This one just in the issue.

Yeah, let me just go ahead and close it as a minus good, I guess.

Yeah, but there's a side.

No, no, no, no, no.

I suppose we're thinking about it.

Okay.

I gotta go.

I can't try to do it.

I'm gonna put through some more extra.

That's the way that we says it'll be actually possible to agree.

I'll show you the last time.

Yeah, yeah, correct that.

Because of the film, except it's uh that's what we use.

We text all the time.

It gets weird.

Yeah, so yeah.

Yeah, I can't.

When you're ready, Mayor.

Thank you.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to tonight's Eloy City Council meeting.

It is Monday, April 13, and the time is 6 p.m.

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

Councilmember Vajaska.

Here.

Councilmember Schneider.

Here.

Councilmember Garcia.

President.

Councilmember Galindo.

Here.

Councilmember Curtis.

Here.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Here.

And Chairman and Mayor Andrew Satin.

Here.

Thank you very much.

Can we all please rise for a moment of silence and the Pledge of Allegiance that will be led by Councilmember Curtis?

Do the Republic for which one nation under uh individual liberty and justice card.

Next is item five, public appearance.

Steve, is there anybody on the sheet?

All right, the sheet is clear.

So that would lead to item number six.

Reports and announcements.

And you know your mayor, he's got some announcements.

On Wednesday, April 1st, I attended the Arizona, the Central Arizona government's meeting in Apache Junction.

During that meeting, we had an executive session as part of ADOTS Listening Tour.

I had the opportunity to stress the need for better communication between ADOT and our cities, as we were just discussing, ladies.

I brought up to the fact that I'm like we had the new hospital go in and we just wanted to clean the on and off ramps, and we couldn't.

So we're trying to work with them in a collaborative effort to keep the lines of communications open.

On Friday the third, I put on my police volunteer hat and helped out at the annual Easter egg hunt.

It was a great event, lots of families, lots of smiles, and kids just having a great time.

Pat, who is their driver, is exactly the kind of person you want doing that job.

He is kind, caring, and he is clearly appreciated by the people he serves.

We visited about a dozen homes, and for me it was a chance to connect with residents.

I might not have other mu otherwise met.org if you would like to help out.

Two meals a two twice a week, uh seven meals a week.

It's an amazing amazing.

It takes a special person.

I was gonna put it that way.

Takes a special person and special people to just be so selfish and do such good work.

On Friday the 10th was another busy day at 4 p.m.

Along with current and formal council members.

We attended the ribbon cutting for the new butcher shop here on Main Street.

La Canaseria, La Mejor is a family-owned business, and we wish them nothing but success.

And I can say firsthand the chorizo and stakes I purchased were a great idea.

They really were later that evening, several of us attended the Panal Scholarship Dinner in Casa Grande, and I'll let Councilwoman Galindo expand on that one.

Then on Saturday the 11th, we attended the police picnic here at the park.

It was a nice opportunity to relax a bit and spend time with the men and women of the Eloy Police Department.

They work so hard every day.

And it's just nice to watch them take it down a couple of notches and just be families in front out there.

So with that, we also have two proclamations we're going to do tonight.

Well, with not seeing anybody, I will still read the proclamation because I have already signed it.

The proclamation whereas all Arizona children deserve access and quality to early care, education, environments, whereas child quality care programs build children lifelong learning skills during the critical years from birth to age five.

And whereas CEC teachers and child care providers are the essential workforce that helps Arizona parents get to work or school.

And whereas funding and quality child care are a smart investment that improves family well-being, strenuous activities, and grows our state's prosperity.

And whereas these organizations are working to improve equitable early learning opportunities that provide strong stuff for children in Eloy, and whereas public policies and support ECE, Arizona's youngest learning, and families and communities.

Therefore, I, Andrew Sutton, may I do hereby proclaim April 11th through the 17th, 2026 is week of the young child here in Eloy, and encourage all citizens support and invest in early care and education in our community.

And I guess we'll just send this out to them.

Okay.

Oh, she was?

Oh, she called it another.

And we also have a second proclamation tonight.

Tonight I have the honor of recognizing a group of professionals who are truly the first responders of public safety telecommunicators.

These are the voices behind the call, the calm and the chaos, the steady presence on the other end of the line when someone is having one of the worst moments of their life.

They work long hours, days, nights, weekends, holidays, often behind the scenes without any recognition.

Yet every call they take matters.

Every decision they make has an impact.

Every shift they work helps keep our police, fire, and medical teams connected and our community safe.

Their commitment to professionalism and dedication do not go unnoticed.

And tonight we take a moment to say thank you.

And I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

Thank you all.

So, Ms.

Vice Mayor, if you could read that proclamation, you guys want to come up and receive.

City of Eloy, Arizona, Office of the Mayor, Proclamation, National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, April 12th through 18, 2026, Eloy Police Department, City of Eloy, Arizona, whereas emergencies can occur at any time requiring the response of police, fire, or emergency medical services.

And whereas when an emergency occurs, the prompt response of public safety personnel is critical to the protection of life and preservation of property.

And whereas public safety telecommunicators are the first and most critical point of contact for individuals seeking emergency assistance, serving as the vital link between the community and emergency responders, and whereas these dedicated professionals provide calm, clear, and critical information during times of crisis, coordinating emergency response, relaying life-saving information, and ensuring the safety of first responders in the field.

And whereas the public safety telecommunicators at the Eloy Police Department consistently demonstrate professionalism, compassion, and a commitment to excellence while serving the community 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Now, therefore, be it resolved that I, Andrew Sutton, mayor of the city of Eloy do hereby proclaim the week of April 12th through 18, 2026 as National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week in Eloy, Arizona, in honor of the men and women whose dedication and service help keep our community safe.

Signed this 13th day of April 2026, Andrew Sutton, Mayor, City of Eloy, Arizona.

You know, the average citizen really doesn't know because they're going to bed at 11 o'clock at night, and these people are putting on their first cup of coffee.

They're putting on the first pot of coffee for the evening because they're going to be up all night protecting us.

And we thank them for that very much.

Thank you.

So this brings us to item B, Councilmember announcements.

No, I alluded to Miss Galundo had something.

Go ahead, young lady.

Okay, well, I'll say the best for last, but I just wanted to say thank you and congratulations to uh uh the uh community event on the virtual tour.

It was really exciting to see the tour.

Um it's it's a great vision for uh these plans that we have to actually see it what it could possibly be.

So um thank you for that, and I really appreciated it.

I also want to say congratulations to community services.

The Easter Egg hunt was just exceptional.

Good job, good family event.

Everybody was really happy, everybody was having a good time, and we are very fortunate to welcome back Mr.

Mendeville to our community.

Mr.

Mendeville grew up in Eloy.

Actually, his first job was working for uh Parks and Wreck here in Eloy, and he has always wanted to take his skills and his talent and bring it back to Eloy.

He was so proud, and uh congratulations to him for his first event.

He did a very good job.

Um also on floor eight, I met with some constituents who were concerned about the free point uh plant coming up.

We did come to a lot of agreements, understanding that uh that this plant has gone through all of the uh requirements to be able to bring this this plant to Eloy.

Um, and they are coming, they are having services.

Uh, what we're gonna do is work together to make sure that the community is safe.

So that's that was a very productive meeting.

I did share uh the highlights of the meeting with the mayor and the city manager.

Um I did also attend the PD or the PD barbecue.

Uh had a great time.

It's it's wonderful because you know, the dispatchers, we appreciate you.

They're the first to respond.

They pick up that call and they are the very first to respond.

And we see our officers and we depend on our officers and we care about our officers.

We don't really take it a moment to see that there's a there's a whole family that's behind them and supporting them and backing them up.

So it was it was really nice to uh be able to visit with them and talk to them and show them that you know that their government really does care about them, and we're gonna do what we can to make sure that they're safe and they have everything that they need to be able to perform the job that they're responsible for.

So it was really nice to meet with with uh some of the family members.

And last but not least, um, on the 10th, I attended along with uh council member of Adaxtra and uh the mayor, along with uh the city manager as well, the Panel Community Scholarship Banquet.

If you ask me, I may be a little biased, but the speakers were absolutely the best.

Um, one in particular, uh, other council members, since you may have missed it.

I can share it with you.

I recorded the whole thing.

Uh it was my daughter, my the uh community scholarship committee was uh celebrating their 20th year of offering scholarships, and she was one of the very first recipients of the scholarship, and she was asked to come back and share her experience.

Um the city of Eway was also recognized for being one of the very first sponsors of uh the scholarship for Penel County students.

Um we may accepted a very nice plaque for certificate from them.

Um they have vowed to continue to go on with this project and to support young people in their higher education.

So I know my list probably isn't as long as the news, but I was pretty it's pretty substantial.

So I will yield now.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

We had an opportunity, uh Dan Simon invited the school to bring down some kids, and I think we brought down about 20 kids from our student council to participate in that virtual tour.

They they actually had a lot of good input to today.

They did take a little coaching to get them to start speaking up to get a little shy at 1415.

I'm not sure why they're not that way at school.

So we we did go there and they had a good time, they were flexible.

Went to the Easter egg hunt.

I was told we had what, 10,000 eggs?

I don't know if that was that's an accurate number.

I know there were a lot because every kid left there with a bucket full of eggs.

So they enjoyed their time.

Let's see did do the groundbreaking at the kind of city.

Uh which I I found amazing for the small space, they have to work with everything that is actually in there.

And that not everything is displayed there, because I know like the fish wasn't displayed.

Uh I did not make the awards bank, what I was at the church banquet that day, so I went outdate that.

And I think that brings me up to oh, I got one more thing.

Or Mackenzie.

Have we ordered the hospital sign that I think it's like an eight by eight blue eighth sign for Sunshine Boulevard so people know where to turn for the hospital?

Uh no, we haven't ordered that yet, but we are coordinating with ADOT because that's anything within their right-of-way that needs to go there.

We have to coordinate with them to post it.

But we have been in communications with them.

Okay, because after this morning, I think that might be a little more beneficial because that we had a semi at I guess maybe the wrong term into that area.

Yeah, I think that looked pretty.

So it would help them out as well.

Yeah, that's thank you.

Thank you.

Uh on April 3rd, Friday, I made the long trick up to uh Gold Canyon.

And of course I missed the Easter eggs, and of course I but anyway.

Uh it was an interesting discussion at the Penelope Meeting on Opportunity Zones.

And those of you who may not know Opera zones were a federal program several years ago with the intent of uh fostering uh I guess uh economic development in uh rural areas or underprivileged areas, and it was uh gave the developers a real good tax break on capital gains taxes.

And so that program uh I guess existed.

Uh it unfortunately uh the tracking wasn't very uh good because there was no money per side to do the tracking, so we don't know how successful it was, but there were some discussions about a lot of those uh zones that were identified were turned out to be in the big cities, and so some of the rural areas didn't get the benefit of it, and so there's uh I guess uh a opt-during zone too coming up, and so it was a panel discussion about this uh the new guidelines, and they talked about the fact that the Arizona had uh so many designated up-dreaming zones last time that would probably be reduced by 30% this time, and so we were focusing more on population density and economic well-being of the surrounding area on picking these zones.

So that's coming, and I think uh it was a very interesting discussion because one of my uh I guess Bill So bought a couple times about the rural areas like Eloy and Mammoth and Globe.

We didn't benefit those programs because nothing happened, but yet you would go uh into downtown Phoenix and it'll be an area, they build a new hotel or representation of building, and that money was being used there, but that money didn't get out to the rural areas.

So I think it's gonna be some effort to do that this time.

So it's a matter of getting your ducks in line and being sure you have a shovel ready area uh because uh uh they're gonna be looking to do something in the area.

But anyway, it was a very interesting discussion, and uh you'll hear more because there's gonna be some workshops come up and some discussion on how you apply for this and how you get to the top of the list type of thing.

But uh some real good tax breaks for developers on Capital Games.

Uh and so I think it's a good program if we can just get some of that development out in the rural areas.

So thank you.

Thank you.

It's very informative.

Mike.

Just uh a couple items that already been touched on the 10th, about four o'clock.

Uh went to the River Cutting on Main Street of the uh new uh butcher shop there.

It was well attended, and it is a uh good to see that we have another business on Main Street operating.

Um I urge you and suggest that you stop here and um you know support them as you can.

Uh later that day I did also attend the uh Hispanic uh Panel Hispanic Council scholarship um dinner, and it was quite the place.

Um it was packed, I think, probably over 200 at least people there.

Uh I believe there was 51 recipients of scholarships, uh students.

And um it was very uh very uh good to be there and to support and once again the city supports that program.

I and I believe that uh you know the children they're they're they're our next people, they're the ones who we need to be uh supporting, you know, as we get older.

Um lastly was the Eloy Police Department uh picnic on Saturday was a great day, weather wise, a little windy, but uh temperature-wise, it was great.

Uh it was good to sit down and talk to our uh first responders, and uh wanna thank uh the chief and his staff for inviting us uh the city council to attend.

Thank you.

It's like a repeat for everything everybody else has gone to, so yay, look at me.

Um sorry.

Um we went to the Easter event, and I'd say we're pretty much outgrown that park with that event.

I mean, it was huge.

There were kids everywhere.

Um controlled chaos, that's for sure.

And and then that gun, I said, yeah.

Um, I'm hoping when I get home tonight that the meat I bought is ready to eat.

Um and they had really good cake, so um, please uh go um partake in that business because we I would really love to be able to keep that.

I mean, I would love to keep any business on Main Street, but I'd love to keep that butcher shop, and hopefully they grow so then none of us have to go to Castagran anymore.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, now that brings us to item City Manager announcements.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

And uh, you guys just took all my thunder for the Easter event.

So I pretty much have nothing left.

You guys stole the 10,000 eggs, which is gonna be my big fact for the day.

But the good news is we had over 500 attendees that attended that event.

So as Michelle stated, it was a significant turnout, not only regionally, but also from the city of Eloy.

So I came in a little bit late, so I didn't get to see the you know, mad rush to get all the eggs when they first got there.

But it was a fantastic event.

It was uh great turnout from the community all around.

But outside of that, for my updates, I only have two items.

So the first one up, and this is one of my favorite events I attend it every year.

It's the Eloy Adopt a Street Spring cleanup.

So that's gonna be this Saturday, April 18th, 7th through 10 a.m.

The staging area for that's gonna be taking place at Shamway North Park, so over there off 11 mile corner.

Uh you can go there and you can go get your vest, bags will be provided, and then they will be basically designate where you're gonna locate to help clean up the streets around Eloy.

It's a fantastic event to participate in, help beautify our city and keep the uh streets clean.

So for additional information on that, please contact our code compliance officer Lydia Powell at 52046-3172.

And if you don't want to call her, you can always swing down by City Hall, and she'd be happy to talk to you in person.

The other event we have coming up is also going to be on Saturday, so that's the spring concert in the park featuring Soul Town Train.

So I know this is something that the mayor is extremely excited about.

He's been talking about it probably for the last two weeks.

So I'm sure he's gonna be there.

But uh join us for a fun evening of great music featuring music from Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Temptations, Sly Stone, a bunch of other people I don't know.

And uh it's gonna be uh Saturday, April 18th, 6 to 9 p.m.

Uh, the location is gonna be Main Street Park, and there's gonna be inflatables, food trucks, and a variety of other stuff.

So it's gonna be a fantastic event.

I'll probably still show up.

Uh, but yeah, looking forward to it.

But besides that, Mayor and Council, I'd like to pass it over to Chief Benyalis for a monthly PD activity briefing.

Thank you.

Well, good evening, uh, mayor, vice mayor, council members, and uh city manager who just dated himself, angels himself, saying he doesn't know anybody having a list.

And good evening, also city attorney and deputy city clerk.

Uh, before I get started, I want to take this opportunity to also add to the proclamation of which the mayor read earlier uh from the National Intellicommunications Week.

Um personally, I want to thank and express my gratitude to our communications unit and all the great work they do to keep Eloy officers and the Eloy community safe.

So from the heart, thank Trisha back here, the support services supervisor who's sitting back here with uh dispatcher Audra Cockins, and also like to thank our dispatchers who couldn't be here this evening is Amanda Viesquez, Brittany Beechum, and Nicole Huffman.

Um, the Vice Mayor knows intimately what it takes to run a communications center, as she did that when she was with the police department and the demands of those people that are assigned to communications department.

Collectively, they provide 24-7 coverage, which is approximately 720 hours a month of police and fire dispatch services to the Eloy community.

That is approximately 180 hours worked on the radio by each dispatcher each month.

So I just want to say thank you.

We literally we literally could not serve our community without each of you.

Thank you very much.

The purpose of the briefing this evening is to highlight the outstanding work being done by our officers and staff to ensure the safety of Eloy.

And we affirm our commitment to transparency, communication, and community collaboration.

The following is a recap of the PD activity in March 2026 and current operations.

Tonight's presentation will cover three areas.

Number one, internal department updates.

Number two, community engagement activities, and number three, I will provide an update on our traffic enforcement unit.

Number one, our internal department updates.

On March 16th, we hired an experienced and former Eloy PD dispatcher, Nicole Huffman, who quickly completed this training program and is already working in a solo capacity in dispatch.

So for her to come back after a few years off and to return to the Spence Center and to come up to speed that fast and to be competent is uh is notable.

We are also actively working to fill additional vacant police spine positions, three police officer positions.

We currently have 29 officers.

We have two additional communicator uh communications dispatcher positions open.

We currently have four dispatchers, and we are processing two reserve officer applicants.

I also just asked human resources to open up a recruitment for an entry-level police officer as well, and we're hoping to set a recruiting in the fall of this year.

Number two, in a community engagement.

As we all know, community engagement is essential to building trust and legitimacy.

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

The month of March, Eloy Police Department participated in or attended the following.

Tuesday, March 3rd, the police department participated in the Read Across America initiative and read to students at Toltec Elementary School.

I got to read some of Dr.

Seuss, and I didn't realize how much uh how many times it says greenings in hand in the book.

I forgot, I guess.

On Sunday, March 7th and Saturday, March 28th, the Eloy Police Department, in partnership with the Panal County Animal Care and Control hosted the vaccination clinics at the Eloy City Hall.

On Thursday, March 19th, Captain Guatney, Captain Jerome and I from the police department attended a school safety summit hosted by the University of Arizona.

With that uh information I got from that summit, I will be setting up a meeting with our school superintendents to share the information I learned about uh holistic multidisciplinary approaches to school safety.

So I hope this will be something that'll be uh well received by the school superintendents and something I can work on to try to address uh school safety using this approach.

And then lastly, I am happy to report that the Eloy Police Department will be launching a public-facing crime mapping tool that will empower the Eloy community with real-time insight into local crime activity, reinforcing a shared commitment to transparency, awareness, and proactive guardianship.

Residents will have the ability to view up-to-date crime data in an interactive map, as well as an easy to read grids and charts.

We will post this information on our social media sites with additional information on how to access the crime map prior to the official launch on Monday, April 20th.

The last area I'm going to cover is our update on the traffic enforcement unit.

Just put it in perspective, the traffic enforcement unit was redeployed in June of 2025 after it was dormant for a time because of staffing issues.

The traffic unit has been granted 8400 in overtime to support DUI and speed enforcement and education initiatives to reduce traffic related injuries and deaths and to protect motorists, pedestrians, families, and visitors traveling through the Elon community.

Traffic enforcement and DUI initiatives began back in November in December of 2025 with the Thanksgiving and holiday DEY details.

DUI details were also completed in March for spring break in C and St.

Patrick's Day.

In the fall, we will do a back to school speed enforcement detail, which will be July 19th through August 1st.

Following that will be Labor Day weekend, DEI detail, September 4th through September 7th.

And the last campaign that we will do will be a child passenger safety week detail.

And that'll be September 20th through September 26th.

As part of the campaign, the traffic unit will conduct enforcement on child passenger safety and compliance with child restraint laws.

And we'll also host a safety seat installation class to educate the public on proper seat installation and provide free safety seat inspections and installations.

With that, that concludes my monthly report.

I'm open to any questions that you may have.

Well, thank you, Chief.

First of all, thank you for all the work on the DUI details.

That's very important to the community.

Again, not there on those days when people like to gather and get together and might just, you know, have a little misstep.

The child safety initiatives too are extremely important because in Eloy, we have just way too many car crashes in this town.

But the amount of people in this town, there's just way every day I look on Facebook, I see the police there and I see another accident.

Rules.

Yeah, it's just way too many.

I thank you guys for getting out there.

And that last video, I thanked Officer Gordon for the work he did on that last video, also.

Yes.

Doing great work.

Yes.

Council on my left.

Is Chief I just have a suggestion?

I know that you know, being more active, being a council member and being more active and kind of coming into the city late at night, which is I usually don't, and then being around the city more often.

I noticed it it's not not necessarily kids riding bikes, but there's adults that are uh riding bikes, and that's their only means of transportation.

So have you considered doing like some kind of bike safety training, uh making it available.

I know I'm on the United Ray Penal County Board.

Um, and one of the things we do is offer bikes uh to people that are just joining the workforce that need transportation, and a lot of times um I see them, I barely miss them because they're wearing black at night, uh, there's no reflectors.

I rarely see anybody wearing helmets and stuff.

And I just thought that maybe that that it's time for Eloy to kind of invest in doing some education on bike safety.

Yes, council member, that's something that we can definitely look at.

I think there is a it's a good opportunity to educate the public.

And just uh you are probably aware our officers do um have contact with a lot of people on bicycles and in late hours and early hours of the day, and uh take that opportunity to educate them as well.

Yeah.

I just want to add to Councilmember Galindos.

I have seen the same thing she sees, but I would like if we can find some kind of grant to help provide like lights and reflectors.

That late late at night it's hard for us to see them, and it can't be any easier for them to see us.

And I know they they do work with what they have, and they may not know that some of those lights are available, and with a lot of them being Bluetooth nowadays, that makes it easier.

Yes, sir.

Chief, I I remember a couple of years ago, you know, refresh my memory here because I get older on those things.

Uh used to do coffee with cop.

It seemed to be very popular, I remember.

Uh and I haven't maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen uh that being done recently.

But I with a lot of people moving into the community, particularly I think I rope some ranch where I live, there's other in Toltec area.

We have a lot of people moving in.

Yeah, have you thought about maybe starting that back up again for the newer restaurants just to kind of get a feel for what's going on in EOA and what service you offer and what what kind of community they're moving into?

Yes, councilmember.

We have actually been discussing um setting up another coffee with the council, especially with the new uh venues in town, and uh there's me new venues and new opportunities for us to to have a c another coffee with the cop.

Yeah.

Thank you, Mayor.

I just want to say thank you for getting the crime mapping back up and running.

I appreciate that because like you said, it's it helps with the transparency.

Um when people make negative comments about what the cops are doing here in town, especially on social media.

Um they can go right there and they can see what you're doing.

So I think it I'm glad we're getting it back.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

I agree, Vice Mayor.

We've been working on it for months and trying to work out some of the bugs to make sure we can it's palatable and it's uh appropriate to be public facing.

Uh so we're we're excited about that launching next week, and uh I think it'll be a great resource for the public to go to and have that resource at their fingertips.

Uh Chief, thank you, and and thank the troops too.

Yes, let them know we truly appreciate it.

Thank you, Mayor.

I appreciate it.

Absolutely.

All right, that brings us to item number seven, consent agenda.

All items are considered to be routine matters and will be enacted by one motion, one roll-call vote of the council.

There will be no separate discussion of these items.

I must say council members are request, in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda.

Are there any items any council members wish to have removed?

Mr.

Mayor, you're gonna think I'm crazy.

I'd like to remove item A.

Okay, item A.

Anyone else?

Um, Mr.

Mayor, I would like uh just some clarification on item C okay, and I don't think you're crazy, Dan.

Okay.

Not on at least.

Well, you'll find out in the least.

Okay, at this time I'm looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented, except for items A and item C, which will be approved later.

Do I have a motion?

So moved.

So I have to say it.

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Bajroska.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Terenggo.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Okay, let's take a look at item A.

This more a procedural thing.

Uh since there's the uh two work sessions, record meeting and the budget session is part of this.

I was not uh in attendance at the uh March 30th budget session.

So you know I'd like to approve the entire consent agenda.

I could not approve that, so I'd like to pull that and now put that out to a vote and I'll probably abstain on it.

Make sense?

No, repeat that item.

Okay.

And I was not here for the March 30th budget session.

And so I'd like to abstain on that.

So I had you pull it, so I didn't want to vote yes for the entire session.

So if you put this up to vote again, I will uh vote as abstain.

So ask for a vote.

Absolutely, sir.

And thank you for that.

Yeah, that's absolutely okay.

At this time, I'm looking for a motion to approve item A of the consent agenda.

May I make a motion that we approve item A on the um consent agenda?

So I have a second.

I'll second that.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Vajroska.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Councilmember Galendo.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

I will abstain because I was not here to approve it.

Thank you.

Vice Mayor Turango?

Yes.

Mayor Shatten.

Yes.

Okay, motion carries.

Next item C.

Councilmember Volundo.

Yes, Chief.

I just had a question about uh updating the communication uh technology.

Is 60,000 going to be enough?

I know that it has been something that's been needed for many many years.

And I know that the last time that I was involved in the discussion for reviewing it, an upgrade on the telecommunication is gonna be something more like $500,000.

So I'm just wondering is the has the updates been made already?

And is is this going to be $60,000 going to be enough?

Um this is an item that was approved from from last year's CIP budget.

Basically it's the update the police briefing room which we use for the emergency operations center before.

And so that's what that money was just to use some of those funds to enhance the capabilities of that room.

So um is there Amy?

I know there's there's an item to use some of the opioid uh settlement funding money.

Is there a possibility to use some of that funding too to even add more upgate upgrades and improvements?

Um due to the guidelines set forth under the opioid submit funds and use of um you have to type the nexus to opioid use and prevention and treatment.

So I don't believe or it'd be pretty tough to articulate um the use of the request for those funds to update that room.

Thank you, Chief.

Would you like a motion?

I move that we approve item C on the content consent agenda.

Do I have a say?

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Council.

Councilmember Verdrosca.

Yes.

Council Member Curtis?

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Motion carries.

All right, that brings us to section number eight, item A.

Conduct a public hearing and consider adopting resolution number 26-1654, finding that the applicable criteria have been met to approve a two-year timeline extension to the previous approved conditional use permit C UP number 2022-022 to allow a solar utility scale generation and battery energy storage system facility submitted by W.

Ralph PewPew and Lake PLC on behalf of Nextera Energy Resources DBA, Eloy Valley Solar LLC for property located northeast corner of Sunshine Boulevard, Pretzer Road, consisting of approximately 320 acres.

At this time, I will open the public hearing.

Thank you, Mayor.

The Anzy Working New Development.

Is an extension request to previously approved conditional use permit.

The location is uh on pretzeller and someone not someone sunshine, thank you.

I caught myself.

Sunshine Sunson board northeast corner.

Staff is recommending the approval of this extension, and it is the third extension of this request.

Um is better to explain the reasonings behind that and where they're on the status.

So I'm gonna be happy to hand this over to them.

And if you have any questions afterwards, I'll be happy to add them.

Thank you, Mr.

Sima.

Sir, please come up, state your name, but who you represent.

Mayor Council members, my name is Sean Lake here on behalf of next chair.

I appreciate the opportunity.

My partner, Ralph Pugh would be here, but he's retired and sitting on a beach somewhere.

So I can't keep track of him.

So I'm kind of filling in for him and in his absence.

So be patient with me as I bring myself up to speed with this project.

I'll go through this real quick.

I think this is my slide presentation.

This project was originally approved several years ago, and we've gotten several extensions.

We're asking for an additional two-year extension, and I'll kind of go through this.

Is the location of the property at Pretzer and Sunshine as uh staff had pointed out?

It is part of a much larger project, as you can see.

This is just the green area that we're here to discuss tonight.

So it's a 320 acres there at Pretzer and Sunshine.

Um this does meet and continues to meet the location criteria for the city.

Now the question is, what have you done?

And we get that.

And so what we do is we created a timeline here, and you can read through each of these.

Uh we have received approval of the larger CUP for that much larger project area.

We have worked with EPCO and the local utility uh to contract with them for the the energy here.

So that's that's important.

That this is not a speculative project, this is a contracted project.

And so we did finalize that uh it last year.

We finalized a or filed a 10-year plan with the ACC and have been working with the ACC.

We received unanimous recommendation of the ACC for the line siding uh committee.

We also received uh a certificate of construction from the ACC.

So we've done quite a bit of work in the last year with the ACC.

This is not as easy as building the Walgreens on the corner.

This takes a lot of different jurisdictions and and governing entities to get one of these done.

So what we wish we could do it overnight, if we could have, we would have.

But we're we're kind of working through the the process to get there.

Uh we have also worked with the National Environmental Policy Act um and and uh working through that as well.

So there's a lot of jurisdictions, a lot of people with their hand in it.

We're just asking for some more flexibility with the city to give us an additional two years uh to get this going and up and going.

So we do meet the criteria for extension of your code.

Um so we've checked the box on every single one of those, and so we think this is a a good request.

We have done a lot of work uh spent a lot of money advancing this over the last two years, and want to continue to do so.

So, with that, we'd be uh hope you would give us an additional two years, and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Well, maybe council with any questions.

Yes, um, do you need an extension with Panao County as well?

And or how is your status with them?

We we have filed an application with Penell County and are working through the process with them right now.

So you're hoping that both entities are gonna agree to it, and then that will continue the project forward.

Yes, yes, council member, yes.

Um, and then my uh last question is uh have you had a discussion and are you working on applying with the fire department to make sure that since you're working with two jurisdictions that the service is going to be available within this area?

Do you want to council member Galindo?

Thank you for the question.

Stuart Bear with Next Air Energy Resources.

Uh yes, so we uh I have been in close contact since October of last year with the the Eloy Fire District.

I've been working with fire marshal Jarvis.

Um the county portion as you identified does sit outside of the city.

Um and we've been working with the Eloy Fire District on an agreement where the Eloy Fire District would cover the project.

Uh thank you.

I'm excited about this.

This is one of the few uh solar projects we've had coming to the city where we have a customer.

You know, most of them are speculative, so that's good to hear.

Uh just for my own AEP.

Who is that?

And what servers are you do they cover?

I want to say American Electric Power, but I don't think that's right.

Thank you, Councilmember Snyder.

It's uh Arizona Electric Power Cooperative.

Uh they're a local utility uh cooperative based out of Benson, just on the east side of Tucson.

Uh they include over 50 local local local rural utilities.

Um are ED5, ED2, ED4, 31 in the Trico.

Uh so to your point, Councilmember, the amazing thing about this project is it's here for Anal County.

It's here for Eloy.

The customer that we have contracted with is is APCO, and one of their, as I mentioned, you know, ED285 Trico, that's going to be serving this area.

Yeah, nice to see the power staying here for a change.

Just say, Sarah.

When do you anticipate breaking ground on the project?

Thank you, Councilmember Curtis.

Um, ideally we look to break ground the end of this year.

Um, as um Sean previously mentioned, we are going through the county permitting process.

We anticipate that will be wrapped up uh by late July, early August, uh pending any delays to there that would push the start of construction.

But we're looking to be in the end of the year time frame.

May you just um say that when you do break ground and create the project, please pay special attention to the external landscaping of the project because many of the solar projects we see around here haven't really done a good job with their external landscaping.

Um a few have done an okay job and they look much better.

So we really hope that you guys will adhere to the standards that uh Dan Seimer and hopefully the county as well has set out for that.

Thank you.

Yes, thank you.

That was actually uh something I talked with this morning with Councilmember Galindo.

Um that's a really big concern for not concerned, but big uh point of emphasis for her.

Uh we have submitted a landscape preliminary landscape plan with the county application.

Uh when we get to the site plan application and building permits for the city of Eloy, we'll also be supplying a landscape plan for there as well.

And we're going to work with the city and county to make one that you know, Councilmember Curtis, that looks beautiful for the area.

Just need to make sure that your water is watering systems work.

Can you go back one slide?

Sorry.

Oh, it's on here.

Where did it go?

Maybe it was one more than that.

There's something regarding the National Environmental Policy Act with WAPA.

This one, that one is the second to the last.

Second to the last exclusion documents.

What does that mean?

It's a great question.

So uh Vice Mayor, so uh the way NEPA, there's kind of three uh categories of NEPA depending on once you do your initial environmental assessments and studies.

Umpa in this case, who's doing the NEPA um document will categorize it in one of three.

Uh the top one would be in an EIS, which is environmental impact statement.

That typically takes about two years for them to work through.

The next level down is an EA.

That's an environmental assessment, and that usually takes about a year.

Uh, this project has been designated the least impactful, which is known as a categorical exclusion or a CADEX, and that's what was submitted back in March.

And we anticipate that to be completed the end of April, beginning of May.

And then um is this current farmland or is this a combination of farmland and desert?

Currently it's farmland.

Okay.

All right.

I just worry about burrowing owls and some of the other critters that we have that surround our community out in our deserts.

Um, and that's why I just wanted to make sure that an environmental impact study was done.

Yes.

Okay.

So that's just my biggest concern.

Um I can say from my perspective, I'm very glad that this is showing where this most of this power is going.

Um, when they had the meeting here at the city hall, um, you know, I was able to talk to Mr.

McKeachern from one of the EDs, and I'm very I feel very positive about this project from the perspective of I'm glad that we know that the power is going to be local and not going to the valley or California or someplace else.

So thank you.

Is there anybody from the public?

This is a public hearing.

Anybody from the public like to come up and uh grab a few words.

Okay, not seeing anything.

Danny, you done?

Okay, at this time I'm gonna close this public hearing.

Do I hear a motion to read by title only?

All in favor, say aye.

Any opposed?

None.

Motion carries.

Mayor, just maybe for the record.

Go ahead.

You uh you call for a motion.

There wasn't a motion in it or a second.

Okay.

All right.

A motion to read by title.

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Hearing none, motion carries.

Thank you, sir.

Right.

Go ahead.

A resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of Eloy, Arizona, approving an extension to the conditional use permit, case number C UP 2022 0222 for a solar utility scale generation and battery energy storage system facility on the property located at the northeast corner of Sunshine Boulevard and Pretzer Road, consisting of approximately 320 acres.

Thank you very much, Madam Clerk.

Do I have a motion to approve as read?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Snyder.

Yes.

Councilmember Vojska.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Councilmember Columbia?

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia?

No.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Mayor Santon.

Yes.

Motion carries.

Congratulations, guys.

All right.

Brings us to item B.

Consider ratio and possible action of resolution number 26-1655 authorizing the franchise agreement with Arizona Public Service APS to be submitted to the voters of the City of Eloy at the November 2026 election.

Mr.

Lecher.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor, members of council.

So I'll set the stage here and then I'll push it over to Richard Rosales, who is representing APS today.

So staff recommends that council adopt resolution number 261655 authorizing the franchise agreement with Arizona Public Service to be submitted to the voters of the City of Eloy at the November 2026 general election.

And just to be clear on this, this is something that takes place every 25 years.

We approved this previously back in 2002.

So we're going up on that deadline now.

The biggest change and biggest shift between this agreement and the previous agreement is in the previous agreement we had a flat fee at a flat rate that we collected annually with APS, which was about a hundred thousand dollars with the CPI adjuster that was based on escalation over the years.

So with this new approach, what we're looking at is shifting that to a 2% gross revenue generation, which we think will be an adequate substitute for that, and will actually support us with more revenue as the city continues to grow and as we continue to get new customers, industrial, commercial, all of that.

So pretty much with all that being said, what this approval is tonight is not approving the franchise agreement.

It's just so that we can put it on the ballot as a question for the voters to approve the franchise agreement.

With that being said, obviously, within your coac, you have a lot of the provisions that have been identified that highlight the major changes within this.

They're pretty similar to what was in the 2002 agreement outside of what I just specified there.

And again, this is just so they can continue to operate in our right-of-ways.

Staff is recommending this APS as a great partner with the city, and we'd like to retain that service.

So with that being said, I would like to pass that over to Richard Gosales.

Thank you.

Okay, proceed now.

Thank you.

Richard from Silence Public Affairs AP.

Yes.

Um thank you for having me.

I'll go briefly through uh franchise agreement.

Is um for your awareness and for the public's awareness, but uh basically franchise agreement is a right-of-way contract for APS and the city, the municipality or county.

Um just gives us non-exclusive right to work in the right-of-way, um, maintain our equipment, construct equipment, um, and then it also um allows us to operate on um all the utility infrastructure within it.

So, like you said, it's a 25-year agreement and actually expires in 2027, but the way we wanted to work the um election was we wanted to have it during this there's no election in 2027, and so we wanted to get it on the ballot and hopefully approved before so that we can um continue the franchise agreement when it expires in 2027, so that's why we're um looking at adding it to the um this election cycle.

So um thank you for clarifying that.

Okay.

These are just some of the uh list of of some of the coordination that's listed in the agreements.

Um I'll just go over a couple of these, but like relocation costs.

So if the city has a CIP or is writing in the road, and we need to move our equipment, then we would pay for um that movement of the equipment.

So road mining, we have to move our polls out farther out, then we would pay for it.

If there was something else, then we would put the costs on whoever is requesting us to move the equipment.

So there's and please correct me if um if I say something wrong, Stephen, but um that's the way the agreement outlines.

Um then he said the fees, um, it's a two percent uh fee on that, and then also just outlines whenever we tear up the road or sidewalk or anything within the right of way, we have to put it back the way it was.

Um and then just it outlines vegetation management, identifies what trees the cities should or should not plant in the right way and on our lines and things like that, and we also have our own forestry division who goes out and monitors that and will um make needed adjustments to the trees if needed.

And so um we're not the only utility, uh Southwest Gas, Tucson Electric, US Go, they're all work with franchise agreements within the cities and towns in the state, and then cable and communication providers, they're all license agreements, so they're not necessarily a franchise agreement.

So we've been meeting on the city staff um and and Mr.

Cooper going through the franchise, discussing some of the language, make sure everybody's happy with it.

Um we ask you today to approve to assign this uh resolution so we can um ask the voters to approve it, and then um we will submit all the necessary public notices, um pay our fair share for the election, um, and then conduct outreach um as you all see fit, and we won't we see fit just to make sure the public understands um what what this is.

So there's just some frequently asked questions that you have on normally to go through any of them that might come up, but uh you know this is again a continuation.

So this is this continuation of the agreement that has been going on for 25 years.

It's interesting because not many of us were around 25 years ago.

I think I only have one city clerk in all of the us uh cities that are up for election who understands what this was, so we're kind of teaching a lot of it because we don't come up very often.

So that's all I have, and um happy to entertain any questions.

Yeah, in all my life I've I vote all the time, and I've never recall voting for one of these.

So what kind of outreach do you think you're gonna be doing to the community just to bring them up to speed to understand what's going on?

Yeah, so we do uh public notices in the newspaper.

Um we can uh at the request of of just various um some of the municipalities ask us to do like an open house or some sort of a town hall.

Um when there's like a um a candidate farm, then we participate in that just to give uh an update on on the franchise election and what it means.

So we kind of participate based on what the request of the municipalities.

Oh, on that question, uh what happens if it fails?

So what happens with the fails is we just don't have an agreement in place.

So we still operate, we still own the equipment.

It just we don't have an agreement with the city.

So for example, if we're going to be changing a poll that's in the right of way and the agreement is not in place, then we just go, we ask, we do a permit, um, we stop collecting franchise fees from the customers, so then we just start paying the permits instead one by one, and it just becomes a big hassle, but we would do that.

So not like we would pack up and get out of town.

Take a lot.

I mean I I'm just waiting.

Yeah, and then and this is one thing that came to mind when you asked this, is gonna be an interesting because uh, and it's not just here, it's in other areas in Panama County.

Well, one of the few locations in the state that has multiple utilities like overlap each other.

And so, for example, ropes and ranch, you're all ED2 eD4, one of the electrical districts, right?

But you would still vote in our franchise agreement for the rest of the cities and you know rest of the people.

So um it'll be interesting to see how how that all plays out because uh um you know it's just multiple utilities, and we're just asking for the franchise for our area.

So um right now you said uh you're asking for a two percent rather than a flat fee.

Um is that gonna be higher?

The two percent is gonna be higher than the flat fee.

No, no, it's it's been two percent.

It's been two percent for the last 25 years, so it's a continuation of that.

I think what Mackenzie was referring to was just the growth in the email causes the franchise fees to grow for the city.

Right.

So you know, for example, last year, I think we paid the city like a hundred and brand can correct me, uh hundred and seventy thousand.

777,000, almost 178,000 in franchise fees that were collected.

And so um as you add more homes or add more businesses, that number just continues.

So that's what he meant by the growth.

But it's been it's been with 2%.

So there's no increase in services.

It's it's uh standard fee across the state.

Thank you.

That that's gonna be your selling point.

As always.

Uh Rishi, I I think the outreach is something you need to really look at because you know, being in Eloy, we our only connection to the papers Thursdays.

Yeah, you know, it's just a segment of a page.

And so people really don't read the Casa Grand paper to find out what's going on in Eloy.

So I think maybe the town hall is maybe uh something you do at roads and ranch, maybe you do something down at Grand Valley, something to do with the senior center, but maybe just some outreaches or somehow the to reach people, because I know just from being on council when we're doing things, uh, it's hard to get to people to get those questions or get those inputs because uh we can't rely on the paper.

So you might think about that.

Uh and this applies only to existing rightabase.

Uh thinking what happens in other words, uh if you I know you're doing a lot of the expansions, and so now right-a-ways, those new writeries have to be approved, or is this to be part of how's that work?

Well, how does that work?

You can so that's actually it's including the agreement.

It's any new right-aways as well.

So if we annex additional space into the city that they want a service, then that it would incorporate that as well.

So it's extends.

We have to approve that right away, or how's that how's railway approvers work?

No, it's part of the agreement.

As our city limits or area expands, they automatically get that included in their allowance.

They automatically get the right of way.

They automatically get the right to work within the right-of-way.

Okay, what about the right of way itself?

That's what I'm talking about.

Oh, I mean, that'd go through the standard process of I don't know, I mean, if you construct a new road, you're automatically creating an 80 or 100 foot right-of-way on that new road.

So that's part of where we work at.

Yeah, so how's that cost?

Yeah, so this is to work within the right-of-way.

Um, so whatever's defined as right-of-way.

So if we build a new substation, that's not necessarily in the right-of-way, it's on private land, and we have to go through the permitting process.

We have to go through everything with a new substation.

So, yeah, that that hopefully that answers your question.

But that that because that's not in the right-of-way.

So I think a lot of people who live here in the summer get concerned with um, you know, the power outages that happen in the summer here because of the summer storms.

And I think that if people understood that it could affect the response time if this um wasn't passed by the voters, is that is that a true assessment or not really?

No, because we would still maintain reliability if this not doesn't pass.

I mean, that does have anything to do with our reliability within, you know, on maintenance and anything else.

It just gives us the right to work in the right-of-way without having to go through the permitting process on every single poll that we have to replace.

Um unfortunately, that was that was a unique situation with the storms that caused that big outage and knock on wood.

We, you know, it's another 30 years before we see it more than we see something.

Even all the little outages, you know, that we have here and there, like you know, when the car ran into the poll or whatever, but do you if this didn't go through, do you have to get a permit to work and fix that poll?

So it could take a little bit longer.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, that's a good point.

What I'm trying to say is I think if people understood that by voting yes, it's gonna help in general, just you know, get to these problems quicker.

I think that could be a good selling point for the.

And I look back on the point some of the other council members how to go community outreach.

Um, we get those little text messages like your power will come back on at 11 a.m.

or well, whatever.

The deal is uh a lot of people I know read those and are very like reliant on when their power goes off because they only have pets at home or kids or whatever in the summer.

Um, so I don't know if there's a way to give a little update through those, or if that's weird, but uh that's a good idea.

So a way of reaching out to people and letting them know that this agreement isn't you know something they should be mistrustful of, it's something that kind of helps you guys do your job and get to problems and service the community quicker.

Yeah.

Yeah, thank you, um, Councilmember Curtis.

That's a great idea.

And I mean, we wouldn't want to send a text message to our customer saying we're waiting on the city of Elo permit to be able to repair the pool.

So that's a good I uh it's a good thought.

I mean, I'm gonna do that.

But no, we wouldn't we any emergency work like that, we kind of make it safe and we do it as soon as we can, but you're right.

If it doesn't pass, then we'd have to it'd be a little bit of a delay.

But we you know, I'm around on part of the channel board, I'm here all the time.

I see at all the events, so whenever I get that opportunity to speak about it, I'll do that much outreach and then we're on we'll do the town halls, we'll do on the county reforms and things like that.

So we'll make sure that the public understands.

And uh Dan Syro wants to come up and provide some clarifying information as well.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh city manager.

One of the things when it comes to emergency situations, the building code and subsequently the uh public right away, which we're gonna be updating soon anyway, those allow for emergency situations to be addressed immediately.

As long as they come back in later and get the permit.

So it APS needs to get into a right way to address the situation.

They're we're not gonna say I'm sleeping at 2 a.m.

Um, I'm not gonna come.

So those emergency situations are addressed in the code already.

So anybody else have uh anything they want to be for?

Just one quick question, Richie.

Um so I know APS covers Eloy proper.

Do they cover Toltec as well?

I know they don't cover Robson Ranch.

Do they also cover um Mission Valley on Toltec Road?

Mission Valley and Toltec Road.

Um San Miguel.

San Miguel area, yes.

They cover that, and then all the businesses along the freeway.

And there's little bits and pieces though that are not carved out of it.

So like the new loves truck stop, I know we serve them for sure, and we serve all that corridors over.

It's it's it's kind of weird in Louis.

Um it's yeah.

We're unique.

And I I mean that like a hometown boy.

Yeah, I mean, it's weird because there's utilities on both sides of the street.

Like our our leadership comes down from Phoenix, and they're always amazed as you see power lines on both sides.

Like, why do we have so many power lines?

Well, we've got to explain it to them.

There's a lot of co-ops.

We're unique, Richie.

And yes.

Unique, yes, yes.

I'm sorry for using weird.

I'm weird.

I I think like everybody kind of has said already, um, it's a challenge to get information out to community members.

Um as long as I think it's sold is that it's not going to increase your bill.

Um, I think that's one of the pluses because especially with the city's increasing rates, the cat, you know, everybody's increasing rates, and God forbid APS increased rates.

I think if it gets out, um, it'll be very helpful.

Um, but I was gonna say one thing else and I lost it completely.

Um I'll think about it later, Richie.

That's that's okay.

Thank you.

Anybody else have anything they'd like to add?

Richie, thank you so much.

You made that very clear.

All right.

Well, your emotion to read by title, adoption of resolution 26-1655.

Mayor, before you do that, I if you do if it indulge me, I know it's late in the evening and everything.

Um this franchise agreement, when you deal with a company like APS, there's not a lot of wiggle room and negotiating room.

We started out with the the most recent ones that were there that were approved by by the city of Prescott.

Uh City in the West, I think I believe towards surprise, had done one, and also another one in Northern Arizona had done those.

And um basically we got provided the most up-to-date one to work off of and everything.

And after looking at it, you know, knowing that you couldn't get a lot, I went and presented it to the city manager.

And the city manager basically, one of his first things on the off his job told me because it's not good enough.

We're having issues with regards to coordinating and working with our utility people and basically trying to do things in there.

And as a result of that, in the comments back there, he basically discussed with representatives APS that he wanted to meet with them once a year to basically talk about what we're planning, also doing a five-year plan that was there, and also more often if we need to talk to them about other issues there.

APS agreed to it, and to my knowledge, they nobody else has that.

And so that's included in your agreement, which is basically a concession from APS that it was not provided to any other community.

But at the time, basically, I was asked to help out out Florence and also and my other clients' superiors doing it, said okay, want the same deal now as Eloy.

And so basically, um they didn't have to do it, but basically, because staff wanted to do it because of all the projects we have there about the planning.

APS agreed to do that, and so that wasn't good lawyering on there.

Basically, it was the city staff insisting that basically we need to have more communication because we have a lot of things going and we need to coordinate and work together with them as a partner to get these projects done.

Thank you, Steve.

Thank you for bringing in after light, and thank you, staff for stepping forward like that.

Because to the public, when they see things put in takeout and put in and taken out, it it just looks like there's nobody at the wheel.

So thank you guys.

Thanks for doing that.

I remembered now.

Have any of these agreements ever not passed?

Are they all on the same election cycle?

Every city at the same time does this.

No, there are various election cycles.

So um last year we had the town of Winkleman, which is the smallest municipality in Arizona, and it passed like 70 percent.

But this year we have I think you mentioned Superior, Florence, Eloy, Coolidge, okay, and uh Miami, the town of Miami.

So they're all going to be either on the primary election or the general election based on when we met the information.

Um, they've never not passed.

Um, but I um I I would like to see, you know, knock on one.

We've usually have 60 to 70 percent approval rating, and so I'd like Geloy to be over 80 percent because I'm in town.

Thank you, Richie.

So what she's saying is vote early and vote often.

Uh we'll take this from the top once again.

So we hear a motion to read by title, adoption of resolution two.

We heard a motion in the second, I believe.

I I had a motion and an interruption, I thought it was not it was an interruption.

It was an interruption, so let's just restart the whole thing.

All right, do I have a motion to read by title adoption of resolution 26-1655?

So moved.

Do we have a second second?

All favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed motion carries, madam clerk?

A resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of Eloy, Arizona, declaring that the city council deems the granting of a certain franchise beneficial for the city of Eloy, ordering an election to be held on November 3rd, 2026 for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of the city of Eloy the questions as to whether or not a franchise shall be granted to Arizona Public Service Company.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Do we have a motion to approve resolution 26-1655 as presented?

So moved.

Second.

All right.

Roll call, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember Vajraska?

Yes.

Council Member Curtis?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

See, Richie, you got a hundred percent on this vote.

To welcome the other one.

Okay, now that we we're not doing executive session, so that brings us to item number 10.

Do I have a motion to adjourn?

So moved.

Do we have a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Thank you, everybody.

Have a safe trip home.