City of Chandler Study Session and Council Meeting 11/6/23

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hey good evening um before we start our
first meeting I always like to let the
audience know just the overall agenda
tonight we have a public housing
authority commission meeting with uh an
an action and then we will have a
regular meeting of which many of you
were here for the recognition part and a
and a and a smaller agenda that is
usually uh the second reads of materials
and then we will have a study session so
we love it when audiences uh stay the
entire time but we understand if after
the after the regular meeting and um in
in which many of you will be recognized
or here for somebody else that we
understand that if you desire or want to
leave although we don't understand why
because we think everyone loves our
meetings but uh thank you all for being
here with that I'd like to uh call to
order our public housing authority
commission and clerk will you please
take the role chairman Harkey here Vice
chair Orlando here commissioner
laoren
commission commissioner
Lori can you help
her um commissioner enenas here
commissioner Ellis here commissioner
Stewart here commissioner Harris here
commissioner Poston here we have a
quorum thank you city clerk do we have
any unscheduled public appearances
tonight no chairman we have not received
any cards okay thank you uh
Commissioners uh you've seen the consent
agenda um a motion would be in
order commission U chairman commissioner
Harris yes I would like to make a motion
to approve uh uh the agenda for November
6123 public housing authority commission
regular meeting notes items one and two
very good we have a mo motion on the
floor Commissioners is there a second
second second by commissioner Poston any
recusals or um comments to be made
seeing none uh please uh take the vote
our vote please um Vice chair Orlando
yes commissioner Lori
yes commissioner ncas yes commissioner
Ellis yes commissioner Stewart yes
commissioner Harris yes commissioner
Poston yes chairman Harkey yes motion
carries
unanimously thank you Commissioners uh
thank you clerk that concludes the
business of our public housing
authority welcome to the regular meeting
of the Chandler City Council on November
6
2023 clerk please take the role mayor
Harkey here vice mayor Orlando here
council member enus here council member
Ellis here council member Stewart here
council member Harris here council
member Poston here we have a quorum
thank you our invitation tonight is uh
will be presented by Pastor sha Eddie
from Chandler Bible Church and our
Pledge of Allegiance by vice mayor
Orlando Pastor thank you mayor council
members and I bring you greetings from
the people with a small church family
but a big heart Chandler Bible Church
let's pray
please almighty God as we bow before you
I thank you for the opportunity to pray
on behalf of these men and women people
that have been given a role by your
providential hand to guide and guard in
the government of our city and I pray
God that by your grace and for your For
Your Glory and Honor that they would do
that role well according to how you will
allow them to thank you for the
shoulders upon which they stand and the
rootedness in which Chandler is founded
and we thank you for the way that they
reach Innovations of a big word for us
as a city and I'm grateful for the way
that they share a common Vision towards
that end Lord may you guide them guide
them providentially protect them may
they have peace both outward and Inward
and I pray this in the name of Jesus
Christ amen amen please join me pledge
alance allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for
all thank you vice mayor thank you
Pastor for scheduled public appearance
tonight way of service Rec recognitions
Proclamation and other recognitions I'd
like to invite council member Ellis to
join me out
front
city manager please proceed with our
service recognitions thank you Mr Mayor
members of the city council we do have
five Employee Service recognitions this
evening and for the first I would like
to call forward our chief of police Sean
Dugen
good evening mayor I'd like to um ask
and invite Carol spenza to come forward
to celebrate her 10 years of service
with the
city so in November of
2013 Carol embarked on her journey at
the Chandler Police Department
commencing in the record section where
she earned a reputation for her
unwavering commitment to customer
service and collaborative spirit in 2017
she embraced the new role as the
management assistant to the chief uh
from her ve very first day working in
the chief's office I was impressed by
her ability to connect with people both
employees and citizens alike and her Dee
rooted commitment to our department uh
this commitment came across in so many
different ways from her work ethic her
customer service her volunteering and of
course her sense of humor which some get
and some
don't but I've always appreciated and
then for two and a half years she
continued to embody professionalism and
Excellence while I had the privilege to
work alongside Carol and rely on her in
so many so many ways and then in 2019
Carol achieved another career Milestone
by being promoted to the position of
field operation supervisor and during
this time she played a pivotal role in
and Staffing during coid and protests
and orchestrated several very successful
vaccination efforts in partnership with
the fire department and then in 2021
Carol was promoted to police field
operations manager her Visionary mindset
and collaborative approach have elevated
her advision and she continues to
exemplify exceptional leadership Carol
pinises our Department's Mission with
her signature phrase how can I help this
attitude has made her a go-to person for
colleagues as she fearlessly tackles
Challen es with unwavering determination
teamwork and perseverance so Carol thank
you for 10 years of dedicated service to
the police
[Applause]
depart mayor and Council for the next
two prese presentations I'd like to call
forward John sefon our community
services
director good evening mayor council Mr
city manager I'd like to invite down
Timothy
basy Timothy is the standard of what
library services should be he goes above
and beyond to help patrons in every
aspect of the field whether it's giving
a book recommendation answering a
question about circulation or showing
what can what we have to offer at the
makery Timothy is always there he never
hesitates to offer a co-worker in need
even when those co-workers happen to be
his new supervisors Timothy is always
there to answer questions to help guide
to a solution his knowledge experience
and patience prove Paramount when
helping to build services like the
libraries makery into something
absolutely great Timothy is a fantastic
representative for the city of Chandler
and we're very proud to be able to be on
team Chandler with him Timothy thank you
for a decade of service to the Chandler
[Applause]
community
right
back and now I'd like like to recognize
bring down Jean
Reynolds this is a really good
one originally hired as Chandler's first
historian Jean Reynolds was given the
responsibility and to to research our
City's history from pre-statehood
through the 21st century she knew a few
people from pre-statehood but she
doesn't really convince everybody that
she was there Jean developed to the
McCulla Prince house in its original
version as a small City Museum and
Visitors Center she was appointed
coordinator of the events and
initiatives during Chandler's 2012
Centennial year under the communications
and public affairs department and over
the past eight years Jean has worked as
the programming manager for the Chandler
public library and in this role she has
provided oversight structure and support
for the wide range of library programs
across the entire system in her 20 years
with the city of Chandler Jean has shown
a passion to serve the Chandler
community and to help enrich our
residents's quality of life she's proud
to raise her children in Chandler and to
be a part of its development and of
course to help document its history now
jeene congrats on your 20 years of
service to the city of Chandler you're
almost halfway to
retir
wait one more one
more
mayor and Council for our final two
presentations this evening I'd like to
ask Micah Miranda our economic
development director and acting
development services director to come
forward good evening mayor and councel
for our first recognition I'd like to
invite kimbery James up come on James
get up
here
so Kimberly has worked with us for 20
years um this is a special one for me
Kimberly is part of my team and uh she's
always been there for me and supported
me and it's just an outstanding member
of Team Chambler so so happy that you've
spent 20 years with the city here so as
a stalwart in our tourism office for two
decades Kimberly deserves the highest
accoes for her exceptional dedication
and Leadership her unwavering commitment
and boundless enthusias Have Been
instrumental in shaping the success of
our tourism Endeavors her ability to
adapt to ever evolving tourism landscape
and devis Innovative opper Innovative
strategies has ensured our continued
growth and prosperity under her
leadership our hotel gross revenue
receipts have grown from 28 million in
20 in 2003 to 147 million in the last
calendar year with tax collections
growing
BuyBacks her profound understanding of
the industry coupled with a warm and
welcoming Persona has not only created
memorable experiences for tourists but
also fostered lasting relationships with
partners and stakeholders in recognition
of Kimberly's outstanding 20-year tenure
we extend our heartfelt gratitude for
her valuable contributions and on a
personal note thank you for being an
amazing person in teamate thank you on
your 20 years of
service
all right our second recognition is
Jason tiller another 20 years
service provider where is
tiller there he
is so Jason started his career with the
city as a planning intern while
attending ASU following graduation he
was employed full-time as a planning
research
assistant man
Josh what can we do about
this um where was I he was employed
full-time as an ASU planning research in
2003 with a strong work ethic and
commitment Jason Rose through the ranks
to become a GIS technician in 2007 a GIS
analyst in 2019 and a c senior GIS
analyst just this year in its current
role is senior GIS analyst Jason
supervises the gis maintenance team
focusing on utility GIS data his
dedication and positive approach
contributed to the success of many GIS
projects that are highlighted throughout
the city such as the wallmount aerial
maps at various facilities in
recognition of his contribution Jason
was awarded the employee of the year in
2018 just Rockstar all the way around um
whether it's recruiting for the
department softball team and if you
haven't played with him be
careful um you can swing a bat um uh or
GIS day or migrating critical GIS
software you can count on Jason's
enthusiasm and Leadership to make a
positive impact Jason thank you for all
your hard work and contributions to team
Chandler so much of the work you do goes
on in the maps we see and your ability
to express data and communicate through
GIS is phenomenal so thank you very much
and thank you for 20
years
thank you mayor and Council that
concludes our service recognitions this
evening thank you city manager next we
have a proclamation uh pride month can
Edward shraer come down and join us
where as the city of Chandler believes
in working together with all members of
our community to facilitate open
relationship
providing safety dignity and a welcoming
environment for our residents and
visitors and whereas the contributions
made by our lgbtq community enhance our
City's diverse history and culture
including Chandler pride festival which
provides a safe space and celebrates the
City's lgbtq community whereas the city
of Chandler remains committed to
treating all people with fairness and
respect and whereas we invite our
community to take part in Pride day in
Chandler on Saturday November 18th 2023
now therefore I Kevin Harkey mayor of
the city of Chandler to hereby proclaim
the month of November as pride
month Ador would you like to share some
words thank you very much mayor and
Council I just want to say something
really simple I think it's really
important that we acknowledge support
and make space for the LGBT community so
thank you so very
much all right Stacy put us where you
want us for a
photo two
Rose
we know
this
anybody else anybody else photos thank
you
all and next we have uh some
recognitions by the Chandler Exchange
Club uh we could have uh Mark whttiger
and other exchange club members here of
which I believe you are are you still a
member hoping I wasn't getting in front
of myself
there all right
um go ahead Mark you've got uh we've
already talked then we can come up maybe
afterwards if you want to give out the
awards and then take a single picture
with everybody afterwards everybody
okay microphone there sure we can hear
you okay R if you want to come here
if this can hear me that's fine um I'm
with the Exchange Club of Chandler we're
a community service organization uh
we're part of a nationwide Network
that's been around for over 110 years uh
one of our programs of service is americ
is
americanism and under that we promote
appreciation of the benefits that ACR to
us as citizens of the United States
under that we take time to recognize and
honor our veterans
and our First Responders so that to that
end tonight we would like to recognize
two uh First Responders because they are
out there every day
helping keep our rights safe so that
falls under what we do under americanism
um from the fire department i' we'd like
to recognize Captain Whitney um
he
he was brought forth uh as a nominee
because of his dedication and commitment
to the department and in addition he has
also done a lot of work with the cadet
uh program here in Chandler so much so
that he has reorganized it and has
become a model for the cadet programs
throughout the the
state do all yeah we'll do okay um from
from the Channer excuse me from the Cher
Police Department we would like to
recognize officer du uh if he could come
forward uh and Mrs Jew as
well as with Captain Whitney he has also
uh shown a great deal of dedication and
commitment to his department and to the
community at large and similarly while
um Captain Whitney worked with you
through the cadet program officer du
works with the school resource officer
program uh and has also had an impact at
the state level so these two candidates
have very similar um qualifications and
that they give back to their community
and reach out and our ambassadors to the
youth that may may come into the forces
in the future so we'd like to recognize
and thank you uh not only for ourselves
but on behalf of the citizens of Channer
thank you for all you do for the
community we'd also like uh to ask Chief
Dugan to come forward as
well Chief Dugan um on the the
um your your pending retirement coming
up we would also like to take the time
to recognize you and thank you for your
37 years of dedicated service here in
the Maricopa County area but especially
for the 10 years that you have served as
the chief of the Chandler Police
Department so we'd like to recognize you
as well
[Applause]
so in it in addition we recognize that
not only only the recipients serve in
sacrifice for the community but their
families do too to that end we have some
uh roses for um the spouses of the
candidates tonight thank you so much for
the
[Applause]
time okay
okay thanks
chief
and we have one more recognition tonight
this is the CIS po
Foundation if we can have Freddy lardi
come on up and uh and the as well as the
the team so I was at C po about a month
ago as they were working on a project
with Boeing uh retrofitting uh
children's cars you seen the little
plastic Jeeps that normally a four or
five or whatever year old would make and
they were retrofitting these to serve
cerebal paly kids and um Freddy had told
me about their most recent
acknowledgement which is for the
robotics team being first place in the
United States and fourth in the world
for an international Robo sub
competition so uh I I thought it was
certainly worthy to have this team come
up and um and we want to honor you and
uh when I have groups like this come up
it it it eases the the questions of my
heart that says uh what's tomorrow
looking like and we have brilliant
Engineers that are coming up from this
all girl team that will uh be ascending
into places of leadership and uh and who
knows where so we're so excited to
everybody up and uh before we take froto
Freddy would you like to introduce
everyone and say whatever else you'd
like to well just a real quick um 2019
we were here for a very similar award we
were also first in the US third in the
world so we kind of dropped just one one
place um so this is an interesting thing
that the number one Collegiate level
underwater robotics team men or women is
is from Chandler for the second time in
the United
[Applause]
States I'm just gonna pass this really
quick because I think it'll go faster
I'm Freddy lardi CEO of the
foundation my name is Dan Frank and I'm
one of the founders and mentors for the
team I am Maddie molar and I am a part
of the team Desert
Wave I'm Katie BOS Dave and I do some of
the software on the team I'm Brianna Ash
and I work on the mechanical
team I'm Mike aavo and I'm the vice
president and Chief Financial Officer
for hello my name is Andrea skover and I
work with
software hi my name is Paulina I'm the
electrical lead hi my name is Jac cast
I'm on the electrical
side hi my name is litzy and I am part
of the mechanical and electrical
team hi my name is Glenn py and I'm the
business operations director at CC P
[Applause]
Foundation all right this is definitely
two rows she
saying
very
[Applause]
much good job team that concludes our
announcements proclamations and
recognition part
are
Council part of our um uh study session
we've had a number of items that have
been called in for briefings or
questions may may I make a motion I need
to make a motion for the
agenda oh thank you so much yes that's
what I do yes what you do Straight mayor
I move uh to approve the consent agenda
of November 6 2023 regular meeting items
one through four second all right got a
comment we have my Council keeps me
online so we have a motion and a second
uh Council from council member Stuart
thank you mayor and uh on item number
four yeah previous uh meeting I had
voted no against the um rate increases
on these things I talked with staff uh
at at probably nauseum they're probably
tired of hearing from me as it relates
to marrying our budget to this
investment our infrastructure it's
important that we continue to support
this and continue to move forward so be
voting yes on item number four and
changing my vote from previous weeks
thank
you thank you council members Stuart
seeing no other comments Council please
vote motion carries
unanimously all right thank you council
with that let's adjourn our regular
meeting and enter into our study session
that's twice in a row you've had to
catch me there so no no keep me
straight council at study session we do
have a number of items that have been
called in uh first is item number two by
uh vice mayor looking for a presentation
with our library bookmobile and and uh
director John
sepon thank you mayor council members uh
vice mayor thank you for calling this on
in because it is really a good story we
go from underwater robotic Subs to uh
the future of bookmobiles bookmobiles
and Tech mobiles did I get this right
this are seeing it nothing better than a
picture so during the 23 24 budget
process you may recall that Library
staff had brought forward on submitted a
decision package for the purchase of a
mobile Library Chandler's not new to
mobile libraries we remember them from
the days uh which was approved with that
Capital project so we're now seeking
approval to proceed with the contract as
well as the associated budget
Appropriations so uh to complement the
delivery and the project itself it is
expected to take about 18 to 24 months
to construct and uh we look to uh have a
full contract amount of
63451 interestingly enough this is
funded both with the uh fund from the
Intel contribution from their
development agreement as well as a
$135,000 contribution from our friends
of the chanon public libraries so they
have been absolute great
supporters our existing staff have
already been assigned to this project as
you know our library Services go well
beyond the walls of our four library
locations they will be begin to continue
in this path once the mobile is with us
as well the library leadership is
working with neighborhood resources and
its building box platform to identify
those communities within Chandler uh
that have low Library patronage and may
need our services most so we're already
beginning that research and that
analysis and we're already already
targeting some of those areas as well
the bookmobile will offer both multip
multiple mobile technology classroom
program space as well as a small
traveling collection uh where anybody
can put a book on hold and be able to
pick it up at a park around the corner
anywhere that we have that on the
schedule parking will be done here uh
not far as part of a new capital
Improvement as well so we'll be able to
have this really really close and for
I'll do my very best to answer any
questions but if I also have to call a
friend Shel kusich our senior Library
manager is in the LI in the lobby here
it's in the library she's here yeah in
the library she's taking all those
pictures thanks mayor thank you Mayor
John and relle thank you very much this
is a project long time coming I know
readon Chandler is involved with hope
hopefully you get readon Chandler
involved because they that's one of
their uh strategic Visions for Chandler
so um Joanie was very excited to hear
about this and of course she'll be
reaching out I guess just figure how
coordinate this get books for that other
activities so it fills two really needs
um certainly appreciate it but real
quick this will be summer hours as well
right Our intention is to have this year
round year round okay and and weeks will
vary depending upon the events or
activities that are going on it will
make a presence for sure excellent thank
you mayor thank you John
thanks Council M
Harris yeah I wanted to make sure that
um there was a couple things I thinking
about was making sure that we partner
with Leah um with our neighborhoods
because this would be like a great game
uh particular thing to go out to some of
the communities and um work with some of
the neighborhood associations and then
um maybe maybe this could be the
beginning of the Dare program coming
back to the city of Chandler with our
officers just saying thank
you going retro wow R retro all right
seeing other comments and and to those
in our audience um who perhaps were here
for item number 30 which is the uh
amending the city code chapter 14 of our
animals I'm moving this item to action
which means that we'll be discussing
this on
Thursday uh that will also give people
the opportunity to make comments and
weigh in on that so rather than treat
these separately and Council reiterate
themselves where just going to handle
all of that on Thursday so if you're
here for that you will have an
opportunity to speak as part of the
agenda or tonight you would not our next
item called in uh item number three by
vice mayor Orlando um tree inventory
Orban Forest management plan John sepon
thank you mayor members of council uh
another great story because there's no
better place to read a book than under a
nice big tree so this too you may recall
from our decision package process with a
budget uh we brought this forward
through the parks and mate Operations
Division the need for contractual
Services uh for the abilities to do a
tree inventory and urban forestry
management plan this one-time funding
and the contract approval or the action
for the approval with Arbor Pro uh is it
is Arbor Pro is the best valued
candidate selected after an exhaustive
RFP process they will also provide a
tree inventory data and the collection
as well as the software necessary for us
to better understand our resource and
our assets along with that will be the
urban Forest management plan specific to
our southwest soran desert and the ways
that we can maintain what we have and
improve upon what we have this
information based upon what we already
know uh we pl we figure there are
between 20,000 and 25,000 trees just on
our uh areas that we manage now uh under
Parks and
Recreation so with that the um
information uh that we will be seeking
will include the quantities the species
the locations the overall health of each
of those trees as well as any
recommended uh maintenance activities
that would occur this will be a balance
between uh this uh added uh budget that
was done with this year's budget but
also supplemented with $40,000 from a
grant that we received through the
department of fire and Forest from
forestry and fire management so that
will enable us to fund the tree
inventory the tree asset management
software system as well as that
management plan uh we anticipate that
arbit Pro will begin this work right
after the first of the year and take
about a quarter so they'll be able to
get a lot done in a small amount of time
where our one Urban Forester would not
be able to accomplish but what he can
during his regular work time I also have
Jeff Larson senior manager uh with the
parks division here in the audience if
there's any further questions that I
might not be able to answer my sir
yeah John thank you very much long time
coming um and this is more than just a
plan obviously once we determine where
trees are then there's going to be some
back fill in certain areas of the city
that may be lacking additional trees so
it's a bigger picture when we do these
tree plantings at least it gives us an
idea a strategic intent where we have to
go to be able to improve the the shade
structures is that correct mayor vice
mayor absolutely it's one of the
probably the best aspects of this
undertaking this plan is the fact that
each of those trees will be geolocated
and put into a database through GIS that
we'll be able to use it will leverage
with some of the other platforms that
we're using we talk about the building
blocks that Leah Leah's group is using
now to better understand our
neighborhoods shade is just as important
tree growth is just as important to the
infrastructure of a lot of our
neighborhoods so not just what
inventorying what we have but through
this assessment we'll be able to
identify where we need to be if that's
helpful right thank thank you Mayor John
I wanted to say I got you next I I did
want to say I want H thank you for the
Arbor Day event out in uh veterans Oasis
Park on Saturday and I know that we
handed out a number of trees to our
residents that the whole event was uh
was well received are are we still
handing out trees or is that a one- day
event
Jeff one day that was a one day event
with our partner uh from Treeland
Nursery uh but they're they are they
were a great partner for that event and
they do have trees available for tree
land okay so we were offering that as a
one-day event but trees obviously are
available all the time so very good
council member
Ellis was that was the question I was
gonna
ask because I couldn't make it at the at
the at the event so I wanted to know
that uh can I get a a tree I mean sure
go to Tree Land Tre bu one council
member let's go to Tree Land we'll get a
tree how's that well through the city
through the cities I'll have to buy it
so when he got horn for
free I I showed up there council member
we can't make an
exception council member uh we do plan
through through some of our additional
funding uh to do continued education and
continued events like this it was a
really big hit as the mayor mentioned uh
the public really loved the fact that
they could get a two and a half to three
gallon tree uh it's a it's a small tree
it will take many years but uh the that
that opportunity you know there's no
better time to plant a tree than 20
years ago or today uh so that that's
something that from a programming
standpoint and and really a huge shout
out to uh to Jeff Larson and a lot of
his vision in creating the position and
the program uh it is the type of Legacy
type of uh project that we see right in
as a city that has already an amazing
asset uh in our Arbor space uh this this
type of programming and public education
is what it's all about thank you great
any other Co questions or
comments no one wants to touch it after
that yeah so so uh Ryan I did put those
cedar logs in the uh at City Hall so uh
or if you could let Ryan know that uh
for future Coast or whatever I did bring
back uh uh some cedar logs for him so
excellent very good thank you all right
you could try planting one of my Cedar
Logs but
uh item number nine vice mayor gree
license agreement with ubiquity Arizona
and Michael Miranda I believe you got
this one for a
presentation Micah real quick um you the
labor we talked earlier today um I guess
my question is we have about six or
seven vendors maybe more coming down the
pike and they're putting in these the
fibers and infrastructure
um do we have a a plan to be able to say
excuse me suffering from a little bit
allergies here do we have a plan that
says um these are the areas that are
like our trees I guess these are the
areas that we've covered these are areas
that we we need more coverage I mean
what's the I guess the guiding principle
here through the mayor vice mayor so
you're correct there are approximately
half dozen different fiber Telecom
providers throughout the community and
we're getting pretty well Diversified
throughout um all parts of the city with
ubiquities plan they intend to focus on
the northern half of Chandler so Uptown
Chandler the surrounding neighborhoods
and with that there's going to be a lot
more um competition within the market
for our residential utility providers as
well as our private businesses so again
do we have a a a plan in place so that
we understand where the fiber is going
yet there's some areas potentially well
let me rephrase the question are there
any areas in Chanel right now that have
um a need for additional Fiers uh
providers uh through the mayor vice
mayor I'm going to ask Dennis to come up
and probably answer that one in a lot
more specificity on where those fibers
routes are being
run Dennis I'm just concerned about the
city the whole city being covered
obviously I know that's your role as
well do we is that something that we
were pretty comfortable with uh mayor
council member
Orlando the the reason why we're getting
a big influx of several fiber providers
is to fill in a lot of those gaps
they're starting to move towards just
deploying a lot of that fiber to the
home throughout the city where uh a lot
of the uh the providers originally
focused in South Chandler or the newer
neighborhoods as they were building them
M and deploying fiber initially uh now
we're getting a lot of fiber briders
coming in and filling in the gaps of the
older neighborhoods and things like that
first and then expanding potentially
also to add competition with the
existing incumbents as well all right so
you feel comfortable that we're gonna
pretty much cover the area between the
number of fiber providers that we have
coming in we're going to cover most of
the city relatively quickly okay so all
right good in the next probably five
years or perfect thank you council
member
poting um this is great that they're
coming in but it's also disruptive to
the neighbors to some extent do what do
we do to try and mitigate that a little
bit uh mayor council member Poston we
have a a team who does plan review of
all of their designs and then does a
inspection of their work and works with
the neighborhoods and the HOAs and the
residents to make sure that when they're
done anything that is uh impacted is
restored to like or better conditions
and do we ask that they notify the
neighbors that this is happening or or
or even try and work in conjunction with
other projects so that it's not coming
back to be dug up again and again yes
mayor council member post that's a great
question we have uh a number of projects
going on in any given area at any given
time and we do a lot of coordination
with those projects development projects
Capital Improvement projects and these
utility-driven projects and we make sure
that all those projects are the the plan
reviewers that are looking at that are
looking at all those projects and making
sure they're working well together both
through the design process and through
the construction process so that helps
make it when they get to construction it
goes faster smoother for the residents
and less impactful hopefully in the
thank you thank you mayor and Dennis I
have a question
um with everyone seemingly descending
upon us at once with u multiple
companies how are we keeping up with the
whole plan review process and um what's
what's your Department's thoughts on on
keeping up with the many other things
that plan review also does to make sure
that um our service doesn't lag or
suffer to to others who are also
engaging and developing in Chan sure
mayor I'm I'm currently uh we're
currently keeping up with the workload
and as we're we're sort of entering the
first phases of this with the providers
that have already come through earlier
this year uh we're working I'm working
with my supervision to get some temp
help to come in and start helping us
with this initially and one of the
things that uh we'll be doing is
potentially putting forth a a a decision
package to to potentially request some
additional help to offload a lot of the
additional labor that's coming so that
should be coming to you in the next uh
few months if it's warranted and how
long related to that question how long
is this bubble do you sense of a lot of
these companies coming they're all doing
it now obviously because of some federal
dollars but is this
a is this a a window of time of a of a
couple years or how how are we doing
what's your projective than that uh
mayor the the providers uh the timelines
they're giving us right now are about
three to five years to do the entire
city uh my personal professional opinion
is there's Workforce challenges in that
number one uh making sure the city staff
can keep up with it but more
predominantly what we see uh when we saw
with the small cell builds and things
like that are the there's only a a
certain pool of contract labor out there
to do both the design work and also
uh the construction labor and the design
work they've been bringing a lot of
folks in from out of state so they've
been able to crank that through pretty
fast but the construction work tends to
be a smaller pool and it's harder to get
those folks in here that also know our
local uh mag standards and things like
that they're are able to do all of that
work so that's where they tend to run
into a little bit of a bottleneck and I
would expect in realistic terms we're
probably looking at more of a five to 10
year window rather than a three to five
year window to actually complete the
whole city with fber
the council any additional
questions all right thank you Dennis
next item called in don't go anywhere
Micah item number 15 called in by
council member Stewart Ellis and cus and
vice mayor a popular item I thought
about calling it in but we already had
so many people uh this has to do with uh
infill incentive plan and District if
you give us a a brief briefing and then
there will be several questions yes um
thank you mayor U so the item before you
tonight is amendment to our infill
program uh one of council's strategic
framework policy document Focus areas is
r on Redevelopment in Phill so what we
have before you is a series of
recommendations to help uh redevelop our
north south arterials primarily
throughout North Chandler um as well as
expanding the historic area of the
infill incentive area to include
downtown as well as West Chandler so
through this amendment we've added a a
handful of items on timeline incentives
for public infrastructure improvements
as well as um setbacks site design which
will be in concert with our project
Cornucopia so we have a a handful of
recommendations here to really spur and
Aid the Redevelopment in North
Jam if we want we have a prepared
PowerPoint for you all
Council what do you need on that anyone
need a PowerPoint or would you rather go
straight to questions I'll go straight
to questions I've seen start with
council member
Ellis did you call it all right thank
you thank you mayor appreciate that
Micah I wanted to thank you for all the
work and your team um that you have put
into this it's very important for us to
realize that what we had before
concerning this whole uh area was not
working we were not enticing more people
to come and want to do these projects
and now that we we have broadened our
Horizon and adding more to where we can
go and how far we can go and how much
incentive that we can give along the way
that's really going to be more lucrative
to some of the developers to come to the
table so I wanted to uh tell you
appreciate that thank you for working uh
with all of us the subcommittee um that
I was in you know we had the
presentation before we were able to make
some of the give you some of the input
make some changes things and thank you
for taking those changes in that in mind
and then come back to us with something
that's really um durable and feasible
and really valuable for this city
appreciate it thank you council member
and um I be Miss not to recognize the
economic development Advisory Board we
took this before them as well as a
subcommittee and got a lot of their
feedback and there was a lot of nodding
heads from the development community at
that meeting and then to follow up with
the council subcommitte
really giv us some some tweaks you guys
wanted to see and have that brought
before you for consideration t i so
really wanted to thank that sub
commmittee and EAB also council member
in cenis mayor I'm fine I was able to
review uh the details and
recommendations I'm up with this all
right council member Stuart thank you
Mayor Mike great job you know this is an
example of something like proactive
activity that uh your office has been
doing for for quite a while and I think
marrying Economic Development with uh
Planning and Development like this is
going to really bring big dividence for
for the city I think not so much just
for the business Community with reinen
diviz people to to to invest in our
community but with the neighborhoods
that are surrounding some of these infi
development programs I think it's going
to enhance the quality of life for them
um so I'm just grateful that your staff
was able to put this together and bring
this forward and this is exciting um
this is an exciting event for a
community of innovation like Chandler so
thanks so much Vice yeah real quick
michah great job thank you U I like to
expand the area it makes more sense to
including West Chandler and some of the
Northern areas um the
um the the cap the $250,000 cap is is
that flexible because I'm wondering how
I understand the the incentive that some
of the stuff we can waiver adds up to
additional dollars but how flexible in
your mind is
that well if you have to go higher so
through the mayor vice mayor one of the
things that we always have to be mindful
of is the gift clause and and part of
that um is open for negotiation we would
have to coordinate uh not only on the
economic development side but with legal
to make sure whatever we're potentially
giving out um isn't in violation of the
gift clause and so I think there's an
opportunity it just depends on the scale
of the project and potential net benefit
to the city yeah and obviously we have
to be war of that out and that's duary
responsibility um but again I just just
want to make sure we do have some so I
heard you say negotiation opportunities
to be able to justify additional dollars
is something that we could we could look
at yes sir perfect thank you and if that
was the case you would come back to us I
assume so mayor everything that would
come back as part of any incentives
agreement would be through the council
100% additional questions or comments
from
Council all right thank you thank
you uh next we got two more items item
number 22 council member
Ellis uh wanting a a brief briefing on
the agreement with mayor Copa County
Community College
District assistant chief harus how are
you sir I am well thank you for having
me uh good evening mayor of council
thanks for calling this um up for me to
give you a briefing um what you have in
front of you the resolution and
corresponding agreement is a really a a
reconnection of relationship that we
have had with mirac Community College
District for many years um this
educational service agreement is that
next iteration uh we've been doing this
version for a while now and it allows us
uh as Chann firefighters to provide um
education which we do um all the time
it's very valuable for us to provide
Education and Training as well as um
allow opportunities for our members to
gain college credits and so this really
bridges that Gap so our instructors are
able to deliver training courses and our
members who take the training courses
are able to get college credits free of
charge so it's a wash agreement um it's
resulted in about $80,000 of savings
this this last year Alan in our
paramedic education program and our fire
academy for credits um we've mirrored
over our engineer development class and
our captains development class so that
those those members who are are looking
to gain knowledge um are also able to
gain college credit so it's really
valuable for us it's something that uh
has been an excellent relationship and
this is our opportunity to continue It
Forward before our next paramedic
education program begins thank you coun
m any questions or comments yes I have a
comment and question thank you so much
this is really needed uh I I see the
fact that we are branching in so many
different areas and people are coming
here to Chandler we bring in th those
are needed we we need our five fathers
to be very well educated in those areas
in order for them to push through when
they walk into someone's home lives can
be saved very quickly and I think that's
the part that I want to commend you guys
for for always thinking ahead into
saving lives when you come to the with
these programs the second thing that I
wanted to ask tell me a little bit more
about the program because I'm hearing
that we might get a credition or
something like that in the future or
we're looking into beefing it up more in
order for us to be able to to be at the
level of a a you know more graduate more
people in that area perfect thank you
for the question I think the mayor
council so the paramedic education
program Alone um is something that we've
been doing I actually was a graduate of
the first one that we held in 2006 um so
we've been doing it for quite some time
um it is a it is very rigorous program
um and now us being able to give college
credits not only in this program but in
others really helps our members continue
to uh to go after further education and
that's something that we've we've
strived towards as you know in medicine
um paramedicine used to be a certificate
now it's a two-year degree in most
universities similar to to nursing and
LPN and now Bachelors of nursing Etc so
it's really important for us as a
profession to continue to push education
um this allows our members access to
that so that's that's very important for
us and we run a very rigorous uh program
so we are going through um the final
stages of accreditation we will be um
the only Department um that has the full
accreditation is delivering our our own
paramedicine program Standalone that's
important for us we want to be able to
control um our future and we need param
on every fir Tru so it's really
important um that we're not reliant on
anyone else to deliver that training
that we can do inhouse um the same as a
college or university would be able to
deliver that that program so that's our
goal and that's what we're working
towards and this is another step towards
that uh that end thank you so much that
that's something that I really would
want to encourage and support from our
First Responders to another First
Responders I think this is important for
the city of Chandler taking us to the
next level thank you thank you so much
cther appreciate you any additional
questions or comments for
Keith all right thank you sir last time
I'm called in item number 28 by council
member
Ellis our agreement with meropa County
for home investment partnership program
funds and and here we
are good evening mayor and Council this
item is actually seeking approval from
City Council for an amendment to an
existing IGA with Maricopa County who is
the lead Agency for home investment
partnership program funds the amendment
includes several items um that we are
proposing to change to that IGA first an
allocation of additional programmed year
2023 24 funds to the city of Chandler in
the amount of
$442,000
726 to support new construction of the
Villas on M Clean project
additionally a reallocation of Home
funds that were awarded in a prior year
in the amount of
$141,500
um that reallocation would go to support
the tenant-based rental assistance
program and extend the expenditure term
and then lastly going ahead and revising
the activity timeline for home arpa
funds which are the home um funds that
we receive through through the American
Rescue plan and that also will be suppor
in the Villas on the queen project I'd
be happy to answer any questions Council
melles thank you a couple of comments
and then a question this is so needed
right now because everybody's talking
about affordable housing everybody wants
us to move forward in those areas and we
are doing that and this is the perfect
example that when we marry uh the
community what we have versus what
county can offer then we can
actually produce something a product
that will really be very very helpful to
those that we we serve U can you explain
a little bit more how many in this
project alone how many uh units we will
have and uh how that's going to help us
with our long line of waiting list that
we have currently waiting for affordable
housing so for the home AR funds that we
have previously awarded there are
approximately six units existing units
um of the total
157 um and then for the home funds I
believe that we put two additional units
with the 400,000 as well well look at
that we just increased the numbers thank
you so much I really appreciate that
thank you
mayor council any additional questions
or comments related Jane's got that I
got nothing look it's really
good I don't know how I feel about that
I I mean you understand everything so
well that's right to the tea some good
news really good news thank you thank
you to your team for that uh Council
that's all of the items called in on
Thursday we'll have a chance to vote on
these and as well as meet beforehand
that I'll close your
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