All right, good evening, everyone.

I like to call this regular City Council meeting to order Tuesday, May nineteenth.

Today we have uh Jared Lasky leading us in the invocation, sir, if you don't mind.

Precious Heavenly Father, may your presence be upon us tonight, and upon your counsel and upon this city.

May your grace and wisdom saturate this place and your holy spirit guide us as a community.

Councilman Haney.

Councilman Hastings.

Councilman Chad.

Thank you, Mayor.

Yeah, for him.

So tonight we have our US our newest youth council members, so they're gonna swear in.

But before they do that, if they could lead us in the pledge, please all join us.

Thank you.

Last there was like three or four of them, but tonight we have two amazing things to celebrate in our city.

One is the Valley Vista monsoon uh 2026 6A Girls State Championship.

If you could come up here, please.

So as they're as they're making their way up, there's a couple notes that I have to read.

That's they are the most winning ladies' basketball program in the entire state.

They've had seven out of the last 10 years, they've won the state championship.

That is some incredible work.

So the the coach would like to speak, but I wanted to give you one of my mayor challenge coins.

It's on here it says deeds not words.

It's exactly what you all live by.

I appreciate all your hard work and effort.

Thank you, Mayor.

What you're doing.

Absolutely.

The floor is yours.

Thank you.

Um, thank you, Mayor, for having us here tonight on behalf of Dysart Unified School District and Valley Vista uh High School, the girls' basketball team, myself, my coaches, my athletic director are here to just say thank you for allowing this time to recognize us.

Um these athletes work extremely hard.

Um, I try my best to hold them accountable and just set them up for future success.

I know these young women are become are going to become CEOs one day.

They're gonna have their own families, they're gonna be great mothers.

So just to be a part of this, to be a part of surprise and to represent this community means so much, and we just really appreciate the recognition.

And I am extremely proud of my team and my coaches.

Without them, I wouldn't be standing here, and I'm just super grateful.

So thank you for everything, and thank you, Mayor.

Do you have one stand up for?

Yeah, okay.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

I really appreciate it.

All right, so we got another uh winner of it's the robotics, the launch team robotics, and I'm gonna have them come and talk about it.

But it's uh a local uh robotics team.

If you guys want to come up while I'm saying a couple of words, um they won a state champ uh championship impact award.

So out of they were selected over 3700 teams, they were selected for this award.

And so it goes, it speaks to their uh it's incredible work, all their effort and time.

So I'll uh I'll let you say a few words.

Congratulations.

Yeah, thank you.

So uh our organization won the uh championship impact award at the first world championships.

It's the award that represents uh exemplar for other teams to emulate and recognizes a team that makes a meaningful impact in their community over a sustained period of at least three years.

In our case, this was our 10th anniversary, so it meant a lot for us to be recognized on the world stage on such a momentous occasion.

We just want to say uh thank you to everyone for your support of launch team, the mentors, the family members, the parents, the friends, but especially the city of surprise for believing in us and providing that support.

Uh who would have thought that uh small town team from uh surprise would uh be able to be recognized on the world stage like this.

Uh borrowing the words from our city founder and continue to surprise everyone with just how much we amount to.

Thank you so much.

Good job, guys.

Good job.

You two coach one second.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

We have so much good going on in the city, and it's an incredible opportunity to celebrate uh the students, the the engineers, and I'm thankful that we have the study that we do and the people that put their time and effort and passion into it.

So thank you for coming and doing that.

Um we'll do the city manager report.

Yes, Mayor, Council members.

Uh, tonight, two items.

First, Seth Dyson to announce a special presentation for some scholarship awards.

Okay.

Good evening, Mr.

Dyson.

Thank you, Andrea.

Uh, mayor, members of the council.

It's my pleasure to introduce our surprise Dr.

Martin Luther King Junior Advisory Committee, who uh just celebrated their tenth year of doing our phenomenal celebration, and um part of that was they uh decided to create a scholarship program to celebrate our phenomenal young adults in surprise.

So tonight um uh I'd like to introduce Dr.

Cheryl Pete, who has been one of the founding members of our Dr.

Martin Luther King Junior Advisory Celebration Committee, who will be presenting, sharing and presenting the award.

So, Dr.

Pete, welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Dyson.

Good evening.

It is my pleasure to present the Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Award this evening.

Each year since 2016, Mrs.

Mary Metlot, Outlaw, and Mr.

Paul Outlaw, and the MLK Advisory Committee have supported the planning and implementation of the City of Surprise, Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Day of Service.

After the 10th year, Paul and Mary expressed a desire to do even more and generously donated $1,000 to launch our MLK scholarship.

In addition to giving back to the community through service, the committee is also sharing their personal resources to support the next generation.

In support of this effort, the MLK Advisory Committee contributed additional funds, bringing the total scholarship amount to $3,000.

As this is our inaugural scholarship award, we are proud to recognize all of our applicants with a portion of the $3,000 raised.

As Dr.

King said, the function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.

Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education.

As I call your name, students, please come forward to the front to be recognized, and we will take a group photo after everyone has received their award.

First, I would like to introduce Raul Le Lavier from Shadow Ridge High School.

Raul will attend.

Raul will attend the University of Notre Dame.

And pursue a career in neuroscience.

Kayen will attend the University of Arizona and pursue a major in veterinarian medicine.

Our last recipient in attendance tonight is Neela Newton from Willow Canyon High School.

Neela plans to attend Grand Canyon University, where she will pursue a degree in entrepreneurial studies with a minor in Spanish.

There are three recipients who are not with us this evening.

That is Pate and Anthony of Highland Prep of Surprise.

Peyton will attend the University of Arizona.

Jacob Blackshear of Shadow Ridge High School.

Jacob will attend Imbrie Riddle at Aeronautical University to major in mechanical or electrical engineering.

And the last is Brianna Scott of Highland Prep for Surprise, and she will attend Arizona State University.

According to Dr.

King, true education goes beyond knowledge.

It nurtures both the mind and the soul.

When intelligence is guided by character, it creates individuals capable of shaping a better, more compassionate world.

On behalf of our work, the MLK Advisory Committee wishes you students the best as you begin the next chapter of your academic journey.

Thank you, Council.

This time we'd like to invite all the MLK Advisory Committee members up forward to have a picture with our award recipients and Mayor and Council.

And I'd also like to recognize Katrina and Patricia and team HSEV who hope pulled us together in the back.

All right.

One, two, three.

Thank you.

One, two, three.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Next, uh, introduce our youth council members.

We have Record Yeager and Phoebe Gardner.

First Record will speak.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

My name is Riker Yeager, and I am a sophomore at Shadow Ridge High School.

This is my first year serving on Surprise Youth Council where I'm a member of the outreach committee.

First, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight.

On behalf of the Surprise Youth Council, I'm excited to share a few ways our youth are continuing to serve the surprise community.

This Friday from 5 p.m.

to 8 p.m., SYC members will be volunteering at the City Surprise Safety Splash at the OASIS Swim Center.

This community event helps families learn important water safety skills through activities like mini swim lessons, first responder rescue demonstrations, and life jacket giveaways.

We are excited to help support the event and connect with families in our community.

As the school year comes to a close, we would like to still recognize our graduating seniors of the Surprise Youth Council.

These students have dedicated their time to representing the voices of surprise youth, organizing community events, and giving back to our city.

We are proud of all they have accomplished and wish them continued success in their next chapters.

Thank you again to the mayor city council for your continued support of the youth in our community.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

My name is Phoebe Gardner, and this has been my first year serving on Surprise Youth Council.

I'm a sophomore at Shadow Ridge High School and also a member of the outreach committee.

Riker and I have both served as project leads for the street cleanup initiative this year, and it's been incredibly rewarding to see the progress we've made while helping our community.

Currently, SYC is offering a teen survey to gather feedback on what teens would like to see in Surprise.

The survey only takes a few minutes to complete and is intended to help shape future events, spaces, and opportunities for youth in our city.

The teen survey can be found on the Surprise Youth Council Instagram page and is open until June 14th.

Another exciting update is that we are welcoming new members in Surprise Youth Council tonight.

At this time, SYC is focused on preparing and welcoming these new members by planning a retreat for the upcoming year.

Riker and I are especially excited to continue our commit community service initiatives next year and collaborate with the new voices.

We look forward to hearing the new voices and ideas that will continue to inspire and strengthen our community.

Congratulations to the new members and thank you, Mayor and Council, for this opportunity to speak tonight.

Thank you.

That's all.

Madam Clerk, do you have a report?

Yes, Mayor.

We'll begin the swearing in ceremony shortly after Shelby is going to introduce all of our new members.

They'll come forward and then I will come down and administer their oath.

Good evening.

Thank you, Christy.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Before I begin, I did want to uh recognize that there are four, five, maybe six uh current youth council members on this uh world-winning robotics team.

So that's something I um am extremely proud of them for as well as the rest of their group.

Um so to uh begin, I want to um start by saying that I have the privilege of introducing the newest members of the surprise youth council.

I am thrilled to welcome these bright and motivated young leaders as they are officially sworn in to the council this evening.

Each of them brings unique perspectives, talents, and a strong passion for serving our community.

Qualities that will strengthen both the council and its mission.

I'm especially proud of the continued growth of the Surprise Youth Council and the increasing number of students who are stepping up to serve their community and develop as leaders.

Tonight marks the beginning of their journey as youth leaders.

I am confident they will bring fresh ideas, dedication, and enthusiasm to the city of surprise.

We truly appreciate your continued support in providing these students with an opportunity to reset to represent their peers and make a positive impact in the community.

At this time, I will call each of their names.

They will join me up at the front.

Following that, our city clerk will administer the oath.

First up, we have McKenna Murray, Alexis, Alexis Portillo, Caleb Heineken, Ava Lucero, Isabella Neito, David Thompson.

Caden could not be with us tonight, but we have Caden Noble.

Heidi Vanderwagen.

Ryan Katsu, I'm sorry, Kohatsu.

Sorry about that.

Louis Lee Lear.

And Malachi Lasky.

Thank you, Shelby.

So if everyone could please raise your right hand, and then you're gonna repeat after me.

I state your name.

Do solemnly swear.

That I will commit myself.

To the highest level of professional conduct.

And standards.

As set forth for the surprise youth council.

Surprise youth council.

And then I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties.

Discharge the duties.

I have the position of surprise youth council member.

Surprise youth council member.

According to the best of my ability.

So I do affirm.

So I do infirm.

Congratulations, you're officially sworn in.

Speech in.

I'm gonna take your guys' picture.

Here we go.

Yeah.

And we'll have a few of you step up on the interesting one.

All right.

All right, here we go.

One, two, three.

Hold up your certificates.

All right, here we go.

One, two.

Oh, you have your oath one.

There you go.

It's okay.

One, two, three.

Perfect.

All right.

Thank you.

There are eight items on the consent agenda.

Would anyone like to pull one for clarification?

Hearing no comments or requests.

I will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Move to approve the consent agenda.

Second.

It's been moved and seconded.

Please cast your vote.

That's passed out, Mayor.

All right, thank you.

Let's move on to our regular agenda items that require a public hearing.

Please read item number nine.

Item nine, consideration and action regarding the desert trails annexation.

I request to annex approximately 10 acres of vacant land.

Generally located on the 211th Avenue Roadway Alignment.

North and South of Deer Valley Road.

Good evening, Miss Corney.

Good evening, Mayor, Council.

The item before you is the Desert Trails Annexation.

It's their final annexation hearing.

Case numbers FS 250856.

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So the site's generally located on the north, well, located northeast of Sun Valley Parkway and 29th Avenue, just west of the Ford Proving Grounds.

This annexation is being requested so the applicant can dedicate the required 55 foot of future right-of-way to the city of the prize for their desert trails development agreement.

On the slide you'll see the annexation location in uh cyan color and the city limits.

On this slide, you'll see how it the city limits will be extended and the uh site will be incorporated.

Um a neighborhood meeting was held on January 28th, uh 2026.

There was one attendee, the representative from Ford Proving Grounds, who just wanted clarification on the intent of the annexation and if it would affect any of the agreements they had previously during the rezone process.

Um their comments were his comments were addressed, and we have received uh no opposition to this annexation request.

Here's an overview of the annexation process.

Uh the applicant um tained all the signatures required.

So tonight's hearing is the final public hearing in which city council takes action.

This concludes my presentation.

We have a representative from RVI here if you have any questions, and I'm also available.

Okay, thank you.

I will open this agenda item to the public.

Madam Clerk, do we get any requests to speak?

I did not, Mayor.

I'll close this item to the public.

Council, did you want a presentation from the applicant?

No.

Okay.

I'll entertain a motion.

I move to approve annexation ordinance number 2026-13.

Case FS 25-0856.

Second.

It's been moved and seconded.

Please cast your vote.

Of course.

That's a pass vote, Mayor.

Thank you.

Please read item number 10.

Item 10, consideration and action pertaining to a rezone of approximately 10.7 acres from rural residential to community commercial for property generally located at the southeast corner of 163rd Avenue and Dynamite Boulevard.

Face FS24-1442 ordinance 2026 14.

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All right.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Uh item before you is the Pure Heart Church annexation, or not annexation in the rezone.

Case number is FS241442.

This site is generally located on the southeast corner of 163rd Avenue and Dynamite Boulevard.

The current zoning is rural residential.

The parcels to the north, east, and south are also zoned rural residential.

The property east of 163rd Avenue lies within county jurisdiction and has the RU43 zoning.

The proposed zoning is C2.

Community commercial.

It's also located adjacent to the rural residential overlay.

The overlay supports neighborhood commercial uses on sites that are 15 acres or less.7 acres.

This is our table from the LDO.

These would these the C2 standards that would be the requirements for development.

Due to the timing of this project or this application, the project will not be subject to any of the development standards that are imposed with the desert rural overlay that you discussed earlier.

The applicant also submitted a conceptual site plan of the overall campus.

The over of the whole site.

The southern parcel also extends to the east.

The wash is intended to be kept natural and used as an amenity site.

Full access to the commercial site will be taken off of Dynamite Road with a secondary ride-in-right out driveway.

There is also a ride-in-right out off of 163rd, but this site will also be accessed via the full access and secondary ride-in right out on the southern parcel of the main campus.

A neighborhood meeting was held on February 11th.

The applicant addressed the concerns, and the city has not received any additional feedback or opposition to the project.

On May 7th, the planning and zoning commission offered a recommendation of approval.

This concludes my presentation.

If you wish to hear it, and I'm also available for questions.

Okay, thank you.

I'll open this agenda item to the public.

Madam Clerk, do we get any requests to speak?

I did not, Mayor.

I'll close this item to the public.

Council, did we want to hear the presentation?

Yep.

Okay, if you don't mind coming up and give the presentation.

Who's bringing them up?

I'm gonna try to pull this up.

All right, Adam, here we go.

Good evening.

Good evening, Adam Baugh.

2121 East Highland Avenue.

I I deserve this, actually.

It's probably appropriate that I give the presentation, Council Murduffy.

Um, I'm here to tell you about some lovely apartments that I'd like to bring to you.

That's that's a different case.

A different era.

Um, you know, actually, this is as hard to say no to a church, just keep that in mind.

Um I've done a lot of projects in this town, that's why I can kind of giggle a little bit because I've I've had sometimes some controversy with some of my cases, but in this case, Pure Heart is uh bringing a campus to the northwest part of the valley.

And as they've found success with other co-locating commercial uses next to their projects, it's an um an added amendment to them, but also if you look at this project, they're buying 40 acres, but about nine to ten acres of that is a wash, which with floodplain and floodway that you can't develop.

So it's a big um significant portion of property that they can't actually utilize.

But nonetheless, because they're coming to this corner, they have to put in the full street, excuse me, the the their portion of the street along two sides, both dynamite and 163rd, and a traffic signal and curb and gutter and street lights and landscaping.

And so those costs are rather um high.

And that's a result, the ability to have a commercial offering here helps offset that cost a little bit for them to be able to serve um their community and their members and their community outreach.

So I could I could go on and on, but at the end of the day, it it makes a lot of sense, particularly with the growth of some of the things that are happening in this area.

And if you have any questions about the operations of the church and their mission, um Mark Hendricks is with me as well, and he can answer some of those things more expressly and directly.

I appreciate staff's effort on this.

It's taking a little bit longer than we thought to get through the process, but they've been supportive and um the planning commission was supportive as well.

And unlike my other cases for which I'm guilty, I don't have any known opposition here tonight.

So actually, somebody may put in a card at the last second, but we'll wait to see.

That that I'll conclude it and answer any questions you might have.

Thank you.

Councilman, any questions or comments?

Uh Councilman Greenberg.

Sorry, turn that up.

It's more for uh you.

Uh the second to the last slide that you had up said something about zoning board and stipulations A and B.

And what were those stipulations A and B.

I apologize.

Sorry, I should have asked you when that was still up.

I can answer that question for you.

Okay.

You got them up?

Yeah.

Stipulation A was that development of the project has to be compliant and consistent with the project narrative that we submitted.

And stipulation B is that non-compliance of the stipulations of the approval of this case will be treated as a violation of the ordinance.

Okay.

Councilman Haney.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, I will go through my 10 questions that I have in details.

Um, I guess first I want to lead up to do you want to come up and speak?

Obviously, whenever we have a project entering in this community, Adam, you're very well aware.

Um, our residents want to know how is that uh project going to integrate within the community in the neighborhood?

And so I just wanted you to give an opportunity to see, you know, if this is approved, how are you guys going to be you know good neighbors to the folks that are out there?

Easy next question.

Good news, sir.

You could say your name and crossroads for the record.

Sure.

Uh Mark Hendricks, and you said Crossroads.

Crossroads like my residence or business.

Business, uh, 43rd Avenue and Thunderbird.

Thank you.

So uh I think the question was basically how we integrate into the neighborhood.

Yeah.

Uh so we do a lot in the community.

Uh I think I shared at the planning meeting.

A lot of churches, it's very common.

They'll ask the question if we were gone tomorrow, would our community miss us?

And they usually frame that in the context of those that attend the church.

We frame it a little differently.

We actually mean the community.

So we do a ton of stuff in schools.

Uh, we've actually launched another 501c3 called, excuse me, uh called School Connect.

And the purpose of that is to connect businesses and uh faith communities and churches uh around schools to help resource them in whatever they need.

So that can be from painting to you know supplying teachers or buying lunches, whatever it is, right?

So we do a lot with schools uh in the especially in the Washington School District, but we have schools most all through Arizona.

We've actually expanded that nationwide.

So we have that.

We do a lot through our resource center, GED programs, food scarcity.

We do counseling, we offer professional counseling and life coaches.

Uh we actually rent space uh off site from our church for that.

One of the plans is to build a counseling office on this campus.

And then we have we currently have one preschool.

We're starting a second one at our second campus.

Uh so we serve, you know, families with young children.

And that is one of the issues facing the West Valley.

It is a fairly you know considered a preschool desert.

Uh so uh we want to have an impact there with uh families.

We also mean we're the West Side distribution hub uh for sleep in heavenly peace, which provides beds to uh children that don't have beds.

So we deliver hundreds of beds uh all the time.

So we have a team that builds the beds and delivers them.

I mean, I could go on and on about the different things that we do, but we we're very much about being a good member of the community.

Thank you.

And you have other locations?

Correct.

Yeah, so we have a campus at 43rd and Thunderbird, essentially, and we have one at 75th Avenue in Greenway.

And those those are within, I've been to the one on 43rd and Thunderbird, and that integrates well within the community had no issues.

Yes.

And correct me if I'm wrong, there's a brush fire on that campus.

Yes.

We have uh brush fire uh tacos and tapas, so good Mexican food.

You can is that standard throughout all your campuses?

No.

We only have that at the uh the Glendale location.

Um we don't honestly know what if they would come here or not.

Um it's about meeting the needs of the community.

I have a very hungry community, so you can do that.

It was an adjustment to come onto campus and see fire trucks and police cars, and you're like, oh, they're here for brush fire.

So that was good.

Easy.

Yeah.

Um okay, thank you.

And then I guess the only other real question that I have is I know there were some concerns, and you said they've been addressed.

Can you just kind of go into detail and what those concerns were, how you guys are addressing them?

Yeah, there weren't many.

I think for a lot of these folks, just anything that's happening there is a is a reason to come on out.

But one of the questions was about the building heights.

What we've communicated is that the building heights that are allowed on the property with the current residential zoning are the heights that we're gonna build too.

So whether there's a commercial or not, it will match what is allowed in that.

Um, there's a question regarding traffic.

Not that um there's a traffic issue in the area, but what will we do to anticipate that?

Right.

Um, so we helped them understand what is the improvements that we're making uh on both sides of the street.

Um I think there was a question about the lighting, lighting and noise, but in this case, um the lighting's mostly uh wall-mounted down shielded.

There's a photometric plan that doesn't allow us to see light beyond a property line.

And so uh the types of questions you'd expect to hear, but I think the answers we gave were satisfactory.

Okay, and then I know there was a question on church operations.

I think we have another church in that area as well.

And I think the concern's always when when the folks are getting out, how is that gonna impact that traffic?

But I'm guessing you guys have a plan and make sure that it kind of mitigates that.

Yeah.

I mean, one of the things that we our team was pushing for was that um in and out on 163rd that would allow people to get out quicker and not cause a traffic jam, and then also having um exits on dynamite.

Okay, awesome.

All right, Mayor, that's all I have.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I appreciate you presenting.

Councilman Hastings.

Thank you, Mayor.

Yeah, I just speak to, I mean, I I know that we have a a church that meets at the school campus that I work at on the weekends, and um they're very actively involved.

I mean, they they've seeked us out and asked, like, you know, the ways they can you know help the school as well.

They've done like back to school drives and and stuff like that.

I mean, definitely such an asset for the community.

Um, I'm a firm believer that everybody needs Jesus, um, especially those who may have uh had experience with 163rd.

I don't know.

So maybe when they get all the way home, they need to no, I'm just gonna I'll stop.

But in all seriousness, this is an awesome project.

Thanks for bringing it forward and thanks for choosing surprise.

Yeah.

Thank you, Councilman.

I'll understand a motion.

I'm in a motion.

I move to approve ordinance number 2026-14 second.

It's been moved and seconded, please cast your vote.

Thank you.

Please read item number 11.

And I'm 11 consideration and action on approving the purchase agreement, specialty warranty deed and release of perpetual parking and ingress egress easement.

Are the purchase of approximately 0.751 acres adjacent to Veramonte Park at Lichfield Road and Statewater Avenue?

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

This is bright over here.

Um I'm Holly Osborne, Parks and Rec Director here with Lloyd.

We've never presented before, very unlikely duo.

So I hope you enjoy this.

We don't even know what we're gonna do.

So let's get started.

Right.

Mayor and council, uh as stated, this is to approve the purchase uh of uh a little less than an acre of land that is it broken, it's broken.

There you go.

See, it's why we're together.

To uh provide um the adequate parking required for the the Veromante park.

Um with uh working through the process with the landowner and with what we have for our current parking easement um and some of the restrictions that parking easement has as far as when we can use it and the time and place.

Uh it was felt that it was more beneficial to secure land for that adequate parking.

So that's what we're here for tonight is basically to move forward with the purchase agreement, acquire the land, and then have that incorporated into the Vermont park as a whole.

Okay.

Yeah, it's just a little behind go ahead.

Next one.

That's very CD.

Um, so I'm here to talk about the park stuff and why we would want this in the first place.

So if you go back and look at the original, um, we have about 40 parking spots, and some of those aren't on our land for Viramonte.

So, what this extra land will allow us to do is add more programmable spaces.

So, we can add a add lights and um add fields, but if we don't have a place to park, they're gonna park in the neighborhoods.

So, that's really our envision.

So, either we cut into the existing park to make it programmable, or we had this great opportunity that Lloyd presented to us to buy a parcel of land, even a sliver is better than nothing.

So we were really excited, and that's why we're this weird duo together.

He did all the maps and paperwork, and I'm just gonna make it pretty if you approve.

So I think that's it.

That's all we have.

Okay, thank you, Councilman Judd.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Lloyd.

Thank you, Holly.

So this is this landowner's been pretty good to work with.

I mean, they had a project going there for a while, and they were just going to give us free parking as part of the project a while back, but that if I remember right, the project fell apart, economics of it fell apart.

And so is this the same landowner that's uh that's letting us buy the sliver of property?

That's correct, sir.

Okay.

And I'm and I'm glad you're doing this.

I mean, Veramonte, that's that's one of their complaints that on those busy weekends, people don't know where to park.

So they're parking in front of their houses there in the neighborhood.

So on behalf of Aramonte, thank you very much.

And does this mean we're gonna program more over there now?

Yes, we do have the Viramonte land project that was for improvements to add lights and parking.

We've kind of parked that project until we could get more land and design it properly, and now we'll put it back into drive if approved.

And so we have the funding for those lights already?

We do, yes.

So the parking lot goes in, the lights go in, and everybody's happy.

That's the plan.

Okay, well, I like it.

Thank you.

Okay.

The chair recognizes the gentleman from District Four.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh, there was a resident who approached us, had a report an issue at Veramonte Park.

Is that issue resolved, or is that going to be resolved with the purchase of how does that work together?

Completely separate, but happen to be at the same location.

So backstory on that for those of you who don't know.

And yes, we did reach out to that resident and let him know.

Um, we had another resident accidentally run into the power transformer fuser thingamajig in January, which cut out power.

And so we've been waiting on power to be put in, um, working with APS and our CIP and risk management.

Apparently, it takes a very long time.

So we've been using a generator to operate our beautiful new Air Force themed splash pad to run that generator.

So we've gotten it up and operating.

Their plan is they're running the lines this week.

They're hoping by the 23rd to get the same transformer right, right?

Transformer.

Yeah, okay.

I feel like it.

Anyways, I just think of the cartoons.

Okay.

Um, and so they're gonna place the transformer and then they'll power it.

So it should be energized.

Generators should go away beginning of June.

Does the gentleman from District Six happy with this answer?

He is so happy.

Yes, thank you.

Yay!

All right, see no other questions or comments, I'll entertain a motion.

If I may, mayor, um, I gotta find the motion though.

It's it approved.

What's the what's the motion number?

It's uh 11.

I don't know.

No, what's the long presentation?

This log, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah, but holy cow, that thing's huge.

That one wasn't even.

And it's cut off.

Yeah, it's all pretty exciting.

All right, I move to approve the purchase agreement, special warranty deed, and release of perpetual parking and ingress egress, I'm guessing that is easement for the purchase of approximately 0.751 acres adjacent to Veramonte Park at Litchfield Road and Sweetwater Avenue, and to authorize the city manager to execute all documents associated with this purchase.

Second.

It's been moved and seconded, please cast your vote.

Just an ordinance number.

Unanimous yes vote.

Yes.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Madam Clerk, please read item number 12.

Item 12 presentation and discussion presentation, discussion, and action pertaining to approval of the annual updates to the city's comprehensive financial management policies.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Uh, as I'm pulling this up, I want you to know that this presentation is going to cover items 12 and 13, but I will pause so you can take action on 12 and then move to 13.

Okay.

So this is for our financial policies that we um come to you every year to discuss.

Typically, we will come uh at work session uh one week and then in a couple weeks later, we come to adopt.

So our financial policies provide a roadmap for financial operations.

They demonstrate commitment to sound financial practice, and we review them annually.

The first set of policies is our comprehensive financial management policies.

These are based on city council strategic plan, goals, and objectives.

They provide financial structure with long-term financial planning, and it includes policy direction related to operating capital debt management, uh, along with minimum fund balances, financial reporting, and our pension funding.

So the recommended policy changes for the comprehensive policies for our capital management policies.

We are enhancing the language to include capital project oversight to ensure accountability, efficiency, and alignment with budget schedules and city priorities.

We are also updating one of the minimum fund balance policies by removing the phased contingency reserve for solid waste utility.

And then for our pension funding, we do this annually.

We update the amounts based on the most recent actuarial valuations.

And with that, uh that concludes for item 12.

Council, do you have any comments or questions for item 12?

Okay.

Madam Clerk, are we taking a vote on item 12 now?

And then read item 13.

Yes.

Okay, I'll then entertain a motion.

Oh, I'm still late on the last one.

Don't ask me.

Is this everything I need?

I move to approve resolution number 2026-50, the annual update to the city's comprehensive financial management policies.

Second.

So we moved and seconded, please cast your vote.

That's what I'm here for, fellas.

That's a pass vote.

Thank you.

Please read item 13.

Item 13, consideration and action pertaining to approval of the updated budget amendment policies and procedures, resolution 2026 45.

So for uh the second portion of the policies, we have our budget amendment policies.

These are established to provide a consistent and efficient process for the city uh to amend the budget.

It includes levels of authorization and the recommended changes, it's just a minor revision to the procedure section to better reflect our current process.

It just was not clear.

And with that, I can entertain any questions for the item 13.

Seeing no questions or comments, I'll entertain a motion.

I move to approve resolution number 2026 45.

Second.

That's passed vote, Mayor.

Thank you.

Please read item 14.

And 14, presentation and discussion on the city's construction sales tax.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Again, um, I am here to uh do a short presentation on our construction sales tax um at the request of Councilman Jed, uh, just so we can have an overview of what is our construction sales tax and how do we use it.

So our construction sales tax um is part of our TPT taxing um at a rate of 3.7%.

2.2% of that uh we earmark for our general capital fund.

The general capital fund uh funds one-time capital projects and ongoing asset replacement projects.

The other one and a half percent, we earmark for transportation improvement fund.

Uh, that fund does one-time roadway projects with an ongoing supplies and services for road maintenance.

Our current policy uh states that the 3.7% is broken down into those categories that I spoke of and how those funds are used.

And then here is a history of the construction sales tax revenue that we have brought in from 2004, projecting out to 2028.

As you can see, we have some highs and lows here, and we are starting to level out uh with our estimations from 26 through 28.

With the current project list that we um are currently working through from 25 through 26, uh with our revenues.

This is just a forecast model showing our getting fund balance with our sales tax revenue.

You can see um the sales, whoa, sorry.

You can see the sales tax revenue um is pretty uh flat, but we do have other revenue sources uh for interest transfers and intergovernmental agreements.

So you will see some higher areas in that other revenue category.

And those are um intergovernmental agreements with other entities, such as our Jomax Road extension.

We have an agreement with Peoria.

So they are funding a portion of of that particular project.

So we include that revenue in that other category.

For our expenses, this kind of breaks down what I was explaining our ongoing transportation supplies and services year over year, our one-time capital projects year over year.

Uh, we do also fund um from these two uh funds, the transportation and the general capital fund, um, art at one and one-third percent of qualifying projects, and then uh the asset replacement funds.

Ms.

Simmons, uh councilman Judd has a oh no, I'm sorry, I thought she was done.

I'll wait till she's done.

Please continue.

With that, I am done.

Councilman Jones.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Sandy.

So the construct I wanted I wanted us to talk a little bit about construction sales tax to make sure we understood what it was.

And if I understand it correctly, um, it's sales tax that we collect on the raw materials that are dropped off at a job site to build something.

That is correct.

Because if you buy a house, you don't pay sales tax on it, right?

But those materials are still the end use Ron.

Yes.

And so um one of our challenges as the city of surprise is we're just we're seeing exponential growth.

We you know, people are coming in, and as people are coming in, it's put a lot of demand on our services.

You know, we need fire, we need cops, we need roads, we need everything.

And sort of the idea behind construction sales tax is to help you deal with a lot of those growth issues.

And so I think it's important that we come back and revisit this.

Can you go back to the revenue chart that shows the meteoric rise of the amount of construction sales tax we're bringing in?

And and I would point out that a good portion of that is probably district three prosada.

All that stuff going in there led to a lot of construction sales tax.

Now many of us up here have grown up in the valley.

We understand what it means to rely on construction.

Construction's a boom or bust industry.

We've got years where it's going like gangbusters, we got years where everybody in that industry is getting laid off, there's nothing to do.

We've we've had a pretty good run here for a while.

And so we want to be careful that we're not tying much, if any, operational funds to something that could bust out on us.

But at the same time, I think it's important that we acknowledge that we have this growth problem and we have access to funds.

It's a sales tax, just like milk and or not, we don't charge sales tax milk, but you know, just like televisions and everything else.

And so it is a sales tax that we should be using to fund when we have shortfalls.

Um, I think we're too close to the budget right now to make any meaningful changes without hastily breaking something else.

That is and so, but I would very much like us as a council to get together uh probably in the fall and discuss.

I mean, one what one of the one of the reasons I want to bring this up is because we we do have a problem with getting our public safety uh covered, right?

Get the amount of coverage on it, although we do have coverage going into the beginning of this next year.

And so if we are able to increase that funding, it probably wouldn't help till the second half of the year, getting more people hired in, getting people into the academy and things like that.

So I think we have a little bit of time to work on this and discuss.

I mean, we used to use a little bit of our construction sales tax to run operations.

And as you can see, construction sales tax and the rest of our taxes uh kept coming in stronger and stronger, and we were able to pull off of construction sales tax, but I still think it's something we need to look at and measurably use if we need this to help us get enough cops on the road, keep our city operating effectively and efficiently.

So thank you again for bringing this, bringing this to us and uh give us the information on this, and then I would just ask that uh that we have a more in-depth conversation about funding this fall.

Absolutely.

We we do plan on coming back to you guys uh possibly in a retreat special meeting format with the capital projects, operations to clearly identify um provisions for fiscal year 27, and then going into fiscal year 28.

And we'll have time.

I mean, we can change we can we can amend this budget coming up towards the end of the year if we think we're gonna have some shortfalls.

I mean, we'll have time to do that.

We have enough space to do that, right?

Yes, we do.

Okay.

Thank you.

Councilman Milton.

Thank you, Mayor.

Sandy, is the the flat line trend you have going into FY2728.

And remind me, is that are we predicting that based on what the permits are being the permits in the pipeline now?

Is that why we're yes, we are.

We're see we are currently seeing a decline um in the current permits, uh, a small decline.

Gotcha.

And uh a small decline in construction sales tax um the a decline in the growth of the construction sales tax.

Understood.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Councilman Hastings.

Thank you, Mayor.

Yeah, no, I mean, I think definitely too is part of that budget retreat.

If we can kind of quantify, you know, obviously we're staring at a screen and almost like it looks like we have just like 50 million dollars slaying around, which is which I'm which is not the case.

Um if you can you go back one slide.

Because I I do understand, like I do think we have to get kind of creative, or sorry, one more creative with revenue streams, but for each one, sorry, what's the one?

It's not wanting to go back to it.

No, it's okay.

The first, yeah, there you go.

So I think it's I mean, when I when I look at this stuff and we just say, hey, you know, general capital, transportation improvement fund, you know, that we're not kind of quantifying what some of this money goes towards.

And so I think in order for us to make that decision, it'd be good to see kind of specifically, I guess tying that to because right, construction nails sales tax is new construction.

Obviously, we just opened a police substation.

Um, it's it's one-time money.

It can be as high as 50 million, but it also got as low as five million.

It'll be nice to see um what that money is slated to go towards.

And then if that makes sense, like before we decide kind of what to do with it, because right now we're just kind of seeing on a chart, oh, 50, 50 million dollars, you know, like we could use some of that.

Because I agree, like we do need more police officers on the roads.

Um, but I also know, like looking at um 1.5% of transportation improvement funds funding, you know, transportation is a struggle in certain areas of surprise, specifically the north, specifically the west.

And even in district five, while technically there's not new construction going on, like there's intersections we need to rework because it's getting busier around city center.

So, you know, I definitely think a retreat would be a good idea in the fall.

So thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

All right, madam clerk.

We will move on to the call to the public.

Do we get any requests to speak on not agenda items?

Uh yes, Mayor, I do.

Uh like to call the first five names, and if you could just come forward and be ready to come to the podium.

Um, Gage Fur, Natalie Batista, Nathan Hatch, Taylor Bone, Jason Chavez.

Good evening.

So sorry.

Sorry about that.

All right.

Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

I'm here today to ask for a public safety education campaign.

I've had growing public safety concerns uh in mind for the last several weeks due to my lived experiences, which I've already shared with you all last meeting.

But now I've heard some of the experiences of others who've been kind enough and brave enough to share with me.

I've reached out to Surprise PD requesting a meeting to go over some of these incidents so that I can learn how myself and others can safely defend ourselves, but still stay within the law.

But I'm still waiting to hear back from them.

I want to be clear that I'm not asking anyone to police opinions.

Uh, we're allowed to debate public issues and disagree, and we're not obligated to like each other.

But harassment and hate speech should not be normalized as a part of everyday life.

Threats, intimidation, and racialized targeting should not be dismissed as ordinary disagreements or just politics.

The city already has public communication tools.

I see the social media posts and videos like Mayor's Minute that uh could be used to educate the public in simple nonpartisan ways.

The City of Surprise could collaborate with Surprise PD to explain what protected speech is versus hate speech, uh, what a true threat may sound like, whether it's in person or online, and basically when these things cross the line.

It's also important to explain how to report these incidents, such as when to call 911 versus the non-emergency line, and to share resources for victims.

I bring this request to you all because of the position that you hold in our city.

Your elected leaders, you help set the tone for this community.

People look to you for direction and leadership, and people trust you to do what's best for the community.

Silence from leadership sends a bad message, whether it's intentional or not.

Public communication from leadership can help set a standard.

That's why I'm asking you to speak publicly and clearly via a public safety campaign of some sort.

Not to control opinions, not to silence debate, but to proactively prevent further escalation.

Lastly, I'm requesting that the DHS facility be added to the next meeting's agenda as an actionable item.

The stop work order has been lifted prematurely, and Garter World is actively mass hiring for the detention facility here in Surprise.

Our community deserves updates and a public discussion from this council.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Chief, would you mind connecting with uh the resident and getting specific about the public safety campaign?

Thank you.

Sir, if you could say your name and crossroads for the record, please.

Good evening, Mary and Council.

My name is Taylor Bone.

I live at Coyote Lakes at Coyote Lakes Parkway and Bell.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight.

At the last council meeting, it was suggested that the stop work order on the Surprise ICE facility might be the indoor problem.

It was suggested that Chris Mays did what our mayor simply could not do and sue.

That stop work order was lifted, and there are about a dozen job postings for this facility that will be in our city where I live right now.

Those job postings include CCTV operator, pays $25 an hour to monitor immigrants in cages, experience required, unarmed security, key word here, unarmed.

Licensed practical nurse, the lowest ranking nurse that can still be called a nurse.

The details of this both specifically state the LPN will operate under the supervision of an RN, meaning the senior medical officer at this facility will be a registered nurse.

That will not go well.

The best one is armed detention transport driver.

Buses full of supposed criminals being driven by men with guns around residential neighborhoods and schools.

Just what we need in surprise.

None of you want this facility to open any more than I do, but none of you are willing to do anything about it.

Mr.

Melton has emphasized he does not want ice in senior communities frightening elderly constituents.

What happens when those seniors need medical care?

But medical resources are unavailable, ambulances are tied up, transporting emergency care for detainees.

At Mr.

Judd's last town hall, he stated that one of the biggest detriments to the city caused by this facility would be a strain on police due to the constant presence of protesters and counter-protesters.

I agree.

We discussed our lack of officers at our last meeting.

At most ICE facilities, not all, but most.

Protesters show up daily, and ICE response with tear guess.

I don't want that surprise.

There are schools and homes right across the street.

We cannot keep ignoring the strain on public resources this facility will impose on surprise.

We cannot keep hoping for the best and ignoring the danger.

We cannot focus on the monetary reimbursement promised by DHS.

The city will lose.

We will all lose.

I suppose you can hope that they do not call 911.

You can hope that they handle their problems internally, but you can also go home, pull up YouTube, and listen to 911 calls from existing ICE facilities.

We all know what comes next.

Do you want to sit around and wait until the first detainee dies in our city?

Well, the city cited the supremacy clause and claim we had nothing to do with it and couldn't prevent it.

The letter you all had to debate sending last week fell on deaf ears.

Surprise has been labeled a city that could be taken advantage of.

Horrible headlines are coming if you continue to do nothing.

Let me be clear.

I will sell my home and leave this place if this facility opens.

I refuse to live in a city that is known for an ICE detention center.

The deed the details are irrelevant.

You need to do more and actively oppose its opening, not invite our abusers to be gentle when they get here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The next five names are Brittany Bishop, Ann Bendheim, Mary Becker, Alexa Coulter, and Kayla Bishop.

Good evening.

Good evening.

I'm speaking on behalf of Kayla Bishop, and I'm also Brittany Bishop.

Hello, my name is Brittany Bishop.

I've been a resident in Surprise by Bell and Parkview for 21 of my 26 years of life.

First of all, I would like to express my continual disapproval of this council's lack of action, transparency, and acknowledgement of the very serious concerns the people of Surprise have had for this detention center.

Last meeting on May 5th, you proved once again to the people of Surprise that you are incapable of making the surprise people feel heard.

Your trepidation to send a letter to DHS that was literally one sentence, speaks volumes of your cowardice and complacency.

I also noticed you joked about Mark Wayne Mullins being a stand-up guy.

If you have the courage to make jokes about this man's character, why do you want to have any kind of business with him?

Keeping in mind his business has human lives at stake.

It seems like you are aware of the kind of people we are going to be working with, and you are actively staying silent while allowing ICE to sneak into our city on May 6th, the day after we met here, a supplemental agreement modifying the original contract of the stop work order was done by DHS, despite the lawsuit by the attorney general.

The contents of the supplemental agreement have not been disclosed.

I do assume the mayor and the council were knowledgeable about the operations starting back up.

So where's the open communication you have been claiming to have with DHS?

Were you informed of the May 6th supplemental agreement?

Do you have a copy or have you received a copy?

Have you requested a copy of this agreement?

Why is this information being withheld from the public?

If you want to gain the trust of the surprise people back, you need to openly oppose ICE.

You should be helping ease the fear, tension, and the weight that the people of Surprise are holding in their chests every day.

Make action plans for your community, schools, hospitals, and municipal buildings.

Inform DHS, we will take measures to protect our neighbors.

Go to an ICE rapid response meeting yourself to see the gravity of the situation people are going through.

There is a Lamigra watch.

They host uh rapid response.

I went to them.

They're um terrifyingly informational.

Uh I would also urge you to support Callie Overs and her three-mile buffer publicly and openly.

Create more safety measures against ICE operations.

We are all hoping the detention center never opens, but if it does and our city pays for your lack of preparation, we will never forget your lack of leadership.

Surprise is now the only processing facility moving forward in the Western United States.

Do something.

Do better, please.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The two old folks are.

That's all right.

Good evening.

Good evening.

I'd like to thank the mayor, the vice mayor, the council members, the city manager, the clerk, and all those who make this possible.

My name is Mary Becker.

This is my husband Donald Becker.

We are affectionately known as the Rolling Don and Mary Show.

We live in uh Happy Trails out on Bell and Cotton with the other old folks.

Tonight, I want to address this detention facility.

Okay.

I know that some of my remarks will not be met very well by people in the audience.

However, I want to deal in some truths.

I know that there are concerns about this new detention facilities.

I wouldn't want a jail in my neighborhood, and that's basically what it is.

I understand that.

I also understand it's more than likely going to happen.

But I want to point out that under Clinton, there were 12.3 million people arrested by ICE.

Um, and these statistics can be found in public.

Under Bush, there were 16,713 detentions and removals.

Very few were actually removed, but they raided the work sites.

And they there were employer sanctions, and we had them here in the valley.

And these were hallmarks of the Bush era, and they laid the groundwork for the current enforcement that we see ICE doing.

Under Obama, removals, not just detentions.

Removals were between five and 5.3 million, far exceeding any previous president and any succeeding president.

Under Obama, there were metal cages erected to house the children.

There were no outcries then.

The removals and detentions under Joe Biden, 500,000 interior arrests, and nearly 300,000 detainers in the very early years, but after that, nothing.

Removals and detentions under Donald Trump in his first term were 932,000, far less than the others.

Under his second term, ICE has arrested 66,463 illegal aliens and removed 65,682, including criminals who threaten our safety.

And I dare say that some of the people sitting here have not had to deal with it.

No one protested then.

Why are they protesting now?

Thank you for your attention because they do not represent everybody in surprise.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Camera on or off.

Go ahead, ma'am.

Camera on or off, please.

If you'd like to step to the podium and have your three minutes, thank you.

Oh, okay.

Visual A.

You may have seen it.

Hi there.

My name is Ann Bentheim.

I live here, Wadell and 133rd Avenue.

Can you all hear me?

Good.

For months, the elected leaders of Surprise Arizona have steadfastly refused to officially vote their opposition to the planned ICE prison enforced labor camp.

Such refusal is backed by the Perry Mason.

Irrelevant, incompetent, immaterial, and quasi-legal excuses provided by the city attorney.

This is lost to mayor and counsel to presumption of regularity.

The bottom line.

The sky is blue.

Oh, damn.

Oh, yeah.

Incarceration without due process is wrong.

Slavery, and the most decorum-ridden might call it forced labor.

Slavery is evil.

Killing prisoners through violence or intentional neglect should be unthinkable.

Allowing this depravity in our community affects us all.

Encouraging this prison camp, knowing all you know about it.

About ICE, about what is going on throughout the country.

Well, that is immoral.

It is wicked.

It will seep into the very soul of this city.

And surely this shall follow you all the days of your lives.

The fight isn't over, and the city council still has a chance to redeem itself.

Take a straight up or down vote that resolves to stay to say no to the ICE prison.

Be a David, not a Goliath.

Thank you so much.

Bye.

Do we have additional speakers?

Yes, two more.

Erica Williams, healthy boy.

Are either of you here?

Erica.

I'm also signed up to speak.

I was just in the background.

Or Jason Chavez?

Jason Chavez, yes.

Come forward.

Good evening.

You can say your name and Crossroads for the record.

Yes.

Jason Chavez, I live in Avondale.

I actually uh spent several weeks trying to uh come and talk to here, but uh always been cut off.

So when you guys say that uh you guys value like transparent communication, I I just simply don't believe it.

I don't see it with my own eyes.

But as far as to what I'm actually here for, it is uh to talk about uh three in particular projects around this city that seem to be very, very unpopular and you guys don't seem to be voicing very strong opposition for the first one, of course, being the DHS warehouse.

I was converting into the tension center, the second being Project Bacara, and the third being the uh nuclear power plant.

These projects have absolutely no benefit to the residents of the city, and people have been in uh talking uh a lot about the actual impacts that it will have with them in particular, the water usage of like the data center, especially.

Um you know, summer is coming up, so we really need uh to really think about um, you know, uh invoicing more opposition towards these um towards these projects in particular with the data center.

It just been came out with a study like just today that data centers actually raise the uh the neighboring temperatures of the of the nate of the neighborhoods around it by four degrees.

Is this really like something that we need in like the hottest metro city area in the country?

In addition, there is also the property values that will drop because of these.

Nobody wants to live like next to like a jail cell, a power plant, or a data center.

And by and by not voicing your opposition to these, what you're saying to these uh residents is this it's that they could either you know stay here with all these products that just blatantly lowered their standard of living, or they can try to sell their house, in which case they would have the choice of probably living in a dilapidated like house in the middle of nowhere, or have a view of a brick wall within a major urgent center.

You guys are the leaders of these of these residents, and while we may be, you know, a city in the valley, you should really be like a city upon a hill and showcase to all these residents like behind me that you guys can at least take a stand, at least say something because I often hear whenever I go to the city council meetings that of on these porte issues that several most of you simply do not say nothing, and we are tired of it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I have no additional speakers, mayor, as long as everyone's okay.

Thank you.

Uh I'll move on to future agenda and business items.

Does council have any did you want to do the the workshop?

No, I think do we need to add that to the agenda, the future workshop about budget this fall?

That's something just we're gonna procedurally do, aren't we?

Yeah, retreat.

Okay, all right.

We'll start with district one council reports.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh so we had a meeting a few weeks ago.

We're gonna kick off that 163rd Avenue expansion project, the second phase, which um obviously the overall improvement is going to have a significant positive impact to the neighborhood.

However, with that comes construction, and so our goal is to keep folks as informed as possible.

And so Eric and his team, the contractor, um various city staff all went out there and we were able to kind of answer any questions and concerns that residents had, and it was a really well-attended meeting, and I want to thank residents for showing up and uh being engaged.

Uh last couple weeks have also had an opportunity just to sit down and talk to a few residents.

Uh, and those those conversations have been really good.

And it's always uh one of the best parts of the job is just being able to sit down and talk to folks within our community.

So I appreciate them taking the time to sit down and chat with me.

And uh that's all I have, Mayor.

Thanks.

All right, thank you.

Vice Mayor.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, district two is the most pleasantly boring district and surprise.

So I appreciate that.

Um, I've got a couple meetings coming up in June, and Seth's team is going to be presenting to whoever, whatever snowbirds are still or non-snowbirds are here.

Um, other than that, I don't really have anything.

Okay, Councilman Duffy.

Thank you, Mayor.

The only thing I want to say is the big 12 tournament starts today.

So we have five straight days of baseball here in surprise.

Um, college baseball.

And if you're keen and you want to see an Arizona school play, only one made that tournament.

And it was Arizona State.

And so they played Thursday at eight.

So we're happy that only one made that tournament.

Thank you.

All right.

Um Councilman Hastings.

Oh, Councilman Melton.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

I um I do have a I will I have a I don't want to be busy.

I don't have any uh reports.

I do have a question for our city manager, is regarding our relationship our communications with DHS.

I don't know if it's the appropriate venue to do that.

I can take it offline if you'd like.

Yeah, it's not a debate we're gonna have, but if you wanted, I mean you could probably connect with the city manager.

Okay, thank you.

I'll do offline.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Anything else?

No, no, okay.

Transparency.

Councilman Hastings.

Nothing tonight.

Okay, thank you.

Councilman Judd.

Yeah, so real quick, uh, we had this really exciting event happen this last weekend that many of you guys were at.

It was the grand opening of the Vista.

As many remember, the the Vista basically got shut down for a period of time as we worked through some kinks and and surprised the school district and the and the uh foundation have come together to get the foundation to get uh the Vista going again.

We had a great show from a group called Spinfany.

It was a string quartet that was uh that was covering rock and classic rock songs.

It was a lot of fun.

They threw some Bachets and Mozart in there.

Um there's a comedy show coming up soon on the fifth, and which at which point they'll be releasing um all the shows for the next season.

So for those of you guys who want to do more things in surprise, have more entertainment in surprise, go check out the Vista.

Good shows, very inexpensive, and you're supporting the local guys.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

Second.

It's been moved and second.

All in favor of voice vote.

Or adjourned.

We said we'd never break the three-second rule.

We'd never