The Gilbert Town Council met on October 28, 2025, to discuss a wide range of issues including water billing complaints, the Heritage District redevelopment impact on American Legion Post 39, consent agenda items, and the removal of a board member. The meeting opened with a proclamation declaring November 2025 as Alzheimer's and Caregiver Month. Public comment was extended to one hour due to a large number of speakers.
I will uh go ahead and call to order the regular council meeting of October twenty-eighth, twenty twenty-five. Our invocations this evening will be led by um council by um I'm sorry, the invocation will be led by council member Lyons. Let's bow our heads in prayer. Father, we come to you tonight acknowledging the privilege that we have to be able to assemble together and to be able to govern the lives that you have given us. We thank you, Lord God, for this freedom. We ask that you would give us wisdom tonight as we discuss the issues before this town, mindful of our relationship with each other and our relationship with you. I just pray, Lord, that you let your spirit rest upon this room, give each person that speaks and listens the guidance to be able to understand and to hear and to internalize from your perspective. We ask for your grace and your mercy to be extended to all. And we asked all these things in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Councilmember. Our Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Councilmember Koprowski. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, roll call. Mayor Scott Anderson. Here. Vice Mayor Bobby Buckley. Here. Councilmember Chuck Bon Giovanni? Here. Councilmember Kenny Bucklin. Here. Councilmember Young Kaprowski. Here. Councilmember Monty Lyons? Here. And Councilmember Jim Torgeson. Here. A quorum is present. Thank you. We have some information to share with the audience that might be valuable for you to know. So I've asked that that report be given at the beginning. Additionally, we've been able to augment um our customer service team as well as our we're working on augmenting our water resources and conservation team. They were able to complete um almost double or more than double the amount of audits in the last two weeks. And so kudos to the water conservation team for the checkups they've been able to squeeze in in addition to the already planned audits. Um or any data that they're requesting. Really quickly, we have a profile on our Gilbert Fire and Rescue Department this week. Most people may not be aware that in addition to fighting fires, the vast majority of our fire crews also respond to medical calls. In fact, I think it's about 75% of these of their calls are medical in nature. We also have a transportation unit, thank you to the vision of the mayor and council several years ago. And so our ambulance unit unit is housed in our fire and rescue department and a community risk risk reduction team, where they troubleshoot area hot spots that we're seeing in our data trends, for example, falls, and create programs proactively to work with populations that might be experiencing those risks. And as an example, we've seen a 24% reduction last fiscal year in the amount of falls amongst our senior primarily our senior citizens. Upcoming events that we have. So another accomplishment for our fire and rescue team. And this is a great video. Captain Joe Sperky and his crew from Station 1 responded to a call at a local senior citizen or assisted living facility. And they heard some music playing during social hour. Some of the residents asked our fire crew members to participate in their activity, and they made their day and participated with some dancing on the dance floor. So really great community engagement from our fire and rescue teams.