the market.

Mayor, when you're ready.

Good evening.

Welcome to the Eloy City Council meeting.

Tonight is Monday, August 25th.

The time is approximately 6 p.m.

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

Councilmember of Aldraska.

Present.

Councilmember Curtis.

Here.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Here.

Councilmember Snyder.

Here.

Councilmember Garcia.

Present.

Councilmember Garlindo.

Here.

Mayor Sutton.

Here.

Thank you.

And I'd like everyone to rise for a moment of silence and the Pledge of Allegiance led by Councilmember Bob Razka.

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

And to the Republic.

One nation under the eye, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Before we go into public appearances, don't sit down yet.

Due to the inclement weather and what's going on, uh, Captain Jerome's gonna just give us a little brief update what's going on in our city.

Good evening, Mayor.

Thank you, members of council.

Uh, if anybody thought that monsoon season was not going to get here, uh, that proved us wrong uh earlier today.

Uh so a significant dust storm with a thunderstorm uh earlier today moved through Eloy.

Now this is not official uh National Weather Service data, but what I can tell you is that the information we received from our patrol officers uh as far as roadway visibility goes is that it dropped roughly 10 to 50 feet at its peak.

Uh our officers and the fire district did respond to a report of a power line down at uh Frontier and Toltec.

Uh that caused the road to be cle uh closed for about 45 minutes uh until APS arrived.

Uh they were able to confirm it was not an electrical line, it was a communication line.

So we they cut it down and uh roadways since been reopened.

Uh as far as injuries are concerned, uh we're only familiar with one minor injury at this time.

Uh a resident who was treated at her home for flying debris that struck her.

Uh at this time we've kind of returned to normal operations, but we do have officers out in the neighborhoods looking for flooding, um, roadway hazards.

We'll keep the city manager informed.

Thank you, sir.

Just a quick question.

The comms line that was down cut and moved.

Do we know if there's any comms outages within the city anywhere?

Does anybody have anything on that?

We haven't been mayor members of the council.

We have not been notified about any uh communication issues reference that line.

So we're not sure if maybe it was just a you know, an out of service line that came down.

Um, but right now we don't have any information about it impacting services at all.

Thank you.

Thank you, Captain, for that update.

Sure.

Any other questions?

Mayor, members of council, thank you much.

Appreciate it.

Thank you, sir.

Now we do have a legislative update, but we're gonna hold off on that for our representatives to get here.

Uh Representative Martinez has sent the video, and Representative Lopez, he was caught in that storm heading this way.

So we'll we'll just wait for them to come.

But in the meantime, we can have mayor announcements.

And you know the mayor always has announcements.

On Tuesday, the 12th, several of us council members, Tarango Snyder, Vodraska, and a group of city staff attended the AZ DOT presentation at Santa Cruz High School on the long-awaited 505 freeway, also known as the North South Freeway.

This freeway will eventually stretch from Gold Canyon down to Eloy.

This is a welcome roadway, no doubt for the growth of Arizona and for the health of Eloy.

This is a welcome project.

I don't see this project in the next couple of years, but it's one of those things that has to start somewhere.

On Thursday, the 14th, along with fellow council members and city staff, we went to ropes and ranch for the Panel Alliance luncheon.

The topic was economic development.

The panel kept it engaging and lively, and it's always good to hear hear that Eloy is a big part of the conversation when it comes to growth in Panell County.

We were front and center on a few things there, and it really makes us happy.

Then it was off to Scottsdale for the Arizona League of Cities and Towns Conference.

If you've never been, imagine three days of government nerds swapping ideas, business cards at lightning speed.

I came back with so many contacts.

I spent two days just sending follow-up emails, thank yous, and how you doings to everybody that I met.

And as we go for the other announcements that like the council members to let us know what their takeaways were from that conference.

I I thought it was fantastic through and through.

So fresh off the conference, I swapped out my business attire for something comfortable.

I headed to Coolidge to cheer on our dust devils as they took on the Bears.

I may have spotted another council member there in the visitor stands.

To be fair, the Bears put up a good fight.

But in the end, go devils.

Finally, earlier today, I spoke in front of the Arizona Corporation Commission along with Councilmember Bod Roska.

Without getting into the technical weeds, I'll just say there was a proposal to raise the water and sewer rates in Robeson Ranch by a whopping 188%.

Whether I lived at Robeson Ranch or not, I would have been there just to oppose it.

To me, it's not about the numbers, it's about fairness, and I'll keep standing up for that.

And later I went over to the State House and met with representatives there to push this even further.

Because when it comes time to fight, I'm all in all the time.

So now to something a little bit more serious.

This evening, we're going to take a moment to pause and reflect on the sacrifices made by those who have served our nation with extraordinary courage and selflessness.

Some time ago, I was contacted by a Mr.

Luis Montejo regarding a local hero.

Lance Corporal Jose Francisco Jimenez, who bravely gave his life in combat during the Vietnam War.

Lance Corporal Jimenez was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, our nation's highest military decoration, in recognition of his heroic actions on the battlefield.

As the anniversary of his death is August 28th, 1969 approaches, I felt it both fitting and important to honor his legacy.

So tonight, on behalf of the city of Eloy, I am proud to proclaim August 28th as Jose Jimenez Day in Eloy.

Here to accept the proclamation on behalf of the family is Mr.

Luis Montejo.

This proclamation is not only a tribute to Lance Corporal Jimenez's sacrifice, but also a solemn reminders of the freedoms we enjoy today because of brave individuals like him.

It is truly an honor for me personally and for our city to recognize a member, one of Eloy's own who gave everything in service to our country.

Proclamation, whereas Lance Corporal Jose Jimenez was born on March 20, 1946 in Mexico City, Mexico, and later became a proud member of the Eloy community, graduating from Santa Cruz Valley Union High School in 1968.

And whereas Jose Jimenez answered the call to service and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where he served honorably as a fire team leader with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division.

And whereas on August 28th, 1969, while serving his country in Vietnam, Lance Corporal Jimenez heroically gave his life in combat south of Danang.

Thank you, province.

And whereas he was post posthumously awarded one of the 268 medals of honor for the Vietnam War by President Richard M.

Nixon.

Whereas to the dedication of his family and community, his remains were brought home and re-entered in Arizona on January 17, 2017, so that he may rest in the land he called home.

And whereas the city of Eloy honors the courage, sacrifice, and patriotism of Lance Corporal Jose Jimenez, whose legacy will forever be a part of our community's history and pride.

Now, therefore, I, Andrew Sutton, mayor of the City of Eloy, Arizona, on behalf of the Eloy City Council, here to hereby proclaim August 28, 2025 as Jose Jimenez Day in the City of Eloy, and encourage all residents to remember and reflect upon the life, service, and ultimate sacrifice of this hometown hero.

Proclaim this 25th day of August 2025, City of Eloy, Arizona, Andrew Sutton, Mayor of Eloy.

So thank you for bringing it to our attention.

All right, so that wraps up the May's announcement.

Now we're gonna go with council member announcements.

I'll start on my left.

Joey.

Thank you for this time, Mayor.

Um there was lots of information.

It was three days of learning, but along with participating in the Leagues of Cities and Towns Conference, I was also uh mourning the lost of two very iconic people here in Eloy.

And I just I wrote a statement.

And if you know you would be gracious enough for me to allow me to read this.

Absolutely.

Okay.

Uh this month, two significant heroes of the City of Eloy community gained their wings.

Two men who brought leadership, education, guidance, and support to many people who grew up in Eloy and led them to prominence.

Coach Howard, Coach Dean gained his wings on August 4th.

His service uh will be on October 25th at the First Baptist Church in Eloy.

His wife Pat, who taught Kindergarten for Eloy for 27 years, and him moved to Eloy in 1958, where they where he began coaching at Santa Cruz High School.

He coached from 1958 to 2002.

Under the coaching leadership, Santa Cruz High School visited and or won state championships in boys and girls basketball, football, baseball, tennis, wrestling, soccer, golf, and softball.

If you grew up in Eloy, you were most likely affected by the Deans.

Shortly after Coach Lonnie Foster gained his wings recently.

He coached alongside Coach Denton, and together they built a dynasty of athleticism in Eloy that continues to define Eloy and Santa Cruz High School today.

Around the state and beyond, Eloy is notable for the home of greatness like Benny and Art Malone, Paul Ray Powell, Ricky Nelson, Larry Shorty, Levi Jones, and so many more.

Forgive me if I forgot someone.

Many used athleticism to hone their skills and attain college degrees.

Some brought their talents back to Eloy, Superintendent Ricky Carino, Ruby James, Crystal Reyes, Principals Danny Rogers, Abigail Tarango, Andrea Reyes James, and so many more, including our fellow council member.

Please forgive me.

I know there were so many names out there, and I'm sure I'm missing somebody.

But these two men were more than coaches and teachers.

They were mentors and counselors.

During their career, they sat with families who young athletes did not make it home from the Vietnam War and other wars, and celebrated the return of those who did.

They were ready to give advice and guidance, cone sign on the first car or first home, and they did so much more.

I could say so much about these two icons of Eloy, but we don't have that much time.

So many people will be visiting Eloy to celebrate the life and legacy of Coach Dean.

I would also like to suggest that the city form an adcock committee to give the Eloy City Council guidance on more on a more permanent means of showing the history and legacy of athleticism in Eloy and Santa Cruz.

During the conference, one of the sessions I sat on was how to bring more tourism and visitors to your community.

And one of the suggestions was find what makes what makes people talk about your city and honor that.

There was the mayor from Winslow, and she said we were lucky to have a song by the uh that was named after our town.

We built the bus, and now we have at least a thousand visitors a month come just to take their picture on Winslow, Arizona.

I want to end with a quote that I found on Facebook.

I may be plagiarizing, I also uh will probably um be paraphrasing as well.

But someone wrote Coach Denton called a coach's meeting in heaven and asked God to send him his best.

I have talked to Coach Dean's son Jeff.

He is supportive of this idea and is so willing to help in any way he can to make sure that the legacy of these two coaches is honored.

Thank you for the time.

Thank you, councilwoman.

Can you expand just a little bit on what uh could be done?

Something that we could do together here to direct city staff.

I uh just off the top of my head, I would think that getting like a picture gallery up here in our four-year the month of October, and making it available for people to visit and see and reminisce as a city council as a um school board member at Santa at Santa Cruz when I was there, I noticed that so many people had such fond memories of growing up in Eloy, but it was a lot of it was centered around the school.

As for a permanent type of suggestion, I think building an ad hoc committee that includes the chamber of commerce that includes Santa Cruz High School, uh someone from the city, a city staff, and you know, like I said, Jeff Dean would be mill would so be willing to also help and support in that.

Maybe we could do a mural, maybe we could do something in the park.

But there Eloy has a long legacy of famous athletes, of professional athletes, and not just and just college athletes that have come back and supported the school, and I think that it would be a way to not just honor them and constantly remember them, like Mr.

Jimenez, you know.

I think having maybe having a park where we can kind of display what you know Eloy did for these young people and specifically for those who came back.

I know Benny Malone always gave, he had a t-shirt business, always supported Santa Cruz High School and gave t-shirts for all of the uh athletic teams.

Art was so supportive of his time when he was alive.

Levi comes down regularly.

There's a lot of people that sh that have great appreciation for their time in Eloy.

So anybody on council have any suggestions or anything they would like to add to this because if I don't hear any objections, I'm gonna talk with city staff and maybe we'll start setting up something for the for the breezeway here to kick off in October to honor these individuals.

They gave so much.

I know when I was moving to Eloy and I looked it up.

I mean, I was amazed and I saw that in the Wikipedias and all that about Eloy.

So thank you, Councilwoman, for bringing that to light, and I think we should move forward with it.

Thank you.

Thank you, and thank you to my fellow council members too for allowing me this time.

So, more council member announcements, Mr.

Garcia.

You got anything?

Well, I did not make the conference.

I did make the dinner, that was very nice.

But I have to say that the council that the mayor did not stop by to say hi at the game.

You guys anything you want to bring up about the uh conference or anything?

Thank you, Mayor.

Um I also attended the um Arizona League of Cities and Towns Conference um this past week.

Um I found it very informative, a lot of information to be absorbed.

Um a great chance to meet with and network, speak with a lot of city and town officials.

Um, very beneficial.

Um I would suggest if you're ever on council and you have the opportunity.

Um, this is one of those um conferences you don't want to miss.

So um thank you.

Thank you.

Michelle.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I agree with all of you regarding the attendance.

This was my second time, and um, I think mostly what I get out of it um is not only some of the information.

I I will admit this year I wasn't as enthused about some of the classes as I was last year, and I made sure I got the steps in too from um my room on the other side of the state.

But anyway, um nice hotel.

But I think just looking at um what all the other communities in our state do to try to bring, whether it's tourism, um, whether it's um, you know, just trying to keep your city alive.

It's yes, that promotion because that's what we so desperately need.

I mean, I ran on, you know, wanting to live here, work here, and play here, and I feel like we're lacking in that play area.

Um, we're working on the work and uh and the living, but sometimes we need that play to get in there to help bring more people here.

And I I I saw people had amazing ideas and did a lot of great things in all the different other communities as well.

Um, the only other thing um other than that is I just wanted to ask, I don't like the word direct city staff to take another look at the zoning code for solar installations.

Um, as you know, when we approve that um code, we set it at 16%, but supposedly in there it reads um that people that businesses can come to us and ask us to go above that 60 limit, 16 percent limit.

I would like to see if we can make it a hard 16 percent.

Um, unless the city grows, um, we don't allow anything over that because um I just want our city staff to look at that.

Absolutely, Vice Mayor.

We'll take a look at that and have something for council to to look at as soon as we can.

Uh, as you know, our community development director, Mr.

Simer, he's out for the next two weeks.

So as soon as he returns, we'll get with him.

Thank you.

I guess I'm uh reluctant, not reluctant, but I I really miss the fact not going to the league meeting uh, I guess I've been a council while down that's been the mainstay for me every year, but unfortunately, they moved the week this this year, and I got caught with an out-of-town business engagement and couldn't make it.

But anyway, I'm just curious because I used to try to hit as many, I guess, uh groups as not groups, but uh sessions as I could.

But can anybody uh just what was the hot ticket items this year?

There's certain sessions every year that seem to get overflow crowds and so forth, and uh one year it was recycling, another year it was uh I don't know, but I just curious what were the hot items this year.

Can anybody could share that?

I think that what was it, threat assessment one that we went to?

That that was a real hot ticket item.

That was a good one.

Yeah, state land use.

Yeah, very good.

And I did the speed breakfast even though you weren't there this year.

Yeah, good.

Okay, anybody else on council have anything to add?

Okay, hearing none.

We will go over to city manager announcements.

Thank you, Mayor.

Members of council, there's a couple of items to bring to attention tonight.

First of all, this is the last week of the pool being open.

So it will close after this weekend.

It is Labor Day.

It'll we have free admission, 12 to 5 on Monday.

So anybody wanting the last dip in the pool, get over there, get it done.

I see Dan, he's gonna bring his pool noodles.

So there you go.

Oh, yeah, well, tonight, especially.

Uh, we got some exciting news.

Um, Mr.

Runcher Public Works Director and a couple of the other gentlemen attended the rural water conference for Arizona last week, and our Anthony Baldoner grow scored third place in the meter replacement competition.

So, what it is is they get a meter and it's all taken apart, and they gotta put it all back together and they're timed.

And Anthony got third, and he's never done this before.

So he's like, I'll do it.

And so we're really proud of that.

He got he got third place, Matt's sitting there smiling.

So really really cool that our guys are getting involved in this and participating in these events in the state.

Uh, again, getting like you guys mentioned, getting our name out there.

Uh thirdly, uh Monday 9-1 is Labor Day, so city offices will be closed.

So just a notice to the public on that.

And lastly, we've been working with APS for a good part of this year on their major line replacement project that they'll be doing throughout the city limits.

Um, this is continuing on in next week, Thursday on September 4th from 3 30 to 7 30.

The team from SWCA, who is representing APS, will be having their public open house at our Toltec Senior Center.

So again, public open house, Toltec Senior Center from 3 30 to 7 30.

And that is right before they'll be doing a public hearing on September 8th, 1 to 5 at the Radisson Hotel in Casagrande.

Our own Eloy Santa Cruz Library has a printed copy of all the information that they're doing for this project.

So anybody that's in town that wants to see a printed copy, they're more than welcome to stop by during library hours and check that out.

Otherwise, it is available online as well.

They've been sending out all of these notices and flyers in the community.

So I'm sure a lot of folks are starting to get this.

Um they have any questions again next week on Thursday, September 4th, 3:30 to 7:30.

The folks will be here at the Toll Tech Senior Center to answer any questions and help guide folks to what is being done and what is being proposed.

Um, our staff has met with them and repeated the time uh repeatedly to talk about the line placement and make sure that it doesn't interfere with any future growth in our area, and it protects the natural beauty of our Mount Newman as best as we possibly can.

These are big lines, so you know we're doing what we can to help out.

But that mayor, council uh concludes my announcements.

Thank you.

If you got any questions, happy to answer.

Oh, thank you, Mayor.

Mr.

Cooper, we'd like to address the council.

Do you notice how the city manager was like like it was a bullet?

Mayor, Mayor, Council members.

Um I notified the mayor, vice mayor, and the town manager, the city manager on this.

Um the city of I'm sorry, the town of Florence, their town attorney is is basically taking the job to be legal counsel for the town of Queen Creek.

And apparently there was a real short time frame involved with it making that transfer.

They reached out to my law firm to ask about providing some temporary legal services for them.

And upon hearing that, I immediately you know reported it to the city manager and to the mayor and vice mayor.

Uh, nothing has come to fruition on that.

I think this the town council is going to look at some type of an agreement on the Tuesday after Labor Day.

It's there, but I wanted to let you know that basically that that was out there, and as near as I can tell, currently there are no issues involving my our representation with the city of Eloy and the town of Florence.

I think the reason they reached out for us is that you have an IGA for um your magistrate where he goes over there and runs the court.

He apparently runs the court in the same manner that he runs it for the city.

So they thought that maybe this would be on a temporary basis, it would be some type of a transition.

They are currently advertising to fill that Matt, you know, that that position by having an in-house attorney.

They are weighing the possibility of perhaps some doing something else with their with their magistrate, you know, with their magistrate court as far as the prosecutions, but they don't know they've not had a time to look at it.

They were basically moving quickly because the I think that the that they see that their town attorney had to leave by about the 15th of September, so they needed to basically do something, you know, relatively quickly.

So they asked us if we could help them on an interim basis, and we did.

Um, I don't have any other information for you on that, but at the meeting in September, council meeting if the council wishes to speak to us about it at town, you know, the city attorney and executive session.

Certainly, you could do that.

We couldn't do that tonight because it's not on the agenda.

So I thought I would tell you, and honestly, I've now told you everything that I know about the situation.

Thank you, sir.

Greatly appreciated.

And you feel you'd be able to handle both simultaneously.

The town of Florence council meetings, they meet on the second and the fourth Tuesday of the month.

Your council meetings are you know on Mondays unless there's a holiday.

The PZ meetings are on Wednesdays, so there does not appear that there would be at a short term that there would be any issue.

I also made it very clear to them that basically anything that we could provide to them was subject to basically making sure our clients, such as the city of Eloy, are fully covered and we're not posing a hardship on them.

I would like one comment.

I when I hear the word temporary, I get a little scared, so just be careful the word temporary.

Anybody any other comments from council?

Everybody good?

You good?

Okay.

I just got messaged that our state representative is probably about four minutes out.

So we'll go ahead with the consent agenda until he gets you.

So on to item number seven.

Consent agenda, all items with an asterisk are be considered routine matters and will be enacted by one motion and one roll call vote of the council.

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

Mayor, I'd like to um remove uh item C D and E.

Um my reasoning.

Uh I have some questions for um the director of public works, Matt Rentra on C and C and D and uh director of finance Brian Wright have him and I have had some communication about an item um a date item on uh item E that needs to be corrected.

Okay, hearing it.

Anyone else on council have anything they'd like to put have poll?

Okay, so I'll look for a motion to approve item A and B on the consent agenda.

So moved.

We have a second.

Second, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes, Councilmember Galindo?

Yes, Councilmember Vadraska?

Yes, Councilmember Curtis.

Yes, Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes, Councilmember Snyder?

Yes, Mayor Mayor Sutton?

Yes.

Thank you.

Okay, so we'll do item C.

Matt, please.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Um the item C that's that's being brought before you on a consent agenda is the the authorization.

We're requesting authorization to purchase a leeway paver, which will help in our in our streets operations for the road maintenance.

Um it's a it's one that we can get through uh source wall cooperative purchasing contract um with Arnold Machinery is the distributor for the Leboy Pavers, the LeBoy equipment.

Uh we do have that in the budget in our capital budget, and and we went through the source wall contracts to to further procurement on this.

I'd be happy to answer any other questions.

Thank you, Matt.

Um, these are probably very easy and basic questions.

Um the expect what is the expected life expectancy of the equipment that you're proposing to um to purchase?

This one we expect to last between five and seven years.

Five and seven years, okay.

Um the quote from Leboy, it says it comes with a 24-month unlimited hour warranty.

Also, on there, there was a note about extended warranty programs that they offer.

Um do you have any details on that?

Or is there any any intent to purchase any additional uh extended warranty on this item?

We'll certainly look at it and see if we have enough in our budget to cover an extended warranty for an additional cost, and we'll also look at it and see what the additional warranty would entail.

We can certainly bring that back to you for consideration.

Okay, because I think a the program it's at anywhere from one to three years, so that could possibly give us a full warranty for the life of it, right?

Expected life of it, potentially, yes.

Yeah, okay.

Um the equipment that you're purchasing or attempting to purchase.

Um, is it comparable to what we've had in the past?

Is it better?

This is this is something that we haven't had in the past.

The closest thing that we have to it is a chip spreader box.

This is the full asphalt pavement machine.

It's a smaller paper, so we should we'd be able to do skin patching, we'd be able to do small small pavement repairs and actually use um asphalt pavement instead of just a chip seal.

So this is something brand new for us.

Okay, great.

And then if approved, how long do you think before we have a delivery on it?

Are there any um supply chain issues that you're aware of?

Uh we probably expect to have delivery between three and six months.

Okay, those are the questions I have.

Oh, I have questions, yeah.

Matt, uh what happens if we don't buy this?

I mean, uh I'm just curious when I read this.

Uh, I guess I've been reading in the last uh couple sessions of uh council.

We seem like we have a lot of equipment that we're always repairing, whether it be graders or we need a new uh uh diesel engine, or we need pumps or something.

And I guess my question is what's utilization of this?

We buy this machine.

Uh how much how many hours a month would it be used?

It's hard to say we would we would use it for small payment repairs, um which would actually improve the life of the pavement rather than going in with the cold patch and trying to to fill in a pothole that way we with the paver we can remove a section of asphalt and come in and and lay down hot asphalt with it.

I would expect that we would probably use this monthly, maybe every other month.

So you could use it six or twelve times a year.

We can also use it for more if there's the need for it, we could certainly use it more often than that.

It's just not a piece of equipment similar to our grader that we're using all day every day.

I guess my question is if you go back and look at the cost of it, yeah, it does depreciate even you know, and so uh soon you have to train some operators on how to operate it.

And so the utilization of the equipment versus what if we just continue to hire it done by somebody else, and just what what's the savings of the city and what do we really gain by doing is so something is so boy it'd be really nice to have this, or is there something we really get some financial advantage of doing it?

This actually does have a financial advantage of of us doing it in-house rather than contracting out to a consultant or a contractor.

You still have to buy the asphalt and everything, correct?

I mean, this is just uh somebody delivers the asphalt, and and yeah, you hired out the contractor, they're doing all that when you quote it, they're doing all that.

They're you know, paying for the the time of the uh operator, they're paying for the asphalt, they're paying for everything.

Where in our case we just be we're doing it internally and just buying a machine.

Right, and just just um rough estimates.

We we figured when we were pricing this out, we figured we would probably get five times the work out of it doing it internally than contracting out.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um just one question.

Is this one of the items that was on your capital improvement project plan uh that we approved initially?

Mr.

Mayor, Madam Vice Mayor, yes it is.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah, let's say this lasts for the the full seven years.

250,000 dollars, it's roughly 35,714 a year.

And you see us saving more than $35,000 a year with the purchase of this item.

I do, because in any any one of the the projects that we would use this for, we would contract out, which would be way more than the $35,000.

Thank you, sir.

Any other c uh questions from council?

Okay, this time we're gonna look for a motion.

Go ahead, sir.

One last question.

Um I think I saw the quote was 192, correct?

And you're asking up to 250.

So depending on what and also to your point earlier to cover the extended warranty.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Okay.

With that, we'll look for a motion to approve item C on the consent agenda.

Do I have a motion?

Mayor, I make a motion that we um approve item number C on the consent agenda.

I have a second.

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Vodraska.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yeah.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Mayor Senton.

Yes.

Okay.

Uh this time.

This time, item D.

Oh, sorry, I was checking to make sure this the state representative hasn't come in.

This one is is actually for the the engine for our grater, which as I mentioned before, we use all day every day.

Uh this one that the engine is is needs to be repaired, and we went to Empire Caterpillar as it is an Empire Caterpillar machine uh to get a remanufactured machine uh engine was about $75,000 to repair the existing engine that's already there.

Um would came came in at $90,000.

We figured it would be in the best interest to go with the remanufactured engine for one.

We get a better quality engine, we have a warranty reset.

It's held to it's it's remanufactured to the empire standards as is for a new engine, and it would would it prolong the life of of the engine rather than fixing what we have in hopes that hope it lasts for another year or two.

Any questions?

Go ahead, Mikey.

Indulge me again.

Sorry.

Um it was mentioned that we have currently two graders, right?

One nineteen ninety-nine, and that's operational right now.

Yes.

And then this one is a 2013.

Um my question is what kind of condition is the older one in 1999.

It's um it's well used.

Um so one of the things that we're looking at for future capital improvements is the replacement of of one or both of those graders.

We don't have the funds for it yet.

Um we can't bring it to to council for a new purchase, but we are looking at that for a replacement so that we can have this one and then we can replace the older of the two any idea what one of those cost.

I would probably be between 800 and thousand and a million dollars.

Okay, so it's it's a pretty substantial expense, and we understand that.

Uh we're going to be looking at that.

Maybe we can get a remanufactured machine from Empire Caterpillar that hasn't a warranty on it, um, maybe has lower hours on it, lower usage on it.

We're we're certainly looking at those, especially with the incorporation of Santan Valley.

We know that there's going to be a an impact to our our HERF revenue, our streets revenue.

Two more questions.

Um does our staff do normal maintenance on these?

Yes.

Okay.

And they're okay.

And can you explain what exactly we use the graders for?

What we use the graders for um, as you know, we have 150 miles of 115 square miles of of in our incorporated city limits.

The greater uh will go into those areas where we don't have pavement, and that's what we use to grade the road back and forth so that it's passable so that it's safe.

Uh one thing to consider too with the greater, we say we have a mile of road, but with the greater, we actually do two or three or four passes.

So the one mile of road turns into four miles of road time for our greater.

Thank you.

Matt, any idea um remanufactured was this board out or when a crack block or something.

Any idea how was it how it was repaired?

What are we getting back other than just remanufactured it's uh they they I don't know specifically because that's that's not what I get involved with.

Um, but I'm sure they they go through and maybe weld it or machine it or do something, and then they'll test it, they'll inspect it to make sure that it it performs similar to a a new engine block or or whatever the engine components are.

There's a full multi-point inspection that they would go through, they look at the the gaskets, the seals, the the tolerances, the valves, the pistons, and everything else that goes into the engine.

Okay, I guess what scares me you say the welding, whatever uh sounds like crack block as opposed to just reboring it and you know the compression and seals and things like that.

So uh there is you say the caterpillar warranty on this, yes.

It was just how long this one uh I believe it's one year for the standard warranty for the remanufactured okay.

Thank you.

Anyone else in council have uh okay at this time we'll look for a motion to approve item D consent agenda Mayor I make a motion that we uh approve item D on the consent agenda?

Do I have a second?

Second.

Roll call, please, madam clerk.

Councilmember Valdraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yeah, Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes, Councilmember Schneider.

Yes, Councilmember Garcia.

Yes, Councilmember Galindo?

Yes, Mayor Sutton.

Yes, thank you very much.

Thank you.

We'll just get this last item out of the way before our representative comes up.

This would be item E.

Mr.

Wright.

Uh yes, Mayor members of the council.

I think uh the question that uh council member Borovska asked was uh on page six of the development impact fee report.

I had uh uh the net position and ending net position as 2023-2024.

We've made those changes to 2024-25 to be posted on the uh annual report, which will be posted on the city's finance web page um after council's approval.

You got anything else to add?

No.

I just want to say thank you for taking a look at that.

Okay, anybody else have anything from Mr.

Wright on iteming?

Hearing seeing none, looking for a motion to approve item.

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Roll call, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Godlindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Vadraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

All right.

Thank you all.

Yeah.

I'm really happy that we have one of our state representatives with us here live.

And we have one thumb drive.

Did she get it to you?

Yes, she did.

Yes, she did.

And ladies and gentlemen, this is Ms.

Chris, Mr.

Chris Lopez.

He's one of our state representatives, wants to come down and just say a few words to us.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, sir.

First of all, for driving through one good storm to get here.

I'm just going to say that.

Well, you know, uh, Mayor Sutton, uh, uh council members, thank you uh first and foremost for having me uh tonight.

Uh did you already get to see the uh presentation?

No, we have it.

Okay, very good.

Well, um I will go first.

Usually I uh uh do the whole ladies first.

It's nobody wants to mess with uh representative Martinez anyway, right?

So it'd be in my uh best interest.

But again, thank you for having me here.

It was a bit of a challenge getting through that storm, but uh nevertheless uh we are here to uh proudly uh represent the folks of Eloy and in this district and just talk about some of uh the things that got done in um in the uh budget this year and in our 57th uh session.

Um we did very well.

Um happy to report we did very well uh in in our district, uh District 16.

Um it was a proud moment for me to match uh uh Representative Martinez's uh monies that were allocated.

So it was 200,000 for police here and 200,000 for fire.

And all I can say is spend it.

You know, spend it faster than um than not.

And uh just know that we are there fighting for you.

Your mayor was uh there at the uh capital today um with some issues that uh that we will go right to work on.

So it's it's interaction like that that we depend on.

You guys have voted us in and uh and asked us to do a job, and that's what we're there to do.

So never hesitate.

Come over there, make sure we're doing our jobs and challenge us with these issues because that's why we're there.

Uh having said all that, um, you know, I stand for any questions.

I will yield to Mrs.

Martinez, uh Representative Martinez's uh video, and uh we'll be here for any questions.

Anyone from council have anything?

Go ahead.

As always, the I guess I'd like to ask about the the uh budget and the income.

You know, the last couple of years we keep hearing horror stories about we don't have any money in the budget, we're gonna have to make all these cuts, and somehow we seem to come out okay.

And so I don't know a lot of it's just uh crying wolf or just what's going on, but I know uh a couple meetings I've gone to with the league.

There's a discussion of first of all was a rental tax which went away, and it was the food tax that was discussed this year, and it seems like we're always trying to look at uh how we can save some money at the state level, but it's coming at the expense of small, I said use words small cities and towns that really don't have a lot of revenue sources.

Can you maybe address that where this whole budget thing is headed as far as revenue and costs and what impact it may have to the smaller cities in the future?

Sure, and you know, it is a big concern of all of ours, you know, being born and raised in Casagrande.

Um, it affects us uh double, you know, and and more uh more than some of the metropolitan areas.

Um I can tell you that there are changes as a member of the appropriations committee.

Uh we uh have just started, it was just announced earlier that our uh committee chair, there's been some changes there, and I have heard and had to deal with those same issues of no money, no money, no money.

If anybody is familiar with that uh movie, uh mean girls, and I am because I at that time had a teenage daughter and was watching it all the time.

It's very clickish down there.

Um so to sum it up, we have a Senate president that was a little more forgiving, and um, we ended up getting this uh budget pushed through uh than the House side.

Uh myself and Representative Martinez uh voted for that and uh advocated for that to get those monies.

I guess what I'm saying is you should probably won't be hearing those same horror stories about uh the doomsday, this and that, and those issues that were killed in the Senate on the Senate side will be back for the next session, and you can bet that Representative Martinez, myself, and Senator Show will be fighting for our rural areas with uh those issues in mind.

I mean, it they don't seem to be issues for some of the larger uh districts and cities, but they have a huge impact, and you're not the only one.

Our our city here, this city here of Eloy is not the only one in the district that has those true uh issues and and worries.

So we will continue to fight and navigate through all of that.

Representative Lopez, first of all, again, thank you for coming down here tonight.

With the incorporation of Santan Valley, right?

Our portion of the pie known as the state shared revenue is going to get smaller.

This is a panic, and not only in our city and cities all around us here.

Will the legislature be increasing the size of that pot?

Do you know?

So it won't be a bigger impact for us smaller cities.

Right now it is very small, as you have indicated.

Um there's no talk about it right now, but we continue to watch and keep those same concerns in in our minds.

So if that uh if it's when and if it starts going that way, uh you'll be sure that uh Representative Martinez and I will be coming to you guys for that information.

Again, we are the vehicle, you guys are the fuel, so to speak.

So um it's constant collaboration and communication that we need to continue and have um that uh will get us through that.

But right now, it uh it seems pretty stagnant.

And now having said that, things are starting to gear up again, and uh uh we'll we'll just continue to watch it.

Because uh I saw how much work you guys did down there at budget time, and I use that word today, inhumane.

Yeah.

I really meant that.

Anyone else have any questions or comments?

Go ahead.

In relation to inhumane, um, I know you've received a couple emails from me.

I just want to thank you for supporting SB 1658, the animal cruelty bill.

Um, I know there was a lot of pressure on you guys, and I hopefully put a lot of pressure on you guys to help support that, and I know you voted yes, and I appreciate that.

Not only as a council member, but as a law enforcement officer and someone who cares about animals, so thank you.

Well, thank you.

And it's I I wouldn't consider it pressure, I would can uh just consider it uh helpful information.

Um, and that's what this district does very, very well.

Uh just talking to colleagues in other districts.

Uh, they're almost jealous because they don't get the amount of information that we do here.

So please continue it.

To your point, I mean, I showed up today at the state house totally unannounced, totally out of the blue.

And within 15 minutes, I was in a in a room with what four legislators, a lawyer, and people taking notes and coming up with some fantastic ideas to get to solve the problem that we have.

And I was just blown away, and this is uh I I can't say enough about how much you guys really put out for us.

Thank you.

Well, thank you for coming up there, and uh, please do all of you.

Uh it's an open invitation always, just come up there and and uh see what we're doing.

And that's the best part of the job is when we have constituents and uh members from council come up there so we can show, you know, do a tour and just sit and chit chat.

And the and the tour was wonderful.

We took us out onto the floor of the the house, and it was really nice when I went past uh Representative Martinez's desk, and she had an Eloy Challenge coin sitting proud, and she had no idea we were coming up there today, and that just made me feel good.

So thank you, sir.

You should should we should we get on with the movie?

Absolutely.

Okay.

I will tell her to say it.

Oh, down below.

Really on the right side.

Oh, that one.

Got it.

Tina's for LD16 representing the cities of Cassagram, Mary Copacoolich, and of course Eloy, Arizona.

I am so sorry I could not be there today.

Unfortunately, I had some emergency family stuff.

Everything is fine, but that needed to be taken care of.

But I wanted to go and address you today about this year's budget.

Every House Republican got 2.5 million dollars in the state budget.

And we wanted to make sure that every city, every community in our district, got a portion of it.

So for Eloy, my 2.5 got $100,000 for police and $100,000 for fire.

This year I have a great seat mate named Representative Chris Lopez.

And when we were talking, he says, I don't think $100,000 is enough for Eloy.

Let me match that.

And so he threw in a hundred thousand dollars for both as well.

So $200,000 for the city of Eloy and for police and fire, which equals $400,000, which is fantastic.

In fact, I believe uh both agencies should have already gotten their first payment, and we're thrilled to have done that.

I did want to talk a little bit about legislation.

Last year, uh we had a little snafu with the rec with the RICO funds, and I was really sorry about that.

We did get it fixed in the end, but it encouraged me to run some legislation to protect those RICO funds that got killed.

That was not wonderful news, and believe it or not, I did have a conversation with more than a few folks about killing my bill for the police.

However, when the budget came around, we then started to talk about what kind of things I needed in this budget to move it forward.

And protecting those RICO funds were top on my list.

And so we ended up putting a footnote in the budget that addressed that we, the state legislature, will never take the RICO funds again.

Now I do have copies of the bills that I'd like to present to the uh police chief.

So, sir, understand we're gonna be coming, knocking on your door with coffee and donuts to talk to you about that RICO fund.

Again, it is my honor and privilege to represent you.

Know that I will always fight for Eloy.

I love you guys.

Uh know that you can address me, call me, text me whenever you can.

Thank you for the mayor who came by today and saw me, and thank you, David, for helping me with this video.

And with that, I'm going to leave it up to Chris Lopez to finish and take questions.

And again, I will see you guys soon.

Bye for now.

If I may.

And we will be presenting that uh a little bit later.

Um you know, when Teresa says that she uh fights uh as she does, you can believe that.

She makes my job much uh very easy uh when it comes to good cop, bad cop.

And uh I don't know any other person that I would like to be uh crouching behind uh going into a bar fight, I guess, you know, uh than Teresa.

Um but everything that she has always said and continues to say is exactly uh the way it is.

Uh what better mentors, what better uh seat mates uh that I have then uh she and and TJ Show, and just know that um like I said already, uh I feel that you guys, everybody in the district uh here are very well looked uh looked after, and and um we have all of these concerns in uh within us just because we've all grown up here and uh in the area, so we know that the uh the the issues at hand.

So how proud are we to present that and we will continue fighting for everything that uh that we need and deserve and will continue to get.

Representative Lotet Lopez again, it's our honor to have you here, sir.

You and Miss Martinez, it's just just a dynamic, wonderful path.

Thank you for all you do for us.

Anyone on council have anything to add, say?

Well, Chris, uh as we were a couple of us were at the uh Pennell Alliance, uh me.

And it was very interesting that uh the um not consultant, but the uh lobbyist, I guess I'd call him for the for the organization pointed out how many senators and representatives Pennell County touched.

You know, it's not just the two of you, it's just we take Pennell County and how many portions of the county were impacted or like how how many were impacted by the county because a portion of their district was in the county.

I was amazed at that.

How many uh do you all work together or stay in touch because of that?

Or kind of everybody I know the you know, I can I can speak for uh uh Rep Martinez and and uh Senator Schope that we do keep in close communication, but the other representatives that have a small portion of Penal County, uh, you know, uh we do we do collaborate just today after we met with uh Mayor Sutton and some other constituents, we were all in the majority's uh conference room talking about um the new uh natural gas pipeline that's gonna be coming right through our district.

I mean, that is uh plus 7.5 million dollars uh in revenue annually uh you know to to our district.

So I I as I can sit here and speak directly for myself, Rep Martinez and Senator Schope, yes, to answer your question, yes.

And those other and those others that uh have portions of Penal County are just you know, along with our um supervisors, we we all stay very much in communication.

So yeah.

It is a proud moment, you know.

Like last uh last week for any of those and many of you were there at the uh uh League of Cities and Towns.

I mean, our representation for our district was solid.

Very proud to be a part of it.

Anybody else in council questions, concerns?

Representative, thank you.

Thank you again for coming.

Thank you all.

And have a safe trip back home.

There you go.

Okay, that'll bring us to item number eight.

Bism possible discussions and our actions on the following.

Item A discussion and consideration of accepting a proposal from the Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District, C A I D D or known as the district, under the two other 2,07th intergovernmental agreement with the district to drill a replacement well to replace well number three at a cost not to exceed 900,000 plus applicable taxes and authorizing the mayor to execute necessary agreements.

I knew you were going to be standing in when I looked up.

I did.

Yes.

Um, Mr.

Mayor, members of the council, this is this is following up.

We've been keeping you uh apprised of the situations with well three.

Uh this one we do have it in our capital plan for this year for the tune of 900,000.

We're fortunate in in having a partnership with the Central Arizona Irrigation Drainage and District.

This is what they do, they do wells.

And so we've been working with them to get proposals from their subcontractors to do the well drilling on that.

They have two identified they went they've recommended one of them to us.

Um, and and this is all covered under the the agreement that we have with them for maintenance and repairs and new construction of wells.

So we're fortunate in that.

Um the price came in a little bit below 900,000, but we're we're keeping the 900,000 for contingency for other electrical for tying in for piping the new well into our existing system.

Happy to answer any questions.

And beyond council have any questions.

Go ahead, Michael.

Matt, um I know this is about out there for quite some time.

Uh once approved, uh, do you have a timeline as far as a start date, finish date, and any known supply chain issues?

Supply chain issues, no, because they've the contractor that they're working with already has the the piping, already has the the motor, already has the pump in place.

And so as far as the starting time, we were discussing this with the district last week or the week before, they said that that their contractor could start on probably September 2nd.

So much earlier than what we had anticipated before, and they can have it drilled and ready to go within three to six weeks.

So by the end of October, we'll have it up and ready to go.

Fantastic.

Uming that the old well number three has been non-operational for some time, are there gonna be any additional costs to sunsetting that well or at all?

Potentially, um if we decide to go there out right now, we have just we we still have the well the the well casing in place, but we've just covered it with concrete so it doesn't pro it doesn't pose a safety hazard.

Um we can reach out to the Department of Water Resources and see what's available to that.

However, the the consultant from the Central Arizona Irrigation Drangage District recommends that we not abandon it completely because we can always go back to it if we need to and install another wildhead for it.

Just a curiosity.

How deep is the wall?

Uh it's about 700 feet.

Any other questions on council?

Okay, I'm looking for a motion to approve item A.

Mayor, I make a motion that we approve item A.

Second.

Roll call, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Valdraska.

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, that brings us to item B.

Adoption of resolution number 25-1631 supporting the application to the Arizona State Match Advantage for Rural Transportation, which is known as the AZ Smart Fund, to apply for a grant funding to reimburse local match as required for safe streets for all grant program.

Matt.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

This is coming into this is coming to you for approval.

So we have to get creative.

One of these creative, one of these four funding sources that we have is the safe streets for all.

That's one that we've we've submitted in the application for.

ADOT is aware of it.

This project, if we're awarded, is probably a three million, four million dollar improvement project for the intersections of Batagli and Frontier Street, as well as Batagli and State Route 87.

We understand that State Route 87 is a state route, but it the year zone department of transportation will not apply for the Safe Streets for All Grant, but they do have we do have their support in applying for this.

If we're awarded this funding, there's a local match required of 20%, which in this case would be about $900,000.

And the local match is reimbursable.

Um if we were awarded the AZ Smart grant, as as the mayor referenced.

The AC Smart grant is is uh funding source that will allow that that will reimburse a local match and it's a state versus a federal, so it's there's no conflict there.

So we can use that if we are awarded the funding.

We've submitted in the application for the for the grant project already, and we're just waiting to see what happens.

If we are awarded the funding, and and if we do have the local match that's required, this this will be to uh reimburse that local match.

Questions go ahead, Joe.

I just want to thank you.

I want to thank the council.

I want to thank um ADOT for bringing this up, this plan up, and for having it approved.

I think $900,000, whether we get reimbursed for it or not, is worth it because it's gonna save a lot of lives.

I have I travel that um route very frequently, along with so many other people, I'm sure, and it is a dangerous intersection.

And I've had close calls.

Um I I'm sure others have had close calls as well.

Um when I was running, it was one of the things that you know I said that needed to be improved and needed to be addressed, and now it is being addressed, and and it happened so quickly.

So thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, council members.

Thank you, our city staff that worked so hard and assuring that that we got this.

It's going to save a lot of lives.

It's especially since we have such high employment that follow that route, not just like uh the vice mayor and I that travel from Florence and Coolidge and those areas, but we have the prisons and now you know that the Lu said we'll be opening up the Niccol plant and hopefully eventually Proctor and Gamble will get there.

Not just like uh the vice mayor and I that travel from Florence and Coolidge and those areas, but we have the prisons and now you know that Lu said we'll be opening up the Niccol plant, and hopefully eventually Procter and Gamel will get there.

But it's it's just gonna give us peace of mind to know that there's going to be safe travels and for people like I said that we learned at the league conference that we want to come visit our city, they they will have a safer and um more secure route to come in to Eloy from that area and to visit Eloy.

So thank you.

Thank you, everybody for the hard work, and I'm so happy to see that this is finally getting funded.

It's our pleasure.

Thank you.

And I'll give a shout out to the Sun Carter MPO for their assistance with this, also.

They were very instrumental in helping us out with all of this.

Okay, anything else from Council.

Okay, do I hear a motion to read by title adoption of resolution number two five one six three one?

Mayor, I make the motion.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Resolution number 251631.

A resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of Eloy, Penal County, Arizona, authorizing an application to the Arizona Smart Fund for a grant for design and other engineering services, match grant, development and submission, submission pursuant to Title 28, Chapter 2, Article 2, Arizona Revised Statute and Declaring an Emergency.

Do we have a motion to approve resolution 25-1631 as represented?

Mayor, I make the motion to approve.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Varatska.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you, Matt.

Okay, now these next three have to do with the uh the water scenarios two and three.

So the first one we're gonna do is recommendation for the scenario two and three.

All right.

So like to adopt resolution number two five-1630 to approve new wastewater rates and charges for the city of Eloy to Eloy wastewater system using recommendations from scenario two and three of the wastewater rate study.

Mr.

Mayor, members of the council.

Um at the last meeting on August 11th, uh uh Dan Jackson was here, and we did a public hearing for the water and wastewater uh at that time.

Council uh recommended that to bring forth options two and three.

Well, when when it comes to the wastewater, the options, the rate uh increases are exactly the same.

So it is mimicking the uh scenarios two and three for the wastewater um on that.

So that's what's brought forth is wastewater is actually the same uh rate scenario on both of them.

So um if there's any questions uh from council, I'll be gladly entertained that at this time.

Any questions from council Brian?

I have a question.

I guess uh we're going to discussion now on which way to go.

Uh uh, Mr.

Mayor, uh Councilman Sniers.

So the first resolution this the 251630 is just for the wastewater rates.

The wastewater rates uh that we're looking at because we have to adopt a resolution for wastewater and then one for water.

The first resolution that's brought forth is just for wastewater, and it should we're just indicating that under scenario two and three, which council recommended us bring forth the rates are the exactly the same, the rate increases.

So it's just made note that uh the rate increase that we're bringing forth, the scenarios, the rate increase are exactly the same between the two scenarios.

Okay, because good.

I guess why it's getting confused.

We're not we're not uh picking either two or three at this point.

Not okay.

At this point, sorry, that's where we're just uh letting council know and the public know that the the rate increases are the exactly the same versus scenario two and three.

Joe, did I see you had something?

No.

Okay, I don't see anything else, questions or comments from council.

So do I hear a motion to read by title adoption of resolution uh two five-one six three oh?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Madam Clerk.

Resolution number 25 1630.

A resolution of the city council of the city of Eloy, Arizona, increasing rates and charges for the City of Eloy wastewater system.

Do we have a motion to approve resolution 25-1630 as presented?

Mayor moved.

Mayor, I make a motion that um we uh approve um adoption of resolution number two five one six three zero.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Roll call, please.

Councilmember Valdraska.

Yes, Councilmember Curtis.

Yeah, Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes, Councilmember Schneider.

Yes, Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Oh, and Councilmember Galindo.

Yes, thank you.

Okay, now that's the tricky one.

Right.

How should we proceed with this?

Because we have to, it's uh for scenario three and scenario two.

Do we have a Steve?

Do you have a suggestion how we should proceed with this?

Mayor, Council members.

I would just suggest that you discuss them both and that you have a motion to approve one or the other with the understanding that the first one that passes will basically be the legislative action of the council.

Okay, would you like to?

Yes, Mr.

Mayor, uh members of the council.

Um the next one is items D and E.

Uh the uh I uh resolution 25 1628.

That is using the uh recommendation from scenario three of the uh water uh study.

Uh item E, which is 20 uh resolution 25 1628 is uh referencing scenario two.

The difference between the two scenarios is uh let me just get to this page is the under scenario two, the increases um will go 13 percent for the first three years, and then four percent after that, while scenario um three will be fourteen percent the first two years, twelve percent the third year, ten percent the uh fourth year, and six percent the fifth year.

So the rates are the same the first two, then it it jumps up a little bit.

The difference is is by doing scenario two, we're doing it will be about a ten million dollar increase uh bonding capacity for uh that we're looking at, and while scenario three would jump up to about the 20 million mark.

So it's up to the council with the that um which method they would like to choose.

There um I can bring it up if you'd like the public hearing the presentation if if council would like to see the comparison um on that.

I do have the uh that public uh the slide here with me.

It's just uh the council's wishes on that.

No matter what, between each scenario, just like the uh one with wastewater, it will be effective November 1st, you know, 2025 on it.

No matter um and what was mentioned at the public hearing with this is uh count uh staff will be come back and conducting a update with Will Dan to do a within the two years of keeping it consistent with that so that way you know if things change uh the nature um and we have growth, we have a big water user, a big wastewater user, we'll be uh looking at justing those rates, you know, either up or down, depending on how the scenario looks and how the economy looks at the time.

Based upon the current rate scenario, uh these are the recommended uh increases for the increase in our uh able to do additional loan.

So both of these scenarios are really multi-year scenarios, but we're gonna do a revisit in two years, and we can change it in two years.

So personally, I'm gonna shoot for a number three on this.

I don't know about everybody else.

Um again, scenario two and three are in addition to the 13 million that was already approved two years ago.

Yes on top of that.

Yes, uh Mr.

Mayor, Councilmember or Vice Mayor Trango.

Yeah, so we have in our current rate study right now that we have up to 13 million, it's about seven seven and a half million water, two and a half um five and a half million sewer that is in that that that debt 13 million.

So if we go up to the 10, it will the it will go up on water and wastewater on it, but yes, the 13 million is already built into it.

So it's just additional 10 million or an additional 20 million.

So this is for water and wastewater C was for wastewater.

Is this in addition to what was approved in C on top of what was approved in C?

I guess I'm kind of confused now.

See we approve new wastewater rates and charges, or is that different than DE?

Because you're telling me that this will increase water wastewater, but didn't we just vote to improve wastewater or to increase wastewater in C?

Yes, this is a combination of the both and the scenario that you see up here.

Uh the rate that in the previous resolution is increasing for the the the water side or the wastewater side.

This is a the this debt scenario is a combination of the both.

So it's about when you when you look at it, it's about almost 30% of the debt that's being issued is from wastewater, 70 is from water.

So the rates that we just the on the resolution will increase the debt capacity for the water or the wastewater side by the the current is about 5.5 million in the 13 million, that will jump up to about 7 million dollars under scenario , and then talking to Dan Jackson, those rates are it will bump it up with that as well.

So scenario two and three under the wastewater will allow us the debt capacity for uh increasing on the wastewater side.

It depends on the water side how much more debt do we want to go on the water, you know, with it.

It can go up another seven million or another probably 14 million on it, depending on this the funding that we get from the scenarios two or three.

Because it's a combination.

So this isn't on top of an increase for C, this is part of C.

Correct.

Okay.

I just want to make sure because I guess that kind of confused me.

Uh and so that's well, I can tell you I'm leaning more towards two at this time, especially with the cuts coming from um Sant's and Corporation and such.

Anyone else on council?

Go ahead, John.

So as I look at this slide that you have up, it'll go into effect in 2025, right?

Is that what we're looking for?

So we will reevaluate this in 27.

Is that correct?

Yes.

Yeah, according to the council's recommendation about coming every two years to re-evaluate it.

Um, I don't really see a big difference where I see a significant difference is after 2027.

Um, you know, we can reevaluate that.

I am concerned, like the vice mayor of you know, inflation increasing.

I would really like to see more concrete development.

We have a lot of promises of development.

Um, but I haven't seen any dirt turned over yet and stuff.

So that's why I would like I am probably more in favor of scenario two as well, just because I would like to see in two years if there is a you know progress being made on some of the developments that have been promised that will increase our water use in the city and we'll also increase our revenues.

You go right ahead.

I should have wrote this down and I knew I had it.

So since we're raising this money, there's no requirements that we're supposed to say or that we're required to have a plan in place beforehand on what exactly we're going to be using this money for.

I mean, I know we have money set aside for the increase, um, the lines that are going to be running down Lemau Corner to Bataglia and such, but is there not something that we're required to say that we're raising this money for this intent, other than just yeah, specific designation for um certain projects?

That's kind of exactly what it is, Mayor, Vice Mayor.

I'm sorry.

Man, I got the same frog you got.

So there it is.

Uh yeah, no, but that's where the CIP comes into play.

So we just wrapped up our our water master plan study that hadn't been updated for 10 years.

So Matt and his team has that that we're using to help uh solidify what projects we're gonna do and where in town, and then as to council member Glindo's comments, we're working actively with the developers.

That's always been kind of a dart shot for us.

You know, we don't know really where they're going, but we're constantly working with them to try to get them into places.

Um, and then as I said as I stated earlier, it's all with the CIP.

You know, we'll be using that master plan.

We develop our CIPs based off of that, so we know where we need to attack first and then put it in front of council members for you all to vote on and move forward.

So this will help support that five-year CIP that we continually work through year after year, and we make adjustments as necessary.

Go ahead, Mike.

Brian, just uh be clear.

Um we're thinking of using Will Dan again, we're saying every two years.

Are we thinking that the spring time of November or excuse me of 2027?

They'll he'll be here again with an updated uh rate plan for us so that when it comes to November of 2027, we'll have that updated information and be able to make a um a decision at that point.

Oh, yeah.

Uh mayor council member barasca.

So what if we follow the same timeline as what we did uh currently, we'd probably bring forth the contract with uh Will Dan probably September of early September of 26 so they can start the data, the pull on the data, and then come before council with the updated uh study and bring the information.

So we're following the same like early 27 January.

We're we're we're bringing the before council that way.

If we have to follow it's almost you have to think about 120 days before the implementation, public hearings and all that, it would be coming.

So we're looking at probably the very first part of 27, but we would initiate the contract very early in the 20 uh six, twenty-seven fiscal year.

You good?

anybody else?

There was an article in the uh Cost Ground paper over the weekend, and uh had to do with the growth of Casa Grand and what's what uh stimulated that growth, and was had to do with the fact that Cosgrand put the infrastructure in so that when somebody was looking at Casa Grand, the infrastructure was there.

And they talked about how important it was that infrastructure was in place, whether it be water, sewer, whether it be uh power or the zoning, all that went together.

And we were talking here now about if we get more uh customers, more users, it uh drives a cost down force.

It's one of those uh chicken or egg type thing because you know somebody wants to look to invest in Eloy, is not gonna wait and say, okay, we're gonna make a decision, Eloy's your turn now to go to put this infrastructure in.

I think we're gonna have to say if we really want that growth, we're gonna have to put a uh good faith effort and and probably start putting some of this infrastructure in.

So that being said, if I look down at these rates and and what I'm thinking my analytical mind here, uh November of this year, we're going to increase uh 11% okay from uh $78 to 87.

So it's a a nine dollar increase in November.

And then next year there's another 10th hour increase.

Okay, that's happening now.

If we look at two uh scenario two, it would be increasing that November 25th increase by uh less than a dollar.

Looks like 80 cents.

And then in uh 26, it would be increasing it, looks like uh somewhere less than two dollars, a dollar seventy or something like that.

Now, if I go to three, uh scenario three says in November this year we'd increase it uh well what uh 40, no, 39 cents over what I scenario two is and then in 26 we'd be increasing it uh again 88 cents.

So it seems to me that if we're going to go to scenario two over what we're we've already planned, it's not much of a stretch, it's less than a dollar, you know, to go to scenario three, but yet the bang we get for the buck is another 10 million dollars that we could do something with.

So I guess looking at at this respect, uh, and then later on uh it drops off, you know.

Uh but we'll be reevaluating it at that time.

If we do spend some of this money in two years, we'll get a better feel on do we have uh investment coming to uh Eloy to help support some of this or not, or we can make decisions, but I think based upon those numbers and yeah, I know it's cost increased, everything's increasing, but you know, uh everything I've heard uh been to all these meetings, water is not cheap anymore, and we're gonna have to prepare for that.

So infrastructure.

So I think uh we just talked uh the mayor talked about going to a meeting today with Robeson Ranch and how much they want to increase it.

So I think uh based upon that long-winded, but I think I would support scenario three.

Anyone else have on council have anything?

So just really quick, Mayor.

Go ahead.

One of the things that I looked at, and you know, there was a lot of discussion this weekend is as well, or this week at the conference, is you want to build your community so that people want to live, play, and um work there.

Um we also got to make it affordable for them to do that.

And yes, that's a you know, the the differences between the two scenarios, maybe nickels and dimes and and stuff, but to a family that is you know trying to look for a place that where they can enjoy their life, um, and choose whether they want to go to Cas Grant where the rates are a lot higher, they want to go to Eloy.

If we continues to continue their rates, they're just gonna say, well, there's more amenities in Cass Grant, so let's just go to Cass Grant.

I think I look at it as a as a way to attract more people to want to make significant investments, which are buying homes, raising their families, investing in Eloy if we make it affordable.

What's sir?

So sir say.

Sarah, you got anything to ed.

Um, hi everybody.

Um I think that I'm starting to lean towards scenario three because I do believe that if we put in the infrastructure, it's going to improve things.

And yes, I I think that the rates going up are gonna be more difficult, but I do think it kind of reflects the true cost of what we need to do to provide the service to our citizens.

Thank you.

Anyone else on council?

All right, so what I think I'll do now, and stop me for if I'm going off track here.

We all have a number in our head, two or three, right?

We all have this in our head.

I'm gonna go for this resolution.

The first one was will be number three, and when we get down to approve the motion, only approve the motion that you have in your head, a two or three.

Don't approve twice, all right?

And we'll see which one carries and make a motion for one of them.

Yes or no.

So we're gonna start now for scenario three.

Adopt resolution two five-1629 to approve new water rates and charges for the city of Eloy Water System using recommendations from scenario three on the rate water study.

We've had our staff comments.

Do we hear a motion?

This is just to read by title the adoption of resolution 25-1629.

one carries make a motion for one of them is yes or no so we're gonna start now for scenario three adopt resolution two five one six two nine to approve new water rates and charges for the city of Eloy water system using recommendations from scenario three on the rate water study we've had our staff comments do we hear a motion this is just to read by title the adoption of resolution 25-1629 so moved a second second second all in favor say aye aye any opposed aye motion carries madam clerk resolution 251629 a resolution of the city council of the city of Eloy Arizona increasing rates and charges for the city of Eloy water system thank you okay now this is for approving scenario three do I have a motion to approve resolution two five one six two nine as presented so moved do I have a second second madam clerk council member schneider yes council member garcia no councilmember galindo no councilmember baldraska yes councilmember Curtis Vice Mayor Tarango noor Sutton yes all right so that passes for three do we have to do scenario two being this one passed so we just go through the motions on that uh mayor i because you've approved scenario three i would suggest that you don't need to discuss scenario number two because basically the for the four to three vote by the council did implement that scenario three over scenario two thank you sir and I really would like to thank my council for the thought they put into this discussions yeah those the those are real fruitful discussions and they were on us I would like to thank you all now we are not having an executive session tonight so do we have a motion to adjourn so moved do I have a second second all in favor say aye aye