I know the cleaning at the port.

I'm just going to do that.

So I think we're initial.

I hope you just find it actually hard.

Hello?

Well, how are you?

We can hear you fine.

Okay, great.

I can't remember that one.

Thank you.

Good evening, everyone.

And welcome to tonight's UA City Council meeting.

Today is Monday, March 9th, 2026.

And the time is six PM.

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

Council Member Majraska.

Here.

Council Member Curtis.

Here.

Here.

Councilmember Snyder.

Here.

Councilmember Garcia.

Present.

Council Member Galuna.

Here.

Here.

Now can we all please rise for a moment of salvage?

And the pledge of allegiance that will be led by Councilmember Bod Rodzka.

That brings us to item number five, public appearances.

Those wishing to address the city council may do so by signing on a form provided by the city clerk, identifying the topic and agenda items.

Action taken as a result of public comment regarding non-agenda items will be limited to directing staff to study the matter rescheduled for further consideration for a later date.

First up, I have Mr.

Taha.

Please come up and state your name in the city where you live, sir.

Good evening, my name is Sayyidina.

I live in Eloy.

And I'm here to complain about the conduct of Mr.

Cooper, who's a city manager, I mean city attorney and the Daniel Seimer.

I have better things to do, and I'd like to be here on for on better productive matters, but unfortunately I have to do this.

Mr.

Cooper has started this, and uh he keeps dragging us into this.

He finally case that we are banned, we had an abandoned cars on our property and loosened and a lot of trash.

I challenged him to show me one evidence of one abandoned car, all noises according to that dictionary.

And his witnesses prepared by him, uh insinuated that I have dead horses on the property, which I would like him to show me one single dead horse.

And he's got some big uh uh African killer bees, etc.

etc.

Well, after finding the case, he got a court order to remove the nuisances.

He had a court order to park uh to remove the parking trailers.

When they came to uh remove it, there were none.

Parking RV on weekend, I heard a parking I parked my RV on there, which I removed it.

Exterior stores of non-operating records, there were none.

And they actually moved somebody else's tractor that was there to remove a trailer, and the court ordered them to release that truck.

And the next one is duty of maintenance of privacy private private uh private property, palace, birds, and other debris.

That was a court order.

And this is what they did.

Uh they got the court order, and uh in addition to that, Angel Madrid called the city at the county, saying that we were dumping illegally on the county.

The county came and saw this dismissed the case.

Then he called again on animal control that we were killing dogs and cats.

That's what the county uh person said, animal control, and then he said they he did he looked at it and he said there's none.

And before they came for a bathing on January on February the 10th, I asked Daniel Seimer and the attorney twice.

The everything removed, the only thing that is left is just the trailer, uh the local homes and children's play area basket, I mean footballs and their benches.

Should I remove those?

They did not reply to it.

So when they came, they came February 9th and told us they're coming tomorrow morning.

They could at least have the common courtesy to say next week you'll come or give us 10 days or five days, whatever it is.

So they came next day on the 10th on the 10th of February, and there was nothing left.

So what they did was they just picked up all the benches that were there, and uh they hired a landscaper to do the morning job.

So it's absurd that the guy who came in, he hired all of his friends.

One of them uh I'll give a whole details on internet.

I'll post everything on the internet, and uh he picked up the bees, the uh honeybees, and then dropped it onto the side, and that made it hold, killed all of my birds, killed, I mean uh lean my horse, the police uh gentleman, he released my horse so he wouldn't die, and I had my sheep die, and I had my little children all over Britain in the faces, and I submitted the picture, and I'll submit it once also on the internet.

So everybody knows what Mr.

Cooper has been doing.

And uh then this first day they were there for 40 minutes, picked up some benches and left.

The second day the biller uh the uh beekeepers came, instead of removing it properly, they just killed everything and sprayed the whole place.

We have little children living there, and then sprayed the whole place with chemicals, and uh the third, second day they picked up a few benches, third day they picked up a few more stuff and then cleaned whatever trash there was.

All that stuff could have been done by within one day by professionals, and then the third, then removed all the stuff, and then they came back on the 23rd to see what is left.

There was only one building left, which removed on the 24th, and uh then after that, they came on the 24th, there was nothing there to move.

So what they did was they removed that was there.

Uh they moved in violation of the code.

Thank you very much.

10 seconds.

Thank you very much, sir.

We we gotta keep this short tonight.

I apologize.

10 seconds.

Yes.

Uh the 24, everything runs in the court order.

They put out gates from the place, fencing light poles, fountains, which are like all the containers, uh, marble fountains, and pick up all of them, take them down the uh.

Thank you.

Thank you for addressing this council.

Thank you, sir.

Okay.

And we'd like to pull this thing, unless we uh the city uh decides to keep going on this one.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Next up, I have uh Brent.

Grizzelle.

State your name and the city where you live, sir.

Thank you.

Uh Mayor Sutton, members of the council, Brent Grizzle.

I live in Riverside, and I'm here representing Matera LLC, the company that I I lead.

Um, we have 835 acres here at Sunshine and Bitaglia, which hopefully someday will be developed and as future growth for this city.

And I just wanted to talk about bond financing.

I know last year you guys had a workshop on revitalization districts and CFDs and everything, and hope that the city will continue to keep that on the forefront.

Can you speak into the mic, sir?

I I hope that the city will continue to keep that at the forefront of their thoughts because these big projects they take such massive amounts of capital to come out of the ground for sewer plant expansions, sewer lines, water streets, all the things that it takes.

And we want we want to make it easier for home builders to come here.

So hopefully the city will keep thinking about that, and it'll be a win-win situation, and we can pave the way for the builders to come back when the cycle corrects itself.

Thank you.

Nice, thank you.

That's a that's a sizable piece of property.

It's it's it's definitely gonna happen in phases, but it's such a heavy lift to get it started in the first place.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

And next up, we have Lenora.

Please state your name, the city where you live, and if you can speak into the mic, it would greatly appreciate it, so we can hear you on the on the internet.

There you go.

Thank you.

My name is Lenar Ruby, and I live in Eloy at Robson Ranch, and I'm here tonight to talk about the Free Point project and to assist in some um comments.

So my I think the concern that I want to share with you is that I once was I was once a principal in an area called Tacoma, Washington, where we did have a chemical plant in the neighborhood.

And at that time, I didn't share much concern other than I felt that the community and the plant had been taking care of business.

Um later on I became a principal of a neighborhood school in that area.

And after taking um the principal ship there at that time, um, one of the important projects I had to keep up with was the maintenance of our grounds, and part of that was because our cynic and lead had been deposited heavily along the sulfuric acid debris or particulates into the soil surrounding the school and the neighborhood.

In fact, it went from three city areas down toward our own state capital, and so they had to be investigated all the time and measured all the time.

And what I'm asking is that you take a look at Free Point on the plant practices on measuring the particulates, especially in the promoting process.

They haven't they have had and shown in their other plants no problems with plant production, um the scaling of their particulates, and the EPA has charged them many times, and they delayed that process.

And so that's my biggest concern for the children, and knowing that I don't want you to see that happening in your neighborhood as well.

So please look a second time and take a deep dive.

Thank you.

Thank you for addressing this council.

Okay, next up is Mayor's announcements.

You know Mayor.

On February 24th, along with council members, council members, uh let me start that over on February 24th, along with interim city manager Lecha and City staff.

We met with representatives from APS here at City Hall to discuss their pending rate case.

One important takeaway from that meeting we had with APS is that data centers do not drive up residential rates.

Data centers, they are required to pay for upgrades needed for their power demand.

So that was really good news for us in case a data center were to ever happen, the current rate payers and residents of Eloy will not have to pay for the upgrades to power that data center.

And APS also shared information about several assistance programs they have available for customers who may be struggling with their bills.

If you need help with your APS bill or you know someone who does, you can get in contact with them through their customer service, and they have a multitude of programs that could help assist people pay their electric bill.

Then on February 28th, along with other council members and city staff, I attended the first responders charity benefit hosted by the Sparrow Campaign.

It was a truly great evening surrounded by heroes who serve our community every day.

And I'd like to recognize one of our Corporal Anthony Stratton, who received the first responder of the year award.

Congratulations to him.

And thank you also to Chief Benales for his leadership to make things like that happen.

And I'm sure other council members will expand on that evening.

It was a wonderful evening.

Well, we didn't get everything we were fighting for.

I can say with confidence that if we hadn't shown up and advocated for our residents, the outcome would have been much worse.

We're talking sewer rates that went up over a hundred percent for for certain residents.

That's a lot of money.

Then on March 6th, with all the other council members, we attended the Panel Partners monthly breakfast at Robeson Ranch, where the Panel County Board of Supervisors were the guest speakers.

Very informative sessions with significant discussions about water, which is a critical issue and complex for all the communities here in the desert.

They had some really good insight and some frightening scenarios as well.

Later that day, I was happy to join council members for the ribbon cutting of the long-anticipated plate and pallet restaurant in the former Encore space.

We wish Chef Staffan and his wife Karen great success and thank them for choosing to invest in Eloy.

And lastly, earlier today, I was at the state capitol with other mayors and legislators to discuss transportation funding.

As chairman of the Sun Carter MPO, it was important for me to be there advocating to ensure Eloy receives its fair share of transportation resources.

We met with senators, we met with representatives, and these were these are really good productive meetings.

And when you're asking for eight million dollars, they really want you to jump through a few hoops, I have to tell you.

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

Mike you did it, Michelle?

Councilwoman Galindo.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, along with uh going to Pinell Partnership Breakfast, which is very enlightening, and then joining many of our fellow council members at the Plate and Pallet ribbon cutting, which has one of the most delicious lasagnas I've I've had the opportunity to eat and stuff.

We also um the E Lai Alliance Club hosted their annual um golf tournament at Robson Ranch.

Um the Eloy Lions Club is committed to providing vision care for all residents.

Uh we we put a lot on love and care and outreach to the city of Eloy and and the citizens here, but but we don't turn anybody away.

Um but I wanted to thank uh WM.

They weren't able to attend.

It was uh it was a very busy weekend, but they were our lunch sponsor for the event, and we're very appreciative of them for uh doing that.

I also wanted to thank uh Creekside Taco Shack, Grayhawk General agency, and the City of Eloy, and by the way, the City of Eloy, along with our interim city manager and our streets maintenance worker, um and two Santa Cruz High School students that are on the golf team came in first place.

Um and and won the trophy along with um one of their members winning the 50-50 RASP raffle.

Um, and then I also wanted to thank uh the exceptional health hospital uh and all of the supporters, everybody that participated, and most importantly, which three of them are sit on this council as well.

And all of the supporters, everybody that participated, and most importantly, which three of them are sit on this council as well.

The membership of the Eloy Lions Club.

I mean, we're, as Mayor said, we're small, but we're mighty, and we were able to uh put on this golf tournament, beg all our friends and you know, threat or threaten them maybe bribe them to participate in this event.

So it was it was a great event.

Um we also had a hole in one winner.

Yeah, not the big $10,000 one, but we we all we did have a hole in one winner.

Um I think that's it for me.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Ms.

Goscia.

Nothing else to add.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh I would like to add that also attended to the opinion partnership, and in addition to the water discussion that the mayor referenced, I took away a uh a lot of discussion about transportation.

With the uh Santana Valley annexation and the discussion of the the roads improvements that they need because of the number of people moving into that area, Queen Creek and January.

There's just not a good transportation flow and that they need for that, as well as Maricopa talking about uh 347 up there, the the problems they have.

And so we have our own issues here, as you know, in Eloy with uh transportation.

So the county and the uh supervisors are all keenly aware of the need to develop a better transportation network uh in the county.

Uh unfortunately, I guess uh I was disappointed there's going to be something on the ballot to uh propose a uh transportation plan for the county.

But they're talking about a 2028.

I thought, man, that's two years off before we even vote on it.

So it appears that uh nothing's coming uh in the short term.

But uh be aware people are are uh looking at it, but uh funding is the issue.

Like everybody wants more money for everything today, and so the question is where's it come from?

So uh we're we're working.

But that that was a takeaway for me that all the supervisors were all very keen on the uh the transportation and the development that's happening and jobs and everything is all contingent upon that transportation plan.

Thank you, sir.

Next up we have City Manager announcements, Mr.

McKenzie.

Awesome.

Thank you, Mayor.

And just to clarify, uh Councilwoman Galindo's comment on the golf tournament.

As much as I would love to take credit for that, it was all Ralph and the two students from Santa Cruz.

That was like my first time playing golf since like miniature golf in middle school.

So they did a fantastic job.

They carried me.

I was essentially just a chauffeur on the golf court.

But uh still was an awesome time and glad that they took first with that.

Yeah, so to kick it off for our sorry with the mic, guys, it's reverbing a lot, but um to kick it off first.

We have the general plan.

So that's in our 60-day public review period.

So the draft for that is now live, and it's gonna be open through May 3rd.

So please go on there, review it.

You can provide comments online at our website.

You go to the link there, and it's gonna pull up the 90-page document that you can access and post your comments publicly.

Uh that's gonna be open till May 3rd.

We also have our air park master plan joint session, and so that's going to be P and Z and Council.

That's gonna be on Wednesday, March 11th at 5 p.m.

So it's similar to most of the joint sessions that we've done throughout this whole year for the general plan, but this one's specifically focused on the air park and the development that's happening around the air park.

So I know a lot of individuals are interested, a lot of residents want to go and participate in that process, so make sure that you're uh participating in that.

So that's again, it's gonna be March 11th at 5 p.m.

at the community room.

Is it community room then?

Yeah, so the community room here at City Hall.

Uh, besides that, we also have the update on the 11 mile corner road sewer expansion project.

So this actually goes into what Mr.

Brett Grizzle was talking about with expanding our infrastructure to make sure that we're available and ready for when development comes to the city of Eloy.

This was a project that was approved about a year ago in our budget process through our capital improvement program.

And so we're happy to announce that that should be completed on April 3rd.

So that's an expansion of a third, yeah, uh 36-inch the sewer line to the mid, no, so just the 30, the midline.

So to 11 mile corner.

So that's gonna go into um Christina Dolly's property, and then from there we'll start off on the phase two and phase three down um Bataglia.

So still good news that's on schedule.

We're excited to move forward with that.

Uh, we also have next Monday, so it's March 16th at 5 30 p.m.

There's gonna be the Bataglia Road Sidewalk project work session, uh special session with council.

And so this was a project that was approved about two years ago.

Since that time, we've been going through the process of getting the engineering done, the scoping of the project, and since it's been so long since council's kind of seen this project.

We wanted to make sure that we provided an update not only to our council but residents that are interested to see what's going to happen with the uh sidewalk development that's going to take place on Batagola potentially, uh, and then we can decide where we're gonna go from there.

It's overall be a successful project because it would tie in some walkability from the tag via in a lot of the schools that we have on Sunshine.

So it'd be a great project to see move forward.

Uh lastly, here we have the team trip top golf.

So Friday, March 13th, this will include games, golf, and lunch.

This is going to depart at 845 a.m.

and return at 130 p.m.

So drop and pick off, uh drop off and pickup will be at the Eloy Community Service Science Center down here off of Main Street at 187th Street, and it's gonna be for ages 12 through 17.

Uh, the first five teens to register for that, get in free, no charge, and then all others will need to just bring $20, and then it'll be full lunch, food, games, golf, everything will be fully included.

So you can register online at our website, and we would love to have some teams come out and participate in that.

It'd be awesome.

So, besides that, also just an update.

We have so Sergio Beniales, our chief, he is out today, and unfortunately to Captain Jerome, who is currently acting chief, uh, he had a family emergency, so he's not available today either to provide the police department quarterly update.

So that'll be coming at the end of the month when Sergio gets back in the office.

So with that, we will move forward to the quarterly financial update from none other than Mr.

Bryan.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, members of the council and the public.

Um tonight we're just gonna go with the quarterly report.

It's ending December 31st, 2025.

A lot of this information we talked um at the retreat on it financially, but just this is putting it in the report.

It's a little late due to some budget stuff.

I was focused on that, and so I'm I'm sorry, this is a report a little late on it to council.

But just to go into it, just to kind of highlight on the very first page.

Right now we have as of the end of the December, we had 11 full-time positions open and one part-time.

So then as we move down in the quarterly highlights, you can look at those statisticals on pages two and three with it, uh, and going into the second page, talking with the the public works, but kind of getting on the financial update side of it is uh in the general fund now the end of December.

Uh we had actually driven from the road news, we're about 11.2 million were expenses.

We're recording about 15.7, and which gives us a negative variance about 4.5 million, and that's after we do transfers out.

The reason that we're showing a negative variance, if you remember during the budget process, we had budget, we had included about 18 million in our reserves to complete numerous projects.

So this is capitalizing and recording those as we went.

And some of these that we we've already recorded on the books as transfers right now, is the transferring of the 5 million from the general fund to the economic development fund to establish that 5 million that we we've uh talked about.

It's also using the water fund that's about 836,000 we've transferred out so far, and about 1.5 million.

So but when you look at it before we do the transfers out, the general fund is actually about 2.8 million revenues over expenses.

Um what will end up happening is if we do have a positive variance at the end of the year, revenues over expenses just limits the amount of fund balance we have to use to do all those capital investments that the general fund is supporting the enterprise funds on.

Um but there are some you know several areas you like like planned check fees, residential commercial permits, and interest income those have all exceeded budget expectations.

We've had some solar projects that have brought in a few hundred, you know, about six, seven hundred thousand dollars in permit fees, so our revenues are exceeding those budget line items, but then on the flip side, we have to pay those out on plan review fees and inspections.

So it's just not all, you know, seven, eight hundred thousand dollars net gain on it.

But interest income is exceeding it, you know, due to the nature of our investments with uh PFM.

Um talk about PFM real quick.

Well, it'll be the first quarter of the calendar year, but our third quarter update the council to give the uh a little of a the council the wanting to ask questions about our portfolio and a little of a bit of an economic update as well.

Um but when we look at actually the the one of the main sources for the general fund, which is the city sales tax, um we've collected about total about a little under 4.5 million.

Um but we're not actually when we look at when we're comparing to where we think we should be at that time of year, we're about 424,000 above those expectations, and a lot majority of that primarily it's all due to construction sales tax that we've gotten in.

Those are exceeding our expectations by far.

Um other areas within those categories like manufacturing, that's that's above last year's um collections about by about 42 percent.

Wholesale train is up about 48, and also the communication utility category is about 27 percent.

So we do have other categories exceeding um where they were last year, which is a good indication.

Um, but uh the construction sales tax is the main one that's driving that positive variance.

Um when it comes to retail, it's not on the report, but retail sales tax is actually below about almost one percent from what we collected at this time last year.

So we'll be watching that as we move forward into the the third and fourth quarter.

But we're looking at as we look into our budget when uh for the 26-27 year.

But just to go on state shared revenues, as you know, that is below expectations and will continue to be below expectations this year.

And the primary reason is due to Santana Incorporation, because they are receiving state shared revenues now.

So that is reduced our especially our state income tax and VLT on that.

Um the good thing is is even though that it's it should be hitting us some more, we were very cautious when we did our budget expect uh projections on it, and we didn't adopt what the league gave us because one the league gave us those uh numbers in the June and we were already done with our budget.

So I think this year we'll be probably maybe around close to about 80, 90,000 below expectations in those categories, but not the couple hundred thousand that we will receive less based upon the league projections.

And then lastly, when it comes to enterprise funds, water sewer sanitation, all those are meeting expectations, uh, mainly due to the rate increase that we had in July or at November for water and wastewater.

The sanitation is doing um meeting expectations too as we're moving forward with our new contract with uh WM.

The next several slides is just like our normal, we go through and just give an ex uh some estimates.

We forecast revenues out through throughout the fiscal year to give you some uh um looking at what we're anticipating.

But as you can see in this the more the the graph that it's just volatile, you know, some categories are above those projections of as they go up and down, but it's a good indicator to show you uh where we're at in our categories, and then when it comes to by quarter, you can see you know, back in 2023 how how much more construction we got, then it dropped due to the completion of uh gold bond, and then we're back to a little bit uh higher than we were last year.

But you know, retail is above where it's at.

I mean, our categories are good, it's just we don't have any new retail just coming in to exceed a lot of those, especially the retail category.

Um again, just going through, getting some more graph update, and you'll see on the very bottom of that spreadsheet, just more the by category to give you the indication what they they were by quarter of collection.

And this is a special revenue fund, and then when we get an expenses, it will give you those by category by department by funds.

So I don't know if you want to wait or if I have a question.

On um the previous slide on I think it's page 13, the revenues broken down by funds.

This one or this one or this one right here.

Yeah.

On the streets fund in other revenue, what makes up that other revenue?

Because I I see you know, a budget of you know, just a little over 200,000, but anticipating by the end of the fiscal year over a million.

So right now the the streets fund um when it comes to a lot of the the projects is the engineering side of it.

So you have the the right-of-way part of the permits.

So when we came to the solar and some of these projects, those permits just shoot it up on it.

So if you look at the third column, we've already collected 86,000.

So we're anticipating because those projects are complete, we'll maybe collect another 200,000 at the rest.

But we've collected a lot of the from the projects, those one-time permit fees for uh the engineering side of it that are for roads and right-of-ways.

Question also on that same page, the grants funds.

Um just the the big variances between what was in the budget versus anticipated revenue.

Any explanation on there?

Yeah, like the grant revenue, let's say we're saying 9.5.

We have to put in for the five million for the the uh the Sunland Gen Road project.

So that money is already in the bank for also it's like a uh it's a holding for that five million we're gonna spend it because it's already in the bank.

And then when it comes to like the so that's you have uh that one you have when we anticipate high on grants.

We we sit there and we try to get as you know put for budget authority a cap.

We're gonna say you know, 30 million in grants, let's say, but if we get it, we have the authority to collect it and do the grant.

If we don't get it, we don't spend it.

So that's what it is with the grants.

And then just lastly, I just want to go through and just you know, you we have our fund balance page, it's kind of the estimate of what we're looking at through the end of December, and those are all our reserves.

And then just lastly, when you get into the capital projects, I go through and departments have all went through and um give project status updates if it's complete, or if it's in progress, you know, we're just waiting for the invoice to come in, or if they have not completed it, you would see the NS.

So if you notice PD only has two MSs, and those will I know they'll probably start on the technology side of it for the EOC, but the training facility probably won't be done.

But majority of these as we go through are all in progress and they're they're working towards it.

But the ones uh the ones in public works on the last page, a lot of these NSs that you'll see up on the screen right now, those are like water projects that we put in there thinking if we were before we did the rate increase, hey, we're gonna go to WIFA.

So we said we're gonna do these capital projects, but now they're being pushed off because we're gonna be bringing the utility obligation bond before council.

So those won't get done this fiscal year with it, some of them will, but majority of those won't.

So question for you.

I don't know if this is for you or cookie, but a lot of the ones that are in progress that have May completion dates.

Are those updated?

Do we I mean there's quite a few of them.

I'm just wondering how we're doing as far as uh timeline.

Did you want to talk?

Or well, like I'm not, I mean, if you go through like an uh if I address one of these with the May, like the well, yeah, those are the ongoing ones that are going through Verigi right now, and those projects should be completed by May to June on it.

A lot of the ones with the Verity projects will be completed by the end of the fiscal year on it.

Um that's just like the well casing, the step screen, uh the building, uh the 11 miles uh you'll see here the 11 miles, uh the new server line on the gravity, the big one, the 6.9, that's the one that McKinsey mentioned that will be done in April.

So fair enough.

Thank you.

So other than that, Mr.

Mayor members of the council, I mean, right now financially everything is still looking good, and we should be meeting expectations.

But yes, then again, when it comes to the general fund, it will show negative variance because we are transferring that money out to cover all these water and wastewater projects that we've we talked about in the budget.

But when you back it out, we're still operating in a positive one revenues over expenses when it comes to that.

Good, thank you, sir.

Any questions for Bob?

Go ahead, sir.

Well, not for Brian, for we can see.

Oh go ahead.

I forgot one thing uh in the uh council feedback and uh uh our interim city managers helped me with this, but back in January of 2021, the uh city uh guess the city council passed a resolution requiring all elected officials to sign a code of ethics.

Uh and so I think that uh maybe two, maybe three, I'm not sure about sir.

Three of us have signed yet.

I think the rest have not.

That was 2001, so I think I'd like to have staff to bring that forward and be sure we're all our elected officials uh review and sign that code of ethics, uh file.

And with election coming up this next year, probably even more important.

Uh so if you would follow up on that for me, please.

Yeah, no problem, Daniel.

We're actually already planning to do that uh perfectly, as you mentioned with the new incoming member.

It's the perfect time to make sure that everybody has that up to date.

So, yep, we're looking to do that.

All right, thank you.

Anything for Brian, anything for Brian?

Mr.

Wright, once again, from the budget retreat till now.

Nice work, man.

Uh thank you.

Very nice word.

And before we move on to consent agenda, uh, I apologize.

I overlooked you for announcements.

Do you have anything?

No, I would have typed in.

I don't have anything.

Thanks, Mayor.

Absolutely.

Okay, that brings us moving alone to item number seven, consent agenda.

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

There will be no separate discussion of 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.

Do we have a motion?

Oh, would anybody like to remove anything from the consent agenda?

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

So moved.

Do I have the second?

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Montraska.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yeah.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

All right.

That brings us to section number eight.

Business possible discussion and direct action on the following.

Item A.

General Plan Udate.

Status update, public review period.

Mr.

Seima.

Thank you, Mayor.

Members of Council, Danzheimer, Community Development Director.

I'm happy to announce that we are entering a final phase of our general plan update process.

As you received an email last week, we have released the 60-day public draft of all the public comments and taking that all together and writing goals and policies, which I'm glad you've all participated in that, and so is the public.

Today we're gonna have Ryan, which I think some of you are all familiar with.

Ryan has sat in many of the uh prop-up events that I was at and helped me out when I was doing reports instead of being there.

So uh he's gonna give you a great presentation of where we're at right now and give you a high-level overview.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you.

And I'm sure we'll keep it riveting.

Uh good evening, Mayor and Council.

My name is Ryan Stevenson.

I work at Logan Simpson.

I've been working on um updating the Uloy General Plan uh with our team just for the record.

Um I'm a Tucson resident.

Um so real quick uh for tonight's agenda.

I'm just gonna kind of walk you through uh the process that we've taken in doing this plan update, uh starting with the process, uh doing a cover of the participation that's happened to date, and then um I'll share with you some of the contents of the plan before getting into next steps.

Uh, what remains?

Um you guys have seen this graphic um a lot of times, I imagine.

It's currently up on the city's uh plan update website.

We kicked this off 18 months ago, uh back in February.

Uh it's a five-phase process to getting your general plan updated.

Uh, in that time, we have drafted an existing conditions report um basically outlining where you is at today.

That's a you know critical document to understanding your current place as you launch into what the future is on your 10-20 year horizon.

Um I've interviewed uh all of you during the process, and we've done a lot of public outreach.

Um in phase four building, we did all of the drafting uh from lots of public comments uh through various uh committees, uh the general plan advisory committee, technical advisory committee, and you can see where the star is at now.

We're in the phase of celebration where we've hit that uh 60 day period.

And um I'll go into more detail as I move along in this presentation here, but that this will wrap up in uh June.

Uh so as uh interim city manager uh Mr.

Letcher mentioned um we are in the 60-day review period.

Um that just kicked off this past weekend or last just last week, um, and that will last until May 3rd.

You can see the um link to the plan website up on the screen now.

Uh for anyone here, you can just use your phone to scan that QR code to access the website.

Um we're currently looking at at the plan update website, and then there's a separate page for uh the the plan itself or providing review.

You hit that purple button, uh click here to review the plan, and you'll be able to access that and make your comments on it.

Um, and then I'll just go ahead and step into that and then just give you a quick idea of what that looks like.

At plan.conveyo.com forward slash Eloy General Plan 60 day draft.

Uh, you see there's a window with uh a digital version of the plan there.

You use your mouse, you scroll through as you read, you can click anywhere on any page, and then type in uh your contact information and whatever comments, and you can you know provide an unlimited amount of comments on there.

Um so that is where the website is hosted, and we encourage uh all the residents of the city of Eloy to uh come through and provide comment on the plan draft.

Make sure that we've nailed everything down over this 18 month process.

Um moving on into the public participation summary to date.

Um we've uh collected over uh 700 uh 7,500 uh community engagements in this process.

I've seen you guys at uh a ton of things.

Um I've done personally um just about all of those listening sessions interviews um with uh assistant from our senior planner Terry Hogan.

Um you guys were uh uh a big part of that as well.

Uh we've also done multiple virtual questionnaires, garnered 306 responses on that on the web page.

We've got over 3500 web page views, including uh two uh 2300 unique uh website subscribers.

Um we've done six community workshops to date, engaging 159 people.

Uh those are things that we've organized with the city.

In addition to that, we've uh piggybacked off of uh various different uh community and community events, including Eloyglow, uh eStorer, um Fiestas Patrias, etc.

Um, so uh in my time in the 18 months I've gotten to know City of Eloy very well, and it's been a great joy to uh participate with you guys here.

Um we've also done a public event called Eloy Talks, where we had public speaker Eloy Kagayama come out, and he provided uh a few different activities for engagement to get people talking about the future of the city.

Um of the big events that we have upcoming, and I'll cover more is our mobile immersion lab, which is an open house uh immersive experience where people will get to see um how the plan is going to be implemented on the ground in a virtual fashion.

Moving on to the contents of the plan.

Uh, this is a small outline here, and we're gonna look at it uh from a few different angles here.

The plan um your your plan, the the meat of your plan is divided into four distinct themes uh on how the city's gonna grow.

In order of the plan, before we reach those, we provide a few chapters of important context, explaining to you what you know what is the how important is the general plan, what is it there for?

That we're not this isn't an exercise for no reason.

Um we cover Eloy's regional context, the historical context, and then we highlight some of the key points from the existing conditions report.

And again, we highlight all of the work that we've done, you know, from day one of releasing the public participation summary uh through today and on to the emerging um all of the work all the work that we've done to date uh in engaging the public.

And then uh at the end of that chapter, it ends with the community vision statement.

That statement is you know the the big kind of like enchilada and in which that we launch into each of the themes, and and that's the that's what's going to guide the city into the future.

So we've got these four key themes here from purposeful growth to prosperous economy, balanced environment, and resilient infrastructure.

Each of those chapters come with their own miniature vision statement specific to that theme, includes goals and policies.

Following the key themes from the main chapters, we will get into an implementation plan showing how the rubber is going to meet the road when you set goals and policies.

What are you going to do in order to execute that?

And then finally, that is rounded out with appendices, discusses general plan amendment criteria, different reference documents that we use in drafting the plan, covers more details on community engagement and events, the 60-day event summary, a glossary, and some extra maps thrown in there.

Just going a little bit further into the importance of your general plan.

You can see there, it's down there at the bottom.

This is fundamental.

So you land this document.

Every other document is going to flow from this document.

When someone comes through and they want to rezone, whether that's your own city staff, or you've got uh a customer applicant who wants to rezone a piece of land, that rezoning needs to be in alignment with your general plan.

And then any other sub-area plan, specific area plan, the airport plan, for instance, that needs to be in alignment with this general plan as well.

Building plans, people going vertical, certificates of occupancy.

Everything is depending as dependent on this plan.

So this is this is important.

This is why we encourage everyone to participate in providing their comments on that 60-day review period.

The general plan is a statutorily required document.

That is required, that requirement comes from the state.

It is mandatory that every city and county, either in Title IX or in Title 11, provides an update every decade.

Reassessment, you know, where have we been, where are we now, where are we going?

Depending on the size of your population, you have different requirements, and as your population grows, so do the list of required elements that you have to account for.

As you can see in the middle column here, these are all the uh statutorily required elements of your general plan.

The city and the public thought it prudent to include these five additional elements that you see on the right as elective as being significant and important to the Evoy's future as you plan for your success.

Another way of looking at this plan, again, just emphasizing that community vision statement that you see there.

Uh, that is what kind of drives you know just about everything.

Um each theme there has its own miniature vision statement or community aspiration.

Each theme will have the statutorily required elements with goals and policies, and then that uh flows down to all the implementation actions.

Uh, if you think of that in like a reverse order, you're gonna be doing a bunch of stuff over the next decade uh in in action.

What is what is the how is how are those actions justified?

You have goals and policies, how are those justified?

You've got these aspirational statements and vision statement.

Um so I'll just read this out to you really quick because I think you should be proud of it.

Something that you know belongs on a t-shirt.

I'm I'm dead serious about that.

Uh ew is growing with purpose, rooted in history, guided by community pride and focused on improving quality of life for all.

As we develop and revitalize our neighborhoods, strengthen our economy, and invest in infrastructure.

We will remain a city that honors its small town charm while embracing opportunity.

Really strong, healthy uh vision statement you've got there.

You can also see um underneath those four key themes.

Uh, you've got the breakout of the um statutorily and elect and the elective elements.

Um the state required ones are highlighted with the asterisk there.

Um going into the implementation plan a little bit.

Uh your general plan will be executed by your zoning.

Um that is uh that that's how your your general plan, the land use portion of your general plan is being executed.

Beyond that, you've got all these extra uh chapters that you need to bring to fruition over the next 10 to 20 years, and this table is here to help you execute that.

Um there is an action that is tied to uh statutorily required element and the theme.

It's assigned a number, and then we describe uh the time frame that it's gonna take to get there, short, mid, and long term.

Uh in other in other terms, that would be one to five, five to ten, and ten or more years.

And then additionally, there's some that are just routine maintenance.

This document, this portion of the document implementation implementation action plan table.

That is a uh the I mean, not just the implementation action plan, but the entire general plan is a living document.

Um it it will grow with you.

Um market changes, this thing, uh the implementation action plan is flexible for for you to make changes.

So uh as you accomplish things, this is kind of there to help you account for the things that you've accomplished.

Um moving on to next steps.

Um as I mentioned until May 3rd, we're in 60 day public review process uh on the 11th or Thursday this week as um uh entering City Manager Letcher mentioned we've got the planning and zoning commission update on the 26th of March.

Uh we got this flyer here for our mobile immersion lab.

You can kind of see an image of it there on the flyer.

It's this um nearly 180 degree wraparound screen.

Um over the course of creating this plan, we have come up with different place types associated with your land uses.

Uh you're going to basically drop yourself down uh into this plan like you would do in a Google Street View, and you're gonna see just how those land use and place types um are going to be affected on the ground.

We're gonna do these 20-minute uh run throughs, um, and do a ticketing thing.

We're working on it with Dan now.

Uh it's gonna go on from 11 a.m.

to 6 p.m.

People will get to walk through, check it out.

There's we'll have different stations, we'll have a lot of the boards that we've had at our previous events, and people will be able to give their reactions, say what they love and what they're not so much a fan of and and what they see in each of these immersive environments here.

Um May 20th, uh after public review period has lapsed, we will bring the plan to your planning and zoning commission for a hearing uh asking them to recommend the plan to me and council.

And on June 22nd, we'll be meeting with you, and you'll have the option to approve uh your new general plan.

And following that, um there'll be an another resting period of 120 days where it will go in front of all your residents on a November ballot for them to vote on.

And that brings me to the end of the presentation.

Thank you very much.

I'm happy to take any questions you guys have.

I got a question or two.

Yes, sir.

3,500 web page visits.

Is that good or bad for a city with a sub-20,000 population?

That's incredible.

Is it?

Yeah, I mean, ideally, you know, when you this plan, like I said, this is a foundational plan uh to everything else.

And ideally, we want to capture every single voice.

Um that uh I I would I would be interested to see anyone who's ever captured every single voice in the city.

But uh the engagements that you guys have are large portions of your resident population.

So very well.

Now I got a message here from a constituent, Mary Beth, and she asked a question, and maybe you can help answer for this public review period.

And her question is as follows.

How does this message get out to the general populist of Eloy itself?

Just curious, since I know many of the average everyday citizen Eloy are not social media savvy.

So will there be there'll be a provision here, possibly in the city hall, they can come down and do something or a physical thing they can do or look at?

Yes, um the the mobile immersion lab is gonna be a great opportunity uh to participate here.

Um we're gonna have um this in multiple different formats, paper plastic, um it would be the analogy, but digital and uh copy prints we're gonna people will be able to view um physical copies of the draft 60 day plan.

Okay, flick through it, and they can uh where will those be available?

Do you know?

Uh yeah, that will be at the March 26th mobile immersion lab.

So they should wait till then to get to get that.

Right.

Okay.

Um and then uh otherwise there's just been all the public events that we've held to date.

We'll we've also taken comments, uh, written down comments at the all the drop-in events that we've done.

Questions in the left.

Yeah, but uh follow-up on I think the uh I guess immersion into what's gonna look like that would be great.

How are people gonna know about that?

I mean, it's gonna be here city hall, you put in a website, but how does the normal person living northern Toltec even know this is gonna happen?

Uh yeah, that that would be through all uh so uh one of the things that we've done, everyone that we have engaged in this process, we have a mandated list.

Talk for closer, thank you.

Um we have the um that we have a mandated list of people to contact, and then beyond that, uh all the people that I've interviewed and anyone that we've uh connected with, we have sent emails out uh to notify these people, and then um it's uh again it's available on the website, and then we we communicate digitally as as best as we can.

Can we do something like maybe in the awareness?

A flower there, a note in the scent because I think uh not everybody checks emails or I get a lot of spam emails, and so I think notifying people is gonna be very key to get a lot of participation, particularly what I'm concerned about it's gonna show up in the ballot in November.

I want to be sure that people are aware of what it is, and we don't have a problem of getting it passed.

Mayor members of the council, I believe it's too late to get it into the water bill for this month.

Uh we just got the advertisements yesterday, last night for him.

We will be pushing it out through our normal obviously paper formats here at City Hall.

We'll be posting it on the message boards that we've done before.

Unfortunately, we we just got everything to get it out before that.

But yes, we also are participating with the school district to any vote.

I'm still trying to get a hold of the high school.

They haven't returned my calls or email.

So we are we are doing a little bit different outreach this time, and we're also gonna have it on the website, and it's in my calendar that does not include in the dismissed.

So they also have its own.

So there's one other thing I want to say.

I've worked on five different general plans.

Um we've never got more than a five four to five percent participation in community disc contacts.

And also the diversity of those contacts is is I believe it was at 40 percent, 40 percent of his family.

Uh self-reported.

So we have done we I um overly impressed with the community is that has participated.

Because I know coming into this when we first started, one of the main concerns was getting community input.

Um as I told councilman, don't worry about it.

We we'll do it.

So it's been honestly an ongoing thing.

We did have one that we had nobody show up.

That was only one, but we are getting them out.

So thank you, Dan.

Comments?

Comments.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, man, council.

Much appreciated.

Okay, that brings us to item B.

Approval of an employment contract from McKinsey Lecture as the city manager, including salary and benefits.

Mr.

Cooper Mayor, Council members.

Um this matter's been the subject of a few discussions and executive session because basically we were negotiating with a public employee, in this case, Mr.

Letcher, to be the city manager.

Before you denied is the an employment contract, which is included in the in the in your documents would be effective immediately upon passage of the council tonight on this.

Basically, this is an open-ended contract, which basically means that once it begins, it will continue unless Mr.

Letcher decides to uh terminate the agreement, in which case he's required to give us, I believe, a 60 days notice.

And I think the notice would sound something like that.

Alternatively, if the council for for decides for whatever reason they wish to sever the employment relationship for no reason at all, they basically it'd be nine nine months paid severance in this case.

And Mr.

Letcher will participate in the usual employment benefits with regards to city employees, also including part-time uh what we call PTO time.

The salary basically will be 177, 210 dollars, which basically is the midpoint in our current salary chart for city managers.

And in addition to that, there will be a lot a car allowance which will be given to him this year of about 7200 per year.

There's also a phone and technology allowance included in there as well.

And also there are provisions which allow him to basically get continuing education with regards to being a member of the ICMA, which is the Internet the City Managers Association, and basically travel as well, subject to advanced approval of the council.

And in addition to that, basically the count basically he will be reviewed basically once a year.

It's his it's his job basically to bring the notice to the council to set the time and place for it.

And um the council basically that's essentially the major terms of the contract for your consideration this evening.

We have drafted a contract based on those discussions, and as I said, it's included in the packet, which was also made public to the public as well, and it's for your consideration to determine tonight whether you wish to move forward with the council contract or not.

I would suggest to you prior before voting on it, ask Mr.

Letcher if he's in green agreement with the terms.

Thank you, Mr.

Cooper.

But before we get to that, there is a fellow who used to work here.

His name is David, and David sent us a little something.

He sent us something that uh he would like right into the minutes here, and Councilmember Schneider will do just that.

Thank you.

Uh this is a letter uh to uh Dear Mayor Sutton and members of the Eloy City Council.

As a fellow local government practitioner, supporter, and champion for Eloy, I would like to extend my sincere recommendation to the City Council and the community of Eloy on the appointment of Mackenzie Letcher as your new city manager.

Mr.

Letcher's selection reflects the council's commitment to strong forward thinking leadership for the city of Eloy.

His professionalism, dedication to public service, and unwavering natural ability to build cooperative relationships will undoubtedly serve the community well.

It seems like a lifetime ago when McKenzie started working in Eloy.

From the beginning, McKenzie had a presence and demeanor that stands in a league of its own.

He quickly went from a guy in Casa Grande, who works for Larry, to oh yeah, McKenzie.

He's a great guy, and we're lucky to have him here.

He's made a mark that has left a lasting impression on the staff, City Council, Ely residents, and those looking to business in Eloy.

Anyone who knows Mackenzie knows that under his leadership, the City of Eloy will continue to advance initiatives that enhance quality of life, promote economic opportunity, and deliver excellent public service to residents.

Please accept my congratulations and best wishes as Mr.

Letcher begins his important role.

Everyone is looking forward to seeing his positive impact on of his leadership, continued collaboration among our city neighbors in Penelope County and uh abroad.

Mayor Sutton and members of the city council.

You are achieving a leader capable of guiding the organization and community toward continued progress and success.

Thank you for your unwavering stewardship of the city of Elay, his staff members, and his community.

And lastly, please tell him he can officially retire the puffer best in in favor of a new sports coat.

That's the all the best in grass speed, David Malwitz, assistant city major, Pasilobus, California.

That was classic.

That really was.

That was absolutely classic.

Thank you, David.

I know you're watching tonight.

Thank you so much.

So I think we'll do we'll go down when we get to Mr.

Mr.

Letcher last and hear about his things.

Councilwoman Belindo, anything to anything to add.

Yes, and I know I you won't be embarrassed by this because I've shared it with you already.

But since taking on this role on the Eloy City Council, and just going out within the community and talking about email and representing Eloy, your name comes up so much in a positive way.

Um disrespect to Mr.

Malowitz, no disrespect to any of the emoji uh staff and leadership, but I always hear how lucky we are to have McKenzie.

And now I feel how fortunate we are to have you now taking the leadership role.

I'm excited for you.

I'm happy for you.

I know you're gonna do an excellent job for the city of Eway.

Um we are definitely gonna be putting a hold on you to make sure that you don't get stoned from anybody else because we did steal you from Cascad.

Um I honestly believe that this is the world that you were made for, and this is the world that you will strive in.

Um ready to support you 100%.

Thank you, Councilman.

Um, I am glad to see that McKenzie's in a community.

He's already involved in many of the of the organizations, and I think he's just a great addition.

Wait, got anything to add?

Yeah, just that um I'm confident we are making the correct decision and appointing you our new city manager here in Eli.

And I know you won't disappoint us.

Anything to add?

Well, I guess we haven't asked him whether or not he accepts.

But I agree.

I think being a longtime city employee and seeing the progression of people in this position, I really think we are making one of the best decisions.

I will say, as a 24-year employee of this city, you're the best decision we've made in a long time.

I'm no longer an employee, so I can say that.

Um but no, I I really believe that um with you um running this organization, this city, we're gonna go great places.

We've we've already done great things.

I believe you're gonna just take us to that this next level as long as you'll have us because we want you.

Thank you.

Mr.

Snell.

Yeah.

Uh, Getty, you got you and I guess have been working together maybe I don't know, a couple years or something.

But when uh I first came on board, when you first came on board, I think the uh capital improvement uh plan we have was relatively new.

Uh other council members have heard me talk uh many times about we need a vision, what's our objectives, where are we headed?

And uh you and David, I know put together a plan after you know, I worked with you and then I'm very pleased to see that's now finding us way into the general plan, and it we're headed that way.

Uh and so I think uh I'm very pleased that uh you're able to continue on to get to there.

One of the things I will be uh in the next year, we'll be talking about is and you and I have talked about this is the uh KPIs.

You know, it's nice to have all these objectives and goals, but some place along the line we have to have some measurements to say are we actually accomplishing them, or somewhere online are these uh measurements enabling us to keep going forward.

We pull the plug or just whatever.

So I'm looking forward to that.

But uh I will say that uh now I don't have to call you intern.

Shorter.

And but the other side of it is uh the buck will stop at you.

There's no place else to go.

But welcome aboard, I'm looking forward to it.

I think it uh you're quite capable, and I think uh we're looking forward to where we go from here.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman Snyder.

I'd like to bring up David one more time in a positive light.

A great one of the great management writers of all times, he wrote a little piece that said good leaders do not create followers.

Good leaders create more leaders.

And nothing was more true with David.

David was the guy who took create more leaders, and that's exactly what we're gonna look for out of Mac to make more leaders, not followers.

You will make more leaders as you go along.

And yes, there's nothing I can add that you guys haven't added except for the fact if you throw away the puffer vest, remember to take the iPhone 6 out of your pocket before you throw it away.

This is turning into a rope.

Don't ever get rid of that, man.

I lose all everything I have.

So Sarah.

Oh, Sarah, what do you got?

Hi.

Um I personally was in support of moving McKenzie forward as quickly as possible.

Once we gave him a chance to do the city manager interim job, it quickly became apparent to us that he was going to be able to do the actual city manager job.

So I'm happy that it's happening.

Um that we're getting it done, and that he wants the job as far as we know.

And I am totally okay with the Papa Vet.

Thank you, Sarah.

A legacy.

Your views, your opinions.

Thank you, Sarah.

What would you like to add here?

Yeah, no, first and foremost, I just want to thank Mayor and Council for this opportunity.

Um, I know it didn't come lightly, and again, just giving credit where it's due with Dave.

It's I'm inheriting a great team.

Uh Dave built this team.

We have a good collaboration between old and new with new directors coming in.

Almost half of our director roster now is people that have come within the last two years.

And that's all due to David and his vision and working with us, and then obviously working with Mayor and Council.

Um, it's been fantastic.

I tell you guys all the time, but we are very grateful, and the fact that we have a council that's worrying to work and collaborate with the city staff, it's something that you don't see.

It's it's it's not normal in in kind of politics and the environment that you're seeing across the country.

So we have a special you know, unit here when we're looking from the staff side all the way to the council side.

So I'm very excited to work here for the next several years, as long as you guys will have me.

And it kind of feels like we're getting married, but kind of talking about the contract.

Yes, I do.

I do I do accept, you know, I want to be the city manager for the city of Eloy.

I've loved being here the last couple of years.

It was a great decision to transfer here from Casa Grand, and I didn't do that lightly either.

I I had a great relationship with Larry, the council up there, but I knew and I saw the potential in Eloy, and that's what drove me to come here.

So I'm very excited that I'll be able to continue on the legacy that David set and putting us in the trajectory that we're at now, and now it's just moving along and keep things moving, keep the momentum going.

Uh besides that, too, also I have my beautiful family here from my mom and dad came from Tucson, as well as my mother-in-law Sandra and my wife Stephanie.

Um I try not to get emotional here, but um, you know, it's something people don't give a lot of credit to when you're looking at great leaders, um, whether it's the public sector or the private sector, is obviously hard skills are critical, you know.

You have to be analytical, you have to know finance, all of everything that has to do with leadership in that stance.

But when it comes to the soft skills, having empathy, being humble with humility, and just showing respect to people.

I didn't have better um better role models than I did with my parents.

Um my mother and father are uh more than I could ever ask for in parents.

I I love them dearly, and obviously I had the greatest mentor ever with my dad.

He was a former city manager for Tucson Sedona, Burlington, Vermont.

Um so I've always tapped him when I come home driving here from Eloy and ask him questions about what's going on.

So I'm greatly appreciative of that.

And then obviously, my beautiful wife Stephanie, we've been together for 13 years.

She's been with me from you know when I was in community college all the way till now, uh, living with our parents, police academy, various different things.

So you know, I give all the credit to her because it's I'm starting to get what I call city manager brain, where you're so focused on all the work here that when I get home, it's like my brain's kind of fried, and she's the one who has to deal with that stuff.

So it's I I appreciate her patience with that and just want to say that I love her and uh thank you for putting up with me all these years.

And then same thing with her mom.

Stephanie wouldn't be here without you, so thank you for that.

But that's all I got, Mayor.

Thank you.

Well, thank you.

We definitely know Stephanie there's a power behind the throne.

Okay, well, the bushy stuff is now out of the way.

I'm looking for a motion.

I'm looking for a motion to approve the employment contract with Mackenzie Lecture as a city manager, including salary and benefits.

You're long-winded.

Um by the way.

I'll make a motion to approve an employment contract for Mackenzie Letcher, uh City Manager, including salary and benefits.

Throw the second.

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Golinda.

I was sounding yes.

Councilmember Majraska.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yeah.

Vice Minister Ringo.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Yes, absolutely.

Congratulations, sir.

Congratulations.

Yeah.

So now comes the favorite part of the meeting, item number 10.

Looking for a motion to adjourn.

No, I make a motion that we adjourn.

So I have a second.

Second.

All favor say aye.

Any opposed?

Thank you, everybody.