Note: The transcript itself identifies the meeting date as November 17, 2025, but the provided timestamp specifies November 18, 2025. This summary uses the timestamp date as instructed.
The Mesa City Council held a study session on November 18, 2025, to review the upcoming council meeting agenda, discuss a requested continuance of a furniture purchase, clarify a capacity fee ordinance, and hear council member updates on community events and staff commendations.
Well, everyone, welcome to the Mesa City Council study session for November 17th, 2025. We'd like to welcome Miss Taylor as our newest council member in District 2. Thank you, Ms. Taylor. Thank you for having me. Okay. Councilmember Hurry is unable to attend as excused from this meeting. Otherwise, all other council members are present. Item one is to review the agenda for tonight's council meeting. I know we went over this agenda previously, but are there any additional questions on tonight's agenda? And I'd like to turn a moment over to our city manager. Great. Mayor council, we would like to uh for council if uh to take action to continue to a time indefinite item 4C, which is the uh furniture purchase. Uh we would like further time just to evaluate that, look at different options and uh get back to council in the future uh with that. So if uh if if council's so amenable, then uh Mr. Christopher could read into the record that it would it's continued to a date uh uncertain. All right, I'll need consensus from the council. But Mr. Smith, did you want to add something? No, no, no, it's perfect. Okay, Mr. Adams is stuff. I don't want to put anybody on the spot, so if I hear nothing otherwise, then I'll just say move forward with that, Mr. Christopher. Thank you. Okay. And Mayor, uh Mr. Smith also wanted to clarify an item as well, too. Yeah, Mayor and Council, it's item six A, it's the capacity fee. We we made just a few clarifying uh changes. Uh and and just you know, the the version that's in legislator has these changes, the clarifications. It's I think it's six words exactly. And the the clarification is to do this. It's to just to say that if you have an existing meter and we replace that meter, whether it's because you asked for one or we we think you need a new meter, there's no fee. There's not a charge for just replacing like for like meter um size. And if you if you place a meter with a larger meter, you only get charged that delta between the prior meter size and then the bigger. And that's was always the intent, and there was already language, but we added some additional language just to further clarify that um because we had had some questions about that. So we thought it was appropriate to just add some additional language to that. It ended up being, I think, six words. All right, very good. Uh any discussion on the utility rates. I think Ms. Duff, you did you want to say something here or upstairs? Okay. So with that is for introduction only, as we know, for utility discussion. Anything else on tonight's agenda, council? Yeah. I think we're we're all good. Yeah. Okay.