Okay.

Good afternoon.

Sorry, we we were starting a little late.

We didn't have our name tags.

We don't know who we are if we don't have those.

So welcome to the Mesa City Council study session for August 17th, 2026.

Councilmember Adams is excused.

All other council members are present.

Item number one is to review the agenda for tonight's meeting.

I know we went through this agenda previously, but there are there any additional questions or follow-up?

Wow.

Seeing none.

Item number two is to acknowledge the receipt of board minutes.

Do I have a motion?

Motion from Council Member Heredia.

Second from Councilmember Taylor.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passes unanimously with uh Mayor and Councilmember Adams excused.

All right.

Well, at our last meeting, I think we were pressed against time, so we couldn't get through things, but today we have a little bit of time.

So current events and conferences attended.

We have a few minutes.

Who would like to start?

Somebody went to a conference.

All right.

I'll start then.

So on uh Wednesday, we I uh attended an annual breakfast at Summit at Sunland Springs.

They do a celebration of the first responders.

Police and fire comes in attendance there.

Uh so they they host a breakfast for all the first responders.

The crews rotate through uh and get to meet uh uh with the folks who are at the summit and better circumstances than they would otherwise have to attend.

Uh today, uh there was a big one today.

So today we met uh with the fire department, members of the police department.

We have a young lady in our community that we celebrated uh 16-year-old Leah Jackson.

Uh she taught herself CPR at the age of 10, watching videos and practicing on a teddy bear.

Uh unfortunately, there was a member of the Wisconsin National Guard who was visiting our community who collapsed.

Leah went immediately into action and began CPR.

I gotta tell you, if you saw this young lady, she's a tiny framed young lady, and the soldier is giant, and the fact she did effective CPR uh just showed a lot of leadership and what it means to be in a community to be safe.

Because I tell you, this touches me in a couple ways.

One, I'm a veteran of the military myself, as it is a tight-knit community.

So the fact that she took action like that, my wife is also a veteran of the military.

She grew up in Wisconsin, so we had that connection.

By the way, my wife outranked me, I'm legally obligated to tell you all that.

It was in our wedding vows.

Um but you know, in addition as a firefighter and a paramedic, uh, uh, you know, I've been on many a calls like like this where no one takes action.

Maybe they call 911.

But when you show up on a call and somebody's doing CPR, you look at that and go, we have a shot at this one.

And so for her to take action like that was absolutely 16 years old to teach herself CPR was act absolutely incredible.

Uh Brigadier General uh Brian Anderson and his entire command staff uh flew out from Wisconsin to present her with an award, which was absolutely fantastic.

So uh I see Chief Camelli out here.

Uh I know that I think your social media has posted some photos.

If you're interested in seeing the story, I do recommend it.

Uh but it shows that that first chain in the in the link of sub the link in the chain of survival is critical because we we and we really appreciate our own community uh investing in our public safety, and we see some of that today.

We're gonna be voting on some communications equipment which ties in, uh Lucas device, which performs CPR for our people.

All of this is an investment in our community, but it starts with young ladies like uh Miss Johnson.

So now that I've gone way beyond my time, who else has uh something?

I'll no all right, are you ready?

Okay.