Chandler City Council Meeting 1/25/24

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well good evening and welcome to the
January 25th regular meeting at the
Chandler city
council uh thank you all for being here
this promises to be one of our shorter
meetings and uh so give yourselves a pat
on the back for choosing this one to be
at uh clerk please take the role mayart
here vice mayor Harris here council
member Enis here council member Ellis
here council member Stewart here council
member Orlando here um council member
Poston is absent excused we have a
quorum all right thank you so much our
indication tonight will be led by Pastor
Roy cherion from International Assembly
of God and our Pledge of Allegiance by
council member Matt
Orlando
let's
pray almighty God we come before you
with the
Gratitude we thank you for being a god
of love who is with us now In This Very
Room you never leave us or forsake
us your Grace has brought us thus far
and your grace will lead us
home we thank you for making each of us
in this room
every person we meet every citizen of
this city and every city and the towns
of this beautiful state we thank you for
the calling you have given every one of
us to be good stewards of your creation
to love our neighbors as
our I pray for wisdom and
discernment as the city council is
meeting today and all the dis decisions
they make may I pray that you will bring
Harmony and unity in this city and
prosperity for this citizens bless all
the leaders of this great City who are
governing we thank you for your love and
guidance we bless your name I pray for
all these in the matchless name of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ amen amen
please honoring conducting pledge
allegiance I pledge allegiance to the of
the United States of America United
States of America to the
the one
nation indivisible liberty and justice
for
all thank you Pastor thank you council
member Council we had opportunity to uh
learn more about agenda items on
Monday and now it's our time to vote on
these andless someone um would like to
move something to action a a motion to
approve the consent agenda would be in
order mayor council member Stewart i'
like a motion to approve the consent
agenda of January 25th 2024 regular
meeting items 1 through 11 we've got a
motion is there a second second council
member in cenus second any recusals
seeing none Council please
vote council member
Ellis
yes motion carries unanimously all right
thank you
clerk um city clerk did we have any
unscheduled public appearances any cards
that have come in tonight no mayor I've
have not received any cards all right so
next on our agenda is current events and
I'll start so I've got a few so coming
up we have this Saturday Chandler and
six neighboring communities will come
together for the 21st annual Regional
Unity walk in Tempe this
community-driven initiative is aimed at
fostering a sense of unity and
understanding amongst the residents of
Chandler and our neighbors all over
Neighbors from Phoenix and Scottdale and
tempy Mesa Gilbert Queen Creek and this
free event starts at 4:30 PM with a
festival at tempy beach park and a one
mile candlelight walk that starts at 6
pm I look forward to representing
Chandler and hopefully seeing other
council members and other community
members there as well we've got a
t-shirt for you of our color I think
we've been wearing green are we back to
that this year anyone no don't see my
usual folks to turn to so uh but I hope
you can join us is that yeah I guess I'm
looking at you
Leo
okay well there you go I asked an all
speed question and don't get don't get
an answer it's all on me but I hope to
uh that many of you can join us there's
usually a meal a quick meal involved and
a lot of opportunity to uh just meet our
neighbors as well second Le I'd like to
invite our community on to a chief of
police meet and greet as you all know or
many of you know our previous police
chief uh Chief Dugen recently retired
and we are going through the recruitment
process to find the next person to lead
our Police Department this is a critical
role for our city and public involvement
in the process is welcomed and important
on Thursday February 1st from 4:30 to
6:m in the vision Gallery there's going
to be a meet and greet with interview
candidates that is open to any that are
interested in attending the vision
Gallery is right across the the grassy
Park in this particular complex I
encourage our residents to attend this
event meet our candidates and share
their thoughts and feedback on who they
think should be Chandler's next chief of
police to be sure this is a decision by
the city manager it is not a council
decision but your input is always
welcome thirdly we're having a fire
station opening or a
reopening we've rebuilt fire station
number two and I'm excited to invite the
community to join the Chandler fire
department for their free open house at
the newly constructed fire fire station
number two on Saturday February 3rd from
9 until noon Fire Station 2 is the first
project completed with the 2021 voter
approved Bond authorization and this new
station will improve Public Safety
response and increased capacity for our
First Responders this will be a unique
opportunity for the public to see the
new station learn about the services
provided by the chandeler to fire
department including safety fire
prevention emergency prepar ESS and uh
join many if not all of us on city
council as well so I hope to see you all
there and lastly I do want to recognize
the Basia Library teen advisory Council
anyone represented please
stand well that's a sad
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moment they're reading mayor they're
reading all right well we'll get them
here another
time
uh thank you all for joining us
tonight and with that let me turn it
over council member and seen us do you
have any no no announcements for me
thank you all right vice mayor I won't
disappoint tonight I have a few
announcements I have to go through uh as
you guys know MLK weekend uh events was
amazing and we had M Awards and we had
the as the ASU M Awards as you all know
we recognize Martin Luther K Junior day
a week ago and had a bit I had a very
busy week at events across the region
from Phoenix to Mesa to Chandler it was
inspiring to see our communities come
together to recognize the importance of
Dr King's Life and Legacy uh and to
continue his work for fighting for
equality and justice uh Chandler's Dr
Martin Luther King Awards um happened as
well and was and it was one of the
events organized by our very only
Channel our very own Dei team if Nikki
or anyone in her team is here they did a
really they did a really good job as we
celebrated many of the um many of us on
the council was there while we received
many inspiring inspiring applications
truly three truly inspiring individuals
recognized um at this important event so
Sakina she was awarded the Dr Martin
Luther King distinguished uh Achievement
Award uh um rahani
was awarded the Emma Arbuckle
empowerment award and our youth and
action award was given to Caleb train we
also had two honorable mentions Viola um
Viola flers and shereé
desin these individuals are a few of the
many who embody the work of the legacy
of Dr King with was the commitment to
racial Equity social justice and civil
rights and I want to thank the I team
for all their hard work to make that
happen also at the ASU at the ASU MLK
Awards there was a big celebration there
including honoring Awards recipients
that work to provide Equitable access to
undeserved communities the event brought
together leaders from across the region
and I was proud to celebrate those who
were being honored with for their
achievements lastly Black History Month
is coming up and as you guys know we
have a plethora of events that will be
happening um this Black History Month
tonight we were going going to do a
proclamation but we will be doing the
black history Proclamation next uh on
February the 5th um but we'll be there
to to honor so there's a couple things
that's going up going on like there's
going to be at the Chandler gilberg
Community College on Monday January 29th
from 10: a.m. to 11:00 am there's going
to be a guest speaking a presentation as
well as Tuesday January 30th 2024 from
5:30 6:30 is going to be an event um
they're going to also be doing a movie
screening there February first on 5 to 7
and mental health panel on February 7th
also our very own um uh South South
Chandler self-help with the woods and
many of her um uh many of that big group
will be wrecked they will be having a a
black history month program on February
9th called kings and queens and there
there they will be honoring some of your
very own but also it's just going to be
a good time for you guys to come out and
celebrate so please you guys the flyer
on the screen please make sure you
govern yourself accordingly it's going
to be a huge huge event and we're going
to be posting and sharing all over so if
you're out there please let us know and
then also the cusd is having a black
history program on February 21st 7 um um
February to
21st 27th okay February 27th from 3 to 6
p.m. at the west alley barbecue so make
sure you guys are there for that
particular thing now the last thing I'll
just say is that if you miss any of
these announcements we're going to be
working and um I talked to Alexis today
and our Communications team we're
goingon to be working very closely to
give this back out to you in portions
that you can digest thank you that's all
the announcements I have
thanks well done good you want some
water no really you know the painted
Soul they are outstanding I've seen them
live they are an incredible band uh if
you get a chance to get out to that you
should hey youart thank you mayor um so
hey it's sax season so if you're a
family that makes under
$64,000 a year the city of Chandler is
partnering with the Mesa United Way in
Aura for volunteer income tax assistance
so uh you can sign up for that on our
website and uh it's just one of the many
programs that team Chandler has come
forward with uh we appreciate our staff
for doing this and I also want to thank
Ryan Reeves he's here with the team with
some folks from the airport as well Ryan
put on an incredible airport days this
past Saturday I went out there I
couldn't believe how many people were
out there but it was really cool to talk
to some of the pilots and just let them
tell their story about what what the
Chandler airport means to them and I was
really pleasantly surprised with the
with the turnout and uh just the overall
just the cool planes that were out there
there were B planes World War II planes
it was very very cool so nice job to you
and your team and then the last thing
I'll tell you is this weekend wraps up
the Chandler International Film Festival
and uh it draws filmm ERS producers
directors uh Dean Norris from Breaking
Bad I think he was the cop that was in
Breaking Bad will be there on Saturday
uh he'll be signing autographs and
things like that so I gotta tell you and
I've told you this before if you haven't
been to an indie film festival like this
it's a totally different experience and
going to like a Harkin it's right over
here at look Cinema downtown everything
happens downtown uh but you should try
to get out there and take in a movie and
and support the uh the uh the Arts of
film making and indie film so that's it
for me May thank you
right council member Alinda I think next
time we should put Council me vice mayor
under scheduled public appearance or
something say Council announcements or
public scheduled public appearance
they'd be better so we'll need to turn
on the lights yeah exactly give him
three minutes you've turned the lights
on know it's all good stuff Council vice
mayor we certainly appreciate it hey on
a personal note as you know Council
Posta made an announcement the other day
that she won't be around for a while
she's having major surgery I spoke with
Jason today her husband everything went
well she's home recuperating so and she
appreciates all those out there that has
sent her well wishes that was uh
heartwarming for her so that's the some
good stuff going on over there
thanks and acting city
manager no announcements today but I
will say on behalf of Staff as well as
the city council I wanted to wish uh
council member Orlando a happy birthday
and thank you for being here on your
birthday
I know who to go to that one now I
know happy birthday council member and
council member I know that Dr Chandler
had been at some of your previous ones
counc sorry he was not able to be here
tonight I was at his 50th
quite all right with that that concludes
our
meeting right by