I don't know about that.

I think that's a quite good.

I don't think one of the function happened.

So it's true if you want.

Mayor Sutton when you're ready.

Thank you.

Okay, we'd like to call this meeting to order.

This is the Eloy City Council.

Today is Monday, April 27th, and the time is six PM.

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

Councilmember Valdraska.

Here.

Councilmember Curtis.

Here.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Here.

Councilmember Snyder.

Here.

Councilmember Garcia.

Present.

Councilmember Galindo.

Here, Mayor Sutton.

Here.

I'd like to ask everyone to please rise for a moment of silence and a pledge of allegiance that will be led off by Councilmember Galindo.

Next brings us to item number five, public appearances.

I have one on scheduled.

Miss you.

At the time?

I'll take you right before we do your item then.

Okay.

Not a problem.

Okay, that brings us now to item number six.

Mayor's announcements and proclamation.

Before we read this proclamation, I would like to take take a moment to recognize the team that had poured their hearts and soul into making this day possible.

What we're celebrating today didn't happen overnight.

It took vision, persistence, and a real commitment to this community.

They and their team stepped up and made it happen, and that re that deserves our respect.

Thank you.

Mental health is something that touches every family, every neighborhood, and every one of us in one way or another.

For too long, it's been something people have struggled with quietly.

Today we're saying that is not how it should be.

Access to care, support, and understanding matters, and it matters right here in Eloy.

Thanks to efforts like this, we are moving in the right direction.

So I'm going to present this proclamation.

Whereas mental health is essential to the overall well-being of individuals, families, and our community.

And whereas we proudly recognize the opening of Luke's House for Behavioral Health in Eloy with ribbon cutting on May 1st, marking an important step forward in sub expanding local behavioral health services and support and support in our community.

Now therefore, I, Andrew Sutton, Mayor, do hereby proclaim the month of May as the mental health awareness month in Eloy, Arizona, and encourage all citizens to take time to support mental health to check in on one another and help build a stronger, healthier community.

And witness whereof signed by Mayor Andrew Sutton.

Congratulations.

I specifically asked for the family to come up because things like this don't happen in a vacuum.

This affects the whole family and everybody around you, and we thank you.

And tomorrow on 106.1 FM at one o'clock, we'll hear more about this, won't we?

So now that brings us to Mayor's announcements.

On Tuesday, April 15th, on Tuesday, the 15th, I met with APS Representative Rosales.

We had a great conversation about the future of Eloy and partnering together that benefits our entire community.

It's encouraging to work with a utility that is truly committed to the customers they serve.

And you'll hear more about that in the next week or two.

On Tuesday, the 16th, I had the opportunity to speak at the Arizona Chamber luncheon.

It's good to spend time with our neighbors in Arizona City.

One of the main questions I received was about when the construction will begin on Sun Land Jin Road.

I assure them that it is imminent, and it may be a little bit more inconvenient than they were planning on during the construction period.

But when it's complete, it'll be about $8 million better than it is today.

On the 18th, several council members along with city staffs, residents, and local businesses participated in the Adopt Our Street program.

The weather was great, and I'll let the city manager share the totals collected on that day.

One thing that stood out, and not in a good way again with a number of those small little liquor bottles over by Circle K.

And they start probably about a thousand feet from Circle K in both directions.

So it looks like people are buying little liquors in Circle K and whipping them out the window as they drive.

So be aware.

Later that evening, we had music in the park featuring Soul Town Train.

It was a fantastic night.

People were dancing, and the community really came together.

A big thank you to Paul and his team for making events like this happen.

I actually came upon came across a post from someone in Coolidge on the Coolidge chat page who attended, and they were talking about how great the event was and how special the atmosphere felt.

That says a lot about our community, and I'm going to read their post because I'm kind of proud of it actually.

And this woman is actually running for Coolidge City Council, and she put this post on the Coolidge page.

My family and I attended a concert in concert in the park event last night in Eloy.

The band and atmosphere were excellent.

The city hosted the band Soul Town Train and the Main Street Park, which also feat featured a few bounce houses, several food trucks.

The music was enjoyable, and the event was well attended, with many people dancing, even forming a dance line during the performance of Love Train by the OJs, was in that line.

Overall, it was an outstanding community experience, and I'm glad I attended.

During my visit, I observed the park was very clean, the grass was lush and green, and there was no graffiti on the light poles or gazebo.

The sidewalks and walkways were in good condition, and there was no litter on the ground.

The bathrooms were also clean, and I saw staff actively picking up trash that had been blown in the park by the wind.

Residents appeared considerate as they did not leave trash on the tables, contributing to a comfortable atmosphere throughout the event.

I couldn't be more proud that our city actually goes out and parties this way.

And this is a testament to all of us.

And I actually got in touch with her.

I thanked her for putting up such a nice post.

So with that, let's take council members on my left.

It was really nice to see such a great group put together.

Uh come together to be able to keep our our city clean.

And yes, there was quite a few of those little plastic bottles.

Also around the area where that drive-through liquor store is as well.

One of the things I did notice because I was on the business side of Frontier, is that our business owners are very respectful and they do a good job of keeping their business area clean.

So there's hardly any trash or anything.

And then I attended the concert in the park.

That was a lot of fun.

I'm glad I went.

But on Tuesday, I was able to go and visit the seniors at the senior center and have lunch with them.

And we also, the Eloy Lions Club and their vision program got some great press uh this week about their efforts to make sure that everybody has the availability to good vision.

Um and we got some great feedback about the the vision program that the Eloy Lions Club provides.

A few of the seniors there had already redeemed their vouchers and had gone to America's Best and had gotten their glasses, and they said the whole experience was wonderful for them.

So congratulations to the Eloy Lions Club.

They did a phenomenal job.

They worked together as the mayor says, we're small but mighty.

Um but we're growing, and that that's the good thing about it.

Um and then I would on Friday night.

I uh attended the CDLU meeting where uh the date of the next fiestas was uh announced, and it's going to be September 11th and 12th.

I encourage everybody to come out, enjoy it.

It's it's a great event.

So that's about it.

Thank you, Mayor.

To add on to Mr.

Lindell's report, if you've noticed in the paper this week and even online, we inducted three new lions.

Or new lions.

I can I can't count on special ed.

Um we had a great time, and we encourage you if you're interested in helping.

A good organization to help with is the Lions Club.

We help with vision for the students, our seniors are homebound, and others that are in need, even some of our underinsured.

So consider joining the Lions.

We need more more men more members.

The Lions Club did participate in the Adopt the Street Cleanup.

We did Shed Road.

There is no Circle K there, there is no liquor store there.

But mayor, I bet you I picked up just as many small liquor bottles as you did.

And I'll raise you two.

Picked up several pregnancy kits.

And the pills that go to along with those.

So they're quite active over in Toltec.

I really hated seeing them.

Later that evening, I attended the Santa Cruz Valley Food Pantries award ceremony and dinner at Robeson Ranch.

Wonderful time, great people there.

And I don't know what they made yet.

Hopefully, I'll find out Thursday.

And then I made a quick rush down here to catch the end of the concert in the park that I cut the Tina Turner portion.

And honestly, I just think that was probably the best part to catch.

It was just an excellent evening, and I don't think I could have gotten any better.

Thank you, Paul.

Last Thursday on the 23rd, uh City Manager and myself uh attended an opportunity zone update at uh CAC Community College.

Uh Opportunity Zones for those who don't know is a government program to provide investment in rural areas to the whole idea is for investors to invest in communities with their underprivileged or maybe the uh a way to kick start uh investment, but the real tax break on capital gains by doing so.

And so there was a program several years ago that we think was successful, but they really didn't track it very well.

But there's a new program coming up.

Uh the interesting thing is the number of opportunity zones is been identified in the states being reduced by I think it was a a third, 25.

But uh each city then of a population over 10,000 has been identified with opportunity zones.

Eloy has four.

But the way the guidelines are now, we get to pick one of the four to promote as an opportunity zone.

Casa Garand, I think had four, and they get to pick one.

So each city around the state has uh these opportunity zones that are qualified by the uh medium income, the uh surrounding population, and what could be done to improve that particular area.

But it's very interesting the guidelines and how you can qualify.

So the the big thing is the population, and I think the number of residents or yeah, number of residents of population, you know, so what the median income is.

So I think uh manager and myself sitting there, we've recognized that to pick one in Eloy, it's uh to get the type of list, you probably have to focus on those areas.

But it was very interesting.

Uh developers were there.

Uh one of our uh developers in this area, the Peterson uh company were there, set with us, set with us, matter of fact, and kept mentioning Eloy and uh investment going on in ELA, so it's kind of an interesting meeting.

But you're going around the state doing this, and stay tuned because uh I think the idea is there's money there, there's investors, but uh they're looking for ways to to get a uh shovel ready site.

I guess that's the other side.

They have a site to shovel ready, shovel ready means do you have water and sewer uh available for the quickly and qualify and get in these qualifications and maybe uh get some uh investment to go in some areas aren't our opportunity zones particular are essentially along the railroad tracks, uh the in the industrial park areas, and then also to the east of uh Eloy.

So those have been the areas we've identified.

So uh hopefully we can get something out of that.

Thank you.

I too picked up a lot of small liquor bottles, and I was in a I was over by Sunshine, so I don't know if it's just the Circle K thing.

It seems to be uh frontier-wide problem.

Um I also, along with uh Jose attended the um the Santa Cruz food pantry uh dinner, which was nice.

It was really nice to hear the stories of people, you know, going out in the community and doing really good volunteer work, helping people in the community with their basic needs, such as food, housing, uh utilities, stuff like that.

Um it was it was a great night.

Um, and a lot of the volunteers spoke, and that that was probably my favorite part.

Okay, thank you, council.

All right, that brings us to item number C City Manager's announcements.

Sorry for cutting you off early there, Mayor.

Was not on purpose.

Um, but yeah, so a few items on my docket today.

So to start off, the adopter street was super successful.

Um, we had over 37 city streets that were cleaned.

We had a total of 346 people that participated.

Uh from the city side, we had almost 14 participants.

So I think that's like one of the largest groups that we've had that's cleaned frontier, basically, from Sunshine all the way to the Circle K.

So it was a great turnout from the city side as well.

And a total of two tons of trash was removed, so a significant amount of trash.

But talking to Dan, he actually said that's relatively low.

So I mean, good news and bad news is we had less trash that we had to pick up, but also we're not littering as much.

So definitely a positive upside to that.

Uh, the second update I have is the community crime map is now operational.

So this is something that has been uh requested by a lot of the community members as well as council members.

And so this was released last week on April 23rd.

It provides real-time insight into local crime activity, reinforcing the commitment of transparency, not only from the city side, but from the PD side as well.

And a really cool feature of it too is community members can actually sign up for customized neighborhood alerts uh on the website system, receiving regular updates on the activity that is specified where you live.

So that's a super cool feature.

If you want to kind of explore that, make sure to go to our website.

Uh, you go to the police department main page, and it'll be one of the primary buttons that you can access and locate.

It's located as a community crime map.

You click on that, you can register for notifications, and it's an awesome feature.

Uh, next up we have the youth basketball league.

So that's for ages six to eleven.

There's gonna be two divisions.

It's $25 per player and $35 for non-residents.

So registration is gonna be open until May 8th, and you can register online through the community services portal on the registration section.

So make sure to get over there and get there because May 8th is gonna come up quicker than you think.

And then the last update I have is the youth football camp.

So this is the Santa Cruz Football Summer Kickoff camp.

They do this every year, it's always super successful.

It's free, completely free to the public, and it's an extra basically an instructional camp for anybody who wants to be a future Santa Cruz dust devil or anybody that just wants to get coached up on football.

So it's gonna be from 8 to 10 a.m.

at Santa Cruz High School, and it's gonna be for current fourth and eighth graders.

There's gonna be prizes, awards for best of camp, things like that.

And there's no registration that's required for that event.

So something that's really cool if you got some kiddos that want to go and learn from some of our high school football kids.

So that's a great opportunity.

And then I actually lied.

The last is going to be the chamber event.

So this is an event that we're hosting, but it's the Cinco de Mayo event.

That's going to be taking place on May 1st, which is this Friday.

It's going to have live music, foods, kids' own car show.

It starts at 3 p.m.

And it'll also have some local vendors, food trucks, all that kind of great stuff there.

There's going to be uh folklore code dancers.

There's gonna be a mariachi band.

Um, so definitely go out and check out the event on Friday.

But that is all I have, Mayor.

Thank you.

Thank you, May.

So the football camp is Saturday, May 2nd.

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

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

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

Are there any council members wishing to remove any items for discussion?

Mayor, I'd like to remove item D as in Doug.

D.

Okay.

Mr.

Mayor, I'd like to remove item B.

Anybody else?

Okay, I'm looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda, excluding items Bravo and David, B and D.

Do I have a motion?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Vadraska.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Okay, let's uh take a look at item B, Dan.

Okay.

Yeah, and uh Mr.

Jerome, you may want to come on, may have some questions for you.

I think you're probably I have more questions.

Uh I read through some of the uh I guess the handouts, but maybe I've missed some things, and that's where the questions come from.

First question I have is the current laptops, those are vehicle specific, and so I gather they stay with the vehicle wherever the vehicle's at.

So as you just have a change and shift or something, the uh new officer is gets in the vehicle and there.

The new new laptops in will be portable, so they go with the person.

Is that the way I understand that?

Uh councilmember Snyder, members of the council.

Thank you for that question.

So essentially, uh, Councilmember Snyder, they're the same kinds of computers.

We're just right now we only have enough to allocate them to a specific vehicle.

And so by purchasing the additional ones, we'll be able to allocate them to the individual officer.

So are they mobile?

So in other words, you have is this something an officer could take home?

Yes.

And now the software on these, I gather the software is not there's no window software.

This there's the communication, there's no internet capabilities on this, it's all broadband, etc.

Is that correct?

So it's run through uh Councilmember Snyder, members of council.

The computers are connected through um 5G uh cellular connectivity, and then we use a net motion port uh for siege's compliance.

So there's no like windows programs or if officers take them home or they can't uh search internet, things like that on them when they're at home.

Uh council member Snyder, members of council.

So many of our applications are web-based, so the computers do have full uh web capabilities.

And it's that controlled anyway by is it monitored anyway?

Or I mean uh it's just uh what happens if they get stolen, or I'm thinking is big mobile people can take them home.

Things happen to them.

And that is where you just uh the use of the if somebody says, Well, I'm gonna buy a program and put their own special program on it.

Is that possible?

Uh Councilmember Snyder, members of council.

So we use a um IBM MDM service.

So the IT department has full control over all of the computers.

If one was lost, we can remotely wipe it and disable it.

Um theoretically, uh, I mean, a member of the department could make uh I mean you know, an unauthorized purchase, but if we were aware of it, we would certainly take disciplinary action.

Probably a way to do that is to make it so they can't become an administrator.

Yeah, administrators have functions to make changes, but if they're not an administrator of the program, they really can't add things.

So all they could do is use what's already been on there by the IT department.

So that's one thing you may want to look into.

We'll try to get a feel for just what's different from what you have now versus what you're going into.

That's where I was at.

Well, no, understood, council member uh Snyder and members of council.

So just to be clear, maybe I didn't communicate it well the first time, but um, these are the exact same computers, Panasonic Tough Books that are currently in the cars.

Um theoretically, nothing would stop an officer other than the next officer taking the car right now, would be looking for the computer if it went home with them.

They're all the same computers, they're all controlled by the same uh MDM management system.

We have policies in place for proper use of the equipment, um, and we do have the ability to monitor what's being done on the computer.

I did misunderstand because I I looked at this replacement for what you have now rather than an additional that's where I'm gonna do that.

We're just supplementing.

Yeah, I'm sorry, I probably didn't explain that well.

Uh that's all I have.

Do I have a motion to approve item B consent agenda?

I'll make a motion to approve item B, please.

Do I have a second?

Second, Madam Clerk Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember Vodraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Okay, that'll bring us over to item D.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Mr.

Garcia.

I'll give Mr.

Tonda a chance to get up here.

Much appreciated, Councilmember Garcia.

Mr.

O'Condo, I just have a quick question on that mural.

I know that went up, I think, sometime in the 90th, but are we are we required to keep it make put it back up?

I mean, what were we entitled to do with that?

Or can it just be removed and look at adding something later date?

Uh Mayor, Councilmember Garcia, to my knowledge, it can be removed and we can add something at a later date.

Our plan is to actually take a picture of the mural so we can do something that's somewhat duplicate that in the future.

Possibly on the opposite side of the building where it has more visibility and won't be covered by the parked cars when the building's rented.

Thank you.

That's the only thing I was curious about.

You're welcome.

Okay, with that being said, do I have a motion to approve item D from the consent agenda?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo?

Yes.

Councilmember Vodraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Thank you.

Sorry about that.

Okay, we're gonna go a little out of order here.

We're gonna go uh item B first on business.

And item B is adopt resolution 26-1656 authorizing the Mayor and Council for the sale and execution and delivery of water wastewater systems revenue obligations, series 2026.

The water and wastewater system revenue funding obligations series 2026 and authorizing the completion, execution, and delivery with respect thereunto the agreements necessary or appropriate as financing and refinancing a portion of the water wastewater system of the city, delegating the mayor of the city, the city manager and the finance director of the city certain authority with respect to purposes here of and authorizing to take full actions necessary for the consummation and transactions contemplated by this resolution.

Mr.

Mayor, members of the council.

Do you want to read that again?

Um before you deny that the resolution is uh uh resolution 26 uh 1656.

We've talked about this, you know, during our budget retreat and everything.

Now we're coming before council with the resolution, so uh we can move forward with the 2026 utility uh water, wastewater obligation bond.

Um part of this, it's a resolution uh not to exceed uh 22 million, and and part of that is also uh refunding um refinancing our 22 or three water uh USDA loans to bring those in parity with our bond documents and WiFa documents.

And so uh tonight uh with me is uh Zach Sakis, he's the bond attorney with Greenberg Traw Ridge and Nick Dodd, the financial advisor with Raymond James.

So then getting a little more technical if there's any questions with this.

So then getting a little more technical if there's any questions with this, but to give you a little background on this, is uh the city is going to be doing several projects with the bond obligations.

Uh some of these projects in the water is extending in uh the water and and increasing the water line size going south on Sunland Gin.

We're also gonna be connecting and doing a water line loop on North on the north side of Sunland Gin to do a better connectivity of our water system.

We'll also be purchasing equipment, and we will be having into this bond the ability to acquire a new portable groundwater well to integrate into our system.

Um on the wastewater side, it's a it's also another big one.

It's we will continue our last phase of the sewer line improvement.

That currently we're pretty much done with the what the new gravity line coming from the water the treatment plant and down 11 mile.

This will continue that all the way down rest 11 mile down Vitagular all the way to Sunshine.

So now that's a big opening of our uh with our water system, the connectivity on that.

It will also be doing some upgrades to our SCADA system, rehabilitation of the South Aryan Basin, uh purchasing a new sewer back truck that's over 15 years old, and then start and installing the last portion of the odor control system on the belt press that is currently being done out there.

So these improvements um in the past, the city has always went through WiFa.

And the reason we didn't go through WIFA on this is because a lot of these improvements are not system related, it's kind of a growth related.

The suit the the what this the two sewer or the sewer project, the two water line project.

So it best suited us to look at this utility obligation bond with that.

This bond will be a 25-year bond with about a four four and a half percent uh interest rate.

Uh the annual debt payment would be about about four and a half million um on that between the two.

Um we have been rated by uh SP, which is the rating agency of having an A plus rating on this, which is good.

Um that is the current uh rating of our current obligations for this building and the um police department.

So the one thing that uh this by doing this is uh in Zach could speak on this as well as one more resolution will be coming fourth council probably the next council meeting in May.

It's just bringing our WIFA loans in parity, the loan docs with the US with this obligation.

So everything is equal when it comes looking at our loan documentations.

Um Zach could probably speak on that a little bit, but overall excited about this, excited about the opportunity this bond will bring, not only for residential side of it with some of the operational, but for a growth perspective.

Um we do have the ability to pay these through our utility rates that uh we've already set forth the five-year rate plan, and those are in place.

The bond the current budget as we move forward in the 2627 has money set aside for those uh future debt payments already in the the rate the budgets.

So at this time, I mean also just to close on that is this would be the largest bond or loan that we the city has ever taken out.

So it does show the commitment that where we are going to with our utility system and our vision from the mayor and council uh for our utilities and for the growth of the system.

So if at this time, if you would like Zach or Nick to come up to say anything, they they'd be more than happy.

They drove here, they they'd like to get up and say something, but if not anything that's uh any questions.

I first will check any questions from council.

It's my understanding from what I read that the um actual percentage rate won't be set until documents are correct.

Oh complete, correct?

Is that right?

And the in the that will be in June, probably on the sale of it, I believe.

Okay.

And with the financing closing of the all that, uh, the first probably the middle of July.

And from what I read, the total cost, you know, with the payments, interest payments in principle, it's gonna be about 36 million over the 25 years.

Is that right?

Yeah, about 20 million in principle and then 15.5 in interest.

And I think I also looked a coupon rate, is that also fluctuate?

I saw a five percent.

So maybe that's something the gentleman.

Uh Mr.

Mayor, members of the council, and Nick Dad with Raymond James.

Um, the the interest rates on each of the maturities are set at the time we price, and so the coupon rate could fluctuate depending on what the market dictates at the time.

We have assumed a five percent interest rate in the numbers we shared with Brian.

If they were sold at that rate, investors would actually pay a premium because the yield on the bonds is actually lower than that.

And and that gets factored into the overall interest cost, and so the yield of about a 450 would be slightly below that coupon rate.

Thank you.

I just have thank you, Mayor.

I just have so taking this out.

I see there's I don't want to say it's limited to the 11 mile corner projects and the gen road projects.

Does the taking out this size of a loan, does this limit our futurability?

Because we know that the city is growing, and we're going to be looking in the future at expanding some of these lines as well, not just the ones we're talking about here.

Does this hurt us or limit us to future growth and future loans or whether it be this type of or WIFA or that kind of thing?

Mr.

Mayor, members of the council, um the the legal documents is currently written, allow the city to issue additional debt in the future.

You just have to maintain certain financial covenants.

And we've done projections, we worked with Brian extensively to make sure you had some of that flexibility.

And um, and so you'll absolutely be able to um issue additional debt in the future if there's a need on the capital side under these existing documents.

And if I could just back up a second, Brian hit on it, but I don't think he gave himself enough credit or Zach.

Um the city has had a series of older debt obligations, uh, some of them from rural development at the federal government, some with the Arizona Water Infrastructure Finance Authority, and they all had different pledges.

Some were water, some were wastewater.

I think the rural development was who knows what it was, you know, it's the federal government.

And so uh almost a year ago, we started talking with Brian about what could we do?

And at the end of this process, you're gonna have a combined water and wastewater pledge from both enterprise systems, and all of the debt of the city related to your water and wastewater enterprise is gonna have one single pledge and security.

And before there was three or four, and it was convoluted, and you had all this, and so the two refinancings are cleaning that up.

We've worked extensively with WIFA to uh get to this point, they've been a great partner to the city.

And so I think at the end of this, you're you're actually gonna have put the city in the best possible position for future growth to address those concerns.

Oh, one more question.

The um SP rating uh A plus stable.

How's that rate towards other cities are at our size?

Excuse me, our size.

Uh Mr.

Mayor, members of the council, um for cities your size, an A plus rating is is very good for a water and wastewater uh credit.

Um obviously, and the the SP analyst and the report kind of spoke to this.

This is the first time they've ever evaluated you your credit for water and wastewater.

They've evaluated the city with regards to the sales tax credit, which paid for this building and the police uh over the last call it eight, nine years.

So they've reviewed the city more generally, but never specific to the water wastewater.

Um and they indicated they thought the fund balances were strong.

Um they really liked the work of the council for the forward looking rate study and implementation that you've done.

Um one of their comments was just with some time and maturity, they think you could see a rating upgrade into the A category.

And larger cities would typically be like in the A minus or double A category.

So we think there is room to grow as the credit kind of proves itself over time.

All right.

Thank you for expounding that.

I have a question.

With uh going the bond route rather than WHIPA, does this then open up the possibility in the future of uh potential use of WIPA again for something else?

Yeah, Mr.

Mayor, uh Councilman Snyder.

Yeah, we actually when we did the rates study with our rate model that we have the five-year rate plan.

We still have the ability to another, you could say anywhere from seven to twelve million dollars in capacity as we move forward.

And that's when we're gonna go to WIFA, because on those, we have several needs still in our water wastewater for current infrastructure that WIF would fund.

WIFA won't look at the growth of hey, we need to expand it three miles for no homes.

They won't do that.

So this is the route we we had to look at, and we coupled it with some of the the factors of what we need now.

I mean, this irrigation.

Well, we really wouldn't look at it.

Yeah, they may look at uh the sewer back truck, but we need to do it now because it's uh the age of it versus waiting another couple years.

So we coupled the things that were immediate versus what we can go through WIF on, and yeah, I mean, we still have the WIFO that we're going to go to.

That will be coming up.

Um, once we get pretty much, I'd say 80 percent of this pro these projects complete, because we just don't want to innate the staff over there.

Oh, here's another 10 million dollars in projects.

No, let's complete the ones we have, get them complete, then go to the next funding package.

So we still have the ability based upon our current rate plan that council adopted.

Anybody else on council have anything?

Well, thank you guys.

And lastly, Ms.

Mary, I'll just say like I mentioned we will bring a resolution back probably that May, the first meeting in May, that will uh talk about the the the WIFA that that we talked about bringing in the parody on it with those our current loans.

So thank you guys.

Do I hear a motion to read by title adoption of resolution 26-1656?

So moved.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed say nay?

Motion carries.

Madam Clerk.

Resolution number 26, 1656, resolution of the council of the city of Eloy, Panaw County, Arizona, providing for the sale and execution and delivery of water and wastewater system revenue obligations.

Series 2026 and water and wastewater system revenue refunding obligations series 2026 and authorizing, excuse me, authorizing the completion, execution, and delivery with respect there too of agreements necessary or appropriate as part of financing and refinancing a portion of the water and wastewater system of the city, delegating to the mayor of the city, the city manager, and the finance director of the city certain author authority with respect to the purposes hereof and authorizing the taking of all other actions necessary to the consumption of the transactions contemplated by this resolution.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Do I have a motion to approve resolution 26-1656 as presented?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Valdraska.

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

I wanted to thank those guys, but they already left.

Wow.

Okay, this brings us now to item A discussion and consideration of accepting a proposal submitted by Ellison Mills based on a cooperative purchasing contract with Pennell County for an amount not to exceed $200,000 for the construction of phase two of the Hauser Road Waterline Extension Project and authorizing the mayor to sign the necessary contract documents.

This project was presented, approved as part of the fiscal year 2025-2026 capital improvement project.

And before we get started here, would you like to come up now, Ms.

Shu.

State your name in the city where you live, please.

Marl Shu.

Eloy.

Ms.

What you can't hear me?

It's not that we can hear you if the speakers can't hear you.

They could hear me last time when you told me I was speaking too softly.

Anyway, um Mr.

Mayor and Council members, I just have a little footnote.

And I have no doubt McKenzie has it covered in his presentation.

I just wanted to put my name on the list just in case it kind of slid by.

So I would really appreciate it if if McKenzie could, you know, do his thing.

And if he misses that little bit, which he probably won't, then I can pop up.

That's okay.

Is that okay?

You know, given this has been 20 years in the making, yeah, I think 25 years.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay, Maybe I guess we'll see how I do in the PowerPoint and what needs to be corrected.

So yeah, to kick this off, Mayor, uh, obviously, if there's a PowerPoint, you know it's a pretty serious deal.

I don't do PowerPoints a whole lot.

Most of the time I just talk directly off the coac.

So uh this is going to be for Houser Road Waterline Phase 2.

And what we're gonna do to start off is we're gonna kick it off with a little bit of the project history.

And so I know it's not good PowerPoint etiquette to go bullet point by bullet point, but on you know, unfortunately, this has a lot of context, and so we are gonna have to hit on each bullet point um and discuss them a little bit.

So, first off, this project has been going on, you know, outside of 2021.

From my understanding, this has been going on for over two decades.

But 2021 kind of states the first real stamp of when the city started taking significant action and progress towards getting this completion of this project for the affected homeowners along Houser and along the Charleston um waterline.

So back in 2021, we contracted with Sunrise Engineering to design an eight-inch public water main on Houser.

Uh that design was eventually expanded to include the Charleston Road after the initial scope.

Um, as you know, previously, I believe in October of 2025, we finally completed that project along the houser alignment where we um provided water service and connection lines to five of the seven impacted property owners that are along that alignment.

So following this, Ellison Mills was construction estimates in 2022, and these exceeded budget, triggering scope review.

And so kind of during this timeline, we all know too, it was during COVID.

So during COVID, significant cost increases for a lot of infrastructure-related projects.

Uh as you'll see further down on, it's almost doubled in cost.

So based on that original assessment, the CIP was originally for 315,000.

Uh progress slowed throughout 2022, 2024 due to budget limitations, alignment disagreements between city staff and residents in the area, as well as right-of-way signature challenges.

One of the major issues with this project was making sure that we had the necessary right-of-way approvals so that we could have utility access for the service of the lines within these properties.

Uh the difference between right-a-way and utility easements right away is basically the city owns the right-of-way and has the ability to maintain, install, and issue lines within that right-of-way.

Utility easements are along private property, and we actually have to get access, but it's a legal right to have utility service, but you need to have access from the property owner.

So as we move on down the list, the project delayed budget reviews were resolved, issues were resolved, and then we reprioritized the project and included it into the CIP for the following years.

Uh once we reinstated it in early 2025, we adjusted that estimate from that 315,000 amount to 750,000.

The primary reason for this was because we basically split the project into two phases.

Phase one was with just the houser alignment, which was approximately about 400,000 to complete.

Um the second phase was obviously the Charleston alignment, which we are going to talk about further tonight.

So Ellison Mills initiated and completed phase one in October 2025, providing upgraded service for the five residents as I stated previously.

There's the total cost was about 420,000 roughly.

Uh phase two options were then tabled at the November 24th council meeting.

If you all remember, this was during the time when our previous city manager David Mallins was transferring out of the organization, and this was one of the final things that we were looking to get, you know, push forward before he left.

But then we ended up deciding, hey, let's kind of take a pause, let's look at the project again, you know, have discussions with the Marlowe's Marlowe Shoe and Bob Shoe to make sure that we're all in alignment moving forward.

Based on that original proposal, there were three options that were identified.

There was option one, which we'll go into, which was the loop system that had a total budget of about 366,280, which, if you do the math between the 419 and that, it would have been over budget.

You look at the option two, which was the hybrid system, which kind of combines option one and option three.

So it combines a loop system while still retaining the Charleston alignment for the shoes.

Again, that's one that's significantly over budget when you calculate that.

It's about 200,000 over the budget that we allocated for this, and pretty much was thrown out immediately.

The option three is the alignment that we will be proposing tonight, and that's the Charleston expansion.

Uh, that was the original estimate was this 327,358, which you'll see based on some of the items that we cut out.

We brought in-house, we were significantly able to reduce that cost, uh, almost cutting it in half to the alignment that we're proposing tonight.

Any questions on just the background of this before we move on?

Clear as mud, I hope.

Perfect.

Did you have a question, Joanne?

No.

Okay.

Okay, cool.

So, first, this is the, and I have obviously Jeremy's here who is the project engineer for the project.

He worked with David, he worked with Matt when they were still with the city, so he has some more uh context from a technical perspective if there's any questions that are related to these.

But so this was the originally looped system concept or option one.

As you can see, what we end up doing is we abandon the three-inch line that you see that's actually on private property.

And so instead of using private property, we use a utility easement that goes kind of north to south up to the Charleston line, connects to the Indian trail sign, and then that's a new six-inch service line that would be supporting the shoes as well as Yoder, and then you can see that we install a 600 about 600-foot uh service line on their property, which would be their responsibility to maintain.

Uh, that's significant, that's double what they have currently, um, which you'll see on the option three.

Uh, their current service line is about 300 feet.

Um, part of this project too incorporated, obviously, the installation of a fire hydrant, um, provided service to the property that is south of the shoes property as well, which they haven't developed yet, but if they wanted access, they would be directly able to tie into that line.

Uh, the total cost for this, as you can see, is 366,280, but a big part of this is also that wasn't incorporated, is there would have had to be been a maintenance road that would have had to be installed along Charleston that what wasn't wasn't identified in this option one, and then there's also a design and engineering cost.

So, this project would have had a timeline that would have been expanded beyond probably this fiscal year because design is not ready on this project, it's not ready to go in comparison to option three, which we pretty much already have the designs and everything ready.

So, it's a construction ready project.

Option two, this is the hybrid system, and so as you can see, it kind of retains that north-south alignment going towards the shoes property, but then also includes the Charleston full-scale third uh 1,300 foot line to service their property.

Again, though, the biggest thing with this is just the cost is substantial.

Uh, you're getting the best of both worlds, but for triple a cost.

So it's incredibly expensive, incredibly inefficient.

Um, and as you can see here, this included the 20-foot all-weather maintenance road, which wasn't included in the previous option, but would have been another cost that would have been associated with option one.

And so now this is the recommended Charleston expansion option three.

Um, as you can see, this cost is significantly less than that $320,000 estimate that was in that original proposal.

A major factor of that is that we are actually going to bring in-house the construction of that maintenance road that Cookie and the Streets team is going to be working to do in-house, saves us a significant amount of money, about $80,000.

Um, so we're very grateful for that.

We have the equipment in house to be able to do that.

And based on talking to Jeremy and Cookie, uh, they believe they should be able to do that with a three-man crew for about $5,000 to $10,000.

So uh significant cost savings there.

Um, as you can see here, this is going to be using the Charleston alignment.

We will be connecting to the six-inch line that's coming off of Indian Trail Road with a new six-inch uh line along Charleston that's going to be in the city's right-of-way.

We're not going to be using utility easements, we're not going to be needing uh private access because it's not on private property.

We will be connecting to where their current line goes towards the western side of the property.

We'll be installing a flushing pipe as long as as well as a one-inch service line and a 300-foot service line, which is similar to the alignment that they currently have.

Um, obviously, this is the most impactful to the resident.

They've been dealing with this for 20 years.

And then Yoder will be connecting off that Charleston line as well.

So they are the last two residents that are currently have properties and are living out there that will be benefiting off this alignment.

The biggest thing too with all of the three-inch lines, as you see with the blue and the X's, all of those lines will be abandoned in place.

So Ellison Mills will be basically cutting and capping those lines and abandoning them in place when they do the construction for this project.

Any questions on any of the three options before we move on?

Okay.

Yes, sir.

I have a question, just uh fire hydrants.

Uh I assume there's fire hydrants here, so but not Mark, can you identify um think of the yodors and shoes?

Is there uh fire hydrants accessible any place or comments on that?

I mean, I would defer that to is there a fire hydrant on houser, Jeremy?

Do you know?

Yeah, so there's a fire higher on uh houser.

The biggest thing with this is especially with this alignment.

We did consult with the uh Eloy Fire District.

And because where this line is located along the Charleston alignment, if you've been out there, there's like a ditch.

And so for us to put a fire hydrant on that side of the road where they'd have to drag it a uh fire hose across the ditch to access the property, is just doesn't make any sense.

Their preferred alignment would have been what was dedicated in option one where they would have just gone down that utility easement directly to their property.

So that is one of the negative sides of this option is it would have included a fire hydrant for improved fire access, but it's no different than what they would have done the last 20 to 30 years.

They would have brought a fire truck out there with water to service the residents out there, and there's a tie-in-off houser if they need as well.

So if there is in the yoder property or the uh shoe property, the uh it essentially be trucks rather than water lines to fight anything.

Okay.

Yep, yep.

That is one of the big the biggest negatives with this option.

So then now going into just kind of what was the overall purpose of this project, you know, why did it take us so long to get to this, and you know, why are we deciding to go with option three or the Charleston alignment at this point?

So it's obviously we're moving from a three-inch line to a six-inch line, so it's gonna be better for water quality.

Uh, we've already consulted with the Wilson engineers.

They've done assessments based on the information that Bob provided, as well as information that we collected in-house that the water flow on that line is going to be adequate.

It's not gonna need significant flushing requirements, as we'll express later on in this presentation.

Uh, it's also ending the reliance on private property, resolving a major concern that the shoes and Yoder family have brought up uh in numerous conversations of having public utilities uh in private property.

Um, and then design and engineering is already completed.

So we once we approve this tonight, we can pretty much move forward extremely quickly.

Ideally, we'd like to have this project completed before next fiscal year.

So we would have it completed before July 1.

Um, we don't think it would take them a significant amount of time to get this done.

Obviously, we'll have to consult with them and see based on project timelines, but we're pretty confident that they'll be able to do that.

And then again, obviously the system's moved into the city right away, so it makes it easier for us to maintain.

We're gonna have a maintenance road so our staff can access it.

They don't have to get privilege from the property owners or anything like that.

We'll be able to access it ourselves.

And then another big part of it is obviously it's the significant savings.

So it's as you can see here, the total project savings versus the loop system in this system is about 166,000 to 200,000.

And obviously, that depends if we utilize the contingencies.

There's about 29,000 that's in there for construction contingency in case we need it, which is a little bit excessive.

And then we also do have a line item for 20,000 uh for tree replacement in case we do end up killing some of the trees when we put in that service line.

Um, based based on talking to the shoes, we don't believe that's likely gonna be the case, but we just want to make sure that we have that ability if that does happen.

Uh, the contract limit is not to exceed 200,000.

Don't expect to get anywhere close to that.

If we don't use the contingencies, it's only about 147,000.

So it's a significant cost savings.

Um, and then obviously the annual maintenance.

This was one of the big reasons we originally didn't want to go with this.

Uh, based on original assessments, I believe uh we had estimates originally that anticipated with flushing requirements could be anywhere from 150,000 gallons from anywhere up to 500,000 gallons, depending on the required flushing.

After we consulted with Wilson engineers and had them basically confirm that one, when we're flushing, we wouldn't be flushing anywhere.

We'd only be flushing between 1600 to 1800 gallons per time we flush.

We'd probably on an aggressive cadence, we wouldn't be flushing them more than um per month.

So even in a worst case scenario, you're looking at 25,000 gallons or something a year compared to the 150,000 gallons that we originally estimated.

So significantly less than what we thought.

And when you look at that cost and you do the math based on our water prices as well as labor, it's less than 2,000 to $3,000 a year.

Do the math on that pretty much to equate to the difference between option one and option three.

You it takes you 55 to 83 years to make up that difference.

So it's the maintenance cost of it is extremely minimal.

And then again, we just go into this to kind of hammer it home, really is the ROI comparison, and in this case, it's I think one of those projects that while loop systems from an engineering perspective, you know, they are superior, they're better for water flow, they're better for water quality, etc.

But at the end of the day, it's when you look at rural developments, clusters of five to ten homes, dead end lines aren't uncommon.

They happen all over the state.

We have dead end lines in the system in the city, and we're not excessively flushing them all the time.

So property impact already talked about that construction, low complexity versus high complexity and design requirements, the total cost differences, they speak for themselves.

Same with the fiscal impact, and then the service level with being acceptable and then marginally higher if you have the loop system, which still has a dead end line on houser.

So at the end of the day, with the engineering assessment from Wilson, their ability to run water through their lines where they're not gonna likely require flushing.

This system is really a no-brainer from a cost perspective, a systems perspective.

It's it's seems like a slam dunk all around.

The property owners are happy from the city side, it saves us money, it's good.

So we're recommending this option.

And then the proactive maintenance ensures long-term water quality again, just goes into a lot of the things that I've already hit on.

So our initial flushing estimates were overstated.

Um after that first year, we would likely change to a response approach.

So that's pretty standard.

Is after we make sure that first year that it's running smoothly, we've tested the water quality, we've gotten clear indicators of how much water that they're using monthly annually, then we can go to more of a response-based approach, whereas if they are experiencing issues with water quality, taste, smell, etc., they can state that to the city, and then we can go out there and flush the system as needed.

Um obviously I'll have to talk more so with Jeremy and Cookie.

If we want to go that route, we could continue to just do the annual, um, keep them on a maintenance schedule, and whether we do that quarterly or whatever, we could decide on that as well.

And then obviously, like I stated previously, the minimal impact 2,000 to $3,000 yearly, and then yeah, there's the math between 55 to 83 years uh to make up that cost difference between the both options.

So the anticipated project execution is via the cooperative contracting, so we'd be working off at off Ellison Mills um Penal County contract.

The site preparation and mobilization would start off with surveying to make sure that we have the right right-of-way requirements needed to start the construction.

The core construction would be that 1300 line, um, that 1300 foot line of six-inch pipe and abandonment of the old existing pipes, and then connecting the one-inch service lines to both the yoders and the shoes, and then as I stated, is the in-house support from public works by doing that maintenance road instead of having a contractor do it, which would have significantly increased costs.

And so, yeah, based on all that, um, outside of what Marlowe and Bob might have to say with anything that I missed.

Um, we're we're basically recommending that the mayor authorize project proposal and accept this contract from Ellison Mills to ensure that we can hopefully get completion by July 1.

Uh, if not, we'll roll over the remaining amount and then we'll just finish it in the next fiscal year.

But we're going to start it in this fiscal year.

So, with that being said, I would be happy to answer any questions after Marlowe and Bob come up and talk.

I want to talk like that.

I want to talk.

Do I need to repeat who I am?

I after all this time and turmoil.

I want to express my deepest appreciation to McKenzie, as should all of you.

Because we have been talking, Bob and I have been talking mostly me and Bobby's coming later with information, data that totally blew the other two proposals out of the water.

Over years.

And we have been beating the drum.

Trying to do the right thing and be responsible.

For Eloy's best interest.

McKenzie's come in and done in a couple months.

What we have been fighting and trying to get through to staff and council for years.

He's he's the bomb.

And I appreciate it very much.

I do have a couple things, though.

Other than that, we have a uh proposal from Alison Mills.

We have a uh proposal from Ellison Mills that uh we looked at and we discussed it with um McKenzie.

There's some items in here that are kind of um I think need to be brought to light for for uh council to keep an eye on.

We don't understand why there's a 4400 they just ask from the back you gotta hit the mic right to begin with three-inch water line abandonment, 4400.

You're gonna cut it and cap it at Indian trails.

I don't know why that would cost 4400 to do that, because you're gonna abandon the water line in place.

Nothing else gonna happen.

You're gonna jerk the the meter out and move it to the north a bit.

So that's something that you might want to keep an eye on.

I know McKinse will, but I'm just bringing it to light.

Um connect to three-inch PVC.

We're eliminating the three-inch PVC.

We're changing, we're connecting six inch to six inch on the Indian trails, cutting the three-inch.

So I don't understand that.

And the the real interesting one is $4200 for traffic control.

That needs to be looked at.

Um, I mean, I understand you need to fluff it a little so that if you run over on certain things, um, I would volunteer to do it for $1,500.

I will stand out there with a stop sign, okay, and it will save the city that much money to spend somewhere else.

So, you know, I'm pointing these out, so you you all have these the this information, and you can keep an eye on it.

Um so anyway, option three, which has been the shoe way over the years, has come to pass to be the best way for the city.

Wasn't the shoe way, it was the best for the the city and for us, and the cheapest anyway.

Thank you so much.

Uh just got one quick question, uh, put it over to Mac.

We feel that six-inch size water mean is enough to future proof for anything that might come out there in the near future.

Yeah, yeah.

No, we we believe it will, and at the end of the day, it's when a new development comes in if anything's north of Charleston for kind of like that zombie subdivision that's up there, they'll expand the infrastructure as needed.

Um, we didn't want to oversize this line because if you increase it to an eight-inch, twelve inch, then you really run into those issues with the flushing and stuff.

This line specifically is a good size, not only for growth right now, if there's growth north of Charleston in the immediate future, but also for the shoes right now.

Anything above that would have been excessive, extremely excessive.

Thank you.

Anyone from council?

I still have one thing.

Like I said, after 25 years, you've earned it.

Thank you.

Um, Mr.

Snyder, we they were talking about the water the fire hydrant.

Actually, the ditch that has been referred to is actually kind of not being used, it could technically be filled in.

There is no reason for the ditch.

The water drainage, that ditch was cut by the city of Eloy about 35 years ago to pull the water off of Howersha Road.

So, you know, filling in the ditch would be a good thing because when the ditch runs from the back of our house all the way down to Sunland Gin, city doesn't keep it clean.

So if it should ever rain again in our lifetime, um the water's gonna back up if it does get to the point to use that ditch.

So the ditch needs to be cleaned or needs to be filled in, and then hence we could have a fire hydrant.

But anyway.

Thank you.

Anybody with council?

Um, yeah, I just have a few questions for McKinsey.

Um the blue line is the water line that exists right now.

Um, will it still be functional on broken arrow?

Or will it continue to serve that potential growth community?

Yeah, so um council member Galindo, pretty much everything.

If you're looking at the map, everything going east is fine.

It's basically just cutting off for the service that's for the uh yoder and shoes.

Everything else is not impacted.

Um, and then I have another question about the existing line that's on private property.

Uh you said once it once uh the new line is put in, it's just gonna be an abandoned line that goes through this private property.

Is it like is there a means or is there something that the city is gonna do to say that this is no longer city property?

Is there a possibility to like um dig it out just to make sure, you know, quality assurance, Joanne here?

I just worry about like future development stuff.

If you know they're digging in that area, they see the well.

Somehow, you know, is is there gonna be a debate whether is this city property?

Is this not city property?

It's abandoned.

Well, is it still the cities?

Is it no longer the cities?

There's kind of a question about like is that gonna be solidified?

Yeah, I mean it's abandoning things in place is pretty commonplace.

I mean, it's they do it not only here in Eloy, but all over the state.

Um, obviously, if we did elect to dig out that line from the property, it would add a significant cost um to the project.

I don't know if Jeremy would be able to speak on that more, but um, yeah, pretty much once we abandon it in place, it is no longer going to be you know the city's property or our concern.

If the shoes or the owners decide to sell their properties after that point and someone excavates that off the property, then it'd be their responsibility.

Is that right, Jeremy?

That's correct.

Okay.

Um, and just one last comment.

I just want to thank every single person that's been involved in this project.

Um when we started talking about it, my hope was that we were gonna find a reasonable cost solution to this problem that both parties were amenable to.

Um, that everybody agrees with that you know everybody has come together and worked to make sure that this project is a success.

And I want to thank everybody, the council, public works, McKinsey, and especially the shoes.

Thank you so much for allowing the city to have this uh line on your property for the amount of years, 20 plus years, um, that you've been serving the citizens of Eloy by letting us use your property.

So just thank you to everybody.

Yeah.

Not the what we're putting in, but the line is coming out.

Uh I guess it's not coming out houser, but the um that serves the broken arrow and that part.

What shape is that line in?

You know, we're adding uh additional, I would say additional capacity, but bet better service on uh Charleston and Houser.

But the water lines you get out there, that's that's out away from the city pretty far.

Uh can you comment on the uh existing lines to get out there?

What kind of shape they're in?

Um I would defer that to Jeremy if he wants to come up.

I would assume they're probably pretty old because we haven't had any growth of that area.

They're probably extremely old lines.

Um, Jeremy, I don't know if you have any more context to that.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, members of the council.

Yeah, that line um to the east of where we are installing the new line, those to my knowledge were installed back in the 60s or 70s when this subdivision was platted.

Um there has been minor issues in the past with water breaks, which are our water division goes out and fixes um to my knowledge, nothing major.

Um they are PVC lines, not that's that's what I understand from the mapping and everything.

It's just so as we're doing this and expanding what's something we need to keep an eye on for the future, and just thinking about development out there that uh that is a long way out there for the original lines.

So I bring up the question.

And you know, I would volunteer too for traffic control because the one car coming through the other day.

I might have anybody here on my right, have any uh I think today go ahead.

That was just my question was regarding that line and how is that line dug deeper than what was on the shoes property because we know those lines coming off the shoes house were visible popping up.

Yeah, so from what I've seen, that existing three-inch line, um, it was buried when it was installed 25, 30 years ago um at minimal depth.

Um it kind of surprised me how shallow it was.

Uh their tie and location, that line was uh roughly three and a half to four feet deep, four feet is average average depth for installment.

Um so I would imagine that line continuing to the east is is probably at the same depth.

Okay, good, thank you.

Since everyone's already asked all the good questions, I'm just I just want to know after we approve it tonight.

When do we get started?

So I did reach out, kind of give Ellison Mills uh heads up that this was going um for approval tonight.

Um so they could try and fit it into their schedule.

I let them know that we would like to uh can't have this completed by July 1.

Um the owner did kind of express that they are getting pretty busy, but he would keep it on his uh radar.

They're anticipating maybe a two-week turnaround from start to finish.

Um so hopefully they they can get this scheduled within the next month.

Yeah, well, with that being said, I'll make a motion to pass item A.

To pass the item, all right.

So we have a motion on the floor to accept item A proposal submitted by Ellison Mills.

Do we have a second?

I'll second that, Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Garcia, yes, Councilmember Galindo, yes.

Councilmember Valdraska?

Yes, Councilmember Curtis, yes, Vice Mayor Tarango, yes, Councilmember Schneider, yes, Mayor Sutton.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

The shoes are in this one.

Okay, thank you.

We don't have executive sessions, so that brings us to item number 10.

That would be adjournment.

Do I have a motion to adjourn?

So do I have a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Have a safe trip home, everybody.

Thank you all for showing up and attending.