Yes.

Thank you.

Mayor, when you're ready.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to tonight's Eloy City Council meeting.

It is Monday, October twenty seventh, and the time is six PM.

Madam Clerk, may I have a roll call.

Council Member Valdaska.

Here.

Councilmember Curtis.

Here.

Councilmember Schneider.

Here.

Councilmember Garcia?

Present.

Councilmember Galindo.

Here.

Vice Mayor Terengo?

Here.

Here.

Thank you.

I would please like everybody to rise for a moment of silence and a pledge of allegiance led by Council Member Snyder.

Now I see two people for the item eight, section eight item A.

We'll hold that till we get to consent agenda.

But I see a Thomas Silva.

Please step up to the microphone, state your name, the city where you live.

And you have three minutes.

Um bringing to your attention of City of Eloy for a beautiful opposite uh proposition for Safe Haven Beautiful Incorporation among uh Little Caesars funding fundraising.

So I'm also gonna be participating in the Mesa uh Marathon, which takes hold in February 14th.

And I'm gonna be asking the city of Eloy to run with me for publicity for Safe Haven Beautiful among its uh Little Caesars fundraising to host an event for Arizona's first family reunion that I wish to take hold here in the Eloy, uh wish to make it a state, federal, or national holiday.

By all means, my goal is to accomplish what we do here in the city of Eloy is we accomplish things, we get things going among a community health of engagement.

My best thing to do here, and uh most important thing here is to consider the community to establish the community health growth, a community health engagement to establish a community relationship among its peers uh here in the city of Eloy Arts and Reach out to within the state of Arizona to have its volunteers for with the Safe Haven Beautiful War Corporation, which is a 501c3 nonprofit charitable organization and uh participating with Little Caesars Fundraising.

Uh the IRS is improving the paperwork right now, so it's too uh it's a process, but I'm just bringing it to the attention of my beautiful city for the most beautiful things that has to engage with it with the open arms and open hearts, and with that I just have to end that with that.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you for addressing this council.

All right, next up is reports and announcements.

And you know your mayor has a couple of pages.

It's been a very busy week.

Because right after our last council meeting, I headed to the rural transportation summit in Sierra Vista.

We covered a little bit of everything, and one of the things there was wildlife crossings on interstates.

I found that fascinating.

In certain states that are doing these big overpasses that just for wildlife.

I thought that was just a tremendous idea, keeps them getting run over on the highways.

We also talked about smart funding for aviation and airports and statewide mapping tools so we can plan pavement work before potholes arise.

We also talked funding, and it turns out that a one cent sales tax can raise billions of dollars statewide.

Whereas the gas tax bump, if they raise money just on gas, it's not as much as everybody thinks.

I petit I petitioned the RTAC that's a rural transportation advisory council to help Eloy secure 8.2 million dollars to pave the final two miles of houser road.

Stay tuned, it's looking good for us.

Then back home on Friday, we had Motown in the park, easily one of our best concerts yet.

When it's Motown, we all remember every lyric.

And you know, a few of us remembered the dance moves too, but that's a whole nother story.

And a big shout out to Paul Chad and the whole crew for making that park look fantastic, and just pulling that all together.

It was a it was a great, there was a lot of people there.

Food trucks actually sold out.

We were happy about that.

But on Saturday the 18th was our neighborhood cleanup, great turnout.

And whoever picked up the donuts really understands morale, because that worked very well.

Last Monday we had a council work session on code enforcement that was really enlightening.

Thanks to Dan for a clear, no nonsense walkthrough of how it works and what residents can expect.

It was also good to experience to learn what our courageous code of enforcement offices face each day.

If you didn't get to come down for the code enforcement work session, it's online.

It's very informative, especially if you have gotten a violation, you will know what to do.

Then on Tuesday the 22nd.

City clerk and our executive assistant and I went to Florence for the teen symposium with students from around the area.

Lots of energy, smart questions, and great ideas.

We brought back good notes on starting a team council here in Eloy.

We're growing, and I think this is about time we can have a teen council here.

And I'll even let them use this chambers.

And finally, truck or treat right across the street here from City Hall.

Pure fun.

The costumes were great, the kids were happy, and the memories were even better.

I was at the police table showing off our meeting wrapped veterans police cruiser.

That car was really sharp.

We gave out so much candy, we actually had to send people out to get more.

Because I couldn't believe the amount of turnout we had.

That was just it was just a great night.

And a lot of effort went in with the kids and their costumes, and it was just so great to see, start to finish.

So that's all your your mayor has for you.

And we'll take it to my left.

Unfortunately, I had to work the last two weekends, so I've missed a lot of the city activities, but I was able to attend the um master plan open house.

Um few residents were there, gave their opinion, gave their uh what they would like to see.

I noticed there's a lot of suggestions for walking lanes and you know, places and communities where people can feel safe going out and walking.

Um so that was that was interesting to see and stuff, but pretty pretty much that's all I attended this last week.

Well, thank you.

Anyone else, Jose?

I didn't make it.

I made it to the open house in interest of some of the comments made and what people are looking forward to.

I also did make it to the continental park.

Not the entire concert.

I got in a little late, but I I enjoyed myself.

I saw several people put me to shame because I wasn't dancing.

But I saw some others out there that's bugging down and having a good time.

It was enjoyable.

And I also made it to the trunk retreat, and I ended talking to one person the entire night.

So I'm not sure if that was a good comment.

But it was fun.

The con the calls were wonderful.

Thank you.

Uh Cost Member of Alaska and I attended a uh fundraiser today.

It was a charity softball game.

It was held at the Roger Ranch.

Uh the Charlie was stand up for cancer.

Uh it was uh a well-attended that those of you who are online and happen to be there.

Thank you for coming.

Uh Chief Benalis was there.

The uh fire department uh battalion came with uh the fire truck, and so it was a good turnout.

The uh the grill people uh had a stand making hot dogs and hamburgs and they were a really good price and uh making uh donation from the proceeds to the the front.

Uh and the interesting thing was an interesting thing, but they were selling uh placards uh for donation.

You get a placard uh put a name uh stand up for a person, whether be your a relative, friend, whatever, and then they put those on the backstop.

So around the backstop uh from both sides, it was pretty well uh filled up.

And so it was a good uh good turnout for the important event, and so I'm glad to see the community get back and sponsor things like that.

The much much needed uh activity.

Thank you.

Right.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I also attended the uh trunk retreat uh event on Saturday evening, and it was very exciting to see so many people out there, and those kids, those costumes were just amazing.

Um and as uh councilman uh Mr.

Snyder there had mentioned today, uh, was a great event over at uh Robson Rant Ranch.

There was a lot of people there.

The placards that he had mentioned, um, you know, people wrote down, you know, people that um uh have been affected by cancer, and they did put them up on the uh back uh back uh backstop fences, and those will be up, I believe, until next Saturday.

So if you get an opportunity to head over to Robson Ranch and go to the softball field, you'll be amazed out how many of those placards are up there.

Thank you.

I just wanted to let everyone know that going on this week at Skydive Arizona is the um United States skydiving championships.

So it's the U.S.

competition where are um hundreds of um athletes there competing, and there'll be many disciplines throughout the week.

We're actually on the biggest couple of days of the competition right now, and the winners of the the top divisions, which we call the open class in each category, will go on to compete in the world meet in 2026.

And there's big screen TVs that you can watch the footage from the videographers, and you can watch people landing and everything, so it's kind of cool if you've never seen it before.

Yeah, I was there today, and I was I was amazed at the number of aircraft taken off out of there.

It's like every two minutes they're going up with another load.

It was it was pretty exciting.

And what I'm watching them all come down too is very exciting.

It's probably their busiest day of the year.

So thank you, Mayor.

Just a few things.

Um, we had game night.

Was it last week?

The week before, right?

Here well, I guess you guys changed it back to national night out.

So um, but uh I went to Coolidge's game night um the week after, and it was quite well attended, ran into their vice mayor over there, so that was fun.

Also, um we all got invited to the Coolidge Chamber of Commerce um event, and I went to that as well.

It was nice trying to build those relationships with a fellow community, you know, with our next door neighbors because sometimes I think we've struggled with that at times with them.

Quick question about maybe a community service announcement.

Um on Monday, we um a couple of ladies were in the middle of the road dealing with a stray dog.

Um I've called the police department numerous times over the many years I've been here, and I kept hitting zero, and I didn't get anything.

And um, I guess there's a new phone system with the new dial by number system.

Um can we do a community service announcement on that?

Whether it's for the PD's phone or the PD's phone system and the city halls, um, because I was frustrated because I couldn't get through.

Um, and then that takes me to animal control.

I want to know what the update is on that.

Um, twice this week, myself and other citizens have dealt with stray dogs, both unmutered, one was covered in ticks, sitting in on frontier, and these ladies had a toe strap or a tie-down tied around its neck because they couldn't get it out of the road, and cars could care less about whether or not they were stopping for this dog.

And finally, I stood in the middle of the road because if you're gonna hit me, fine.

But these two ladies had taken time out of their day when everybody else could care less.

And thankfully, Sergeant Wonder, once they figured out what I was trying to say on the phone, came and got the animal because we know Penell County's response time is um not timely, and we weren't letting it go, which is a normal response from Penell County, and they weren't taking it home because it was covered in ticks.

Second dog is a malnourished dog at the Dollar General on Sunshine.

Again, this goes to the apathy because the store, the dog's been there numerous times, and but myself and another lady fed it, and against my better judgment, I should have called the PD, but I didn't.

So anyway, I called animal control today, and it's unacceptable in 2025 that that's the result of us getting rid of our animal control.

So I'm sorry, I get very emotional about animals, but we need to do something, and we need to do something soon.

So I'd like to get an update on what the status of that project is, and again, I don't want to hear we can't afford it.

I need to we need to figure out how we can pay for it and do a better job because our citizens and our animals deserve better.

Thank you.

Before I move on to city manager announcements, Faith, did you want to come up now?

Absolutely, she says.

I just noticed you didn't write the subject down.

Well, because I didn't really know how to present it as a subject.

Okay, so mayor, vice mayor, council, city.

Um my name is Faith Pegasus I live at uh reside at 4541 West Loma Verde Avenue in Aloy.

Um I have three questions, two or more questions.

Um I don't know if I need disclaimers or disclosures or something because this is things I've I've read about, so I'm kind of concerned.

Um has anybody seen, and I'm sure we we have um noticed that Casa Grande has passed or their ban on um sheltered and that took effect as of October 1st.

My question is have we as residents we're over on that side of town, but on this side of town, have you noticed any more homeless people coming to this direction?

Now I know that we don't have a lot to offer per se, we don't have the retail and and the restaurants that Casa Grande does.

But my question is if we didn't do anything, or we we have a nuisance, a public nuisance ban, that's all we have, but we're spending a lot of time and money on this general update for Eloy, and it would be a shame to go through all that, and then all of a sudden we start building up and we start getting all these people here that's just gonna take away from there.

So that's part of my number one.

The second one, which really irritates me.

Um October 14th, the father and his son had to be rescued because the father ignored the barricade during the flood.

Now my understanding is, and this is where I read, that Arizona has a stupid motorous law that states that we can build them up to $2,000.

My question is, was he?

You know, did he receive a bill for this?

If not, why not?

Our taxes, yes, it's supposed to go towards our first responders, but we're paying enough taxes as it is, and if we have to go out to every call that stupid motorists to be rescued, and it took four different agencies to rescue this guy and his baby, and they're on top of the car, and it took the fire truck ladder to get him.

That to me is just very irritating.

So I think we need to uh really look into that.

Now, my last part of this is when people are up here.

Now, this is my second time, my first time.

I got kind of got my answers, but in general, when people are up here asking questions or making statements.

Are you are will somebody contact me?

In answer to some of these questions, or is this just something that the council will take into consideration, and then eventually it just shows up on city council meeting?

Thank you.

Well, technically we don't answer questions to people at the podium, but if an email was sent, you would get an answer.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Thank you, Sergeant Wonder.

Okay, now that brings us to consent agenda.

It is quite a lengthy consent agenda, probably the largest one I've ever seen.

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

It brings us a city manager.

I'm already counting the guy out.

Look at that.

Chop meet over here.

Thank you, Murray.

Members of council.

Uh, just a couple of things, and we can run right into the consent agenda items.

Um, as a reminder to those out there, the utility rate increases become effective November 1st.

So starting next week, the new utility rates will take effect.

We have sent out a couple of reminders in the notices for the past month, month and a half, so those have been out there.

Um, but you know, for for everybody, you get the reminders when you get the bill, it's a little different story.

So just um do you have any questions with those?

You know, you can contact Mr.

Wright and his finance department and his ladies will help out with whatever questions you all have, and him too.

Uh next up is you know, segmenting on that general plan.

You know, we have the air park and the general plan surveys are available online right now.

So those that couldn't come to the meetings, all that is available online.

Please go to the web page to the general plan update, and then you can click on those survey links and take those surveys.

In addition to that, Mr.

Seyer has put out all the boards in the hallway.

So again, if you couldn't make the meetings, please stop by City Hall.

We've got all the boards set up along in the hallway.

We've got the little stickers, you can put your comments on there.

He's even gonna have some of the swag out.

So the coffee cups and the colored pencils and all the cool stuff that everybody really liked will be on the tables and available for folks to get.

So highly encourage you if you got a minute and you're going to the post office, swing by city hall, stop in, see the boards, put your stickies on it.

And the last thing I have is just a reminder that Veterans Day is Tuesday, November 10th.

Our city offices will be closing observance of Veterans Day.

Well, that doesn't mean we're not gonna be working because there's a parade.

So council members, you know, let the Selene know if you are we'll be in attendance for the parade, we'll get the float together.

Paul and his team will have everything ready to go for that celebration.

And that is all that I have for my announcements.

Thank you.

Well, thank you, sir.

Thank you so much.

Okay, now hit consent agenda.

All items listed with an asterisk are considered to be routine matters and will be enacted by one motion and one local vote of the council.

There will be no separate discussion of these items unless the council members should request in which event an item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence in the agenda.

Well, on tonight's consent agenda, item L does allow for a public hearing on new count.

Does anybody want to speak on public hearing?

No, but you don't have to.

Okay, not seeing anybody, so that's good.

At this point, I'm looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda as written.

May I make a motion that we approve the consent agenda as written?

Do I have a second?

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Valjaska.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider?

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Congratulations.

Okay, that's gonna bring us to the consent agenda behind us.

Item number eight, possible business discussions and our actions on the following.

But before we do that, this is where we're gonna get technical here now.

Before we do that, we're gonna go into executive session.

We will probably be there for about 30 to 40 minutes.

In the executive session, we'll be all council members, the attorney, and city manager will be in executive session.

You're welcome to stay and sit if you like.

Or you can go home and celebrate some of you.

I know they will.

Mr.

Mayor?

Yes.

Um, also Mr.

Simer for community development director.

Yes, Mr.

Simer, community development director.

Uh so with that, we will go into executive session for legal advice with the city attorney and our staff concerning the following agenda items approved to ARS 38431.0383N4.

All right, so we're gonna adjourn for a little while.

Thank you, everybody.

All right, we all here, we're all ready.

All right, we're gonna call this meeting back to order.

But before we get moving on the single item on the agenda, we do have a housekeeping item.

On the consent agenda, when I read the instructions on the consent agenda, it was brought to my attention that not all the items do have asterisks.

So all items listed with or without an asterisk are to be considered routine matters and will be enacted by one motion 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 considering its normal sequence of the operation.

Do I have a motion to pursue to approve the consent agenda as presented?

Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented.

Do we have a second?

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember Valdasca.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton?

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, everyone putting up at that.

Okay.

That brings us to item eight.

Business possible discussion and action on the following.

We will conduct a public hearing for a conditional use permit for solar utility scale generation and battery energy storage system facility to be located on approximately an 80-acre site, approximately 800 feet south of the southwest corner of West Mildligan Roll, South Toltec Road, submitted by Pablano Sola, LLC.

Uh care of Alyssa Manzel as the applicant and consider.

So I will open this public hearing.

Mr.

Simon.

Thank you, Mayor members of the council.

The item before you is a conditional use permit request for approximately 80 acres as the mayor indicated.

And also as a request to exceed the maximum allowed acreage within the city, which will be inclusive of the entire 80 acres.

So the council will be making a motion in deciding two items as outlined in the agenda.

The first will be for the other to approve or not.

The request to exceed the maximum allowed area within the city.

And then the second would be to either approve or not the conditional use permit for the conditional of the solar generating of 80 acres.

Are there any questions to Mr.

Simer at this time?

Okay, let's have the applicant come on up.

Okay, uh good evening, Mayor Sutton, City Council members.

My name is Andrew Yancey.

I'm an attorney with Bergen Frank Smolly and Oberholtzer.

We're at 4343 East Camel Back Road in Phoenix.

I'm here tonight again, happy to be before you representing Long Road Energy, and they are requesting a conditional use permit for an 80-acre expansion to the Poblano Solar Project that was approved earlier this year.

This is a unique request.

The property at issue, it's just 80 acres, and you can see that on this image is outlined in the yellow with hatching.

It's about three or four miles from city water or sewer services, which really limits the land's potential for other types of development.

These 80 acres would serve to connect the main body of the project with two small out parcels to the south.

Well, in just that initial outline of the project that was approved back in March, that's the blue outline there.

So that's the part that's already approved in the previous zoning request.

I also want to point you to the northwest corner of that project site.

There's a hatched area called the enhanced separation area.

As I'm sure you'll recall during our rezoning hearings earlier this year, there's some concern expressed about the project's proximity to the Arizona City area.

So we took a continuance, we spent a couple months working out a 53-acre carve out to leave in its native vegetative state to provide a buffer between the project and those Arizona City residents.

That's something that Long Road is definitely committed to keeping.

Um, and that that buffer area is part of the rezoning case's stipulations of approval.

In many ways, the 80-acre expansion CUP today is very straightforward.

But as I know you're aware, the city has a citywide cap for solar acreage that has already been reached.

Now, when we made this CUP application in July, that cap had not been reached.

While our application was under review, another case was approved, and at that point the city cap was exceeded.

So, as Mr.

Simer noted, from a procedural standpoint, you have two votes before you tonight.

One is to exceed the citywide cap, and the second would be to approve the conditional use permit.

We're going to respectfully request that you vote yes on both of those.

Now, Eloy has a detailed solar ordinance that was passed just a couple years ago.

And our request today, this 80 acres meets all of the requirements for the location south of I-10 for the contiguity with other solar projects, various performance requirements that must be met with each solar project.

The only issue under the code with our request is this citywide acreage cap.

Now, when the city's solar ordinance was passed, it set a maximum of 11,744 acres for utility scale solar generation.

But that doesn't prohibit our application.

That's the text you can see highlighted in the slide in front of you here.

We did include such a request with our application again when we submitted it.

There was room under the cap, but we knew it might be reached, so we we sent in a letter along with it asking that if the cap was reached that we'd be allowed to go over it.

And we understand that Eloy wants to honor this cap that there was a vision for limitations on utility scale solar in the city when the ordinance was approved.

But I think the uniqueness of this request warrants a narrow exception and fits within the intent of the code.

This is not a new project that we're bringing to you.

This is 80 acres to be part of an already approved project, and one that gave up 53 acres to serve as a buffer to the Arizona City community.

The expansion is very far from those homes from those residences in Arizona City, and also as far from the city's development footprint up closer to I-10 and over to the east in the downtown area.

There's really very little economic value of this property otherwise.

Again, as far west and south of the city's existing development footprint, these 80 acres are surrounded by solar on many sides, and it's only seven-tenths of one percent of the city's overall acreage cap.

So when you look at both the small size and the location kind of buffered by other solar projects, this request really doesn't change the overall footprint of solar within the city of Eloy.

Now I did want to make sure to hit that code issue up front, but I also want to tell you a little bit about the project and also reintroduce the applicant to you.

Longroad's development manager, Alyssa Menzel is here with us this evening.

Longroad is a developer, owner, and operator of solar projects.

They do this across the country and they made significant investment in Arizona.

Their projects in operation in Arizona today produce enough electricity to power about half a million homes, and they have three other projects under construction in the state.

Longroad also likes to make sure they're contributing to the communities where they operate.

And since the approval of the rezoning application back in March, they've worked with the Toltec School District.

They're gonna be making donations to uh pay for improvements to the playground at both the Arizona City and Toltec Elementary Schools.

And then about this project specifically, um, all together the approved project and the expansion would be just over a thousand acres.

It's all private land, is to be developed as uh solar with photovoltaic panels that generate approximately 200 megawatts of electricity and also battery energy storage for uh 200 megawatts.

I want to note this 80-acre expansion we're talking about today, it's just intended for the panels.

Uh the battery would go across Milligan in the portion of the project that's already been approved.

The panels they do um work on a single access tracking, so they track the sun throughout the day.

They're pretty low profile, they're between eight and fourteen feet in height, depending on their tilt and the position of the sun at a given time.

Uh the project will not strain water or wastewater services or the transportation network.

Those things just really aren't needed for solar projects.

And Longword has already begun meeting with um the fire personnel.

They met with the fire marshal for the Eloy Fire District back when we were going through the rezoning process.

Uh what they found is he is accustomed to these types of projects.

Longwood is also very familiar with putting together emergency response plans and providing on-site training for emergency personnel.

Because of this project's location, uh, you know, the property doesn't really have a lot of other potential for economic development.

So we do see that there are some local benefits of being able to develop it for solar.

Um, in particular, when you look at the overall project, we're looking at 300 construction jobs, uh, about five full-time workers during operation.

At full build out, it's anticipated that the property tax revenue will be over 20 million dollars in the over the 30-year lifespan.

That goes to benefit Penal County, City of Eloy, Eloy Fire District, uh, Toltec School District, Arizona Water Conservation District, and a few others.

And you know, again, those are benefits that would not be achieved if the property just remains vacant as it is today.

So I'm gonna keep showing you just maybe one one or two more maps here.

Um you can see again the outline here, the blue is our approved project footprint, our requested 80 acres is in yellow here.

Um, is really far from existing city infrastructure.

There's also an adjacent solar project to the southeast.

That's by another developer.

It's known as the Sawtooth Project, it's outlined in purple.

There's also another little piece of property that's sort of between our project and the sawtooth project.

That property, while it's not part of any solar approvals, is uh the majority either owned by or under lease to the sawtooth developer who's the adjacent property owner.

Uh there's also existing power lines that run down Milligan.

That's one of the reasons why this property is uh good for energy generation.

All right, and I also thought it'd be helpful if I just lay out a little timeline for you here and just walk through what's happened throughout the uh zoning and entitlement process.

When we submitted the original rezoning application in September of 2024, there were 938 acres, and that's what you see here outlined on this map.

The project boundary was based on common ownership, and you can see that there are these two out parcels to the south.

Those are two 40-acre squares that are not connected to the main body of the project.

But they were under the same ownership as the main body.

They were also part of the same PAD, the same zoning case.

So those were included in the project proposal.

Now when we held the neighborhood meeting last year for that zoning application, uh there were several nearby landowners who came and uh said they were looking to sell their land to add it into the project.

All of those properties were not under the same ownership, they're not part of the same PAD.

So it would have been really difficult at that point in the process to add them into that zoning application.

So we went forward with the the project footprint that you see before you in this outline here.

Now again, during the hearing process, concerns arose about the proximity to Arizona City.

So that's when we worked on this enhanced separation area to the west.

Um that you see it in hatching here on this image.

When the rezoning was approved in March, um it did include this carve out of 53 acres, is to remain in its native vegetative state with additional landscaping around the perimeter in order to provide that buffer between the project and the residents.

Now, after that approval in March, Long Road was holding discussions with some of the nearby property owners who had approached them as part of this outreach process.

Um they were hoping to make back some of the acreage that was was carved out here.

And you know, Long Road said no to a number of those other property owners.

Some of those properties were too close to Arizona City, or they were too close to I-10, getting close to the city's other development footprint.

Um so long road turned down some of those uh potential properties.

But this 80 acres that we see here, they really thought made sense.

You can see how the yellow area connects the project to those two small out parcels on the south.

Now, because this yellow area is zoned RU 43, we can't put it in the PAD zoning case, so that's why we're here asking for a conditional use permit because that's the other way to approve the solar generation use.

We did take that CEP application to planning and zoning commission earlier in the month.

We got a recommendation of approval there, and now we're here before you this evening asking for you know both the the vote on the overage and the vote for the conditional use permit.

So that concludes my presentation.

Um thank you for your time and attention to this, and I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Yeah, just uh a quick one from uh from me here.

I'm just doing some fast math here, it's probably gonna trip me up a bit.

Um figure 20 million over 30 years is the property tax, split between roughly five or six entities, and the city always gets the smaller, so you split it up about 600k between a year between five and six entities.

It's not a lot of money gonna come in.

And that's that's always been an issue of personal issue with mine with solar.

The city really doesn't see much at all.

Yes, the schools see much, fire sees, the county sees, but I can't pave a road for what I get out of solar.

I really can't.

And that and that's very painful to me.

But the next question I have is probably for Dan Syrah, so I'll wait till he gets.

Oh, you want to pull up now, Dan?

A quick question I have is the cap is for the cap is for solo, correct?

The cap is for solar panels, right?

Do the batteries count in that cap for solar panels?

More members of council, that's a great question.

The batteries as part of a solar uh you I'm gonna use the the shortened version of the name that I have in the report, utility scale solar.

The boundaries are included in that in that acreage.

Yes.

If it was a battery facility on its own, that qualifies as a utility use, but that's not part of this application.

That's a separate type of use permanent application.

Um with this application and similar applications to batteries that are part of the total facility are included.

Thank you, sir.

I was always curious.

Mr.

Mayor, if I could just respond real quick on the property tax question, because you're you're absolutely right.

The city does not get the lion's share of that property tax.

Our estimates based on that property is that over that 30-year period, the city share would be about three million.

Um, you know, that that's an estimate.

It is rather front loaded because there's depreciation on it.

Um, but at the same time, there's there's really no other potential to generate anything on it in the near term.

Also, based on Eloy's ordinance, we do uh dedicate the roadways, and there are interim roadway improvements that occur there at a 28-foot cross section, so you get a lane in each way on some of those roadways that you wouldn't be getting otherwise.

Thank you, sir.

All right, Mike.

Any questions?

Sarah.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

So currently all of this land is undisturbed desert, correct?

Vice Mayor, that's my understanding is it is vacant and not used.

It's not being farmed right now.

That's correct.

Okay.

And interconnect to APS.

That's not done until the whole project's been approved, correct?

So Vice Mayor, I want to make sure I get the nuance of that down because there's a lot of study that goes into it first.

There's an interconnection study queue.

Longroad has submitted to be in that interconnection study queue at this time.

They're waiting for their cluster to be called and is supposed to be the next one.

So as part of that study process, they figure out how that works, where the interconnection is, what sort of improvements need to be done within the grid infrastructure.

But in terms of actually interconnecting to put electricity online, like no, that would not be done until the project's constructed.

And how many full-time jobs will this project have once it's completed, not during construction, once completed?

Vice Mayor, we're estimating four or five full-time jobs.

We understand it's not a large full-time job generator, but you know, again, uh, when you look at the current state of it and the anticipated state of it for the foreseeable future with with no city infrastructure near it, um, that would go down to zero.

Okay.

Thank you.

Well, sure.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Uh I guess I'm a little disappointed that this 80 acres didn't come to us early on, you know, when uh even though that we were working uh the Arizona City portion, it'd been kind of kind of nice to know that okay, this is in the wings, and we're talking maybe a weight that it just seems like uh oh.

Uh there's also a section of land in between.

And I guess I'm just wondering has any contact been made to that owner to try to connect that whole whole section.

Or has it just been kind of okay?

You've been waiting for the owners to come to you to see you know whether we should put it because you mentioned about you said no to some parcels up near I 10 and parcels closer to the Airzone City, but those parcels also would have put you over the limit.

So the the no was probably as much of going under the limit as was location, so is a two-fold thing.

Uh if this doesn't get approved, just what if what happens?

What effect does it have on those two parcels down there by themselves?

Councilmember Snyder, thank you.

I'll try to take those um in order.

Uh as far as is the timing of the application.

Uh you know, we wish we could have brought it all at the same time as well.

It's in part because there the Eloy's code allows the solar generation use two ways.

One is if it's already within a PAD, then you amend the PAD to add the solar use.

If it's not in a PAD, you have to go through a conditional use permit process.

So if we were going to add something in that wasn't part of the PAD, it'd have been a whole separate application anyway.

Um again, we were also already into the public notice period before we were even approached by the owners of these properties.

They came to the neighborhood meeting because they got the letters that went out for the neighborhood meeting.

That's where we first met them and started these discussions.

So that's why the timing is is the way it was.

The the initial zoning case, and the reason why those two outparcals are down there is because it was a common ownership to sort of interrelated uh trust groups.

Um they they own the land, it was all in the same PAD, so that's why we brought it all forward that way.

Um, in terms of other uh properties, you know, we have had some outreach to surrounding owners.

Um, one of the pieces to our east, there's some property there between our property and the sawtooth property.

The sawtooth developer actually either owns or leases uh the majority of that land already.

Um as far as other land, you know, we we were approached by some people and then some people we just haven't heard from a lot of the property around here is you know absentee owners, it is chunked up in different 40-acre squares that are owned by different people.

Again, that's why the 938 acres we had initially with the same ownership group was attractive because we only had one ownership group that we needed to deal with.

Piecing together multiple other ownership groups uh is very difficult and more time consuming.

And then you add in that there are different um you know zoning paths for those as well.

Um in terms of what happens to those two outparcels, the outparcals will still be part of the project if this is not approved.

There is a condition of approval from our zoning that says that we have to provide independent access to those parcels, which I think makes sense.

So some of this land might be getting used for for access anyway.

They would not be able to be designed as efficiently.

When you have two squares like that, you have to design with your setbacks and design around it.

Once you add this in, it's kind of like you know, squaring off a round edge, and you've got a much easier path to develop, we can get more panels on it that helps get more megawatts.

Um that that helps get selected in the RFP process.

The utilities prefer to deal with fewer large projects than a whole lot of little projects.

So being able to do that helps the entire project be viable.

Okay.

Uh another question.

It's really nice to hear about the road improvements.

But I assume that the road improvements won't happen until construction starts.

And so waiting for an RFT, if uh you could be waiting five, six, seven years for an RFT, correct?

I mean, yeah, I mean, it's like I'm looking at whole all these uh solar products that we have now that have been approved.

Uh and everybody's in the same boat waiting for an RFT.

And when if and when they come, so it's almost like, oh gosh, I hope I get one.

What happens in the meantime if the first RFTs come out and they don't get one?

And I keep thinking about are these lands tied up now for 20, 25 years waiting for that chance for an RFT?

And what happens to those roads, what happens to that infrastructure, what happens that you know that it's approved based on these things are going to happen, but it doesn't happen until the RFT gets out there and it gets approved, I guess.

And so that just uh it's you think it's kind of back of my mind.

And we're been going through our uh uh general plan.

And no place, uh many of the meetings I went to in our general plan that we talked about solar panels.

We talked about we haven't talked about uh solar energy uh or not solar energy, but just energy production as part of our industrial grid, if you will.

And so it I just uh kind of thinks in the back of my mind.

But I just uh on the road improvements, is there any chances that if an RFT comes out and this uh you don't give it, is this all of a sudden it gets sold to somebody or you back off, or what is this land purchased, leased, or what's what's the status there?

Sure.

Uh Councilmember Snyder, uh a few things to unpack there.

I mean, first of all, you're you're correct that the road improvements don't occur until construction.

Um the RFP processes can take a while.

Typically, the utilities do one, maybe two per year, and those are usually looking at power that would come online three, four, five years in the future.

But that's when it actually interconnects.

The construction period for these projects is usually 18 to 24 months.

So if if you back that out, if you know the this was selected for uh 2030 uh interconnect, you're gonna be looking at more of a 2027-2028 start of construction.

So that's when things start to go from that standpoint.

Um, in terms of does it lock the land up?

No, it doesn't.

Because of the way Eloy's ordinance is written for solar, the solar use is added on top of everything else that can be done on this property already.

So this property in the C UP, this is R U 43.

It will continue to have R U 43 rights, even with the C UP on top of it.

The rest of the project is a PAD from you know 15, 20 years ago that had various residential and a few commercial permissions on it.

It could be developed for that despite um the solar being added as a potential permitted use.

So someone could, if they come along and want to develop it to the underlying zoning, they can do that.

Um the added solar permission doesn't stop another type of development from occurring.

That's seriously, because I wasn't aware of that.

It explains a lot.

I keep thinking of with what we hear today with uh roads and you know, development consumer doesn't use a lot of water.

I mean, I'm thinking of where housing warehousing doesn't use much water.

And eventually 20 years from now, we may have an I-11 to the south of us, which changes everything because all of a sudden someone's property may become more viable uh where it isn't today, but it may be back then.

And I think of uh some of the um data centers, all of a sudden uh we get the news of everybody's looking to get a data centers now.

This property could be used for data centers too because it's out there to build nowhere.

So maybe you say, well, it makes sense to do that.

But I'm just thinking out loud here, uh put my my hat on thinking 10, 15, 20 years down the road and what happens if these uh uh cadnects don't come.

So appreciate your answers.

Yeah, and Councilmember Siders on that point.

I mean, again, so someone could even with the solar permission on it zone it for something else.

Um in terms of you know citing a data center, and I'm I'm obviously not here representing a data center right now, but um they they need some of their own infrastructure, and and one of the things they need is is fiber.

Um and there's a I I've called them fiber cables and gotten in trouble until they're not fiber cables.

It it's something that runs underground that makes the data work.

But so the farther they are from that, that there's there's still a piece of infrastructure that they're gonna have to run out there.

Well, I wasn't planning to answer ask any questions, but uh Vice Mayor Tarangle brought up the jobs and you said it'd be fortified once completed uh jobs that would be out there.

Will those jobs be on-site in eight days?

Is that gonna be a remote high that they'll be working out some other place outside of Arizona?

So council member Garcia, that that's a good question.

There are remote operations for monitoring and safety, but when we're talking about four to five, those would be on-site jobs.

The people don't necessarily come to work nine to five on the site every day, but there are people who come by, they do inspections, they do maintenance, they do things like that.

So when we say four or five uh full-time jobs, th those would be people who do come on site.

Full-time jobs for that one site alone or for all your site that you have.

Uh Councilmember Garcia for for this site.

Thank you.

Okay, well, um, most of the questions I had have already been asked and answered and stuff, but um Councilmember Schneider asked who owns the property right now, and I don't think that got answered.

Thank you, uh Councilmember Galindo.

So um long has an option to purchase the property.

So you don't own it right now.

That's correct.

Um and another question I had was um you had said that uh you had the option, the other property owners had approached you and you said no to property to those properties.

What was the reasoning for choosing to say yes to this property?

Yeah, I council member Galindo, thank you.

That's been an important part of our internal deliberations here.

Um I'd say, you know, uh a few reasons for the internal project reason, this connectivity that you see here, where it's connecting valve parcels really has a benefit because we can add panels on the 80 acres, but it also makes the other two 40 acres more efficient.

So it it's a it's a bigger improvement for the project.

Um another reason is that you know we at the time we uh decided to go forward with these, we we had gone through the rezoning hearing and we had talked to to many of you about you know your concerns, and um these are far from Arizona City.

They're on they're on the far side.

There are no residences nearby.

So it it seemed like the remoteness of it from Arizona City and also from the rest of the city's development footprint.

I mean, this the whole project is very far away from the city's development footprint.

This expansion piece is kind of on on the far side of all of that.

So we thought that it it would make sense.

Um and also, you know, we didn't want to come in with a big request that changes the whole nature of the project and is just basically adding a second project onto the first.

This is a connectivity piece.

This is you know, taking a scalpel and taking a narrow shot, it's something that can improve the project.

And so that's why we thought it made sense.

And then um, thank you so much for listening to the council when you first came up with this project and addressed us and and we told you about how we were concerned about taking a lot of this um desert land, which you know it definitely isn't being used right now, but it's still beautiful and it's still part of our natural habitat and taking a portion of your area and adding that aesthetics and making it not look so industrial um to our neighbors in Arizona City.

Um if for some reason I know like I said, I'm I'm just pondering right now.

This expansion doesn't get approved.

What I'm hearing from your organization is this was an opportunity.

This was not part of the original plan to bring um these solar panels into this area.

I understand that you've given up six acres just for you know aesthetics, I'm sure, like five, a little uh over five, but you're asking for an expansion of eight.

Um will this plan to reserve that five and a half, six, whatever I I don't know the exact uh dimensions of land still be part of the project.

Councilmember Galindo, thank you for that.

Um let me just sort of you know walk through it here for a minute.

Uh the area you see hatched on the northwest corner of the property here.

That is the enhanced separation area.

That is 53 acres, and that's what we work through in the the zoning process.

Longworth is absolutely committed to keeping that in its natural vegetative state with that landscaping perimeter.

That is a condition of approval of the rezoning.

So when when the rezoning was approved, that was locked in.

Solar panels cannot be built on that 53 acres.

Um we're looking at at these 80 acres here, and you know, so these are actually two different 40-acre parcels of land, and you know, that's kind of the quantity they come in.

It's kind of like your your hot dogs and your hot dog bonds, and you just kind of got to buy what's there.

So, you know, to to do this, we need to to purchase both of these parcels, and then that connectivity makes the the great benefit there.

Um I I also want to point out because this I think this point got got got lost a little because it happened a long time ago.

Our very initial pre-application for the zoning had an extra 20 acres on the southwest corner near Arizona City, and we actually took that out before we filed our zoning application in the first place because it was commercially zoned and it was adjacent to Arizona City.

So we do have the 53 acres that we agreed to as part of the zoning process to take out.

We actually sort of self-impose 20 other acres out of it even before that.

I'm sorry, I had I had a question and then it popped out of my head and popped right back in, popped right back in.

So this area is uh it's going to need other structures around it.

It's going to need roads, it's going to need fencing, it's going to need um just you know other things in it to me.

I look at it and it looks like a puzzle that didn't have pieces that had pieces missing, and you know, I looked under the couch and then you found the other piece and and it fit.

But does that then limit like Taltec Buttes Road?

Is you know, is there still gonna be access on along there to go to Arizona City?

Um is Milligan still gonna have access to go through Milligan.

Um is I I don't see that in this plan.

Councilmember Galindo, uh thank you.

And yes, so I mean Milligan is actually going to get improved as part of this because it runs along the perimeter, so we'll dedicate the land for it, and it won't be the full arterial improvement, but it will be an interim improvement that allows for one paved lane in each direction.

So you know I bringing this this project on actually improves the roadways and the access in and out of here anybody else from council have anything they would like to add at this point.

Okay, so at this time we're gonna look for a motion for section eight a one.

I'm looking for a motion to I move to deny the approval of the applicant's companion request to exceed the cumulative acreage maximum in 11,748 and eighty second 8200 acres for utility scales for generation, including associated press use a lot in the city.

Do we have a second from council member Garcia?

I'll second so with that we're going to have a vote.

So your motion is to deny.

That is correct.

Your motion is to deny, so a yes vote is a denial vote.

Councilmember Garcia.

Intended or no, if you appear.

A little close.

For the slight guilt trip though, and using the Earth in the city enhanced separation area.

But the truth is that matters number.

We told our citizens that we would be 16% and to go over on that would be an offense to our citizens.

Councilmember Galindo.

So I think we've already made that decision to to offend our citizens.

We've already made that decision to go beyond the the uh limited amount of acreage.

What I feel that um this you have to look at uh the type of business ethics that are coming in, and I appreciate the fact that you gave up the 50 acres, and because of that you are now that you're asking for 80 acres, you you're pretty much just asking for 30 around 30 acres, is that correct?

So my vote is no.

Councilmember Valdraska.

Yes to the motion to delay.

Councilmember Curtis.

It pains me to say no, but uh yes, but I am gonna say yes to the motion to deny because the fact that we spent so much time on developing this ordinance while our stakeholders are citizens, um, we decided on this cap, and I don't really want to keep going past this cap.

We already went past this cap on our last approval, and we said okay, that's gonna be the last one that we go past this cap.

Um so in this case, even though I get how it makes sense for this project, unless circumstances change in terms of square footage of our city, I'm gonna have to say yes to the motion to deny for this one for now.

Miss Mattelingo.

I vote yes as well, and that's we've we've set a cap for a reason, and I believe we need to um abide by that cap.

Councilmember Snyder.

I'm gonna say yes, but uh I'm not gonna refer so much to the cap.

I'm just referring to the amount of land we're tying up without any guarantee that it's gonna happen.

I think uh if some of these projects or connections start to happen gets approval by APS SRP, then uh maybe more inclined to approve some of these, but in the meantime, I think uh I feel that the city's given enough until we see some payback from some of these projects that we've already approved.

That we've got nothing so far, so just uh it's almost like uh you're it's almost like a a crapshooter, you know, anyway.

But I vote yes to deny.

Mayor Sutton.

Yeah, I'm gonna follow with the yes vote is not to exceed the limit that we have all agreed on.

And that brings us now to section eight.

Oh, go ahead, sir.

Mr.

Mayor, I given the council's vote to deny the overage on the cap, obviously the CUP cannot be approved today.

What I would ask is that you continue that application in the event that something changes in the city or its cap, then our application would still be active.

Is that applicable?

Mayor council, you could have the opportunity if you so chose to continue it.

I would suggest that perhaps you have a date where it would come back to the council for a decision, or basically you can take action on the on the next item.

That's basically a decision of the council.

But if you decide to postpone or continue this matter, my only suggestion would be that you set a time limit.

Whether it's 30 days, six months, one year, or whatever.

So that we have some way of tracking this.

That puts in a precarious place.

If we would have set a time, go ahead.

I just have a question for um Dan Seimer.

Um, so if we were to continue this, uh what are the implications that we need to understand from a council standpoint?

When you continue your application, I do agree with the city attorney to put a time limit on that that it returns because ultimately what happens is it stays open.

Uh our ordinance isn't very clear on when those that those continuances have to be heard.

I would never recommend uh a continued an open-ended continuance.

So my uh recommendation is that you would if you were to approve a continuance, you do it for a time period, and that's it.

Uh because ultimately what happens then is the application stays open-ended and it's extremely difficult to manage, and it's also extremely difficult to process other applications for due process when you have an open application.

So can you recommend a sensible time frame for continuance that makes sense from the staff and council perspective on this?

Mayor members of the council, I've with the current cap and annexations being contemplated.

I don't have a recommendation other than I wouldn't recommend more than uh I I can't really speculate on that.

I wouldn't recommend a continuance because I have no idea of what the annexations will be with the city or what those may do.

The next application that's set to expire is in January, I'm sorry, October, I think it is of next year, and that's about 2,000 acres.

And I do just I do suspect that applicant will come in for an extension themselves.

So we'll still be continuing beyond that.

So thank you.

So question.

We go through this, we deny it.

If we do increase land space, if we annex more property in, if something changes, you know, to where um it would make sense.

Can they come back to even though we deny now, can they come back once those other things change?

You know, we annexed more property in, so we haven't met that gap.

Can they come back?

Yes, they can.

And I'm holding off the top of my head, I don't remember exactly.

I think it's a one-year time frame.

Although, if I remember correctly, the council does not, the commission and the council can't hear within that one-year time frame, but typically of one year.

Okay, that would be my question, because you know, if we didn't leave this open and on your plate somewhere, if we denied you know the project today, they could come back once things change and ask for us to reconsider them.

That is true.

Okay.

I just wanted to clarify that.

Thank you.

Dan, would six months be out of the region uh the uh give uh problem what I'm thinking is a lot can change in six months.

I'm thinking what SRP APS, I mean every seems to be waiting in long for them to make decisions.

And I know they have problems probably infrastructure themselves, but a lot can change in six months based on what uh Corporation Commission does and so forth.

So I think it may be uh not only land addition, but just what happens in the state relative to this situation too, because we keep hearing about the shortages of power, shortages of power, but yet there's people lining up to provide power, but nothing's happening.

So that long GM's got to start moving sometime, and so I'm just thinking maybe six months, would that be uh a reasonable time for him to keep this open?

I think I'd be going against my certification to speculate.

Uh although I do give you a lot of speculative information.

Uh it's a hard one.

It really is.

I don't know what's going to happen.

Uh and I don't I don't know.

Well knowing how these things move at the speed of government, which is which is which is really glacial at any point in time.

I don't think giving them a year would really it wouldn't hurt anything in my opinion, giving a year.

So if we were to do would we have to vote on that year, Steve?

Yes.

I would that vote.

Mayor, council members.

Um what I would suggest to you if you were going to consider doing that before you vote on it, you would ask the applicant basically if the council were to extend this for a year, would you be in agreement with it?

And if he said yes, then you could certainly vote on it.

If he said no, then you'll do whatever you want to do.

Go ahead to that more.

Thank you.

Do you need time to confirm it your clients?

You good?

I need to address first.

Okay.

Now being that you did only the previous motion, they would have to submit a new request and a new consideration of council to extend the limit in order for the application to be heard for an approval or not.

So Mr.

Mary, I appreciate your consideration here, and I think a year sounds like it's appropriate, especially in light of the fact that what Mr.

Simer just shared is that there is a C UP for another solar project that could be expiring next October.

So that is a year from now.

If that expires, 2,000 acres become available under the cap.

I don't know if there is a specific date for that, but but I would request that we be um uh continued at least until that council agenda.

Okay.

So they would have to resubmit to ask us to extend.

Is that the way that would go?

Can I clarify that if only if it was to go over the acreage?

But if the if acreage became available, we wouldn't need the request to go over.

Yeah.

Okay.

So what are we doing?

We're gonna vote to I have a question though.

Go ahead.

Okay.

So if we we have three solar projects, I'm assuming.

Is that correct, David?

We have three.

We have mayor members of council.

We had two constructed, one was permitted this week.

So we have three total.

I think we have like eight or nine, I think it is.

So we but we have the sawtooth, we have the kit, and we have poblano.

There's there's and you have the map there.

I think there's goes all the way up to L.

Yes.

Um, that's okay.

Uh so and one of them is started construction, right?

No, that's not correct.

The A and B, which is northern the city up by 11 mile corner, are complete.

The kit solar on um Milligan and 11 mile corner was permitted uh yesterday today.

I know I was ready, I've taken the money.

Yeah.

I don't know if they picked up the permit.

It's but it's it's eligible to be issued.

So yeah, one of the new ones under the CAP that permitted at 660 acres.

Okay, so this is just one.

So at some point, if um they decide, is it their decision to say, you know what, we no longer want to go forward with this project, or their extension expires and they don't come back for a you know for a renewal or to ask for an extension to their extension?

And um these are the things that happen to free up that limit, right?

But it first starts with it first starts with freeing up what the council has already proved that over limit, right?

Essentially, yes.

Um projects that are approved, are with the exception of the two up north, are PAD.

So they will not expire.

The three the 2200 acre one that is off of 11 mile corner much further south, uh that that is a C.

So that one would expire, but most all the rest are PAD, so they're not going to expire.

So there is a potential that about 2200 acres could come available, and the others, I think one more 660, but um top my head that's where they're at.

So and how many acres are we exceeding the original limit right now?

181.

180 181 acres.

Okay, and my last question, because I'm a novice to this, I don't really know too much about this, but when the when they have a permit, does the permit then uh or the limit expire once they start turning dirt?

That's a good question.

No, the limit does not expire.

The limit still caps the city.

So uh actually the issuing so a permit and can action and I would say construction activity because we'll be able to apply a permit and not do anything.

It's there.

Okay, Dan.

I I don't do well with acquimes when we have a learn about me.

I I you're speaking a foreign language to me.

So we put a zoning approval, like the blue the the blue line.

That was a zoning approval.

So that was a PAD, a plan area development.

So they added solar there.

They can do solar as long as they want.

And until it's used for another use, it will count on their solar.

Now the the ones that are CEP, which is conditional use permit, like this property, that also stays there unless another use is there, or the CUP permit expires.

And this particular most on our conditional use permits expire in two years.

This one they requested five.

Wasn't really worth the argument on this particular number.

So they have up to like the 2200 acre ones have until end of October of next year, I think it's October 24th, to pull that permit, or come back to council and get an extension.

Okay.

So these projects can just sit there dormant.

And as long as they continue to come because they've already been approved, as long as they continue to come and get extensions, they can just sit there dormant and continue to come and get extensions.

Yeah, only is that require the extension, that's correct.

The council can deny an extension, though.

So thank you.

Thanks.

Okay.

Anybody else have anything before we figure out a way to go forward here?

All right.

So I think this council looks agreeable.

Go ahead.

Mayor, I just want to make sure that there's no confusion as far as what's you know what you're doing tonight.

My understanding is the applicant is requesting continuance at the CUP, and he's asking for a one-year period of the continuance.

Is that would you mind acknowledging that on the record?

Yes, Mr.

Mayor.

Uh Mr.

Cooper.

That is correct.

So yeah, it looks like a push for one year forward as a continuance on this.

Now we have to vote on this, correct?

All right.

So I'm looking for a motion to approve the one-year continuance for item number one.

Do I have a motion?

Mr.

Mayor, I'll make a motion we continue for one year.

A second.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

No.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember Walaska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Member Turango.

No.

Mm-hmm.

Yes.

Now with that then, do we have to go do anything with number two?

Mr.

Saila.

Mayor, that would have been number two.

You might want to clarify that.

Okay.

So just a one-year continuance on the resolution C UP 2025-006.

Correct.

And that's it.

Yes.

Okay.

We're good.

Mr.

Harning?

Go ahead.

It's probably the first 90, first time is going to defer to me this night tonight.

But yes, we're good.

So now we look for a motion to adjourn.

So moved.

Second?

Second.

All favor say aye.

All right, we out.

Thank you, guys.