The Payson Town Council met on February 11, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. in the Town Hall Council Chambers. The meeting covered a consent agenda, a public hearing on the Home Rule expenditure limitation, a controversial lease amendment for affordable housing, and a detailed parks and recreation update. Several items required separate votes after being removed from the consent calendar.
Forget his password. He's locked out. Alan locked out. Do I need to think of the comments? You can vote for me too. We're ready. Call this regular meeting of the common council of the town of Pays into order, February 11th, 2026. Pastor Joe. Two Sonardi. Close enough. Join me in prayer, please. Thank you, Your Honor, and committee members. Papa, we come before you and uh we thank you, Lord, that as a heavenly father, you're the source of all wisdom and understanding. And today we lift up a local Payson town council meeting, Lord, and give it to you and ask you, Lord, to give uh each and everyone involved, grant them wisdom uh that surpasses any human uh understanding or reasoning. Let every decision be made, Lord, as we guide uh this town, Lord God, and to uh make it better, Lord, for all the community that lives here. We thank you for PACIN, Lord God, pray your blessing continue to be upon it and just guide and lead us in order this meeting, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. I gladly of the United States of America with liberty and justice for all agenda item A, call to the public. Call to the public's time to allow citizens the opportunity to speak on any issue within the legal authority of the and jurisdiction of the town of Payson. Town must abide by the Arizona Open Meeting Law and this what roll call? Roll call. I'm sorry. Oops. Megan, please. Let the record reflect that all council members are present. Council member Tubbs. Thank you. Back where I was this agendized item is the public's opportunity to be heard in this meeting. We're going to be discussing policy, not personalities. We're gonna limit, we're not going to put up with the personal attacks, and uh we will move forward. If if I call you and the and you want to talk to an agenda item, not just general call to the public, please do tell me, and uh I will put you back at uh that the appropriate agenda item. You're limited to three minutes. And that being said, let's go. Uh Brooke Myers. Okay. Okay. Mike Bowden. Members of the council and uh residents of Payson. I'm here to um talk about a very sad and tragic issue about these missing kids in Arizona here, for example. Um many kids are disappeared from the uh valley, and many of them. Can we focus on Payson kids, Mike? Um, yeah, well, it's gonna come back around a pacing. Okay. Um many of these kids may have been soft abducted through custody battles and things like that, but there are obviously some hard abduction issues. The FBI doesn't have any hard numbers on you know what's what with this, but they're anywhere from six hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand kids go missing every year in the United States. And um my supposition is that many of them maybe get traffic through Payson uh on the way to elsewhere. And so my my recommendation was that uh the police department keep catalogs of missing kids from the valley in their vehicles so that if on the chance that maybe uh an abductor takes them into Walmart or someplace to get something to eat, that there may be a citizen, there may be um someone else maybe recognizes an off-duty police officer. Um any case, I think it would be a good idea, and um I also thought, and this is kind of an aside. Uh a lot of these uh truckers go into these uh truck stops, you know, and they could have missing kids placarded all over the sides of those things. I'm currently working on a t-shirt initiative to revamp this idea of missing kids on like walking milk cartons idea, and also talking with a water bottling company for uh getting water bottles all over the uh country with uh missing kids' portraits on them.