The technical review meeting for the City of Mesquite was held on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at 10:30 AM. The council addressed several agenda items for inclusion on a future regular meeting, including a presentation on a proposed land swap, a budget augmentation, a tourism grant presentation, and a court MOU. Public comment raised concerns about placing a bid award on the consent calendar, prompting a motion to move that item to administrative items.
Okay, get used. Welcome everybody to the Tuesday, June 16th, 2026 technical review meeting for the City of Mesquite. We will go ahead and start off with opening public comment. Okay, seeing none. We'll move on to our work session. Do we have anything to add today? Councilwoman Gallo. I'm also gonna need your assistance with this because it's a project we've been working on. Okay, yep. Um so what I I and I don't know how you guys want to word this. We're looking at doing a uh land trade for a piece of property on Mesquite Boulevard be across from the movie theater at 750 West Mesquite Boulevard, four and a half acres. Um Mr. Apple is looking to put in an indoor pickleball court. And um I understand now uh John is a good friend of his John Rosen, and they're looking to put the upstairs call something called the hangout for for young people. So we're looking to do a land trade. Now I need your help because I don't remember where the land is that they're trading it for. So the land they're interested in, and of course, this is just kind of start the process and get some you know uh bids and that kind of thing and some uh appraisals, I guess, is the 40 acres set aside by the master plan committee at the north end of that 500 and or 490 whatever acres. Um so basically an equivalent amount of acreage to whatever the trade value would be four and a half on the boulevard versus however many it would end up being of our property at the north end of that 495 acres, specifically the 40-acre parcel that the master plan committee put aside set aside for. So whether that would be the whole 40 acres or a part or what that would end up being. So we also want to look at the fact that there's electricity and water on the one piece and there's nothing on the other. So that's it would be more of a. Yeah, so we'd have to get appraisals and value for value. But yeah, so what we can talk about here is just the agenda item to be added during the meeting. And so explain to me is it kind of you want to just get the process going? Because usually we would um under the charter, we'd have to get some appraisals and do that, and then once we've got that, then we bring it in front of the council for the first meeting where we the council determines that this could be something that could be sold or otherwise transferred for economic development, is how I was thinking it would go. So maybe it's do we usually do basically the first I could be wrong. Is the first step saying do we are we interested in having this slide? Yeah, so we we could we could have just saying, hey, for this piece of property, we're ready to move forward with the so that's basically I think what we're looking for, are we interested in doing this? And if we are, then let's go through all that other so it would be the consideration of a resolution for the sale of whatever that property is for economic development. Well, I'd I'd say yeah, for for the sale or otherwise or other transfer of that property for economic development purposes. Um Martine would usually be on that. Yeah, she would be doing on the land. This would be Martin's the one who's most familiar with this process and would be the one to start that. Okay, so and we the city did do a swap in 2021 before, so I know we've done it before, but we could look at that and see what we did. But but for this meeting, the motion would be to add an item to you know consider a resolution to sell or otherwise transfer that property for economic development purposes. Okay. Um, but what what is the property exactly? 750 West uh Mosquite Bowl is the one piece. That's the one we don't own. That's the one we don't own. So we need to make identify that. It doesn't necessarily have an address on it. Umge parcel number, if we got the parcel number, we could put that in. But you could pass a motion directing like staff to prepare the appropriate agenda item. Okay. I think that would be sufficient. Okay. So can we have discussion on that, or should we just have public comment and then make the motion and then yeah, I would do public comment and then a motion to add that to the agenda for next meeting. Okay. So I'll go ahead and open that up for public comment.