The Lake Havasu City Council met on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, at 5:30 PM. The meeting included a consent agenda, multiple public hearings, and a call to the public. Key decisions included approval of a major general plan amendment and rezone for a 90.5-acre mixed-use development on the island, approval of a new laboratory building project, and introduction of an ordinance updating the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board code. The meeting adjourned after approximately 4.5 hours.
All right. Good evening. Welcome. I call to order the Lake Kavasu City Council meeting on Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at 5 30 p.m. Happy New Year. This is our first meeting of 2026, and thank you all for being here. We're gonna have our invocation by Chaplain B. Evans, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by the Lake Havasu Chiefs. Cheer. Well, happy new year. Isn't this a wonderful time to bless our city and our employees? Let's do that. Heavenly Father, we just love you, and we're so grateful that you know us, that you control the things that we can't. We thank you, Father, that you're here tonight because it sounds like this is gonna be an important thing where we need lots of yeses and lots of no's, whatever is truly on hearts. And I thank you, Lord, that you're so faithful to us. Lord, I do lift up our employees, the city, our fire, our chief, all of the people that work within those uh departments, Lord, and the thousands of other employees that we have all over the all over this city. And Father, I know you're blessing them and you're blessing their families. I thank you for the city council. I thank you, Father, that they do read all the stuff before they get here and they know exactly what's going on, and they ask intelligent questions. So, Father, I know it's because they ask for your wisdom in all of this. So I ask a blessing on them tonight that their yes would surely be yes and their no would be no in the mighty name of Jesus, amen. And secret republic for nation justice. Thank you. And then if you just want to make your way to the podium and uh face the dais uh on the microphone and share a little bit about your organization. Hi, my name is Kylie. I am 13, and I've been doing the Lake Havasu City Chiefs here for about seven years. This will be my eighth year doing it. And something that I really like about it is that you get to meet new people across the city, and the fact that you can learn to try to get out of your shell more, and you can learn how to get more confidence from it. Hi, my name is Audrey. I'm seven years old. I've been doing cheer for one year, and my favorite thing is stunts. Fantastic. So these are one of my amazing cheerleaders. My name is Vanessa Kondra. I am the chair director and board member, one of the board members for the Lake Havasu Chiefs cheer and football team. So what I want to bring over is these girls, they don't only just stunt and cheer to the crowds, encouraging the football players. We talk about sportsmanship. And no matter how many times we lose, we show the team that we are amazing and a reminder that we can move forward. So this is my first year with the Lake Havasu Chiefs cheer, and what I love about it is family-like community. I'm brand new to the city, two years. I still consider myself brand new. And what I love about it is just community and showing what we can do. So when you see us there, cheering for the crowd. We're cheering for our families. We're cheering for the football players, the family, and the community. And we want to make sure that we are ambassadors for the city and have potential leaders here, such as Audrey and Kylie. So we thank you. And hopefully for this fall, uh, we have we're gonna be starting our uh games in around like September, October, but we'll be doing recruits in July. So if you know anybody, a young lady or a young gentleman who is interested in cheering for our city and for our team, let us know. We are there for there because we strive for leadership and community.