You can put me down too, but I was going to go.

Oh, I'm going to be at the end of the last place.

Thank you.

All right, everybody, good evening, and welcome to tonight's Eloy City Council meeting.

It is Monday, February 9th, 2026, and the time is six thirteen.

Councilmember Valdraska.

Present.

Councilmember Curtis.

Here.

Here.

Councilmember Schneider.

Here.

Councilmember Garcia?

President.

Councilmember Golinda.

Here.

I would like to ask everybody to please rise for a moment of silence in the Pledge of Allegiance that will be led by Councilmember Bob Rodska.

And I also like you to kindly, in your moment of silence.

We had a horrible accident up in Flagstaff.

And two DPS members perished in that accident.

DPS pilot Robert Skanski and Paramedic Hunter Bennett perished in that accident.

If you please keep them in mind during this moment of silence, I appreciate that.

One nation under God.

Thank you, sir.

Okay, I'm showing four people here on the appearance, the unscheduled public appearance.

And I'll be holding shoes for the end.

Alright, so they will be at the end.

So our first unscheduled public appearance will be from Sayed Taha.

Sir.

State your name in the city where you live.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mr.

Signat 3100 South Bearford.

Good evening to all of you guys, mayor, the council members, and our police department, and all the people that are here.

We have the month of Ramadan coming next month next week.

And we're almost about a billion people that fast and the following the traditions of the Prophet Abraham, Moses, and all the other prophets.

We fast from sunrise to sunset for about 30 days.

We would like to invite all of you, the city community and city council and all the city workers and the police department to come join us breaking fast and having dinner with us here in the community center in the U.S.

community.

And if anybody's in rush, we'd be more than happy to make you a box to go.

And uh trust me, the food will be really good.

It'll be great Mediterranean food and the food that Jesus and Moses ate.

Jesus and Moses never ate burgers and fries.

So for the next four Saturdays during the month of Ramadan, every Saturday we have in the evening time at 6 o'clock at our property, uh breaking fast and having dinner served by us and our community member here from Arizona City, Causagan, and Elo.

We're all getting together at the property.

And everybody's invited, and all the uh people in the community is also invited.

We have benches and chairs to sit, unless Mr.

Cooper here wants to come in and be and take away all the children's playground and benches and cheers and put in the Elon landfill, even though the property is on C2 and we have discussed all this stuff.

And I requested the city and the mayor has the full authority to do it to give us a little few days' extension uh during the month of Ramadan so we can actually sit there and enjoy uh the food and stuff.

And if it doesn't, then everybody who's coming to the property should bring their own chairs and uh we will serve the food.

And uh last time we had a dinner up at the uh lunch at the place, and we invited all the city members during the Christmas time, and uh unfortunately even none of you guys were able to make it, but it was a beautiful place, and a lot of church people came in from different churches, and everybody enjoyed.

And we are dedicated this property to a as a non uh nonprofit, and we're gonna dedicate it as a uh mosque in a community center and a church for just the zone public for the elo public to use.

So we'll install me cards um the Saturday.

I mean the next uh council meeting on February 23rd for us for all of you guys to come and join us here in the community center, which is right outside.

Okay, thank you, sir.

Thank you very much.

Uh next person is uh Donna.

Hello, Donna, state your name and where you live, the city where you live, thank you.

I don't know if any of you um drive down by where we were my community is at uh Toltec and Batanglia, but all of a sudden there is an empty lot next to our community, ready to call Toltec and Tanglia.

All of a sudden, these food vendors.

I don't know if they have licenses, I have no idea.

Saturday there were four of them there.

On one side of the street, in the vacant lot, and then across the street there were two more.

And when we drove here tonight, there was one already set up.

There also had been a truck there that had been there for probably two months.

It finally was towed away.

But I don't know who when we see these food vendors there, who do we call to have them nothing happened to them, take it away because I don't think they should be there.

So thank you.

Thank you for addressing the council, Donna.

We will take that into consideration.

Thank you.

Okay, next on the list is Mayor's announcements, and it's only one page tonight.

See, you all walked out.

I do want to mention one fun community highlight.

One of the fellow council members, we had a chance to catch the production of Little Shopahoras out at Robes and Rance.

I gotta give a special shout out to Council Member Vablaska.

He did an excellent job as the shopkeeper.

A really great performance.

Nice work, sir.

Thank you.

Nice work.

Also, I had to fly back to New York City for some family business.

And let me tell you, Saturday, it was nine degrees with 30 mile an hour winds all day.

The climate weather really makes you appreciate Eloy on a whole nother level.

I have never been happier to come home.

Back here in town, I came in last Sunday, came to City Hall to write my announcements and do some tidy up work.

And I did see a long line of cars all around City Hall, and curious what it was.

That was the uh pet vaccination clinic.

It looked like a big success all around.

And I like to thank everyone who helped organize and everyone who brought their pets out.

That was just a super success, and that's the way it should be here in our city.

And finally, I know there are questions about the nitrates that were reported in the city's water service.

Acting City Manager Rachel will speak to that issue in just a moment.

But I want everyone to know we are monitoring everything very closely, and we will act accordingly if anything additional is needed out there.

So rest assured this is very serious to us, and we are taking it very seriously.

So with that with the council member announcements on my left.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I just want to uh everyone know that I participated in the point in time homeless count on Friday the 30th of January.

We went out and surveyed uh the homeless community in Eloy.

Um but we have a homeless problem, but it's a pretty sophisticated problem.

A lot of unlike Cassagran, it seems to be people that are just stranded for a few days and are looking for a means to like get their axle fixed or you know, get their trailer fixed or something, and then they can head out on the road way.

You know, luckily we have uh places of employment like the Blue Beacon and others that that will hire and pay daily.

So we we let them know that that was an option for them.

And then in discussing with them, um, we went out with uh two the two uh code compliance officers, which did an excellent job.

They are amazing when we could we couldn't do this count without them.

They're they know exactly where to take us and where to find those people, the unsheltered, and um, so we gathered information of what kind of things would make them you know more comfortable as they prepare to move on to their permanent residence.

So one of them was um they're they're very proud of their dwelling area and stuff, but they say that there's not enough trash bins.

I know I I uh talked last year about how we found a boat out in the middle of the desert, and there was a lot of trash that they were storing in the dope boat and stuff, and so what they say is they like keep keeping their area clean, they like keeping keeping their area trash free, but by the time they get to the trash bins that are uh near them, they're usually overflown and stuff, overgrown and overfilled.

So trap more trash bins was one of the things.

Um they also said, and fortunately we went out with the case managers of CARA, but they said that uh a lot of times they're donated showers by some of the truckers.

They said they get a free shower voucher for every uh full tank that they offer.

And if if they're not around to ask them for it, they usually either throw it away or give it to back to the clerk or or don't accept the voucher.

But they were saying um if if the they could work with the uh managers of these facilities, and maybe they could donate the uh free vouchers back to the store, and then the store could reach out to Cara, and Carl would be available to offer that as a resource as well.

And then they talked about other resources um things like well, you know, have just having a faucet where they could get water, you know, some water.

They they said they don't waste their resources and they don't uh take more than what they need and stuff, but they uh they said you know that sometimes it it's difficult to find, you know, a spigot where they could easily access water and and stuff, and um, of course, we took all that information to CARA as well, so uh they will be working with the resources.

But I mean, we have a very I want to say a more sophisticated and kind homeless population than the other communities that I go out and do surveys with too.

So uh kudos to them.

Um, and then on Friday, I along with council member Tony Bensina from the city of Florence were asked to judge the Pinau County School Spelling B.

It's the hardest volunteer job I've ever done.

Um seeing these kids that just work so hard and get to that level, and then you have to ding them because they missed one letter or something.

But we we got three winners, two of them will be going to the state finals.

Um, and if they uh place at the state finals, they'll be going to Nationals in Washington DC.

So that's what I did.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Well, it's been a quiet two weeks for me, but I did happen to attend the um little shop of horizons with you, and that we had a great time.

Um Councilmember O'Dosca, I do have to say I enjoyed my time, and I stayed awake the whole time.

So it's that good.

Just a couple of things.

Um Saturday, January 31st, I attended the town of Florence's Chamber Awards dinner.

I missed our own, but I was able to attend Florence's.

Um I'll say obviously they have a lot of things going on up there, a lot of homes up there, which I wish we could get some down here.

But Craig McFarland was their guest speaker, and he talked um about all of the housing, commercial, and industry coming to um their area, but I'll say um Mr.

McFarland did a great job of throwing the city of Eloy's name in there quite a bit.

So I was even though we were there for Florence, I was really happy to hear um Eloy in there mentioned quite a few times and positive comments about everything that's coming to our area.

Um, and then on Wednesday, February 4th, I was finally able to attend the um Central Arizona Project Panau Stakeholder Dinner for the CAP, and they were just they gave a great update.

I'm always interested in learning more about water because it's like there's a lot to learn about it.

Um we are take for granted we turn on our tap and water comes out and we flush our toilets and um but they talked about the negotiations right now between the upper basin and the lower basin and how the upper basin doesn't want to play nice with us in the lower basin.

Um but that they mention Arizona reuses 52% of our water, whereas the upper basin only reuses five percent.

Um they don't want to give anything to us, and so um the CAP talked about how Penau County has done more than our share for um our fair share of um being very um useful with our water and that our out agriculture here has taken the brunt of the cuts.

Protecting Lake Mead has pretty much fallen on us here in Penau County.

Um but CAP said that they need the political powers that be to talk to Washington, specifically the Department of the Interior and tell them that to try to get the federal government to recognize um the 1922 law of the river, but it was a very um interesting um meeting, and I hope to be able to continue to learn more about our very precious resource of water here in the desert.

But it was a very um interesting um meeting, and I hope to be able to continue to learn more about our very precious resource of water here in the desert.

Thank you.

Thank you, uh Vice Mayor.

Yeah, that CAP is so interesting.

I went last year's dinner, and those agreements with the upper basin states, those were formed in 1912.

And they are not they are not abiding by any of them.

It's not just us too, it's a Mexico problem as well.

It's an international issue.

Because right now Arizona uses approximately the same amount of water as we did well, less than in 1955.

We are really pulling our weight in this category.

Mike say quickly uh thank you for the support from my fellow city council members, city um management people, and those public uh in the public that did come out to Ropes and Ranch and support the uh theater at Ropes and Ranch.

Um last two and a half months have been uh quite quite keeping me busy, and um I am happy to report that I will be completing my service to the city as a councilman as I haven't received too many calls from any agents in Hollywood looking for me.

So um once again, thank you.

Well, thank you, sir.

And that brings us to item City Manager announcements.

Awesome, thank you, Mayor.

So it just to follow up with what the mayor was saying, I wanted to start off with an update of what's going on with the nitrate system and the elevated nitrates that we're experiencing in our water.

Uh obviously, as the mayor stated, this is a serious concern.

This is something that the city takes very um high consideration of, and we're monitoring it as closely as we can.

Uh so first the current status.

So, as you would have seen in the notice, uh it showed that the nitrates in the system are currently at about uh 11 milligrams per liter.

So since that time, we have been also doing recent testing within the last week that have already shown that we've dropped down to about 10.3.

So that means we're slightly above what the threshold is to remove the tier one notification.

Our water department has been going overtime over the weekend running our pump four, our well four, almost 12 to 14 hours a day to blend the water to bring our nitrates down.

And so, kind of how did we get to this point?

You know, does is the city been asleep at the wheel?

How did we get to this point?

It was actually caused by multiple uh just unfortunate events that happened in a short period of time.

So this is a tempest temporary situation that was from overlapping operational challenges.

The first being well four was down for emergency repairs.

So that's also not one of our primary mixing wells.

Our primary mixing walls is well three, which has also been down for repairs for close to about six to eight months now.

Uh we are going to be completing repairs on that coming up here in about April.

So once those two wells are up and running, well four has already been operational for about the last month, and as I stated previously, we've started to mix that to dilute the nitrates to bring that nitrate content down.

When well three comes online fully after all of the repairs are done on that, we don't believe we're going to have any of these issues moving forward with any of the nitrate system.

So we're looking forward to doing that.

Um we're also cut conducting weekly testing moving forward.

So this is something that while we do monitor this ourselves, you have to send in these testing to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality for them to basically assess and confirm your tests.

So that's why we ran into that discrepancy with our nitrates being higher is when we tested them, we submitted them to the state, and then they told us, yeah, you actually did trigger that threshold, so until you bring that down, that tier one notice will have to remain in effect.

Uh there's three tiers, so we are on the lowest tier notification, which is good news.

So even though we are going through this process, at least it is the most minimal impact to our system.

And then also kind of what are we doing to support impacted families?

So we actually ended up pretending about two pallets of water that we're gonna have available at City Hall for any families with infants that are under six months old.

Uh they'll be able to come to City Hall starting tomorrow between business hours where they'll be able to pick up a case of water each week until we reduce the tier one notification.

So they'll be able to use this to mix with their um their formula or anything else that they need for their infants.

So we're happy to do that for the city.

And then long-term solutions too.

Uh as I stated, this is something that we've been monitoring long term.

It's not something that happened overnight.

We've known that this was coming, and we've been doing our best to try to mitigate it with some of the other scenarios that have popped up recently.

Uh, we actually approved two capital improvement projects last year to address these issues that are currently under construction right now.

Uh one of them is the nitrate filtration system that's currently taking place at pump station one.

We anticipate that's going to be completed within the next couple months as well.

And once that nitrate filtration system is installed, it will reduce uh significantly the nitrates that are in our water to keep us from ever having to go through this notification protocol again.

So we're really looking forward to that being online.

And then obviously, again, once all the well repairs are complete, one of the items you'll see that's getting approved tonight is one of the final items associated with the well three repairs.

So once that's approved and that goes through, we'll be mitigating all of that and then also monitoring all of our wells a lot more strict moving forward to make sure we don't run into this situation.

And then lastly, we've obviously been looking at some of the public comments.

You know, I look at Facebook, I look at Eloh watching news, so I can see what everyone's saying.

And we actually did put out more publications than were actually required by the tier one notification.

So we publicly distributed physical copies of this notice to 12 locations on Friday throughout the city that are frequently uh frequent by residents, uh including all city facilities, the local hospitals, schools, Penell County Health offices, as well as the apartment complexes and additional high traffic locations.

We also posted this uh on our website.

We put out an alert system on our alert system on our website, and then we also posted it on Facebook as well.

And then it kind of the last thing is just a call to action for residents.

Um, something that we know is we don't have a lot of subscribers that are subscribed to our alert system.

So these are the specific examples like this that if you're not subscribed to receive those notices, yeah, sometimes you're not gonna get them if you're not paying attention to our website all the time.

So what I would request is go to our website.

If you go to the alert banner, you can go on there and you can subscribe to this, and then you can also select what media you want it to come through.

So if you want it to be email notified to you, it can be emailed, it can be texts, um, or if you want to frequent our website, you can always go and check there.

So just want to recommend moving forward for residents to please subscribe to that because you'll get any emergency alerts, whether it has to do our with our water, you know, God forbid a trail car, you know, gets derailed from the train, that would be an alert, or anything just related to just city activities, including road closures or repairs that are happening in our roads.

It's just good to be subscribed.

Uh so closing, I mean it's water is a top priority for us, and we just want to, you know, we appreciate the patience of the residents that are going through this right now.

We know this impacts uh several different families in Eloy, and we just want to make sure that you guys know we're doing what we can to address it.

Uh and then, as I stated, any families that are paying attention to the council meeting right now, please come to City Hall tomorrow.

You'll have to provide a utility bill that you're being serviced by the city of URL.

But if you come here and you don't have one, you can go to the finance department, they'll print one out for you.

And then until we remove this tier one notice, you will be able to get a case of 24 water bottles per week that you can use for formula, and you can do that any day throughout the week, uh, 8 to 5 p.m.

So happy to help you in that way.

And some new good news.

Uh obviously, our air park area plan, uh, the visual open house is going to be taking place on Wednesday, February 11th.

So, this is another shout out.

I know we shouted to the site at the last council meeting.

Um, it's gonna be from 5 to 7 p.m.

at the Eloy Senior Center, and it's gonna be similar to the other general plan visioning sessions that we've had.

We're gonna have visioning boards up.

Uh, really want to get the community's feedback on kind of what that development out at the airport can be because it really is a major asset for the city of Eloy, and we want to make sure that we capitalize on that.

And then lastly, is just an update on the father-daughter banquet.

So, speaking with our community service director, Paul Inchano is very well attended last week.

We had about 260 attendees, so pretty much board line sold out again.

It's one of our most popular events, and I think we didn't have to turn away anyone at the door.

So, thank you for everybody for listening and signing up early.

We greatly appreciate that.

And then with that being said, I would like to pass it over to Chief Benyalez for his update on police activities.

Thank you, Mayor.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council, City Attorney, um, our city manager, and our city clerk.

Good evening.

I know it's been a couple months.

I've been up here to kind of go over our activity for the month prior.

So that's what I'm gonna cover.

Um we put my glasses on so I can actually see where I'm gonna be waiting.

Uh the purpose of this highlight is outside to highlight the outstanding work of our officers and our staff to ensure the safety of the city of Eloy, and to reaffirm our commitment to transparency and communication and community collaboration.

The following is a recap of the PD activity in the month of January 2026.

Some of the things I want to be talking about is a uh number one our internal department updates, number two, our community engagement activities, and number three our notable enforcement activity and key statistics.

Some of the important uh department updates.

We have a police officer recruit, Tad Mendez that'll be graduating from the Gilbert Regional Academy on Thursday, February 12th at 130 p.m.

So that's exciting.

Always gonna have a new officer to the department.

He's been in training for six months.

Uh the real work starts when he gets to the police department, and he's in the field training officer program, which is usually five to six months.

Um, people think the academy's tough.

The FTO programs uh is even more challenging.

They actually uh are working outside of a classroom environment.

You actually have to um deal with real people out in the street and not the actors in the academy environment.

So that's gonna be uh exciting for us to get a new officer here.

We currently have three vacancies.

He fills one of those vacancies, and we have two other vacancies that we are trying to fill at this point.

We have two officers, lateral applicants, I'm excuse me, one lateral applicant that's uh trying to go through backgrounds right now, and hopefully we can fill one of those vacancies.

So some of the uh the next one is activity or I'm sorry, actively working to fill vacant police department positions, not only the officer position, but also we have two outstanding communication dispatcher positions, so we're trying to fill those.

We've gotten some applicants, so we'll be setting up some interviews soon.

Unfortunately, we have another uh dispatcher that's going to be leaving the Eloy Police Department.

The last day would be next week, Monday, the 17th.

So that will create three vacancies in the police department.

As you may or may not know, we are authorized a total of six dispatchers in our communication center.

Um as you guys can imagine, the task of uh um running a 24-7 dispatch center, 365 days a year with three people is gonna be very challenging.

Um give me some statistics.

We recently had to pull some numbers and regarding 911 calls.

I'm gonna give you some ideas of what they handle in there.

Um, these are just 911 calls.

Uh, from 2022 to 2025, we've averaged 8,600 911 calls a year.

And the average pickup time is 9.4 seconds of answering those calls.

Uh the national standard is usually within 10 seconds or below.

Um, so I think we're doing a pretty good job considering the resources we have.

Um, so uh I want to thank uh our uh human resources director, Sylvia Lopez, our city manager McKinsey Letcher for working with us to try to fill those vacancies because those are very critical positions, and I know Vice Mayor Tony intimately understands that, as uh I believe she oversaw our communication center at one point in her career.

Um next is gonna be community engagement.

As well know community engagement is essential to building trust and legitimacy.

By fostering open dialogue and collaboration, we start our relationships with the public and reinforce share responsibility for the community safety.

In the month of January, the Eloy Police Department department participated in or attended the following.

On Monday, January 5th, the police department hosted hosted a brunch for the police department volunteers at Robson Ranch to thank our PD volunteer group and discuss volunteer program and how we can improve the program.

As you know, uh they give hundreds of hours a year, and what a value that is, not only to our city, the police department, the community, but those are hours that they freely give of their own time.

Um and uh they're doing their own free will, and uh it's a great value and to to work with them.

Um we just recently had a Citizens Academy over the weekend on Saturday the 7th, and through that program, we're trying to educate more of the public and see if we can get more um citizens in the community to become volunteers.

On Wednesday, January 7th, the police department hosted the quarterly cops and clergy program meeting with the police department, another great meeting with leaders from the faith-based community.

We are looking at planning a community outreach event sometime in April with that group.

So when that happens, we'll have all those faith-based leaders come out to the city and hopefully maybe close up this close down the street in front of the police department and either have like a pancake breakfast or some kind of uh uh barbecue and have of those those community churches come out with their easy ups and offer resources to the community.

And what a great opportunity for all our churches to be able to work together no matter what um denomination they are.

So that's a great opportunity for our faith-based leaders.

And lastly, on Saturday, January 17th, the police department partnered with Penau County Animal Care and Control to host a vaccination clinic at City Hall.

The following vaccinations were administered 91 rabies, 98 Parvo, 34 Bordatella, 10 Cat Combos, 12 microchips, and 23 licensed were issued that day.

That was on Saturday, the 17th.

And I believe the mayor mentioned a one we had this past weekend, and I actually have those numbers as well that happened.

I believe it was yesterday, the 8th.

Um, and that one we had a great turnout.

We had 139 rabies shots given, 145 parvo, 56 border, 14 cat combos, 19 microchips, and 43 licenses.

So, what a great opportunity for us to partner and serve this community and and the pet population.

Next thing we'll talk about some of our notable activity in January 26th.

On January 9th, 2026, uh about 8:30 in the morning, officers responded to the community action human resources building here in Eloy regarding attempted arson.

Employees reported that a subject entered the lobby, poured gasoline onto the front counter, and attempted multiple times to ignite it with a lighter before being confronted by staff and leaving the building.

The suspect was later located and detained at the family dollar where he had shoplifted a new pair of shoes and socks, which he was wearing.

Surveillance footage from both locations corroborated, corroborated the statements.

The suspect was found in possession of a lighter water bottle with gasoline and matches and admitted to take in the shoes as well that he had on.

Suspect was arrested for attempted arson of occupied structure and shoplifting suspect was indicted by the grand jury for arson and remains in custody pending trial.

On January 26th, about 8 p.m.

fraud investigation.

Victim reported she had received a call from a male subject claiming to work for Microsoft.

During several phone calls, the victim was convinced to withdraw $25,000 in cash from their personal account and meet with a mail outside of the Robuson Ranch development where the male received the $25,000 in cash and fled the area.

That investigation is ongoing.

Unfortunately, the leads on that in the evidence is very uh minimal.

Um so we're gonna continue to work that and see what we can do on that.

Partner with that, we're gonna put together an informational flyer that we can give out to the community, how to avoid scams and frauds and better educate the community on what questions to ask when getting weird requests like that, whether it be phone calls, emails, mail, or whatever other means that scammers try to get victims.

Lastly, an update on the ongoing homicide investigation from Sunday, December 21st in the 500 block of East Hopi Circle where tragically Maria Guadalupe Lupita Ocuna, 39 years of Eloy lost her life.

At this time, our investigation leads have been exhausted, and we are appealing to the public to come forward with any information possibly related to this tragic event.

We welcome all information no matter how significant or insignificant the reporting party may believe.

A reward of up to 1,000 is being offered through silent witness of Casa Grande.

Please see our social media and for additional details on that.

And also, if you have any information, please call the Elo Police Department.

Detective Chris Servin or call silent witness line at 52046453 if you wish to remain anonymous.

Lastly, I'm gonna cover some of the statistics for January 2020 2026.

Some of the calls for service handled by a police department of fire communication in the month of January.

Police handled 1,305 calls for service.

The fire department, the Eloy Fire District, handled 303 calls for service, approximately 23% of our total call load, and dispatch handled 619 911 calls.

The total number of calls into dispatch were 2,121 or 2,124 calls to dispatch.

In addition to those calls, officers investigated 142 incidents in investigations.

264 civil traffic citations were issued in the month of January.

16 traffic collisions were investigated.

184 public record acts requests were received by our records department.

And our one records clerk completed 167 public records acts requests to the public.

So you can see we have great people working for the police department that it often have to work our demanding situations, especially our dispatch center.

So I really want to take a moment just to really acknowledge our dispatch center or communications department and our dispatchers for the work they do.

Unfortunately, right now they are mandated to work up to 16 hours of overtime each week to cover minimum staffing and operational needs within the dispatch center.

So if you call 911, please be patient.

So I just really want to you know give them props to my dispatch center.

Um with that, um, I'm open to any questions that you might have.

Well, thank you, Chief.

Yeah, props are around to the dispatch center.

I worked the control desk, a 24-7 365 desk, and I know I know what those pressures are like, and we really have to be cognizant not to burn them out.

Yeah, the remaining people there will be sitting there with nobody.

Yes, sir.

That's really difficult.

Any questions for Chief?

Question.

So I just have a question about the vaccination clinics.

Is County giving you the information about how many people locally are getting those vaccinations and how many are coming from outside?

Because I know they're open to they're using our cover basically to be able to do that instead of being in the heat and their parking lot.

But I wondered if they are able to break that down for you so we can get an idea of what is coming from the community and what's coming from outside.

Well, Vice Mayor, currently that statistic and instead is not being reported to us, whether it's uh CD V law residents or outside, but we can't ask them.

They're just providing us at the end of the vaccination, the total number.

Yes.

Chief, thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

Okay, that brings us to consent agenda.

Item number seven.

All items on the consent agenda are considered routine and will be approved by a similar motion and roll-call vote of the council.

There will be no separate discussion on these items unless a council member requested.

In that case, the item will be removed from the consent agenda and discussed in its regular order.

Now just one point of business on the consent agenda.

Item B.

The actual dollar amount for item B, the consent agenda says 169,000.

The actual number is 169,924 and 76 cents.

So that's the actual number on that.

Any council members wish to pull anything from the consent agenda?

Okay, hearing none.

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember Valdaska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Snyder?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Okay, now that brings us to item number eight.

Business possible discussion and/or action on the following.

Item A, approval of proposal from Wilson Engineering for Well 3 regulatory compliance services for an amount not to exceed 175,000.

Mr.

Cookie.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council.

Um we're here to discuss uh Wilson Engineering for Well 3.

So staff recommends that the City Council approve the proposal from Wilson Engineers to provide regulatory compliance services for well three, including preparation and processing of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, approval of Construct, which is the ATC, and approval of construction AOC permitting documents utilizing the city's on-caller engineering contract and amount not to exceed 175,000.

A little bit of background.

Under an existing IGA.

While CAD manages construction in the city is to handle ADQ drinking water regular regulatory permitting.

During a recent site visit, ADEQ identified that the ATC permit had not been obtained, which is required prior to construction to address this deficiency and obtain both the ATC and AOC approvals.

Staff recommend retaining Wilson Engineers LLC under the city's on-call professional services contract.

Funding for these services is available within the fiscal year 25-26 water CIP through reallocation with no net impact on the water fund.

Approval will ensure regulatory compliance and support timely completion of all three replacement.

Thank you, sir.

Heard the wonderful words, no impact.

I like those.

Anyone on the left of anything to add, comment?

Dan Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, I'm looking for a motion to prove to approve the proposal from Wilson Engine Siri.

Wilson Engineering for Well 3 regulatory compliances for an amount not to exceed 175,000.

Do I have a motion to approve?

Do I have a second?

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember Valdraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Okay, before we get to item number nine.

I would like to call a public presentation for Mr.

and Mrs.

Shu.

I'll defer if she needs more time.

State your name in the city in which you live.

I'm here again to talk about or visit the House of Road waterline phase two situation.

And I just wanted to share with you my perspective of what's happened since he's assumed the position.

He and Jeremy came out for a site visit so that he would have an understanding.

Very quick, very thorough, um, answers our questions.

The first meeting that we had, we had the three um options.

We discussed those.

Excuse me, Marlo.

Um, I'm getting hit that can you speak into the mic a little bit closer?

Yeah, sorry.

Thank you.

I can I can talk aloud.

Um so anyway, we had the the three um proposals.

Uh we discussed those um uh options, um, went away um and then they came out, he and Jeremy came out and did a walk about in the dust.

And then we had another meeting not too long ago, a week or so ago, I think.

Came back with one option.

Um I can say that after the uh engineering firm did uh some kind of analysis.

Um I can say that the the option was very uh comprehensive, uh thought very thoughtful.

Um the data that my husband had delved into concerning water issues, um with uh interim city manager was actually reviewed and and taken on with uh you know looking at the options.

And um I just have to say this is what's happened in the last two and a half months has outdone what's happened in the last three years.

He's done an excellent job.

Um again, we're not to the finish line, so you know I'm uh we'll we'll see.

But um considering what's the meeting that's going to happen after this, I think that I thought that this was the time to give you an update on what we have received and the the job that that has been done, and I am exceptionally impressed and very pleased.

Um like I said, he's done more in the last two and a half months than than your staff had done.

Your two two goals that staff have done in the last three years.

So anyway, like I said, not to the finish line yet.

Jerry's still on a little bit, but so far.

Um, as I will criticize when criticism I feel is necessary, I also will acknowledge um outstanding effort.

So there you go.

It's my job.

Well, thank you for addressing this council with such wonderful news.

Thank you very much.

Okay, this brings us up to section number nine, executive session.

Pursuant to ARS 38-431.03a one three and four.

The city council may convene into executive session to conduct a three-month performance review of the interim city manager.

Discussion may include evaluations of performance, consideration of employment matters, and discussion direction regarding the negotiation of a contract and terms of employment.

In the uh executive session, we will have all of the council members, and Mr.

Lecture, and our city attorney.

No.

So yeah.

No.

No.

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

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Do we chair journal read?

Do we have journaling and then we'll do that?

No.

No, he's he's gotta get out.

I will call this meeting back in session.

I'm looking for a motion to adjourn this meeting.

So moved.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Any opposed?

Meeting adjourned.