City of Chandler City Council Meeting 9/09/24

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here we
go good evening and welcome to the
regular meeting at the Chandler city
council at this meeting there's going to
be uh recognitions and uh and many of
you are here for that after that meeting
I will gavel out and then we have a
study session which relates to the
council meeting on Thursday and at that
meeting um uh we will be voting on the
items that will be
discussed many of you are also here I I
think uh because of uh wanting to speak
related to a park we only received one
specific
request uh in advance for scheduled
public appearance so if you filled uh I
think you were requested to fill out a
written comment card and those will be
entered into the evidence if you would
like to come and speak on Thursday night
as an unscheduled which many of you came
tonight then you're welcome to come back
and we would love to hear you but just a
a public meeting law uh kind of sets the
guidelines concerning these so with that
uh clerk please please take the role
mayor Harkey here vice mayor Harris here
council member enus here council member
Ellis here council member Stewart here
council member Orlando here council
member Poston here we have a quorum
thank you so much our invitation tonight
will be brought forth by Pastor Kelly
hand from Desert Palms church and our
Pledge of Allegiance by council member
anus
Pastor I'm first should I no you're
first okay uh so my admin office admin
told me I had two minutes and I thought
do they know I'm a
preacher uh first I I've lived in
chander 18 years my wife and I have
raised four kids here 23 to 14 got a
couple at home and so I come to pray for
you and for the city with a sense of
great gratitude you all uh this is an
amazing city to live in and you do a lot
of amazing work behind the scenes
tirelessly uh scripture tells us to pray
for you and I think one of the reasons
is because leadership is hard and there
is always going to be someone who is
upset with you after you've made a
decision and uh and you walk away from
these meetings with that and I and I
know that and so I pray for you my heart
goes out to you in that but my prayer
for you is that you would do good and my
hope so if I may be so bold my charge to
you is that you would do good my hope is
that you would do so uh with a sense of
of joy and gratitude as well let me pray
Almighty father
we pray and I ask that you would bless
these Council men and women with wisdom
beyond their Collective years your word
clearly says that you put those in
authority over us and we're to submit to
their Authority but to pray for them as
well pray for them their peace their
their well-being um for it is to you
that they will give an account so please
bless this city council and uh the
meeting this evening May there be peace
as people bring things that are that are
passionate to their very Hearts before
this Council and may the council have
insight to do what is good and true and
Lord I pray that you would give them
wisdom beyond their Collective years I
pray you would bless this great City and
her citizens Lord bless all the city
workers and those elected to serve equip
them with all that they need to continue
to make this such a great place to live
and uh just thank you for the joy of
living here in Christ I pray amen amen
thank you thank you Pastor for your if
you please join me in reciting the
Pledge of
Allegiance IED alance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
repic for which it stands one nation God
indivisible liy and justice for
all thank you Pastor thank you council
member next on our agenda is scheduled
public appearances I'd like to invite
vice mayor to join me up
front first on our list of scheduled
public appearances is service
recognition so I'd like to call on our
city manager Josh Wright to begin this
thank you Mr Mayor members of city
council we do have three employee servic
recognitions this evening and for the
first I'd like to call up our cultural
development director Kim
Moyers good evening mayor council I'd
like to call up Terry reck uh for her 10
years
[Applause]
Terry was hired by the Chandler Center
for the Arts in 2014 as the assistant
manager Terry holds a ba in theater with
a concentration in arts Administration
she is a next generational leader in
venue management with a certification
from the
iabm venue management school she is also
a foldright grantee and taught English
as a second language in South Korea
under Terry's leadership the art center
has seen the completion
of numorous successful capital projects
and vast operational improvements she
has expanded the center's educational
and engagement programs which now serves
over 7500 youth uh a year and has
reduced the barriers of participation
with free and lowcost arts experiences
the cultural development department and
the Chandler Center for the Arts are
fortunate to have her as part of our
team thank you Terry for all that you do
to bring Arts to Chandler and to our
community
[Applause]
mayor and Council for our second service
recognition I'd like to call up our
Chief Information officer sandip
[Applause]
doia good evening mayor council tonight
I'd like to introduce or invite Laurel
please Mo come forward for celebrating
her 25 years of service to the city of
[Applause]
family and as always I'd like to cite a
poem for
her for 25 years Laurel's led the way a
tech innovator since that fateful day
August 9th 1999 she came aboard with a
mission in mind in her techsavvy sword
from GIS maps to cultural events even
with this big water project she's known
for her
diligence archives secured cyber
security tight Laurels made sure we
especially me can sleep well at night
she crafts with paper travels with Flare
Greek Foods her love no dish can compare
her arts on display her Works world
class she's the heart of the team no one
can surpass so here's to you
Laurel with cheers and Delight for 25
years you've kept our city bright we
thank you today with much admiration for
your endless passion your heartfelt
dedication congratulations
[Applause]
City man i'
like mayor and councel for our third and
final recognition tonight I'd like to
call up Matt berdick our communication
and public affairs
[Applause]
director mayor I do not have a poem but
I do have a video producer that I can
pull up so I asked Stacy Sako to come
forward to be recognized for her 25
[Applause]
years so Stacy it's a great pleasure to
recognize her she's digital media
manager um she's made tremendous
contributions to Chandler over the years
she leads the dynamic digital media team
here at the city the award-winning in
fact we'll have a announcement later
tonight we have our first Rocky Mountain
Emmy nomination coming to the city of
[Applause]
champ so Stacy and her team they operate
our cable channel they bring this
Dynamic uh City Council meetings to the
city our YouTube channel and countless
videos that are such an essential part
of the way we communicate with our
residents and businesses she's created a
team and a work environment that has
elevated the quality and the volume of
videos produced by the city digital
media is an essential part of how we
communicate with our residents and keep
our business Community informed and
Stacy and her team have done tremendous
uh efforts to bring all of those
different programs and events and
projects to front of people this year
she managed the digital media upgrade to
the Production Studio cameras lighting
and broadcast control room a significant
Investments take taken months probably
years off of her her life uh in the
course of doing that but we're grateful
for all the talent and the contributions
and the team that she's built here at
the city so thank you Stacy for your 25
years of service to Chandler and we look
out look forward to many more years
ahead
[Applause]
[Applause]
mayor and councel that concludes our
service recognitions this evening thank
you and Stacy your family is in the
audience they are all right let's have
them stand Stacy's
[Applause]
family all
right next we have our first
Proclamation uh which is Library signup
months so I'm going to do this one then
you get domestic violence awareness
all right
welcome yeah scoot over here a little
more so we're centered there you go oh
you're sash what the
whereas libraries are vibrant hubs for
Community Connection and learning
providing free access to a wealth of
diverse programs literature and
resources and whereas the Chandler
Public Library is a place for everyone
offering free and equal access to
educational materials technology and
services that support lifelong learning
for people of all ages and backgrounds
and whereas Chandler residents have
access to a free library card serving as
a passport to learning and Adventure
within their Library whether it's
exploring online or visiting one of
Chandler's four branches and whereas
Chandler public library card holders can
search thousands of physical books
magazines movies and music from their
local library or access digital
resources from anywhere including ebooks
audiobooks streaming media media
platforms and language and professional
learning and whereas during library card
signup month we celebrate our libraries
and encourage residents to register for
their Chandler public library card
empowering them to pursue their interest
unleashing their creativity and
achieving their goals without Financial
barriers now therefore I Kevin Harkey
mayor of the city of Chandler to hereby
Proclaim September 2024 as library card
sign up month and encourage all
residents to sign up or renew their
library cards and visit our Chandler
libraries and explore all that they have
to
offer
woo so so with someone prepared to talk
is that you all right so we should let
me go and get everybody's name and then
you get
it Debbie
Moreno I'm I'm the manager of the sunset
Library Karen null and I'm the manager
of the Hamilton Library Joelle Miller
manager of the
Outreach
Branch suan horn the assistant Library
manager all right and I'm Michelle kusak
and I am the library manager and I am so
happy to be here to represent the
library and library card sign up month
we are doing something different this
month have you ever been in an airplane
and you like take your seat belt off
early and they say we know who you are
put that seat belt back on well we know
who you are if you don't have a library
card and we're coming for you this
month this year we have three limited
edition library cards a Snoopy library
card if you've never had the nerve to
get a
tattoo you can get a tattoo library card
and if you're particularly supportive of
the freedom to read we have one that
says Let Freedom read and so for all new
card holders this month you're getting
First Choice at one of our three new
card designs existing card holders can
come in on October 1st and choose from
one of these three cards and I want to
put a card in the hands of every single
Chandler resident they're telling me I'm
crazy I say it's
possible so please come and see us this
month we want this to be the best this
card has more perks than any credit card
you can put in your wallet so we want
you to come in and get one of these and
make this the most popular card that you
carry around thank you you thank you so
[Applause]
much right let's take a
photo
Snoop do you want Let Freedom read let's
go the
tattoo I can now say I have a
tattoo all right Lexus
come
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our next Proclamation is domestic
violence Awareness Month vice
mayor if we could call up members of our
domestic violence team
come on
up where as one or more children witness
domestic violence every 44 minutes in
Arizona whereas children who experience
child abuse and neglect are at an
increased risk of continuing the cycle
of domestic violence as adults and
whereas cycle of intergenerational
Family Violence have ongoing impacts on
public public health concerns such as
substance use employment rates
educational level rates of homelessness
and whereas research shows that safe
stable nurturing individuals and
supportive environments Aid and
strengthening families and reducing harm
and whereas together the city of
Chandler domestic violence commission
law enforcement prosecutors and
Community agencies educate and support
families to help prevent domestic
violence and Chandler now
therefore the mayor Kevin hary over
there uh city of Chandler do hereby
Proclaim October 2024 as domestic
violence awareness
[Applause]
month okay we're going to go around and
pass the mic and introduce you and say
who you are and what you doing I'm
Sharon Tipton I am uh substance abuse
Specialists as well as domestic violence
Specialists and I help others to find
resources and get into safe housing if
they've been a victim of domestic
violence hi um I'm Michael Morris I'm a
volunteer I'm not part of a Professional
Organization but I just uh show up and
do what I can and try to advocate for
this really important
issue hi my name is Samantha hinchy and
um I am the director of victim services
for the Arizona coalition to end sexual
domestic
violence hi I'm Katie Kane I'm the
victim Services senior program manager
at the police department oversee the
family apy center where we work with
victims of crimes including domestic
violence and I'm also the staff liaison
of the domestic violence
commission hi uh I'm Selina Imam I'm
executive director for Sahara programs
we have a domestic violence shelter free
health clinic and also we do Refugee
services
also I'm the commissioner for city of
Chandler domestic violence committee
thank
you hi good evening my name is Don
Curtis I'm the director of my sister's
place a domestic violence shelter here
in Chandler and I want to thank the
mayor and the vice mayor and the city
council for their continued support in
this very important issue and invite the
community to our 16th annual domestic
violence awareness month on September
24th at at 9:30 in the morning at the
Avon Center here in Chandler thank
[Applause]
you and thank council member Ellis for
your work at our region with the
Maricopa uh domestic violence commission
as well
thank you
all we'll see you all next
month all right next we have recognition
drum roll
please there you go for neighborhood of
the Year finalist we could have
Priscilla Quintana come forth our
neighborhood preservation program
manager and our Galveston
Representatives oh we got a
banner all right
all right and why don't we go around and
say say who you are and then we'll turn
it over to a
speaker hello my name is francisa
Hernandez I'm Wendy Robinson Ruth Maya
Rowan kale Luca kale ktie kale with the
Chandler Care Center Tony Al Calla
principal of galison Elementary School
former
St Carney live love Laticia Gilmore with
neighborhood
resources oh Jason a neighborhood
resources Paul Gunther with live love
Melinda Gunther with live
love Leah pal neighborhood resources
well very good and uh good evening mayor
Council my name is Priscilla kinana I'm
the neighborhood preservation program
manager but also um Galviston
neighborhood is a neighborhood that I
grew up in and today I'd like to share
that the neighborhoods USA also known as
Nua organization recognizes work being
done in neighborhoods across the United
States with a variety of award
categories from neighborhood of the Year
best neighborhood program neighborhood
newsletter and who's who in America's
neighborhoods during the 2024 NSA
conference staff had an opportunity to
deliver a presentation on one of the
many neor neighborhoods here in Chandler
the neighborhood selected this year was
Galviston in 2020 the Galviston
neighborhood located in central Chandler
was selected as the first to implement
the city of chanders Envision program
the one square mile neighborhood
includes over, 1400 homes three pop
three Parks excuse me top rated schools
two nonprofits and a Family Resource
Center notably Galviston Elementary has
played a pivotal role in U building
trust and collaboration between the city
and the community local non profits and
Family Resources such as casad de vaa
live love and the Child Care Center
provide essential services including
youth programs mentorship health care
services and support for domestic
violence victims during previously
struggling with crime and deteriation
the neighborhood has transformed with
residents local stakeholders and City
staff working together to restore Pride
safety and cleanliness the collaboration
efforts have fostered a more unified
empowered community and have led to
ongoing beautification and con
construction projects the strong
relationship developed through these
initiatives continue to support the
neighborhood's growth and Improvement as
a result of the work that continues to
be done Galviston neighborhood was
selected as a finalist in neighborhood
of the Year category congratulations to
Galviston residents and all those
involved in making neighborhood
Galviston neighborhood a place where
people love to live
[Applause]
all right I'm gonna hand this to my one
of my favorite principles and then we'll
take a
photo uh as a former student Galviston
growing up in the neighborhood as well
now the proud principal of galvon
elementary school we are going to open a
brand new state-of-the-art campus on
October 8th is our ribbon cutting and we
are so so proud this finalist award only
uh shows how much we care in that
neighborhood and how much the city cares
about us as well so we've heard it we
feel feel love and we appreciate mayor
hary and Council for all of the support
that you guys have given us over the
past couple of years so thank you very
much drive by galvon Elementary School
uh sometime soon because you will be
amazed
[Applause]
put Ruth in the front
all right let's do
it all right boy what a great evening of
presentations and we're not done
yet uh I'd like to invite the ceis Pu
foundation's women's underwater robotics
team as they won the international
competition as they're coming up you're
going to see a video uh show on the uh
on the on the uh on the monitors there
so come on
down we would like to recognize Desert
Wave a Collegiate robotics team recently
placed first get that again first in the
27th International Robo sub competition
the team competed against 41 teams from
eight different countries and entered
two robots who worked in tandem named
dragon and baby dragon they are the
first all women's robotics team to win a
world championship and are already
planning for next year's event we want
to congratulate Desert Wave for this
exciting accomplishment
and um so with that let me again each
introduce yourself but who would you
like to Freddy would it be you or
somebody else talking all
right um my name is Nancy skel Vasquez
you um I go to Arizona State
University hi I'm Gabby Hernandez and I
go to Arizona State
University hi my name is Natalie
Rodriguez and I go to Arizona State
University hello my name is Paulina
gakis and I recently graduated from
Arizona State
University hi my name is Jac Castro and
I'm also an aluminite from
ASU my name is Dr Daniel Frank and I am
a professor at
ASU my name is Freddy lari I'm the CEO
of the CIS foundation and we are run
operate a stem Center in Chandler we
have one of the top high school robotics
teams in the country and we have the top
underwater robotics team in the world
this is in your hometown
[Applause]
and Gabby you grew up at galvaston
elementary right all right so Tony where
is Tony still here all right amazing
from Hometown Chandler to become Global
Champions that's super cool so we're
excited to hear that there you go two of
your students
all right let's take a and um as part of
this at our contego Festival I believe
we're going to be showing spare parts
coming up at look theater uh just what
about 10 days from now so that'll be
exciting as well let's take a photo
all right another round of applause
all
right next on our agenda we have Dwayne
limond uh scheduled public appearance to
talk on the parks master plan on orang
tree neighborhood and I know I spoke
this I know I spoke this at the
beginning but those of you who who came
hoping to talk and unscheduled we don't
offer an unscheduled speaking portion on
Mondays we do on Thursdays but if you
spilled if you filled out a speaker card
those will be be entered into the record
so Mr lman you have three minutes give
your name and address for the record
Dwayne lman 2301 West Palamino drive
chanler thank you mayor hary and council
members for this opportunity to speak as
you know the orange tree neighborhood
has never had access to a neighborhood
park and has been historically
underserved by the parks department and
10 years ago this month we re had a
record-breaking rain rainfall event that
breach breached our storm water
retention Basin and flooded our streets
at that time it became apparent that the
orange tree Basin might be underd
designed in 2020 when kimley horn and
Pros Consulting were hired to update the
Park's master plan they received a very
large number of comments about the lack
of park access within the orange tree
neighborhood as a ro as a result of this
robust public input the park master plan
indirectly includes our neighborhood in
North chanler as a recommendation as a
recommended priority action through 2028
a Redevelopment plan was recently
approved for the tract of land that
includes the orange tree rep retention
Basin as a result of the efforts of our
city manager and several Department
directors this Redevelopment will
deliver a small Park and a retention
Basin that will meet the current design
standard at zero cost to our
city I am thankful for the city staff's
effort and the home builder who is
willing to take on this challenging
Redevelopment due to the height sight
development cost the home builder had to
add additional lots to pay for the small
park with a top lot as a result of these
added Lots the northern portion of the
retention Basin needs to be deeper than
three and a half fet so this requires a
perimeter fence for safety so this 2.8
acre area will not be available for
public use I was told by City staff that
there are Civ civil engineering
solutions that can reduce the depth of
the retention Basin so the fence could
be removed and this could be considered
after the Redevelopment as part of
Future Park
improvements within the park master plan
neighborhood parks are rated as a high
priority item by Chandler residents our
new park will be 1.7 acres and the
master plan recommends 6.7 acres for
neighborhood park for our number of
residents the park board has shown an
interest in additional improvements to
the 2. acre a basin area and the orange
tree residents would like our city to
complete the Final Phase of this
Redevelopment we are before you tonight
to let you know the the residents of the
orange tree and heatherbrook
neighborhood would like our city to
consider alternative storm Water
Management Solutions for the orange tree
retention Basin so the fence can be
removed after the Redevelopment has been
completed then this area will become
available for public use and additional
Park improvements Mary Harkey and
council members we are asking for your
support to further correct this
neighborhood park in equity that has
that has existed for more than 43 years
as as a priority action by 2028 thank
you for your consideration of our Quest
thank you
sir thank you Mr lindman I know the
conversation will be ongoing so thank
you sir okay mayor
mayor mayor council member Dwayne I want
to thank you for all of your work you've
done on this for the last six years
seven years
uh and leading this effort as well as
your due diligence and coming to almost
every council meeting almost every work
session so I think you're the like eth
council member here I would think you
could probably do a lot certainly
appreciate your efforts and again let's
uh get this property deed to the city
first as we're the plan is and then we
could take a hard look at what we could
do to U re reimagine that area okay
and and council member
Orlando I have tried to make him the
seventh Planning and Zoning commissioner
many times but
uh all right thank you
Council uh that concludes all of our uh
scheduled public appearances and again
anyone who had filled out a card those
will be read in or those will be entered
into the record next Council we have our
consent agenda of our regular meeting I
know that there is a staff presentation
on item number two our bond committee
let's give a a moment for everyone to
leave
though but you're missing out on
exciting stuff I just want to say yeah
you're your parks in E mins sewer lines
new
parks just wait a minute man
there I've cleared a lot of rooms before
but not
like this is alltime high so
Matt while we're waiting what do you
call a starving hippopotamus in
Budapest I do not know mayor a hungry
Hungary
hippopotamus oh I hope it's better than
that but we'll
see there there are a few slides before
we so the suspense will build for it so
that'll be good give him cred give him
credit he puts himself out there right
let's be fair
absolutely all right Matt it's yours go
ahead the mayor did wait till everyone
left before he shared his so all right
mayor and councel it's good to be uh
before you tonight to talk about this
ordinance number 519 which is a bond
exploratory committee option for you um
as we go through we'll be sharing some
information just a brief history we
we'll keep this very brief um about why
the need for it at this time uh so
traditionally Geo bonds cannot be issued
without residents authorizing them first
and so the city of Chandler over the
last many years has had many Bond
elections these are some of the most
recent 2000 2004 2007 uh which gave us a
lot of authorization which we
anticipated to use between five to seven
years however uh with the economic
downturn that lasted 14 years before we
had to go back out for another election
so that typical cycle of every three or
four years was broken at that point to
2021 was our last election that we were
successful on and we've always had great
success uh with our residents upholding
or allowing us to have that
authorization for the capital projects
that meet the needs of those
residents uh just a quick review of what
the process has been uh over the last
few months in March we came to you uh
for a budget Workshop number three where
we went through the whole Capital plan
uh very in depth and we shared with you
some of the concerns that we had about
the future future years of that Capital
plan uh because of that we also had a
council Retreat where additional uh
feedback and information was provided to
staff and then a council work session uh
out of those events we have kind of four
identified areas the first is bonds are
a vital part of our Capital plan with
about 70% of our project spending
utilizing bonds uh when I saw that 70%
it reminded me of another fact that I
recently was made aware of that 70% of
the earth's surface is water and the
majority that 99.9% of that is
uncarbonated water so now we have
scientific proof that the Earth is
flat there you
go yeah Hungry Hippos might
win all
right um so 70% of our Capital planning
is utilizing Bond funding so it's a
vital piece of that puzzle uh inflation
however over the last couple of years
has really utilized our existing bond
authorization faster than anticipated
and we also discussed with you that bond
election timing and how 2005 would
probably be the most ideal time to go
forward with that bond election 2006 was
another option 2007 is where we have
some significant issues with our Capital
planning uh from that you gave us the
feedback to start the communication
process you all were going to start
reaching out to constituents and to
those that you have a influence and and
and have discussions with them and you
wanted us to reach out to boards and
commissions which we've uh been doing so
from our boards and commission meetings
we've been able to share information
about the capital plan and the need for
a bond election coming up uh with 11 so
far of the planned boards and
commissions we would visit of the 15 we
have four left two of them tomorrow and
then another two in a couple of weeks um
to be able to share this information
with them so far the general consensus
from uh the boards and commissions has
been there very appreciative of the
information
uh they understand the timing of the
bonds and there's a few notable quotes
that we mentioned there as we've been
able to share this information with
those uh participating in the boards and
commissions so what would this resident
Bond explor exploratory committee look
like uh it would be made up of a
steering committee of seven members and
then four of those steering committee
members would serve as uh subcommittee
chairs for four different Bond
authorization categories Parks and
Recreation Public Safety facility
stainability and technology and Public
Works uh so in total that equates to 31
people that will be helping in this
process uh 31 residents that will be
helping through organizing the projects
look at funding opportunities and then
provide back to Mayor and Council
recommendation as far as what they would
consider to be the the most um appropo
way to go about getting this uh Bond
authorization out to our
voters so the timeline for our
exploratory committee uh on Thursday
night uh it would be to select the
actual committee participants we would
have quickly turn around a kickoff
meeting on September 16th uh through the
months of September through November the
committee would meetings would take
place and then in December they'd have
their final recommendations back to the
steering committee that steering
committee through January and February
would be drafting a report that would be
presented to Mayor and Council sometime
in February March uh and that way mayor
and Council can make their decision by
that May 8th deadline if we were to call
an election for November 4th
2025 so our next steps uh appoint the
community members who will serve on the
stearing committee would be on
Thursday's council meeting hold a
kickoff for the participant participants
on Monday September 16th and then
finally begin those subcommittee
meetings and with that I'll answer any
questions thank you and I appreciate the
work in particular in going around to
our boards and commissions and Council
the work that you've done uh likewise
interestingly at one of the
presentations one of our board and
commission members asked if they could
serve so they are they're also on that
so that is very good as well as Mr libin
who is a uh advocate for lots of things
in our community as well Council I just
uh the only other comment I wanted to
make is we had a wonderful event on
Saturday a double event with the uh
ribbon cutting at our softball fields
and the groundbreaking at our pickle
ball courts and both both of those items
uh are coming forth as a result of the
uh of the last Bond and there is
certainly an appetite to complete the
projects that we've said and uh there
was great enthusiasm at the at both of
these events to see these projects
coming forward this will allow us to
continue to uh work through the plans
that we had and projects that we had
committed and seeing what else that is
available Council we you have the
ultimate say on on what is approved and
what will not be but I I appreciate each
and every one of you too I know the
sensibilities and in looking ahead was
to keep the secondary uh tax flat is the
is the recommendation and we'll see in
the future future councils have the
ability to do whatever but I appreciate
each and every one of you Council
members for your work on this and
support on this and what other questions
does anybody have council member or
Lando thank you mayor I apologize I
thought you were going into the uh
mayor's
announcements I'm sorry just kidding um
yeah this is this is great news but the
other thing I would hopefully caution
all of us here the Das as well as the
bomb committee is take a look at
capacity uh I don't want to be here two
years from now saying gee we underc
capacitate let's get as much capacity as
we we think we could could do over that
five to 10 year period and then if we
sell the bonds and it's very simple math
here you sell the bonds then you pay for
the bonds if you don't sell the bonds
you don't pay for the bonds so um let's
make sure that we're let's encourage as
much of um capacity as we can and not be
able to worry about is it going to fit
fit the fit the uh I mean we always want
to worry about fitting the timeline for
assessed value I get that but again
let's make sure the CIP is covered in a
predominant way so we're not back here
two three years from now so and the
other question is do we have a thought
process at least where we want to go on
the bond for amount that we think or
that going to still be TB is there min
max somewhere council member Orlando uh
we have an idea because we have our
10year Capital plan that was just
adopted by mayor and Council in June um
but that does not include there C
certain new projects that we'd like to
add and have the bond steering committee
discuss those projects as well so not
only do we want to ensure our current
capital plan is covered by this Bond
authorization but we want to make sure
that any new projects that have come
forward over the last year or so are
also included for potential Bond
authorization as well for atten thank
you mayor thank
you Stewart then council member Stewart
then council member Ellis yeah thank you
and I appreciate this process right at
the end of the day today this goes to
the voter and they decide whether or not
this is something want to continue with
amenities Etc uh can you remind me again
the real big reason why we're having to
go back out yeah so through the mayor
council member Stuart one of the main
reasons is uh due to inflation so a lot
of the project costs have increased back
in 20 2019 2020 when we were gathering
information inflation rates were
normalized then uh we have since seen
those inflationary rates Skyrocket
across construction items specifically
Al and since all of these deal with
those construction items it's been
impacting our capital projects so we
can't get as far as we anticipated we
hope for seven eight years worth of
coverage in our CIP we're going to get
about four maybe four and a half
depending on the the category uh worth
of coverage out of these areas though so
so in other words that the The Fallout
from this federally induced inflation
continues to Ripple through it's not
just bread and milk but now it comes
down to whether our kids at parks that
we had planned for 5 10 years from now
we we have to go out and continue to
keep the tax rate higher otherwise we
would have taken that away yeah through
the mayor council member uh because of
inflation it's just meaning we can't
spread uh get as many of those projects
in as we anticipated so we have to
either uh spread those projects out or
cut back on the quality of the projects
that we provide our preference is to
have the steering committee to have
those discussions about what they would
recommend going forward to the voters
with thank you mat council member Ellis
trying to turn it on thank you so much
really appreciate your patience and the
teams um forthcoming ideas in with this
Bond I remember when we first sat down
to talk about that we were not all on
the same plane uh but you you guys stood
to to the plan and keep bringing
information as we requested them in
order for us to have this cohesive idea
that we all for it right now because it
was not the the the case in the
beginning so it it is very commendable
to say that as Innovative City we also
bring things forward um that we are
thinking out of the box also to make
sure that the taxpayers see what we say
we're going to do we're going to
continue to do it I want to thank Don
where is she right here for
really you you you were really what I
will say very much into my ears
explaining it over and over because I
wanted to understand the process I
wanted to know why we needed to go back
um one of the thing that I really
appreciate about this process is always
never to say no right off the bat
because we don't know the details we
don't understand the whole concept per
se even if we've gone through it before
which I had when I first came in but
what you have done was taking me from
one step to the next explain the whole
process over and over again to put me in
a position where today I could say that
freely I am all aim for this Bond so
thank you thank you to the staff and all
of you for doing that Josh thank you so
much for sticking to your gond on this
one Council any additional
comments seeing none thank you Council
thank you Matt thank you Don thank you
team
Chandler that concludes our regular
meeting uh the Chandler city
council motion
vote on the consent thank you I move so
much mayor is there a motion to approve
the consent agenda I so I move mayor all
right go ahead let's go with council
member Ellis is there a second second
council member Orlando all right Council
please vote thank you
staff motion carries
unanimously woo Council I got so excited
about this
Bond all right welcome to the September
9th uh 2024 study session please uh take
the role May Harkey here Vice May Harris
here council member enus here council
member Ellis here council member Stewart
here council member Orlando here council
member posted here we have a quorum
thank you so much Council three items
have been called in and I was the first
one a simple question to my friend
Brennon Ray in the back on item number
10 brenon and I we we talked on this and
I I shared with you I just had a
singular concern that terms of staff had
brought up some uh concerns related to
uh safety for pedestrians I asked you to
work up another what it would look like
for a pedestrian coming by so um address
my concerns of pedestrian safety at that
point Thank You mayor good evening mayor
members of the council Brennan Ray 1850
North Central here on behalf of the
applicant I put together a very brief
presentation to answer the question
thank you um specifically as it relates
to it the the discussion came up at the
Planning Commission um between U members
of the Planning Commission staff and
myself uh when looking at particular
concern of pedestrian safety especially
as they uh should they come across the
site from Cooper Road heading west not
only to this site but as well to the
Walmart as well and so what you can see
on there is a black and white site plan
but I'm going to show up and blow you a
detail that's on your screen now and at
the at the discussion at the Planning
Commission meeting it was that we wanted
to make sure that um Vehicles traveling
especially exiting out of that
drive-thru on your leftand side as you
look at it um that there was a way to
that they would do it we had initially
thought we would put speed humps there
but through talking with the commission
and members of Staff um we decided to
put a a speed table there um and then
what we did on those two driveways on
the right um is enhanced it initially it
was a more narrow strip of pavers
something texturally that people feel in
cars as they drive over it and so we've
widened that almost nearly doubling the
width of the amount of pavers that exist
there so that when you look at it kind
of in in elevation view as best we can
you can see there and this is the exit
driving through on the right you can see
the detail of it in terms of of how that
speed table will look and that's the A
and the B below it I will tell you that
that is an approximate three foot uh
length of a slope that occurs for that
speed table as you go down um and it's
tough to tell when you've got a big
building in there but you can see
hopefully that the idea was the
pedestrians would be elevated as they
were crossing in front of those Vehicles
exiting the site and let me ask city
manager or staff is it again my my main
concern here is just the uh the school
off to the West there and student
students that are passing by and perhaps
not paying attention I I think this
slows cars down and I'm grateful is
there would it be appropriate to could
we have student Crossing or some other
signage there too just to draw further
attention to the the drivers to to look
both ways coming on here rather than uh
whatever their attention is to the items
they're getting out of this particular
drive-thru sure mayor um we'd be happy
to whether we need to add another
stipulation before Thursday's meeting or
if me saying it on the record is
sufficient enough but we have no problem
putting signage interior on the side on
our parcel that would identify probably
pedestrian Crossings is how I would do
it at all of these I don't think that's
a problem uh to do okay yeah I to me
that would be helpful I'm just concerned
of of students not paying attention and
U again someone coming out juggling
whatever food or beverage that they've
got here and we mayor if if if we may we
will work with staff to ensure that
those there's appropriate signage in
appropriate locations as as you come
across this Frontage okay thank you so
if this in whatever Lang which is
appropriate I I appreciate and certainly
will'll be voting this Council any other
questions or comments related to Mr Ray
no thank you sir thank you next item
called in uh is item number 29 the IGA
with Mesa unified school districts for
Police Department security camera
systems emergency access if Chief
Chapman going to make a presentation
thank you council member Poston for
bringing this forth
good evening uh mayor and councel um I
wanted to give an update on uh the IGA
that we have engaged with Mesa Unified
School District uh for camera access in
emergency situations that occur on their
campus for only schools that are inside
of the Chandler City Limits this uh IGA
is similar to the one that we have with
Chandler Unified School District where
police department will have access to
cameras uh when incidents of an
emergency nature occur on campus this
happens in coordination with our
Dispatch Center and their administrative
offices who grant us access to that
information so we can get a real-time
look on what's happening on campus and
direct resources appropriately this does
not allow for anybody in the police
department to have unfettered access to
any camera at any time this is uh
strictly laid out in the IGA which the
City attorney can talk through the the
legal ease if you will uh but that is
the high level overview of it and I'm
happy to answer any questions on it
council member Poston thank you for that
presentation um just to confirm could
you walk through the process if there's
an emergency do they call 911 and then
it automatically happens does it work
where someone at the school says yes you
can have access how does that exactly
work through the mayor council member
Poston in a perfect world this would be
uh where there's an incident on campus
and through through that initial 911
call we would be uh in conversation with
the administrative offices and they
would be able to uh grant us the access
I will tell you uh this has not been
tested in real time in our world yet and
as you can imagine there's a lot of
chaos that ensues in an emergency
situation so we're we're trying to lay
out a best practice on how it would
unfold uh but if you can understand if
it's a big campus and the emergency is
on the other side of Campus that there's
going to be a little bit of learning
here to to see how this works in in real
time so fingers crossed we don't ever uh
get to that point but we know that you
know seconds matter and uh the sooner we
get information the better prepared we
can to be respond to it okay and then
next up are other schools in the other
school districts in the city going to be
working through the IGA uh through the
mayor council member post and yes we're
working on finalizing one with kyne
school district uh and then that will um
fill out the compliment that we have
here in the city okay and is this all
part of our realtime crime Center is
that it'll integrate with that through
the mayor council member Poston that's a
separate issue well we may come back at
a later time and talk about maybe
modifying this based on uh some of the
enhancements with the technology that we
have in the real-time crime Center as
opposed to what we are uh you know
handling within our Communications and
dispatch Bureau okay thank you thank you
mayor council other
questions I've got one um um I know
we've got a few uh uh private campuses
uh whether it's Valley Christian seatan
or are some of our basis is there any uh
ability or or interest in their part and
also being part of this uh mayor as we
expand our capabilities with our
real-time crime Center that will be the
Nexus by which we bring in all this
information and certainly as uh you know
we are uh growing that as we as we live
right here with just uh camera access to
traffic cams and we will be onboarding
uh businesses and anybody else who wants
to participate schools uh we would
encourage to uh engage in that process
with us and we'll be coming out with
some education material and how to do
that uh probably in the next 30 to 90
days as we get a little more uh steady
footed on our realtime crime Center
thank you sir mayor council member
Orlando yeah Chief obviously this is a
little premature but I'm assuming once
we get this operational you'll be doing
some test scenarios to ensure that this
is working and the timing is working and
any bugs we could work that out through
the mayor council member Orlando that is
the intention um as you can imagine the
uh the number of software and hardware
issues we're dealing with in our
realtime crime center right now um we're
trying to get that perfected before we
uh start testing anything in real time
but you know there's no better way to
prepare for a disaster than to test for
one so we will be moving forward with
that towards the last quarter of the
Year okay great so that that was my next
question when do you think you might
have that last quarter thanks December
31st appreciate that's fine that's last
quarter so so so New Year's Eve you're
GNA be out there testing okay fair fair
enough Chief
thanks all right thank you Chief looks
like no more questions thank you sir our
last item called in also by council
member po
has to do with our Advanced metering
infrastructure Jeremy EVT for the
presentation good evening mayor council
uh thank you for giving me the
opportunity to speak briefly to you
about the benefits of
Ami and how Ami or Advanced metering uh
infrastructure differs from our current
metering
systems that's a pretty picture sorry
I'm not sure why this
isn't showing up Lexus to the rescue
now you think people were all the
same other
direction for
all right I apologize for that so
getting back to the difference um of our
current system versus what an Ami system
looks like uh really uh there's two main
components uh the advanced meters as
well as uh the fix network um in the
graphic that you see here uh what the
fit fix network is comprised of is a
combination of
gateways um located Street strategically
throughout the city uh they're comprised
of an antana a power source in this
example uh we have the ability to uh
Power them via solar depending on the
location uh we do have an agreement in
place with the school district to locate
some of these gateways on field lights
uh located uh at schools again to give
us that um overview and that that
coverage throughout the city as well as
the collector
uh the main benefits of Ami really come
down to what um Ami provides to the
customer uh the the goal here is is
improved water
conservation um red uh reduced High uh
water bills as well as reduction high
water calls and or
concerns uh Ami also provides for uh
improved meter accuracy these newer
meters that we're using have a longer
life and they retain their accuracy
through the end of their life unlike
some of our older technology that
degrade over
time so to just give you a a brief
overview the flow of how this data is
going to work um uh within the uh
proposed Ami Network as a consumer uses
water that water is registered by their
meter that meter will now have the
ability to talk and or speak to those
gateways located throughout Town those
gateways will retain and push that
information into our uh Ami software
with the ultimate goal of pushing that
then through a customer portal to the
customer directly so they will have the
ability to review their bills um receive
notifications and see what their water
usage is on a uh I'll say daily basis
versus you know a month toon um water
bill this graphic here shows just some
examples of what this portal might look
like uh currently the staff is in the
process of
procuring um uh the portal and so the
end result uh may vary but again just
kind of examples of what the customer
would see is the ability to view uh
their historical usage compared to
current usage uh whether it's seasonal
or monthly receive
notifications uh they would uh we would
push out notifications if the system
notices consistent water usage say for
example you have a a leaking toilet
valve and then you have water running
247 or you have a spike in your water
usage from your current uh or your past
uh historical average maybe emphasizing
you know a leak in your irrigation
system it'll also provide data to our
customer service reps to better assist
and help those customers during those uh
say high water usage phone calls or any
other call that that uh they may receive
related to water usage or their utility
bill and another use and benefit uh of
Ami and using um a customer portal
platform such as as one of these
examples here is in the event of an
emergency main break we would have the
ability to notify those affected
residents via that platform um versus
reactive and and waiting for those
residents to call in to inform them of
the possible duration of that outage so
again it just more constant
communication with our
customers and lastly uh in terms of
schedule and the progress that's being
made so uh the public works and
utilities department has been working
with a lot of uh internal stakeholders
such as customer services water
conservation and it to develop and get
this project to this
point uh they've also worked really hard
to leverage uh some outside funding
sources in the terms of Grants uh we
have uh an EPA Grant and also a whfa
grant uh just uh totaling under $1.2
million to help pay for for uh this
integration uh so as you can see here
we've got a couple of things happening
concurrently over the next uh 18 months
um that's the installation of the
gateways installation of the necessary
meters as well as the procurement and
implementation of the portal which is
what our customers are going to
see with a a roll out uh tally scheduled
for spring of of
2026 and the goal with that is to roll
that out to all of our customers
essentially at the same time uh we're
not planning on this being a phased
approach we're not going to identify
certain neighborhoods over another we'll
roll this out to all of our customers
essentially at the same time in that
spring 2026 time
frame and so with that that concludes my
brief presentation and I'd be happy to
answer any questions council member Pon
thanks mayor thank you for that
presentation this is one of those things
that when you first read it it seems
very highly technical which it is um
sort of maybe isn't easy to grasp but
your your description basically showed
why this is something that affects of
all the things we do all of our
residents every single one of them on a
daily basis and I really appreciate the
fact that we are going to be proactive I
know we already are but even more so in
proactive and one conserving water and
two letting residents save money when
they have those issues so I really
appreciate that I didn't realize there
was $1.2 million in grant funding going
to this so that's excellent I know that
something that
um council is charged staff with to look
at that grant funding so that's
appreciated city manager um thank you
very much and then you did answer my
final question we have begun installing
some of these though is that correct uh
none of the gateways have have been
installed yet yet um we do require
formal approval from the EPA before we
can start spending some of those Grant
funds uh but we are ready to start
procuring as soon as we receive that and
we expect that any day now okay I
thought from your chart showed that that
we had some of that already but no oh
maybe I looked at the wrong year okay
it's been a work in progress as far as
uh I I will say we we have purchased
some gateways to do some internal
testing excellent but not part of the
overall uh fix network that would be
tied to that EPA uh Grant fund okay well
thank you very much I I just really do
think this is something that um is
really going to help our residents and
that's what we're here for so I
appreciate it thanks mayor vice mayor
then Council mellis yeah just want to um
you know again Chandler the city of
innovation I think this is very
Innovative I just kind of wanted to know
um how many cities if you know in the
state of Arizona that actually
implemented such a program so I I do
know that the city of surprise um is in
the process of implementing Ami uh Tempe
is also working on
uh implementing Ami uh I do know in
general that a lot of the cities in the
valley are in various stages of working
towards reaching full Ami as far as uh
um metering technology so will we be
able to kind of do it first before put
that first meter out before everyone
else well I will say we do have some of
those meters out but they can't
necessarily speak to us through a fixed
Network that we don't have yet I I I
can't say with any certainty that we
will be the first but we will be close
second I just think that them bragging
rights when I'm around them will be
great but thank you
mayor council bres thank you mayor great
presentation I understand the fact that
how we doing it internally but one thing
that I I wanted to ask how does the
customer which is uh our residents get
that information because I know in the
past we talked about are using their
phon uh so can you talk a little bit
more about that so they understand how
they're going to be able to access that
information yeah through the mayor
council member Ellis um yeah there there
will be multiple options for the
customer to obtain that and as we get
closer to that actual roll out we will
work on some public Outreach and and and
post some information on our website on
how they will obtain that and download
that portal uh the options that that
we're looking at is via your phone but
also via uh uh the web you know the
internet via a computer we will not be
emailing them any information they will
have an app that they can go on correct
yes that's the goal of the portal and it
and it's it's not necessarily a
requirement that's there for the
customer if they choose so um the
alternative is still we would still
communicate with them VIA mail um how we
currently do with with billing all right
thank you so much thank you mayor and
one last question for me perhaps is
you'd mentioned the the packets of
information were daily I I was under the
impression that could it be a little
more spontaneous than what what would be
the just just restate again how often
could someone check I mean could I check
if my if my daughter was taking two long
a shower as opposed to I had a leak in
the uh backyard or my wife could check
if I was taking too long of a shower
yeah Mr Mayor uh so the good question
and and really it comes down to um the
amount of data so I won't say it's real
time because it it we won't be pinging
every single meter 87,000 meters every
second of every day um but we can look
at you know um 15 minutes or hourly
would probably be more realistic daily
is I think probably conservative it
depends on I guess the individual um I
know I use the SRP power app and you
know I I'll check it you know every once
in a while to see okay uh how much is my
family turning down the thermostat in
the middle of the summer too you know
but so I don't know if that answers your
question but but it won't be it won't be
minute by minute but more realistically
hourly usage and and update the portal
at that level okay so it's potentially
available more than a daily although
people might check it EV that so correct
the the the information is always
available but the rate in which it
updates would vary and more likely be at
a daily interval okay thank you Council
any other
questions seeing none no others have
been called in so thank you Jeremy thank
you sta thank you
Council for