City Council | Community Facilities Districts - June 10, 2025

Afternoon.
Today the city council will convene as
four different community facilities
district board of directors. DC Ranch,
McDow Mountain Ranch, Via Linda Road,
and Scottsdale Waterfront Commercial.
The four community facilities district
meetings will be held consecutively
prior to our upcoming 5:00 pm regular
city council meeting. For the record,
I'd like to note that all district board
members and executive officers are in
attendance for the four community
facilities district meetings being held
today and we'll proceed with the first
meeting. I'd like to uh note that uh
Vice Mayor Dascis
has a conflict and go ahead. Um, uh,
Mayor Browski, thank you. I do have a
conflict with the DC Ranch. My husband
is on the finance committee, so I will
step aside for the DC Ranch meeting.
Thank you. Thank you.
I would like to now call to order the DC
Ranch Community Facilities District
Board of Directors meeting of June 10th,
2025.
on the agenda is first is for the
approval of meeting minutes. Are there
any revisions?
Uh if not, any revisions? I don't see
anyone. If not, I request a motion to
approve special meeting minutes of
Tuesday, June 25th, 2024. Executive
session meeting minutes of Tuesday, June
25th, 2024. Special meeting minutes uh
of Tuesday, June 25th, 2024. Special
meeting minutes of Tuesday, March 4th,
2025. And executive meeting minutes of
Tuesday, March 4th, 2025.
I will entertain a motion. So moved.
Second. Thank you. All those in favor,
indicate your vote.
All right. Next on the agenda is a
request to adopt resolution number 63
approving the proposed DC Ranch CFD
budget and ordering a public hearing.
Are there any comments or questions from
any district board member before I
request a motion?
Seeing none, I will entertain a motion
to adopt resolution number 63.
Move to adopt.
Second. Thank you. All those in favor,
please indicate your vote.
Next, we have item number four, uh, to
conduct a public hearing on the proposed
fiscal year 202526 DC Ranch CFD budget.
I now open that public hearing. We will
now take any public testimony. Uh and I
note that Chris Irish is uh registered
to do that. So please approach.
Thank you.
Mayor Barowski and members of the city
council. Thank you for the opportunity
to speak with you today. For the record,
my name is Chris Irish. Address is
188867
North Thompson Peak Parkway, Sweet 100.
I serve as the director of public
affairs for DC Ranch. Can you please
turn the Elmo on for me? Thank you.
For more than a year, DC Ranch has been
working with city staff to clarify very
issues with our community funding
district. And as you might imagine,
finding out the hows and why wise of uh
something that happened 20 years ago is
a bit complicated. DC Ranch truly
appreciates all of the time and effort
that city staff put into this project,
especially acting city auditor Le Kloff.
We spent a lot of time together, all of
it pleasant.
And while many things have been
clarified and agreed upon DC Ranch
between DC Ranch and city staff, the one
item we aren't in agreement on is the 20
2526 CFD maintenance budget.
So I'm going to show you just a few
numbers here.
Uh in the board report that you received
um the maintenance budget request is for
$17,000
and DC Ranch's maintenance budget
request is for $113,750.
So the difference there is $6,750.
The additional funds that we're
requesting are to support the
maintenance of the bridge, which is
talked about in your report.
And the board report estimates um
expenses for the bridge at city
maintenance standards between $4,000 and
$8,000
which the $107,000
budget contains $4,47
for the bridge. DC Ranch conducted a
cost study for all of the labor and
supplies that we use on the bridge on a
weekly, monthly, and annual basis. And
that study showed that we spend $11,200.
And if you take that $11,200 and you
subtract what is in the current budget,
the $4,447,
you'll see the difference is $6,753.
And we rounded that to the $6750 that
we're asking you to increase the budget
for.
Also in your report, um it states that
uh I I think it gives an example of a
property owner at $1.2 million
accessessible value and shows that um
the budget for 2526 will have an 18%
decrease in their taxes. And this small
increase of the 6750 really would not
impact that decrease at all. And DC
residents will certainly be thrilled to
have a decrease in their CFD taxes, but
they would also be thrilled to have the
bridge maintained to DC Ranch standards.
So DC Ranch is respectfully asking that
the city council raise the fisc year
2526 maintenance budget from $ 107,000
to $113,750.
Thank you. Thank you very much, Chris.
I now close the public hearing. Any
questions from the district board
members?
Seeing none,
I just want to add, Chris, uh thank you
for the input. I I know that I
personally met with our uh acting city
auditor and and went through the
explanation of what the delta is there
and um perhaps next year we'll we'll get
to a better place on agreement. But for
this year I'm going to support her
findings. So thank you though for coming
to speak to us. Uh
no seeing no questions um I close the
public hearing. Thank you. Moving right
along. Uh last item on this agenda is
number five, a request to adopt
resolution 64, adopting the final fiscal
year 202526 DC Ranch CFD budget and
ordering a tax levy. Are there any
comments or questions from the district
board members before I request a motion?
Seeing none, uh I will entertain a
motion to adopt resolution number 64.
So move. Second. Thank you. Uh all those
in favor, please indicate your vote.
And that action passes. Uh I now will
entertain a motion to adjourn adjourn
the DC Ranch CFD board meeting.
Move to adjourn.
Second without objection. Thank you. All
those in favor, indicate your vote.
We are now adjourned and we will move on
to to the next board meeting. At this
time, I would like to invite
Councilwoman, excuse me, Vice Mayor
Dasquez to come back to join the
meeting.
I now call to order the Mcdow Mountain
Ranch Community Facilities District
Board meeting of June 10th, 2025.
Item number two on the agenda for the
approve is for the approval uh of
meeting minutes. And if anyone has any
revisions, please indicate.
Seeing none, I request a motion to
approve special meeting minutes of
Tuesday, June 4th, 2024.
So moved. Second.
Thank you. All those in favor, indicate
your vote.
Thank you. Moving on to item number
three on the agenda is a request to
adopt resolution number 75, approving
the proposed Mcdow Mountain Ranch CFD
budget and ordering a public hearing.
Are there any comments or questions from
the district board members before I
request a motion?
Seeing none, I request a motion to adopt
resolution number 75.
So move second.
Thank you. All those in favor, indicate
your vote.
Next, we have item number four, conduct
a public hearing on the proposed fiscal
year 202526 McDow Mountain Ranch CFD
budget. I now open the public hearing.
We will now take any public testimony
and I don't believe we have any
speakers. So, we will move right along.
Uh I now close the public hearing. Any
questions from the district board
members on this hearing?
Seeing none.
Uh, last on the agenda item number five,
I request a request, excuse me, to adopt
resolution 76 adopting the final fiscal
year 202526 McDow Mountain CFD budget.
Are there any comments or questions from
the district board members before I
request a motion?
Do you have a question? Come on. Um I I
will now entertain a motion to adopt
resolution 7 number 76.
Thank you. Second.
All those in favor indicate your vote.
Next we have Via Linda Road Community
Facilities District Board of Directors
meeting. I now call to order the Via
Linda Road Community Facilities District
Board of Directors meeting of June 10th,
2025.
Item number two on the agenda is for the
approval of me meeting minutes. And if
there are no revisions, I will request
entertain a motion to approve the
special meeting minutes of Tuesday, June
4th, 2024. So moved. Second. Second. All
those in favor indic, please indicate
your vote.
Thank you.
Item number three on the agenda is a
request to adopt resolution number 59
approving the proposed via Linda Road
CFD budget and ordering a public
hearing. If there are no comments or
questions from the district board
members before I will entertain a
motion.
Move to approve. Second. Thank you. All
those in favor of adopting resolution
number 59, please indicate your vote.
Thank you. Next item is number four,
conduct a public hearing on the proposed
fiscal year 202526
via Linda Road CFD budget. I now open
the public hearing. We will now accept
public testimony. Seeing none, uh I now
close the public hearing. And if there
are no uh questions from the district
board members, I will move on to item
number five, a request to adopt
resolution number 60, adopting the
fiscal final fiscal year 202526 via
Linda Road CFD budget. And if there are
no comments or questions from the
district board members, I will entertain
a motion to adopt resolution number 60.
So moved. Second.
All those in favor, please indicate your
vote.
And now I will entertain a motion to
adjourn the V Linda Road CFD board
meeting.
So moved. Second. All those in favor,
please indicate your vote.
Thank you. I call to order Scottsdale
Waterfront Commercial Community
Facilities District Board of Directors
meeting of June 10th, 2025. Item number
two on the agenda is for approval of
meeting minutes. And if there are no
revisions, I will entertain a motion to
approve special meeting minutes of
Tuesday, June 4th, 2024.
So moved. Second. All those in favor,
please indicate your vote.
Thank you. Item number three on the
agenda is a request to adopt resolution
number 46 approving the proposed
Scottsdale waterfront commercial CFD
budget and ordering a public hearing. If
there are no comments or questions from
the district board members, I will
entertain a motion to app adopt
resolution number 46.
So moved. Second. All those in favor,
please indicate your vote.
Thank you. Next is item number four,
conducting a public hearing on the
proposed fiscal year 202526 Scottsdale
waterfront commercial CFD budget. I now
open that public hearing and we will
accept any public comments which I
believe we have none. And uh so moving
right along, I close the public hearing.
And if there are no questions from the
district board members,
I will move on to seeing none. Uh item
number five, a request to adopt
resolution number 47, adopting the final
fiscal year 202526
Scottsdale waterfront commercial CFD
budget and ordering a tax levy. Uh if
there are no questions or comments from
the district board members, I will
entertain a motion to adopt resolution
number 47.
So move. Second. Thank you. All those in
favor, please indicate your vote.
Thank you. Uh I will now entertain a
motion to adjourn the Scottell
Waterfront commercial CFD board meeting.
So move. Second.
Thank you. All those in favor.
Thank you. Thank you. We are adjourned.
We have now concluded the community
facilities district meeting
scheduled for this evening. The council
will take a recess. Uh not a recess.
We've adjourned and we will return at
5:00 for the regular scheduled city
council meeting. Thank you very much.