Regular Meeting - 8/1/2023 6:30:00 PM

good evening everyone welcome to the
Gilbert Town council meeting for August
1st 2023. the first thing I'd like to
ask you to please do is turn off our
silent all your cell phones and devices
for our meeting
and I will call this meeting to order
the invocation this evening will be led
by President Kevin Ballard of the Church
of letter Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints
welcome thank you for joining us
just push the button and turn the mic on
please
thank you
our most gracious Father in heaven
we are grateful
to be able to walk and talk and see and
hear and move about it
in this goodly land and grateful for the
freedoms that permit us
together in such a venue
we ask a blessing upon all those that
serve our community
from our military to our Armed Forces
to our fire and police departments and
to our city council
we thank them and please bless them for
their willingness to serve and share
may we as a community live in harmony
and according to Thy word and deed
bless us Father in Heaven that we can
look outward and not inward
and father at this time we especially
ask for moisture
we are grateful for that which has
fallen we continue asking
leave for rain and moisture in this
southwest
in the name of Jesus Christ amen
amen thank you president Ballard thank
you for asking for rain the much needed
monsoon season next we'll have our
Pledge of Allegiance led by
councilmember Buckley please please rise
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for all
thank you
if I could please have town clerk
Herrera conduct the role
mayor Bridget Peterson here vice mayor
Kathy tilkey here council member Scott
Anderson here council member Chuck
bongiovanni here council member Bobby
Buckley here council member young
kaprowski here in council member Jim
Torgeson here Quorum is present
thank you chevelli now we'll move on to
we don't have any presentations and
proclamations this evening so we'll move
to Communications from citizens vice
mayor I pass to you
thank you mayor
good evening the Gilbert Town Council
values citizen comments and input anyone
wishing to speak before the council must
fill out a request to speak card for
each item they wish to speak on and
submit it to the town clerk or place it
in the bin provided prior to the start
of the meeting
the communications from citizens portion
on the agenda provides citizens an
opportunity to identify for the Town
Council matters of Interest or concerns
related to town government that are not
on the printed agenda
under the provisions of the Arizona open
meeting law the Town Council is
prohibited from responding to issues
that have not been properly noticed
therefore the Town Council may only
listen to citizens who wish to address
them on non-agenda items
at the conclusion of the open call to
public response is limited to individual
members of the council responding to
criticism made by those who have
addressed the public body asking staff
to review a matter or asking that a
matter be put on a future agenda
the town asked that when your name is
called you come forward to the podium
state your name and place a residence
and then begin speaking all speakers are
expected to observe common standards of
decorum and courtesy personal attacks
political speeches or threats of
political action are inappropriate in
this form and will be grounds for ending
a speaker's time at the podium
the first person that comes forward
you'll need to press the button on the
bottom and you'll note that the
microphones on when you see the little
red light here each person to come
forward will have three minutes and
there will be a clock that will show not
only on your screen but the screen for
the audience as well
with that
um
hold on just a second I'm trying to
group these by topic okay thank you
um our first speaker is
Lonnie
chisen or chisen I'm sorry if I
oh you did yes you did Chisholm there it
is thank you thank you very much come
forward and we'll give you three minutes
right on the bottom of that black you
see where the microphone yeah there you
go bingo
Lonnie chisen town at Gilbert
Gilbert is one of the most sought after
places to live in this country
the current perception of this town's
dysfunction has clearly displayed in
news article after news article has
become a major hindrance to the health
and well-being of the town
the leadership within this body of
representation is doing harm to the
value of Gilbert thank you
thank you very much learning next up is
Daniel Strazza and I'm following Daniel
will be Brandon riff
is Daniel here oh there you are foreign
Gilbert resident nice to see you all
thank you for having me
I'm only here because I feel like I
would be doing the town of disservice if
I didn't exercise my civil Duty
since Bridget took office
there have been at least nine ethics
complaints maybe 12. I'm not sure math
wasn't my strong suit
but what I do know is that anyone else
conducted themselves in the way that the
mayor has they would have been relieved
that their duties and responsibilities
immediately
so why do we still have a mayor that is
destroying this beautiful city
there is very little that you have done
to this town or for this town
this city
that the constituents are happy with
that's why we moved here it's a
beautiful town that resembles
most of what Gilbert is known for
there are apartments and industrial
buildings now on every corner
you're pushing a rail station in Coulee
that honestly I've never heard one
positive comment from any Resident of
Gilbert talk about
but these are just to name a few as my
time here is limited
but aside from the political corruption
and under the hand table handouts or
payback favors or whatever you have to
do
your conduct has been a complete
embarrassment to the town and frankly
going to end up being a huge waste of
tax dollars
it's absolutely shameful and
embarrassing
as a Gilbert taxpayer I certainly don't
want my earn money being used to defend
a mayor Whose actions don't align with
the values of this town
we need a mayor to lead
not shut down people
not kick people out of meetings not
violate people's rights but hear people
and understand people the best leaders
of this country the best companies
around the world
have a team behind them of people that
respect them and understand them and
there's there's conduct that goes back
and forth and that's what we're missing
here in this town so I hope everybody
takes that into light and knows the next
time we have to vote we vote the right
way thank you
thank you Daniel Brandon riff who will
be followed by Ryan handelsman
good evening
people are laughing at us they're
laughing at how screwed up things are in
this town
all the web websites all the newspapers
news stories it's pathetic it's it's
disgusting I'm embarrassed
when the mayor gets an Ethics complaint
and she's had a lot of them she calls it
an abuse of the process that people use
to attack her
but then the mayor goes and does the
exact same thing abusing the ethics
complaint process to attack a fellow
council member the first mayor in
Gilbert's history to do such a thing
congratulations
so why did the mayor file on ethics
complaint against another council member
uh well she heard the council member
called her a mean name
are you serious
a formal ethics complaint because
someone expressed their negative opinion
of the mayor grow up
nevertheless the mayor retaliated and
used ethics complaint process to shut
him up depriving him of his rights under
the First Amendment and embarrassing our
entire town along the way
I'm here tonight because I too once
attempted to express my negative opinion
of the mayor likewise the mayor
retaliated I didn't get an Ethics
complaint but she did order the SWAT
team to remove myself and others from a
public meeting just to shut us up
what happened to my ethics complaint
well nothing because the town hired
attorney William Sims to conduct a fake
phony so-called investigation
where he interviewed only one side and
not the other before fleecing the town
for over 13
000 taxpayer dollars in exchange for
sweeping the mayor's misconduct under
the rug
it seems the mayor will do anything to
silence anyone who dares to express a
negative opinion to her on the other
hand the mayor thinks that she can go on
record expressing and disseminating
materially false statements about me a
private resident in order to impugn my
character and my professional reputation
finally as we walk down hypocrisy Lane
I'd like to point out one more thing the
mayor claims the current ethics
complaint process is being weaponized
and must be overhauled yet when given
the choice to either wait a couple of
weeks for the new ethics complaint
process to take effect before filing her
complaint or filing it right now under
the current process as a weapon
the mayor herself chose the weapon
leadership starts at the top and our
mayor has repeatedly failed our town and
every resident who lives here
with this childish behavior it's got to
stop it's got to stop
mayor Peterson I believe that you lack
the Judgment emotional maturity and
character to lead our town
I respectfully strongly urge you to step
down and walk away thank you
thank you Mr Roof next is Ryan
handelsman
Ryan handelsman town of Gilbert
honestly I feel like I'm watching my
high school student government conduct
business lately and whether that or an
episode of The Office
although this Deus has been riddled
lately with sophomoric Behavior the
manifestation again starts with You
Bridget
I'm curious if you can even explain how
any of your conduct demonstrates
leadership
you go to ribbon cuttings you go to
Lemonade Stand that's all find well and
good
but that does not constitute a leader
for example you went on record and
during a council meeting and told
another council member you didn't know
he could read couldn't read a budget and
was surprised because you thought he
owned a lot of businesses
how does that bully-ish behavior
reflect leadership
he also literally walked out of a
council meeting to go grab a Diet Coke
while a citizen was addressing the
council during Communications from
citizens
that's leadership
you had me forcibly removed amongst
others because I was sitting in the back
of a room holding a sign that says stop
lying
and after you kick me out
all that was I asked for was an apology
an apology
yet you failed to respond
you ignored it but unlike others I don't
succumb to bullies and since the only
thing that seems to attract your
attention is Drama We slapped a one
million dollar lawsuit on it to get your
attention
and that's leadership I guess right
your accusations
of people weaponizing the ethics
complaint process meanwhile this is
exactly what's going on now I find it
highly ironic that all of the ethics
complaints that just happened to be
mustering up lately are people that have
outspoken against you or potential
opponents in the next mayoral election
that's leadership
but here's the peace to resistance a
little rhetorical scenario here a police
officer goes to a scene for a domestic
dispute between a husband and a wife
only interviews the suspect but not the
victim and deems the incident to be
inconclusive
and even go so far as to agree with the
suspect as to why he attacked
wouldn't that raise your index of
Suspicion
I ask because the town like Brandon said
hired attorney Bill Sims to investigate
an Ethics complaint regarding the whole
sign incident his report included
multiple reference of You Bridget
communicating your side of the story to
Mr Sims meanwhile he never contacted me
or any of the victims or anybody else
involved in the process so you as a
leader received that report from Mr Sims
and felt that was a fair outside
investigation
that's not a leader
I feel that you're unfit to be the mayor
of this town you're at your tactics are
predictable
you're probably going to give us some
sort of speech at the end of all this
and maybe even find a way to muster up a
few tears
we're not fooled
we've seen this episode it's getting old
please step down
thank you Ryan next up is Terry Natty
and following Terry is Ann Andrew Adams
hello my name is Terry Natty and I live
in a county Island within the Gilbert
planning area
first of all I really dislike it when
people make assumptions especially about
my motivations without asking me I am an
open book if you want to know about me
ask
I want to make it abundantly clear that
my ethics complaints have nothing to do
with any other ethics complaints that
have been filed recently
I first filed with the AG's office on
June 29th and June 30th and I copied the
town clerk the same day in each case
this was well before I knew about
anything any other complaints
there are a few main motivators of
people Faith and family are awesome
however money and power often big
motivators council member koprowski
intimated to me in an email that her
income from the town had significantly
diminished after being appointed to
council to approximately one percent of
her company's Revenue but had not
stopped
um so obviously money is not a motivator
for her think about that
when I emailed a group of friends
neighbors and acquaintances regarding
the ethics complaints against council
member caprese I got feedback from a few
sources
the first was a neighbor who does not
work in the engineering field but knows
someone who does you councilmember
koprowski were a topic of conversation
with someone within the engineering
world to someone outside the engineering
world
the discussion was based upon the
perception of shady dealings on your
part I do realize that perception may
not be reality but is often rooted in
reality I also had a random stranger
reach out to see how they could help in
pursuing complaints against you
thus individual per their profile on
Facebook is an engineer by trade
it also brought up a story from a
different Source about a certain
assistant being terminated because their
spouse sold t-shirts to the town at cost
now I don't know how many t-shirts there
were but there would I would be willing
to bet it was less than ten thousand
dollars worth
so please tell me how what I found isn't
an Ethics violation
in at least one Arena
if the T-shirt story is indeed true
maybe I should find that person and
suggest that they file a suit against
the town for wrongful termination I mean
at this point in time what's one more
lawsuit
you're only spending taxpayer money not
your own
on July 27th I did ask Town Council and
management to hold and or postpone
addressing my complaint of Ethics my
complaint of Ethics violations against
council member koprowski based on
language for a new code
depending on the outcome of this session
and subsequent voting postponing the
requests could save the town and its
taxpayers twenty to forty thousand
dollars in investigative fees
I abhor waste and Reckless spending it
is in that spirit that I was I requested
the hold
also interestingly
I'm out of time thank you
thank you Miss Natty
um Andrews next and following Andrew is
Amy Holman
hi cancel uh thank you for taking the
time to hear me out tonight
so my name is Andrew Adams I'm the
chairman of the ld14 Republican party
and I come here tonight to speak in
support of councilman Torgeson Buckley
and Bon Giovanni
we're proud of their performance on the
council since they've been elected and
we're honored that there are our
councilmen
so I come here tonight because I've read
recently in a public press release that
there are ethics complaints being lodged
against Bobby Buckley and Jim Torgerson
according to these public press releases
there are many errors in these press
releases they're either untrue or
completely unfounded accusations against
both the legislative district and in my
opinion the councilman
reading this I can't help but think that
these particular ethics complaints seem
to be an act of Vengeance of some kind
because of the length this person went
to fabricate parts of their claims so
I'd hope you take that into
consideration while you're reviewing
this and thank you for hearing us all
out tonight
thank you Mr Adams we have Amy Holman
next and following Amy will be Jennifer
Watkins
okay
before I say anything I do this with
great trepidation
I fear that I may have to deal with
retaliation but if it wasn't for the
brave people before me there would be
nothing but corruption
with that being said my very first
dealing with this government body I was
shocked with the unprofessional and
aggressive manner that I received
when the mayor was first inducted I
emailed her discussing my disapproval of
the apartments that were going up she
blatantly lied and told me that this was
in the town plan that was voted on years
ago and that I basically had to suck it
up
well I went and I looked up the town
plan
this was untrue
uh if these projects were actually in
the town plan there would be no need for
the yellow signs everywhere and all the
zoning variances that are on them
it was a flat out lie then as time went
on the numerous Shady deals and that
behind the door meetings made my opinion
even worse
thankfully we were able to vote in three
people who are here for the town and not
in it to increase their own wallets
unfortunately for the town of Gilbert
it's already too late
the prior Council and the mayor were
able to get in enough Apartments zoning
changes Etc to destroy this town
my house backs up to a major road when I
first moved here the traffic was quiet
like the lull of an ocean
now there are souped-up cars speeding
down as if they're in a race
huge enormous trucks rattling by and the
amount of emergency vehicles Blowing by
hour by hour is outstanding
graffiti has increased crime has
increased and the quality of life for a
Gilbert resident has decreased
the mayor in the shenanigans are in the
news all the time and rather than from
learning from it and listening to her
constituents she files ethics complaints
on other council members as retaliate
retaliation
this is how a petulant child would act
uh this rather than a respectable mayor
she allowed a council person koprowski
to have multiple contracts with the town
rather than be putting out for public uh
evaluation
these are not the actions of an ethical
honorable and respectable mayor we can
do better
thank you Amy
Jennifer and following Jennifer will be
Tammy
Foley
hi thank you for hearing me my name is
Jennifer and I am a resident of town of
Gilbert probably should have looked at
the agenda completely out of left field
different from what's being talked about
so maybe this will be a nice change of
pace
um I live in the gardens neighborhood
off of Recker and Ray and there's
Community concern about the parking
that's going on on the circle currently
the straight edges are parking allowed
both sides and the curves are no parking
allowed and when turning onto the garden
Circle parking on both sides creates
limited visibility to see around the
corner leading to cars creeping forward
into the road and difficulty Crossing
for pedestrians when you do turn onto
Garden Circle and manage that parking on
both sides creates a one-way traffic
situation of cars waiting to let each
other through
this is very difficult as it's directly
after the turn into the neighborhood
then when you factor in the size of
Emergency Response Vehicles industrial
Vans and trucks school buses delivery
vehicles the roads become even more
impassable
being able to see buses stopped around
the corner or children already six feet
into crossing the road after school or
emergency responders is important for
obvious reasons so I don't need to go
into that so basically I'm here to help
ask for your help in resolving this as a
community we've brainstormed three
options that we think are pretty gung-ho
easy first we were recently informed by
an officer that they no longer ticket on
the rounded Corners that are no parking
right now because sometimes we're
removed and so judges won't enforce
because of the lack of signage so the
first obvious step is just to
re-establish adequate signage
um second we believe that the difficulty
in Crossing and turning at intersections
could be solved by just extending the
Red Zone that's on either side of the
stop signs
um this would provide easier sight lines
as well as possibly considering
three-way stops to enter the circle
third if the city does choose to
re-survey the road and measure and see
what's allowable which I hope they do at
varied times of day during different
days of the week and find that two-sided
parking is unrealistic as it is now that
perhaps one-sided parking could be
considered for the road some parking is
absolutely necessary the neighborhood on
the Northern end is garage only so
it we have to have parking but parking
on the inside of the circle can become
problematic with bus stops so thank you
for hearing me out sorry to
kill the vibe in here but hopefully I
was able to give a clear mental image
and make some sense and
thank you
thank you Jennifer
um up next is Tammy
hi I'm tamiri I also live in the gardens
um a neighbor of was it Jennifer
okay so I'm also here about the parking
but for a couple of different issues
that I wish would be on a future agenda
if I would chime in one thing that I've
seen in this meeting is that we came to
a city council meeting it was my first
one ever and I've never ever been to a
city council meeting that didn't have an
agenda so something tells me that
there's something to miss I think you
all need to just pray about it and just
seek maybe some fellowship over lunch or
something find some commonality find
some team building time and figure out
what it is you should be working on
because we should never have an empty
agenda okay so now regarding the parking
thing I would like to see if it could be
on a future agenda that we would take a
look at the use of tag readers for
enforcement of parking in our community
I think it is against many
um morals and standards that most of us
believe in we are all Property Owners on
this property and recently a company out
of Texas has been employed
employing a tag reading tow company and
there isn't sufficient signage to meet
the state ARS codes for that type of
parking enforcement which would require
that they tell you who is the person
going to tell you how much is it going
to cost and what are the violations the
times of day and all of that so there
have been many people crying and sobbing
and we have not gotten proper
notification we do deal with an HOA but
my concern is is it even legal to use
something that was intended to do Towing
for a repossession to just do Common
Parking Enforcement and we have now
pimped out our neighborhood so to speak
because we're talking 300 no it's not
funny I'm serious it's 225 to 550
dollars for one tow depending upon the
size of your vehicle that seems like a
pimp to me and they don't have any Mercy
if you come out if let's say you had an
essential service at your house to do
therapy physical therapy medical therapy
or delivery house cleaning realtor
showing a property they will tow you
because you don't have the signage up to
be able to prevent it there's not even a
way to prevent it if you're one of those
essential services or other you know
Common People in the neighborhood it's
24 7 enforcement if there's any way that
we can get it on the agenda I would be
happy to put together a proposal to help
eliminate that type of enforcement oh
and as far as the garden circle is
concerned I concur with the idea that we
take the Outer Circle and prevent
parking on that make it all Red Zone
from The Windsor stop sign to the next
stop sign for to the I guess that would
be to the South
if we just cleared up that path and we
kept City parking available on Orchid
which is the entrance to the gardens
that would alleviate a lot of the stress
keep our community safe so that people
could have their children cross safely
to the bus stops
thank you Tammy
um
Judy or somebody perhaps you could get
her our agenda maybe there wasn't one
available out there because oh thank you
thank you Chief just so you'll have a
copy of the agenda for tonight
and I was wondering if either Chief
Solberg or somebody from Jessica's team
will vice mayor Chief and Jessica will
follow up thanks I was just going to ask
if they would follow up with them thank
you
um
I think as I mentioned at the beginning
of the meeting that Arizona law does not
allow us to comment or interrupt a
comment by state law which was recently
passed and so
um there is an opportunity to
um respond to criticism which
I was just going to look
okay
council member Kapowski
thank you
in response to the criticism by Miss
Terry Natty I'd just like to clarify
that the conflicts of interest that I
have as a business owner have been
properly identified disclosed and
disqualified but I'm committed to
continue serving in the best interests
of the public and making decisions that
benefit the community as a whole and not
for personal gain I also support
improvements to the council's conflict
of interest policies and procedures
ensuring greater transparency and
accountability thank you
thank you um any other comments before
we close this okay
with that mirror we are done with the
communications from citizens
and then we will move on to the consent
calendar and right back to you by spare
thank you mayor there has been no
request to pull any items from the
consent calendar and therefore I'll make
a motion to approve items number one
through
27
to approve those
I have a motion can I have a second
please I'll second that motion by vice
mayor telkey seconded by council member
Bon Giovanni please vote
motion passes 7-0
moving on to our public hearing portion
of our agenda
we have four items on our public hearing
all items will be heard at one public
hearing at which time anyone wishing to
comment on public hearing items May do
so vice mayor do you have any slips for
public hearing items
I do not I believe there was one online
comment
there were two public comments
I'm going to open the public hearing two
public comments received online for item
number 30 both people were opposed to
that item
on our agenda we have four items liquor
like two liquor licenses code of Gilbert
boards and commissions and fees would
anyone like to have any of these
discussed separately
seeing no I will go ahead and close the
public hearing and if anyone would like
to make a motion on all four of those
I'd be happy to accept that
mayor I'll make a motion to approve the
public hearing items 28 29
29a and 30. thank you can I have a
second
hi second I have a motion by vice mayor
telkey seconded by council member excuse
me council member Buckley please vote
motion passes 7-0 moving on to our
administrative items for this evening we
have the council Administration item is
the council meeting schedule calendar
for
2024. I have just one comment we would
like to go back to doing student of the
month in person
starting in September and our meetings
typically start at 6 30 and I'm
wondering if we want to start student of
the month at 6 30 or would we it
typically takes about a half an hour
once we get in the flow and get no
rhythm I know councilmember Anderson and
I are the only two that have done
student of the month in person or would
we like to start student of the month at
six with the scheduled with the council
meeting starting at 6 30. looking for
some feedback
um I'd recommend six o'clock
um I've been on the receiving end of
sitting in the audience and waiting for
this meeting to get going and it really
does extend the evening and I think it
also helps getting the kids home for
their homework
I'd like to start that at six also and
I'd like to suggest that we bring
Gilbert digital in to give these kids a
little bit of time on our social media
platforms because that's good for
building the communities to highlight
these kids that have achieved something
and deserve some recognition publicly
so the way that we're sorry council
member I agree with both council members
the way the last time we did an
in-person student of the month it was
February of 2020 and at that time the
photographs were being done by the
mayor's aide and they are automatically
uploaded to the top they were at that
time uploaded to the town's Flickr
account and the town's Facebook page
would that suffice that's what we were
doing at that time plus parents are
always invited down to the front to take
their own photos and we do a group photo
of everybody too so the way that this
would work is then the six o'clock
meeting would be listed as a
student of the month ceremony at 6 PM
noticed that all council members could
be in attendance with our regular
meetings starting at 6 30. and those
nights are already denoted on the
calendar with an asterisk if you didn't
know just in case you didn't notice
does that sound good okay then if
anybody would like to make a motion to
approve the calendar for 2024 I would
gladly accept that
Soul move thank you second I'll second I
have a motion by councilmember Anderson
seconded by council member Bon Giovanni
please vote
motion passes seven zero I'm looking to
chevelli clerk's office you picked up
all of those items yes mayor we will
start that process thank you and my aide
Kirsten yes thank you moving on to
boards commissions and committees
reports from console Liaisons July has
been kind of a quiet month I don't know
if anyone has anything seeing none
moving on to
Communications report from the town
manager he's joining us virtually I
believe
yes good evening good evening thank you
mayor nothing tonight oh thank you hope
you're feeling better
thank you thank you report from the
Council on current events
again yes councilmember Anderson
yes
um I'd like to make a few comments uh
that I guess are related to the current
events
um
I have been very
concerned of late and as we've heard
tonight that
from the general public that
we are struggling and we're trying to do
our best
but we're at a point where contention is
something that's going to
destroy rather than build up this
community which is the most important
thing to me
I I'm very concerned that I wasn't as
concerned with the uh the well the
number of Ethics complaints that have
come in here recently I did
I wasn't that concerned until the final
one that was just recently submitted
which
charged the entire council with being in
violation of our ethics
on policy
and that concerns me a lot and disturbs
me a lot and
I think we need to understand that
this community right now is at a point
where we need to
um
address and as was said in the prayer at
the beginning look outward don't look
inward
for a couple of reasons we need to do
this
um
first of all as everyone knows we're
nearing build out in Gilbert
and as we near build out it's there are
going to be critical decisions that
we're going to have to make
and if we're spending our time trying to
address
complaints and lawsuits and what have
you
we won't be able to address those
critical
items we have a an initiative called the
city of the future and we have certain
metrics that we want to watch very
closely and if our attention is taken
away from that
we have the potential to become
no different than any other community
around us if you see the natural
progression
in Phoenix and Mesa and some other
cities that it begins to deteriorate
over time if you don't pay attention
and and address issues as they come
along that's the first thing that I'm
concerned with
the second is
i i in another part of my life
work for a company that dealt with land
acquisition and development
and I was I was responsible for doing
due diligence
for that company
and if you think that there isn't a line
item under due diligence about political
stability in the community
go back and look through some of those
due diligence lists it's there
and when a company is
looking to locate into a community a
thriving Community like Gilbert that
that is an issue that they are concerned
about
and that would hurt us again
economically and in so many other ways
I'll end just by saying that I believe
that contention we're going to need
innovative ideas and as we go towards
the completion of build out and
contention will never lead us
to innovative solutions contention will
just lead to more contention
and I hope that we will listen to what
was in the prayer tonight about looking
outward not looking Inward and to be
true Servants of this community
thank you mayor
thank you councilmember Anderson any
other comments from council members
um
report from the mayor and current events
to Morrow evening we will be hosting a
an open house for any teens that are
freshmen through seniors interested in
potentially joining the mayor's youth
advisory committee the application is
open until the 5 PM on August 5th but
we'd love to have you come down to the
open house right here at Town Hall 50
East Civic Center Drive at 6 pm on
August 2nd and in closing for my
comments I will say happy 100th
anniversary to Gilbert Fire and Rescue
Department
congratulations on a hundred years I was
out Saturday for the celebration and
um
somebody mentioned when we actually
switched over from Rome Metro to to our
own private fire department here in the
town of Gilbert and that was in about
1993 or 1993 but the but the department
started here in the town of Gilbert in
1923 so congratulations Chief I see at
least one of our assistant Chiefs back
there congratulations to your whole
department and I know that you're also
hitting one year on the ambulance
service here in the town of Gilbert so
thank you for that congratulations and
thanks for all you do
I will go ahead and adjourn the regular
council meeting
next I'll go ahead and call to order
council meeting for August 1st 2023 I
assume we don't need another roll call
um we have five plans please excuse me
we have five minutes please a five
minute break sure we'd like to get a
five minute break