Meeting Summaries
Chandler · 2023-12-07 · council

Chandler City Council Meeting 12/7/23

Summary

Summary:
- The council approved the consent agenda for December 7, 2023, consisting of items 1 through 33, with a unanimous vote, noting a conflict of interest from Council Member Ancenas on item 21.
- A public hearing was held regarding the update of the system development fees (SDFs), which are essential for funding growth-related infrastructure in Chandler, with a report due by January 2024.
- The council discussed updates to land use assumptions and the infrastructure improvement plan, highlighting the importance of ensuring growth pays for itself without burdening existing residents.
- Residents raised concerns during unscheduled public appearances about police conduct and noise from environmental remediation efforts, prompting a request for further investigation and assistance from city officials.
- A timeline was established for the adoption of updated SDF fees, with a public hearing scheduled for February and final adoption expected in April, effective July 2024.

Overview:
During the council meeting, the consent agenda was unanimously approved, and a public hearing focused on updates to the system development fees necessary for infrastructure funding. The council emphasized the importance of these fees in supporting growth without impacting current residents. Residents voiced concerns about police actions and environmental noise, leading to commitments for further investigation. A timeline for adopting the updated fees was outlined, with key dates set for public hearings and final approvals in early 2024.

Follow-up Actions or Deadlines:
- January 11, 2024: Adoption of the updated land use assumption and infrastructure improvement plan report and the notice of intent to modify system development fees.
- February 2024: Public hearing on the proposed system development fees.
- April 2024: Final adoption of the new fees.
- July 2024: New fees to take effect.

Transcript

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council member
Harris they're calling him right now
okay council member posted here we have
a clan thank you our invocation tonight
will be led by Reverend Sarah Oglesby
dunigan from the valley Unitarian
Universalist Congregation and our Pledge
of Allegiance closing us out for the
year will be council member in
cenus
whether you've recently celebrated dwali
or beginning the observances of Hanukkah
or bod day or you're preparing for a
solstice Christmas or Quanza
celebration let this season be a time
and that each of us might hear the voice
of the Holy calling us to the work of
community to care for each other with
kindness and patience to be present to
the challenges each of us face face
whether they are spiritual Financial
familial or personal to look for
opportunities to make the community and
this planet a place where all of us may
lead whole lives where our basic human
needs are met and our humanity is
honored for this we pray and while each
of us may name the holy differently or
even perhaps celebrate important
religious holidays another time of year
may we know and serve the love and
possibility that comes to us in this
season with humility and courage Blessed
Be amen and may it be
so please Jo in reciting the Pledge of
Allegiance
States
one justice for
all thank you Reverend thank you council
member Council we had opportunity on
Monday to look at our consent agenda
there are 30 plus items on
there uh would anyone uh care to uh make
a motion to approve may
may council member Stuart May I'd like
to make a motion to approve the consent
agenda for December 7th items 1 through
33 okay we have a motion second second
by vice mayor mayor believe one uh
council member and cenus uh due to a
conflict of interest I will not be
voting on item number 21 very good so
clerk please note his recusal on that
particular one Council any comments
related yes I want to thank uh city
manager and City attorney for working
with me this week on this language in
here on item 2 everyone certainly
appreciate it and I believe the council
members all had a chance to look at it
so thank you very much
may Council memb Stuart thank you I and
I want to thank vice mayor Orlando for
bringing that forward I mean it's a nice
little catch not little it's kind of a
big deal but it's ensuring that we have
visibility when we're doing eminent
domain things like that is important and
that uh as a group we are um cognizant
of protecting our neighbors so it's good
that you brought that forward so thank
you for doing that all right Council
please
vote Council member
Ellis yes council member
Harris yes motion carries unanimously
with um council member and seen us
declaring a conflict of interest on item
21 all right thank you so much next in
our agenda tonight is a public hearing
regarding our system development fee and
uh that would be
met
good evening mayor and councel uh
privilege to be here with you tonight to
talk about some of our updates to system
development fees uh the land use
assumptions and the infrastructure
Improvement plan as I Was preparing for
tonight I was looking up some of the
kind of known humorous anecdotes about
assumptions and I decided to forgo some
of those but there was one interesting
fact that I found and that's that there
are two types of people in this world
those that can make an assumption based
on a previous
statement
all right as we get ready for our agenda
here uh tonight we'll be talking about
our system development fee background uh
our program requirements some fee
categories and service areas our land
use assumptions infrastructure
Improvement plan some of the public
Outreach that we've been able to
accomplish and our remaining project
timeline so first off we want to talk
about why system development fees and
what they are used for and useful for uh
first of all the city of Chandler is the
first in Arizona to implement a full
range of assistant development fee or
impact fees that was done in 1997 and
really the intent of that was to ensure
that growth can pay for growth so that
other residents of Chandler that are
existing residents aren't paying for the
new infrastructure required for new
residents moving in so these development
fees were implemented uh for that growth
related infrastructure and those fees
were paid by the developers at the time
of Permitting now if not for system
development fees Chandler would have had
to find some additional alternative
Revenue sources for example we could
have used bonds uh related taxes
increase in taxes to fund the needed
infrastructure Citywide as we grew and
continue to grow so sdfs have allowed
the uh city of Chandler to keep taxes
low over the years uh they've provided a
capital funding source in L of selling
bonds and then to the far right are some
examples of things we've been able to
accomplish over the last many years uh
utilizing system development fees so
arterial Street improvements of fire
stations police facilities libraries
Parks uh utility projects and then
there's a list underneath of several of
the different things including if you
notice fire stations 2 through 11 so the
majority of fire stations throughout the
city of Chandler uh were built us
utilizing system development fees uh
water mains Wells other infrastructure
uh major arterial streets and widenings
so they've been very useful throughout
the years to ensure that we have good
infrastructure throughout the
city a little background on system
development fees uh this process is
governed by Arizona revised Statute uh
the developers pay these fees during the
building permit issuance process and
this is onetime funding that's for
growth related Capital infrastructure
and there are some specific Provisions
that the state statute says that we
cannot use these funds for they cannot
be used to fund repairs or operations of
Maintenance of existing infrastructure
they cannot be used for Capital that's
not directly attributed to growth and
they must be for infrastructure that's a
necessary public service and that
directly provides a beneficial use to
the
development the revised Statute also
requires us to do uh three key items uh
depending on which item how frequently
we have to do them the first is to
complete a land use assumption and
infrastructure Improvement plan report
as a precursor to any fee up dates based
on methodology outlined in State
Statute this is required to be completed
every five years and for us legally
required by January of
2024 the last land use assumption and
iip adoption was in January of
2019 it includes an updated fee schedule
and there's public Outreach and Council
approval processes dictated we also on
an annual basis must report prepare an
annual report and post that online which
we have done since Inception of the sdfs
we also complete a biannual audit every
two years we bring forward the results
of that audit to Mayor and Council and
the results are um presented in a public
hearing they're also posted online as
well it's interesting to note the first
two the actual report that we're
updating and talking about tonight and
the biannual audit uh they must be
prepared by qualified professionals so
it's not City staff that prepares those
it's an outside uh consultant firm that
prepar those for us or our Auditors
Citywide
Auditors for the fee categories that the
city of Chandler has we have several
fees which are charged by what's called
equ equivalent dwelling units or edus or
square footage depending on the permit
type and those include our arterial
streets parks for which we have three
service areas fire police and public
buildings and then there are sdfs which
are by meter size for water Wastewater
and reclaimed water again these are all
paid for when the building permit is
issued uh it's important to note that
for most of those fees let me go back to
that slide most of those fees there are
there's only one um area or service area
and that's the entire city uh but for
two of them there are unique service
areas where if you're pulling a permit
in those areas you're only charged those
fees if your permit is in that area so
for Arial streets you'll see here uh the
brown CER area that's the area in which
uh the arterial streets system
development fee would be applied uh we
do have some remaining projects for our
arterial streets and those are indicated
at the blue lines we have Alma School
Road and we have get my list I can't see
it on
there so Elma School Road from Germaine
to Queen Creek and from F Fred to posos
Chandler Heights Road from Gilbert to
Val Vista and lindsy road from okoa Hunt
Highway for our Parks we have three
service areas in Parks we have the
Northwest Northeast and Southeast and
these were really uh the purpose of
having three different service areas for
this specific um SDF is to allow for
smaller Parks which benefit those in a
specific geographic region to have those
in that geographic region region pay for
those Parks so we currently do not have
any future parks in the northwest or
Northeast service areas but we do have
two remaining parks in the Southeast
service area uh we have the mosqu Groves
Park and Lantana
range for our land use assumptions the
update goes through and looks at the
general plan any updates to our general
plan any zoning changes and any
development patterns and incorporates
those uh Trends into the land use
assumptions it also includes any Ed use
which include housing units and
non-residential square foot which are
updated based on city projections and
then it looks at a buildout of our edus
equivalent dwell units uh those are
updated based on the Maricopa
Association of government's development
projections so all of that information
is updated throughout the report um and
presented to Mayor and Council through
this report
process here's a look at some of those
assumptions that were changed from the
2018 report to the 2022 report the
existing average equivalent dwelling
units has increased uh we've seen an
increase to the buildout average edus an
increase to existing square footage on
non-residential and a decrease in our
buildout square footage for
non-residential
on our land use assumptions for our
arterial streets we have also seen an
increase to our existing edus for
residential an increase to our buildout
average edus for residential an increase
to existing square footage for
non-residential and a flat uh buildout
square footage for non-residential
also included in this update is the
infrastructure Improvement plan we look
at three key areas when we're updating
the iip uh first we update any remaining
growth projects and their related costs
so the street projects and the park
projects that I identified earlier as
being part of this iip those costs have
been increased uh to show the the true
costs that we would anticipate moving
forward on those projects we also update
our 10-year revenue forecast and
estimated Financial need for each
category and we update any outstanding
debt for each category so we can make
our
calculations again in that green box we
do talk about some of our future growth
projects um for parks and for streets
and all other categories besides parks
and streets are simply collecting fees
to repay
debt when we talk about SDF debt we it's
important to note that this is internal
debt this is debt that's owed Within the
city uh where we have funded capital
projects in some other method whether it
be cash funding or Bond funding uh in
order to build those projects due to
lack of revenue from the SDF funds and
those FDF funds when they come in
through buildout will be utilized to pay
back the outstanding debt in total we
have about
$29.25 debt that will be collected
through buildout of the city of
chanan through State Statute we are
required to have public Outreach
throughout this process including this
uh hearing this evening but we've also
done a public Outreach process where we
held stakeholder meetings in October uh
which included representation from each
development category uh we sent
notifications that that that this
meeting was happening and we had uh
people both in person and online
included was a presentation uh and the
updated Lu iip report uh which is also
available online there was one request
for a followup meeting meeting with the
central Arizona Home Builders
Association which we also held in
October and that meeting went
well from a project timeline uh we are
currently have completed both the public
Outreach and a work session with mayor
and Council related to this subject uh
tonight we have the public hearing on
the Lua and iip report that report uh is
scheduled for adoption to be brought
forth to Mayor and Council in January on
January 11th uh with that adoption would
also be the adoption of a notice of
intent to modify SDF fees which as of
this report updates those fees based on
all of the new data that flowed into the
report that would also be January 11th
there would be a public hearing on the
proposed fees in February and the first
read of an ordinance that would change
uh the city code for those fees and then
final adoption would be in April and
these new fees would be effective in
July and with that mayor and Council be
willing to answer any questions you may
have
thank you Matt for the great
presentation um Council any questions or
discussion vice mayor yeah Matt we just
want to uh don't want to leave any doubt
in the those that are watching this or
get the feedback that the 392
million is the
internal um budget sheet we're keeping
in regards to these impact fees and
according to the plan according to the
way we do this which we be doing for the
last 20 6 years the last permit that is
pulled in the city I think that's the
word you H the other day the last permit
that's pulled in this city will the zero
balance the the fund correct yeah
through the mayor vice mayor that's
absolutely correct uh the intent of why
we do these updates is to ensure that as
we're pulling all of those permits
remaining permits that are left by the
time that last permit is pulled all the
debt and all the current needs for
funding have all been met and if you
look at the tables in the book I think
you we were looking at this the other
night you'll see over the time period of
frame where this debt is then absorbed
and then obviously is is you know zero
balance yeah correct great all and this
is I can't another thing I want to
emphasize this is um State Statute uh
for these updates correct yeah through
the mayor vice mayor the state requires
us to have an update at least every five
years which which is fine I mean but the
point I'm trying to make is it's a it's
a it's a robust process that we have to
get an outside consultant to make sure
that everything is um that we're saying
we're we're we're we're publishing we're
saying we could do based upon these
assumptions correct great okay thank you
mayor I think some of the highlights for
me just for the audience to know too is
that um this is only considered debt on
what is a benefit to our community that
is not existing so there's any
improvements to Parks or to other City
buildings or our libraries which we have
no intention at this point of building
anymore those are not included to those
and this really allows if someone shows
up now for a development they they
really enter into to pay for something
that someone else and the City
previously paid for hence the debt that
that vice mayor mentioned so it really
is an equitable way of of uh allowing
growth to pay for itself and to making
sure that that those who have paid in
and for different areas that they don't
pay twice hence the the parks and the
streets separation as well where we've
completed this out so Council other
questions or
comments seeing none next part on our
public hearing is discussion from the
audience is there any questions or
comments from the audience related to
our public hearing of uh system
development
fee see
none I'd like to close our public
hearing uh thank you
sta next on our agenda tonight is
unscheduled public appearances I have
three cards in front of me and I'm going
to just call them in the order that I
received them the first is from Mr
Hussein when you come up you uh have up
to three minutes to share your thoughts
our concerns the light will be green for
two and a half minutes when that light
turns yellow please wrap up your
comments and then uh end your comments
when the light turns red Mr Hussein your
name and address for the record good
evening ladies and gentlemen my name is
t Hussein I'm a resident of chandel for
about 20 years this is the fourth time
I'm appearing for the C for the council
for the same case China police false
falsely arrested me in front of my
children charged me with horse neglect
and animal cruelty seven felony counts
dragged me through court for two years
and closed my business took my travel
rights traumatized my whole family
August 20 August 2021 Chandler police
raided my house in violation of search
warrant the detective lied about
everything on the initial report seize
my children's horses which were healthy
horses the state and then the state did
not file any charges against me
September 2021 city of Chandler sued me
for the cost of their misadventure City
magistrate denied their request I
counter claim for the cost of my horses
with City attorney said they will pay
and then the city uh then the city's
Risk Management Department declined to
pay January of 20 22nd city of Chandler
prepared 160 page report of Lies false
fabricated information with replac horse
and asked the county to prosecute me two
years of Court reps County attorney
tried six times to get me to accept the
charges and they will dismiss the case
then downgraded my charges from Felony
to misdemeanor state attorney said give
something and we'll give you something
the judge said is the best uh offer the
it's a very good offer I filed seven
petition myself to the court for
dismissal of the case pointing out every
single lie that was presented by the
city of uh chanler replacement of
evidence planting of evidence and all
the false accusations finally May of
2023 this year the County Attorney
withdrew the case this is a criminal con
conduct on the channel police I am not
accusing of any the whole Channel
Department maybe it could be one or two
people that there's we all say there's
bad apples everywhere and seems like
I've been here four times requesting an
investigation from the C of chanler
nobody has ever called me I'm not even
sure if there is any uh investigation
done on this particular issue I asked
for in nothing happened seems like the
mayor he doesn't care and but at least
Mr the wice mayor Matt Orlando he
offered to help but I'm not sure if he
can help in any case uh I accept it's
okay for the police to criminalize I
gave up on the idea of getting an
investigation I filed a case for
financial compensation and it was
dismissed on the Financial grounds I
will file again with legal counsel all I
want now is to just walk away from here
and compensate me financially for all
the uh heartache you given me for
stealing my horses and I'll just walk
away so I am requesting one more time to
the council for the benefit of the
general public see if there is there
needs to be an investigation in the
police department for Miss kandak and I
will present every single piece of
evidence that me the Chanel police
misrepresented and falsified and if you
don't care just pay me and I'll go away
that's all I care thank you thank you
sir and and to our audience and speakers
we cannot comment on any of these
because this is unscheduled public
appearance but but again um the city
manager I always ask you to make sure
that if there's followup to be had that
make sure that it is and give back to us
our next unscheduled public appearance
is Tom first and I apologize if I'm pry
your name wrong again sir you've got
three minutes state your name and
address for the
record uh good evening my name is Tom
fol 4923 West Gale Drive Chandler
Arizona uh thank you for your time today
I just wanted to uh take this
opportunity uh briefly to kind of
explain what me and my family have been
going through for the past uh 10 days um
alloud soil Vapor extraction unit was
placed at 4980 West Railroad
approximately 40 ft from our property
line and near playground where children
play at the Maxwell daycare uh Center
there in the same mertile area it was
turned on November 27th this was
apparently to clean up a mess left
behind by the now defunct Avalon Dry
Cleaners located at suite number 14 that
is apparently polluting the soil and
contaminating our groundwater I called
the mayor's office to get some
information and complain about the noise
I was referred to environmental um the
gentleman I spoke to there uh informed
me that um they had received another
complaint from a resident um he gave me
a lot of information including uh the
number to the Arizona Department of
Environmental control and a Mitch
Williams with partner engineering and
science Incorporated who was the
contractor running this machine I spoke
to Mitch Williams and was told that they
were taking steps to quiet down the unit
I asked if it could be moved he told me
no I asked if it could be turned off
until it could be muffled as I I suffer
from migraines I was told I can't do
that by Mr Williams uh the only solution
that we were able to work together was
uh they would turn it off at night as
they wanted to run this unit 24 hours 7
days a week for who knows how long
um I also contacted my state senator for
district number 12 Senator Epstein's
office and the Arizona Department of
Environmental control quality to file a
complaint the reply from adq was to
refer the state doesn't do noise
complaints and referred me back to the
the city of Chandler PD I spoke to uh
Chandler PD several officers uh they
were very empathetic to my situation but
unfortunately at the end of the
conversations I kept I came away with
the feeling that the best I could hope
for and it wasn't even guaranteed was
that a small fin would be levied against
Henderson Beltway the property owner the
loud noise continued through the week
causing me and my family anxiety and
mental duress you could hear it through
the whole house with doors and windows
shut and we could not stand to even go
in our own backyard we felt like
prisoners in our own house my wife is
especially sensitive to loud noises and
she was home when there was a large gas
explosion in the same Mercantile area
about a year and a half ago I believe it
was and she's now very jumpy when she
hears loud noises uh continuing to
investigate in search of some relief I
called development services on Friday
December 1st I wanted to see the site
plan as to how this could be um located
so close to our house um development
services was very very helpful um and uh
we do have some inspectors coming out uh
to view this to see what's going on um I
just want to continue to work with the
city the state um also I'm going to
reach back to they shouldn't just be
referring me back to Police Department
they should be letting us know a lot of
people see this permit from the state of
Arizona think everything's on the up and
up to check and make sure that they've
they've filed the sufficient paperwork
with the city of Chandler and I
appreciate your time very much thank you
thank you again city manager see what if
there is some additional muffling or
whatever that we can put leverage on to
uh alleviate this situation thank you
our last speaker card is from Patricia
Evans G Miss Evans you have up to three
minutes to share your thoughts and uh
state your name and address for the
record when you are at the
mic good evening council members in
there thank you for the opportunity for
giving me to speak um I'm going to speak
on aerial surveillance and drones and
fixed Wing surveillance aircraft all
expensive has played a role in my air
stalking hoovering over my home and
communities and we should took a hard
look in benefits and the cost of uh
aerial surveillance and this is abuse
this is happened to me 20 times where
aerial surveillance of hover hovering
around my home above my home 24/7 and
I'm being gang stocked by different
people if I go to fries Macy there's
four and five people taking pictures and
I don't know what this is all about but
the aerial surveillance and drones have
caused me and my husband anxiety and
distress and Cho dis Patch Tuesday at
7:30 a helicopter scraped uh my roof I
don't know what's going on and I need
help to investigate to see what's see
what this all about but the gangstalking
has been going on with me for the past
six months in aerial surveillance and
drones and fixed Wing surveillance
aircraft is 247 I went to Walmart today
Maes and a aircraft followed me all the
way to Maus back to Walmart I don't know
what this all about and this is
247 so I don't know if anyone has heard
about aerial surveillance and
gangstalking it's real here in South
Chan
and I live at 4673 East chair Hills
Drive sunr
area thank
you um again I don't know if I was
making you aware okay
mayor um are are you done then yes okay
thank you um Chief please make sure that
if if there's areas that she can file a
complaint that would be get to the
proper authorities that uh that she's
heard and and whatever we can do with
that that would be quite helpful council
member Stewart thank you mayor uh city
manager we talked a little bit a few
months ago about a policy around drones
um do you know where that is in progress
as far
as yeah Mr mayor council P we've been
taking a look and updating our own
internal drone policies for City owned
drones we do not have that same level of
control over non City drones so we'll
have to kind of determine what exactly
is going on in this situation okay thank
you that concludes our speaker cards for
tonight next on our agenda is current
events comments from Council which I'll
start we have our golden neighbors
holiday celebration that's going to be
December 14th from 9 to 11:00 am. at the
Chandler Community Center residents can
contribute a gift to a golden neighbor
through Tuesday December 12th or
directly from the events Amazon wish
list to learn more about that you can
visit Chandler
a.gov golden neighbors for
details secondly the Exchange Club of
Chandler is hosting a wreaths Across
America event they've been doing this
for multiple years at the Valley of the
Sun Cemetery to honor our veterans the
event is Saturday December 16th starting
with volunteers Distributing briefs at
9:00 am and then there will be a brief
uh program and ceremony at 10: a. as
this is our last council meeting of the
year I do want to wish our community a
happy Hanukkah a Merry Christmas and a
safe and happy New Year and councel I
want to say it's been a pleasure to work
with you this year and uh we're gonna
we're gonna hit the year running next
year with a lot of things happening so
council member and Cen
us there we go thank you may I just
wanted to Spotlight a gathering of
community recently um as neighborhood
reinvestment is very important
initiative to me I along with um a few
Community leaders um got together got
the community together um here in the P
Vio neighborhood which is right here in
downtown Chandler um we had a great
turnout of residents um we got some
great feedback and a lot of
participation of the neighborhood
listening about their concerns their
issues and the things that they like in
this area and I want to thank especially
the neighbors that came out for
participating in this and being a voice
in their neighborhood I want to thank
the council members that were able to
attend Council member Harris and council
member Ellis uh for being there and um
also I want to thank our city manager
and our staff that have already started
working with these residents to solve
some issues and also to educate and to
activate this neighborhood um for their
future and as well uh I just want to say
as wrapping up my first year on Council
it has been a pleasure working with you
guys it has flown by so quickly it went
by so fast I'm ready for 2024 um and I
want to wish all of our residents here
in Chandler a very merry Christmas happy
holidays
and that our blessings continue in 2024
so thank
you BL mayor I want to wish everyone
happy holiday as well and I just want to
compliment you on that jacket very few
people could pull that off I know I
couldn't but you pulled it off very well
so
congratulations well thank you it U
you'll see it again around St Patrick's
Day okay fair
enough council member Stewart thank you
mayor have to I that's a great jacket a
great tie vice mayor I mean you guys
pulled it all out I think I was saying
to somebody earlier I can't believe it's
already the seventh and Christmas is
right around the corner and of course I
have zero shopping done but that's
pretty typical until the 24th so uh you
know I had the the pleasure of
representing Chandler mayor and council
at the ASU poly Technic uh Grand Opening
and groundbreaking this week um it's a
huge campus expansion for them and uh
it'll be turning out and now it's
turning out about 6,000 Engineers a year
and anything from um Aviation to
robotics to cyber manufacturing uh to
semiconductor manufacturing energy
sector but in the next few years they'll
be turning out another 15,000 students a
year which is absolutely incredible um
and I think what's important about that
is we've got some amazing employers here
in our area and as Dr Crow said during
the groundbreaking you know those
students will be solving problems that
we have today uh in the future and ER we
need to continue to be endorsers of
higher education education in general
because uh again those are important
things that need to be done so um we're
excited about that grand opening and
then I think I had another comment uh
about something that's extremely
important to U Chandler we were recently
I'm looking for my notes here um oh it's
on the back side I usually don't have
two pages of notes thanks Matt um
Chandler is the first and only City to
receive triaa ratings on our excise tax
revenue bonds from all three credit ra
rating agencies and so what that means
is that when we go out and uh build
infrastructure for water uh waste water
and things like that when we borrow that
money uh we're borrowing at extremely
low rate and thanks to our federally
induced inflation right now it's
actually lower than the rate of
inflation so it's uh it doesn't cost us
anything to borrow the money and we can
use that for for projects so that's
great um so I want to commend our
finance staff Dawn and your team and
everybody else on the team for for
making that happen year after year after
year so thanks very much and be the only
one the only one in Arizona that's
pretty
good thanks
mayor council member Poston thank you
mayor well H I would like to join
everyone in Wishing uh Olive Chandler
happy holidays and as you are
celebrating please remember to shop
Chandler and Shop local I actually had
the opportunity to interview on my show
the general manager at the Chandler
Fashion Center along with the small
business owner kind of getting both
sides of that coin and the small
business owner owns momento Cafe a very
small coffee shop very personal both of
those are important so we've got
everything you need that is so important
to help um your city do the things that
um they do for you for your Parks um the
streets all of those things so when you
are out shopping on the 24th council
member we will not not see you in any
other city um and again especially for
the fact that these are these are the
businesses that employ our kids that
employ our families the small business
especially support us in so many ways I
have a special place in my heart for
small businesses because they are so
much a part of giving back in a fabric
of the community so just that little
reminder you know just come on across
the board of to Chandler don't stop for
your groceries or gas anywhere else um
but again wishing you all a happy
holidays and as I'm finishing up my
first here too I cannot believe it's
been a year thank you everyone thank you
Josh and all the city staff for all the
support and information that you have
provided us and my fellow council
members for being so supportive and
helpful when I needed it it has flown by
and here's to 2024 thank you very good
city manager thank you Mr members of
council wanted to also wish you all a
happy holidays and has been a wonderful
2023 and on behalf of Staff we
tremendously appreciate the vision and
Leadership that you bring here to Champ
we're looking forward to a very
successful 2024 as well and also wanted
in particular to mention tonight is the
first night of Hanukkah so happy
Hanukkah to all of you and uh again
we'll look forward to a wonderful
holiday season and a bright 2024 thank
you thank
you thank you all with that close out
our
meeting good
night