And we'll begin by uh I'm calling the meeting to order.

Have a roll call, please.

Ex officio stand-in, Snyder.

Here, Commissioner Lopez.

Commissioner Whitman.

Present.

Commissioner Bacta.

Commissioner Crawford.

Present.

Commissioner Frasetto.

Vice Chair Tolson.

Here.

Chairman Paulson.

Present.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

All right.

So the next thing is the Pledge of Allegiance.

So all rise.

We won't do that.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to republic for which stands one nation under God.

Thank you.

Next item is enrollment number four public appearances.

Those wishing to address the planning and zoning commission may do so at this time by first off by signing a form at the podium.

No, nobody did that.

All right.

So I think we can dispense with that item.

Next item is Roman number five, motion to approve the meeting minutes of the planning and zoning commission of March 11th, 2026.

Do we have a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve the minutes.

We have a second.

I second.

Move and second it all in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All right.

Sounds like it's unanimous.

Item Roman number six, new business.

Okay, this is the meat of the meeting.

We're going to conduct a public hearing and make comment conduct a public hearing and make recommendation to the city council on the following case.

Case number GPA 2026-001.

City of Eloy General Plan update.

Request by the City of Eloy for a general plan amendment to adopt a new general plan entitled Eloy General Plan Planning Today for a Stronger Tomorrow to replace the existing Eloy General Plan adopted on May 11th, 2020, and subsequently amended.

The new general plan encompasses an in irregularly shaped area of approximately 52 521.7 square miles, generally located south of Arizona Route 287, north of Pima County's northern boundary, approximate approximately along the West Angel Drive and East Kodiak Drive alignments, east of the South Evington Road Alignment and West of the East Toolshed Lane alignment.

So with this, I think the next thing is we take the stab does their presentation.

So and I see he's all ready to go.

Thank you all for coming today.

This is the hearing for Eloy's new general plan that will be moving forward.

So I had a lot of fun with our AI graphics last night.

So I want to thank you all for participating and those in the audience because if you look, some of your pictures are in there.

And we've done a lot since then.

So we've had quite a number of open house meetings, uh summary of questions, uh pop-up events.

We're good to spend a lot of time, which I am glad I have not had to do any lately because it's been a lot.

So then we went through our phasing of discovery and vision and build and he all participated in a couple updates for that and came to our draft of the plan.

So now we're in our celebration phase, which we've uh released the draft plan.

We went out for the 60-day public comment.

Terry will get into all that.

So that closed on May 3rd.

And now we're doing the public hearing process.

So it's been a little over a year and a half in that work, and I appreciate all the time you both spent in it in doing that, and those of Logan Simpson who had to deal with me uh through this process, and because they did the heavy lift on all this work.

And here we are today for first public hearing uh before the planning and zoning commission, and then after planning zoning commission's recommendation goes to city council, and the even though the city council may adopt it, it does not get approved.

It's adopted, but it goes for voter uh ratification at the end.

So that kind of gets where we are right now, and should have changes earlier.

But today we are in the first step of that approval process, planning and zoning, city council for ratification.

And through that, you all be at the end of today, we'll be asking for a recommendation for hopefully approval to the city council.

And the city council will be hearing this at a special hearing on June 1st.

And after that, we'll be going to voter ratification.

Once it goes into the adoption period, the staff can no longer advocate for the application.

So it becomes a thing that the planning commission and the city council can go out and talk to the public because it is a ballot item.

So I can't go out and say, please vote for this.

We'll be asking the commission to say, hey, spread the word.

Good plan.

You know, we want this.

So on that, I'll hand it off to Terry.

So to get over to where we're at and where we're moving from here.

Well, thank you, Dan Seimer.

And um Mr.

Vice Chair, uh Chairman, um, and members of the commission, my name is Terry Hogan.

I'm with the firm Logan Simpson.

I've presented to you uh several times through this process, and I just want to start off before we get into this part of the presentation by saying thank you to all of you.

Uh thank you uh to the city council, thank you to the planning commission.

You also acted as our general plan advisory committee.

Uh, thank you to the members of the public that are here, thank you to the members of the public that are not here that participated in the process.

Uh this truly is a celebration phase.

Uh, it's also the legislative approval process, as Dan said, uh, but it's been a great effort.

Uh we want to take you through that uh public participation process as well as the process.

Uh, but I want to really thank uh Mr.

Simer.

Um you your planning director is is top-notch.

Um, and I would say that it's it has been a lengthy process.

He did have hair at the beginning.

I don't know if you remember, it's all gone now.

Uh he kind of pulled it out, but uh he is fantastic.

Um, as as are your your uh staff, your technical advisory committee, the members of your departments.

Uh it's really just been a pleasure to work with uh the city of Eloy through this process.

So with that, um I do want to give uh the members of the public and yourselves a little bit of uh background on general plan.

We have gone over this before.

Some of you could probably give this part of the presentation, but we always want to continue to do this in the public process in case there's someone uh that's just coming on board right now and and needs to know what a general plan is.

So all together now, um general plan is a policy document.

This is a 30,000 foot policy document.

It is in no way, shape, or form regulatory.

It is not a zoning document.

It is the uh the blueprint for growth for for Eloy, it's the community's vision.

Um this this uh this plan uh which is I I'm glad to hear that uh we've read it cover to cover cover, and I'm happy to say it did go over a hundred pages, but uh it is a succinct plan um and it it encapsulates the uh community's vision, goals, policies, and and uh objectives or or or um actions.

Um general plans are the foundation of all planning documents.

We've talked about this before.

Everything, all the other documents um implement the general plan.

So this is the foundation, uh, your city codes, your master plans, site plans, plats, up into the built world, all implement your community's vision.

So um statutorily, um, all cities, towns, and counties have to have a general plan, uh comprehensive plan in place.

There are population thresholds where there are increased number of uh what we call elements or topics that have to be covered in the plan.

You can see on this chart that uh Eloy at just under 19,000 uh according to the 2024 uh population census population is required to have seven elements, and you can see those.

Again, why are we updating the plan?

Sometimes people say, well, we already have a plan.

We talked about that, it's in place.

It was readopted in 2020.

The short story is because the statute, because the state tells us we have to do it.

So every 10 years, uh cities, towns, and counties have to re-look at their at their plans, uh, either readopt it or reassess it.

This plan, though it was readopted in 2020, hasn't really been looked at or refined since 2011.

So the city said, we really want to look at this.

The most important thing, I like to stand up here and say the statute makes us do it, but really as a planner and as a community, the most important reason for us doing this is to align this plan with the community's values and vision.

So Dan covered this really well in his graphics, his late night graphics, as he said.

Uh, but this is the infographic that we've shown you the entire time with all the phases.

Uh we are now the probably the most important um component of this graphic is that star, which you see it's in phase five right now, the celebration phase.

Again, we are in the legislative approval process.

Uh once and if this is adopted by city council next month, it will sit for a period of uh four months as it goes uh onto the ballot for a voter ratification in November.

Public participation summer.

This is the most exciting part.

Um I think I I stood up to you uh at the very first kickoff meeting and said, my hope as a planner is that we have every single person in Eloy participate and give input into this process.

That's my dream, that's my goal.

Um did we did we hit it?

I would say uh we came darn close.

Um 9,400 people, uh community engagements is great.

Uh we know, so that's about 50% of your population.

We know that there's redundancies built into that, and and in the sense that this core group right here went to every single event.

Um so did we count them multiple times?

Yes.

Um but we also know from experience that this is engagement, people that actually had to do something in the process.

But on top of that, it's usually about double of that of people that are aware of this process.

So this is a testament to you.

This is a testament to your community planning director, to your staff, to your council, to your community of really getting the word out and engaging in this process.

So this is what really excites me.

Um just talking about this graphic.

Um, you you recall the Eloy talks at the beginning of the process where we really kicked off the process.

Uh, that was with Peter Kagiama.

Uh we had uh events, um uh activities in that where we created shirts and uh people did drawings and stuff like that.

We had 51 uh people uh in person show up to that.

Uh we launched the web page at that generally at that at that point at the beginning of the process.

We've had over 4600 people uh log into the website uh or view the website, and we had nearly 2400 people subscribe to the website, the project website, which is great.

And I want to say that um all of those people were then notified of every single event.

They signed up and said, we want to get updated.

So we sent out notifications on top of all the social media blasts and everything else to these people personally uh to invite them to all the other events and to review the 60-day document as well.

So just kind of going over the rest of it, uh we also had uh our listing sessions where we had 62 people that wanted it wanted to engage in that way.

Um those ran the gamut of uh city council members, uh, state uh state departments, federal departments, uh Panal County, as well as uh Chamber of Commerce.

A lot of business members as well as uh members of the public also wanted to engage in that way, so we sat down and had informal conversations uh during that phase.

Um we had a three-part workshop series uh or public engagement series that evolved and built on each other.

The first one was visioning, the second one was mapping, and the third one was the mobile immersion lab, where we we brought it all together in a in kind of a virtual uh virtual reality uh showcase.

So uh for the workshops, we did six in-person engagements uh or or workshops where we had 159 people engaged in that process.

Each one of those workshops were also virtually available for people in addition to the the initial community questionnaire, and we had uh just over 300, 306 responses to those.

So fantastic.

And then that mobile immersion lab, the open house during the 60-day review, we had 162 attendees.

And then through the public review period, these numbers are just incredible.

Uh we had we had nearly 600 people look at the document.

Uh, so that's fantastic.

We got the word out.

People were looking at the document, reading the document cover to cover.

Um we had 18 people that actually commented, commenteurs, and uh of those commenters, we had 20 224 comments, and I'll go over those a little bit for you just generally.

We're not going to go one by one.

I won't do that to you guys.

Um I do want to point out is from the 60-day draft to the hearing draft, we put in a uh four-page spread for the mobile immersion.

Uh, really excited about this, really showcases that event.

Um there, many of the members of the public as well.

So there's lots of photos of people.

Uh we had elementary school people come out, uh kids come out to that as well.

This shows each one of the scenarios and the kind of a still shot of that, and some of the quotes that came out of that, some of the input that came out of that, uh, and some of the uh the follow-up and the implementation for that as well.

So really exciting part.

If you haven't had a chance to take a look at that, please do.

Um 60 day review period, as Dan mentioned, that is a statutory review period.

That's where our pencils go down.

We have a draft out there for the public.

Uh, you see the time frame that it was up, and and uh we had that uh up on the project website in a in a uh conveyo uh format where people were able to go in and make their comments.

We also took comments any way people wanted to give us comments.

Uh Dan Dan did one-on-one uh interviews.

Uh we would upload those comments uh if we got them in paper format into that database so we could have them all on a spreadsheet.

Uh so and we also had the plan available in City Hall, so people could come in and just take a look at the physical physical copy if they wanted to as well.

Um by and large, um the the comments, I mean the comments were all very positive.

Uh they were they all help refine the document.

Uh there's some there's some comments uh uh on the right-hand page or the right hand side of the slide that you guys can read in the packet um in the public uh document.

We do have a spreadsheet with verbatim, all of the comments as well as how we as a project team uh decided to address those.

Um again, um we we did distribution for the 60-day draft to there's a statutory distribution list that goes out to um entities such as Stateland, Pennell County, uh the Department of Water Resources.

We have to distribute to those people statutorily.

We did that.

We got comments back from some of those folks.

Uh, Arizona State Land Land Department always comments.

They gave us 17 comments, and we had one big comment from the city of Coolidge based upon some annexations that they had done.

So we had to kind of tweak uh the planning area based upon annexations that they did.

So a lot of discussions between Dan uh and their director as well.

Um by and large, the comments um were very, very helpful in refining the plan.

Uh we knew that we had taken it out there, and we had some fairly significant things that we had to do with the future land use map.

We've documented on those.

Uh we we had a chance to really educate the public on uh parts of the plan, where things were in the plan, uh, maybe other aspects of implementation or master plans where some of the things that they were asking about or interested in, where those were.

So really good process, really good comments, and it helped uh to make the plan absolutely better.

We love this part of the process.

Okay, I'm gonna breathe for a second, and uh then I'm gonna tell you about what's in the plan and what has changed from your existing plan.

So, what you see on the screen right now is is essentially our our table of contents without all the numbers.

Uh so you can see that we he we have three background chapters.

The first is uh tells you about the process, tells you about the overall um purpose of the plan, the statutory requirements, kind of the boring stuff.

And then we get into the foundation of Eloy in terms of our demographics, um our snapshots of of demographics and existing conditions.

We've did some summaries of that.

Um that's a document that has a resolution that people can look at if they so choose.

Um, that's that's uh a public record.

Uh, we summarize that in the plan.

We didn't want to, you know, put the whole thing in there.

Um, and then we have the inspired community chapter.

That's that's a really a summary of that infographic that I gave you, a little bit more information on that.

Um that all stems from implementing the public participation plan that the city council adopted early on in the process, and we also brought to this body to take a look at and give input into as well.

Background.

And then we get into our key themes.

So there are four themes.

I'm gonna talk about these a little bit in these next couple of slides.

These themes were driven by the public process.

Um, these themes contain all of our topic or our 12 uh topic or element areas, and they're all structured very similarly.

So you have um in your inspired inspired community, you have your whole vision statement, and then each one of these theme chapters have an aspirational statement, kind of a mini vision statement.

They have the summaries of those topic areas, which pulls in some of the existing conditions, a lot of the future outlook, a lot of the public input, and then goals and policies that are driven from that process.

And then chapter eight is our implementation.

Really proud about this.

I'll talk a little bit more about this.

But this is the strategy of implementation and actions.

And then the appendices.

So you have your amendment criteria.

People say, is this a document that can never change?

No, it can change, and there's criteria for that.

It's important that there's criteria because it's a public document, it's the public's vision.

And if somebody wants to come in and change it, you know, they need to go through a process, come back through this body and say, these are the good reasons why we want to change it.

And then that'll go through a legislative process again at a different scale and scope.

But there is criteria for that.

There's reference documents, there's an entire comprehensive list of every single activity and event that took place, the 60-day event summary that I talked about, a very comprehensive glossary, and then some higher resolution uh kind of zoomed-in areas of your growth, your six growth areas.

So these will all be digitized and be on your GIS, but some people, like myself, like a paper copy.

And so we want to look in there and see those kind of zoomed in maps.

So we did that as well.

Okay, this is the infographic in the plan that shows the structure of the plan.

Um, and in the big circle, of course, is your vision statement.

So we did a lot of work on visioning.

Uh Dan said up at the front, this we have to we have to really hit visioning hard and do a lot of it.

So we had a whole workshop series of this, uh, the questionnaire, uh, the listening sessions, all of the different kickoff meetings, really focused on trying to tighten up that vision statement early on in the process, and then we took it through the process and got feedback on that.

That vision statement absolutely drove our theme areas and our mini vision statements, and then those uh mini vision statements or the aspirations, then drove our goals and our policies, which were also reviewed by our technical advisory committee, which is all your subject matter experts in the city, um, and then that also then drove those action items as well.

So, I'm gonna let you read the vision statement as I talk about some keys key terms on the right-hand side.

Um we've talked about the vision statement and the community aspirations.

Those are aspirational statements.

Uh the goals are uh long-term uh overarching uh uh outcomes of of how you derive that vision.

And I'm gonna show you kind of what those look like.

Your policies are uh more specific in nature.

Um, they achieve that goal, and they're all in the topic areas.

So you'll have goals and policies related to each of the topic areas, and then their actions are very specific as well.

It's a systematic action plan based upon short-term, mid-term, long-term, and some ongoing task of how to implement uh the general plan, and that also uh pulls in the community input and the goals and policies to implement those.

This is kind of how it looks in in the first themed chapter.

Um these are all color-coded from the TOC.

So each one of the themes has a certain color, and that goes through uh to implementation as well.

So you can kind of look at it in a color as well.

Um you can see the how the goals are written.

Um so we have uh a broad goal, um, uh kind of a caption of that diversity of land uses, and then the policy, a caption of what that is.

It this speaks to mixed use development, and then what that specific policy is.

Dan will use these all the time when he has zoning cases that come to him that he then brings to you.

He will be putting in how is this a rezoning case supported by the future land use map, which I'll talk about, and the goals and policies of the plan.

And so he'll be bringing to those to you.

The developers look at these all the time as well because they have to make up their arguments as to why their rezone is consistent with the community's plan.

So very, very important.

Uh we went through a whole effort uh in this process of an audit of looking at every single one of the goals and policies and the actions in the existing plan with all this with all the technical advisory committee group.

Um we looked at those those goals and policies as what should stay, what should be revised, what should be thrown out, what's what's missing.

Uh so these are very comprehensive in nature and have gone through a lot of betting, as well as public process.

Okay, so I'm always very excited when a community wants to put down on the uh on paper an implementation action plan.

Um not every community does this.

Uh, some communities go very broad uh with this, and and that's okay too.

Um Eloy decided they wanted to actually put this in the plan.

Um I'm gonna say right up front that that this is this is flexible.

This is a blueprint for how one, how the city can implement the city's the community's vision on top of rezoning.

So there's a lot of things that that the departments do all the time to to implement the general plan, whether they know it or not, they do.

Uh and so what this does is kind of put that in writing.

We took input from the community too, as things that might need to be done, like amendments to zoning ordinances or or new uh area plans or coordination with different entities.

All of these are put into our theme areas.

Um they're organized into short, and you can kind of see what the thresholds are the short, the midterm, the long term, and ongoing.

Um Dan on an annual basis will um outline this that he'll he'll fill out the completion uh what is it called?

Um I couldn't find column, uh the completion column.

So he will on an annual basis say this is in progress or it's been completed.

Uh we are still working with the departments to make sure which uh department is the responsible department.

So in the final document, you'll see that as well.

Uh but on an annual basis, you'll you'll see how these um how these are implemented and addressed.

Okay, I want to talk a little bit about the municipal planning area.

We've talked about this and and how it's changed.

Um it hasn't changed significantly, but it's but it is increased by about 3% uh from the from the previous plan.

Um what you see on this map is your darker area is your incorporated area of Eloy.

That's your area that you that's your city.

Uh that's incorporated area, that's the area that can be regulated, and that's about 115 square miles.

The area that's beyond that is your planning influence area.

Every city does this.

Uh, this is very normal.

Uh your municipal planning area is 520 square miles.

I'm going to tell you that's huge.

Um it's it's almost it's it's a little under uh the city of Phoenix's whole area.

So I would tell you Eloy has big plans.

Uh and that's cool.

Uh so this area is is Eloy, it's not governed by regulation, it's not incorporated.

But this these are the areas that the Eloy wants to have influence on for whatever reason.

Um maybe eventually, uh bit by bit incrementally, they'll be annexed into the into the community as there's infrastructure and as that as that happens.

But this is the area that Eloy wants to have influence on.

That translates into every single map in your document, including what we think is the most important map is the future land use map.

And again, um this this map, as you guys know, is not zoning.

It's it's um it may not even be consistent with what is zoned, but all rezonings must conform to it.

So this is your community's vision in a 2D map.

Uh you can see on the right hand side all the future land uses.

Those have not changed a little bit from your existing general plan, uh, but in very small ways.

For example, um your residential categories.

We collapse those a little bit, so we have a few less of those.

Um our commercial um is now commerce, our industrial is now employment.

Uh we have a lot more mixed use.

We've called that out a little bit more, and your planned community areas like ropes and ranch, uh like your area plans, uh, those are all now uh encapsulated in a future land use designation as opposed to a kind of a hatching, as it was in the in the previous plan.

Uh we, of course, parks and open space, and then uh Tahona Odom Nation is a sovereign nation.

Uh this plan does not govern it in any way.

There's no regulatory control and zoning uh on sovereign nations, but we wanted to illustrate that as a color on the map and just uh embrace it and say um it's there, there are our neighbors.

Okay.

Um I always like to do uh if I can uh an apples to apples comparison uh for what do we have, Terry, and what do we have now?

Um and sometimes that's difficult to do if there's a wholesale uh revamp.

Uh but in the case of Eloy, it's not too difficult.

So you can kind of see a generalized these categories a little bit, uh, but I just want to go over that and and and talk to you.

By and large, I'm gonna tell you that the mixture of land uses in Eloy has not significantly changed.

Uh but we shifted things around a little bit uh for ease of administration.

Again, you can see from 2020 to 2026 uh the increase in area uh from 504 square miles to 521.

Um I'm just gonna go down the chart um to and look at the different areas.

So your residential category has decreased uh 81, 81% to 70%.

But a lot of that, um, especially the higher density, the medium and the higher density, has been pushed into your mixed use uh designation.

And I so I put the the language of the designation on the right hand side so you can take a look at that, as well as your planned community area.

And again, your planned community area are thing are are our master plan communities like Robes and Ranch or industrial master plan communities or your specific area plans like your airport uh airport air park area plan.

Uh so those have a mixture of uses within them.

Uh so some of those residential uses are pushed into those commercial state about the same.

Um has gone down um slightly, but also again, that's that's been pushed into your planned community area.

You have uh industrial employment uh uh PCA um uh master plan communities.

Um and then your mixed use has uh ratcheted up from one percent to four percent, open space just a little bit, and then of course that PCA that that has grown considerably because it wasn't a land use designation before.

Uh we looked at all your master plan communities and put it into a designation.

So I'm gonna turn it back over to Dan at this point, and he's gonna finish it up for us.

Thank you, Terry.

Uh thank you for the presentation, Terry.

As we moving into the final parts of the presentation, as I indicated earlier, we are in the approval process, and we are in stage one.

So today we'll be working on or requesting the commission to provide a formal recommendation to the city council.

Um, and then after that, we'll be going to the city council in June.

And with our fingers crossed, we have an option, and then we'll be going to voter ratification.

And as I indicated earlier, well after that kind of council where we hit it to that four-month period, staff has to step away because it's a becomes a political decision, and we cannot not supposed to influence the decisions.

So that's what we will be asking you guys to go out and say, please tell them to support our plan at the election.

So as I said, next steps, we are asking for a recommendation from the planning commission, and that recommendation staff is going to be we're asking you to recommend approval and adoption of the general plan, the Lord General Plan, planning today for a stronger tomorrow.

And on that, we like to thank you and everyone here, the Logan Simpson team and their consultants.

It's been a great uh effort.

A lot of communication, and those that work with me know I'm kind of visual, so you can tell me something, and I will change my mind when I see it.

So uh on that chair, I'll uh vice chair.

I'll open up the floor to you all for any questions or public comment.

All right, Commissioner, do you any uh anybody want to ask uh Dan any questions?

Okay, well, I'm the usual one that has comments, so uh I have about five items and some of them, you know.

I in fact, I want to thank him, uh Dan, for uh we had we met together maybe about a month ago, and he addressed everything that I brought up at that time.

Then I found some more things after that.

But I'm gonna pass these around.

Let's pass those down.

Oh, yeah.

Get one to give him one too.

There's like there should be enough for him and for uh uh she wants or Terry if she wants one.

Okay, so um and maybe would we be able to bring up the um get on the screen the um general plan?

The land use plan go to page start out at page 66.

Okay, we don't have the general plan at the same time.

Oh yeah.

Oh, okay.

Well right.

So uh on page 66, land use policy 2.3.

Uh it had a clause in there about uh reduce vehicle dependence, promote sustainable mobility.

Uh reducing vehicle dependence is not really practical, at least in my opinion, because of our large area of coverage, and the term sustainable mobility is not defined in the glossary, so I'm not sure what that means.

Um I'm a little concerned about getting uh forcing us into getting public transit maybe before we need it.

Uh so uh let's see what on to that one.

Um I could see where the that policy might apply to the downtown section, but I don't believe it would be appropriate in the um land use section.

Yeah.

And also there was some verbiage in there that because of trying to promote pedestrian traffic and minimize vehicular sounded to me like shades of what they call 15 minute cities where you just have clusters that everybody nobody needs a car, they can just walk to their job and walk to shopping and everything.

And I just the only place I could see that might work here would be in down in the downtown area and not in uh outlying areas.

So that would be one of the comments I would have.

The next one would be page 87 housing and neighborhoods.

There's a term in there or yeah, go ahead.

Okay, Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Tolson.

Yes.

This is Mr.

Paul from here.

Okay, I I understand your comments.

What what do you propose be done besides commenting?

Do you propose that to be stricken from the plan?

Do you propose it be amended?

Propose it be uh edited.

What's your proposal?

Well, all right, it's good comment.

I'd say uh edit it, and I did make a make a comment that it could be if it well, I would recommend that it just be removed because I think we've already got it covered in the downtown section, but if they want to keep something to that effect, they could I think this particular item should be moved to the downtown section.

Okay, all right.

Okay.

Next item then would be the housing and neighborhoods.

Uh there was uh it and there it said uh are we ready to move on, or do we have anybody want to say something there?

We do have a question on that.

It's so what the entire policy says is says encourage development patterns that prioritize human scale pedestrian oriented oriented context sensitive design, fostering streetscapes and public spaces that support pedestrian activity, social interaction, and community engagement, and reduce vehicle dependency while promoting sustainable mobility.

Now I can understand what your what your comment is there, is the item is not there are within our activity areas.

This kind of plays it is a land use thing.

So we have the downtown, and we now have I believe off the top of my head, five activity areas that are thank you.

So the five activity areas as as indicated on the screen, which are by the asterisk.

These are the areas of the plan that are geared toward that walkable mobility.

Uh granted, because of the size of the city, it's not gonna be all walkable.

There is what we did hear from the community through this process is that we do need bus service for the current community into Casa Grand.

At least up to them all and over to the uh uh banner health, the health centers area.

It may not be mass large mass change, it may be dial ride, maybe something else that we participate with.

Now that is uh uh some of the persons on council have also made that comment to us.

So as it pertains to that part, you got social interaction.

It talks about when you're interacting with the community, community engagement and reducing vehicle dependency.

When we have areas of higher density, the idea is to provide areas of mobility, whether it be walking, paths and trails, bike paths.

It the thing to keep in mind is that we are planning for the next 20 through 30 years, even though the plan is a 10-year document, it may not be applicable now, but we're we're zoning right now for 10 to 20 years out.

So I as I understand your comment as it may not be applicable today, it is applicable in the future.

And I'm open to if they would like to amend it.

Yeah, we could say say activity areas and the downtown.

That would be my recommendation.

I would okay, I'd go with that.

Okay.

Thank you.

And uh also somewhere defined sustainable mobility.

Yeah, I think that's a fair, yeah.

I love that term.

I would learn broadsiding sustainable mobility is broad.

Uh, I think I came up with that out of base on our discussion.

So at the end of that, we'll depending on what the recommendation is from the commission.

Um, you could change that from and reduce vehicle dependency while promoting mobility state stability in I'd actually uh was Terry and I just mentioned something on the screen there.

You see our growth areas.

Those are gonna be you have your highest density in your activity areas, and then you have your next highest density in your growth area.

So I would prefer that we say growth areas, and then you know, home in.

But if the the commission wants to say uh promoting stable mobility in uh as the end of that statement to downtown and activity centers or downtown and within growth areas, so I'd go for growth areas, but I don't know any other and how about the commission commissioners, any comments, including our one in the cloud.

I'm I'm in the cloud, and that sounds fine to me.

Okay.

I'm in the cloud and things sound fine to me too.

Uh yeah, do we have another uh commissioner that's joined us?

Oh, here and Eric.

Okay.

All right, so any um any more discussion on that per that item.

Okay, next item.

Is uh I apologize to those that are in the cloud because you you can't see what this thing that I'm looking at, and I assume we were gonna have the whole 180, somewhat 190 pages uh to be able to look at here, but not so.

All right.

Guess what?

I'm I'm looking at it on my iPad.

All right.

All right, good.

That's your lost.

All right, so go to page 87 next.

Well page 87 next.

So innovative housing.

Got it.

All right, good.

Innovative innovative housing finance.

It's I don't know whether I quoted this directly or not.

It says use of industrial development authority bonds to finance attainable housing.

Um I thought industrial didn't include housing, so I don't know how those bonds could be used for housing, and I'm not sure what attainable housing is.

So I'd say one thing is to define what attainable housing is, or use a term that we know what it means, and but the other thing is a question whether industrial development authority bonds can be used to finance that.

Any no Mr.

Simmer, you have any comments on that?

I do uh we do believe we define attainable housing, but we're looking for it right now.

Now the industrial bond authority development can be used for a number of different things, it could be for business infrastructure, and a lot of that has to do more with the infrastructure financing than the housing itself.

The housing that the uh industrial development authority can issue bonds in the area for um if I remember correctly, but we'll definitely double check for city council.

But the for issuing bonds for infrastructure to lower the cost of providing housing.

For example, uh when you buy in a new new neighborhood, majority of all the houses are putting in new infrastructure streets, those bonds are not in the bonds, but the infrastructure is actually cooked into the sale of the house.

So the um the by bonding that you actually spread that payment over time, lowering the cost of the house.

That's that's what we're trying to get there.

Now we do have a definition of affordable housing, which we can say affordable slash attainable.

Uh oh, okay.

So you would strike affordable and then uh it says that there's a definition of affordable, it says affordable housing refers to housing units, rentals, or ownership price at households spending no more than 30% of the gross income on household costs, including utilities.

The term applies to a wide range of income eligible households and includes programs funded or supported by federal agencies, such as uh low-income uh uh low-income housing tax credits, nonprofit housing corporations, public agencies, private developers or private developers receiving incentives, affordable housing may include apartments, townhouses, single family units, senior housing, and workforce housing.

Yeah, but also fits in that is FHA and uh Freddie Mac, Freddie May would fit into that category too, uh, because they allow for the lower things.

So what uh we're recommending is you would strike affordable and replace that with attainable in the definitions.

Not the other way around to strike attainable and and make it affordable.

Uh Mr.

Vice Chair, uh members of the commission.

Um we we could probably do um attainable housing is kind of the new terminology.

Uh it used to be called affordable how housing, and now everybody's saying attainable.

Um so it's they're kind of one in the same.

We could we could do either one, or we could just say affordable housing, affordable slash attainable housing.

Uh so it's just it's one in the same um definition these days.

I agree with you, it's one of the same.

All relative to one's income.

Yes.

So what's your pleasure?

I think it's fine the way it is.

I think if attainable is the current term, we ought to use the current term.

Yeah.

So could we get that is so and you're saying that's already defined somewhere what attainable is.

So yes, it's uh defined on page 163 of the general plan as affordable housing will replace affordable with attainable.

Okay.

Page 163?

Yes.

Okay.

And the use of industrial development bonds, that's okay.

We're not gonna have any problem.

We'll definitely double check on that.

Okay.

I know I didn't.

We did certain things up in FLAG that were very different, but was using that same type of authority, but we'll double check it.

Okay.

And if it isn't industrial, it'll be an it'll be it'll be the um community facility districts or the revitalization districts.

It's either one, it's gonna be either one of those type of bonds.

Oh okay.

Any comments from the people above in the cloud.

All right, move on to page 88.

Oh, something there.

Did you want to say something?

Nope, I'm just saying I'm okay with attainable.

Okay, I'm okay with attainable.

I'm getting into 21st century here.

Okay.

All right.

Next next one's uh page 88, uh downtown section uh comment DT 1.8 multimodal street design.

Uh there's a phrase or a clause that says design for alternative mobility and curb management.

Not sure what curb management is.

And again, uh do we have another new new speak for mobility that's alternative mobility.

Um that one I don't think was let's see.

Yeah, basics.

Yeah, go yeah, chair, if I may, yeah, it is alternative mobility.

Um mobility alternatives.

You can say mobility alternatives, because you have all right wheelchairs, we have walkers, we have skateboards, we have the little cruising bikes now.

We have all kinds of different ways.

So we'll flip on that, and I recommend that we flip flop.

Okay.

And we would it be okay to say uh design to accommodate?

Yeah, I think that's that's a that's a actually really good incorporate spaces and design to accommodate mobility alternatives.

And you can actually strike curb management because that's all in one.

Because you can't have a lot of those.

So but the the idea of curb management is putting curb, the right type of curb where it's most appropriate, whether it's vertical curb, slope, curb, road curve, that's what curb management is.

So were you saying we could strike that the curb management term?

We could.

Uh or else I guess does it it?

I didn't see it defined again.

So defined it is I just strike it.

Yeah, when when I hear curb management, I think back when I was a kid, they always said curb your dog.

Right.

So we can strike curb management.

All right.

Yep.

So next we ready to move on to the next one?

Yep.

All right.

Page 133.

C.

All right, let me scroll down there.

All right, yeah.

Okay, I got it.

C 1.12 technology.

Uh so I would that one I'm thinking I I was kind of questioning whether we even needed that one, but uh I let's see, we put these provisions may or may not be necessary for Eloy.

Private enterprises already taking care of charging stations and autonomous automobiles are supposed to be able to operate the same way a driver operated vehicle drives, so why do we need to make provisions for them?

So I'm I'm questioning whether we need that whether we need C 1.12.

Yeah.

Chair, that's it's a good question, and it includes many different elements.

Uh, you got uh if you were within with in the meeting with me earlier this week, I call it smart transportation, and if they take you to the city of Peoria, which in my mind is one of the best ones, they have a nice wall where they control the whole thing.

But in our design of our streetscapes, over time, we're gonna have to accommodate for inner technology or transportation sensors and different types of activities, fiber optics and others that are for either whether it's just self-driving cars, if it, you know, it now a lot of the cars are reading the lanes.

So we have to uh what this is is I believe we're in the yes, we're in the infrastructure section, yeah, circulation infrastructure section.

So what we're talking about there is making sure that we as we're moving through our update process, like later this year, which I don't think it'll be this year, probably early next year, we're gonna be updating our infrastructure section in a city code, and we need to continuously update that for our upcoming technology.

For like right now, we don't have the ability.

If we ever get street lights, we don't have the ability to control them.

So if you go into some other communities, I'll give you an example.

Flagstaff has a lot of street lights.

That's why you get stuck in flagstab all the time.

They're not synchronized, they're not controlled, they're not in.

Once you start getting into these alternative emerging transportation technologies, those become essential.

I think we've all gotten to intersections.

You go stop, stop, go, stop, instead of all going green.

But it includes uh electric vehicles or autonomous vehicle readiness.

That is talking about the sensors in the streets and and the rightway.

But also, I'm not positive.

I'm not quite a fan of it yet because uh electrical vehicles are at that infancy.

Are they gonna go?

Are we gonna change technology?

We're gonna do this.

We don't have an ordinance requirement that provides for um that charging stations be provided in certain developments.

We don't have an ordinance provision right now.

If that technology gets somewhere that it starts becoming mainstream, yes, the industry, the private sector is taking care of it.

A lot of it is like in last year's budget, pilot got a huge amount of money from the government incentives to install their their uh self-charging stations.

But over time, you know, what kind of incentives or requirements do we want to put in our city code that for larger developments, you do include electrical charging or what other technology, whether it goes hydrogen, which I don't think it will, but you know, there's other alternatives that we need to incorporate in the next 20 years.

So that policy is broad.

It may be accommodating now, but we may need it in our future things.

Um I'll give you an example how I can use this policy as we get more dense, and we had a couple people talk to us about this, but not too much.

In one of my previous cities, the infrastructure was fairly well connected for traffic control and uh traffic management systems, but as they became um what we call small cells, and you see them in the right-of-way, they're like little antennas that are cellular.

What we negotiated on a lot of those is as the technology got somewhere there, a lot of them are connected by fiber optics.

So we would offset our lease on the city's right-away for the fiber optics in exchange for them providing technology infrastructure, whether it be fiberox or something, and they would either put the conduit in or give us free uh fiber optics that we can tap into the self-dedicated line.

This policy, if somebody came in, and of course, these are all related to all different types of stuff.

If somebody came in, I can go to council and go.

This policy supports the decision making that you're doing.

So even though it may not be something that we see right now, it is something that we are looking 10-20 years out, 30 years out.

So that's the purpose of that um policy.

So I could I could see them leaving the the uh integrate emerging transportation technologies and don't mention charging stations or uh autonomous vehicles.

Well he mentioned some that I thought were a lot more applicable than these.

Yes, point or two hundred strike.

So we so we could say we strike the examples as a you know alter you could say alternative vehicle readiness or something.

Say it again, please.

Just say including alternative vehicle readiness into circulation planning.

Just take out autonomous vehicles and um electric vehicles.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, what Terry's recommending is we use we strike from say emerging technology integrated emerging transportation technologies, because that does include vehicles into circulation planning.

Yeah, and stop there.

Yep.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, that's that's reasonable.

I mean, you you don't need to mention certain technologies.

I mean, look what happened to Nokia.

So yeah, yeah.

Good point.

I agree.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

And last point, and by the way, I would never I would never ride in a in a self-driving vehicle.

Never.

Yeah, I I I agree with you.

Yeah.

I don't I don't know how with all that technology it can be cheaper than a driver, because you see, I have no idea.

All right.

Last item is page 141 PE 16.

Uh and since I was just assuming we would be have the document here to look at, I've I just cut it, but it said we it starts out with formalize, which I'm thinking uh that sounded kind of mandatory, and that always with regarding some I think NGOs, community service organizations, sure.

And um, I thought maybe we could put in support instead of formalize.

Yeah, I think what the comment says for the those online and the public it says formalize programs with nonprofit partners, such as habitat for humanity, Chicanos, I think you, or others to produce ownership housing opportunities, uh for moderate income families.

So we can we can say um I didn't catch you where exactly support works support programs or encourage programs, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, preference, encourage, support.

Or or or promote, yeah.

You guys like the word promote, so yes, we do.

Okay.

Yeah, those are great.

Yep.

So I think so we'll get those depending on the commission's recommendations.

All right.

So oh, go ahead.

Any more discussion?

I have several comments that improve readability and uh those sorts of things.

I don't know that we need to go through those.

I'll give them to you and you can consider them.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Any do the commissioners have any other comments?

Including those uh in in the cloud.

Well, I'm uh I'm up in the cloud, and I just want to I just want to thank everybody for all the hard work they did on this because this is this is a just a wonderful document.

Um, and it's a great aspirational um piece of work.

So again, you guys did a great job.

Everybody who participated helped, and uh I think it's I think it's really good.

So thanks to everybody.

Appreciate it.

All right, thank you.

So are we ready for a motion?

I believe we are okay.

Since I had a bunch of the critique, I'll start out with a motion and uh if you can do what you want with it.

So I'm gonna uh move that we approve and adopt the uh Chair General Chair hold on okay.

We are in a public hearing.

Uh so we do have to open it up for public comment.

And I do want to ask that if Commissioner Whitman would pass that paper across to the other uh commission that if you have those so that they can really see them and if they concur uh ideas, then we could formalize that in the recommendation.

So uh uh chair, I'll uh hand it back to you for if there's see if there's any public comment.

All right.

Sounds like those were written non-substanti.

Well, I'll take a look and see what he says here.

Mr.

Chairman, while you're doing it reading that I'd like to make a comment.

I think I also would like to express on behalf of uh council members that all the work is going into this.

So you know, when you start doing something like this, and you start uh talking 10 years, 20 years from now, everything your experiences you use to try to do it are all based on the past.

And so you think about what's happened in the past and you try to make decisions about the future, and that's difficult because think about five years ago, 10 years ago, would we project what's happening today and how fast technology is moving?

So to kind of project out to 10, 20 years and get the wording and get the uh uh I guess the content you want to be able to handle things is difficult.

So I appreciate uh the effort was made because it's it's difficult sometimes to step out of your box and start thinking ahead and what might be because everything's based on what's what's happened.

So I appreciate that.

Thank you.

So are we uh are we ready to close the public hearing?

Does anybody from the audience want to say anything?

I think we think that time's coming gone anyway.

All right, so we're gonna close the public hearing and I will try attempt to make a motion here to approve and adopt the general plan update as I outlined in item sixa of the uh agenda with the following modifications that can see if there are any comments.

Oh, yeah, we're getting all right.

All right, so with the amend uh amended with the following items that uh we define sustainable mobility and let's see um change activity areas to growth areas.

I believe we agreed on that.

That would be the LU 2.2 item.

Then for HN HN 1.6 uh all right, we're gonna stay with attainable housing on that one, so that no change there.

Yeah, the chair, can I go back to the last one is uh talked about growth areas and actions we talked about in that 15 minute cities from downtown to be um to be to be yeah within growth areas and the so it's as it pertains to the LEU 2.3 so it was.

Yeah, Terry can yeah, why don't we read them for you?

Mr.

Vice Chair, I I can read uh just my notes, and then if you guys concur with that, you can say as discussed.

Okay.

Um and then you also really need to uh be in concurrence with Mr.

Whitman's uh Commissioner Whitman's uh comments as well uh for the record.

But let me just let me just summarize uh my understanding.

Um so the changes uh it would be approval and adoption with the following changes.

Um and it's uh page 66 policy LU 2.3.

Uh we are going to in relation to reduce vehicle dependence uh dot to dot uh promoting sustainable mobility within we're gonna add within growth areas to that sentence, and we're also going to put a definition into the glossary for sustainable mobility on that policy.

All right.

Um we have committed to uh double checking uh if the industrial development authority bonds are appropriate.

If not, we're going to swap that out with uh some other form of bonding such as CFDs or community revitalization.

Um and we are going to change the uh title of affordable housing in the glossary to attainable housing.

Then in policy D T 1.8 under uh multimodal street design, where it says what is uh or where it says design for alternative mobility and curb management.

We are going to change that to design to accommodate mobility alternatives, and we're gonna strike out and curb management.

Okay.

Okay.

And then in policy C 1.112, that's under technology.

Um we have integrate emerging tech transportation technologies, dot dot dot, and it speaks about the um examples.

We're going to strike out uh the examples, so that would be including electrical vehicle charging and uh autonomous vehicle readiness.

We're gonna strike that completely and just be general.

Okay.

And then for um the action item uh under PE 16 where it says formalize programs.

We're gonna change formalize to promote.

And then Mr.

Mr.

Chair uh will also have to have um concurrence on uh uh Commissioner Whitman's comments as well.

Right.

Okay, so I'll make a motion to adopt the uh general plan update with the modifications as discussed by Terry, yes, and also incorporate uh Mr.

Whitman's uh not really, they're non-substantive, I would say they're non-substantive comments, but they're to make it read better.

So that's the motion.

Do we have a second?

I'll second it.

All right, can we uh can we have a uh roll call vote, please?

Commissioner Lopez.

Hi.

Commissioner Bacpa.

Hi, Commissioner Whitman.

Aye, Commissioner Crawford, aye, commissioner for Feto.

Vice Chair Tolson.

Aye, and Chairman Paulson.

Aye.

All right, so we have uh we have a quorum.

We have a quorum.

So thank you, everybody, for that, and we are ready to move on to item seven, informational items.

Possible discussion, no action required on the following information pertaining to the city's request for qualifications for from qualified firms to provide airport planning and environmental consulting services for the Eloy Municipal Airport.

Sorry.

So there she is.

Okay, go ahead.

Good evening, Chair, Vice Chair, Commissioners, and Councilman.

For the record, my name is Christina Wozniak, and my role with the City of Eloy is the public works operations manager and the airport manager.

Tonight I'd like to present information regarding the city's request for qualifications for airport planning and environmental consulting services for the Eloy Municipal Airport.

The request is that the planning and zoning commission acting as the airport advisory board, receive information, hold discussion, and provide comments regarding this item if there are any.

On February 27th, 2026, the city issued an RFQ seeking qualified firms to provide professional airport planning and environmental consulting services on an as-needed basis.

Statements of qualifications and offer letters were due on April 2nd, 2026 at 3 p.m.

The purpose of this RFQ is to ensure the city maintains qualified aviation consulting support for both ongoing airport operations and future airport development opportunities.

These services are essential to maintaining compliance with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Arizona Department of Transportation Aeronautics Division.

While also positioning the airport to remain competitive for future grant funding opportunities.

The selected consultant may provide a broad range of services, including airport planning, environmental review and permitting, regulatory coordination, project implementation support, and general on-call aviation consulting services.

Examples of airport planning services include updates to the airport layout plan, airport master planning, airport capital improvement program development, aviation forecasting, and evaluation of future airfield and facility needs.

Environmental consulting services may include National Environmental Policy Act compliance documentation, environmental permitting, biological and cultural resource analysis, and coordination with agent agencies such as the FAA, ADOT, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, and the State Historic Preservation Office.

Additional responsibilities may include FAA airspace obstruction evaluations, grant compliance support, stakeholder coordination and assistance transitioning projects from the planning phase into the design and construction.

One proposal was received by the submittal deadline from Coffin Associates, a Pape Dawson company.

Kaufman Associates has longstanding history with the City of Eloy and the Eloy Municipal Airport.

The firm has provided airport planning services to the city for the better part of 30 years, beginning with the preparation of the airport master plan in 1996.

Throughout that time, they've consistently demonstrated professionalism, technical expertise, responsiveness, and a strong understanding of the airport's operational needs and long-term development goals.

Additionally, Coffin Associates has extensive experience with airport projects throughout Arizona and maintains strong working relationships with the FAA ADOT Aeronautic staff.

Their proposed project team is based in Scottsdale, Arizona, which allows for accessibility and responsiveness to city staff and regulatory agencies when needed.

Based on the firm's qualifications, experience and familiarity with Eloy Municipal Airport, I'm recommending the award of the airport planning and environmental consulting services agreement to Kaufman Associates.

The proposed agreement would be for three years with two optional one-year extensions.

It's also important to note that these services are utilized strictly on an as-needed basis.

The majority of costs associated with the airport planning environmental services are typically tied to the airport capital improvement plan projects that are generally funded between 90 and 95% through FAA and ADOT grant funding opportunities.

Any remaining local requirement match would be addressed through the airport fund and the annual budget process.

Following tonight's discussion and any comments from the commission, I anticipate bringing the agreement forward to the city council for final approval and execution.

This concludes my presentation.

Commissioners have any questions?

Are there any other people that looked or gave a quote besides the one Coffin Associates?

Unfortunately, this timeler was not.

In the past, we've usually had anywhere from one to three companies present statements of qualifications.

I did have a number of consulting firms reach out with questions, but no others decided to submit any statements of qualification.

I reviewed their statement of qualification.

They seem very qualified and able to do what needs to be done.

Yes, they've done a lot of work within the state of Arizona and actually all over the United States.

Right.

I I would I would agree with uh with Commissioner Whitman, and especially since there was only one proposal submitted.

I think it's a done deal.

I agree.

They've been great to us in the past, and they're very responsive.

I actually talked to the uh the main contact for the consulting firm this morning.

He's he's always on top of everything for me.

Do any of the commissioners in the cloud want to comment?

The cloud commissioner already did.

I think there's there's two others I heard up there.

So it sounds like we are hold on.

Okay, go ahead.

I was just saying I'm I have no questions.

Thank you.

All right.

So that was my other voice.

Okay.

So it says zero that we're just discussing no action required, and we have discussed, and I think that being the case, we can move on to the next item.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I appreciate your time.

Thank you.

So we are now on 7B.

Planning and Zoning Commission members and staff will update the public on relevant events and activities they have attended since last meeting, and any future events, activities, or potential agenda items.

Anyone have any input?

Yeah, go ahead, Mr.

Seimer.

Thank you, Chair, Vice Chair Tulson.

Uh it's been a great uh spring this year.

Um we've had a numerous cases.

We've only had one break throughout the year.

And so, but we do have a couple uh cancellations coming up.

We I do I will be canceling uh the June meeting.

Uh I foresee canceling the July, although I'm not positive on that yet.

Um I do it it may be possible that we could have a case in in July.

Uh that would be July 15th.

Uh so uh on that note.

Hopefully, you'll have some good time off.

I know some of us are going to Colorado to get out of town.

Uh other of us are going across to Asia and uh enjoying our time off.

But um that we're looking forward on a construction kind of time frame when we're looking at development activity.

I just want to let you know that we have slowed down quite a bit.

Uh our commercial activity is slowing down.

We're finishing up a lot of projects.

Uh, but we're also kicking off maverick, so you'll be having that.

Our second half of the year uh or a second half of our fiscal year could potentially be extraordinarily busy.

So that coming into December, uh depending on how all this comes together, uh, we'll probably have a light fall and then picking up again in in December or January of next year.

That's what I foresee.

I said that last year, and all of a sudden I got inundated.

So definitely next month we'll uh we'll be canceling that meeting.

And I thank you, Chair, and I do appreciate all your comments on the general plan and your participation, and thank you, uh Councilman Schneider for sitting in today.

Okay, but my only question is I want to know what about that guy who's going to Colorado.

Yeah.

Okay, but but you don't like the heat, eh?

Yes, and yeah, all right.

And yeah, yeah, bringing an update a little bit of what's going on council.

We've been uh pretty busy the last two months.

Uh as most you probably know that our fiscal year ends in the end of June.

So we're heavy into budget time, and we just had uh several uh work sessions on uh the the last session, the final session of our budget that will probably be approved, I think in about uh two weeks, uh council.

Uh 105 million dollar budget for this year.

Uh so we're looking at a lot of projects as uh Mr.

Simers said that uh are in the works, which means we have to have funding for those.

And so the planning is which ones are we gonna get done this year, which ones are gonna continue in the next year, and what's that uh capital improvement plan look like for the next three to five years and putting it in place?

And so we've spent a lot of time uh going through each uh department, department by department looking at expenses, looking at uh salaries, looking at uh uh head counts, looking at expenses, and uh did a pretty thorough job, so I think there's a pretty good consensus, at least from last Monday night of where we are, and a good feeling we're in good shape uh financially.

We've taken some some money out of the general fund and paid off some bonds uh from sewer and water, so we can use some of that uh credit to leverage uh some extra money to build some more infrastructure.

So that's kind of what the whole process has been about.

So that's kind of uh where we've been busy at.

Uh last thing I'd like to remind everybody if you have time at nine o'clock on Monday, we will have a ceremony out the uh cemetery for Memorial Day.

Uh so if you have a chance, stop by.

Uh I understand there's gonna be some uh people dropped in the sky that day, yeah, with some flags, so that's always fun to see the uh to watch uh the talent they have to carry a flag that big down the ground.

But uh, and also let's remember what that day is all about.

So if you have a chance, uh stop by the cemetery on Monday morning at nine o'clock.

Thank you.

And thank you.

Do we the next item says communications?

But I think we've already done the communications.

Yeah, okay.

So that brings us to item nine, uh motion to adjourn.

Do we have a motion?

I'll make a motion to adjourn.

Second.

Anybody second?

I'll second that.

All right.

And let's uh uh all in favor of uh adjournment uh say but do so by saying aye.

Aye.

Any aye.

Anyone opposed?

Aye.

All right, we're adjourned.

Thank you.

Yes.

Thank you guys for being it.

They're down there so there they are.