Good afternoon, everyone.

Welcome to the Tempe City Council work study session.

Item number one is call to order.

Council meetings can be watched in real time via Cox Cable Channel 11 and at Tempe.gov slash Tempe11.

Members of the public may also attend the meeting virtually through Microsoft Teams.

Just a note before we get started.

Vice Mayor Garland is going to be participating virtually today.

Councilmember Keating will not be here this afternoon.

And also want to let you know because there are people in vacant seats here, I did shower this morning.

Item number two announcements for the mayor and/or city manager.

After that announcement, I'm probably done.

That of city manager, any announcements?

No announcements.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you so much.

That brings me to item two A, IHEP recognition 20th anniversary.

Let's see.

Is Mr.

Sharp Ah, there you are.

Come on, come on down, sir.

Come and join me at the podium.

Of course you can.

We love the entire team at TCAA.

Oh my gosh.

This is my time to run.

Squeeze bone.

You know I provide the same thing.

All right, so this is for the IHELP 20th anniversary celebration, and I'm going to take the little sticker off here so it's not distracting to those watching at home.

And this proclamation reads, whereas since its inception in 2006, the Interfaith Homeless Emergency Lodging Program, otherwise known as iHelp, operated by the Tempe Community Action Agency has provided vital emergency shelter services to adults experiencing homelessness in Tempe, offering overnight lodging, meals, hygiene services, and long-term pathways to housing stability.

And whereas, through their core focus on four primary areas of impact food security, housing stability, health and well-being, and economic mobility, TCAA in the iHealth Emergency Shelter has served as Tempe's long-standing shelter resource, providing safe overnight space, meals, showers, laundry services, employment assistance, and intensive case management aimed at helping individuals overcome barriers to obtaining permanent housing and self-sufficiency.

And whereas for 20 years, iHealth was exemplified and put into practice the spirit of community care and collaboration that underpins our city, assisting hundreds of men and women each year to access resources, build stability, and work toward lasting independence.

And whereas the City of Tempe is proud to recognize the profound impact of iHealth Service and the countless volunteers, donors, staff, and partners whose dedication has strengthened the social fabric of and contributed to the ongoing legacy of compassion, service, and community partnership embodied by the TCAA and the iHealth emergency shelter over the past 20 years.

Now, therefore, I, Corey Woods, mayor of the City of Tempe, Arizona, do hereby declare February 12th, 2026, as iHealth 20th Anniversary Day in Tempe, Arizona.

All right, just a quick note before we move on with the agenda.

Guidelines for conduct at City Council meetings are on the table near the entrance for those in attendance at tonight's meeting.

We will now play a video with the proper protocol for ensuring the appropriate conduct at City Council meetings.

The City of Tempe welcomes public comment at this time.

Disruptive behavior will not be allowed.

Continued disruptive behavior will lead to removal from the council chambers.

We need to be able to hear everyone in the room.

Behavior that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of any city council meeting is not helpful and is not permitted.

This includes behavior both inside and outside of the council chambers.

Should individuals inside the council chambers become disruptive so that city business is not able to be conducted.

The mayor will first ask that the individuals allow city business to be completed.

There will be time for public comment during the call to the audience portion of the meeting.

If no cooperation, the mayor will issue a verbal warning and let them know that the continued disruptive behavior will lead to removal from the council chambers.

If there is still no cooperation, the mayor will issue a second verbal warning and let them know that the continued disruptive behavior will lead to removal from the council chambers.

If there is no cooperation after asking and two verbal warnings, then the mayor will ask security officers to remove only those individuals who were causing the disruption.

Security personnel should not engage in any way, but only escort them from the council chambers.

If individuals refuse to leave, security personnel shall warn them that they are trespassing, and that the next step will be arrest by a Tempe police officer.

Tempe officers may have to arrest if individuals refuse to leave.

Charges for trespass and disorderly conduct may apply, as well as other charges.

Should anyone be asked to be removed, the mayor will recess the meeting.

So before we continue or move into the call to the audience portion of the meeting, I want to take a moment to address campaign-related activity, especially as we are now very much in the 2026 election season.

City Council meetings are open to the public and are a vital forum for civic engagement.

We welcome all individuals, including candidates, to speak on matters of public concern during the public comment portion of the meeting.

However, because this is an official city council meeting that is both televised and live streamed using city resources.

We ask all candidates, including any current council members, to refrain from electioneering or campaign-related activity while participating in this meeting.

That means no discussing your candidacy, asking for votes or signatures, or displaying campaign materials such as signs, t-shirts, or literature while speaking.

So thank you for helping us maintain the integrity and neutrality of our public meetings.

Which brings me to item number three, call to the audience.

The city council welcomes public comment at this time for the issue review session and committee of the whole items on this work study session agenda.

There is a three-minute time limit per speaker.

Madam Clerk, do we have any cards this afternoon?

None received, Mr.

Mayor.

Okay.

Thank you so much that I will move on here to item number four, which is our issue review session.

4A is the Tempe Police Department public safety update for 2026.

And I see Chief Ken McCoy.

Good evening, or good afternoon, sir, I should probably say.

Good afternoon.

I see some other members coming down immediately.

Good to see you all.

Great.

So good afternoon, Mayor and Council.

It's definitely an honor for me to stand here before you today, as you know, I'm Chief McCoy with the Tempe Police.

Um, as we begin, uh I want to start simply by saying thank you.

Thank you for your leadership.

Thank you for your support.

And thank you to our community.

Uh we are deeply grateful for the Tempe community for the trust and encouragement that they provide our officers every day in that trust matters.

It without it, we would not be able to serve the way we do.

So again, I just want to start by saying thank you.

Tonight, I'm going to share with you progress that was made in 2025 by the police department.

I'm incredibly proud of the results you'll see tonight.

And let me tell you those results didn't happen by accident.

They are a reflection of the dedication, professionalism, and commitment of the men and women of the department.

One of the top priorities for the department is ensuring that our citizens feel safe.

Safe in their neighborhoods, safe in their businesses, and safe on our streets.

I'm proud to say we are delivering on that priority.

As you're here tonight, we achieve reductions in most crime categories over the course of the year.

Those outcomes are important, but just as important as how we achieve them through strategy, accountability, and a continued focus on prevention and responsiveness.

2025 was a year of meaningful operational improvement.

We restructured Kios of the police department to better align resources within the community.

We launched our strategic response section to address neighborhood concerns and quality of life issues more effectively.

And we implemented new technology, including photo enforcement to improve traffic and reduce serious collisions on our streets.

Tonight's presentation will walk through that progress in detail.

We'll begin with administrator Amanda Bunker, who will share our overall crime trends and department wide data for 2025.

That will then be followed by Commander Katrina McCann, who will speak about our strategic response section.

Finally, we'll conclude with Lieutenant Greg Bacon on traffic safety measures and the efforts we're we're making to make Tempe Street safe for everyone.

So Amanda.

Good afternoon, Mayor and Council.

I'm Amanda Bunger, the police sections and analytics administrator.

I'm gonna go over the calls for service and our crime data for 2025.

Last year we went down one percent in overall crimes for service.

Our crimes for service is usually broken down into two different parts.

One is citizen generated, which is typically a community member that calls in and is asking for assistance, and officer generated, which is officers being able to be proactive and generating their own contacts up front.

So our citizen generated went down approximately 3%.

This allowed our officer generated to go up 2% last year.

For our crime data, our collisions have seen a continued reduction for the last two years.

And from 2023, we were down 5%, and then from 24 to 25, we were down 11%.

For NIBER's group A offenses, we are down 14%.

And just as a reminder, group A, when we went to NIBERS is your typical the big crimes like burglary, robbery, homicide that the FBI asked for the most data on and what we report the most information on.

Quick question actually for you can just for the public who are watching at home.

Can you actually talk about the acronym NIBER stands for?

So it's national information based crime reporting system.

Um and it's what the FBI requires all law enforcement agencies to report to our data too.

Excellent.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Our violent crime trends are down 8.6%, and our property crimes are down 4.8% since 2024.

So for a violent crime, the majority of those incidents make up for aggravated assault incidents.

Of those aggravated assaults are also down 14.5%, and robbery is down 12.9%.

Down below, we have the violent crime listed by postal code.

And as you'll notice, 85281 and 85282 are most highly and densely populated zip codes, which generally generally generate the data we have.

For property crime, um, our highest our highest crime in that category is larceny, which is theft.

However, our burglary and our motor vehicle theft are what went down.

Burglary 19.5% and motor vehicle 29.6%.

I'll turn it back over to you.

Oh, great.

Thank you.

Thanks, Amanda.

So next, I'd like to invite Commander McCann to join me up here.

Um, Commander McCann is going to talk about one of the most important measures we made in 2025, and that was standing up our strategic response section.

That team represents a proactive problem-solving approach to public safety and has already made meaningful impacts in our community.

So Commander McCann is going to discuss those results.

Thank you.

Good evening.

Thank you for having me.

I'm going to begin this presentation with a brief overview of our newly implemented strategic response section, narcotic and criminal operations.

I'll outline our current narcotics enforcement model, highlight the SRS units that focus on addressing quality of life issues, and I'll end with a recap of a recent SRS-led operation in North Tempe, demonstrating how these strategies are applied in practice to address community concerns.

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The strategic response section is made up of five units that's the neighborhood response unit, community policing unit, tactical response unit, the action team, and our HIDA partnership.

By bringing together the specialized capabilities of these five units, this section delivers a coordinated, TEMPE focused response that reflects our department's commitment to proactively addressing issues that impact our community and advancing our strategic priorities and more specifically safe and secure communities and strong community connections.

Listed here are our work directly supports these performance measures, and I would like to add that 105 and 107 are accelerated performance measures.

Through focused enforcement and meaningful engagement, the strategic response section complements patrol operation and concentrates on issues that most influence community members day to day and their sense of safety and satisfaction with our police services.

One way that we put coordinated TEMPE focused approach into action is through our narcotics enforcement.

TEMPE is not unique in seeing drug-related arrests, seizures, and overdoses.

These issues directly impact our quality of life issues in Tempe's parks and our neighborhoods.

Reducing the supply and demand of illegal drugs within our city requires a holistic and tiered approach with a focus on prevention education, enforcement, and treatment.

In regards to education, this section emphasizes education to reduce the man demand for illegal drugs, and we do this through drug awareness classes that we provide to schools, healthcare facilities, and community groups.

These presentations focus on risks associated with drug use, recognizing the signs of drug activity, available treatment and rehabilitation resources, and also how to report neighborhood complaints to our departments.

In regards to enforcement, this section addresses drug activity through a tiered enforcement approach.

It is designed to disrupt and dismantle both local and regional trafficking operations.

The action team serves as the primary unit for our street level enforcement and local narcotics investigations with the neighborhood response unit and tactical response unit supporting and conducting investigations as part of this coordinated effort.

Mid to high level drug trafficking organizations are conducted through our partnership with the Maricopa County Drug Suppression Task Force, which enhances our regional coordination and helps to disrupt drug trafficking organizations that are impacting our TEMPE neighborhoods and neighboring cities.

In reference to treatment, in coordination with existing treatment and rehabilitation options, the Maricopa County Superior Court Drug Court Program provides outpatient counseling and drug monitoring for individuals convicted of drug-related offenses.

This collaborative approach recognizes the complexities of substance abuse and supports accountability while offering a structured opportunity for treatment and recovery.

Overall, this tiered approach allows narcotics and activity in Tempe to be addressed at both the local and regional levels while maximizing resources, and it recognizes the importance of education, treatment, and supportive services alongside our enforcement.

As I mentioned, the action team is our primary unit responsible for addressing drug activity at the local level, and they also address our local emerging crime trends.

This is also the primary unit that investigates our neighborhood complaints.

These are the complaints that are submitted by our community members through dispatch, our online citizen observer forum, and other partner city departments.

Investigating neighborhood complaints is critical because they directly impact our community members' sense of safety and quality of life.

One example occurred in December when the action team detectives received information that an individual was selling methamphetamine in North Tempe.

At the conclusion of their investigation, the subject was arrested and a search warrant was served at his Scottsdale residence.

This resulted in the seizure of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia, sales in DISHA, and U.S.

currency.

The subject was arrested for felony charges and drug-related sales.

The Maricopa County Suppression Task Force is a high-intensity drug trafficking area initiative.

It's comprised of several law enforcement agencies, local and federal, including the Tempe Police Department.

Their investigations focus on disrupting and dismantling mid to high level drug trafficking organizations that drive violent crime and narcotics distribution in the valley.

From April of 2025 through January of 2026, these task force detectives partnered with the Drug Enforcement Administration on a major investigation targeting drug trafficking organizations operating in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

These groups had international supply connections and were responsible for distributing illegal drugs locally and across state lines.

The investigation resulted in approximately 35 indictments for crimes, including drug trafficking, money laundering, and operating a criminal enterprise, and it led to dismantling five separate drug trafficking organizations.

Listed here are the total seizures for this investigation.

While our regional partnerships like HIDA focus on large-scale narcotics enforcement, the strategic response section primarily focused on the day-to-day impacts of crime in our Tempe neighborhoods.

The Neighborhood Response Unit is the foundation of this work, focusing on quality of life issues identified by community members, city council, city management, and our department leadership.

The neighborhood response unit also focuses on addressing the root cause of these neighborhood problems.

One example is identifying individuals and locations involved in supplying narcotics that impact the unsheltered community.

For example, in November, the neighborhood response unit executed a search warrant in North Tempe after receiving information about drug sales specifically to the unsheltered community.

The operation resulted in 10 arrests as well as the seizure of illegal drugs and a firearm.

In December, following a six-week investigation into increased public drug use in North Tempe, the neighborhood response unit served a search warrant related to a drug dealer selling to the unsheltered community near the downtown area.

This operation resulted in six arrests, the seizure of fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin, and a firearm.

After the warrant services, these detectives began working with the community policing unit to evict the residents and improve overall conditions in that neighborhood.

This is just one example of how this section integrates its units to coordinate resources and address quality of life concerns in our city.

The community policing unit maintains visible and approachable police presence.

The unit conducts security assessments, inspections, and nuisance property investigations, and remains actively engaged in addressing encampments, coordinating cleanups, and connecting individuals to available resources during those contacts.

As you can see, this unit stays busy.

In five months, they attended a total of 278 community meetings and events, and they cleared 188 encampments.

Here are just two examples of cleanups that were completed in January in partnership with the community development.

Clinton has experienced homelessness in Tempe since 2016 and was a familiar presence near Tempe Beach Park.

In October of 2024, Clinton was the victim of an aggravated assault while in the park when an unknown suspect shot him in the face without provocation.

Over the years, the community policing unit and the Hope team had numerous contacts with Clinton.

They worked extensively to connect him with veteran services.

It was through their persistent engagement that detective Chris Hannigan, located out-of-state family, coordinated a unification plan and arranged for transportation.

It was over Thanksgiving weekend that Clinton was reunited with his family, and this was a photo that they sent us when he arrived at their home.

This operation was designed to address ongoing quality of life issues in North Tempe, specifically the areas north of the Loop 202.

Resident concerns included vehicle burglaries, narcotic activity, noise disturbances, encampments and park areas, and unsafe driving behaviors within the residential neighborhoods and major roadways.

Operation Autumn Impact was conducted to directly address these issues while advancing the City of Tempe's safe and secure communities and strong community connections priorities through proactive enforcement and community-focused engagement.

The operation was a collaborative effort led by the Strategic Response Section and Field Operations.

Overall, during this operation, we had 320 total calls for service, 96% of which were off officer and uh initiated.

The strategic response section led all groups in achieving those calls for service.

There were a total of 57 arrests that were made, and we saw 27.6 reduction in the NIBER's group A crimes during this operation in that area.

Operation Autumn Impact demonstrates how the strategic response section responds to community concerns while advancing city council's strategic priorities.

It's through a coordinated operations, efficient deployment of resources, and ongoing and community engagement that we can improve public safety and enhance the quality of life in Tempe.

Thank you, Commander.

Thank you very much.

Really quickly, Chief, before we continue, um, Councilmember Hotch has a question, then followed by Councilmember Adams.

So I'm talking without the mic.

Um I just want to say um the presentation was not only was it educational, it's also inspiring to what we're doing.

I thank you guys for all the hard work and efforts you do to keep our community and neighborhoods safe.

Um one question is does the park rangers' information and their data does it go into your into your data when it when you feed in because of like what happens with the when you know in the parks, does that feed into your data or is that separate completely?

So I will say, as far as the collaboration with the park rangers, we do work closely with them.

And when I say we specifically the neighborhood response unit and our community policing unit, I know our department is working on streamlining the actual systems that we use so that we're more able to quickly access reports that they write, and vice versa.

Okay, thank you.

And my last thing is um I just want to give you all uh uh a very big thanks for our SROs too, because that's a big part of our schools' communities and the work that you guys do with restorative justice and just um you know making sure that our kids are safe and also when they do get in trouble, helping to get to a point that they don't have that on their record for life.

So I just want to thank you guys for that publicly too.

Thank you.

Yeah, the school resource officer program is really one of our largest community policing initiatives.

Having the officers developing those relationships is just tremendous as far as building trust with the department.

Yep.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Commander.

Thank you.

Council Bradams.

Uh, yes, I have a question.

Um, from the November 24th to December 14th, is that just one the one three weeks?

Or is this from November 24?

No, correct.

The operation autumn impact, it was a three-week operation.

Wow.

So look at those numbers.

Yes.

I just want to really point that out.

You all did a great job really cleaning up that area, and I really appreciate it.

I know our North Tempe residents uh appreciate it, and um, let's keep it going.

I like it, and it's a fantastic presentation.

And what I really like is that you have numbers, you have statistics to back up what you what you have what you have in the presentation, and that's so important.

Uh, because people, you know, try to twist things and all that.

Well, you've got the numbers right there, and I love it.

I love stats.

Thank you.

One more question.

This is for you.

Well, real quick actually, Council Brainberg, then Council Brahge.

I just have a really quick question.

Did you say that 95% of these 320 calls for service were officer-driven?

Yes.

That's phenomenal.

Yes.

Thank you.

I just wanted to make sure I heard that right.

Yes, very pleased with that.

That's fantastic.

Thank you.

Council Brown.

My question is with these statistics.

Is it any place that we can put this?

Like, is it I guess for rules of two?

Is it going to be in our um, you know, on our website so they can people can see?

Because we get so many questions about what's going on, what the numbers.

We don't have any, you know, we want the data on it.

So I'm just wondering, is there some place that we can put it and make sure that our constituents can see it also.

Mayor, Councilmember Hodge.

We already discussed that during our agenda review last week.

We just wanted to make sure that you see it first along with the community, and then we will Chris Baxter's already prepared to send out information.

I don't even know why I asked that in various ways.

I knew it was coming, but I maybe I'm just doing it so everybody.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Chief?

Okay, great.

Thank you.

So next, we're gonna have Lieutenant Greg Bacon join me.

He's going to share our overview of our traffic safety initiatives, including how we use data enforcement and technology to prevent serious injuries and lives on our streets.

Lieutenant Bacon.

Thank you, Chief.

Good afternoon, Mayor.

Good afternoon, Council.

If you like statistics, you're going to love the next five minutes.

So what I'd like to highlight is vision zero, as well as I really want to highlight the efforts that our photo enforcement program and the strides that it's made and how valuable it has been in the city of Tempe.

So Vision Zero, as you know, is our goal as a city that we've adopted and signed up for to have zero serious physical injury collisions or fatal collisions in our city.

And how we identify that is yearly.

We work with traffic engineering and we identify corridors.

And I've I'm sure you've seen these signs around Tempe with the safety corridors and strict enforcement, and they're spread out into four quadrants.

We have one in the northwest, the northeast, the southwest, and the southwest uh east portions of the city.

Feedback from community members, community safety, and community awareness.

That's what's really important to us.

We want to make our road safety.

Uh, we want to make our road safer.

So we want the community to understand, uh, make them aware as well as our um uh populations driving in and out of the city.

So the the signs that you've seen, uh how we make a difference as a police department.

So let's look at some of the collision data as it pertains to vision zero.

In 2025, our collisions citywide decreased by 11%.

We've had a 10% decrease in injury related collisions, a 4% decrease in uh serious physical injury collisions, and a 21% decrease in fatal collisions.

We are going the right way as a city with fatal collisions.

Uh through enforcement efforts, 3,898 vehicle stops were made in the safety corridors, and then an additional 11,568 vehicle stops are made outside the safety corridors, areas where our community members have concerns of traffic safety, our school zones, and other areas where we've seen speed related collisions alike.

So let's really talk about what photo enforcement has done.

So you're gonna see this map in front of you.

It's got a bunch of dots and numbers, and kind of let me explain that map to you.

We have 16 fixed cameras located in 14 intersections.

Uh, those are represented by the red dots that you see on your screen.

And you'll also notice that they're broken down in quadrants.

So you have quadrant one, quadrant two, quadrant three, and quadrant four.

And how we came up with this uh where to put the cameras was in collaboration with traffic engineering, where we looked at five years of collision data where we had three or more serious physical injury or fatal collisions.

Because again, vision zero, zero serious physical injury or zero uh fatal collisions.

So two of our intersections have multiple cameras.

That's why we have 16 and 14 intersections, and that is baseline road and railroad.

We have southbound rural road and we have westbound baseline road.

We also have Rio Soto Parkway and Railroad, where we have eastbound Rio Slaughter Parkway and westbound Rio Slaughter Parkway.

And again, those cameras capture both red light uh enforcement and speed enforcement alike.

We also have four mobile speed cameras that we rotate on 25 locations, and again, those are represented by the blue dots.

Those are rotated every two weeks.

So we put them out in a location for two weeks and then we move them to another area, and we kind of strategically put them in maybe section one, section four, section two, section three, but they're always in uh one of those quadrants all the time.

Um they're chosen on speed-related collisions.

So as we we look at our speed and we look at where we've had speed-related collisions and we deploy them there, as well as our school zones to include Marcos Deniza and McClintock High School.

Uh, those were chosen specifically at this point because of collisions related to speed around those high schools.

We are still looking at implementing them and rolling them out to the other school zones as well.

Uh, additionally, including neighborhood based on community member speed concerns.

So, how we do those is we will have we have speed trailers, and if a community member says, hey, I got an issue with speed in this area, we'll deploy our speed trailers, do a speed study with traffic engineering or ourselves, and then determine should we deploy the uh um the cameras there.

So, photo enforcement has had a huge impact on community safety.

So, I'm gonna actually give you some updated numbers that are fresh today.

I pulled them this afternoon.

So uh from June 6, 2025 to now January 31st of 2026, we've issued 33,464 citations.

Um now you'll see the red light and speeding violations, those are specific to the previous numbers listed.

There's 31, 839.

We don't have the actual raw data yet.

We're still processing that, but those numbers were processed based on 31,000 citations.

So, with that, I mean, we've had 7,818 red light violations and 18,572 speeding violations.

The the photo enforcement is working in the city of Tempe.

It is making our community safer.

So, what I would like to talk about is how have those cameras reduced collisions.

So the statistics I'm gonna give you are specific to the areas where we have the cameras, the 16 fixed intersection cameras.

So, since July 1st of 2025, and you might be asking yourselves why are we jumping from June to July?

We like to track things quarterly.

Since this rolled out in June, it was towards the end of a quarter, so we wanted to get it in July in the beginning of a quarter.

So 9% reduction in collisions from 2023, 21% reduction in collisions from 2024.

Major impact.

So we've seen a reduction in rear end collisions of 52 and a half percent since 2023 and a 36 and a half percent reduction from 2024.

There's a common misconception out there is when you put cameras up, uh traffic is going to see yellow light, they're gonna slam on the brakes and rear end collisions are gonna go up.

However, our data does not support that.

Our data actually shows it's making our roadways safer.

Uh and with that, any questions for me?

Yes, Council Brams?

Uh can you go back to that last slide?

Yes, ma'am.

So the 52 0.7 reduction um from 2023, and then you have 35.5 reduction in rear end collisions from 2024.

So, like are the those that's just each year.

Yeah, so if you look, if you look on the right hand side, it'll show we had a total of 55 rear end collisions in 2023.

And again, these are in the areas where we have the uh photo enforcement cameras.

And then in 2024, we had a reduction of 41, but in 2025, and we're looking just the quarter in which these cameras went live.

So starting in July, uh again, they went live in July June, but but talking about a quarter specifically, we had 25.

So they have reduced significantly 36 and a half percent from last year.

That's in just seven months.

Yeah, thank you very much.

Council Pirage.

Is that helping also with you remember we had racing scenarios?

Is that helping with that that scenario too?

Yes, and we're also on that.

We have some uh grant money from the governor's office of highway safety that we're using to combat that as long as as well as our night traffic squad.

So we we have resources allocated towards street racing as well as it the cameras having an impact.

Okay, thank you.

And I I don't know if this is any, is it any way to you know, because I know you see uh McClintock is definitely in uh Markle's because the anything on that McClintock corridor is is up and down speed.

Do you have any information?

Is there any reduction on like the youth like they're getting less, or is it something that you just can't figure out if it's age bracket?

That's something I could probably dive into.

I don't have those raw raw numbers today.

I would love to know if my if the because I know it was an issue with the students doing it, and I would love to be able to report back and say our students are reducing um in their traffic violations too in that in those areas.

I will make a note and I will uh try to get back to you by next week.

Thank you.

Whatever we've seen.

I'll take the council in general.

Yeah, whenever you do it, I I'm I'm I'll be happy, but I just I'm just curious to know that.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council Bramps.

Drag racing has been a big problem, and I I know already because we live on a very busy road, it's it's decreased because it's much more quiet.

I've called a number of times, like they're having drag racing again, as the chief knows.

And I'm just wondering, can you describe how you're addressing that program a little bit more?

Because it comes up a lot when I'm out and about, and I think that it's important that we address that so people our residents understand.

So go ahead.

Uh, specifically as to uh street racing.

Yes.

So what we have done is uh again, we've used some grant uh the governor's office of highway safety has been been very instrumental in providing funds to use for some overtime enforcement.

And the reason I say overtime is we can bring in more bodies.

So our night traffic squad continues to focus on you know impaired driving, uh roadway collisions, but now we can bring other assets out and we can deploy people, listen typically the areas where we know we're having concerns for street racing, and we can be proactive on that, listen for the loud the loud vehicles, kind of get an eye on are they are they racing?

Are they loud?

Is it some sort of uh modification made to the vehicle?

And so those are some of the efforts that we're putting in uh to try to combat uh street racing.

And it we have seen a reduction for sure.

Um, are you looking or working with other departments too in the in the valley?

Yes, so there are there are we call them task forces, but like a lot of times Phoenix will run one with DPS and we get invited to go.

Uh, there's one next month that we're gonna participate in with those agencies, and then they'll come to Tempe as well if if we make the request to say, hey, you know, we would like to do a task force this weekend to address any issues.

I also like to point out the assistance that we've had from traffic engineering and other entities in the city that has really calmed that uh just through some structural changes that we don't have the gathering, which sort of starts and creates that problem.

So, really holistically as a city, we've addressed it, and we just continue as traffic to uh you know enforce it and make sure that people don't continue that.

So there used to be a lot of DUI task force, and I know there's still still are, but so it's kind of like that program where everybody gets together and you hear the cars coming and okay.

Yes, okay.

And um, what are we doing to protect the officers during the drag racing and and the residents?

So we definitely for when you ask for protection of the officers.

Uh we we strongly encourage our officers to work together on these, uh, to not make a vehicle stop singularly by themselves on an incident like this to work in pairs.

Same with the citizens.

I mean, obviously, if we feel it's dangerous, we're not gonna make the vehicle stop.

We're not gonna put the public in danger.

We'll do the follow-up on a different day, follow up on the license plate, try to identify who was driving the car.

Uh, we're not gonna put the public in danger to to essentially stop a speed racer.

However, we will follow up on that in the future so we can make the arrest.

Okay.

Yeah, thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

Just a really quick thing, um, a little bit of history on this too.

I remember during my first term on council between 2008 and 2000, 2012, uh, we actually ended up getting rid of photo enforcement in the city of Tampe, and I was one of the votes.

It was a four to three vote, and I was one of the four votes to get rid of it at the time.

I just sort of had an aversion to it, just sort of in general.

And when we started having a conversation about how do we make the road safer when I became mayor later on, you know, we had some conversations about what that might look like, how many cameras we might put up.

And I sort of still had some of the same feelings that I had probably 10, 15 years ago.

But at that point, I was looking at some of the data from some of the other communities, not just across Arizona, but across the country, and just showing the effect that it was having on reducing collisions and obviously saving lives for pedestrians and folks in automobiles.

And when we brought it back, there was obviously some consternation in the community about the notion of bringing photo enforcement back, even though many times people would say to me, I see people speeding through school zones, I see people uh just driving fast, you know, down our collector streets and arterial streets, and what can we actually do to stop that?

But a lot of those folks I know still had an aversion to the cameras for a lot of reasons.

I will tell you that not only have most of the people that I've talked to, and almost pretty much all of them who had those aversions completely done a 180 because they've seen a lot of the driving behavior change, not even because they've seen the statistics, but they've just seen things sort of evolve differently on Tempe Streets and Roads.

My own personality, my own sort of thoughts about them have completely turned around as well.

And I I tell people that it's very much changed my own driving behavior as a person who grew up in the New York area, and even my own parents and my brother would say, Corey, you kind of have a little bit of a lead foot when you drive, because I'm always thinking, like a lot of people, oh, I'm running from one meeting to the next, and I've got to get there, and I'm running 10 minutes late because I left 15 minutes late for my previous thing.

And so many times you start getting up to that yellow light, and you think, hey, I just need to see if I can gun the gas and get through to make sure that I can get to my next appointment.

But one of the things that has sort of happened with photo enforcement, and and obviously for anyone watching at home, yes, I may be the mayor, but I have not memorized all locations where they're at at intersections.

And we obviously do have the four mobile cameras that we move around quite a bit to make sure that people don't think they could simply memorize where the fixed cameras are.

So it keeps everyone a little bit on their toes.

But I will tell you, it's very much changed my own driving behavior and made me a lot more cognizant of the not only my own physical well-being, but the well-being of others.

And so, quite honestly, I'm very happy that we've actually gone to this.

It's it's not about ticketing people or getting violations or generating revenue for the city, it's about saving lives.

And so, quite honestly, sometimes even when you do something and it might not be instantly popular or people might have some immediate misgivings.

You know, we don't sit up here as council members or as mayor or city manager or the police department to do things to simply be popular.

We do things because frankly, they are studied, we have the data, we've done the research, and they save lives.

And so, frankly, I just wanted to say not only have you converted the people that I know in this community who immediately had some misgivings, you've made a believer out of me.

So I just wanted to say thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Mayor.

Um, well, Councilmember Amberg, then Council for Hodge.

Yes, thank you.

Well, I would like to say that I've always been uh big fan of photo enforcement.

And for everybody, including my husband, who is not who is opposed to it, my response is always don't run the red light and stop speeding.

And you'll get where you're getting just fine, and everybody will be happy.

But my question is there is, if I'm not mistaken, Jonathan, a bill going through the legislature right now to basically tell cities that they can't use photo enforcement.

I mean, are you guys I've been down at the Senate uh three times in the last and uh you know, working working well with Jonathan, uh coming up with statements.

Uh, we're gonna try to meet with some senators one on one as well, just to uh show them the data.

I think the data speaks for itself.

And and I think listening to people talk about the rear end collision that bothers me so much, the rear end collision, because we have the data that refutes it.

So I have thankfully been working with Jonathan quite a bit on going down the Senate to make our position known.

That's fantastic.

If you need any help, let me know.

I'll go down there too.

And Mr.

Mayor, by the way, if you drive with like one of the uh the apps that tells you where to go, it will actually say photo enforcement ahead.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, ways, ways to do it.

I don't do that actually, but I I it's been strictly the photo enforcement that's changed my habits, but thank you for letting me know about that.

So council?

Okay, my my I guess mine is not a question, mine is just a suggestion.

I know this is thinking future in the way in the back in the future, but you know, like um uh country club way, that's a very high population of people.

Is there any thoughts in the future of maybe having some kind of detections on like major roads like country club way that gets a lot of because they even have fatalities on that road and to put something?

I know it hasn't been in the neighborhoods, but is that like because that's such a go-through pass?

Is that something that you ever thought about doing?

Sure.

So country club is unique.

It's uh to me, I look at like Alameda, any one of those residential roads that are so wide that give the false perception of the speed limit is much higher than it actually is 25 miles an hour.

So uh that's some where we could put a speed trailer, conduct a speed study and determine if that's an area where we we can allocate those resources.

You know, a lot of times you see cut throughs when there's construction.

So we are cognizant about if there's an area where there's construction when we start getting uh community member concerns, we'll deploy speed trailer, do some speed studies, and then deploy the uh the mobile cameras.

Yeah, because right now Conley is under construction and it's a lot of deterrent on that.

So I was I just wanted to put it out there that it I would love it because I know I do get a lot of people, you know, telling me that they're worried about uh you know, country club way.

Alumin is another one I get a lot about too.

So I was just wondering if that's something that we ever thought about doing.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Sounds good.

Thank you, Chief.

Great.

So as you can see, we've made a lot of progress over the last year, but we're not satisfied, and we're not going to slow down.

As we move into 2026, my vision for the police department is clear and ambitious.

I want the Tempe Police Department to be the best police department in Arizona.

And any time anyone asks, what is the best police department in Arizona?

I want the answer to be the Tempe Police Department without hesitation.

I firmly believe we have the talent, professionalism, and commitment to achieve that goal.

This year we're we will operate with a renewed sense of urgency, and that's urgency in how we respond, urgency and how we investigate, and urgency and how we hold the offenders accountable.

We will do this while remaining grounded in our values of professionalism, excellence, and compassion.

Those values are not just words to us, they're the expectations we hold ourselves to, and they will continue to shape how we serve this city.

So again, I want to say thank you for your partnership.

Thank you for your trust.

It's a privilege for us to serve this community, and we look forward to continuing working together.

So thank you, and we're open to any other questions you may have for us.

Thank you, Chief.

Appreciate the presentation.

Anyone on council have any further comments or questions?

No, I just want to say that we are black.

We are the best.

You know, we're not we're not striving, we're there.

I'm a little biased also, council member.

Uh, but I want to make sure everyone knows that.

That's true.

Great.

Thank you.

Exceptional job, key chief.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

Appreciate it.

And thank you to all the men and women of the Tempe Police Department for the work that you do.

Thank you.

Next up, item four B, 2026 tribal gaming grant proposals.

We will now bring up Jonathan Sheffield, our government relations director, to give a presentation on item 4B.

Mr.

Shepfield.

All right.

Good evening, Mayor and members of the council.

Appreciate the opportunity.

Um, as you know, the tribal gaming grants have been uh in existence since about the year 2000 when it was passed by uh the voters in the state.

And so the uh tribes statewide are now required to share 12% of their gaining gaming revenues with uh local governments and uh nonprofit organizations for which local governments serve as the pass-through for those funds.

Uh so I'm here to give you a presentation on the requests uh specifically that city departments are going to put forward.

Um, and then I'll talk a little bit about the timeline towards the end.

But as far as the council priority, this would meet the uh revenue forecast variance 5.1 to achieve revenue forecasts actual variants for budgetary year of plus or minus 3% for taxes and intergovernmental revenue.

So the requests that we have uh internally, uh we have 19 from two different departments totaling 1,610,643 dollars, 12 from health and human services, seven from community services.

I mentioned that we serve as a pass through for some of the contributions to external organizations as well.

We've received those applications.

The deadline was February 2nd to receive those.

So we're currently going through those and we'll have a presentation on that later on.

Again, the resolutions with the final internal and external programs will come for the council at our next regular meeting March 5th.

We'll make sure that the applications are submitted to the various tribes by their deadlines.

They vary from I think it's GRIC that's at uh March 31st and then all the way towards uh the middle of the summer.

So there's quite a bit of variance there.

And then the uh tribes typically make their decisions and we help to pass out the checks in the fall and winter uh towards the end of the year.

Um so with that, I'm happy to pause and answer any questions you might have.

Thank you, Mr.

Sheffield.

Council for Adams.

So it's based on the percentage that the tribes make, correct?

Correct.

So uh has that money gone up as gambling's increased?

Um I'm sure it has statewide.

I can look into that and see if I can find the revenue.

I think that'd be important to um spread that news.

Sure.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Any comments or questions on item 4B?

Thank you.

No.

Mr.

Sheffield, thank you.

I didn't time that, but uh definitely under three minutes.

So thank you, sir.

All right, next up, item four C public art plan update.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, Mayor and Council.

Thanks for having us once again.

We're really excited to share the public art plan.

Um, as you know, it's been a while.

We've been here a few times, but I'm excited to be here with Josh Lapp from Designing Local to share the culmination of this project.

Uh as you know, this falls into the strategic priority and performance measure 3.17, the quality of community services programs.

And um what we're here to do today is just to give you a really quick chat at the public engagement and highlight the inventory, but more than that, uh focus on our vision for the future and the objectives and strategies that came out of this process.

Public art is where we cultivate that community vibe through the arts.

We work in the built environment to complement all the things that people experience as they walk through, drive-through, bike through uh Tempe.

So, really creating opportunities for placemaking and installation and providing that kind of artistic expression that really holds Tempe together and people recognize things like the standpipes or the you know, a big mural or a sculpture or something that impacts their day-to-day life as a sense of place.

Um, with that, I'd like to hand it over to Josh Lapp, who we've been working with designing local on this project, and he can share more.

Hi, everyone.

Uh, excited to be here.

Um, I did want to call out um, you know, our team developed the plan and led the process, myself and team member Gabrielle Smith.

Um, but we also had another team member, Todd Bressy, who was instrumental in this.

And very importantly, I want to uh thank Shauna Warner and Jacob Payne uh from Neighborhood Services and Planning who sat on many, many, many biweekly calls with our team and contributed throughout the process, as well as the public art team, Christine, Shara, and Kat uh were really important, along with, of course, Rebecca being uh uh working very closely with me.

So our team develops these types of plans throughout the country, and it was really an honor to work uh with Rebecca and her team in Tempe on such a well-developed and long-standing public art program.

Uh throughout this process, it was really important for us to be very uh engaged with the community.

And um, so we had a number of events.

I think if you count up all the folks we uh connected with, there was probably at least 1,800 individuals that we um got feedback from.

We did some really cool large events, one at the Eisendrath House, uh, where we had a former public artist that actually lived in the house, uh come and talk about the future of public art and TEMPE, uh, as well as some open houses at history meet the Tempe History Museum and virtual meetings.

We also tabled at the Tempe Jam and a bunch of other community events.

Um, and we had several large-scale surveys where we got uh really great feedback in addition to some uh more uh closer one-on-one conversations.

So all of that, all of those conversations really culminated in some major takeaways for us.

One was that people want to uh see public art that reflects Tempe's identity.

They want to see it integrated into their daily life.

They want it to be interactive and engaging.

They want it to be distributed equitably around the community.

So that's like thinking geographically.

They wanted to support local artists, and they wanted public art not just to be fun and exciting, but also to help address some challenges and create opportunities for the community.

So we took again what we heard from the community and we developed some visionary items.

One was some aspirations for what we want to see with the public art program in the future and what residents want to see as well.

So creating surprise, wonder and playfulness and the everyday life, and also really bringing in the Tempe vibe, you know, that fun, eclectic idea into the built environment, really connecting people with nature, natural, and urban systems.

So thinking about, we were hearing a lot about infrastructure and transportation right before this.

So thinking about how public art can be integrated into streets and trails and all those kinds of things, as well as telling the story of Tempe, so the history, the culture, and helping people be connected to this place, and then really supporting artists as well.

So creating pathways for their practice in the community.

And we also were thinking more about kind of how the program could be intentional internally.

So really thinking about sustainability into the future for the program, really taking it to the next level.

We've done some really amazing things over the last 35 years that this program has been in place, but how can we look towards the future and be one of the standout public art programs in the country?

And then really getting the most out of the resources that we already have.

We also wanted to think about uh from a curatorial standpoint.

What types of artwork should we do?

What stories should we tell?

And uh four things really came to mind just as a guide for future projects, thinking about the Sonoran environment, um, also indigenous traditions and visions, how we can connect with that, uh, other local history and cultural heritage, and then the surprise and innovation that comes with Tempe.

And if you look at the plan, these are much uh, you know, there's a lot more information there, but just giving very high level.

Ultimately, we took all of that information as the foundation, made sure that the community agreed with that as the foundational elements of the public art plan and the program of the future.

And then we developed uh some more detailed objectives and strategies to go along with that.

So I'll go through each of these objectives individually with and talking about some of the specific strategies that Rebecca and her team will uh execute in the future.

So thinking about strengthening Tempe's sense of place and connectivity using public art, ensuring that public art is geographically widespread throughout Tempe, fostering an innovative program that levels up public art, documenting, refining and formalizing uh procedures within the public art team, enhancing the existing uh art and private development program as well, and then strengthening the management of the collection so we have that collection well into the future.

When thinking about how to integrate the artwork into the community, we we looked at some location strategies, so not specific locations necessarily, but ideas for what types of locations that should happen in the future.

And as you can see, already has happened because these are all existing pieces of public art in Tempe that were integrated into civic spaces and city facilities, trails and greenways, neighborhood and regional parks, and then also transportation and other city infrastructure.

Objective two, really thinking about how public art is geographically spread throughout Tempe.

We did some research and actually do have some numbers on this, uh, which is really impressive.

98.4% of residents are within a 20-minute walk of public art in Tempe.

Um, so that to me is an incredibly impressive statistic.

It's the best one I've ever seen.

Um, Rebecca and her team, you know, there's a few little gaps to fill, and they can use this map to look for future opportunities and prioritize places that maybe, you know, maybe are a 20-minute walk, but maybe we can get that down to a 10-minute walk just to ensure that public art is geographically widespread, but we're doing a really good job already.

Um they're gonna regularly update this map as new projects come along.

Um, and then really using this to also look at how you know future CIP projects, like is there a project coming up in a place that we could increase access to public art?

Another opportunity would be to continue to encourage HOAs to do neighborhood grant applications.

So uh though it is widespread, it is still more widespread in North Tempe.

And so getting the HOA communities to do the neighborhood grants that would add public art within those areas is a really good way because we don't always have city facilities within every neighborhood.

Thinking about leveling up the public art program, uh advancing signature projects is a key idea.

Um also undertaking a curatorial approach to integrating public art into infrastructure.

So starting right from the get-go and having artists or other folks on board to help tell us, you know, how could we and should we integrate public art?

Also, uh Rebecca and her team really have a strong interest in helping to mentor public artists so that we can bring up new generations of artists uh in the valley and bring them from outside to really be a launch point for early and mid-career artists.

Um Tempe might not always, you know, doesn't have the biggest public art budget in the region necessarily, but we want to make the most impact with what we do have and focus on bringing those uh folks in who are gonna be like celebrity artists in the future.

Let's let's really uh get them and help them and mentor them into getting to that point.

Also providing educational opportunities to help developers, some of those neighborhood folks and others who want to do public art in the community uh do it the best way that they should.

So, you know, getting contracts right and doing all those things, continuing to make that work.

Uh it was really important for us.

We we know the public art program is running very well already, but we wanted to make sure that we were documenting and refining existing procedures to make sure that if Rebecca or I or the rest of the team are no longer here in the future that we have those really um strong and uh it so it's easy for folks to follow.

So formalizing the annual work plan process uh internally, so not the part that gets brought to you, but the rest of it and how that's developed uh was really important for us, maintaining project prioritization criteria and also adopting public art guidelines and procedures that were developed based on the existing procedures that were you know informally happening in in inside the department, making that a more formal thing.

So those are all strategies for the future of that.

And then um a big one was also enhancing the AIPD program.

So it's been around for a long time, but Tempe has changed significantly since the program was first adopted.

So currently it only applies to um commercial and industrial projects.

One of the big ideas here is to think about expanding that to mixed use buildings.

It's been something that's been talked about.

Um, but uh with the way that Tempe is now growing up instead of out, we really have to think more about how art is integrated into the newly built um buildings, also thinking about how to strengthen that, so supporting um those developers, whether it applies to them currently or not, to do better AIPD projects, and then incentivizing, thinking about incentivizing developers to contribute to the fund if they don't want to do public art on site, and then um partnering with code compliance to ensure that those things are happening uh and we're we're uh monitoring the artwork into the future.

And then lastly, objective six is about strengthening the collection and maintaining that into the future.

So uh the Tempe History Museum has uh a deaccession uh procedure, and so sometimes artworks um are no longer able to be maintained or something happens to them.

We want to make sure we have a yearly look at any artworks that we need to think about de-accessioning um as a last resort.

Also considering you know larger set-asides into the future for conservation and maintenance of existing pieces because there is a large collection already.

Um, and then thinking about how to actually uh maintain the collection even more into the future.

So looking at collection assessments, thinking about having consultants or staff help uh support the conf conservation of artwork.

Okay, I think we're ready for questions now, and I stayed very close to time.

Sounds good.

I saw, let's see, council member Hodge, council member Chin and Council member uh actually it was council Adams first, excuse me.

I was looking at both of them and I said the wrong name.

So Adams, Chin, and then Hodge.

Thank you, Corey.

That's a pretty good memory there.

It's like I said something at the beginning.

So good.

Um, first of all, I'm a huge fan of public art.

It's it's so cool.

And Rebecca, you are so you've been so great to work with.

And we're getting those uh utility boxes painted at Southern, or I'm sorry, at uh Warner and Rural, and they look so great, and people are commenting on it.

I know South Tempe hasn't had a lot of uh public art, but I think we're moving in that direction now, and um people are just I'm just getting a lot of positive feedback on on those boxes already.

So congratulations on that.

Uh also um could we make the developers um as part of the project?

Could we make them um put in our public art?

Um currently the ordinance requires commercial and industrial developments over 50,000 square feet.

Um, either contribute to the municipal arts fund or create a work of public art.

And in either case, our team helps facilitate and support that process.

So we we go both ways.

We've had a number of developers who've chosen to create artworks and a number who choose to support public art throughout the city.

So when they choose to support it throughout the city and they give us that fund, that goes in the municipal arts fund for us to program public art throughout the city as a whole.

Okay, thank you so much.

Thank you, Councilbert.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you.

Um, two thoughts.

One, I heard you, and actually the stovetails to what council member Adams just asked about.

Um couple of us up here are on the mixed use space conversation.

There is currently uh zoning that requires retail a certain percentage of retail space for certain zoning.

Well, we're exploring what we can do with that because there are buildings that check that box but have empty spaces there.

So it's timely for me to hear that suggestion, and I think the other committee uh leadership heard it as well.

So we can throw that in the bucket for discussion.

Um the other comment I have is really squishy.

So asking forgiveness now from everyone, but this is more of a an encouragement for the other department leadership, um leads and departments as we think about public art.

It's not simply, oh, let's put this sculpture here and be done with it.

Uh Eric Iverson, I'm looking at you.

Uh I keep sending him ideas that I get that I see in other places where they use an artistic element to convey practical information.

Uh, and it could be how we're trying to direct people in a certain way, but gosh, at a certain time of day, the light hits it a certain way, and the message is whatever.

But I encourage other leadership within the city.

You had that included in your ideation process that they are that they are encouraged and invited to participate with ideas and to work with the plan.

Well, I'd push that a step further.

What can we do at water or with recycling or right?

Bolt trash, my favorite topic.

Um, it really is.

Uh, but how can we get creative and involve some sort of artistic element?

So thank you.

Thank you.

Push it at Council Baraj.

Thank you for the presentation.

I'm gonna look at Shauna Warner down here.

Um, can this information like this presentation be displayed to all the neighborhoods so they can get this information and kind of use it because I know our neighborhood is going through some areas that are empty lot and empty spaces, and maybe we can be working with grants and seeing what other neighbors has done to do that.

Okay, thank you.

So I got a good nod on that one.

Um, and my second thing is more about not the art itself, but who is creating it.

So when you do you connect with the the schools and ASU when you're looking for artists, I know you look for artists like Tempe Base, but we have some phenomenal students and from our college level all the way down to kindergarten that's doing great artwork, and I just want to make sure that they're inputted into this also because they are the future.

Absolutely.

In fact, we're um working with ASU really closely this spring on some initiatives that will help and part of this plan is to educate, right?

Um the the rubber hits the road when you're actually working on a city contract, and so my team and I are really working closely to help those ASU students learn how to take their skills into a professional realm through workshops and through some other initiatives that we've got going as far as the schools go.

When we have projects that are near a school, for example, you're all familiar with the MILAV underpass.

We're very much in conversation with Tempe High.

We're really trying to bring as much as we can to work with students so that they can see that a career in the arts isn't just you know painting on a wall and you walk away, but it can be much more integrated into city planning into urban design into engineering and other things.

So that's very much in the process of working with students.

Thank you.

And also I would say not just the high school students, but we have some very artistic art kit artsy third graders, second graders.

Fourth grade.

So I just would like it to, you know, it expanded out to all levels of our students.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, any other yes, Councilman Brayberg.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

I am loved everything about this.

I love art as anybody that's been up to my office on the third floor, and I've been trying to put it on the art map, but apparently I can't because it's on the third floor.

Um I learned a new worn today.

So I had to Google it.

D accession means to take art away and you know, to sell it.

No idea what that worried was, so I Googled it.

So thank you.

Thank you.

We aim to educate.

So, Council.

Uh, any other comments or questions on this item?

All right, wonderful.

Great job.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

All right, that brings me to item number five.

Call to the audience.

The city council welcomes public comment at this time for the committee of the whole items on this work study session agenda.

There is a three-minute time limit per speaker.

Madam Clerk, any cards for item number five.

No cards, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Which means I'll move to item number six, which is our committee of the whole item.

So item six A is proposed council subcommittees pro city council rule seven, subsection two B.

Any two members of the council may propose the formation of a subcommittee at a work study session of the council by identifying the purpose of the proposed subcommittee and the proposed members of the subcommittee and obtaining approval of the majority of the council.

Let's see, are there any new proposals for a new council subcommittee at this time, Council?

Nope.

Okay.

So that means I'll move forward to item six B, Council subcommittee status updates as needed or recommendations for council direction.

So I'm now going to go down the list and I'll call upon the chair to see if they'd like to give an update or a presentation.

So first up, item 6b1, and I know she's virtual this evening.

Uh Vice Mayor Garland, age-friendly Tempe Council subcommittee.

Thank you so much, Mayor.

Um, I just want to say thank you so much to the stakeholders and our residents who have been participating in um this committee.

And thank you so much to Councilmember Keating and Councilmember Amberg for co-chairing this committee with me.

Um we will have our next meeting on February 24th, and that is to look at the final age-friendly uh Tempe plan for the five-year plan, and then the plans are for that uh to come to a work study session on May 4th.

So again, I want to say thank you to everyone, and especially my council colleagues.

Thank you so much, Vice Mayor.

Uh, next up, item 6b2, animal welfare and cruelty and tempee council subcommittee.

Councilmember Hodge.

Thank you.

Um, also I want to thank my co-counsel, councilmember Adams, Vice Mayor Garland for being on there.

We have our next subcommittee meeting on March February, March 6 at 2 p.m.

Also be on the third floor.

So um, I'm excited to see where this is going.

We got a lot of great information.

Excellent.

Thank you so much.

All right, next up, uh, item 6b3, uh community engagement and connection council subcommittee.

I'm gonna go back to Vice Mayor Gar with first time caller, longtime listener.

Thank you so much, Mayor.

I appreciate it.

Um, again, I want to say thank you to our residents who are participating um in this uh committee with us.

Um, we have also council members, um, Amberg and Chin who um have been helping with this, so I really appreciate that.

They're also attending our public input meetings that we have that we are trying to take um our committee meetings to the public, um, where our residents are to learn more about how um communication is done toward to them and with them and have them be a part of this process with us.

So our um next community engagement um meeting meeting will be February 17th, but we will be um having our public input meetings February 21st, 28th, and March 7th across the city of Tempe.

Everybody is welcome to come and join us at those meetings.

Uh you can get some more information if you go to um the city of Tempe's website or go to my page on the City of Tempe website.

So thank you so much.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Appreciate it.

Next up, item 6B4, drink spiking education and prevention council subcommittee.

Uh, I know uh councilmember Keaty is not here this evening, but Vice Mayor Garland and Councilmember Hodge with the other subcommittee members.

Uh, do you have any updates on this item?

Thank everybody.

Um, I think that council member Keene will probably be closing it out or after this.

He actually is indicating he wants to keep it open for the purpose of talking about the sort of education portions.

Uh so to make sure that was sort of added on during the deliberation.

So I think he'll be keeping it open for a certain time period.

So your work is not done yet.

My work is not done yet, but I just want to thank all of the our employees and everybody who works so hard on in due diligence on it.

So thank you.

Excellent.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

All right, next up, item 6b5, federal and state advocacy review council subcommittee.

Councilmember Amberg.

Yes, Mr.

Mayor, thank you.

I chair the subcommittee, and I'm joined by Vice Mayor Garlet and Councilmember Keating.

We're gonna have our first meeting on February the 20th at 4 p.m.

in the third floor conference room in uh city hall.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Next up, item 6b6, mixed use space council subcommittee, Councilmember Chin.

Thank you, Mayor.

And thank you for your leadership as well as Councilmember Amberg on this committee with me.

We are currently trying to um nail down the next meeting, which likely will be in the month of March.

We're trying to figure that out.

Excellent.

Thank you so much.

Next up, item 6b7, motorized and electric mobility device council subcommittee.

Councilmember Adams.

Yes, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Uh, I just wanted to uh announce that next Wednesday at 2 p.m.

at City Hall, we will be having our second motorized and electric mobility device safety council committee subcommittee meeting.

And uh I want to thank uh Councilmember Hodge for participating with us on this subcommittee.

And um we we had a lot of people show up at our first meeting.

It was really really good, great interactions and and feedback.

So I'm looking forward to continuing to move this uh forward.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next up, item 6b8, revitalization of Tempe Town Lake Council Subcommittee.

Councilmember Amberg.

Yes, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

I chair the subcommittee and I'm joined by council members uh Adams and Hodge.

We met on February the 6th, and we had some presentations from Tempe Boat Cruising, which they are doing very, very well.

Uh Rio Imagined and our transportation department was there to give us a little update on the pedestrian bridge on the east side of the lake.

Uh so I wanted to thank everybody that came and attended and presented.

Our next meeting is going to be on April the 20th at 2 p.m.

in the third floor conference room.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Next up, item 6b9, Tempe Term Limits Policy Review Council Subcommittee.

Uh Vice Mayor Garland or Councilmember Amberg, do you have any comments this evening on that item?

We do not have a date for our first meeting yet, but we will get that out to the public as soon as we set that.

Fantastic.

Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Next up, item seven, future agenda items.

Members of the city council may request that an agenda item be added to a future issue review session, but in accordance with the open meeting law, there should be no discussion on the item other than to clarify the request.

Would any council members like to add a future agenda item to a future issue review session?

Hearing none, I will move on to item number eight, which is adjournment.

The next scheduled work study session will be on February 26, 2026.

We are adjourned, everyone, at 5 20 p.m.

Thank you, everyone.

Have a good night.