Because you can use everything that was holding your versions.

Right.

I think we're in the middle of the middle.

Exactly.

I don't know what I'm saying.

You can see the one that would be testing that's we can go to the moment.

You can see that we all think just how much you think that's basically more than one absolute.

Oh yeah.

Great job.

It's not a lot of things.

No.

Something here for that.

I guess it has something to go off.

No.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to tonight's East City Council meeting.

The date is Monday, January twenty-sixth, twenty twenty-six.

The time is six PM.

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

Councilmember Vlad Laska is excused.

Councilmember Curtis.

Here.

Councilmember Schneider.

Here?

Councilmember Garcia.

Present.

Councilmember Golindo.

Here.

Last minute to Rango.

Here.

Sutton.

Here.

I'd like to ask you all to please rise for a moment of silence and a pledge of allegiance led by me.

Oh, we got names.

Thank you, sir.

So for tonight public appearance, I have a reading.

Joseph Caruso.

Just state your name in the city where you live.

Okay.

My name is Joseph Caruso, and I live in the city of Maricopa.

Mayor and Council, thank you for your time and for listening to me today.

I'm here to talk about the United Way of Panaw County and one of our key programs that focuses on Eloy residents and children.

United Way of Panell County has been here since 1981, and we support all Panell County residents with education and financial stability focus.

The program I'd like to share with you about is the reading by third grade initiative in partnership with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, if you're familiar.

The goal is to address our reading by third grade test scores here in Panel County, including the City of Eloy.

Excuse me, the 2025 test scores show that only 27% of Pennell County third graders are able to read proficiently, which is lower than the state average and of course lower than the national average as well.

13% of Eloy of Eloy third graders are reading, which is as you can imagine is much lower than 27%.

Quite concerning.

Why does reading by third grade matter?

One in six children who are not reading professionally in third grade fail to graduate high school in time.

Students who start kindergarten behind have a less than 12% chance of attending a four-year university.

So ultimately, this achievement gaps happens at home in the earliest years.

When they enter school behind, typically those children stay behind.

This is why reading to our young children is very important.

So our program over the last two years, we now have 3300 children across Pinell County who are covered by the program.

That's a big increase over the last two years for us.

Ultimately preparing them for kindergarten to be successful.

Why I'm here today is to ask for support to encourage families with children under five to sign up for this program so that we can increase the literacy for our children here in Eloy and all of Panel County.

Also, we are looking for volunteers to support this and other programs.

People can find those opportunities on volunteerpanel.org.

Another option to support, considering sponsoring a child, $31 provides 12 high-quality books delivered directly to the child at their home.

Designations can be can be made on our website again at Unitedway PC.org.

Also, we have an annual event that fundraises exclusively for this cause.

And that will take place on Friday, April 24th at Francisco Grande Hotel.

That's our annual golf tournament.

All proceeds will support the reading by third grade initiative for all of Panel County and Eloy.com if they're interested in joining us for that effort.

But that's that's my message today.

Thank you all very much for your time.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you for addressing this council.

That's a wonderful cause.

Thank you.

I have a question for you.

Look, if you initiative versus Lawrence Penel Alliance and the uh Caitlin uh Burke, what's can you talk to address that?

Yes, I can.

So the uh I know the initiative you're talking about, the Penelope for Economic Growth.

Uh I believe they partner with seniors, and that focuses on kids who've already entered elementary school, first through third graders specifically.

That is a volunteer tutoring program through AARP.

Our program works coincides with that program.

We focused on the pre-K age group to prepare them from kindergarten so that when they start, they're on track, and they're trying to catch uh the children who didn't start, of course, on track, and now they're struggling to read.

So they're trying to catch up uh the youngsters as well.

Yeah.

Thank you, sir.

Would you be able to would you be able to send us something like to Celine that she could share with us, just the information that we can maybe like plug you on social media or um just share with people who might be interested?

Yes, absolutely.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, that we go to just really quick.

Um, I know that the United Way of Penell County always also does with their uh initiative, work with grandparents and family members that that babysit that care.

I know first things first is address this council about the need for child care, but there's a sp there's like a unique way that the United Way of Pinell County uh supports and educates uh family members that you know take care of young kids to help them prepare for that as well.

Could you share some of that as well?

Yes, yes, I can.

Uh that would be our friend family and neighbor program, focuses on helping uh a lot of grandparents but other family members as well who care for children that are not their own uh informal child care uh within their home.

We show up uh monthly, we provide them training, uh safety training, educational toys, uh just kind of ongoing trainings so that they can give those children under five that educational experience, that early childhood development is such a key age for those kids.

So making sure that they have educational experiences and beyond uh in that age group is their key focus.

But those those educational specialists do amazing work, those ladies on that team, and uh we have great results there.

351 families are receiving that service right now.

Okay, thank you, sir.

Okay, so now it brings us to item number six.

Reports and announcements, and you may or may have an announcement or two.

First, on Tuesday the 20th, I attended the 30th annual legislative day at the Arizona League of Cities and Towns.

I had the honor of serving as co-chair for that meeting.

We sat down with representatives and senators to talk about what's moving through the House and Senate right now.

Our main focus was transportation.

There were a few other bills being discussed.

Caught my attention and could impact cities like Eloy.

Here are a few quick takeaways from meeting with our representatives.

First is talk of eliminating property tax for seniors who own their own homes.

But there's yeah, I know everybody smiles about that, but the questions were if you own your home but you put a sector mortgage on it, are you still ready for the tax?

So I'd say keep an eye on that as far as the bills going through the Senate.

Next was a possible gas tax holiday for the summer.

This probably would have been good about two years ago when gas was four dollars a gallon.

Right now, I don't know.

EV impact fees, including proposed charging fees and an $80 imposed registration fee per EV.

There's also discussion about dropping data center and incentives, and a proposal for one cent per gallon tax for water usage.

For those of you who don't know, data center incentives right now.

Anything they put inside the data center is not taxed.

So they're talking about getting rid of that incentive and we'll be able to tax is what goes into a data center is using the tens of millions of dollars.

There's no need for these incentives, in my opinion, because they come no matter what.

The Arizona Smart Fund is down to about 15 million dollars.

At this place, at this pace, it will be gone within six months.

The Arizona Smart Fund is something when a city applies and we get a grant, like a federal grant, is a match.

It's like a 50-50 or 80-20 match.

A lot of cities don't have this money to come up with that match.

So what the smart fund does is we give the city the money and they will be able to get their full grant.

But that smart fund is dwindling fast, so we're trying to push the legislators to fill that pot back up for us.

And just to put it into perspective, there were over a thousand bills introduced, and only maybe 350 will actually pass.

So our legislators are there, they are working hard.

So that's a lot happening, and I'll continue to do what I always do, advocating for Eloy, making sure we're paying attention to anything that affects our residents.

And that's when it comes to the legislator.

Director Anchardo, Chad Price, Michelle Hall.

We joined the Secretary of State Zoom call about the semi-quincentennial.

That's a mouthful.

Which is the country's 250 birthday celebration on July 4th.

Hard to believe we're planning something that big.

But we seem to be on track, our city.

We're right there where we should be with our planning, and we still have a few folks to iron up, but I'm looking forward to a great event coming this July 4th.

And on a Saturday night, along with Councilmember Curtis and Council Member Bob Roska.

We attended the Eloy Chamber of Commerce Gala and awards ceremony.

It was a great night.

A celebration of the people that make ERO special.

We even have a surprise guest.

Wally the robot from ASU showed up and tried to steal the show.

It was really cute.

It was I also had the honor and privilege of swearing in the chamber board for the media.

And some of the community awards were presented.

One that really struck what we was given to Eloy Police Officer Corona.

His life-saving exit, his life-saving efforts following a serious motor vehicle accident.

Officer Corona represents exactly what our police department stands for.

Service professionalism and stepping up when it matters most.

I want to congratulate him again and say it loud and clear.

I am a proud supporter of the Eloy Police Department.

Lastly, today I attended the PRTA meeting in Florence.

That is the Panel Regional Transportation Authority.

Other people have other beliefs, like they should go back to the state, they should go anywhere but Penau County.

So we're doing we're finding a good fight on this.

And it will be diddied up between the cities and Panama County if we were able to keep it there.

And I will keep you in the loop on to how we make that on our progress.

So that's all from the mayor.

Let's go, council members.

Anything?

Jet.

So um I was able to attend the uh Martin Luther King breakfast and March on the 19th.

Uh just to get that Emay was the first municipality in the nation to ever formally recognize Martin Luther King's birthday as a holiday, and it they've been going for over 30 years.

I know for over 30 years, I've I've gone to that march whenever possible, and it's something we should be really proud of.

And I and kudos to the organization that continues every year to bring on that event.

So I was I was really happy to be able to attend this year.

Um on the 21st, I was able to visit the senior center.

I uh also was able to introduce the uh acting city manager to a possible funder.

Well, we decided to meet there.

Uh I I was just so excited to see the senior center.

I was telling McKinsey that I didn't think I was gonna be able to find a parking space because the parking lot was full, the the center was full, um, the seniors were having a wonderful time.

They had just finished their art project and they were working on games and and it was just really good to see um our seniors at work.

And you know, kudos to the uh community services department.

They're doing an excellent job out there making keeping our seniors active and engaged and working on projects and just having that social time for them as well.

And I think that's that's it for me.

I just wanted to remind I know I sent a uh notice out to the council that um this coming week will be the point in time homeless count.

Um on Wednesday the the count will take place in in Casa Grande, and on Friday it will take uh it'll take place here in Eloy, I believe about eight o'clock.

Uh uh they will be meeting at CARA.

So if you're available to go out and help with the homeless count, this this, like the mayor was saying, it uh is one of those things that's gonna support a la Panao County.

So a lot of the the uh homeless that that are surviving within our communities, we don't usually get an accurate count.

So the most accurate count we can get, the more funding we can get to provide services for them and to assure that that um that their choices in life are healthy and safe.

And that's it for me.

I often don't have a lot to say, so hopefully it's the same time this week.

Um the 15th, as an employee, but I still would love it.

I still enjoy attending the student march for Martin Luther King.

Paul and his crew did a wonderful job putting that on, closed down the streets of Eloy, and our kids marched, starting with our kidding learnings all the way up to our eighth graders.

That's where that's where we stopped otherwise.

We bring more kids.

Uh had a great attendance.

On Friday the 16th, attended the CDOU annual meeting, and we had a great time.

The board was brought in by Judge Valdez.

I think a few people made off with a few good prices, and everyone had it.

I I think they had a great time.

I didn't hear any complaints.

On Monday the 19th, along with Councilmember the Lindo and Vice Mayor attended the I'm not even sure what year it is, the Martin Luther King March.

I know I know we've been doing it for quite a while.

Our attendance was a little lower, but with some of the other cities starting their own tradition and starting their own marches, that does affect our accounts.

That's been my slow schedule.

Last week I had the opportunity to meet with the Keith Watkins from the Arizona Comps Authority, who is responsible for rural communities, and a nice discussion about uh their focus uh particularly on the uh extending fiber optics into the rural communities for internet.

So that's been a big focus of theirs right now.

The the uh with with growth and development needed in the rural communities, fiber optics and internet connection is very important.

Uh so we had a nice discussion about that.

Yeah, and he kept it was very complimentary of Eloy talking that we were right here in the middle of uh he said it's coming.

He says it you may not think it's coming.

I said I've been hearing here for 10 years.

He said, Well, it's coming.

And so we had a nice discussion.

The Arizona uh commerce authority gets requests from uh companies around the world, really, and they will kick those requests back to communities that they feel are uh possible site selection.

So we had a nice discussion what what that process is and how it's changed.

It used to be that local communities would go out and advertise their abilities that but now most of these site selectors already know about you.

And so when they find out about it, they want to say, okay, here's uh here's a checklist, fill out the fill out the uh form and send it back to us, and they do all the work online, every place else, so it's changed a lot.

But he offered uh help with his group and the consult authority on local communities like Eloy filling out some of these requests because sometimes they'd be quite extensive, and it's like uh we talked about going to buy a car.

When you go to buy a car, buy a house, your list of everything you want in that house or that car is pretty extensive.

These companies are doing the same thing.

But what you end up buying and what you end up uh purchasing may be totally different because you make some uh compromises along the way.

Companies do the same thing.

So we have a nice discussion about how to keep your your hat in the ring, so to speak, and be part of the process without uh shutting your the doors because you tried to be too specific.

So we had a nice discussion about that process and maybe how they can help us.

Yeah, how they can help the city of Elay to uh fill out some of those forms and uh give us uh more visibility and also land some of these potential uh things.

So it's a nice uh nice contact.

Well, thank you for that information, Councilman Snyder.

Everybody else?

Mr.

McKinsey.

Awesome, thank you, Mayor.

So only a couple items for me this week, and one of them is definitely a repeat.

So starting off first, we have the father-daughter banquet.

Just a final reminder, this is gonna be next Friday, the 6th at 6 p.m.

to 9 p.m.

And that's gonna be at the Robson Ranch Hermosa Ballroom.

So again, that's $20 per person or $30 if you're a non-resident.

The event is ages five up, and it includes a dinner, pictures, and raffle prizes, so potential to walk away.

So pretty cool prizes from that event.

And then just a reminder too that this is a pre-register event.

If you show up on the day and are trying to sign up at the door, you will be denied.

Please do not put Paul and his staff in that position.

So please register online.

There's plenty of space till it's available.

Uh and you can find that online at the community services portal on our website under online registrations.

The second item that we have up is also another exciting one.

We have the Eloy PD Citizens Academy.

That's gonna be February 7th on Saturday, 8 a.m.

to 5 p.m.

We do this every year.

Uh currently we have about seven residents who have applied for that.

We definitely like to get more.

And we have uh flyers that are kind of physically located at a lot of our different sites here at the city, some at City Hall, and some are posted in other areas.

So you can either get one of these and scan the QR codes.

You can call, you can call the police department to apply for this, or you can get a hold of David Crane at D Crane at Eloyaz.gov.

So we'd love to have you participate in that citizens academy, and I think it'd be a great learning process for everybody that's involved.

And then last up, we have the Air Park Master Plan.

So this is something that we've been doing over the last several months uh with Christina and Dan Simon, our community development director, where it's gonna follow a similar kind of community outreach process to what we've had over the last year with our general plan, except this is going to be entirely focused on development and growth that's around the airport.

So we're looking for feedback on that, and that's gonna be located at the Toltec Senior Center on February 11th, and I believe it's taking place at 6 p.m., right, Dan?

Yeah.

If not, I'll mention it again on the 9th and correct myself if I screw that up.

So that's all I got.

Thanks, Matt.

Thank you, Mr.

Lecture.

That brings us to item number seven, consent agenda.

Now the consent agenda has been a little twisted.

I know Madam Clerk here has been pushing a giant stone up the hill trying to get this thing to work.

She's been doing an excellent job, and we are trying to iron out.

It's just some inconsistencies in the formatting with it.

So I apologize.

Some of you have asterisk and some of you don't.

So we'll we are working on that.

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

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

Are there any council members wish to remove any items from the consent agenda?

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

So moved.

Do we have a second?

Our second.

Madam Clerk, roll call, please.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Golindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder?

Yes.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Okay.

Next.

Item number eight, business possible discussion and/or action on the following.

Item A, acceptance of the fiscal year 2024-2025 annual comprehensive financial report, the ACFR, as completed by Heshfield and Meach and Company PC.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor and members of the council public.

Tonight is the formal acceptance of the fiscal year 24-25.

Annual comprehensive or the annual audit, also we call it the ACFER.

And it was completed by Heidenfeld and Mech this last year.

One of the partners will come up here briefly and go through a presentation to go through the uh the ACFAR.

But uh per order's on revised statute, Section 8 Um 481.

It stands on within 90 days of the completion of the audit that the auditing firm that did the audit must present the audit and the finance to the council for formal acceptance.

So this is uh more of like a housekeeping item we do every year after the audit.

So at this time I'll turn it over to Josh and uh for this.

Good evening, uh Mayor Sutton, Council.

Um, it's my pleasure to be back again.

Uh I was here a year ago, so good to be back.

Uh I do have a few slides just to keep me on track, but it will be brief, I promise.

Uh, like Brian mentioned, uh state statute, you have to have an annual financial audit, uh, and then Arizona revised statutes back in 2021 now required every year municipality uh formally accept this in outside of consent agenda.

Uh so just listing here uh a variety of things that guide the audit.

So there are a lot of different standards and requirements that guide the audit from federal guidance, governmental accounting standards, uh, and then auditing standards, both for governmental auditing standards, and then just general auditing standards.

So just summarizing that a lot of rules have to be followed as part of the annual audit.

Uh the importance of the audit, it wouldn't be a presentation but from an auditor if we didn't talk about why it was important.

Uh, but the financial audit for the city just verifies management's representations regarding the finances of the city.

You're demonstrating stewardship and accountability to uh citizens, granters, state agencies, federal agencies, etc.

You're ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, uh, and then you're ultimately ensuring that management has fulfilled their responsibility to get the annual audit.

Uh so the timeline for the annual audit started way back last spring, uh, and we performed audit procedures in the summer uh and then came out in uh September.

Uh procedures continued through the fall in the ACFR, the annual comprehensive financial report was issued in December, and then other reports were issued this month.

So it's included in the annual audit.

So all these things are issued as part of the annual audit, and uh they're included in your packet as well.

So the communication to governance letters, so that's directed directly to you.

It's included in your packet.

It's about a three-page letter that just goes over various requirements, the annual comprehensive financial report, so that's the audited financials of the city, the single audit reporting package, which gets submitted to the federal government related to federal grants that the city receives, the expenditure limitation report uh that indicates if the city is under that limitation uh that's indicated by the state, the ADEQ landfill assurance report, and then uh a compliance requirement report related to HERF highway user revenue fund monies.

So the few key items I just wanted to point out related to the annual audit.

So the financial statements were dated December 16th, uh, and an unmodified opinion was issued.

That's the technical accounting term, the non-accounting speak, uh it's a clean audit opinion, so for uh free from financial free from material misstatement.

So pleased to report that.

Additionally, no internal control deficiencies.

So as part of the audit, we look at the controls and processes and procedures related to the financials, everything that uh processes that flows into the financials, no internal control deficiencies were noted.

And then as part of our federal compliance test work, uh, we looked at the CDBG uh grant and noted no findings in our review of that grant.

Uh so just as part of that letter to governance.

I mentioned before that letter also includes a copy of the engagement letter, which is signed at the beginning of the audit, let's start the audit, and also a copy of the management representation letter, which is signed at the end of the audit, which uh indicates that management has provided everything needed, and we can issue our audit opinion.

Uh other important communications just indicating that uh we inquire about knowledge of fraud and noncompliance with management and other employees as part of our audit process, but that ultimately fraud, the responsibility for fraud lies with management and council.

And then our responsibilities as the auditors, reasonable, not absolute assurance.

Uh, and then the financial statements that are issued are ultimately the responsibility of management.

But the audit process went efficiently.

Uh, everything has been issued in time uh as well, but I'm happy to answer any questions you might have as part of the annual audit.

First, I'd like to say good work there, Mr.

Right.

Yeah, good work to you and your team.

Very good.

A clean audit is a wonderful thing to have.

There's no doubt about that.

Any questions, council?

Right?

Yeah, that's good.

Yes, yeah.

Just the motion accept the audit.

Okay.

At this time, we're looking for a motion to accept acceptance of the fiscal year 24-25 as annual comprehensive financial report.

Mayor make a motion we accept the uh EFRA report.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Cardis?

Yes.

Council, excuse me, Vice Mayor Turingo.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Nice work, one.

Nice work.

All right.

On to item B.

Approval of change order to Vera G L C in the amount of 115,000 for odor control engineering design services for the belt filter press at the weight water treatment plant.

I've heard a lot about this press over the last two years.

All right.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council.

Um I'm here to discuss a little bit about the order control.

So staff recommends approval of 115,000 change order to Vergee to allow sunrise engineering to provide additional engineering and permitting services for the odor control associated with the belt filter press at the wastewater treatment plant.

The belt press project was approved on June 9th of 2025.

And is it included in the 2025-26 wastewater CIP.

As part of the project, this the city submitted an APP amendment to ADEQ in July of 2025.

In October, ADAQ issued a request for additional information requiring order control to comply with the Arizona Administrative Code R18-9.

Following a coordinating a coordination meeting with ADEQ, it was made clear that the APP amendment would not be approved without the order of control.

Without ADQ approval, the belt filter press cannot be placed into service.

Order control was not anticipated in the original project scope and therefore not included in the original contract.

Due to additional design requirement and time constraints, the city rescinded the APP amendment application and move forward with incorporating order control into this project design.

Construction of the order control will be funded separately in fiscal year 26-27 through the utility bond uh utility obligation bond.

Oh, they can't hear.

I thought I talked loud.

Um approval of this change order allows the city to move forward with the regulatory compliance, secure ADQ approval, and place the belt filter press in into service.

Any questions or comments, Vice Mayor?

I'll keep it short.

Matt's glad he's not here.

That's all I'm going to say.

Okay.

Questions or comments.

Okay, once this mayor, can I jump in real quick?

Absolutely.

And also an item that maybe Ed can possibly jump in if I'm incorrect here too.

But a part of this as well as why it wasn't incorporated into the original scope is because ADQ didn't they have a uh adjustment to the distance that was required with the odor control?

So previously we were under that threshold, but then they increased the range, we pushed it over to like a thousand, whatever it was, a thousand feet, a thousand yards, and because of that reason now it is a requirement, and so that's kind of why it's being added on after the fact as well.

So yeah, we were at the 300, and then with the new their new code went to a thousand, so that's why we have to add the order control.

Is there a time this belt press will go into service?

Bullpark.

Just as soon as we get the issue.

Yeah, as soon as we get this approved, it'll go.

I mean, it the design's already there.

So these are just adding the modifications through the engineering to add the odor control on top of the the sludge tanks that are gonna be going into place.

Okay, thank you.

But here's the answer to your question.

Is it was it was this going to be in the 26-27 budget year?

Yes.

And so when will the belt go in operation will be after this is added or before?

The belt press that's already been approved, so that's um it won't start construction until roughly I'm gonna say roughly about a month, month or two once this gets approved, because they got to build a pad and all the the buildings, blah blah blah, a bunch of stuff, but this will be the last component to the uh filter belt press.

So it'll be roughly after this is in the nine months.

Yes, nine months to a year for it to be full completion.

I have another uh clarification too.

Just as I'm sure you guys all read the coac, mayor and council members, but this is also for engineering.

This isn't for the actual construction.

So there is going to be an additional cost that was also associated with this.

Or no.

There is yes, yes, yes, so yes, because once this gets approved, um the Vergy will go out to bid to get the quotes for um, I guess adding additional the you know, the odor control system on top.

Thank you, Mayor.

Have we checked the belt press that's been sitting there for several years to make sure that that piece of equipment is going to be able to be functioning once it is put into place?

Yes, Vergy has inspected it and checked all the parts and made sure everything was there.

I do believe that sunrise engineering.

Um they were gonna check to see if they can extend the warranty because I don't know when that warranty expired.

Um, but I think they were checking on that one.

So if we hadn't used it, it would be nice to have the water tea standard.

We're having a darn thing over yet.

It has been there for a while, so yes.

Go ahead.

Quick question, cookie.

And so is this for to control order odors or smells that are going out into the general public and maybe smelled by people due to wind conditions?

Yes, okay.

So it's not just for people working there or whatever.

Yeah, okay, gotcha.

Okay.

I'm looking for a motion to approve the change order to verage L L C in the amount of 115,000 dollars.

So moved.

So I have the second second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Okay, it brings us to item C approval of a change order to Central Irrigate Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District, C A I D D, for the construction of a security wall at Well 3 replacement site for the amount not to exceed 125,000 cookie.

Uh Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council.

Um, this is going to discuss a little bit on the well three uh block wall.

So staff recommends approval of the change order through CAD based on a proposal from Ellison Mills construction to construct an eight-foot masonry security wall around well three replacement site at the southwest corner of Treckle Park in the amount not to exceed 125,000.

On August 25th, 2025, council approved proceeding with the well three replacement project.

The project is being managed by CAD under the existing IGA agreement, and we'll continue to oversee the work.

During project development, an oversight occurred and required security well to uh required security well was omitted from the original proposal.

A secure parameter is required before the well can be placed back into service.

Security for municipal drinking water infrastructure is strongly supported by EPA and ADEQ guidelines and is also consistent with America Water America's Water Infrastructure Act of 20 2018, which emphasizes protecting critical water facilities from unauthorized access and contamination.

Providing high quality water and improving overall system reliability.

Without this security infrastructure, the well cannot be brought online.

The proposed uh scope includes approximately 270 feet of eight foot masonry wall, one main gate, and a 20-foot road gate to allow operational access while maintaining site security.

Although this item was not specifically budgeted in the original scope, sufficient funding exists within the fiscal year 2526 water CIP to accommodate this cost.

Funds will be reallocated from existing project balances, resulting that no net increase to the adopted water CIP project.

Thank you, sir.

Uh just a quick question.

What's around the well now as far as a wall?

Is it a fence?

The old well, there is a block wall.

The new one, there's nothing around it right now.

We have a temporary chain link fence that we had to rent.

Yeah, keeping that secure is in everybody's best interest, that's for sure.

Questions or comments from staff?

I just have a quick question.

The other wells did are they also secured with this brick wall?

So this is just extending that same security that we have with all our other wells?

Correct.

Thank you.

Okay, not seeing anything for questions from council.

At this time, I'm looking for a motion to approve the change order to CAIDD for a security wall at well three for an amount not to exceed 125,000.

So I have a motion.

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Thanks, Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Quicky, thank you so much.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

That brings us to item 10, my favorite item on the list.

Do we have a motion to adjourn?

Just a quick um acknowledgement to the finance department.

Um, I know we voted for the consent agenda all in one swoop, but excellent job to the finance department on being able to secure so many so much grant funding.

It's an opportunity for us to stay within our budget, not have to use uh expenses that we put elsewhere and provide good quality service for our citizens.

So good job.

Do I motion to adjourn?

Do we have a second?

Aye.

Oh, say to say aye.

Thank you, everybody.

Have a safe trip home.