Mayor, when you're ready.

City Council meeting.

Today is Monday, June first, twenty twenty-six, and the time is approximately six PM.

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

Council Member Vajaska.

Here Council Member Curtis.

Okay, so now that brings us to section item number five, public appearances.

Those wishing to address the city council may do so by fine signing in on a form provided by the city clerk identifying the topics or agenda items.

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

Speakers shall be limited to three minutes.

And I see we have somebody on our sheet.

If you would kindly just state your name, the city where you live, and sure.

So thank you for addressing us.

Yeah, it's Brian Kleiser, and it's 4145 West Adobe in Eloy.

And so I just asking uh actually the Department of Buildings and permits to take a look at our permanent application for Apergola, which has been out for since 2-2.

Um and we're now at 6-2 tomorrow, and that permit is still waiting to be issued.

I know there's been some back and forth with my project team uh on it, but we're now four months waiting.

It's beginning to feel like Los Angeles and not Eloy.

Uh so if someone could follow up on that with me directly, that'd be very much appreciated.

Normally I would come down and talk to them, but I have a job that goes eight to five, so I don't have time to get to the city anymore.

Uh and I put the permit number on the sheet so someone from the department could just call me.

I can leave a number with the city manager if that's all right, or the clerk, uh, just as somebody to follow up with me to let me know what outstanding issues there might be so we can get this moving and rolling because it's been four months.

And you have the contact information on the permit that has that number.

Your contact information.

You know, the the um permit was applied for by my landscaping company.

Well, and so they have been to the intermediaries, and uh, you know, it's like where are we with all of this?

I know it's in Veritas' hands right now, and it's been taking you know, they've got a due date of six eight, but again, we started this process February second, so I don't know what the back and forth has been for four months over really what's a pergola attached to the house with some electric.

It seems like I'll okay if you just leave your contact information that'll be happy to do that.

You want me to approach?

Okay, thanks.

Thank you, sir.

And thank you for addressing the council.

That's why we're here.

Yeah, that's what it's right.

Yes, that's why we're here.

Okay, that brings us to section number six, business possible discussion and/or action on the following and this would be adoption of resolution number two six-1659 declaring a public record for that certain document filed with the city clerk entitled the City of Eloy General Plan Update Existing Conditions Report.

There he is.

Thank you, Mayor.

Members of Council Dan Seimer, community development director for the city.

The item before you is a request to create a public record for those items uh item that we presented to y'all about a year ago, which is the existing condition report that establish the baseline for our general plan that we are now updating.

Uh since the report is referenced in the general plan, I wanted to create a public record so that those of the public can then find it.

And it's not sitting on my shelf somewhere or somewhere with the clerk's office.

So that is the purpose of this item.

Okay, will there be any presentation?

Anyone have any questions or any questions?

Not hearing a whole lot.

And that's all you have?

That's it.

All right.

Do I hear a motion to read by title adoption of resolution two six one six five nine?

So moved.

Do we have a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion carries.

Madam Clerk.

Resolution number 26, 1659.

A resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of Eloy, Penal County, Arizona, declaring as a public record that certain document filed with the city clerk entitled City of Eloy General Plan Update Existing Conditions Report.

Do we have a motion to approve resolution 26-1659 as presented?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

May I have a roll call, Madam Clerk?

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Vladraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango.

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Okay.

This brings us now to item B.

We will conduct a public hearing and consider the adoption of resolution number 26-1660, approving case number GPA 2026-001.

City of Eloy General Plan update.

A general plan amendment to adopt the new general plan for the City of Eloy entitled General Plan.

Planning for the Today for a Strong Tomorrow and declaring this record this plan to be a public record.

So at this time I will open the public hearing.

Thank you.

And I'll hand it off to for Terry for background.

I'll come back in at the end of next steps in motion.

So a little over a year ago in February, we started the kickoff of the plan with the approval of the contract with Logan Simpson to be our primary consultant on this.

We started our public outreach with uh the sidewalk sale, Robers and Ranch, and several pop-up events that we had went to over the over the last year, especially in the last the first uh eight months.

We went to a total of 11.

Throughout that process, we did the community feedback where we had the guest speaker come in.

That's right here in the lobby.

We had some public outreach sessions over at Ruberson Ranch, Senior Center, and again here at City Hall.

Throughout that process, we provided updates to the council as it pertains to our findings for each step of the way.

And we gave those uh Terry gave those presentations and those findings and recommendations, and then yet vetted again through the public, had established a baseline and the theme for our plan, all based on community input.

Going into June through January, we had a number of uh public outreach and additional drop-in events and the drafting of its plan itself.

Uh, subject to the to that process, we again did an update in December with the aspirational statements and big goals.

And we again did an outreach session here at City Hall on the on the goals of the plan, and that was also held at Robers and Rans.

Since January, we've been doing what's now we are in phase five, which is our celebration.

We've done we've issued the draft plan in March, which we all sent out to you for public comment for a 60-day mandatory public comment.

During that time, we also did a virtual reality similar simulation, which was attended by approximately 164 people, which we had a really good showing in that, mostly in the uh Eloy proper uh residents, and we also did work sessions with the planning commission and public hearings with them as well.

We also did it throughout this process, did a number of um online some uh online petitions and cut customer feedback along with notices out to the general public to continue to solicit feedback and Terrier will get into the total outreach and contacts we have made.

One other things when we get into the contacts that does not include our Facebook contacts because we are well over a couple hundred thousand people on just Facebook alone.

People that saw it.

We did not encounter those.

We only counted other the actual contacts with people.

So throughout this process, we had significant amount of outreach.

I'm extraordinarily uh happy for the community coming out.

Uh I've worked in other communities where we get a five percent, maybe, and a very less of our minority populations, or in this case our majority population.

Uh, we had a great approximately 40 percent Hispanic uh self-reporting um participation, which was wonderful.

So as we go through the celebration stage, the planning commission has provided a recommendation, and today we're asking for the city council's adoption.

Subsequent to that, we go to voter ratification.

The plan does not go into effect until the voters ratify the plan.

So that kind of gets into where we are right now on a much larger scale stage one is the planning commission recommendation, which was last week.

Today is the council adoption of the plan, hopefully, as a recommended by the planning commission.

And in January or November, we do the voter ratification.

Once the plan has been adopted, city staff has to step back.

We can no longer advocate for the plan.

It becomes the responsibility of the planning commission and the and the council to advocate through the community, as is all ballot items.

So we must step back.

We'll put our little information pack out, pack it out as part of the ballot.

But from that point forward, we step back.

And now I'll pass it over to Terry for the remainder until the very end, which I'll step back in and kind of hit on some high level things again and a little bit of repeat.

And on that, I think you thank you, Mrs.

Simon.

Hey Terry, welcome.

Well, thank you, Dan Simer.

And um again, uh Terry Hogan, the firm Logan Simpson, mayor, vice mayor, uh, members of council.

I'm excited to stand in council, uh, council and city manager.

I'm I'm excited to stand before you today uh at this point in the process and present to you uh your general plan update.

And I'm gonna go over a few things that you've heard before, and I'll go quickly through them just as a public record, just to make sure that we're um continuing to educate along the process.

Uh, but I'm thoroughly excited to be here at this point.

Um Dan pretty much covered everything.

I'm gonna cover it again.

Uh, but we're we're excited to be at this point.

Um so just for the purposes of the public, and and a lot of you can kind of recite this at this point, but general plans.

Um we are a 30,000 foot policy document, the blueprint for growth, not regulatory, not zoning, not capital improvement plans, uh, but it drives all of that.

Um we are the foundation of all planning and development documents.

Everything that you that that comes from this, the the zoning, the subdivision regulations, master plans, uh, up to building permits in the built world is all an implementation of your community's vision, your general plan.

We have 12 topic areas that are covered in your general plan.

Um, those are based upon uh in part uh mandatory statutory requirements uh for populations over 10,000, and you're just just under 19,000 as of 2024.

Uh you can see the the seven elements that are required uh uh on the on the in the middle column and then the elective elements as well.

All of those are covered in your general plan update.

Um again, we are updating your general plan because the state tells us to, uh, but more importantly, uh, because we want to make sure that the community's vision is truly aligned with your community's uh vision and values.

So Dan pretty much covered this uh graphic, but I we wanted to show it again because you've seen this um time and time again.

Uh we are through the five phases, we are in celebration phase, um, and we are poised if council adopts tonight uh to to put uh to put the general plan on the ballot for November for voter ratification.

This is absolutely exciting, our public participation summary.

Um it is uh it is difficult at the best of times, uh, as you all know, to get people to participate in in anything, especially a fun thing, like we think it's really fun, uh general plan update.

Uh, but if you get five, 10% of the population, we're we're doing cartwheels.

If we get 15-20%, we're doing cartwheels.

Um 9400 community engagements, and we we measure those as people that take an action to do something.

So they they sign up to the website, they they actually go onto the website, they come to an event.

We realize that there is some redundancy in here because we had people attend different events that similar uh same people, but all of these activities were were very different.

Uh so we're counting about 9400 engagements.

Uh we know from experience that the awareness level of this is about double that.

So if you think, you know, 19,000, 20,000 people that are actually aware, probably more with your Facebook.

Um it's just excellent.

So uh we've captured all of this.

There's a summary in your general plan, uh, but some of these numbers are just astounding.

I have you know, 4600 website views, uh, 2300 people subscribed.

Uh we had 62 interviews with folks, including all of you, uh, community members that want to participate in that way.

The drop-in events that Dan talked about, in-person events, including the workshops, the Peter Peter Kagiama, the mobile immersion here in City Hall, all really exciting events and all different different things at different type times that really gave us input, good input into this process.

Speaking of the mobile immersion event, we put in a six-page spread into your general plan into the appendix.

So you can take a look at that that's also in your packet, shows some pictures of that, shows some stills of that in relation to how that could be implemented into the general the fabric of the general plan, the airport area plan, and potentially master plans in the downtown area.

60 day public review, as Dan mentioned, that's uh statutory, uh mandatory, pencils down, uh, 60 days from March 4th to May 3rd.

Uh we had the plan available on the project website as well as here in City Hall.

Um we were excited to uh to put to put that out for the public.

Um we had over or nearly 600 people view it, which is awesome.

Um, and then we had about 18 people uh give over 200 comments.

Uh that plan went out to a statutory list.

So all your cities and towns, all uh adjacent, your your uh Arizona State Land Department, the county, et cetera.

These are statutory uh folks that we have to send it to, but then we sent it out to everyone that's touched the plan or or given us input, giving us their information.

We sent it out as a courtesy.

Um so we we had that, um, 17 comments from Arizona State Land Department, uh, one comment, uh annexation issues from from Coolidge that we all addressed.

We put those comments into, yeah, we put those comments into your packet, um, verbatim, the comments, and how the project team chose to address those.

So you have all of those.

Um overall, we're I mean, positive comments.

So we're very excited at this point when we we get to to hear and community members, planning commission members.

They're refining, they're putting their fingerprints, uh, kind of their last minute fingerprints on the plan, making sure that uh things are just so.

Uh we're happy about what what we got.

We felt that it uh clarified things, uh, we we felt that it uh refined things.

We also took it as an opportunity to educate folks during the process.

If they gave us comments that maybe weren't relevant to the general plan but were relevant to planning and development or something else in the city, we were able to educate folks in that root in that regard too.

So really good comments, and and we're excited about that piece.

Okay, um, I want to talk about what you have in your packet and the contents of your plan.

So you can see the structure here on the screen.

Um it's your plans divided into three different uh pieces.

So your background, uh, your key themes, and then implementation and appendices.

Background is just that.

So purpose of the plan, uh, existing conditions that we were just talking about, and then the summary of community engagement.

And then we get into our core chapters.

Those are our key themes.

Uh we'll talk a little, I'll talk a little bit more about that as I go into different exhibits.

Um, but that includes all of those 12 topic areas, uh, including the aspirational uh principles for those, uh, community aspirations and the goals and policies.

And then we get into the strategy, which is the action plan, so the uh systematic action plan, uh, which I'll which I'll show you what that looks like, and then the appendices, which appendices, which have your amendment criteria, um, the list of everything, reference documents, all the events and activities, uh, of course, a glossary, and then high resolution growth area maps, so you can really look at those areas uh in detail.

Um this is the pictorial uh plan, um it kind of the flow of the document, and I like to show this.

Uh, this is also in your document.

The vision statement is is what everything uh is central around.

Uh so uh that's the the broad-based vision statement that drives everything else.

So we have those community-driven themes that we've talked about with all the different topic areas, those have the mini vision statements in it, uh, the kind of the community aspirations, all of that drives your goals and policies, and then that drives your implementation actions as well.

Vision statement.

Um I'll let you read this while I talk about the key terms on the right-hand side.

Uh, you've seen this vision statement, it's gone through the public process, you've had comment on it, um, uh numerous different times in the in the and uh a lot of uh input into the vision statement as well.

Uh the vision statement is broad-based, covers the entire municipal planning area, the whole community.

Uh you drill down into your community aspirations, which are which are topic-based, so those are theme-based.

Uh, your goals look to uh also topics, uh, certain topics and and um aspirations for those, the policies are how do you achieve those goals, and then the actions are uh drilled down into that, how do you achieve that vision beyond rezonings?

In addition to all of those terms we that we have in your glossary, we also have a bunch of glossary items that I'm sure will keep you up at night reading through those.

Okay, so we have color-coded your plan.

So this is uh this is a look at perfect purposeful growth.

Uh so you can see the community aspiration in this kind of gold color and what your policy, what your goals and policies look like.

Um, so just you know, that this is how they're worded, encouraging a diverse diversity of land uses to provide a balanced and resilient community.

How do you do that?

And then there's policies that go along with this.

Mr.

Simer, um, as he brings rezonings and reports to you, will be looking at these and and bringing these to you with reports and recommendations.

So you'll be seeing these over and over again over the next um 10 years.

So actions by theme.

So this is your implementation action table.

I think I said in the beginning, I'm so so excited when uh communities want to do a specific action plan.

Uh and the reason uh for that is it it takes some guts, uh, frankly, to be able to uh look at um different things that you want to do in the next uh five to ten to longer than that, and put them in a plan.

And and we've said this is flexible, it's based on staffing and funding and all of that sort of thing.

But these are things that came out of the process, these are things that your departments are are looking to do that implement growth, implement implement your community's vision, and we put them in the plan.

And so uh Dan will report on an annual basis.

Um some of these are short-term actions, some are midterm, some are long term, some are uh recurring or ongoing, so coordination with different entities.

And on the annual basis, uh, Mr.

Simer will report this to you and and how is your plan being implemented beyond rezonings?

And so this is an awesome thing, and I'm really proud that you guys have this.

Um wanted to talk just a little bit about your municipal planning area.

It has grown uh from the last plan by about 3%.

Um so if you look at this, and I can you see my cursor here?

All right, so um just a couple of things, and and you guys know this, but for the benefit of anyone else that's listening in.

Um, your municipal planning area is made up of a couple of things.

Your the darker area is your incorporated incorporated area, your city boundary.

That's your regulatory boundary.

Uh general plan certainly covers that, but your general plan covers a larger area, and that's about 521 square miles.

I'd say that's almost as big as the city of Phoenix's municipal planning area.

So you guys have a big planning area.

Um that's your that's your area of influence.

So that may be areas that you're gonna annex into the future.

That may be areas that are just important to the fabric of Eloy that you want included, you want to have a say in.

Uh and so that's how that's made up of.

We also have this um potential annexation area here.

You can see kind of in gold.

That area is potentially a regional park.

Uh, and I say potentially because county has been towing with it for years and years.

Uh, there's a lot of state land in that, there's BLM.

So there's a lot to do in that, but Eloy has their eye on that.

Um, and so they wanted to kind of put a stake in the ground and say, we may want to put that in our in our municipal planning area in the future, so it's there, it's in gold.

Um, you know, use the spray on the other communities.

Uh we're looking at it, right?

Um of the most visible aspects of your general plan is the future land use map.

We call it the flume.

Here it is.

Uh this is an update from what you have.

Um we you can see again, a lot of people mistake this for zoning because there's lots of colors, and um, I like to say this this is not zoning, uh, but when you get rezonings, it has to conform to this statutorily, it must match this.

So, what you have on the right hand side are your future land use categories, and you can see they're made up of residential as well as non-residential categories and some other things in there as well.

Um there's um there's uh residential has different um densities, um, and then your non-residential has different intensities.

So commercial is now commerce, and there's different intensities of that.

Your industrial is now employment, there's different intensities of that.

And then we have some mixed use categories, so mixed use, which is a I'll show you a definition of that, and then your planned community area, which is also a kind of a mixed use uh land use, parks and recreation, public institutional, and then we've also put a land use designation of Tahona Odom.

They are not governed by this plan in any shape, form, uh shape or form.

We just wanted to celebrate that they are there.

Um and and thank you very much for being uh with us and being a partner.

Okay, I like, and this is my last slide, uh mayor, um, but I'd like to do it as much as I can kind of an apples to apples comparison between your last plan and this plan in terms of future land use mix.

And that's what this is an attempt to do.

So again, we know that the planning area has has increased a little bit from 2020 uh 504 uh square miles to 521.

Um and the land use categories, we've changed those a little bit.

So we've we've just generalized this discussion.

So we have residential commercial uh for the purpose of this of this discussion.

So what I'm gonna do is just say residential, you can see that that has gone down, generally speaking, from 81% to 70%.

Uh your commercial land use has stayed pretty much the same.

Employment industrial has gone down a couple clicks there from 5% to 3%.

Um your parks and open spaces pretty much stayed the same.

Uh we we collected uh one percent um uh in there.

Um not exactly not exactly sure how that happened, but we've collected a little bit more, I think because of the greater area, uh, but it pretty much stayed the same.

So uh the question is where did everything go?

Um, if you look on your right hand side, we have definitions of mixed use and planned community.

Um a lot of your higher density residential that that folks are are interested in in an appropriate places as well as employment, continued employment.

Uh, we've put those into your kind of your planned uh areas, so mixed use as well as planned area community.

And planned area community, um, those are your robes and ranch, some are residential, uh, some are non-residential, some are a mixture of, but they're planned.

Um planned community area can also be like your airport specific area plan, so a lot of mixture of uses within those.

So didn't take it away, uh, but just put it into a different category in in more of a planned category.

So with that, I'm gonna turn it back over to Mr.

Simer, and uh we will continue with the presentation.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Terry.

So where we're at right now, we're at the council adoption.

I do want to say that throughout the department and throughout the city, all various departments have been reset uh represented in in different forms, whether they're part of this process through the hearing process or providing comments and participated in the workshops.

So we did have a core team of staff, leaders, so to speak, directors and uh managers that were involved in reviewing the plan and the goals and and that, getting our input.

So those were incorporated as well as the public comments.

So where we're at right now, we are looking for council approval and adoption of the plan.

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

So we did go to the planning commission last week.

They did ask for a couple changes in the recommended unanimously approval, and those changes are incorporated as attachments to your report and to the resolution therein.

And we have those.

So the commission did ask for some just some little bit wording changes and some articulation and cleanup and and format of text to make it more reader-friendly, and those are identified in exhibit two of the resolution.

So on that, Mayor and Council, we are asking for the council to approve and adopt the Uloy General Plan, a planning today for a stronger tomorrow via resolution 26160.

Mayor, we'll be happy to answer any comments or questions.

Well, thank you, Mr.

Simon.

First, I'd like to say thank you to you and your team for all this work you put in over these past many, many months.

Thank you.

I like to give a shout out to Terry and the team at Logan Simpson.

Absolutely.

This is my first general plan.

And it's been really interesting.

And I think we all learned a lot up here about you know, a general plan.

And watching it unfold was quite entertaining at some point.

The interactions were a lot of fun.

And yeah, you guys were out there.

You guys are out there at everything we did out in that park and other places.

So hot soft to you.

You guys really stepped up and earned those numbers that we see on this for the engagement.

You guys earned those, those weren't given to you, and thank you for that.

So anybody on my left?

Anything for just a comment that um I just want again congratulate, like the mayor said, you guys did an outstanding job.

And I am so impressed with the community support and the community engagement.

You know, uh, a lot of times when we go through all these reviews and we offer many opportunities for public input, and then we we make our decision, and then they that's when the public comes back collaring and saying, Well, we didn't know, we didn't know.

And I am really impressed with the amount of of uh uh engagement with the community that it took to come up with this plan.

Thank you for that.

Thank you.

As always, right?

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Uh I guess uh my experience has been when it comes to planning areas, there's overlap.

I know we've had discussions in the past with Coolidge on overlapping planning zones.

I know we've had some discussion in the past with Mirana on some.

So our planning area obviously probably overlaps some other communities' planning areas as well.

Has there been much feedback from those communities on that fact and what we're planning to do and uh pointing out that their planning area is maybe over, I guess lap that's first question.

Second question is you said the city or this your department now will step back.

Uh what has to happen to make this thing pass in November?

Because it has to be advertised and people have to be aware it's out there, and who does that?

Because we at council can't really do it.

And so uh just how does that process work so we educate the public that this is on the ballot and uh maybe address those two issues.

Certainly, thank you, Mayor and Council.

The first question is it pertaining to the communities?

Uh heard directly from Coolidge.

Uh they did make comment about how they and the mayor and I were there last year when they encroached into our issue, our area, they made that same comment.

You're now encroaching into ours, and my comment back was you encroached first.

So thank you.

But we did adjust the the boundary based on their annexation map.

So we did address that.

Uh Casa Grand, we worked very diligently to make sure we did not overlap with their areas that we married up with them.

They provided feedback saying they were very happy with our plan, my words, but their words were they were impressed with it.

We again worked directly with their areas.

There was no change from their area, our area or our area.

Um they did not provide direct comments back, but they may were aware.

So uh as it pertains, pertains to public outreach, uh getting this forward, the and I'll probably lean on Steve a little bit on this.

Uh staff has to be because it becomes a political item, we have to step back.

We cannot advocate on behalf of the item.

So it becomes the councils, the planning commissions, and those agencies that are out in the public, we can give you guys information to go and disperse, but we cannot advocate on behalf.

The we will be doing an informational packet that will be made available and on the city website, and we'll also be available through the ballot information that goes out.

So we will be giving those.

On that, Steve, I don't think we can do much more other than the council and the commission advocating.

Mayor, council members.

Um probably been a while since we talked about it, but there is a statute in Arizona, it's 9-500.14, which prohibits cities from using their resources to influence elections, and that also includes the general plan election as well.

But it the section doesn't prohibit the use of city facilities or resources for government-sponsored forums on the issue.

And basically, as Mr.

Seimer pointed out, one of the things that he did to get the word out is the level of involvement that we that they brought with having the community interaction.

This is going to be on websites and issues that are there.

Um there's nothing prohibiting the city council member in their own individual capacity to basically to basically put a letter of support in the information package that goes to the voters, nor is there a prohibition of any type of business entity or group in the community that basically would want to basically you know donate money to have some type of a flyer to basically help approve basically the passage of the general plan for developers.

Having a general plan of this caliber is a great marketing tool for them because basically there is a plan in place rather than having to start from scratch to try to educate the public, there's a vision as to what the council is what the voters have approved.

These are the areas in our community that we want to develop, and this is the manner of the amenities that we're looking for in the type of development.

So it basically is a great planning tool for these individuals as well.

So when they come to the community and there's a question about their development, is well, I looked at your general plan, and this specific use was specifically said this type of area would be appropriate.

And that probably saves them a significant amount of time in the planning process because it may or may not be a situation that might have to be a general plan amendment that would have a very long, almost a year-long process just to get to the council for final consideration and approval.

I guess the word you keep using is Dan and Steve advocate.

What about just advertising the fact that it's going to be on the ballot and don't say plus or yes or no?

Which is a, I mean, can you put out signs, uh road signs and say uh vote on because you're not really telling them how to vote, you're not really advocating for it, you're just making them aware.

The thing I'm trying to avoid, I guess, is somebody to walk into the poll and say, what is this thing?

And so something to track some uh interest so they ask questions before they go, plus or minus.

That's kind of where I was at asking a question about the city stepping back and what can because we at council, yeah, we could go out and we could write letters and we could, but that's not really advertising it.

That's just advocating for or against.

That's where I was coming from.

One of the things that's going to occur is that there's going to be a publicity pamphlet.

It's going to be neutral.

So that there's going to be on the it's going to be on the file, the fall ballot, and there is a provision there that allows arguments for and against.

There's nothing prohibiting a council member on their own to basically advocate for the passage of it.

The only the only caveat to that is basically to write that in there and everything.

That's on your dollar, it's not on city funds, nor can you use city staff or resources to basically help you to plan that position.

You basically have the right as an as a citizen to basically advocate this.

And so when you look at uh the fact that we've got this on the website, you've looked at the Facebook posts that are out there, and I forget that you know the the hits that they had listed on that were basically off the charts and everything.

Could it be you know, could it between now and the election, could it be advertised a little better?

It probably could, but um, I don't think in the years that I've been doing municipal law, which is now 40 years, I don't think I've seen any community take the much the effort to basically bring in the community to participate in this voluntarily or even kicking and screaming.

And so when you look at the statistics that they've told you about the involvement, this is an outlier that basically there has been an active push by staff and the community to be a part of the plan.

And to add to that, we when we did meet with the public, one of the things both Ryan and I and I forgot literally his name that helped me with uh the public.

We told them this is your plan, it goes kind of and then a year be voting on it in November.

That was our constant theme.

We constantly told now that were they remember?

Hopefully, they'll click.

Um, Terry and Dan, I've got a question about the colorful map, the future land use map.

Um that uh you spoke about the different categories.

So the parks and open space, the light green color.

I see a lot of it in the sort of gener, like the outer lying planning areas, and I don't see a lot of it in the more concentrated areas of the city.

I'm wondering if the parks that we have sort of either actually as parks or kind of you know set aside as parks one day if those are a different color, maybe like community areas or something on that map, or like it I don't see them there.

Thank you, uh Mayor Councilman Curtis.

The the smaller the smaller areas, okay.

Thank you.

The parks and trails, thank you.

This is the marks and trails map.

The other one is I intentionally took off the smaller ones because then it just gets too small.

I mean, five acres or three acres on a small site is difficult to see.

Um those areas, especially in master plan communities where they were in their previous plans.

If they decide to massage those boundaries, they have to come back and make a change.

They're stipulated in most of their zoning cases, say I you need to have 30 acres of open space or parks, but it could be massage over here and there, where the current plan locks it in every time you want to do a little tweak, you got to come back to council, go through that year-long process.

I intentionally wanted to have that flexibility.

This plan identifies the location of where those areas are.

And they're also in the plan on another in the attachment or the explanation to the page in here that lists all the locations.

So if we got questions on that, we refer them to this page for sort of a more detailed look at that.

Yes.

And it was one of the things that Terry and I discussed throughout the process.

We would love to get more open space within the city.

Regarding the election information, can the local chamber of commerce are they allowed by statute to help advertise and push the information for this project?

The short answer is yes.

Okay, just to clarify, I as a council member as a citizen of this community can advertise on my own to push this out.

Can I use my position as a council member to push it?

I think you can, but you you you can state that you're a council member, but it would be saying that you are basically advocating on your behalf.

And you're not using any resources that you know from the city of Eloh are using your position as the city of Eloy to basically further this matter.

I just wanted to be shared.

Can we like share information on our social media about it?

That is information that has been produced by the city or Dan or Terry.

Yes, you can share information on there.

You can even have a banner if you jump out of an airplane over the parachute.

There's a strong possibility of that.

First, this is my third general plan.

They're actually I'm starting to enjoy them.

There's the problem with that.

Um but I do want to say that 10 years ago, the city worked out the boundaries with Mirana quite nicely and very civilly.

So that is part of the reason we had not a word from them.

In fact, we were just talking about it because I I think that the pumpkin patch was one of those areas we talked about and gave up to them.

Um second, I have a question about participation with our youth.

I know that my students came up with the immersion lab, and they I'm not sure if they enjoyed the immersion lab or enjoyed being out of school.

Might be a 50-50.

Or the food that they or the food that they ate.

Uh but uh outside of the immersion lab, what participation did we get from those 13 to 19-year-olds?

That's a great question.

We did we did do uh specific workshop at the high school uh that was attended by mostly the honor society students, but that was the most that those are the two more organized events, but when we look at our participation, are the people that attended the events in the in the park, those are mostly parents and students and younger.

You know, so they we had a mantra of age groups in that group in that area.

So as it pertains to students themselves, I'm assuming that they're a little as big that they're students.

So I would say we did hit the students fairly well, and they did participate in providing comments in that in those two structured events, but then the less structured events we also had them.

Well, I I am glad to hear that because in 10 years, these are the kids are gonna be roughly 20 to 30 years of age.

So seeing them participate now and taking that active role, I think is important.

And thank you for making that available for our students.

Thank you.

And that's a really good point because that was something that Ryan and I continuously told people this is not for us, this is for your kids.

These are for and the kids that were out there, their younger teenagers.

This is your plan.

This is what you're gonna be looking at when you're our age.

So I just felt old for a second.

So killing me.

Those brochures you were mentioning that will be available.

I know they're going out with the um ballots, but can you share maybe one with us and we can then get copies?

Because there are groups that I belong to at ropes, and I'd love to share it with them.

Oh, that's possible.

Yeah, yeah.

We're we're just starting, we've got some council.

Yeah, we're just starting the the sketches of those.

I do believe we have to have that the first week of July.

So yeah, so somewhere in that area.

And of course, they that's when we have to have their comments too in that the supports.

I believe so.

I'm not positive.

I'm looking to Selene, I don't remember two weeks.

Can I go on vacation?

No, just kidding.

It won't be changed.

Anybody else?

Anybody else from council have anything to add?

Now this is a public hearing.

I see members of the public.

Anyone from the public have anything to add at this point in time?

No.

Okay.

Seeing none hearing none at this point, I will close this public hearing.

Do I hear a motion to read by title only?

Resolution number two six-1660.

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Hearing none, madam clerk.

Resolution number 26, 1659.

A resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of the long, it's the longer one.

Resolution 261660.

A resolution of the mayor and city council of the city of Eloy, Arizona, approving case number GPA 2026, hyphen 001, City of Eloy General Plan Update, a general plan amendment to adopt a new general plan for the City of Eloy, entitled Eloy General Plan, Planning Today for a Stronger Tomorrow, and declaring the plan to be a public record to be the new general plan for the City of Eloy, which will be sent to the qualified electors of the City of Eloy for potential ratification.

Do we have a motion to approve resolution 26-1660 as presented?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

A second.

Madam Clerk, please.

Councilmember Garcia.

Yes.

Councilmember Galindo.

Yes.

Councilmember Valdraska?

Yes.

Councilmember Curtis.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Tarango?

Yes.

Councilmember Schneider.

Yes.

Mayor Sutton.

Yes.

Okay.

We're about to we're about to close the meeting here.

I'd like to thank everybody for attending.

And do we have a motion to adjourn?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Thank you, everybody.

Safe trip home.

Thank you, Meredith Council.